Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Bogey Up Daily. Would
Speaker 1: meet your girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, we have six weeks until the midterm elections,
Speaker 1: and I spend a lot of my days and a
Speaker 1: lot of my time digging through the doom and the
Speaker 1: gloom in order to find something, some way, whether it's
Speaker 1: fear or rage, you know, hopefulness, faith that will ignite
Speaker 1: the masses to action, that will ignite people to make
Speaker 1: the conscious fucking decision to stand up for their god
Speaker 1: damn rights. You know, there is a part of me
Speaker 1: that believes, in a lot of ways that Americans are
Speaker 1: both the most courageous people and also the fucking laziest.
Speaker 1: And why do I say that, Because I believe that
Speaker 1: over the last fifty plus years, I'll say fifty to
Speaker 1: sixty years. Those of us who are younger than that age,
Speaker 1: way younger, do not remember a time when you have
Speaker 1: had to literally put your own life and body on
Speaker 1: the line in order to fight for your life and
Speaker 1: the life of generations behind you. For many of us,
Speaker 1: too many of us, that fight has only been a
Speaker 1: story that we've read in history books, or that have
Speaker 1: been passed down through generational tales of strife and struggle.
Speaker 1: I remember being young, being in high school, being in
Speaker 1: elementary school, and learning about the Civil Rights movement and
Speaker 1: asking myself as a young person, who would I be
Speaker 1: if the civil rights movement we're happening right now? Who
Speaker 1: would I be? How would I show up? What would
Speaker 1: my contribution be? We are in this time. We don't
Speaker 1: get another chance here. People are concerned about the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four elections, and I'm saying, fuck the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four elections. The presidential election doesn't fucking matter right now.
Speaker 1: What matters is what happens in six weeks. Don't talk
Speaker 1: to me about not having the perfect presidential candidate. I
Speaker 1: don't care. What I care about are the slate of
Speaker 1: fucking election deniers that Republicans are running across this country
Speaker 1: in battleground states. What I care is the fact that
Speaker 1: every Republican that is running from the state, local, and
Speaker 1: fucking school board level is a goddamn fascist that is
Speaker 1: hoping and praying for a time to put black people
Speaker 1: back in leashes, to put fucking gay people back in
Speaker 1: the closet, to kill trans people by denying them the
Speaker 1: ability to get medical care, that they need to chain
Speaker 1: women to the kitchen and the stove to make it
Speaker 1: so that white men, rich, white wealthy, fucking straight quote
Speaker 1: unquote Christian men continue to put their knees on the
Speaker 1: neck of our society to finally break, to suffocate our democracy.
Speaker 1: They are banking on the fact that nobody votes in
Speaker 1: midterm elections. They are banking on the complacency of people
Speaker 1: thinking that all will get them next time. I cannot
Speaker 1: stress a fucking enough that there is no goddamn next time.
Speaker 1: This is it. And you know, we have said, as politicos,
Speaker 1: as activists, as movement people, you know, as progressives, that
Speaker 1: every election is consequential. And you know what, you should
Speaker 1: fucking be aware of that now, because had we been
Speaker 1: thinking about the courts in every goddamn election that we
Speaker 1: have had, we wouldn't be here. Had Democrats had fought
Speaker 1: back against Republicans in the way Republicans fight against progress,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be here. So, yes, every election builds on
Speaker 1: the last election. But dear friends, dear listeners, this is
Speaker 1: the last goddamn election. It's the last election of the
Speaker 1: America that you have come to know and live in
Speaker 1: and understand in the course of your lifetime, because what
Speaker 1: comes next will be America in name only. It won't
Speaker 1: be in values. It won't be in the Constitution, it
Speaker 1: won't be in democracy, it won't be in the Statue
Speaker 1: of Liberty, it won't be in the vision of the
Speaker 1: founding fathers. No, it will be an authoritarian regime and
Speaker 1: the largest one, with the biggest fucking military in the
Speaker 1: goddamn world, being wielded by very small men who only
Speaker 1: gain their power from cruelty and oppression. War is imminent,
Speaker 1: violence is imminent. The cards, indeed, are stacked against us.
