1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay Up Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: for folks. Yesterday a slew of horrific breaking news came 4 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: in and I'm going to go over each and every 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: single one of the topics that came in over the wire, 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that there are days 7 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: where I have reached where I reach not have reached 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: where I reach a level of rage that I need 9 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: to kind of sit still, turn off everything everyone and 10 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: remind myself why I do the work that I do, 11 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: and to remind myself that this too shell pass, that 12 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: we will continue to fight and move forward. But there 13 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: are days, and yesterday was that day. So what happened. 14 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was appointed as to 15 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: succeed Sivance and Sivance's name, you know, because we have 16 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: talked about it with our friend Glenn Kirshner and others, 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: had a impaneled a grand jury, let me say, impaneled 18 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: the grand jury to do deep dive investigation into what 19 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: we know to be fraud that Donald Trump and his 20 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: associates have been accompanied to to inflate the prices that 21 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: inflate their assets, and then drop their assets to lie 22 00:01:54,320 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: about their accounting right through their accounting from maraz and 23 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: the impaneled grand jury that was brought in was brought 24 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: in for the longer than six week time because there 25 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: was so much fucking evidence and they didn't want to 26 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: have the normal six weeks switch up. Okay, so that 27 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: happens in the fall elections happen. Sivance is gone, and 28 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: now Alvin Bragg comes in. A black man is a 29 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: Manhattan da Well fucking bombshell, I guess we learn once 30 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: again not all skin folk are kinfolk. And so here's 31 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: where we stand. Two of the prosecutors, two of the 32 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: lead prosecutors in the case. This is according to the 33 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: New York Times. So let me say this, and if 34 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: you watched Woke Wednesday yesterday, then you heard this accounting. 35 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: But let me say it again. According to the New 36 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: York Times, the two prosecutors leading the Manhattan District Attorney's 37 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practice 38 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: abruptly resigned yesterday amid a month long, one month long pause. 39 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: And let me make things clear. We've learned a lot 40 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: about grand juries. Right. Over the course of the last 41 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: two years, we've learned a lot thanks to our friend 42 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner that comes on every week. And what we 43 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: do know is that you have a finite amount of 44 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: time to be able to present evidence, right, to then 45 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: have a judge or to present evidence to decide whether 46 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: or not there is enough there to indict. Right. So 47 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: one would think that when sid vance right in panels 48 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: a grand jury for an extended period of time, that 49 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: we would assume, given all that we fucking know about 50 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, that an indictment would be soon following. Well, 51 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: thanks Alvin Bragg, you just gave Republicans their best advertisement, 52 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: their best fucking get out of any type of jail card. 53 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: Why because basically the resignations by the two prosecutors carry 54 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: are done and Mark F. Pomerants right after their resignations. Basically, 55 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: what Republicans and what Donald Trump can now say is 56 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: that according to Alvin Bragg, oh, he has doubts about 57 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: moving forward. And they're like, what the fuck have we 58 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: been doing for the past couple of years, Because I 59 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: understand these investigations have been going on for years, okay, 60 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: and every time that people tell us Oh, justice is slow, 61 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: but it'll come. It'll come. Just wait, be patient. Our 62 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: legal system is slow, but it'll come. It'll come. Well, now, 63 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: these two resignations point to the fact that once again, 64 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: a Democrat that is in charge of actually seeking justice 65 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: right against Donald Trump is once again gonna miss the 66 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: fucking mark and fail and fail and fail and fail, 67 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: and remind you right that it is. It is a 68 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: Democrat that decided, right, Merrick Garland decided not to take 69 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: up for a Gene Carroll, the woman who accused one 70 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: of the twenty some odd women that accused Donald Trump 71 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: of sexual assault right in a Manhattan department store, who 72 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: then sued him for libel right and defamation. And it 73 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: was Merrick Garland and Joe Biden's Department of Justice that 74 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: decided that they would defend Donald Trump in that case. 75 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 1: How do we know how to fight friends, if we 76 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: don't even know who our true enemies are? Because right now, 77 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: neither Alvin Bragg or Merrick Garland look like they are 78 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: actually for the people. And if I hear one