1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen. Welcome to will g F Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: I want to start off this week with kind of 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: giving a recap to the healthscape that Republicans are creating 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: for Americans. What's troubling to me at this time, as 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: we are just a hand hand full of weeks, like 7 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: two weeks until the midterm elections, is that Democrats once 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: again are not doing the type of loud, microphone, megaphone, 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: fucking burn the house down messaging that needs to happen 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: in order to really signal and identify to the American 11 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: people what it is that Republicans want to do in 12 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: this country. And so today I kind of want to 13 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: stick with a couple of points that are happening right 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: now that are happening underneath the radar, folks are not 15 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: paying attention to. I'm doing multiple videos screaming from the 16 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: rooftops every week. So here we go. First off, I 17 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: want to bring your attention to what the Texas Public 18 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: School Board is doing. So last week they announced that 19 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: they were going to be mailing home in Texas DNA 20 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: kits two parents and caregivers so that they could identify 21 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: their children in the event of an emergency. Now I 22 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: want to pause for one second and say, what in 23 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: the entire fuck this is so problematic on a number 24 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: of levels, But let's just start with level one. Level 25 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: one being that instead of creating gun safety measures in 26 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: the state of Texas, which Greg Abbott, the governor, has decided, 27 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: oh to hell with, you know, will erase the age requirement, 28 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: will allow anyone to get a gun with absolutely no 29 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: waiting period whatsoever, because you know, the more guns the better. 30 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that you had nineteen children gun down in 31 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: their classroom. It doesn't matter that store shoppers who are 32 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: a gun down in El Paso. It doesn't matter any 33 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: any of the fucking violence and mass shootings that have 34 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: happened in Texas to get this governor to think to himself, 35 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: maybe just maybe we don't take people's guns away, but 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: maybe we make it a little bit more difficult for 37 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: these motherfuckers to get a gun than it is to 38 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: get a slurpee from seven to eleven. I digress. The 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: reality here, though, for parents basically is what the State 40 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: of Texas is signaling is just like, we're not going 41 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: to do anything. Right, you are basically ending your children 42 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: to school on a hope and a prayer that they 43 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: will return alive at the end of the school day. Right, 44 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna fucking roll the dice, and on top of 45 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: doing so, because we know the ways in which aar 46 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: fifteens rip through bodies and essentially render them unrecognizable. We're 47 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: just gonna give you this little kid that you can 48 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: swab in your kids and send it off to some 49 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: fucking lab in Texas and then you'll be able to 50 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: identify them later. What that's level one. Let me bring 51 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: you to level two. Level two is who the fuck 52 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: is going to be in control of that DNA, because 53 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: I sure as hell don't want anyone in Texas being 54 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: in control of my DNA right because they have a 55 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: funny way of you know, using it to arrest people, 56 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: to drop DNA at crime scenes, to I don't know, 57 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: search and find people that are documented and then ship 58 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: them off. I have no idea, but you think the 59 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: worst of it, and that's probably what is happening in Texas. 60 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: In no way, shape or form does it make sense 61 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: for this state to be asking parents and caregivers for 62 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: DNA samples. No way, No way does that assuage the 63 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: fear and anxiety that parents already have in sending their 64 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: kids to school knowing that they may not come home. 65 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: No way does it feel safe or good to have 66 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 1: the state of Texas that has, you know, this desire 67 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: to lock up as many black and brown people as possible, 68 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: having your DNA that they can again put anywhere, do 69 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: anything with. So if you are living in Texas, my 70 00:04:53,160 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: advice to you do not give them your DNA, your 71 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: child's DNA, don't give them your fucking cat or dog's DNA, 72 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: because this is the beginning of some bizarre, fucking nineteen 73 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: eighty four black mirror future that we don't want. Okay, 74 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: So that's the first story that is like, oh my god, hey, 75 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: I'm David. Plots of Slates Political Gabfest. As another election 76 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through all 77 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: the noise and the news. Each week on the Gapfest, 78 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: John Dickerson, Emily Bathalona and I decipher the headlines, break 79 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,679 Speaker 1: down the races, and tell you what issues really matter. 80 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: We do not always agree, We definitely do not always agree, 81 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: but we always deliver thoughtful debate and we always have 82 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: a good time. So subscribe to Slate's Political Gapfest, new 83 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: episodes every Thursday. The second one is this one, folks, 84 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: let me bring your attention back to it is that 85 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: House Republicans are doing. And again we talked about this 86 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: last week Friday, which is that media once again is 87 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: portraying the midterm elections as some type of horse race, 88 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: some type of sporting event, as opposed to the existential 89 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: crisis that it is for our democracy. You know, I 90 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: can recall sitting in my middle school auditorium, all gathered 91 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: in to watch Schindler's List, and I remember watching this 92 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: film with my classmates and thinking to myself, how could 93 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: this possibly happen? It's just the question that kept going 94 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: through my head. How do you allow your neighbors, store clerks, 95 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: friends to be carted off and murdered by the state. 