1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Bogey Up Daily. Would 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: meet your girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. 3 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: You know, folks, we have six weeks until the midterm elections, 4 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: and I spend a lot of my days and a 5 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: lot of my time digging through the doom and the 6 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: gloom in order to find something, some way, whether it's 7 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: fear or rage, you know, hopefulness, faith that will ignite 8 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: the masses to action, that will ignite people to make 9 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: the conscious fucking decision to stand up for their god 10 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: damn rights. You know, there is a part of me 11 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: that believes, in a lot of ways that Americans are 12 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: both the most courageous people and also the fucking laziest. 13 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: And why do I say that, Because I believe that 14 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: over the last fifty plus years, I'll say fifty to 15 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: sixty years. Those of us who are younger than that age, 16 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: way younger, do not remember a time when you have 17 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: had to literally put your own life and body on 18 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: the line in order to fight for your life and 19 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: the life of generations behind you. For many of us, 20 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: too many of us, that fight has only been a 21 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: story that we've read in history books, or that have 22 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: been passed down through generational tales of strife and struggle. 23 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: I remember being young, being in high school, being in 24 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: elementary school, and learning about the Civil Rights movement and 25 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: asking myself as a young person, who would I be 26 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: if the civil rights movement we're happening right now? Who 27 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: would I be? How would I show up? What would 28 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: my contribution be? We are in this time. We don't 29 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: get another chance here. People are concerned about the twenty 30 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: twenty four elections, and I'm saying, fuck the twenty twenty 31 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: four elections. The presidential election doesn't fucking matter right now. 32 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: What matters is what happens in six weeks. Don't talk 33 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: to me about not having the perfect presidential candidate. I 34 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: don't care. What I care about are the slate of 35 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: fucking election deniers that Republicans are running across this country 36 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: in battleground states. What I care is the fact that 37 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: every Republican that is running from the state, local, and 38 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: fucking school board level is a goddamn fascist that is 39 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: hoping and praying for a time to put black people 40 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: back in leashes, to put fucking gay people back in 41 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: the closet, to kill trans people by denying them the 42 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: ability to get medical care, that they need to chain 43 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: women to the kitchen and the stove to make it 44 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: so that white men, rich, white wealthy, fucking straight quote 45 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: unquote Christian men continue to put their knees on the 46 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: neck of our society to finally break, to suffocate our democracy. 47 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: They are banking on the fact that nobody votes in 48 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: midterm elections. They are banking on the complacency of people 49 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: thinking that all will get them next time. I cannot 50 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: stress a fucking enough that there is no goddamn next time. 51 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: This is it. And you know, we have said, as politicos, 52 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: as activists, as movement people, you know, as progressives, that 53 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: every election is consequential. And you know what, you should 54 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: fucking be aware of that now, because had we been 55 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: thinking about the courts in every goddamn election that we 56 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: have had, we wouldn't be here. Had Democrats had fought 57 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: back against Republicans in the way Republicans fight against progress, 58 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: we wouldn't be here. So, yes, every election builds on 59 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: the last election. But dear friends, dear listeners, this is 60 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: the last goddamn election. It's the last election of the 61 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: America that you have come to know and live in 62 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: and understand in the course of your lifetime, because what 63 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 1: comes next will be America in name only. It won't 64 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: be in values. It won't be in the Constitution, it 65 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: won't be in democracy, it won't be in the Statue 66 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: of Liberty, it won't be in the vision of the 67 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: founding fathers. No, it will be an authoritarian regime and 68 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: the largest one, with the biggest fucking military in the 69 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: goddamn world, being wielded by very small men who only 70 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: gain their power from cruelty and oppression. War is imminent, 71 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: violence is imminent. The cards, indeed, are stacked against us. 72 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: And so what happens? The question that we have to 73 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: ask ourselves is what happens when you realize that your 74 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: back is up against the wall. Because let me tell 75 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: you something. We got six weeks, six weeks to fucking organize, 76 