more 79 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: fucking Democrat want to get on television to tell me, 80 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: to tell the rest of us that all we need 81 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: to be patient, but no man is above the law. 82 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: Go fuck yourself, Go actually fuck yourself, because I am done. 83 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: So here's the continuation of this right. According to The 84 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: New York Times, without mister Bragg's commitment to move forward, 85 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question 86 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: at least one witness before the grand jury. One of 87 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: the people said they have not questioned any witnesses in 88 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: front of the grand jury for more than a month, 89 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: essentially pausing their investigation into whether mister Trump inflated the 90 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks. 91 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: The precise reasons for mister Bragg's pullback are, of course unknown, 92 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: And what I have to say to folks, and this 93 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: is what I said yesterday on Woke on Woke Wednesday. 94 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The pullback isn't unknown. What I will 95 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: say to everyone that will listen is follow the fucking money. 96 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: Who supported Alvin bragg campaign. Who are his biggest donors? 97 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: What are their ties to Donald Trump, the Trump administration, 98 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: the Trump organization, the Trump net worth of wealth. Right, 99 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: go and find that information and then you can figure 100 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: out why there has been a pullback over a course 101 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: of a month. And nothing going on. Let me tell 102 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: you something that stinks, the fucking lies and the fact 103 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: that no one, no one with power, or with money 104 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: or with access, is ever going to do what is 105 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: right because each and every single one of those motherfucker's 106 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: hands are dirty. And that's what we know. We've had 107 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: our friend Jennifer Tobb on the show all the time. 108 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: Jennifer has come on to talk about her book Dirty 109 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: Money and white collar Criminals and the reason why they're 110 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: allowed to defraud. You know, millions of people get away 111 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: with it like those fucking bumps on Wall Street did, 112 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: but no one sees jail time. No, we bail out 113 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: the banks when they defraud Americans, We bail out the 114 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: Wall Street executives when they defraud Americans. Nobody goes to jail. 115 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: So why is Donald Trump any different? I said, you know, 116 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: the only truth, the only truth that Donald Trump did 117 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: tell is when he stood up at one of his 118 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: fucking Maga hate rallies and said that he could shoot 119 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would 120 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: watch his poll numbers go off. There is a reason 121 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: why that man has received the name teflon Don in 122 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: New York City because everyone knows he's a fucking crook. 123 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: Everybody knows that he's slippery and slimy. But until he 124 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: ran for president, he used to give money to everybody, 125 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: as mobsters do, so that regardless of who has the gavel, 126 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: regardless of who is in office at the time that 127 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: you may be doing your latest deal, that if you 128 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: give them enough money, then of course they're going to 129 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: do your bidding, or better yet, look the other way, 130 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: because that's actually all you really need. So no one 131 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: is This is a thing that I think that we 132 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: all need to begin to wrap our minds around, is 133 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: that no one is good, No one in power is good, right, 134 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: and so our choice as voters is to find the 135 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: least bad, the least sleazy among the pile of assholes 136 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: that we are handed every single day. Now. I don't 137 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: know Alvin Bragg, right, I don't know anything about him, 138 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: but what I do know is that he ain't shit 139 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: for this fucking move that he just made. That he 140 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: has now become one of my biggest targets on this 141 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: fucking show because I absolutely right want to do my 142 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: due diligence and start to do my own research, you know, 143 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,479 Speaker 1: as they say on the right to figure out exactly 144 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: why Alvin Bragg decided that he was going to pivot 145 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: from his predecessors desires right and pinpoint this investigation around 146 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and decide that, you know what, I doubt 147 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: we're going to move forward. The world is watching this case. 148 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: The world is watching America. The world is waiting around 149 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: to see exactly what is going to be done, if 150 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: anything about Donald Trump. And I'll tell you, we know 151 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: that he was in charge of the insurrection. We know 152 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: that he's broken multiple emolument's clause. We know that he 153 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: tried to bribe the president of Ukraine. We know that 154 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: he tried to bribe the fucking Secretary of State in Georgia. 