Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Brooklyn Silarium. Folks,
Speaker 1: today is a very important day, not just for people
Speaker 1: in Virginia who should be voting right now, but also
Speaker 1: for the country. Essentially, where we are is that we
Speaker 1: have a critical governor's race in Virginia between Republican Glenn
Speaker 1: Yunkin and Democrat Terry mccauliffe. Why is this race so critical, Well,
Speaker 1: because all elections these days are absolutely critical and spell
Speaker 1: for us the future of what our democracy and the
Speaker 1: country is going to look like. Or a better way
Speaker 1: to say that is to give us a signal as
Speaker 1: to where things are going to go in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two midterm elections. Now here's the thing that I
Speaker 1: find really interesting about this Virginia race. One is that
Speaker 1: as the days go on, that the race gets tighter
Speaker 1: and tighter, and for us to be able to say
Speaker 1: comfortably that Terry mcculloff is going to win is not
Speaker 1: something that we can say right now. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you know that I can't stand poles, pole watchers and
Speaker 1: reading the tea leaves because I don't think that after
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen we can affirmly say that, oh, yes, these
Speaker 1: numbers are correct. We just don't know, right, we don't.
Speaker 1: Polls essentially determine whether or not how far ahead a
Speaker 1: candidate is or how far behind they are. But it's
Speaker 1: also about the questions that are asked, how those questions
Speaker 1: are asked, who those questions are asked, right, And so
Speaker 1: here's the problem with that. We know that the numbers
Speaker 1: are tightening, but among who and who is really being asked?
Speaker 1: Right now? We know that already over a million votes
Speaker 1: have been cast in Virginia, which usually bodes very well
Speaker 1: for Democrats, why because we favor mail in voting, early voting,
Speaker 1: and all of the things that should in fact just
Speaker 1: be the norm across the country. But thank you so
Speaker 1: much to the three hundred and some odd voter suppression
Speaker 1: laws that have been rolled out and for the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: you know, not giving a fuck about our democracy. But
Speaker 1: I digress. What I'm finding most interesting about this race
Speaker 1: right now is what Glenn Yunkn is deciding that he's
Speaker 1: going to be paying attention to education is on the
Speaker 1: top of his docket, but not education, as in, here
Speaker 1: are the things that Republicans are going to offer to
Speaker 1: make our public school systems better, right, or what he's
Speaker 1: going to do to make education in Virginia top notch?
Speaker 1: Right in comparison to other states across the country. No
Speaker 1: education is number one because of Fox News. Danielle, what
Speaker 1: is this connection that you're making. We'll let me walk
Speaker 1: you through it. Over the summer, we heard what term
Speaker 1: became part of our lexicon, critical race theory. This made
Speaker 1: up right title for essentially talking about and teaching history
Speaker 1: in a way that isn't just through the lens of
Speaker 1: white supremacy, isn't just through the lens of false white exceptionalism.
Speaker 1: It is history that is taught and the truth about
Speaker 1: the founding of this nation that is about everyone, right,
Speaker 1: not just the conquerors, right, but those that were conquered.
Speaker 1: It is history taught through the lens of non white people.
Speaker 1: But here's the kicker. In Virginia, it's not even being taught.
Speaker 1: And in most places, critical race theory is something that
Speaker 1: is taught in higher education. But you see the right
Speaker 1: wing glabbed globbed onto this as a part of their
Speaker 1: ongoing culture wars, right, because white grievance is so fucking strong.
Speaker 1: Nine points is the number that this particular issue has
Speaker 1: jumped to the top of everyone's minds in Virginia education.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not education. It is about white grievances, right,
Speaker 1: And the fact that essentially what white people are using
Speaker 1: in Virginia as code for their racism is the fact
Speaker 1: that they don't want their grandchildren or their children to
Speaker 1: be taught to feel bad about themselves. But it's totally
Speaker 1: okay that we have designed an entire curriculum that is
Speaker 1: about making black and brown children feel like shit, and
Speaker 1: so that should just be customary. And what do I
Speaker 1: mean by that, Well, here's what I mean is that
Speaker 1: if you think back to your own public school education,
Speaker 1: think back for a moment that outside of February, outside
Speaker 1: of Black History Month, who did you learn about, right,
Speaker 1: What black people were you taught about in your school?
Speaker 1: What did you learn about the founding of this country
Speaker 1: that the pilgrims came over and they were so friendly
Speaker 1: and nice and then poof, you know, the Native America
Speaker 1: just started dying off. Did you learn about slavery and
Speaker 1: how it built the entire economy and infrastructure and capitalism
Speaker 1: not only of this country, but around the world. Did
Speaker 1: you learn about that? What people did you learn about
Speaker 1: that were significant as innovators as scientists in this country.
Speaker 1: Was it a slew of people that helped to move
Speaker 1: our country forward, that helped to create what we know
Speaker 1: now as America? Or was it a small group of
Speaker 1: white people that get celebrated every single year, year after year,
Speaker 1: decade after decade to perpetuate the idea of white excellence.