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: six weeks to make phone calls, six weeks to make donations, 77 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: six weeks to figure out if you are registered to vote, 78 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: if your friends are registered to vote, if your colleagues 79 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 1: are registered to vote. Please do not tell me during 80 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: this six week time that things will be okay and 81 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: that you are resting on your laurels, Because let me 82 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: tell you something. You'll be telling yourself that on the 83 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: way to the fucking concentration camps, you will be telling 84 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: yourself that on the way to the interment camps all week. 85 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: Can't happen here. It has happened here, and it will 86 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: happen again. We have a weaponized Supreme Court, We have 87 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: a weaponize Republican Party. They have They are backed by 88 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: their own goddamn white supremacist militia that are willing and 89 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: ready to do whatever it takes. These motherfuckers are like 90 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: sharks in the water that smell chum right now, and 91 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: everybody else is just paddling along in their boats saying, oh, 92 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 1: it'll be fine. The Ward's great folks, Rachel Maddow among 93 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: many others, are raising the alarm. I've been raising this 94 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: same fucking alarm since Donald Trump came down that escalator. 95 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: It is happening here. Everything that you think could never 96 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: is happening here. The question is who are you gonna be? 97 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: Who are we gonna be? Because the fight is at 98 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: our doorstep. 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Folks, you know that 117 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: when we have the opportunity to talk with our very 118 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: own in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel on a range 119 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: of issues from COVID to monkey pocks, to voting to 120 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: dying of whiteness, We're always please, Jonathan, I want to 121 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: start off today with talking about voting with just I 122 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: think that we are at the six week mark to 123 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: midterm elections, and you know what pundents love to I 124 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: mean not pundents. I'll say what anchors love to do, 125 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: and what pundits also love to do is talk about 126 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: the issues that are on the ballot and what it's 127 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: going to get Americans to vote. And for me, right now, 128 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: as we're watching elections unfold in Italy with Georgia Maloney, 129 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: who is a self proclaimed fascist and upholds Mussolini as 130 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: a great statesman, we saw Bulsonado in Brazil. The polls said, oh, 131 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: he was going to be beat by Lula, and he 132 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: was not. They will head into a runoff, and they 133 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: had more people vote in Brazil than I think we've 134 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: ever had vote in the United States. What is it 135 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: that you think people need to understand and pay attention to. 136 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 1: I mean, you are indeed the author of dying of whiteness, 137 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: and it seems that you know I say this often 138 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: for you, you were and are a soothsayer, right of 139 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: understanding what it is that is always on the ballot, 140 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: whether or not we have a midterm election or presidential election, 141 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: Whiteness is always on the ballot. So I just want 142 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on what we are seeing as 143 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: a reordering of the world order and where you see 144 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: America sitting in it. Yeah, I mean, I think it's, 145 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: as we've talked about on this show, a bunch of 146 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: a really perilous moment. I think that it did seem 147 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: like there was a kind of upsurge and activity upsurge 148 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: and voter registration, and it lasted a couple of weeks 149 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: maybe for the Democrats after the Dab's decision, and I 150 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: don't know what happens. I mean, this is not a 151 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: knock on anybody. I mean, there's something larger at play 152 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: than just individual attitudes. I don't know what it is exactly, 153 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: but it does feel to me a lot of times 154 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: like Democrats are there. They don't realize that the other side, 155 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: that the upsurge in activity and voter registration and all 156 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, the other side has been doing 157 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: that for like ten years now, and so we had 158 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: a three week runt of it. And I guess I'm 159 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: saying that because I'm worried about the mobilization that I'm 160 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: seeing in places like New York, where I think there's 161 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: a really radical right wing gubernatorial candidate for the GOP, 162 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: and I'm worried that I'm just not seeing the kind 163 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: of mobilization. There's a kind of complacency given the stakes. 164 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: Of course, here in Tennessee, you can't see. I don't 165 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 1: even know if there are any Democrats running for in 166 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: the office, you'd never see it. And so, you know, 167 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: I think part of the issue is we had a 168 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: good maybe three four weeks where all of a sudden 169 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: we made like a teeny dent in the efforts that 170 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: the Republicans had done. But they've been at this for years. 