155 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: Go ahead and find me eleven seven hundred and forty 156 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: six votes though, right, we know all of these things. 157 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: We knew it from when the Mulla report came up. Right. 158 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: Here are the ten ways in which Donald Trump has 159 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: obstructed the law. And once Donald Trump walked out of 160 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: the White House and was no longer President of the 161 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: United States, all any attorney with any fucking backbone had 162 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 1: to do was that bring those ten fucking charges, right, 163 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: those ten examples that the Mulla Report detailed out to 164 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: the world and bring a case. But they didn't. And 165 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: the question that we need to start asking ourselves is 166 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: why why won't anybody do anything? The same reason why 167 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: you know, you sit around, and I'm gonna do a 168 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: real big comparison. You sit around and you wonder, huh, 169 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking girls for how long to how 170 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: many different people? How many different people were on that 171 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: disgusting island, on his disgusting private jet, at his disgusting parties, 172 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: including Donald Trump, including Bill Clinton, including Prince Andrew, including 173 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: Mohammed bin Salam. You see what all of those men 174 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: have in common wealth and power and connections and access. 175 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: And they were all connected to Jeffrey Epstein. So you 176 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 1: think that these people weren't aware of the fact that 177 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: he was a sex trafficker. You think that they had 178 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: no idea what was going on. You think that they 179 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: didn't spend decades looking the other fucking way. All of 180 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: these it's an incestuous cesspool of greed and power that 181 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: all commingle. It doesn't. This is where party doesn't matter, 182 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: Green does, capitalism does. That is their master. And when 183 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: you have that kind of power, when you have that 184 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: kind of access and wealth. You will do whatever the 185 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: fuck you want to whomever you want, whenever you want, 186 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: because you got DA's in your pocket, you got senators 187 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: in your pocket, you got presidents in your pocket. We 188 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: sit around and we wonder, like, why won't Democrats do anything? 189 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: Why won't they stand up? Why did they continue to 190 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: fucking act as if they have no power whatsoever? This, again, friends, 191 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,479 Speaker 1: is what winning looks like. We have all the branches. 192 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, except for the judiciary, right, we got Congress, 193 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: we have the White House. But this is what winning 194 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: feels like. So you begin to wonder and ask yourself 195 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: these questions. Who is actually making these deals? You know, 196 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: Democrats want to put on a good show, like every 197 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: single time that Republicans do the same thing that they've 198 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: been doing for the last four decades, they want a 199 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: feign shock. They want to say, oh my god, we 200 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: have no idea where this came from. Oh, I don't know. 201 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: It came from nineteen fifty two, it came from nineteen 202 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: sixty eight, it came from this year, and this year 203 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: and this year. You know, all of the decades that 204 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: they've been doing the same things, using the same people 205 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: as their culprit and their battering rams right, making the 206 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: same attempts to make sure that America becomes the beacon 207 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: of white evangelical christiandom right, and that everybody who is 208 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: not white, who is not wealthy, who is not straight, 209 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: who is not Christian has no power. And not only 210 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: do you not have any power, they want to ensure 211 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: that you live in fear. This is what folks are 212 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: not getting right now, is that I believe and I'm 213 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: beginning to believe, and there me because people say, Danielle, 214 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: you sound like a conspiracy theorist. But do I Because 215 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: if you have the power to actually stop atrocious things 216 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: from happening, if you had the power to hauld Donald 217 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: Trump in and the entire Trump administration in before an inquiry, 218 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: if you had the power to say to your Department 219 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: of Justice, I'm going to move out of your way. 220 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: But here is the thing, by virtue of who I 221 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: am appointing to lead our US Department of Justice, I 222 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: am going to make sure that when we say that 223 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: nobody is above the law, that nobody is actually above 224 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: the law. Why is it that Democrats are so quick, 225 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: just like Republicans to want to turn the page right, 226 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: there's about a handful of fighters in the Democrats within 227 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: the party, but I'll tell you that the entirety, the 228 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: actual establishment seems really to look like a bunch of 229 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: Republicans in sheep's clothing. Because you see, this is the 230 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: thing that I'm starting to piece together. And I gotta admit, 231 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: if you're gonna listen to democracy issue this morning, I 232 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: set it on there, so I want to say it 233 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: on here. I believe that Democrats are the biggest grifters. 