Speaker 1: So when we are talking about our education system and
Speaker 1: our education curriculum and what kids are learning, right, this
Speaker 1: was all brought on by the success and brilliance of
Speaker 1: the sixteen nineteen project that it gave us a greater
Speaker 1: picture and window into how America evolved and on whose
Speaker 1: back it evolved on and who story was erased from
Speaker 1: the history of this country. It's like, oh, there were
Speaker 1: black people, we stole them. They arrived in the United States. Oh,
Speaker 1: they were fed three meals a day and worked really
Speaker 1: hard for fucking free. Right. Tortured, abused, beaten, raped, all
Speaker 1: of these things children ripped from them, literally ripped from
Speaker 1: their bodies, then forced to throw them on their back
Speaker 1: and continue working in the fields where they were raped. Right.
Speaker 1: So like when we think about the reality of this
Speaker 1: fucking country. The sixteen nineteen project brought into our purview
Speaker 1: the truth, and do you know what Republicans do not
Speaker 1: like facts and truth. And so they decided that they
Speaker 1: were going to make critical race theory their next boogeyman.
Speaker 1: That it wasn't just going to be abortion, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't just going to be transgender children, or wasn't just
Speaker 1: going to be the bathroom issue and not to allow
Speaker 1: transgender people into bathrooms. Know that they were going to
Speaker 1: find yet another boogeyman to use to get white people
Speaker 1: on their side, because what the right knows inherently is
Speaker 1: that white people are racist, Right. They don't want their
Speaker 1: children to learn about their past and their history. They
Speaker 1: want the status quo to be maintained. So if we
Speaker 1: scare them just enough, if we utilize Fox News as
Speaker 1: the scaremongering tool that it is, then we continue to
Speaker 1: have these quote unquote white conservatives on our side. So
Speaker 1: what's really funny to me is that if you're watching
Speaker 1: the news reports right as we build up to this
Speaker 1: election today and probably just be very clear, we probably
Speaker 1: won't know right at the end of tomorrow who the
Speaker 1: next governor of Virginia is okay that let's just be
Speaker 1: really clear about that that we are now in a
Speaker 1: space where we will no longer find out on the
Speaker 1: day of an election who actually fucking won. I say
Speaker 1: all that to say that the right is really good
Speaker 1: at one thing, which is creating a fear campaign, and
Speaker 1: so the idea that white people don't want their kids
Speaker 1: to feel bad, the idea that we need to continue
Speaker 1: to perpetuate the lie of white American exceptionalism, and the
Speaker 1: fact that none of this is actually being taught in
Speaker 1: Virginia schools at all. Glenn Yuncan has successfully taken over
Speaker 1: the narrative and allowed for the poll numbers in the
Speaker 1: concern around education to rise nine points. And what is
Speaker 1: Terry mcculloff doing in response that? What are Democrats doing
Speaker 1: in response to that? Nothing? And so again without direct
Speaker 1: and total contrast right, without offering the contrary, without telling
Speaker 1: the truth, without taking these issue who's head on you
Speaker 1: give Republicans all the fucking runway that they need. It
Speaker 1: is infuriating to me that this is where we continue
Speaker 1: to be That Republicans get to offer nothing, they get
Speaker 1: to provide no policy platform, they get to just essentially
Speaker 1: you know, use Fox News talking points and their poll
Speaker 1: numbers fucking rise, and so I ask you, it's like,
Speaker 1: what are Democrats doing? What are you paying attention to?
Speaker 1: Because it sure as fuck is not what the people
Speaker 1: actually want. And then, to make matters even worse, if
Speaker 1: I hear one more person get on television to talk
Speaker 1: about how black voters are not motivated and so black
Speaker 1: voters are going to cost right the Virginia Democratic candidate
Speaker 1: the election. No, no, no, no, no, let's not even
Speaker 1: start with the fuck scapegoating bullshit. The fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is is that the only reason why Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is sitting in the goddamn White House is because of
Speaker 1: Black voters. The only reason why most politicians are sitting
Speaker 1: any fucking place is because of black voters, and particularly
Speaker 1: black women that come out in large numbers all the
Speaker 1: time and get the fucking job done, knowing, knowing sadly
Speaker 1: that they're never going to have any of their fucking
Speaker 1: needs met. Right, But we're just so accustomed to this
Speaker 1: as black people in America that we're the one that
Speaker 1: have to bear the burden when everything fucking goes left,
Speaker 1: but that nobody provides us with any of the attention
Speaker 1: with any of the policies that we actually need, and
Speaker 1: then when we decide that we may sit home and
Speaker 1: not vote, that all of a sudden, it's now our problem.