96 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,559 Speaker 1: How do you honestly just go about your day and 97 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: think that this isn't absolutely crazy and outrageous. There was 98 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: a scene in Schindler's List that I remember so vividly 99 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: because I only watched that film once. This was not 100 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: something that much like Roots, much like other really gut 101 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: wrenching stories about world history, violence, pain that like I 102 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: can only stomach so much as a deep EmPATH. But 103 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: there was a scene that I remember which was people 104 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: walking around the streets of Germany and there was flakes 105 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: coming down from the sky, and initially people thought that 106 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: it was snow. It wasn't. It was the ashes coming 107 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: from the crematoriums and the gas chambers that the Germans 108 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: were using to murder six million Jews. It was this 109 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: scene where you saw people kind of going about their 110 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: day to day and then you see all of these 111 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: flakes that are coming down, but you see they weren't 112 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: melting when they were hitting the ground because it was ashes, 113 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: human ashes that were coming down from the sky. So 114 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: as I'm watching the scene as a young person again, 115 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: the question in my head that no teacher could ever 116 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: answer was how did this country allow this to happen? Well, 117 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: how do you allow things to happen? Well, you don't 118 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: make a big deal of it. It isn't a headline, right, 119 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: It's just casual headlines about Germany and about Hitler taking 120 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: over this country and the troops moving in here. But 121 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: it isn't constant headlines about the threat, the violence, the terror, 122 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: the killings, the rapes, the murders of babies that are 123 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: happening each and every day. No, those weren't in the headlines. 124 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, as Hitler was extinguishing the 125 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: fucking Jewish population and the population of also academics and 126 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: other undesirables, the New York Times was doing a fucking 127 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: home and garden tour with Hitler. He likes long walks, 128 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: he likes plants. That's how they were talking about him 129 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: in American press and media as he was over in 130 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: Germany setting up concentration camps. So how does this happen, Well, 131 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: the media has to be complicit, That's how it happens. 132 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: While Germany decided after World War Two to have to 133 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: conduct the Nuremberg Trials and to embed in their history 134 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: this obscene point in time where heinous crimes against humanity 135 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: were committed, that they embedded this in the history of 136 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: the nation so as never to repeat it. There are 137 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: monuments all over Germany to the Holocaust as a consistent reminder. Well, 138 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: as we watch our democracy die, as we wake up 139 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: every day to headlines that do not convey the gravity 140 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: of the situation that the United States, and by virtue, 141 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: the world, is in because I continue to say, and 142 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: I tweet and I record this. Has anybody thought about 143 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: what happens when Republicans not only take over Congress, but 144 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: take over the presidency, and that the United States is 145 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 1: no longer a democracy but realigned in this new formulated 146 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: access of evil with Russia, with Hungary, with the fucking 147 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: Mussolini light over in Italy. Has anybody thought about what 148 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: would have happened in World War Two had the United 149 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: States been forced into war in order to stop Hitler. 150 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: What would have happened. It wouldn't have been six million, 151 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: Maybe it would have been twelve. Maybe they would have 152 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: never stopped. Maybe there would be no Jewish person right 153 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: living today, which is what Hitler wanted, if there had 154 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,079 Speaker 1: been no United States to gather up our fun and 155 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: allies and take that motherfucker out. Has anybody thought about 156 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: what it looks like when America is no longer in 157 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: the game of democracy and human decency and human rights, 158 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: when we're actually the ones that are setting the pace 159 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: for just how many rights that you can take away, 160 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: just how you can utilize your military in a way 161 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: to beat back dissension, and that they are taking the 162 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: pages from the books of China and Iran and other 163 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: places to oppress people and depress people in a way 164 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: that we no longer cease to be a nation of 165 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: liberty and freedom. And look, you think I don't know 166 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: that America is imperfect beyond imperfect. I'm a black, queer 167 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: woman in America. I know all too well. But the 168 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: reality is is that we are the closest in the 169 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: world to that idea of democracy that we try and 170 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: perfect with each and every generation. So how is it 171 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: that at this point in time, seventy percent of Americans 172 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 1: believe that our democracy is at stake? We've been identified 173 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one for the first time in the 174 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: history of the United States since backsliding democracies have been identified, 175 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: that we are now a backsliding democracy. But then sixty 176 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: percent of the countries looking around and saying, ah, but 177 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: gas prices are too high and the cost of food 178 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: is too high. So I'm gonna go with Republicans that 179 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: do what exactly, not a fucking thing to help you, 180 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: and never have. But instead of once again identifying the 181 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: villain for what the villain is trying to do, you 182 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: have democrats stumbling fumbling the fucking ball that was given 183 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: to them literally by Republicans when they decided to overturn 184 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: fifty year fucking precedent with Roe v. Wade. Now, all 185 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: of a sudden, white women are like, well, I guess 186 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: taken away my rights to an abortion and bodily autonomy 187 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: is not so bad because my gas prices are so high. 188 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: I think that that's more important, And that's the way 189 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: that I'm going to fucking vote. You know what I 190 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: need right now? I need white Americans to vote in 191 