234 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: I've been addicted to these grifters shows. Over the holiday weekend, 235 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: I watched Inventing Anna, the Shonda Rhimes creation based on 236 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: the real story of the fake German heiress who essentially 237 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: fooled everyone into believing that she was an heiress, and 238 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: she came, as they said, dangerously close to being able 239 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: to essentially defraud one of the major investment banks in 240 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: the city in the world. Right. And then I watched 241 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: the Tinder Swindler, right, the guy who went around defrauding 242 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: a bunch of women out of their wealth, putting them 243 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: into debts so that he could create this Ponzi scheme 244 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: around women paying for other paying for his lavish lifestyle 245 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: and I started to think about grifting. Well. One I 246 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: also started to think about I went into the wrong 247 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: profession that clearly I should have been smarter, and I 248 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: should have been like these people who can set up 249 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: these kinds of schemes and for a fairly long time 250 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: get away with them, right, and live high on the hog. 251 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: But I digress. Democrats are grifters. Why because they steal 252 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: your money. No, it's because they steal your votes. And 253 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: why do I use the words steal well, because Democrats, 254 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: much in the way that ANNADELVI and the Tindler swindler, 255 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: they put together this brand, right, this this idea that 256 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: they are for the people, that they are the ones 257 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: that will march with you, that they are the ones 258 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: that are for LGBTQ equality, for voting rights for black people. Right. 259 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: You know, they tell you, they feed you these lines, right, 260 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: and yet and yet when they actually are in a 261 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: position to do anything about it, then all of a sudden, 262 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: their hands become tied. All of a sudden, they have 263 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: no backbone. All of a sudden, there are so many 264 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: different rules and maneuvers that they need to follow, and 265 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: now they're constructed, right, and all of a sudden, the 266 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: people whose communities that they went to go tap dance 267 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: and do a jig for their vote. Once they got it, 268 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 1: they turn around and all of a sudden they don't 269 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: answer your calls. All of a sudden, they don't know 270 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: who you are. Right and then right, like any good grifter, 271 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: when you call them out on their bullshit, when you 272 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: want to bring the heat down on them, they turn 273 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: it into being your fault. While I never told you 274 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: I was this wealthy, you just assumed I didn't try 275 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: and defraud you. You just really also liked the lavish lifestyle. 276 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: So with Democrats, it's like them saying, well, we never 277 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: told you. We said that the John Lewis ritzack had 278 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: a nice ring to it. We didn't say we were 279 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: going to get it past. We said providing a child 280 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: tax credit could possibly keep families out of poverty. That 281 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: providing this could potentially keep children out of poverty. That 282 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: sounded nice. We didn't say we were actually gonna do it. 283 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: Who told you that? We said that we would do 284 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: our best to get the job done. We said that 285 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: no person was above the law. We didn't actually say 286 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: that we were going to bring the law to them. 287 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: They're grifters. They will do and say whatever it is 288 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: that they need to do and say in order to 289 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: get your vote. And when you are a person of color, right, 290 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: when you are a black or brown person, or an 291 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: LGBTQ person, or a Muslim person, or you know, anyone 292 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: who lives within within the identities of any of these marginalized, 293 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: marginalized communities or at the intersection thereof what is your alternative, Right, 294 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: you're gonna go and you're gonna go sit at the 295 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: Republicans table because they don't want to sit with you, right, 296 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: they'd rather burn the entire table down and not eat themselves, 297 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: starve themselves than allow you to come sit over there. 