Speaker 1: And so what happens? The question that we have to
Speaker 1: ask ourselves is what happens when you realize that your
Speaker 1: back is up against the wall. Because let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. We got six weeks, six weeks to fucking organize,
Speaker 1: six weeks to make phone calls, six weeks to make donations,
Speaker 1: six weeks to figure out if you are registered to vote,
Speaker 1: if your friends are registered to vote, if your colleagues
Speaker 1: are registered to vote. Please do not tell me during
Speaker 1: this six week time that things will be okay and
Speaker 1: that you are resting on your laurels, Because let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. You'll be telling yourself that on the
Speaker 1: way to the fucking concentration camps, you will be telling
Speaker 1: yourself that on the way to the interment camps all week.
Speaker 1: Can't happen here. It has happened here, and it will
Speaker 1: happen again. We have a weaponized Supreme Court, We have
Speaker 1: a weaponize Republican Party. They have They are backed by
Speaker 1: their own goddamn white supremacist militia that are willing and
Speaker 1: ready to do whatever it takes. These motherfuckers are like
Speaker 1: sharks in the water that smell chum right now, and
Speaker 1: everybody else is just paddling along in their boats saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it'll be fine. The Ward's great folks, Rachel Maddow among
Speaker 1: many others, are raising the alarm. I've been raising this
Speaker 1: same fucking alarm since Donald Trump came down that escalator.
Speaker 1: It is happening here. Everything that you think could never
Speaker 1: is happening here. The question is who are you gonna be?
Speaker 1: Who are we gonna be? Because the fight is at
Speaker 1: our doorstep. We don't get another time, we don't get
Speaker 1: a next time, So what are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: of issues from COVID to monkey pocks, to voting to
Speaker 1: dying of whiteness, We're always please, Jonathan, I want to
Speaker 1: start off today with talking about voting with just I
Speaker 1: think that we are at the six week mark to
Speaker 1: midterm elections, and you know what pundents love to I
Speaker 1: mean not pundents. I'll say what anchors love to do,
Speaker 1: and what pundits also love to do is talk about
Speaker 1: the issues that are on the ballot and what it's
Speaker 1: going to get Americans to vote. And for me, right now,
Speaker 1: as we're watching elections unfold in Italy with Georgia Maloney,
Speaker 1: who is a self proclaimed fascist and upholds Mussolini as
Speaker 1: a great statesman, we saw Bulsonado in Brazil. The polls said, oh,
Speaker 1: he was going to be beat by Lula, and he
Speaker 1: was not. They will head into a runoff, and they
Speaker 1: had more people vote in Brazil than I think we've
Speaker 1: ever had vote in the United States. What is it
Speaker 1: that you think people need to understand and pay attention to.
Speaker 1: I mean, you are indeed the author of dying of whiteness,
Speaker 1: and it seems that you know I say this often
Speaker 1: for you, you were and are a soothsayer, right of
Speaker 1: understanding what it is that is always on the ballot,
Speaker 1: whether or not we have a midterm election or presidential election,
Speaker 1: Whiteness is always on the ballot. So I just want
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on what we are seeing as
Speaker 1: a reordering of the world order and where you see
Speaker 1: America sitting in it. Yeah, I mean, I think it's,
Speaker 1: as we've talked about on this show, a bunch of
Speaker 1: a really perilous moment. I think that it did seem
Speaker 1: like there was a kind of upsurge and activity upsurge
Speaker 1: and voter registration, and it lasted a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: maybe for the Democrats after the Dab's decision, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what happens. I mean, this is not a
Speaker 1: knock on anybody. I mean, there's something larger at play
Speaker 1: than just individual attitudes. I don't know what it is exactly,
Speaker 1: but it does feel to me a lot of times
Speaker 1: like Democrats are there. They don't realize that the other side,
Speaker 1: that the upsurge in activity and voter registration and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, the other side has been doing
Speaker 1: that for like ten years now, and so we had
Speaker 1: a three week runt of it. And I guess I'm
Speaker 1: saying that because I'm worried about the mobilization that I'm
Speaker 1: seeing in places like New York, where I think there's
Speaker 1: a really radical right wing gubernatorial candidate for the GOP,
Speaker 1: and I'm worried that I'm just not seeing the kind
Speaker 1: of mobilization. There's a kind of complacency given the stakes.
