1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: I need to say something, which is why I have 4 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: so many podcasts. But the reality here is that I 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: believe that people are not getting the situation that we're in. 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: And when I say the situation that we're in. 7 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 2: I mean the fact that Biden is. 8 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: Now fundraising behind Donald Trump. He is pulling behind Donald Trump. 9 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: We are five months out from the election. Biden refuses 10 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: to make a pivot on his quote unquote ironclad support 11 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 1: for Israel. As they starve, blow up children, starve, millions 12 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: of people, lie about all of their mistakes. The list 13 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: goes on and on when it pertains to Israel and 14 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: their fucking lies. We are becoming and by we, I 15 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,919 Speaker 1: mean America is beginning to become isolated on the world 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: stage as more and more countries begin to recognize Palestine 17 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: as a separate state. Belgium, as I've said earlier this week, 18 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: has called for sanctions against Israel, and the growing outrage 19 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: is falling on non listening ears when it pertains to 20 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: the White House. Anthony Blincoln said recently, Oh the invasion 21 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: of Rafa and blowing up babies did not cross the 22 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 1: red line that folks are playing back the clip when 23 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: Biden was on CNN with Aaron Burnett and said that 24 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 1: RAFO would be the red line. So you're full of shit, right, 25 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: And this is what people, and by people, I mean voters, 26 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: are beginning two cents. And I reposted something in my 27 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: stories yesterday that I've been seeing going around and it's 28 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: mostly obviously my progressive, thoughtful friends that are reposting this message, 29 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: and I want to read it to you because I 30 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: feel like this is the urging that people are trying 31 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: to do with the Biden administration that is seemingly becoming 32 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: increasingly out of touch with their voters. And here it is. 33 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: You were allowed to say, at any point I can't 34 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: support this, even if you did, even if you were 35 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: on sure, you can at any point say this has 36 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: gone too far. And while the best time to say 37 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: that was earlier, second best time is now. Biden believed, 38 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: because of his forty plus years in government, that the 39 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: preservation of the state of Israel was somehow the responsibility 40 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: of the United States to not support Israel was to 41 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: be anti Semitic, was to not stand with Israelis and 42 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: those that practice Judaism. We have evolved from that place, 43 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: and while the place that we are in now is 44 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: huh tenuous at best, right, we are in a place 45 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: where leaders as well as constituents are beginning to do 46 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: the hard work of recognizing that to condemn the acts 47 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: of Netanyahu, the IDF, and the government of Israel is 48 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: not to condemn the Jewish faith. That it is the 49 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: job and has been the job of our leaders to 50 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: part and parcel that out. Just in the same way 51 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is not a representation of America and 52 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: America's values, he represents thirty percent of the population. It 53 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: is then fair to say that with all of the 54 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: protests that you see in Tel Aviv by Israelis, by 55 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: the families of the hostages, that they have had a 56 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: f fucking enough. So are we to look at those 57 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: protesters in Israel and say that they must be anti Semitic, right, 58 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: because mainstream media isn't covering the fact that thousands upon 59 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: thousands upon thousands of Israelis are in the streets on 60 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: a regular fucking basis calling for the resignation of this murderous, fascist, 61 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: lunatic so there does come a time when it is 62 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: beyond important to recognize that you've. 63 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 2: Made a mistake. 64 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: That is what distinguishes to me true leadership right from authoritarianism. 65 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: True leadership in a democracy is about recognizing that you 66 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: don't have all the answers and that there is room 67 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: to grow to learn. So this art and support hurt 68 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: that comes with no formulation of ideas around new information, 69 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, seems very trumpish to me, right 70 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: if you're not willing to take new information and formulate 71 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: a new strategy. And I'm wondering if the Biden administration, 72 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: if the campaign thinks that the donors that they may 73 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: upset are enough to get them elected, because I gotta 74 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: tell you, I don't fucking think so. Because if you're 75 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: looking at a handful of donors versus the millions of 76 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 1: people that are beginning to turn their back not only 77 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: on this administration, but on the campaign, on the possibility 78 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: of voting altogether because they can't stomach what they are seeing, 79 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: you're telling me that the handful of donors that's what's 80 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: going to carry you to victory, because it's not. You 81 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: have to in this moment, the Biden campaign has got 82 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: to have more faith in the fucking people of this 83 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: country than the pocketbooks of a select amount of donors. 84 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: He has got to get out of that fucking bubble 85 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: of a campaign and that bubble of a White House 86 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: and start taking the temperature of people who are pissed, 87 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: who are angry, who are beside themselves. He's doing the 88 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: work around trying to alleviate student loan debt, He's doing 89 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: the work of trying to, you know, work around this 90 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: right wing, rabid Supreme Court. But the work that he's 91 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: not doing is really listening to the people. 