Speaker 1: How about democrats, how about white politicians that you do
Speaker 1: something out of the ordinary, What about you actually deliver
Speaker 1: on the things that the black community and brown communities
Speaker 1: need so that they want to vote for you, right
Speaker 1: the same way that we are so fucking interested each
Speaker 1: and every single day of going into the white working
Speaker 1: class communities and Biden is in Scranton, or he's in Ohio,
Speaker 1: or he's in these places, but never going to densely
Speaker 1: populated black rural areas or suburban areas or cities to
Speaker 1: talk to them about what you are going to do
Speaker 1: for them. I'm so fucking tired of using the same
Speaker 1: coded bullshit language that has been used for decades to
Speaker 1: deny black people right what they are fucking do. And
Speaker 1: so once again, if Flora, if Virginia, excuse me, if
Speaker 1: Virginia goes to junkin, then who do you think that
Speaker 1: they are going to blame their service? Fuck not going
Speaker 1: to blame democrats for not having a clear message. They're
Speaker 1: not going to blame Joe Mansion for not eaving the
Speaker 1: president in a win for which can be campaigned on. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's either going to be blamed on black people or
Speaker 1: blamed on progressives, but never laying the blame where it
Speaker 1: fucking goes, right, which is understanding that what the right
Speaker 1: is doing is constantly, constantly preying on white resentment, white rage,
Speaker 1: white backlash. And why are they able to do that,
Speaker 1: because it's ever fucking present. And what do Democrats do
Speaker 1: in response to that? No, they don't broaden out their base.
Speaker 1: They don't try and get people on their side. They
Speaker 1: try and play Kate to white people, right too, right,
Speaker 1: to the fucking disadvantage of everybody else. So where Virginia
Speaker 1: goes later today or early Wednesday, Lord only knows. The polls, however,
Speaker 1: don't look good and should be the writing on the
Speaker 1: wall for Democrats. But as I'm coming on air to
Speaker 1: deliver this to you once again, guess what Joe Mansion
Speaker 1: delivered yet another blow to President Biden's fucking infrastructure agenda
Speaker 1: and again wanting to place the blame on progressives and
Speaker 1: on the Progressive Caucus that is being run by a
Speaker 1: woman of color. And led by women of color to
Speaker 1: blame them and not the fucking old white guy who
Speaker 1: is so out of touch with what is going on
Speaker 1: in the country, but very much in touch with what
Speaker 1: is going on in his own pocket right in terms
Speaker 1: of getting all of these paybacks by big coal, right
Speaker 1: and also pharmaceuticals and anyone that is anti climate change
Speaker 1: or anti family leave. Because right now, Joe Mansion decided
Speaker 1: that he was going to have a press conference to
Speaker 1: essentially say that he's not going to vote for reconciliation
Speaker 1: because he needs to know where the money is coming from,
Speaker 1: how this is going to affect the debt. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something about America right now. If you don't
Speaker 1: understand the sense of urgency and the place of urgency
Speaker 1: that we are in, then you're not paying attention. If
Speaker 1: you are more concerned with the debt and these fucking
Speaker 1: rules of the filibuster, then you are with the day
Speaker 1: to day lives of the American people. You are fucking
Speaker 1: out of touch. And what I'm tired of being told
Speaker 1: is that, oh, the President doesn't have this power. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's all up to the Senate. No, do you know
Speaker 1: who these things are up to? Fucking Chuck Schumer, it
Speaker 1: is time that you start casting penalties right for Mansion
Speaker 1: and Cinema that the majority of America didn't have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to vote for. They voted for Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, not fucking President Joe Mansion and Vice President
Speaker 1: Kersen's fucking cinema. And much in the same way that
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell has always been able to get his fucking
Speaker 1: team in line and have them shut the fuck up
Speaker 1: and vote in accordance because they understand power for power's sake,
Speaker 1: we still have motherfucker's wanting to get on television and
Speaker 1: do this soft euphemism and negotiation with our two right,
Speaker 1: with our two very own obstructionists. Where are the penalties.
Speaker 1: Where is the fear that Chuck Schumer is putting in?
Speaker 1: Where is the threat to say, we're stripping you of
Speaker 1: your committee assignments like you are not a team player,
Speaker 1: right And if you want to go ahead and switch
Speaker 1: your party and be a Republican, then fucking do that.
Speaker 1: But you're not going to continue to hold up progress
Speaker 1: for over three hundred million Americans because you don't like
Speaker 1: right different parts of this bill, or you want to
Speaker 1: see a pay for Where was this fucking outrage when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was raising our debt right when was adding
Speaker 1: to it by trillions of fucking dollars? I'm you know it?
