WEBVTT - Slew of Despair 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay Up Daily with 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.400 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:25.720 for folks. Yesterday a slew of horrific breaking news came 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.479 in and I'm going to go over each and every 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.400 single one of the topics that came in over the wire, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.120 and I got to tell you that there are days 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:43.519 where I have reached where I reach not have reached 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.320 where I reach a level of rage that I need 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:54.080 to kind of sit still, turn off everything everyone and 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.560 remind myself why I do the work that I do, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:03.400 and to remind myself that this too shell pass, that 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.800 we will continue to fight and move forward. But there 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.319 are days, and yesterday was that day. So what happened. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:22.720 New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was appointed as to 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.039 succeed Sivance and Sivance's name, you know, because we have 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.880 talked about it with our friend Glenn Kirshner and others, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.960 had a impaneled a grand jury, let me say, impaneled 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.000 the grand jury to do deep dive investigation into what 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.160 we know to be fraud that Donald Trump and his 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.880 associates have been accompanied to to inflate the prices that 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.240 inflate their assets, and then drop their assets to lie 0:01:54.320 --> 0:02:01.280 about their accounting right through their accounting from maraz and 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.160 the impaneled grand jury that was brought in was brought 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.920 in for the longer than six week time because there 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.960 was so much fucking evidence and they didn't want to 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.480 have the normal six weeks switch up. Okay, so that 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:23.000 happens in the fall elections happen. Sivance is gone, and 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.880 now Alvin Bragg comes in. A black man is a 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:32.720 Manhattan da Well fucking bombshell, I guess we learn once 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.160 again not all skin folk are kinfolk. And so here's 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.239 where we stand. Two of the prosecutors, two of the 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.400 lead prosecutors in the case. This is according to the 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.160 New York Times. So let me say this, and if 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.639 you watched Woke Wednesday yesterday, then you heard this accounting. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.320 But let me say it again. According to the New 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.600 York Times, the two prosecutors leading the Manhattan District Attorney's 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.000 investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practice 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:06.639 abruptly resigned yesterday amid a month long, one month long pause. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.760 And let me make things clear. We've learned a lot 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.440 about grand juries. Right. Over the course of the last 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.800 two years, we've learned a lot thanks to our friend 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.120 Glenn Kirshner that comes on every week. And what we 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.480 do know is that you have a finite amount of 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.519 time to be able to present evidence, right, to then 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.560 have a judge or to present evidence to decide whether 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.280 or not there is enough there to indict. Right. So 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.800 one would think that when sid vance right in panels 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.560 a grand jury for an extended period of time, that 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.080 we would assume, given all that we fucking know about 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.280 Donald Trump, that an indictment would be soon following. Well, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:55.320 thanks Alvin Bragg, you just gave Republicans their best advertisement, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:01.040 their best fucking get out of any type of jail card. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:07.840 Why because basically the resignations by the two prosecutors carry 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:14.640 are done and Mark F. Pomerants right after their resignations. Basically, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.120 what Republicans and what Donald Trump can now say is 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.599 that according to Alvin Bragg, oh, he has doubts about 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.440 moving forward. And they're like, what the fuck have we 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.680 been doing for the past couple of years, Because I 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:32.880 understand these investigations have been going on for years, okay, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.320 and every time that people tell us Oh, justice is slow, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.720 but it'll come. It'll come. Just wait, be patient. Our 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.880 legal system is slow, but it'll come. It'll come. Well, now, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.400 these two resignations point to the fact that once again, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.960 a Democrat that is in charge of actually seeking justice 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.359 right against Donald Trump is once again gonna miss the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.279 fucking mark and fail and fail and fail and fail, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.279 and remind you right that it is. It is a 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:10.760 Democrat that decided, right, Merrick Garland decided not to take 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.360 up for a Gene Carroll, the woman who accused one 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.960 of the twenty some odd women that accused Donald Trump 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:22.440 of sexual assault right in a Manhattan department store, who 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.800 then sued him for libel right and defamation. And it 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.800 was Merrick Garland and Joe Biden's Department of Justice that 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.159 decided that they would defend Donald Trump in that case. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.359 How do we know how to fight friends, if we 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.640 don't even know who our true enemies are? Because right now, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.320 neither Alvin Bragg or Merrick Garland look like they are 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.840 actually for the people. And if I hear one more 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.320 fucking Democrat want to get on television to tell me, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.200 to tell the rest of us that all we need 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.600 to be patient, but no man is above the law. