1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: I woke up earlier in the week to news that 4 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: Mika Brazinski and Joe Scarsborough of Mourning Joe at MSNBC 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: spent the weekend making a trip to mar A Lago 6 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: to sit down and reconnect with Donald Trump. And you know, 7 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: I will tell you that I have never been a 8 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: fan of Mourning Joe for this particular reason. I think 9 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: that their coverage is softball. I think that they are opportunists. 10 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: I think that they really work to sainwash Donald Trump 11 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: and Republicans, because Scarsborough is a Republican. And you know 12 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: what pisces me off about this is that cable news 13 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: and MSNBC particularly is in a ratings downward spiral. They 14 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: are in a just a tail spin because following the 15 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: election two weeks ago, millions of people have tuned them out, 16 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: and you are seeing that MSNBC's ratings are down by 17 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: fifty percent, CNN's ratings down by thirty percent. And you know, 18 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: many people are thinking that, well, maybe folks are just 19 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: exhausted and they'll tune back in once the administration takes over. 20 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: But what we are seeing by Amika and Joe is 21 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: what folks who study dictatorships and a authoritarianism say not 22 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: to do. Do not preemptively bend the knee, do not 23 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: obey in advance. And what Mika and Joe have done 24 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: by going over to mar Lago to sit down with 25 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who is called Joe Scarsboa murderer, who has 26 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: said awful, sexist, misogynistic things about Meka, is that, oh, 27 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: the door is open, and we're willing to treat your 28 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: appointees and treat this Trump regime as if it is 29 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: just a normal function of our democracy and say wash 30 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 1: it for the American people as a way to show that, oh, 31 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: look at us, we exist in the middle. Look at us, 32 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: we're objective. And the fact is is that this is 33 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: as far from objective as you can possibly fucking get. 34 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: They are not objective, right, They are in the business 35 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: of cya covering their own asses. And so by virtue 36 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: of seeing this, the leading show on MSM make this decision. Folks. 37 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: You know where this is headed. You know that MSNBC 38 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: is most likely going to make a hard pivot for 39 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: the right. And this is what Democrats have done over 40 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: the last decade. This is why you see that progressives 41 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: have wanted to abandon this party, vote third party, or 42 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: not vote at all. And it's because as Republicans became 43 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,399 Speaker 1: more and more radicalized, more and more extreme in their 44 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: policy views, in their ideology, Democrats have just followed behind 45 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: them at what they believe is a safe distance. But 46 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: it actually hasn't been because it has compromised our democracy 47 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: entirely as they continue to search for the white voter 48 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: to come back to them. And so here you are 49 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: right where I will tell you this. I do not 50 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: think that after tuning out cable news for however many 51 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: weeks that it's been right now about two weeks in time, 52 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: that people are going to then say to themselves, you know, 53 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: I think I'm ready to ingest poison again. I think 54 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: that what is ultimately going to happen is that those 55 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: people in this interim have either just jumped ship altogether 56 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: from ingesting the news, or they have found independent media 57 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: outlets like podcasts, YouTube, where voices like mine and many 58 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,559 Speaker 1: others exist. Because we saw the writing on the wall 59 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: for cable news a long time ago, and with now 60 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: the announcement of a Brendan Carr taking over the FCC 61 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: and saying that he is going to use the authority 62 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: of the FCC not to increase broadband or increase speed 63 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: or compete with other countries in terms of what it 64 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,119 Speaker 1: is that we're doing with telecommunications. No, he is going 65 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: to go after networks and go after places and spaces 66 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: that have elevated the voices of diverse people and underserved communities. 67 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: And instead he's going to weaponize these agencies that want 68 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: to be able to tell the truth about what is 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: happening inside of this regime. He's going to take away licenses, 70 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: he's going to bring lawsuits. And so again I've been 71 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: saying this for how long, guys, that if Donald Trump 72 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: were to ever sees power again, we would see the 73 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: end of democracy as we know it. And that is 74 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: exactly where we are. So I don't know why anybody, 75 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: because there's all this outrage on the internet right now 76 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: around Mika and Joe. How dare they? How could they? 77 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: And I'm like, y'all run the tapes. They've been like this, 78 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: they've been doing this. But what you were going to 79 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: see is more capitulation, right, is more organizations, more networks, 80 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: and more people who are going to turn their backs 81 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: on the truth, who are going to turn their backs 82 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: on their journalistic integrity, all for the sake of saving 83 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: their own asses at the expense of educating the American public. 