298 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: Oh you want to come sit the Democrats, Well, they 299 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: actually keep moving their table, right, and you don't really 300 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: know which one there's is, but they keep waving you over. 301 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: But then you get close and the table's gone. So 302 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: when I'm saying that we are fighting two wars here, 303 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: the real war that is about holding onto our democracy 304 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: at the face of in the face of the rise 305 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: of fascism that is not just happening in this country, 306 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: but is happening around the world. That there is a 307 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: realignment that is happening, except it's like the realignment in 308 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone, where at one time we used to 309 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: refer to these dictators and these authoritarian regimes as the 310 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: axis of evil, right, But now Republicans are rooting for 311 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: Putin downing their own president, and you're seeing the Fox 312 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: news is of the war world, the fascists of the 313 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: world takeover, move their ways into other countries that who's 314 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: also on shaky ground. So we have the real war 315 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: that we're fighting with the Republicans, we have a shadow 316 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: war that we're fighting with spineless democrats. And the only 317 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: ones that are going to get hurt are us. So 318 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: I say that if we're going to get hurt anyway, 319 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: right then we might as well fucking go down swinging 320 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: and let them know that we fucking see them for 321 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: who they are, that we see them, that they're not 322 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: going to get away with lying to us, with telling 323 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: us that they are for us. And then I can 324 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: point to several places, several policies over decades where they 325 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: have destroyed communities of color, where they have left women hanging, 326 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: hoping that they would renew the Violence Against Women Act. 327 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: They don't care, folks, They just pretend to and the 328 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: ones who are actual fighters are the ones that the 329 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: establishment will throw under the bus and already have. The 330 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: anger that I am feeling these days is like you 331 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: know when you eat something that is so hot that 332 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: even after you douse yourself with water or eat bread 333 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: or drink milk, like it's still the fire is still burning. 334 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: That's how I felt after reading every single bit of 335 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: breaking news. I'm gonna move on to the next story, 336 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: which is just as repulsive as the last one. A 337 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: while ago on Twitter, I kind of put my own 338 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: stamp on Martin Neo Mueller's poem first they came for 339 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: and when I did so, it went kind of mini 340 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: viral with like, you know, fifteen thousand retweets or something. 341 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: And what I wrote was, first they came for women's rights, 342 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: but you weren't a woman or a person with the uterus, 343 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: so you didn't care. Then they came for voting rights, 344 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: but because you were still able to vote, you did 345 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: nothing about it. Then they came for LGBTQ rights, but 346 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: you weren't queer, and you don't know anybody that's queer, 347 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,239 Speaker 1: so you didn't care. And then they came for you, 348 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: and there was no one left to fight for you. 349 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: What did they come for? First, reproductive rights, the same 350 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 1: thing that they have been coming for since nineteen seventy four, 351 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: started in Texas and has expanded like a cancer around 352 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: the country to eventually reaching the Supreme Court, who will 353 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: make the final decision in June. And we already know 354 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: what that decision is going to be. Roe will stand 355 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 1: in name only, an abortion will become a thing of 356 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: the past, forty six, forty seventy years, close to damn 357 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: near fifty years. But Democrats didn't stay vigilant, right, They 358 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: kept saying ROE is codified, it's a law of the land. 359 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: Nothing is the law of the land. You are one 360 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: election cycle away from losing everything. But Democrats didn't tell 361 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: you that in twenty sixteen. Right. They were more concerned 362 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: with whether or not the media was more concerned with 363 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: whether or not Hillary was going to wear a flannel, right, 364 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: more concerned with whether or not she could shed a tear. 365 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: Democrats didn't come out swinging in twenty sixteen and tell 366 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: you that you were one election cycle away from losing 367 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: everything that you thought was codified. Right, but her emails, Now, 368 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: what are they coming for next? Because they never they 369 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: never don't come for black people, right. We know that 370 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: we're the persistent and consistent target of Republicans and conservatives right, 371 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: and Democrats serve us up on a platter all the 372 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 1: time because it's easy, right and because you know, as 373 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: they believe, they don't really need us. We're only thirteen 374 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: percent of the population. It's always about cording Chad and 375 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: Karen back over right, who haven't voted for them or 376 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: with them in four or five decades. So they came 377 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: for uteruses consistently come in for black folks, with police brutality, 378 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: voting restrictions, economic disparities, all of these things. Well, now 379 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: Abbot