171 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: So part of it is just, I think a mobilization issue, 172 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: which I'm really worried about. And I do feel just 173 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: my personal bias and this is just me, but I 174 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: feel like people on our side feel like we're angry. 175 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: We're angry, angry, and then we feel better when we 176 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: send a tweet or we feel better when we see 177 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: that there are opinion polls that are sent that are 178 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: you know, we like we can see our movement in 179 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: the polls and stuff like that, and so it's kind 180 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: of like we're doing the things that are emotionally resonant 181 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: for us. But we're not doing the things that I've 182 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: seen the other side do, which is subterranean, massive mobilization 183 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: of voters and power and all these kind of things. 184 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: So they're not sitting at home answering people from the 185 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: Gallop Foundation poll, you know, they're they're not talking to posters. 186 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: They're getting ready to go out and vote, like, um, 187 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: you remember the orc army in Lord of the Rings 188 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 1: kind of thing, Like they're going to vote. And so 189 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: for them, this is about power and they can feel 190 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: power and smell power. And it's a moment where I 191 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: do think that, you know, that Italy election, we talked 192 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: about it before, is a massive wake up call because 193 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: people didn't vote. Everybody's complaining now, but people didn't vote. 194 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: It was like sixty percent voting, which is really low 195 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: for Italy. And and so I don't know. I just 196 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: I'm worried that the Democrats have not made enough of 197 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: an appeal to minoritized and low income communities. I'm worried 198 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: that there's not the voting registration stuff in place. It 199 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: came too late. Again, I realized, like everybody's trying as 200 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: hard as they can, but we're up against the other 201 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: side that is incredibly, incredibly organized and systematic, and so 202 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, the only thing standing between s and disaster 203 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: right now is herschel Walker and so and so it's 204 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: I find this to be a scary moment, and I 205 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: hope something turns around in the next couple of weeks, 206 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: because this is pretty important right now. You know, I'm 207 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: glad that you brought up herschel Walker because what a 208 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: fucking walking disaster, you know, like just yeah, I just 209 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: I just like I need to actually get this off 210 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: my chest, Like just a herschel Walker to me is 211 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: just the the full embodiment of of white supremacy. And 212 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: people will say, well, Danielle, how do you say that? 213 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: Because he is a black man, Because white supremacy and 214 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: racist in this country think very little of black people, right, 215 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: And all you have to do is slap on, you know, 216 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: get somebody with enough melanin to be your puppet, because 217 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: black people can't clearly think for themselves, you know, don't 218 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: need much skill. They just need a white man with 219 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: their hand up their back, right, And that's what herschel 220 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: Walker is. And when you look at him in comparison 221 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: to you know, Reverend Warnock, it is, it is so 222 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: disgustingly insulting. Um and and so I hear everything that 223 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: you're saying, Jonathan, and I and I will say this 224 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: as somebody who makes, you know, part of their message 225 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: about pushing Democrats to do better, think bolder, you know, 226 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: and expand and expand their their tactics beyond you know, 227 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: this twentieth century way of campaigning. Part of me is 228 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: just like if you ain't walking around conscious with your 229 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: eyes open, like you don't need to be reading the paper, 230 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: you don't even need to be, you know, watching the 231 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: news twenty four hours a day, but if you don't 232 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: understand like the stakes right now, just in a basic 233 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: fucking fifth grade level of what is happening in this country, 234 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I just I guess. I'm I 235 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: am at a place and I and I really shouldn't be. 236 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: It's it's the beginning of the week, and I feel spent, 237 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: but I'm at a place where I'm just like, if 238 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: you need people just like COVID, if you need somebody 239 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: still to tell you that you should wear a mask 240 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: in crowded places, that you should get the vaccine, even 241 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: though we still have four hundred deaths. Unlike, at some point, 242 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: it's just on you and I know that, like we 243 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: need the collective masses to show up. But at some point, 244 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: I'm just like, God, damn, you know, Jonathan, like you 245 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,239 Speaker 1: wrote the book on this, Like there are just I 246 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: guess there are more people than not that just won't 247 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: be moved by the threats that like the rest of 248 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: us have been seeing and talking about since twenty sixteen. 