92 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 2: That are. 93 00:07:54,520 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: So disgusted, so grief stricken by what they are seeing 94 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: across their screens on a regular basis, And for his 95 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: Secretary of State, blinking to have the audacity to say, oh, well, 96 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: we don't know, we don't know if we can validate 97 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: these numbers. What are you talking about? Do you think 98 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: we're dumb. It's difficult, right, We all know this. It's 99 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 1: difficult to admit when you've made a mistake. But being 100 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: able to make that mistake, take responsibility and accountability for 101 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: that mistake, and learn from it so as not to 102 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: make the same mistake again is what builds character, and frankly, 103 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: is what allows us to function as a democracy. 104 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 2: When you know better, you do better. 105 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: But what we are seeing with this campaign is that 106 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: they're they're fucking lying to themselves in the hopes that 107 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: if you tell yourself enough lies, then eventually you'll believe it. 108 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: But the problem is is if you tell yourself enough lies, right, 109 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: you become so disillusioned from the reality the rest of 110 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: us are operating it. So when I see articles like 111 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: the one that came out at the beginning of this 112 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: week in Politico entitled Dems in full blown freak out 113 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: over Biden, right, all of these people quoted but speaking 114 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: on the flex of anonymity, and I call it flex. 115 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: And I'm saying that tongue in cheek because you don't 116 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: have a spine. No one wants to be on the 117 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: record saying that the campaign is doing something wrong. No, 118 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: let's just do a post mortem after from our fucking 119 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: cells in Guantanamo. I'm trying to express to people that 120 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: this election is not about one issue. It is about 121 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: every fucking issue. You have Fucking Nikki Haley signing bombs 122 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: that are tearing apart people's bodies. That's what the fuck 123 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: the Republican Party thinks about what is happening in Gaza 124 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: and in Rafa. They think that it's a moment for glee. 125 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: What do you think that they will unleash when they 126 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: have the power to do so domestically? You don't have 127 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: to wonder, because they tell you. In Project twenty twenty five, 128 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is telling us in every fucking incoherent rally 129 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: that he gives there will be no protests, there will 130 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: be no voting, there will be no institutions, that they 131 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: will not gut. This country will become a shell of itself. 132 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: And if you think that it's bad now, I want 133 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: you to think about how bad it is is, how 134 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:57,719 Speaker 1: desperate you. 135 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 2: Feel, and then multiply that by a million. 136 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: So when I see posts like one that I saw 137 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: yesterday on Instagram, you know, folks, I oftentimes get really frustrated, right, 138 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: I get really frustrated by outlets that are not political, 139 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: outlets that are providing really poor advice to their followers. 140 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: Afropunk is an outlet that has produced a myriad of 141 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: cultural events that move outside of the stereotypes and scope 142 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: of what we think black culture black music is. They 143 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: stand for, you know, humanity and progress and equity and justice. 144 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: And I respect their lens. But what I do not 145 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: fucking respect is a recent post that I came across 146 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: where they write independent presidential candidates for twenty twenty four election. 147 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: We don't need to settle for the lesser of two evils. 148 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: Swipe through to meet the independent candidates who bring unique 149 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: perspectives and fresh ideas to the election. They go on 150 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: to say this election is particularly challenging. Many voters are 151 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: reluctant to support Biden due to his administration's backing of 152 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: Israel's ongoing attack on Palestine. Conversely, some see Biden as 153 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: the only viable option to prevent Trump's return to power. 154 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: Key voter concerns include international relations, particularly with Israel, student loans, immigration, homelessness, taxes, inflation, 155 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: and public health. These issues are driving the urgency and 156 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: the intensity of decisions this election season. Then they go 157 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: on to list these fucking independent candidates. And here is 158 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: what I wrote in response. I said, quote, let me 159 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: be clear, if you vote third party in this election, 160 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: you are voting for Trump. Jill Stein helped to upset 161 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's campaign in twenty sixteen. Imagine where we would 162 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: be right now where the courts would be. Do not 163 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: promote this bs unless you have an exit strategy in place. 164 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: I urge everyone to understand and read Project twenty twenty 165 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: five on the Heritage Foundation's website. It provides the Republican's entire, dark, 166 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: dystopian future for decades and decades to come. This election 167 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: isn't about one issue, It's about everything. Do not throw 168 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: away your vote in protest. Look, I understand that for 169 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: years we have been telling people in every presidential election, 170 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: every midterm election, that this is the most consequential election 171 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: of your lifetime. And the reality is, folks, it fucking 172 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: has been. And why do I say that, Because what 173 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: we watched at the beginning of this new century was 174 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: a hardening of the Republican Party and the rise of 175 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: their fascistic fantasies that were once on the margins in 176 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: the Tea Party and in Birtherism, and that have now 177 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: become central tenants of their policy and their ideology. They 178 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: want to roll this country back to the nineteenth century. 179 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: In the nineteenth century, only white men had the right 180 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: to vote, women did not have bodily autonomy, Black people 181 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: were still enslaved, Queer people were thrown in jail. The 182 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: economy was not in a great fucking place. They want 183 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: to go back to the nineteenth century, right to the 184 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: times of these fucking hoarding, greedy ass titans, titans of 185 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: industry that possessed and awarded all of the wealth and 186 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: also all of the power. The twentieth century brought a 187 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: social revolution where in the span of fifty some odd 188 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: years we saw women, people of color, queer people access 189 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship through the courts. 