in Texas has decided what's next. According to Vogue, 380 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: the latest in a long line of attacks on the existence, freedom, 381 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: and dignity of LGBTQ plus individuals in the United States 382 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: was waged on Wednesday, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially 383 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: officially directed agencies to investigate gender affirming care for trans 384 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: youth as child abuse. In a letter to the States 385 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: Apartment of Family and Protective Services, Abbott define gender affirming 386 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: treatments for transgender children, including gender reassignment surgery, as puberty 387 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: and puberty blocking medications as quote abusive procedures. Let me 388 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: tell you something about how I feel when I read that, 389 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: When I saw that come across Twitter. LGBTQ youth make 390 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: up the largest number of homeless youth in America. LGBTQ 391 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: youth make up most attempted suicides in the United States. 392 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: Lgbt Q youth are the most vulnerable children in our society. 393 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: Do you know what abuse looks like? It looks like 394 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: actions that Abbott just took. It looks like telling LGBTQ 395 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: youth that you don't fucking matter. It looks like not 396 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: investigating real child abusers, right, But those that actually care 397 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: enough and listen to children and believe them when they 398 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: say who I am does not match the body that 399 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: I am in. You cannot imagine the pain I cannot 400 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: as a black queer siss woman, imagine the horror that 401 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: trans children and trans adults go through. You know who's 402 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: most likely to be murdered in this country, black trans women. 403 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: Do you know who doesn't care about their murder? Everyone 404 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: this message that Abbot just sent and descantists will follow in. 405 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: All of these dirt, bad pieces of shit who want 406 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,239 Speaker 1: to tell you about their Christian fucking values. But they 407 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: don't give a damn about anybody's sentity of life. They 408 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: don't give a damn about children, but want to tell 409 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: you that they are the party of family values. This 410 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: is how you value children, This is how you value 411 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: life by taking measures that save their lives and telling 412 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: them that that is abuse. And then what throwing the 413 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: people that do those procedures or the families that allow 414 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: for these life saving measures. You're going to throw them 415 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: in jail along with the people who try and vote. 416 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: Go fuck yourself. It is not enough for us to 417 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: sit around and say, oh, well, I don't live in Florida, 418 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't live in Texas. I don't know why people 419 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: live there. These are our kids, this is our life, 420 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: and they are trying to take it away from us. 421 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: They are not just trying to roll back rights. This 422 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: is what I want everybody to understand. They don't want 423 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: to just roll back rights. They want to codify white supremacy, 424 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: heterosexuality into law, Christianity right, bring back prayer in schools, 425 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: Erase any mention of civil rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, 426 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: the Native American quest for rights gone. You will be 427 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: praying to that flag, you will be monitored. We are 428 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: not just going back to Jim Crow. This is McCarthyism, 429 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: Jim Crowe, Trumpism all rolled up into one and then 430 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: with the dabs of apartheide. They will not stop until 431 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: those of us who do not look like them, pray 432 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: like them, love like them, and show up like them. 433 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: Are afraid for our lives. With each measure, they are 434 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: doing their damnedest to force us back into closets, right, 435 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: to force black folks to keep your head down, move 436 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: off the sidewalk, yes, ma'am, no sir, to just be 437 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: thankful that we're allowed to exist. But they will make 438 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: sure that that existence is painful so that we all 439 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: stay in line. This is where America is headed. And 440 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: the said fucking thing about it is that no one 441 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: is going to stop them. No one. No one is coming, 442 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: not the people that we voted for to keep in power. 443 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: And people want to say, oh, Joe Biden, he's a 444 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: nice guy, you know, he came in with a lot 445 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: going on. I don't give a fuck, because let me 446 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,719 Speaker 1: tell you something, if you have one shot at something, 447 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: you got one shot, leave it all on the fucking table. 448 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: If you care so much about your legacy. Then you 449 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: do whatever it fucking takes for people to tell you 450 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: that you went down, but you went down as a warrior. 