249 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: So I guess, like my question is, just like what 250 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: else is there to do for people who are willingly 251 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: walking with eyes you know, shut like sheep over the cliff. Well, 252 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: it's interesting because you and I have had this a 253 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: version of this conversation. I mean, it's just the stakes 254 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: keeps getting higher, and I think something you wrote on 255 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: Twitter is very important for people to realize that when 256 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: we lose the rights that we're poised to lose right now, 257 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: we're not going to get them back in our lifetime. 258 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: So I think you're what you wrote was exactly right 259 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: about that that what it took to get reproductive choice 260 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: and women's health and voting rights, all those things, that 261 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: the forces that were aligned for those things were tectonic 262 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: and they were generational and they are not going to 263 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: come back anytime soon, and so right now is kind 264 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: of a you know, it's kind of a I mean, 265 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: it's funny because like when when Biden went, everybody was 266 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: all immediately talking about twenty twenty four, but you and 267 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: I have been saying on this show for six months, 268 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is actually almost as important, if not 269 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: more so, for what's happening. And so I think that, 270 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: you know, again, my fear is that they're focusing too 271 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: much on battleground states and not on everywhere and unified message, 272 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: and and I think that that's there's just a lot 273 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: of peril right now. I think that the science could 274 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: not be more clear that you need a kind of 275 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: broad national message that makes sense to people, and I 276 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: just don't see it right now. And now the flip 277 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: side of that, of course, is there is something to 278 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: do to act on this in the next month, which 279 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: is to mobilize everyone you can to vote, start making 280 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: car pools, going out there, getting everybody you know, vans, 281 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: Like there's actually something you can do about this now, 282 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: which isn't just about like speaking truth to power, but 283 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: actually like doing something and so and so. I think 284 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: right now is just a very important time to not bemoan, 285 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: but to actually get activated. And we're doing it here 286 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Everywhere you are, people need to really start thinking, 287 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: what's my plan for voting day? Who can I take 288 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: to the polls? Make sure your voter registration is current, 289 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: make sure you know all that kind stuff. So that's 290 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: the kind of thing that needs to be happening no 291 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: matter where you are. And I'm really kind of angry, 292 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: to be honest, that there's not a more unified message 293 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: about here's the checklist you need to do to make 294 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: sure you can vote. This is the most important vote 295 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: of your lifetime. All that kind of stuff. We need 296 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: that happening, and I don't see it so that you 297 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: can do I want to I'm sorry to interact you, 298 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: but I want to say this one thing too, because 299 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: when we started recording today, Rachel Maddow is trending on 300 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: Twitter because in you know, she does one show a 301 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: week now, and in her in her show, she basically 302 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: directed camera laid out very clearly what is going to 303 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: happen when Republicans take back control in this country. There 304 00:20:52,680 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: is something fundamentally wrong though Jonathan with Democrats believing that 305 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: they are still working within a system that is going 306 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: to give them multiple chances. Like, I think that where 307 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: where we tend to be misaligned is that you have 308 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: just a handful of of of reporters, just a handful 309 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: of journalists like mattaw who are doing their best to 310 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: ring the alarm with the platform that they have to say, 311 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: here is the fucking slate of things that you stand 312 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: to lose this year, right like that, I mean we'll 313 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: come crashing down, that there is no coming back from this, 314 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: like we are going and I and again, like it 315 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: is really difficult to have optimism and to tell people 316 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: to vote when I can tell you that the people 317 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: that respond to me, WOKAF audience members on a regular basis, 318 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: that are fucking exhausted, right like they are. People are 319 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: beat to shit. I did. I joked and sent out 320 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 1: a tweet the other day and