84 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: And you know this is and I say this, I 85 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: don't know how many times, this is how democracies die. 86 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: And our democracy, for all intensive purposes, folks, is dead 87 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: right when you have the amount of voter suppression that 88 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: we've seen take place, the gutting of the Civil Rights Act, 89 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 1: the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and now you 90 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: have all of these champions of extremism taking over some 91 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: of our most important agencies, Like what do we expect 92 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: is going to happen over the next four years? America 93 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: is being hollowed out by the inside out. The keys 94 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: of the kingdom have been given to Republican extremists, and 95 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: all we can do is basically hold on. But here's 96 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: the reality, and this is what we talked about last 97 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: week on wokef everybody's not making it so, whether it 98 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: be the deregulation that we are going to see at 99 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: the hands of the FDA and Health and Human services, 100 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: that again is going to make America sicker. Whether it's 101 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: going to be at the hands of the National Intelligence Director, 102 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: who is going to give our most intimate and deepest 103 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: secrets of American operations over to our biggest enemies right 104 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: in Tulca, Gabbard, whether we're going to see how again 105 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice is not going to be looking 106 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: out for the American people. It is going to be 107 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's legal arm for the folks that voted for disruption. 108 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: They wanted to disrupt the status quo. And oh everything 109 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: was about the economy and Democrats just didn't speak to 110 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: the economy. Give me a fucking break, because what these 111 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: people are now getting is not going to be disruption 112 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: of the status quo. It is going to be a 113 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: destruction of our democracy, of our constitution, of our free 114 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: and fair society. That is what is happening. And you know, 115 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: Americans are going to be sicker, They're going to be broke, 116 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: They're going to be unhinged, a more violent because our 117 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: resources are going to dwindle, right, And so I'm just like, 118 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: you know, and what's going to happen as what is 119 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: already evidence is that some people are waking up and 120 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: they're like, oh, man, I didn't vote for this, this 121 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: isn't what I wanted. Well, this is now what we're 122 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: all in for. And you know, I just it breaks 123 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: my heart because I had more faith in the American 124 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: people than I should have. I genuinely thought that there 125 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: were more good people, thoughtful people, strategic people, then there 126 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: were those that really just cared about themselves. Because at 127 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: the end of the day, it is selfishness that won 128 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: in this election, because if you were thinking collectively minded, 129 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: then someone like Donald Trump would have never come into 130 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: your consciousness because he had already talked about attacking the 131 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: most vulnerable, he had already talked about attacking the most marginalized. 132 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: He's made targets of every single community that is not white, right, 133 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 1: and so just by that alone, America should have been like, no, 134 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: we don't want this person. This is not who we 135 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: are and this is not who we want to be. 136 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: But because Donald Trump said, don't worry, I'm just gonna 137 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: hurt the people that you don't like, Americans said, yeah, 138 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: go do that. So here we are with you know, 139 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: about two months until it is full steam ahead with 140 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: PROJECTI twenty twenty five becoming institutionalized across this country, where 141 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: no one will have any safety nets or outlets to 142 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: go to and look towards for their information, for their 143 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: health and well being. And you know, it's so frustrating 144 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: because it didn't have to be this way, and there 145 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,719 Speaker 1: are so many millions of people are going to be 146 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: so harmed by this. Just thinking about Donald Trump saying 147 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: this week that he is going to utilize the US 148 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: military in order to deport eleven million Americans, and by 149 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: the way, that number continues to grow every time somebody 150 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: from his administration speaks, and they're going to utilize the 151 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: military and the National Guard, and he's going to declare 152 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: an emergency, and people are going to be scooped up 153 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: at schools and workplaces and churches and in the streets, 154 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: and it will be a mix, right of those that 155 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: they want to denaturalize for this country. And people will say, oh, well, 156 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: you know, I'm certain it will just be those that 157 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: have that you know, just got here and just got 158 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: their naturalization. No, it won't, folks. And again I've talked 159 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,359 Speaker 1: about this on the Danielle Moody Show. I talked about 160 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: this horrible, disgusting operation that was called Operation wetback in 161 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties that rounded up a million Mexican migrants 162 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: and disappeared people. This is something that was done before, right, 163 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: and you can see where the American mindset was just 164 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: by the title of the operation. So I continue to 165 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: say that Donald Trump is not doing anything new. He 166 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: is just resurrecting old laws that we actually never got 167 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: rid of, and we never put any safeguards into our 168 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: system to make sure that they couldn't be resurrected in 169 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: the first place. You know what I've learned over the 170 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: last decade of covering Trumps and the rise of MAGA 171 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: is that too many of what we thought were actual 172 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: laws in this country were just political norms that were 173 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: easily disrupted by someone that is criminally minded, somebody that 174 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: is only in it for themselves. Never before had we 175 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: seen a presidency that was totally in it for the grift, 176 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: totally in it for the power over rather than the 177 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: power with. That is this sole difference between autocracies and 178 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: democracies is that an autocrat wants power over right. In 179 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: a democracy, a president wants power with and sees their 180 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: role as protecting their constituents protecting the citizens of this country, 181 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: all of them. But that's no longer where we are. 182 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: And so