Speaker 1: Just and then when when will you offer up a
Speaker 1: path to be able to pay for this legislation to
Speaker 1: pay for the expansion of social safety nets? You have
Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema that's like, oh, I don't want the billionaire tacks. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Well why not, right, because the last time I checked,
Speaker 1: there were no fucking billionaires in West Virginia. Right. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many billionaires exist in Arizona, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you this that if the rich in this
Speaker 1: country were to actually pay for their fair share, then
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have to be concerned with how much is
Speaker 1: being added to the debt. Speaking of the fucking rich,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what is rich Elon Musk right
Speaker 1: making a statement to the UN that he would provide
Speaker 1: six billion dollars in order to fight world hunger if
Speaker 1: in fact they told him how they were going to
Speaker 1: be spending the money. This is some patriarchal, like fucking
Speaker 1: white suprema bullshit. The fact that you would have six
Speaker 1: billion dollars to spare right, that isn't going to hurt
Speaker 1: your pockets, and you dangle it like a fucking carrot.
Speaker 1: But much in the same way that nonprofit organizations have
Speaker 1: to do a step and fetch it for fucking philanthropic
Speaker 1: organizations so that they can get their general operating funds.
Speaker 1: This is what Elon Musk is doing to the United Nations.
Speaker 1: And you want to tell me that there is nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with capitalism when one man, one man who is
Speaker 1: not a fucking elected world leader, can make demands of
Speaker 1: the United Nations. When I tell you that we are
Speaker 1: living in black mirror, when I tell you that squid
Speaker 1: games is about to be fucking real, because you have
Speaker 1: these ultra rich right who are either bored and going
Speaker 1: into outer space, or maybe they will develop their own
Speaker 1: real world squid game where they get to watch the
Speaker 1: rest of us kill each other for their enjoyment. Because
Speaker 1: that's the world that we have lived in. That is
Speaker 1: the world that are imbalanced fucking capitalistic structure has created
Speaker 1: where you have people that are so fucking wealthy, so
Speaker 1: fucking wealthy that they could end some of the world's
Speaker 1: problems in a blink of an eye. But choose not to,
Speaker 1: and if they choose too, they're going to be able
Speaker 1: to be in a position to be able to dictate
Speaker 1: how that money is spent. So we're we're what're do
Speaker 1: we live in a democracy? Is the world is kleptocracy? Like?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is going on? And if you're not
Speaker 1: having a conversation or outraged about the utter imbalance in
Speaker 1: the world right now, then you're not paying attention. So
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and unlike, So, on one hand, you
Speaker 1: have Joe Mansion, who is a man that is elected
Speaker 1: by I don't even know. West Virginia isn't even the
Speaker 1: size of Brooklyn. I've said that before, right, Like West Virginia,
Speaker 1: this state doesn't have nearly as many people, is not
Speaker 1: as population dense as one borough in New York. But
Speaker 1: yet you have this man who also has a population
Speaker 1: of people where the demographics do not look like the
Speaker 1: changing demographics of America, where it is over ninety five
Speaker 1: percent white, being able to stop voting rights right, being
Speaker 1: able to stop any work on climate change, which by
Speaker 1: the way, adversely affects low income black and brown people
Speaker 1: because guests who has homes in low lying areas, right
Speaker 1: that are oftentimes flooded or or in tornado zones. Guests
Speaker 1: who is living in conditions where there is diesel f
Speaker 1: and unclean and unsafe drinking water, low income and people
Speaker 1: of color. But you have this man with a demographic
Speaker 1: makeup of a state that looks nothing like the America
Speaker 1: that we live in now being able to flex without
Speaker 1: any fear of any retaliation. Why do you think that
Speaker 1: he continues on this destruction path because who's pushing back
Speaker 1: against him? No one. He gets all the fame, all
Speaker 1: the headlines, all the flashing lights and cameras in front
Speaker 1: of him in the way that this fame Hohr wants,
Speaker 1: and he faces no consequences. But we know this in
Speaker 1: America that white men in power and are never going
Speaker 1: to face consequences for a fucking thing. Ever, that's just
Speaker 1: the reality of what it's like to live here. And
Speaker 1: every day I think to myself, Wow, you know, we
Speaker 1: really are a shiitthole country when you look around. I
Speaker 1: think somebody had put up a slide infographic where it
Speaker 1: was measuring all of the countries in the world that
Speaker 1: have paid family leave and to see how many days
Speaker 1: people get in other countries, other developed nations that don't
Speaker 1: have a GDP of our size, right, and you are
Speaker 1: providing in some places almost two hundred days a paid
Speaker 1: leave and America has zero. But we have the audacity
Speaker 1: to go around the world and talk about how great
Speaker 1: we are. Joe Biden being abroad right now talking about
Speaker 1: his plans for the world and how America is going
Speaker 1: to work in partnership, and I'm like, if I am
Speaker 1: a foreign leader, I'm saying, you can't even get your
Speaker 1: own fucking house in order. So what do you doing
Speaker 1: over here telling us what your plans are for the world.
Speaker 1: You can't even get an infrastructure bill passed, you can't
Speaker 1: even get voting rights passed. Who is America right now?