I said, it's Monday, 321 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: and is it just me or just like this day 322 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: feel like it is kicking your ass, like in more 323 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: ways than one. And so you have people that are 324 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: ringing the alarm. You have people that are trying to 325 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: do the organizing. But I'm like, have we just read like, 326 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: are we too naive or it is the naivete whole 327 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: faith that we're not too late. I guess it's my 328 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: question because in all honesty, voting is not going to 329 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: change what happens with the Supreme Courts session this year. 330 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: They have voting rights on the block, they have you know, 331 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: same sex marriage on the block, they have affirmative action 332 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: on the block. They have so many gutting things that 333 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: allow America to be America that we know the outcome 334 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: of these things already. And the session just started this 335 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: and so yeah, please respond. I just think this is 336 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: the last election we're probably going to have under the 337 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: old rules of democracy. Yeah, and so I do again 338 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: think that the two things people can do right now, 339 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with you about exhaustion. I would 340 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: say that there needs to be such a massive tidal 341 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: wave of support that, you know, in a month right now, 342 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: like everybody should just drop everything they're doing and run 343 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: around trying to figure out how they can drive people 344 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: to the polls. So Democrats need to show up and 345 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: force and then we need a presidential candidate who will 346 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 1: get people excited and mobilize people, you know, and not 347 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: just feel like status quo, you know that kind of thing. 348 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: So I think you know that we'll do that next. 349 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: But I would just say that, I would just say 350 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: that right now, there's no other answer. There's no other 351 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: avenue than to mobilize people. Even in places where it 352 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: feels like your vote is safe, it's not. And so again, 353 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: if you're in New York or San Francisco or um, 354 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: you know, Honolulu, places that are blue cities, your vote 355 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: really matters. Right there are all these places that feel 356 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: I mean, the complacency in New York about the gubernatorial 357 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: race to me is a real canary in the coal 358 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: mine for and the guy who's running the GOP candidate 359 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: for the Gubernatrol position in New York is a desantist 360 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: clone who has gotten Yes, Zeldin has been my family's 361 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: because of redistricting. Yeah, the congressman for my district. He 362 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 1: is anti abortion, he is pro gun. He is you know, 363 00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: anti you know, critical thinking curriculum for kids. He is. 364 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: He is the reincarnate of everything that is wrong. Yes, 365 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: But the thing is, like, people need to mobilize, and 366 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: I just think the stakes, I just you know, where 367 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: are the progressives and centrists unifying together to say we're 368 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: all under this same tent. Where is the people getting 369 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: out there with their networks like it's just it's got 370 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: to be happening. We have a month to turn this 371 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: around right now. And I understand things are things are 372 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: fucked right at the court level. We've been talking about 373 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: judges for quite some time here. Um, But but I'm 374 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: just saying that even under all that, it's different with 375 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: or without power. It's different with or without states where 376 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: you can have a refuge and have those states be 377 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: relatively safe from the things that are happening in the 378 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: rest of the country. Without that, I mean the Democrats 379 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: with or without New York and um in the governor 380 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: with in the governor's office as is a totally different calculus. 381 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: And so I would just say, whatever people have to do, 382 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,120 Speaker 1: you know, for the next month, get you know, back 383 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: your bag with snacks and water and get out there 384 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: and get in line. Yeah, um, I agree wholeheartedly, and 385 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: I know I do. I agree wholeheartedly, and I am 386 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: you know, I My level of anxiety, stress and fear 387 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: rises by the day. Uh, if if not the minute, 388 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: in this country like this, This isn't a This isn't 389 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: a like where, honestly, where is AOC out there mobilizing 390 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: people for the gougernatorial vote. Where is um, you know, Schumer, 391 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: all these guys have to I mean, this is the 392 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: you know, we've we've got to be like unifying right now. Um, 393 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: That's really what's got to be happening. And I'm hope, 394 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that it will come come together. I mean, 395 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: we have six weeks, so I you know, like who 396 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: the fuck knows? You know? And and I want to 397 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: with this because I know we're short on time today. 