Speaker 1: Of course, here in Tennessee, you can't see. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if there are any Democrats running for in
Speaker 1: the office, you'd never see it. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: I think part of the issue is we had a
Speaker 1: good maybe three four weeks where all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we made like a teeny dent in the efforts that
Speaker 1: the Republicans had done. But they've been at this for years.
Speaker 1: So part of it is just, I think a mobilization issue,
Speaker 1: which I'm really worried about. And I do feel just
Speaker 1: my personal bias and this is just me, but I
Speaker 1: feel like people on our side feel like we're angry.
Speaker 1: We're angry, angry, and then we feel better when we
Speaker 1: send a tweet or we feel better when we see
Speaker 1: that there are opinion polls that are sent that are
Speaker 1: you know, we like we can see our movement in
Speaker 1: the polls and stuff like that, and so it's kind
Speaker 1: of like we're doing the things that are emotionally resonant
Speaker 1: for us. But we're not doing the things that I've
Speaker 1: seen the other side do, which is subterranean, massive mobilization
Speaker 1: of voters and power and all these kind of things.
Speaker 1: So they're not sitting at home answering people from the
Speaker 1: Gallop Foundation poll, you know, they're they're not talking to posters.
Speaker 1: They're getting ready to go out and vote, like, um,
Speaker 1: you remember the orc army in Lord of the Rings
Speaker 1: kind of thing, Like they're going to vote. And so
Speaker 1: for them, this is about power and they can feel
Speaker 1: power and smell power. And it's a moment where I
Speaker 1: do think that, you know, that Italy election, we talked
Speaker 1: about it before, is a massive wake up call because
Speaker 1: people didn't vote. Everybody's complaining now, but people didn't vote.
Speaker 1: It was like sixty percent voting, which is really low
Speaker 1: for Italy. And and so I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: I'm worried that the Democrats have not made enough of
Speaker 1: an appeal to minoritized and low income communities. I'm worried
Speaker 1: that there's not the voting registration stuff in place. It
Speaker 1: came too late. Again, I realized, like everybody's trying as
Speaker 1: hard as they can, but we're up against the other
Speaker 1: side that is incredibly, incredibly organized and systematic, and so
Speaker 1: you know, the only thing standing between s and disaster
Speaker 1: right now is herschel Walker and so and so it's
Speaker 1: I find this to be a scary moment, and I
Speaker 1: hope something turns around in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: because this is pretty important right now. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you brought up herschel Walker because what a
Speaker 1: fucking walking disaster, you know, like just yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I just like I need to actually get this off
Speaker 1: my chest, Like just a herschel Walker to me is
Speaker 1: just the the full embodiment of of white supremacy. And
Speaker 1: people will say, well, Danielle, how do you say that?