Speaker 1: That's the question that we really should be asking, who
Speaker 1: are we? Because we are getting no work done, let
Speaker 1: alone Joe Biden being able to say to foreign leaders
Speaker 1: like America is back? Is it? Because it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: back to me? Right, It doesn't seem that with a
Speaker 1: little bit of time that we had with the Presidency,
Speaker 1: with the Senate, and with the House, that we have
Speaker 1: gotten anything done. We have spent the last ten eleven
Speaker 1: months just fighting amongst ourselves because you have two stunts,
Speaker 1: obstructionists right, who don't want to see progress, who barely
Speaker 1: want to uphold the status quo. But then you want
Speaker 1: to turn around and blame the fact that we can't
Speaker 1: get things done on progressives because what because they are
Speaker 1: listening to their constituents that put them in office in
Speaker 1: the first place, who want to see action on climate change,
Speaker 1: who want to see paid family leave, who want to
Speaker 1: have broadband, who want to see stronger bridges and tunnels
Speaker 1: that are able right, that are able to withstand every
Speaker 1: single season's thousand year storm. I tell you that all
Speaker 1: of this, to me, is not even about Republicans obstructionism.
Speaker 1: It's not even about their desire to win at their
Speaker 1: slow moving coup and just ushering fascism and authoritarianism. It's
Speaker 1: part of it. But what this really boils down to,
Speaker 1: and what the American people are thinking right now as
Speaker 1: they go to the polls in Virginia and in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and another jurisdiction around the country, is what have
Speaker 1: Democrats done? What is the messaging here right? What are
Speaker 1: we selling? Why are we better? It is not just
Speaker 1: enough right to say that we're not the Republicans when
Speaker 1: you have nothing else to offer. The only thing that
Speaker 1: Democrats can run on right now is their botch vaccination rollout,
Speaker 1: where we are still stuck right in the high fifty
Speaker 1: percentile fifty seven fifty eight percentile of the amount of
Speaker 1: people that have been vaccinated in this country. And again
Speaker 1: when you measure us against other industrialized, high wealth nations,
Speaker 1: we are last in terms of vaccinations. So again I
Speaker 1: ask you, how is it that we think that the
Speaker 1: rest of the world is looking at us and thinking
Speaker 1: that we are the leaders that are swooping in that
Speaker 1: they've needed after four years of Donald Trump. If I
Speaker 1: am a for and leader and I'm looking around and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, America, have a fucking seat, get your own
Speaker 1: house in order before you want to come out the
Speaker 1: gate and start dictating to us about what it is
Speaker 1: that we need to do in order to preserve democracy
Speaker 1: when you don't even have free and fair elections in
Speaker 1: your country anymore. I just you know, every great empire
Speaker 1: right falls. History has shown us that some last for
Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of years, right, but they all eventually fall.
Speaker 1: We are living inside of America's decline. Everywhere you look,
Speaker 1: and you're measuring the United States against other countries right
Speaker 1: now and we are coming in dead last. So what
Speaker 1: does that say about us? How do you not stop,
Speaker 1: pivot and reflect on how you got here and figure
Speaker 1: out where you're going. I listened to Joe Biden speaking
Speaker 1: and I'm like, again, you sound like a president for
Speaker 1: the twentieth century, not the twenty first century. After we've
Speaker 1: lived through and are continuing to live through, a global
Speaker 1: health pandemic, racial uprisings, white resentments, right voting rights that
Speaker 1: have been gutted, abortion bands that are rolling out all
Speaker 1: over the country, and the threat to our democracy has
Speaker 1: never been stopped because you have Merritt Garland sitting somewhere
Speaker 1: in the Justice Department doing what exactly? Because if you
Speaker 1: are not holding people accountable for attempting to overthrow this government,
Speaker 1: then what the fuck are you doing. You can't call
Speaker 1: yourself an institutionalist. You can't say that you're protecting an
Speaker 1: institution above protecting our democracy. Everyone else seems to see
Speaker 1: this except for the people that are in power. And
Speaker 1: Democrats are sure as fuck going to stay home. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to blame them because I don't know
Speaker 1: what democrats are running on. What have you done that
Speaker 1: you can say to the American people that you deserve
Speaker 1: a sixty threshold in the Senate, that you deserve to
Speaker 1: have a larger margin in the House of Representatives. What
Speaker 1: are you saying? Nancy Pelosi always wants to talk about
Speaker 1: all of the bills that have passed through the House.
Speaker 1: They mean nothing. It's like walking into a department store
Speaker 1: or fucking going bringing up online at your favorite online
Speaker 1: shopping place and using what monopoly money and saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: here's the money. That's what she's doing with these bills.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, look at all we've done. They mean nothing.
Speaker 1: If they're not going through the Senate, they mean nothing.
Speaker 1: If the President is not signing them into law. It's
Speaker 1: you doing busy work and presenting that busy work to
Speaker 1: the American people and saying, see, we can get things done.