451 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: Let them say decades later, Oh, America wasn't ready, but 452 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: they came with the fire, instead of pandering, instead of summits, 453 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: with fucking Joe Manchin and Kursten cinema, so that you 454 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: can trade voting rights. You can trade the rights of 455 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: black people, of brown, people of LGBTQ, people of those 456 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: of us who are both and think that we're gonna 457 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: what come and give you our votes. You already left 458 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: us alone, right. Oh you want to tell us that 459 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: things can get worse, we fucking know, but you ain't 460 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: gonna do dick about it. Black man was murdered in 461 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: the goddamn street. We can't get police reform. How many 462 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: murders have happened since that one, but we can't get 463 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: police reform. It's too much, it's too woke. We are 464 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: moving into this phase of America, the dark ages that 465 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: I need everybody to wrap their minds around and not 466 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: lie to yourselves and say, oh, it's not gonna be 467 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: that bad. Oh, this will never happen. Because I want you, 468 00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: I want us to stop using the word never, because 469 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: we are living inside of one of those nevers right now. 470 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: I never thought that there would be a global health 471 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: pandemic that would shut down cities and shut down borders 472 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: and countries, that then entire political parties across the world 473 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 1: would just say is over and then that means it's over, 474 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: and not give a fuck about public health and be 475 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,959 Speaker 1: so fucking bold and honest about it. No. I never 476 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,280 Speaker 1: thought that the world would turn into an Orwellian fucking 477 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: Butler mash up. And yet here we are, and yet 478 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: here we are. So everything that we think could never happen, 479 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:52,320 Speaker 1: you should now know is possible. Everything that we believed. 480 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: Oh well, they can't bring back segregation. Why not? It 481 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: was decided by this Preme Court. When Amy Covid Barrett 482 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,800 Speaker 1: was asked about whether or not the Brown versus the 483 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: Board of Education was settled law, she didn't give a 484 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: straight answer. So, once they're done with Roe, they will 485 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: go to Brown. Once they're done with Brown, they will 486 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: go to Windsor once they're done with Windsor, they'll go 487 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: to Plessy. Right, Like, I want folks to recognize that 488 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: all of the rights that you believe that you have 489 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: right now didn't come through acts of Congress. They came 490 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: through the courts. Mitch McConnell stacked those courts. We have 491 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: a six to three Supreme Court, and we have three 492 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: hundred federal judges on the bench that don't deserve to 493 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: be there, according to the American Bar Associate, and some 494 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: of them are as young as thirty five years old. 495 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: So in this moment, remind yourself that the Holocaust was legal, 496 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 1: Slavery was legal, Apartheide was legal. What is legal and 497 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 1: illegal is not a matter of law. It is a 498 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: matter of power. And we have seeded all of that 499 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: power to the Republican Party, to a fascist regime. And 500 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: each and every single day that Republicans come up with 501 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: excuses instead of actions, that come up with more fucking 502 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 1: empty metaphors right and niceties instead of strategy, they are 503 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: seeding your life, the life of your children, your grandchildren, 504 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: your great grandchildren to the oppressor. They are not even 505 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: waiting for twenty twenty four. They don't have to because 506 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: Democrats haven't even shown up to the battle. You know, 507 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: when folks say, oh, they brought a butter knife to 508 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: a gunfight, Democrats didn't even show up. They were too 509 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:32,359 Speaker 1: chicken shit. All we have are ourselves. All we have 510 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: is each other. And if we aren't sharing this message, 511 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: if we aren't ringing the alarm, if we aren't saying 512 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 1: of folks, Hey, you see what they're doing to these 513 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people in Texas. You see what they're doing. This 514 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 1: is a testing ground. I have heard so many times 515 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 1: friends of mine say, well, thank god we live in 516 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 1: New York. As if New York is some type of 517 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: fortress with a mode of sharks and crocodiles in it, 518 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,759 Speaker 1: As if no one is going to be able to 519 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,239 Speaker 1: get to you because you're in New York or you're 520 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: in California. These are the times when I start to 521 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 1: really ask myself what does it mean to be safe? 522 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,640 Speaker 1: What does safety look like when the people that are 523 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:38,919 Speaker 1: supposed to protect you are also your biggest enemies, When 524 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 1: the people that you elect to represent you or the 525 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: reason for your demise, then what is safety? The only 526 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: way to secure safety is through power, and no one 527 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: gives up power, not willingly. And that's the real thing 528 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:09,760 Speaker 1: that we need to start really thinking about and strategizing about. 