Speaker 1: Because he is a black man, Because white supremacy and
Speaker 1: racist in this country think very little of black people, right,
Speaker 1: And all you have to do is slap on, you know,
Speaker 1: get somebody with enough melanin to be your puppet, because
Speaker 1: black people can't clearly think for themselves, you know, don't
Speaker 1: need much skill. They just need a white man with
Speaker 1: their hand up their back, right, And that's what herschel
Speaker 1: Walker is. And when you look at him in comparison
Speaker 1: to you know, Reverend Warnock, it is, it is so
Speaker 1: disgustingly insulting. Um and and so I hear everything that
Speaker 1: you're saying, Jonathan, and I and I will say this
Speaker 1: as somebody who makes, you know, part of their message
Speaker 1: about pushing Democrats to do better, think bolder, you know,
Speaker 1: and expand and expand their their tactics beyond you know,
Speaker 1: this twentieth century way of campaigning. Part of me is
Speaker 1: just like if you ain't walking around conscious with your
Speaker 1: eyes open, like you don't need to be reading the paper,
Speaker 1: you don't even need to be, you know, watching the
Speaker 1: news twenty four hours a day, but if you don't
Speaker 1: understand like the stakes right now, just in a basic
Speaker 1: fucking fifth grade level of what is happening in this country,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I just I guess. I'm I
Speaker 1: am at a place and I and I really shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: It's it's the beginning of the week, and I feel spent,
Speaker 1: but I'm at a place where I'm just like, if
Speaker 1: you need people just like COVID, if you need somebody
Speaker 1: still to tell you that you should wear a mask
Speaker 1: in crowded places, that you should get the vaccine, even
Speaker 1: though we still have four hundred deaths. Unlike, at some point,
Speaker 1: it's just on you and I know that, like we
Speaker 1: need the collective masses to show up. But at some point,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, God, damn, you know, Jonathan, like you
Speaker 1: wrote the book on this, Like there are just I
Speaker 1: guess there are more people than not that just won't
Speaker 1: be moved by the threats that like the rest of
Speaker 1: us have been seeing and talking about since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: So I guess, like my question is, just like what
Speaker 1: else is there to do for people who are willingly
Speaker 1: walking with eyes you know, shut like sheep over the cliff. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because you and I have had this a
Speaker 1: version of this conversation. I mean, it's just the stakes
Speaker 1: keeps getting higher, and I think something you wrote on
Speaker 1: Twitter is very important for people to realize that when
Speaker 1: we lose the rights that we're poised to lose right now,
Speaker 1: we're not going to get them back in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: So I think you're what you wrote was exactly right
Speaker 1: about that that what it took to get reproductive choice
Speaker 1: and women's health and voting rights, all those things, that
Speaker 1: the forces that were aligned for those things were tectonic
Speaker 1: and they were generational and they are not going to
Speaker 1: come back anytime soon, and so right now is kind
Speaker 1: of a you know, it's kind of a I mean,
Speaker 1: it's funny because like when when Biden went, everybody was
Speaker 1: all immediately talking about twenty twenty four, but you and
Speaker 1: I have been saying on this show for six months,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is actually almost as important, if not
Speaker 1: more so, for what's happening. And so I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, again, my fear is that they're focusing too
Speaker 1: much on battleground states and not on everywhere and unified message,
Speaker 1: and and I think that that's there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of peril right now. I think that the science could
Speaker 1: not be more clear that you need a kind of
Speaker 1: broad national message that makes sense to people, and I
Speaker 1: just don't see it right now. And now the flip
Speaker 1: side of that, of course, is there is something to
Speaker 1: do to act on this in the next month, which
Speaker 1: is to mobilize everyone you can to vote, start making
Speaker 1: car pools, going out there, getting everybody you know, vans,
Speaker 1: Like there's actually something you can do about this now,
Speaker 1: which isn't just about like speaking truth to power, but
Speaker 1: actually like doing something and so and so. I think
Speaker 1: right now is just a very important time to not bemoan,
Speaker 1: but to actually get activated. And we're doing it here
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Everywhere you are, people need to really start thinking,
Speaker 1: what's my plan for voting day? Who can I take
Speaker 1: to the polls? Make sure your voter registration is current,
Speaker 1: make sure you know all that kind stuff. So that's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that needs to be happening no
Speaker 1: matter where you are. And I'm really kind of angry,
Speaker 1: to be honest, that there's not a more unified message
Speaker 1: about here's the checklist you need to do to make
Speaker 1: sure you can vote. This is the most important vote
Speaker 1: of your lifetime. All that kind of stuff. We need