398 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:13,479 Speaker 1: But you know, again, we are watching judges overturn the 399 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: ability of states to be able to control guns, to 400 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: limit violence, to do all of these things. Who places 401 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: those judges in those positions politicians that you vote for 402 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: right or decide not to vote for. And we're in 403 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: a situation where we have states rights. So long as 404 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: you are upholding oppression and not allowing a woman to 405 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: have bodily autonomy, then it's the state's decisions. But when 406 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: it's the state's decision to want to protect all citizens 407 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: from mass shootings and gun violence, then no, no, no, 408 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: it's the federal decision that matters the most of And 409 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: I guess what it comes down to, Jonathan, for me, 410 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: and then I'll give you the last word, is that 411 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: I just feel like we no longer have a right 412 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: to life in this country, like unless you are a 413 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: collection of cells inside of a uterus, Like that is 414 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: the only time that apparently the right to life matters. 415 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: And what I think that people are starting to understand, 416 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: but I also there's a part of me that believes 417 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: that we are too late, is that there is no 418 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: right to life that you know, after this session, come 419 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: June twenty twenty three, America as we know it is done, 420 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: and the America that comes in its place is going 421 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: to be a really dangerous and dark place that we 422 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: are not going to see our way out of in 423 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: our lifetime. I'll give you the last word. Yeah. No's 424 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: that's really a terrifying I mean, I just keep thinking 425 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: about all the times you and I have said democratic 426 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: riffs don't matter anywhere near as much as having a 427 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: slate of judges that gets put in place from the 428 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: very first minute and having that all set up, Like 429 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: two Democrats are just waking up to the fact that 430 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: their strategy was an emotionally resident strategy which actually wasn't 431 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: the power strategy. But again, it's kind of like we 432 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,479 Speaker 1: played softball over the weekend and it was like fifty 433 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: five degrees and it was it was raining lightly in 434 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: New York from the you know, not a storm, just raining, 435 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: and everybody's like this sucks, man, And I'm like, yeah, 436 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: but in two months, this weather is going to seem great. 437 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: You know, We'll take fifty five and sprinkling any day. 438 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: And so it's kind of the same here where I 439 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: agree with you about all this shit, but I mean, 440 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: we would take this moment a year from now. We 441 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: would take this moment any day. So instead of just 442 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: getting discouraged, we also everybody needs to be calling everybody 443 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: they know in every state they know and saying, what's 444 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: your plan for voting? What are you going to get 445 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: out of work? Are you bringing snacks? You know? Right 446 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: now I think is the moment where like getting us 447 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: despaired and stuff. That's the strategy of the other dudes, 448 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: and I think right now we can't do that. It's 449 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: kind of like, what's your voting plan? That's got to 450 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: be the issue, and then we can form the resistance. 451 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: And you know, I always think of the cover that 452 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders book with his freaking fist up. You know, 453 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to be in the resistance, you know so, 454 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: But right now I think voting is important. And again 455 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: I think as you're seeing, like you know word debating 456 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,239 Speaker 1: progressives versus centrists versus whatever, who cares? You know, you know, 457 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: whoever has the best chance of winning, who's against fascism? 458 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: That person? Everybody needs their support, doctor Jonathan. 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The 487 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: patreons that have been riding with me from the beginning 488 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: have allowed me to continue to do this show, have 489 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: allowed me to be able to continue to do the show. 490 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: With your five dollar donations, with your ten dollar donations, 491 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: with some of you, with your thirty five dollars a 492 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: month donations, have allowed me continue to do what I 493 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: believe that I am called to do, which is to 494 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: wake people up to their power, to our collective power. 495 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: Please recognize that sharing, tweeting, contributing helps us get further 496 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: and helps us feel less alone and less powerless. That 497 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke a 498 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: f as always power to the people and to all 499 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: the people power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.