529 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: This is an entire white supremist power grab that is 530 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,880 Speaker 1: happening at America. America is going to be the leader 531 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: of the axis of evil? Do you get that? Do 532 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,240 Speaker 1: we understand that? And no one is standing in their way? 533 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 1: You still have Joe Biden referring to Mitch McConnell, the 534 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 1: architect of the fall of the courts to Republicans, as 535 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: his friend, And I'm like, motherfucker, do you get it? 536 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: And what I realize day in and day out is 537 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 1: that they don't fucking get it. They don't get it, 538 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,840 Speaker 1: but we do. And the question that is going to 539 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,319 Speaker 1: keep rolling around in my brain is what are we 540 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 1: going to do about it? Because I'm about ready to 541 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: put the screws to somebody, and it's sure is not 542 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,439 Speaker 1: going to be my own fucking head, That's for goddamn sure, 543 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: because if I'm going down, oh I'm going down fighting, 544 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: But I'm going to make sure that everybody knows who 545 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: exactly was against us always because at my time, when 546 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: my time comes, oh, I'm going to make sure that 547 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,439 Speaker 1: there is enough information, there are enough of my own 548 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: words out there that no one will be able to 549 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:42,439 Speaker 1: twist them or erase them or rewrite them. So make 550 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 1: sure right that the actions that you take right that 551 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: remember at one point in time, at some point, you 552 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:55,399 Speaker 1: will be an ancestor will people be proud or will 553 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: they be embarrassed. That's the question that Democrats should be 554 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: asking themselves, because this isn't about morality anymore. We know 555 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: that they don't have any If it's not shame, if 556 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: it's not hope, then it's got to be fear. So 557 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: how do we put the fear of God into Democrats 558 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,719 Speaker 1: to do what is right for the majority, because that 559 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 1: is exactly who we are. And now, dear friends, for 560 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,840 Speaker 1: your woke moment of wellness. You know, during yesterday's Woke Wednesday, 561 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:43,560 Speaker 1: my mother texts me and she says, Danielle, I want 562 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 1: you after the show to go out onto your balcony 563 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:53,400 Speaker 1: and take ten deep breaths. Mommy loves you. This is 564 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,040 Speaker 1: what she says to me in my text. I'm very 565 00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 1: lucky and fortunate, and I realize it is so important 566 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: that when you feel the rage creeping in, when it 567 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:15,600 Speaker 1: feels like it is going to consume you. If you 568 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 1: are laying down, if you're walking, stop ground your feet right, 569 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 1: put your ten toes into the ground, like feel it through. 570 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,879 Speaker 1: If you are a barefoot great if you are not, 571 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:37,320 Speaker 1: if you're in shoes, press them down, strengthen up your back, 572 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: shoulders down, close your eyes and take in three because 573 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 1: you know we're all busy. Deep breaths in on the 574 00:42:53,280 --> 00:43:00,879 Speaker 1: count of four, and out on the same count of four. 575 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:08,160 Speaker 1: There is something about stopping, grounding and breathing, but it 576 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 1: is a grounding that happens in yoga and yoga if 577 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,680 Speaker 1: you've ever taken a class, this is the posture mountain pose. 578 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:23,880 Speaker 1: Mountain pose is when you really are grounding through your feet, 579 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: like acting as if you were growing roots, and then 580 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,719 Speaker 1: through that root growing down. It's actually stretching the top 581 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: of you up, like feeling as if you were pulling 582 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 1: from the tops of your head while the bottom of 583 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: your feet are grounding. So there's this lengthening, as my 584 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,319 Speaker 1: mother says, it's lengthening that is happening. And then you 585 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: put your hands down right and you have this straining 586 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: posture and your feet are grounded and your head is 587 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:56,719 Speaker 1: up and you're just pulling right in both directions and breathe. 588 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: Breathe in deep, counting to four, our exhale out counting 589 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 1: to four, and do if you can do ten rounds 590 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,799 Speaker 1: of that brilliant. If you can do three rounds of 591 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:21,759 Speaker 1: that perfection, then afterwards just sit, just stand and see 592 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:26,840 Speaker 1: if you feel a difference. It's that grounding that ensures 593 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,319 Speaker 1: that we don't get blown around with all of their 594 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,080 Speaker 1: hot air and all of their bullshit. That, friends, is 595 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:42,920 Speaker 1: your woke moment of wellness. That is it for me today, 596 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: Friends on Woke A app as always power to the 597 00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,759 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 598 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,439 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.