Speaker 1: But they don't see the effects. The effects are not
Speaker 1: trickling down to them because what you are doing is
Speaker 1: performing politics, not providing the people with the solutions that
Speaker 1: they need to better their own lives. This is the
Speaker 1: problem is that when you are on the right, you
Speaker 1: don't need to offer anything. There is no expectation of
Speaker 1: offering something new. It is always about taking away what
Speaker 1: has been established. Think about that. Republicans don't offer anything
Speaker 1: new over in Virginia. Juncan isn't offering to have a
Speaker 1: overhaul to our education system. Know what he is doing
Speaker 1: is telling white people, Oh, we're not going to teach
Speaker 1: this black business over here, because it doesn't matter, because
Speaker 1: that's not American history. Our American history is draped in
Speaker 1: the Confederacy and our ability to conquer and oppress right
Speaker 1: and then say yeay national anthem, yeay patriotism, and not
Speaker 1: understanding what the meaning of that word is. It is
Speaker 1: always about taking something away, taking away women's rights, denying
Speaker 1: LGBTQ people their full humanity, taking away right the ability
Speaker 1: to vote, right, and reinforcing your right to have a gun.
Speaker 1: They don't offer anything, and so it's easy for them
Speaker 1: to run on all of the things that they're going
Speaker 1: to take away. And frankly, frankly, without having the House
Speaker 1: or the Senate or the presidency, Republicans seem to be
Speaker 1: doing really fucking well right now across the country. They
Speaker 1: are doing really well with all of the pieces of
Speaker 1: state legislation that they're rolling out, and we're sitting around
Speaker 1: twiddling our thumbs, worrying about the federal level, and meanwhile
Speaker 1: they are applying all of the tactics that Trump put
Speaker 1: into play at the local and state level. That is
Speaker 1: what should be scaring the shit out of all of us.
Speaker 1: But for some reason Democrats are like, you know, we
Speaker 1: just need to play the long game. We'll get them
Speaker 1: next time, folks. There is not going to be a
Speaker 1: next time following midterms, following twenty twenty four. There is
Speaker 1: no next time we lose it is it. It's a rap,
Speaker 1: that is not hyperbole, that is reality. Look at what
Speaker 1: is happening. And I just wonder, I'm like, where the
Speaker 1: fuck is the Biden Harris administration's sense of urgency right
Speaker 1: Where is the forceful fucking language coming from Joe Biden
Speaker 1: saying yeah, Joe, Mansion, Kursten Cinema, have a fucking seat
Speaker 1: in the Oval office right there now, Because I'm going
Speaker 1: to ensure that you lose your next election. I am
Speaker 1: going to ensure that your money drives the fuck up.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, we are going to
Speaker 1: run an aggressive and aggressive campaign against the two of
Speaker 1: you unless you get the fucking line. Where's that Where's
Speaker 1: that heat? I see it? Nowhere? All I see is
Speaker 1: you know, tepid responses of We're going to get this
Speaker 1: done for the American people, really, because it doesn't show
Speaker 1: any signs of getting things done when you have Joe
Speaker 1: Mansion holding press conferences that essentially give the entire administration
Speaker 1: the finger moving on folks. So another story caught my eye,
Speaker 1: which is that a gunmaker is selling pieces in AAR
Speaker 1: fifteen with Joe Biden's face by the trigger and using
Speaker 1: a term that is used in right wing circles, used
Speaker 1: in these white supremacy circles, and it's being championed by
Speaker 1: members of Congress. And the idea is whether or not
Speaker 1: this gunmaker and his use of you know, fuck Joe
Speaker 1: Biden phrases and having the trigger with his picture by it,
Speaker 1: if that is breaking the law. And I'm saying to myself, man,
Speaker 1: once again, white people can really do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: they want. They can threaten to kill the vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States. They can now make equipment and
Speaker 1: machinery to threaten to kill the president of the United States.
Speaker 1: And the rest of us are sitting around and going, oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's illegal. I wonder if that's considered
Speaker 1: a threat. Oh, I guess it's free speech when it's
Speaker 1: happening out of white people's mouth. But let me let
Speaker 1: a black manufacturer make anything with any kind of innuendo
Speaker 1: to threatening violence, and see what the fuck happens. It's
Speaker 1: just so apparent, how racist, how prejudice, how uneven our
Speaker 1: justice is in this country. And the fact that this
Speaker 1: manufacturer is making this and it's not being abruptly stopped
Speaker 1: by the federal government, that it's not being seen by
Speaker 1: the FBI or the CIA as a threat to national
Speaker 1: security because it is threatening the president of the United
Speaker 1: States is beyond me. It's really beyond me. You know
Speaker 1: what isn't beyond me? Let me tell you this. So
Speaker 1: right now in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Kyle Rittenhouse case is
Speaker 1: selecting jurors. Now. I've talked about Kyle Rittenhouse at NASEM
Speaker 1: because I think that this case, among many others that
Speaker 1: America is watching, is going to dictate what our future
Speaker 1: looks like. And it doesn't look bright. But you know
Speaker 1: that because you listen to wokaf so. Rittenhouse killed two
Speaker 1: people and wounded one at the age of seventeen when
Speaker 1: he decided to drive from a different state to Wisconsin
Speaker 1: to participate or, as he has said, to arm himself
Speaker 1: within R fifteen to protect businesses. Who does that sound
Speaker 1: like that's what Donald Trump was telling people to do
Speaker 1: to get arm to protect businesses. He was unloading the
Speaker 1: Coastguard and all of these military groups and outfitting the
Speaker 1: police and the latest military gear in order to protect businesses.