Speaker 1: that happening, and I don't see it so that you
Speaker 1: can do I want to I'm sorry to interact you,
Speaker 1: but I want to say this one thing too, because
Speaker 1: when we started recording today, Rachel Maddow is trending on
Speaker 1: Twitter because in you know, she does one show a
Speaker 1: week now, and in her in her show, she basically
Speaker 1: directed camera laid out very clearly what is going to
Speaker 1: happen when Republicans take back control in this country. There
Speaker 1: is something fundamentally wrong though Jonathan with Democrats believing that
Speaker 1: they are still working within a system that is going
Speaker 1: to give them multiple chances. Like, I think that where
Speaker 1: where we tend to be misaligned is that you have
Speaker 1: just a handful of of of reporters, just a handful
Speaker 1: of journalists like mattaw who are doing their best to
Speaker 1: ring the alarm with the platform that they have to say,
Speaker 1: here is the fucking slate of things that you stand
Speaker 1: to lose this year, right like that, I mean we'll
Speaker 1: come crashing down, that there is no coming back from this,
Speaker 1: like we are going and I and again, like it
Speaker 1: is really difficult to have optimism and to tell people
Speaker 1: to vote when I can tell you that the people
Speaker 1: that respond to me, WOKAF audience members on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: that are fucking exhausted, right like they are. People are
Speaker 1: beat to shit. I did. I joked and sent out
Speaker 1: a tweet the other day and I said, it's Monday,
Speaker 1: and is it just me or just like this day
Speaker 1: feel like it is kicking your ass, like in more
Speaker 1: ways than one. And so you have people that are
Speaker 1: ringing the alarm. You have people that are trying to
Speaker 1: do the organizing. But I'm like, have we just read like,
Speaker 1: are we too naive or it is the naivete whole
Speaker 1: faith that we're not too late. I guess it's my
Speaker 1: question because in all honesty, voting is not going to
Speaker 1: change what happens with the Supreme Courts session this year.
Speaker 1: They have voting rights on the block, they have you know,
Speaker 1: same sex marriage on the block, they have affirmative action
Speaker 1: on the block. They have so many gutting things that
Speaker 1: allow America to be America that we know the outcome
Speaker 1: of these things already. And the session just started this
Speaker 1: and so yeah, please respond. I just think this is
Speaker 1: the last election we're probably going to have under the
Speaker 1: old rules of democracy. Yeah, and so I do again
Speaker 1: think that the two things people can do right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with you about exhaustion. I would
Speaker 1: say that there needs to be such a massive tidal
Speaker 1: wave of support that, you know, in a month right now,
Speaker 1: like everybody should just drop everything they're doing and run
Speaker 1: around trying to figure out how they can drive people
Speaker 1: to the polls. So Democrats need to show up and
Speaker 1: force and then we need a presidential candidate who will
Speaker 1: get people excited and mobilize people, you know, and not
Speaker 1: just feel like status quo, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So I think you know that we'll do that next.
Speaker 1: But I would just say that, I would just say
Speaker 1: that right now, there's no other answer. There's no other
Speaker 1: avenue than to mobilize people. Even in places where it
Speaker 1: feels like your vote is safe, it's not. And so again,
Speaker 1: if you're in New York or San Francisco or um,
Speaker 1: you know, Honolulu, places that are blue cities, your vote
Speaker 1: really matters. Right there are all these places that feel
Speaker 1: I mean, the complacency in New York about the gubernatorial
Speaker 1: race to me is a real canary in the coal
Speaker 1: mine for and the guy who's running the GOP candidate
Speaker 1: for the Gubernatrol position in New York is a desantist
Speaker 1: clone who has gotten Yes, Zeldin has been my family's
Speaker 1: because of redistricting. Yeah, the congressman for my district. He
Speaker 1: is anti abortion, he is pro gun. He is you know,
Speaker 1: anti you know, critical thinking curriculum for kids. He is.
Speaker 1: He is the reincarnate of everything that is wrong. Yes,
Speaker 1: But the thing is, like, people need to mobilize, and
Speaker 1: I just think the stakes, I just you know, where
Speaker 1: are the progressives and centrists unifying together to say we're
Speaker 1: all under this same tent. Where is the people getting
Speaker 1: out there with their networks like it's just it's got
Speaker 1: to be happening. We have a month to turn this
Speaker 1: around right now. And I understand things are things are
Speaker 1: fucked right at the court level. We've been talking about
Speaker 1: judges for quite some time here. Um, But but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that even under all that, it's different with
Speaker 1: or without power. It's different with or without states where
Speaker 1: you can have a refuge and have those states be
Speaker 1: relatively safe from the things that are happening in the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. Without that, I mean the Democrats
Speaker 1: with or without New York and um in the governor
Speaker 1: with in the governor's office as is a totally different calculus.