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:03.560 Go fuck yourself, Go actually fuck yourself, because I am done. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:08.159 So here's the continuation of this right. According to The 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.279 New York Times, without mister Bragg's commitment to move forward, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.800 the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.120 at least one witness before the grand jury. One of 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.720 the people said they have not questioned any witnesses in 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.159 front of the grand jury for more than a month, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.839 essentially pausing their investigation into whether mister Trump inflated the 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:36.719 value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.680 The precise reasons for mister Bragg's pullback are, of course unknown, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.720 And what I have to say to folks, and this 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.960 is what I said yesterday on Woke on Woke Wednesday. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:52.960 Here's the thing. The pullback isn't unknown. What I will 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.680 say to everyone that will listen is follow the fucking money. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:04.240 Who supported Alvin bragg campaign. Who are his biggest donors? 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.280 What are their ties to Donald Trump, the Trump administration, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.800 the Trump organization, the Trump net worth of wealth. Right, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.640 go and find that information and then you can figure 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.760 out why there has been a pullback over a course 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.280 of a month. And nothing going on. Let me tell 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.200 you something that stinks, the fucking lies and the fact 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.840 that no one, no one with power, or with money 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.640 or with access, is ever going to do what is 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.720 right because each and every single one of those motherfucker's 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.360 hands are dirty. And that's what we know. We've had 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.640 our friend Jennifer Tobb on the show all the time. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.440 Jennifer has come on to talk about her book Dirty 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.120 Money and white collar Criminals and the reason why they're 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.320 allowed to defraud. You know, millions of people get away 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.880 with it like those fucking bumps on Wall Street did, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.560 but no one sees jail time. No, we bail out 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.520 the banks when they defraud Americans, We bail out the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.360 Wall Street executives when they defraud Americans. Nobody goes to jail. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.680 So why is Donald Trump any different? I said, you know, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.640 the only truth, the only truth that Donald Trump did 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.160 tell is when he stood up at one of his 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.160 fucking Maga hate rallies and said that he could shoot 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.600 somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.120 watch his poll numbers go off. There is a reason 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.080 why that man has received the name teflon Don in 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.280 New York City because everyone knows he's a fucking crook. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.400 Everybody knows that he's slippery and slimy. But until he 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.480 ran for president, he used to give money to everybody, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:46.000 as mobsters do, so that regardless of who has the gavel, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.760 regardless of who is in office at the time that 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.600 you may be doing your latest deal, that if you 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.880 give them enough money, then of course they're going to 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.560 do your bidding, or better yet, look the other way, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.120 because that's actually all you really need. So no one 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.440 is This is a thing that I think that we 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.800 all need to begin to wrap our minds around, is 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:10.400 that no one is good, No one in power is good, right, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.640 and so our choice as voters is to find the 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.600 least bad, the least sleazy among the pile of assholes 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.480 that we are handed every single day. Now. I don't 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.959 know Alvin Bragg, right, I don't know anything about him, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.800 but what I do know is that he ain't shit 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.120 for this fucking move that he just made. That he 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.280 has now become one of my biggest targets on this 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.480 fucking show because I absolutely right want to do my 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.480 due diligence and start to do my own research, you know, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.479 as they say on the right to figure out exactly 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:53.400 why Alvin Bragg decided that he was going to pivot 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:59.880 from his predecessors desires right and pinpoint this investigation around 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.920 Donald Trump and decide that, you know what, I doubt 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:07.679 we're going to move forward. The world is watching this case. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.640 The world is watching America. The world is waiting around 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.600 to see exactly what is going to be done, if 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.400 anything about Donald Trump. And I'll tell you, we know 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.280 that he was in charge of the insurrection. We know 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.160 that he's broken multiple emolument's clause. We know that he 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.560 tried to bribe the president of Ukraine. We know that 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.400 he tried to bribe the fucking Secretary of State in Georgia. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.280 Go ahead and find me eleven seven hundred and forty 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.480 six votes though, right, we know all of these things. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.120 We knew it from when the Mulla report came up. Right. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.720 Here are the ten ways in which Donald Trump has 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.959 obstructed the law. And once Donald Trump walked out of 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.440 the White House and was no longer President of the 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.560 United States, all any attorney with any fucking backbone had 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:00.559 to do was that bring those ten fucking charges, right, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.480 those ten examples that the Mulla Report detailed out to 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.840 the world and bring a case. But they didn't. And 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.440 the question that we need to start asking ourselves is 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.200 why why won't anybody do anything? The same reason why 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.960 you know, you sit around, and I'm gonna do a 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:24.360 real big comparison. You sit around and you wonder, huh, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:32.720 Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking girls for how long to how 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.800 many different people? How many different people were on that 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:41.280 disgusting island, on his disgusting private jet, at his disgusting parties, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:48.319 including Donald Trump, including Bill Clinton, including Prince Andrew, including 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.680 Mohammed bin Salam. You see what all of those men 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.520 have in common wealth and power and connections and access. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:03.319 And they were all connected to Jeffrey Epstein. So you 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.079 think that these people weren't aware of the fact that 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.800 he was a sex trafficker. You think that they had 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.640 no idea what was going on. You think that they 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:16.800 didn't spend decades looking the other fucking way. All of 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:25.880 these it's an incestuous cesspool of greed and power that 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.240 all commingle. It doesn't. This is where party doesn't matter, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:38.160 Green does, capitalism does. That is their master. And when 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.000 you have that kind of power, when you have that 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.320 kind of access and wealth. You will do whatever the 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.880 fuck you want to whomever you want, whenever you want, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.640 because you got DA's in your pocket, you got senators 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:58.000 in your pocket, you got presidents in your pocket. We 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.720 sit around and we wonder, like, why won't Democrats do anything? 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.120 Why won't they stand up? Why did they continue to 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.120 fucking act as if they have no power whatsoever? This, again, friends, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.479 is what winning looks like. We have all the branches. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.679 Oh I'm sorry, except for the judiciary, right, we got Congress, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.600 we have the White House. But this is what winning 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.800 feels like. So you begin to wonder and ask yourself 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:33.520 these questions. Who is actually making these deals? You know, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.800 Democrats want to put on a good show, like every 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.520 single time that Republicans do the same thing that they've 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.839 been doing for the last four decades, they want a 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.960 feign shock. They want to say, oh my god, we 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.760 have no idea where this came from. Oh, I don't know. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.360 It came from nineteen fifty two, it came from nineteen 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.480 sixty eight, it came from this year, and this year 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.720 and this year. You know, all of the decades that 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.760 they've been doing the same things, using the same people 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:02.080 as their culprit and their battering rams right, making the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:07.080 same attempts to make sure that America becomes the beacon 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:12.360 of white evangelical christiandom right, and that everybody who is 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.720 not white, who is not wealthy, who is not straight, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.880 who is not Christian has no power. And not only 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.720 do you not have any power, they want to ensure 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.360 that you live in fear. This is what folks are 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.720 not getting right now, is that I believe and I'm 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.080 beginning to believe, and there me because people say, Danielle, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:37.840 you sound like a conspiracy theorist. But do I Because 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.120 if you have the power to actually stop atrocious things 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.560 from happening, if you had the power to hauld Donald 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.400 Trump in and the entire Trump administration in before an inquiry, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.040 if you had the power to say to your Department 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.400 of Justice, I'm going to move out of your way. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.160 But here is the thing, by virtue of who I 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.160 am appointing to lead our US Department of Justice, I 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.640 am going to make sure that when we say that 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.320 nobody is above the law, that nobody is actually above 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.360 the law. Why is it that Democrats are so quick, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.040 just like Republicans to want to turn the page right, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.440 there's about a handful of fighters in the Democrats within 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.240 the party, but I'll tell you that the entirety, the 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:25.120 actual establishment seems really to look like a bunch of 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:31.560 Republicans in sheep's clothing. Because you see, this is the 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.440 thing that I'm starting to piece together. And I gotta admit, 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.880 if you're gonna listen to democracy issue this morning, I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.440 set it on there, so I want to say it 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:47.760 on here. I believe that Democrats are the biggest grifters. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.760 I've been addicted to these grifters shows. Over the holiday weekend, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.680 I watched Inventing Anna, the Shonda Rhimes creation based on 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.040 the real story of the fake German heiress who essentially 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.360 fooled everyone into believing that she was an heiress, and 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.840 she came, as they said, dangerously close to being able 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:18.560 to essentially defraud one of the major investment banks in 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.720 the city in the world. Right. And then I watched 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.440 the Tinder Swindler, right, the guy who went around defrauding 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.240 a bunch of women out of their wealth, putting them 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.760 into debts so that he could create this Ponzi scheme 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.480 around women paying for other paying for his lavish lifestyle 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.040 and I started to think about grifting. Well. One I 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.040 also started to think about I went into the wrong 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.960 profession that clearly I should have been smarter, and I 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.080 should have been like these people who can set up 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.640 these kinds of schemes and for a fairly long time 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.400 get away with them, right, and live high on the hog. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.560 But I digress. Democrats are grifters. Why because they steal 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.240 your money. No, it's because they steal your votes. And 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.520 why do I use the words steal well, because Democrats, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:17.240 much in the way that ANNADELVI and the Tindler swindler, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:23.440 they put together this brand, right, this this idea that 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.440 they are for the people, that they are the ones 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.800 that will march with you, that they are the ones 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:34.640 that are for LGBTQ equality, for voting rights for black people. Right. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.680 You know, they tell you, they feed you these lines, right, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.560 and yet and yet when they actually are in a 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.119 position to do anything about it, then all of a sudden, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.600 their hands become tied. All of a sudden, they have 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.960 no backbone. All of a sudden, there are so many 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.879 different rules and maneuvers that they need to follow, and 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.359 now they're constructed, right, and all of a sudden, the 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.160 people whose communities that they went to go tap dance 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.680 and do a jig for their vote. Once they got it, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.200 they turn around and all of a sudden they don't 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.080 answer your calls. All of a sudden, they don't know 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:18.159 who you are. Right and then right, like any good grifter, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.000 when you call them out on their bullshit, when you 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.120 want to bring the heat down on them, they turn 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.240 it into being your fault. While I never told you 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.280 I was this wealthy, you just assumed I didn't try 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.240 and defraud you. You just really also liked the lavish lifestyle. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:40.080 So with Democrats, it's like them saying, well, we never 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.600 told you. We said that the John Lewis ritzack had 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.960 a nice ring to it. We didn't say we were 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.840 going to get it past. We said providing a child 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.879 tax credit could possibly keep families out of poverty. That 0:18:55.000 --> 0:19:00.240 providing this could potentially keep children out of poverty. That 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.040 sounded nice. We didn't say we were actually gonna do it. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.040 Who told you that? We said that we would do 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.439 our best to get the job done. We said that 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.960 no person was above the law. We didn't actually say 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.680 that we were going to bring the law to them. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:19.840 They're grifters. They will do and say whatever it is 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.320 that they need to do and say in order to 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.320 get your vote. And when you are a person of color, right, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.879 when you are a black or brown person, or an 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.480 LGBTQ person, or a Muslim person, or you know, anyone 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:37.120 who lives within within the identities of any of these marginalized, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:45.280 marginalized communities or at the intersection thereof what is your alternative, Right, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.000 you're gonna go and you're gonna go sit at the 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.600 Republicans table because they don't want to sit with you, right, 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.040 they'd rather burn the entire table down and not eat themselves, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.520 starve themselves than allow you to come sit over there. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.280 Oh you want to come sit the Democrats, Well, they 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.520 actually keep moving their table, right, and you don't really 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.480 know which one there's is, but they keep waving you over. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:15.200 But then you get close and the table's gone. So 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.600 when I'm saying that we are fighting two wars here, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.560 the real war that is about holding onto our democracy 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.040 at the face of in the face of the rise 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.840 of fascism that is not just happening in this country, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.600 but is happening around the world. That there is a 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.560 realignment that is happening, except it's like the realignment in 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.119 the Twilight Zone, where at one time we used to 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:47.520 refer to these dictators and these authoritarian regimes as the 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:52.359 axis of evil, right, But now Republicans are rooting for 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:59.119 Putin downing their own president, and you're seeing the Fox 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.800 news is of the war world, the fascists of the 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.800 world takeover, move their ways into other countries that who's 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:13.520 also on shaky ground. So we have the real war 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.760 that we're fighting with the Republicans, we have a shadow 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.000 war that we're fighting with spineless democrats. And the only 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:24.399 ones that are going to get hurt are us. So 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.480 I say that if we're going to get hurt anyway, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.560 right then we might as well fucking go down swinging 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.840 and let them know that we fucking see them for 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:39.399 who they are, that we see them, that they're not 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.879 going to get away with lying to us, with telling 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.440 us that they are for us. And then I can 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:50.280 point to several places, several policies over decades where they 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:56.480 have destroyed communities of color, where they have left women hanging, 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.320 hoping that they would renew the Violence Against Women Act. 