190 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: And now those very same courts that are packed with 191 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: right wing judges are rolling back and peeling back every 192 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: bit of progress in the twentieth century. You know, I 193 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: was reading the other day. It was actually funny Women's 194 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: Health magazine reading this article about how women are choosing 195 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: not to have kids and it's becoming less and less 196 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: of a stigma. And in the article they talked about 197 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: the fact that childless couples in twenty twenty one, when polled, 198 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: rose seven percent in this country, And I think about, like, oh, amazing. 199 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: You know, people recognize that they have choices. Women in 200 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: particular recognize that they have choices. They don't have to 201 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: just choose the path that everyone else has been on, 202 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: they can choose something else, right, And then it'd occurred 203 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: to me as I'm reading this article that these are 204 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,120 Speaker 1: the same studies that have prompted the Republicans backlash against 205 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: reproductive freedom. Now, don't get it twisted. They have been 206 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: hammering against reproductive freedom ever since Roe v. Wade became 207 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: the law of the land in nineteen seventy four. But 208 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: the reality is that there is less couples that are 209 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: getting married, less people that are having children, and in 210 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: their eyes, that means that the browning of this country 211 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: accelerates because white people, wealthy white folks not having as 212 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: many fucking kids, or having kids at all. 213 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 2: So a way to. 214 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: Keep their numbers in their mind was roll back abortion, 215 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: go after no fault divorce, put women back in the 216 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: shackles of the nineteenth century where they had no power, 217 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: no voice, no bodily autonomy. White men controlled everything. Now 218 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 1: there are some women, like the fucking tried wives that 219 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: you see on TikTok that love this idea. Oh, I 220 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: don't want to have to worry about that little thing 221 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: called thinking. Though, for the rest of us that are 222 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: not being fitted currently for our handmaid's tail cloaks are 223 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: seeing very transparently through these actions, get women out of 224 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: the workforce, because if they're fucking up to their necks 225 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: with a bunch of babies that they can't afford. We 226 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: saw what happened during COVID. They're the first to have 227 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: to leave the workforce to care for the children at home, 228 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: which then what gives a wide runway back to white 229 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: men so that they can reclaim their power. But you 230 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: see the reason for this is that rather than actually, 231 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, learning new skills, are trying or having 232 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: to compete like the rest of us have, what they 233 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,239 Speaker 1: are doing is clearing the run way. We'll get rid 234 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: of affirmative action right that gave equity and opportunity to 235 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: people of color to access the same I don't know, jobs, positions, colleges, 236 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: you name it. 237 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: That's wiped away, will take away. 238 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: Women's bodily autonomy, and lo and behold, twenty twenty four 239 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: turns into nineteen twenty four. So while we applaud the 240 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: progress that this country has made over the last two 241 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight years, Republicans see that progress as 242 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: a threat, and right now they are in the position 243 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: of power to ensure that that threat is snuffed out 244 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: for good for multiple generations to come. The final lynchpin 245 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: in their fucking evil scheme is the White House that 246 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: they will never give up again. So what is it 247 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: going to be. What are we willing to stomach? What 248 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: are we willing to. 249 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 2: Push through in order to ensure that this is not. 250 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: The last year of democracy in America? Because that's what 251 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: the fuck this is about. Democracy is not perfect. This 252 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: country is far from perfect, and what we're learning more 253 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: and more, it's far from exceptional. But the reality is 254 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: is that we can push more and do more with 255 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: a democratically minded president than with a fucking fascist to 256 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: lot easier to fight for your freedom when you're not 257 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: in prison. And I want people to hold on to 258 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: that fucking truth as we battle through the next five months, 259 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: because this will not be done in November. Even if 260 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: Joe Biden wins, It's never going to be done. So 261 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: this idea that things are going to go back to 262 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: normal and things are going to be easy again, it's not. 263 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: This country is in the same position as other countries 264 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: have been for decades. 265 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 2: Fighting for your freedom. 266 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: Is a part of the process of holding onto democracy 267 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: and once we are stabilized, then we can have conversations 268 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: about expanding the court, about a multi party system. 269 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 2: But how do we have that. 270 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: When the threat that is looming overhead is so fucking dangerous? 271 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: Now is not the time? And I know that they'll 272 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: people say, well, it's never the time, It's never the time. Well, 273 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: if you're a gambler, you tell me how much are 274 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: you willing to risk? And if you have children, or 275 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: you're an auntie or an uncle, I want you to 276 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: look at the young children, if you have any in 277 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: your life, or you're a teacher, and you look at 278 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 1: your students, how much is their future worth? Because the 279 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: GOP already put a price tag on it. That is 280 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on wokef as always, 281 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. 282 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 2: Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.