Speaker 1: Not people right, but property, but white property in particular.
Speaker 1: This is the same line of defense that is being
Speaker 1: used right now by Kyle Rittenhouse and his team, which
Speaker 1: is that, oh, we are going to say that he
Speaker 1: was acting in self defense. I don't see how it
Speaker 1: can be taken as self defense to go ahead and
Speaker 1: put yourself purposefully in harm's way in a state that
Speaker 1: you don't live in, arming yourself and then saying that
Speaker 1: that is self defense after you shoot and kill people
Speaker 1: that you don't agree with politically. But this is where
Speaker 1: we are, and in fact I talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: Circuit judge who is hearing this case, Bruce Schroeder, has
Speaker 1: decided that we are not allowed in this courtroom, in
Speaker 1: his courtroom to refer to the people, to the victims,
Speaker 1: to the people that were murdered and injured by Kyle
Speaker 1: Rittenhouse as victims but that instead they can be referred
Speaker 1: to as rioters and looters if the defense can prove
Speaker 1: that they were in the act of rioting and looting,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how you would be able to
Speaker 1: do that, because, mind you, once again, this is right
Speaker 1: wing rhetoric that was being spread on Fox News and
Speaker 1: on Newsmax and on QAnon and all of these things
Speaker 1: that people that were protesting against unarmed black people being shot, right,
Speaker 1: and Jacob Blake being paralyzed. He was the black man
Speaker 1: that was trying to break up a fight, was walking
Speaker 1: away from police officers when they unloaded seven rounds his
Speaker 1: fucking back, right, But those cops didn't lose their job,
Speaker 1: and protests broke out, and Kyle Rittenhouse decided to grab
Speaker 1: his AR fifteen, drive to a state that he doesn't
Speaker 1: live in and insert himself into a situation he did
Speaker 1: not belong in and then unload on those people. And
Speaker 1: you know what the cops did. The cops offered him water.
Speaker 1: What do you need, son, Hope you are okay? Do
Speaker 1: you need any rest? As he's walking past police officers
Speaker 1: within AR fifteen slung over his fucking shoulder. But in America,
Speaker 1: that is okay. So long as you were male, so
Speaker 1: long as you were white. Because the cops are on
Speaker 1: their side, not on ours, Which is why you have
Speaker 1: the people in Minneapolis who are going to decide whether
Speaker 1: or not they want police in their cities anymore, right
Speaker 1: following the murder of George Floyd. That is on the
Speaker 1: ballot today as well, is whether or not they should
Speaker 1: defund the police and put that money towards social services
Speaker 1: and different departments right to actually aid the people and
Speaker 1: work in partnership with them. Even the decision by this
Speaker 1: judge to refer to people that were murdered who were
Speaker 1: exercising their fucking right to protest, be referred to as
Speaker 1: looters and rioters when that is not who they are.
Speaker 1: I just I can imagine, I cannot imagine how the
Speaker 1: family and the friends of these victims feel. Right. So,
Speaker 1: we always want to talk about the fact that justice
Speaker 1: is blind and it is anything fucking but it is racist,
Speaker 1: it is misogynistic, it is steeped in patriarchy, it is
Speaker 1: anything but neutral. And this judge's actions already show us
Speaker 1: where this case is headed. Kyle Rittenhouse will get off
Speaker 1: just like all of the people who decided to storm
Speaker 1: the Capitol Building with only a handful getting a couple
Speaker 1: of months of sentences in federal prison. But the large
Speaker 1: majority of white folks deciding to rage against this made
Speaker 1: up machine, they get to go on with their lives.