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:09.639 They don't care, folks, They just pretend to and the 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.560 ones who are actual fighters are the ones that the 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:23.119 establishment will throw under the bus and already have. The 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:29.520 anger that I am feeling these days is like you 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.119 know when you eat something that is so hot that 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.639 even after you douse yourself with water or eat bread 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.600 or drink milk, like it's still the fire is still burning. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.359 That's how I felt after reading every single bit of 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.000 breaking news. I'm gonna move on to the next story, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:51.600 which is just as repulsive as the last one. A 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:56.400 while ago on Twitter, I kind of put my own 0:22:56.600 --> 0:23:01.240 stamp on Martin Neo Mueller's poem first they came for 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:05.920 and when I did so, it went kind of mini 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:10.639 viral with like, you know, fifteen thousand retweets or something. 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:19.080 And what I wrote was, first they came for women's rights, 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.080 but you weren't a woman or a person with the uterus, 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:26.800 so you didn't care. Then they came for voting rights, 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.720 but because you were still able to vote, you did 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:36.199 nothing about it. Then they came for LGBTQ rights, but 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.400 you weren't queer, and you don't know anybody that's queer, 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.239 so you didn't care. And then they came for you, 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:44.680 and there was no one left to fight for you. 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:54.600 What did they come for? First, reproductive rights, the same 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:58.680 thing that they have been coming for since nineteen seventy four, 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:10.000 started in Texas and has expanded like a cancer around 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:14.080 the country to eventually reaching the Supreme Court, who will 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:17.800 make the final decision in June. And we already know 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:21.600 what that decision is going to be. Roe will stand 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:25.919 in name only, an abortion will become a thing of 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:32.080 the past, forty six, forty seventy years, close to damn 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:37.480 near fifty years. But Democrats didn't stay vigilant, right, They 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.600 kept saying ROE is codified, it's a law of the land. 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:45.760 Nothing is the law of the land. You are one 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:51.160 election cycle away from losing everything. But Democrats didn't tell 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:55.320 you that in twenty sixteen. Right. They were more concerned 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:57.679 with whether or not the media was more concerned with 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:01.520 whether or not Hillary was going to wear a flannel, right, 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.200 more concerned with whether or not she could shed a tear. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:11.160 Democrats didn't come out swinging in twenty sixteen and tell 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:15.440 you that you were one election cycle away from losing 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:28.240 everything that you thought was codified. Right, but her emails, Now, 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.280 what are they coming for next? Because they never they 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.000 never don't come for black people, right. We know that 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:42.200 we're the persistent and consistent target of Republicans and conservatives right, 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:45.280 and Democrats serve us up on a platter all the 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:50.640 time because it's easy, right and because you know, as 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:53.000 they believe, they don't really need us. We're only thirteen 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:57.040 percent of the population. It's always about cording Chad and 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:00.439 Karen back over right, who haven't voted for them or 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:06.879 with them in four or five decades. So they came 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:16.000 for uteruses consistently come in for black folks, with police brutality, 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:23.879 voting restrictions, economic disparities, all of these things. Well, now 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:34.600 Abbot in Texas has decided what's next. According to Vogue, 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:38.720 the latest in a long line of attacks on the existence, freedom, 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:43.119 and dignity of LGBTQ plus individuals in the United States 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:48.240 was waged on Wednesday, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:55.480 officially directed agencies to investigate gender affirming care for trans 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:59.800 youth as child abuse. In a letter to the States 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:04.200 Apartment of Family and Protective Services, Abbott define gender affirming 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:09.800 treatments for transgender children, including gender reassignment surgery, as puberty 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:14.439 and puberty blocking medications as quote abusive procedures. Let me 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:22.520 tell you something about how I feel when I read that, 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:32.200 When I saw that come across Twitter. LGBTQ youth make 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:38.480 up the largest number of homeless youth in America. LGBTQ 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:45.920 youth make up most attempted suicides in the United States. 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:59.560 Lgbt Q youth are the most vulnerable children in our society. 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.879 Do you know what abuse looks like? It looks like 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:09.480 actions that Abbott just took. It looks like telling LGBTQ 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:13.960 youth that you don't fucking matter. It looks like not 0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:19.760 investigating real child abusers, right, But those that actually care 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.800 enough and listen to children and believe them when they 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:30.000 say who I am does not match the body that 0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:36.480 I am in. You cannot imagine the pain I cannot 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:45.560 as a black queer siss woman, imagine the horror that 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:53.400