Speaker 1: And so I would just say, whatever people have to do,
Speaker 1: you know, for the next month, get you know, back
Speaker 1: your bag with snacks and water and get out there
Speaker 1: and get in line. Yeah, um, I agree wholeheartedly, and
Speaker 1: I know I do. I agree wholeheartedly, and I am
Speaker 1: you know, I My level of anxiety, stress and fear
Speaker 1: rises by the day. Uh, if if not the minute,
Speaker 1: in this country like this, This isn't a This isn't
Speaker 1: a like where, honestly, where is AOC out there mobilizing
Speaker 1: people for the gougernatorial vote. Where is um, you know, Schumer,
Speaker 1: all these guys have to I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've got to be like unifying right now. Um,
Speaker 1: That's really what's got to be happening. And I'm hope,
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that it will come come together. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have six weeks, so I you know, like who
Speaker 1: the fuck knows? You know? And and I want to
Speaker 1: with this because I know we're short on time today.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, we are watching judges overturn the
Speaker 1: ability of states to be able to control guns, to
Speaker 1: limit violence, to do all of these things. Who places
Speaker 1: those judges in those positions politicians that you vote for
Speaker 1: right or decide not to vote for. And we're in
Speaker 1: a situation where we have states rights. So long as
Speaker 1: you are upholding oppression and not allowing a woman to
Speaker 1: have bodily autonomy, then it's the state's decisions. But when
Speaker 1: it's the state's decision to want to protect all citizens
Speaker 1: from mass shootings and gun violence, then no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's the federal decision that matters the most of And
Speaker 1: I guess what it comes down to, Jonathan, for me,
Speaker 1: and then I'll give you the last word, is that
Speaker 1: I just feel like we no longer have a right
Speaker 1: to life in this country, like unless you are a
Speaker 1: collection of cells inside of a uterus, Like that is
Speaker 1: the only time that apparently the right to life matters.
Speaker 1: And what I think that people are starting to understand,
Speaker 1: but I also there's a part of me that believes
Speaker 1: that we are too late, is that there is no
Speaker 1: right to life that you know, after this session, come
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty three, America as we know it is done,
Speaker 1: and the America that comes in its place is going
Speaker 1: to be a really dangerous and dark place that we
Speaker 1: are not going to see our way out of in
Speaker 1: our lifetime. I'll give you the last word. Yeah. No's
Speaker 1: that's really a terrifying I mean, I just keep thinking
Speaker 1: about all the times you and I have said democratic
Speaker 1: riffs don't matter anywhere near as much as having a
Speaker 1: slate of judges that gets put in place from the
Speaker 1: very first minute and having that all set up, Like
Speaker 1: two Democrats are just waking up to the fact that
Speaker 1: their strategy was an emotionally resident strategy which actually wasn't
Speaker 1: the power strategy. But again, it's kind of like we
Speaker 1: played softball over the weekend and it was like fifty
Speaker 1: five degrees and it was it was raining lightly in
Speaker 1: New York from the you know, not a storm, just raining,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like this sucks, man, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but in two months, this weather is going to seem great.
Speaker 1: You know, We'll take fifty five and sprinkling any day.
Speaker 1: And so it's kind of the same here where I
Speaker 1: agree with you about all this shit, but I mean,
Speaker 1: we would take this moment a year from now. We
Speaker 1: would take this moment any day. So instead of just
Speaker 1: getting discouraged, we also everybody needs to be calling everybody
Speaker 1: they know in every state they know and saying, what's
Speaker 1: your plan for voting? What are you going to get
Speaker 1: out of work? Are you bringing snacks? You know? Right
Speaker 1: now I think is the moment where like getting us
Speaker 1: despaired and stuff. That's the strategy of the other dudes,
Speaker 1: and I think right now we can't do that. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like, what's your voting plan? That's got to
Speaker 1: be the issue, and then we can form the resistance.
Speaker 1: And you know, I always think of the cover that
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