Speaker 1: But the Jacob Blakes of the world, yeah, they either
Speaker 1: find themselves in a wheelchair because of police officers or
Speaker 1: in a casket like George Floyd and Brianna Taylor. It
Speaker 1: is really hard to continue to have faith in this
Speaker 1: country when you spend time just paying attention, it is
Speaker 1: really hard to be woke, to be conscious of all
Speaker 1: of the injustice that is happening. And that's why I
Speaker 1: continue to say that being woke as fuck isn't just
Speaker 1: about being in a state of rage, as James Baldwin
Speaker 1: talked about all the time. It is not just about
Speaker 1: being in a state of rage, but it is finding
Speaker 1: balance in your life, finding ways right to create balance
Speaker 1: where you can both be at rage and at rest
Speaker 1: and not just opervacillating between those two extremes. Being conscious
Speaker 1: to the fact that the leaves are changing if you're
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and you're in you know, fall right,
Speaker 1: to being conscious to the beauty, to the good you
Speaker 1: come across in your feed and not just focusing on
Speaker 1: the bad. Because I'm telling you, after a few hours
Speaker 1: a day each day of watching news, reading news, you
Speaker 1: want to give up, right, because it's a self fulfilling
Speaker 1: prophecy in a lot of ways, because all the news
Speaker 1: does is highlight everything that is bad. It's not like
Speaker 1: we have daily segments each and every hour that are
Speaker 1: dedicated to even five minutes worth of good news. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sell. What sells is pain. That's what Facebook knows, right.
Speaker 1: They know that as long as people stay enraged, as
Speaker 1: long as people stay in their tribes, then they stay
Speaker 1: online and they make more money. Capitalism and greed is
Speaker 1: going to be what kills us and what destroys our
Speaker 1: democracy because we have leaders like Mansion and Cinema that
Speaker 1: are bought and sold, right, bought and sold by big corporations.
Speaker 1: Because we've allowed so much money, so much bullshit to
Speaker 1: be a part of our politics, that our voices don't
Speaker 1: even make it up to the top. It's hard. I know,
Speaker 1: I find myself some days, and I've been finding myself friends.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you quite emotional these days, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm not beating myself up about it because frankly,
Speaker 1: I think that tears are helpful, right. I said to
Speaker 1: a friend the other day, I said, you know what
Speaker 1: crying is like mini baptismals. Right, It's just a kind
Speaker 1: of you know, rebirth in a way, allow it to
Speaker 1: to wash through you. But at the same time, I'm
Speaker 1: just like the I have to balance the amount of
Speaker 1: bad with a lot of good and even overdue the good,
Speaker 1: overdue acts of service and kindness and joy and looking
Speaker 1: actively searching for those things because the alternative is just
Speaker 1: too much. The last thing that I want to touch
Speaker 1: on on today's will Gate app is this, which is
Speaker 1: on top of you know, cases that are being heard
Speaker 1: in states and at the federal level with regard to
Speaker 1: the insurrectionists, we also have the abortion ban that is
Speaker 1: being heard, the Texas abortion ban. Oral arguments happened today
Speaker 1: and that ban was written in a very sneaky way
Speaker 1: where the power of deciding who gets charged with whatever
Speaker 1: it is that they're trying to charge people within Texas
Speaker 1: is that the states have let their hands go, right,
Speaker 1: have put their hands up and essentially deputized every member
Speaker 1: of Texas and every member of the United States to
Speaker 1: be able to bring charges against anyone that they like
Speaker 1: at any time, So in a de facto way, shutting
Speaker 1: down all abortion clinics because these people who are providers
Speaker 1: do not have the bank roll to be able to
Speaker 1: be subject to ten thousand dollars bounties by each and
Speaker 1: every individual that chooses to do so, so they have
Speaker 1: forced them to close down. That was the point. But
Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court and what some of even the
Speaker 1: conservative justice are saying, are how dangerous it is if
Speaker 1: this is allowed to stand, because you can then use
Speaker 1: that same bit of logic on anything, right, deputize people
Speaker 1: in this country to do a whole host of things
Speaker 1: on policies that you don't like, which is and putting
Speaker 1: the authority into the people's hands, not our voting of course,
Speaker 1: and turning America back into the wild, wild West. But
Speaker 1: that is how they are making these incredibly precarious laws.
Speaker 1: So we're watching that case. Later on next month is
Speaker 1: going to be the Mississippi case with a fifteen week
Speaker 1: abortion ban. And I said over the weekend on Reverend
Speaker 1: Owl's show on MSNBC that effectively we are gutting Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: It will just be in name only, because once you
Speaker 1: allow a fifteen week ban to stand. Right now, we're
Speaker 1: at twenty four weeks. If you allow that to decrease
Speaker 1: to fifteen, we know what is going to happen again.
Speaker 1: There are a number of reasons why people who are
Speaker 1: pregnant do not know that they are pregnant right at
Speaker 1: that time. And when you crunch in the time line
Speaker 1: with the effective you know, oh, you need to come
Speaker 1: back after a day when you go to the clinic,
Speaker 1: you need to come back because there's a waiting period
Speaker 1: in some states. And then when you have to drive
Speaker 1: cross states, write or change states in order to go
Speaker 1: to these places, it's just more time. And that's what
Speaker 1: these anti choice, pro force birth people want to happen.
Speaker 1: So those are the cases that we are going to
Speaker 1: be watching, along with the Written House case and others
Speaker 1: that we will be keeping our eyes on here on
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Speaker 1: all of you as always, dear friends, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke. As fuck