when we're in this moment and we see 183 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: the writing on the wall, we know in many ways 184 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: how this story ends, right, And I have to tell 185 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: you that I cannot express it enough that people need 186 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: to fortify themselves. I am about to go through a 187 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: series of doctor's appointments because as an entrepreneur, I get 188 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: my healthcare through the marketplace in New York. And they 189 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: are going to eliminate the ACA, which means that people 190 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: like me, I am one of the twenty million or 191 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: twenty seven million Americans that will lose their healthcare right 192 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: when this trifecta of power that the Republicans now have 193 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: decide that they are going to repeal the ACA and 194 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: by the way, put nothing in its place, right, so 195 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: that is already going to ensure that tens of millions 196 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: of Americans are sick and will see the emergency room 197 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: as their primary care physician. Right on top of which 198 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: you were talking about raising of the retirement age, gutting 199 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: of Social Security, gutting of Medicaid, right creating the conditions 200 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: for absolute despair in this country. We've seen this done before, 201 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: we just have not seen it done in America. Right now, 202 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: they are talking about the fact that Russia is on 203 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: the verge of like an economic collapse because the price 204 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: of food has soared like twenty some odd percent over 205 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: the last year. No one can buy homes right, debt 206 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: has soared. And what does Putent care. He does not 207 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: care about his people. He cares about the oligarch. He 208 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: cares about his ability to continue to make money. He 209 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: cares about his ability to gobble up Europe and recreate 210 00:14:54,200 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: the USSR. This is who American Republicans are modeling themselves after, 211 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: a man that has completely and totally gutted his country. 212 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: You know, the term eat the rich comes from when 213 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: the fat cats become so fucking greedy and there is 214 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: absolutely nothing for anyone else, and then the people turn 215 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: on them. And that's where I fear that America is headed. 216 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: In this place that we have been told is so abundant, 217 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: and yet we don't feed the poor, and yet we 218 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: don't take care of our most vulnerable. The people that 219 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: are going to make out the most in Donald Trump's regime, 220 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: the prison industrial complex, because crime is going to soar 221 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: because when people have limited amount of resources, they will 222 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: resort to anything in order to provide for themselves, and 223 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: the media is just going to go along with it, 224 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: right and say that this is normal. So, folks, what 225 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: I will tell you is make your doctor's appointments, make 226 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: arrangements for yourselves and your family. Right if you were 227 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: in a mixed status household, I told people, you know, 228 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: contact an immigration attorney so that you understand or have 229 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: a plan of operation in place. If January twenty first, 230 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, your loved ones are scooped up, right, 231 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: so you know where to go and what to do. 232 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: The road ahead is incredibly dark and incredibly bumpy, and 233 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: all we can do in the next two months is 234 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: try and prepare as much as possible for the next 235 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: iteration of the dark Ages. I don't know for how 236 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: long a free press is going to exist. I don't 237 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: know for how long free speech is going to exist. 238 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: But these are the first things to go. And we've 239 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: already seen signs that our biggest agencies, this entire government 240 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: is going to be weaponized against the people of the 241 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: United States, And so you need to protect yourselves in 242 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: the best way possible. You know, the last thing that 243 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: I will say today is that over the weekend was 244 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: with my friends and their you know, very small children, 245 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at these, you know, three year olds, 246 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: five year olds, and I'm just like, I'm scared for 247 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: them because the America that they're getting ready to grow 248 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: up in is light years away from what we all 249 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: grew up in and knowing this safety that we felt, 250 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: the security that we felt that came with being American. 251 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: And I say this, folks, as a black queer person 252 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: that understands very much in the ways that government has 253 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 1: been weaponized against black people, against indigenous people, Like I 254 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: know all of these things to be true, but still, 255 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: the possibility of America was greater than many of its missteps. 256 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: But now the possibility is gone. And I don't know 257 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: how we exist in a space and in a country 258 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: where hopefulness is being squeezed out. So when I talk 259 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: about fortifying, I mean figuring out what resistance looks like 260 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: for you, looks like for your family. Right, if your 261 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: children are not going to be given the rigorous public 262 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: education that is going to allow them to be globally competitive, 263 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 1: then what are you doing? How are you supplementing their 264 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: education in your home? Right? Because everybody can't afford tutors. 265 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: So the pain that we're in for in the next 266 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: four plus years is going to have generational impact. And 267 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: I don't yet think that Americans really understand and can 268 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: wrap their minds around where everything is headed in the 269 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: next two months. But it's extraordinary and all I can say, 270 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: friends is fortify and buckle up. That is it for 271 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 1: me today here on wok F as always Power to 272 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke 273 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.