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: a way that isn't so goddamn self centered and think 192 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: that they are going to be protected by virtue of 193 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: their whiteness. I guess so if you do what millions 194 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: of Germans did, which was just you know, close your mouth, 195 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: close your eyes, and align yourself with Hitler in order 196 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: to protect your own ass, I guess that that will 197 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: be the way until all of a sudden, you're some 198 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: high identified by a neighbor, by a friend, by a 199 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: family member that says no, no, no, right. I saw 200 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: them sending a letter to this person, I saw them 201 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: giving money to this person. They're the enemy of the state, 202 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: and then they come and lock your ass up as 203 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: well or worse, what Republicans are coming after right now 204 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: is low hanging fruit fruit that they think that nobody 205 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: gives a fuck about. That's how they start until they 206 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: get to the place where they're coming for you, Martin Namoller, Folks, 207 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: the poem first they came for. So here's the thing 208 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: that Republicans are doing right now that again is not 209 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: getting the national attention that it needs because the fucking 210 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: media just follows the bouncing ball that Republicans throw out. Oh, 211 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: Democrats don't want Biden on the trail, Let's do eighty 212 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: five stories about that, as opposed to all of the 213 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: fucking anti LGBT, ant high women, anti black, fucking bills 214 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: that Republicans are putting out. Let's talk about whether or 215 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: not Democrats like Biden. Are you fucking dumb? So here 216 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: we are. House Republicans have introduced legislation and this I 217 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: am reading from MPR that some critics are describing as 218 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: a quote national don't say gay bill, And this is 219 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: what they are seeking to do. The measure was introduced 220 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: by Representative Mike Johnson from Louisiana, has thirty two Republican 221 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: co sponsors, and this is what this piece of shit says. 222 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: Quote the Democratic Party and their cultural allies are on 223 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: a misguided crusade to immerse young children in sexual imagery 224 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: and radical gender ideology. The bill, called the Stop the 225 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: Sexualization of Children Act, aims to prohibit the use of 226 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: federal funds to develop, implement, facilitate, or fund any sexual 227 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: orientated program, event, or literature for children under the age 228 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: of ten, and for other purposes. But listen to this. 229 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: The language in the proposed legislation lumps together topics of 230 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: sexual orientation and gender identity with sexual content such as 231 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: pornography and stripping. Because you see what Republicans have always 232 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: thought of the LGBTQ community and why their fucking savior 233 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: Reagan decided to, let you know, tens of thousands of 234 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 1: gay people die in the nineteen eighties from the HIV 235 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: AID crisis, is that they've always thought that we are 236 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: somehow marked by the devil, that we are just in 237 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: one big sexual cabal trying to take up children, steal 238 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: them from their parents, and turn them gay. Funny enough, 239 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: the same motherfuckers are the ones that didn't do dick 240 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: when it came to the Catholic Church and them actually 241 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: sexualizing tens of thousands of children over the course of years. 242 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: They don't pay fucking taxes, right, religiously exempt, and have 243 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: all the good will in order to be able to 244 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: perversely brutalize and abuse your fucking children. Tell me when 245 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: there has been a case right where there has been oh, 246 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: a drag queen reading a story to your children that 247 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: has somehow turned into abuse. No, it has been at 248 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: the hands of these organizations that are lifted up by 249 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: conservatives that somehow, somehow end up in sexual abuse scandals. 250 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: Looking at you, boy Scouts, and you see the foolishness, 251 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: the fuckery that is inside of the Republican brain would 252 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: have you believe that if you are sexualizing children of 253 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: the same sex and somehow you are gay, No, you 254 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: are not. You are a fucking predator. Right, much in 255 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: the same way that they don't know how a woman's 256 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: body works or how pregnancy works, they actually don't know 257 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 1: how fucking predators work, which they should because their entire 258 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: fucking party is filled with them. The bill complains that 259 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: some school districts have implemented sex ed programming for kids 260 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: under ten, and that many newly implemented sexual education curriculums 261 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: encourage discussion of sexuality, sexual orientation, transgenderism, and gender ideology 262 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: as early as kindergarten. Let me tell you something. Books, 263 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: literature that talks about different types of families, that talk 264 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: about different types of feelings, that allow children at an 265 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: age appropriate reading to understand themselves and the world around them, 266 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: is not sexualized. Do you know what is sexualized? Fucking 267 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: baby onesies in stores that say lady killer right, the 268 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: oppressed of nature that heteronormativity places in our shopping aisles, 269 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: in our school system. What we are looking to do, 270 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: those that believe in equity and justice, is to create 271 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: a society where all people are accepted as they are, 272 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: not as you perceive them to be or as you 273 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: tell them that they should be. It is about dignity 274 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 1: and fucking respect. Gagging children, however, and telling them that 275 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: they can't talk about who their families are or who 276 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: they are as they identify, and criminalizing them because of 277 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: it is what actual abuse fucking looks like. When we 278 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: see the numbers of LGBTQ suicides going through the roof, 279 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: which they have always been higher than the national average, 280 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: that is what fucking child abuse looks like. Denying children 281 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: gender affirming care, healthcare and recognition of who they are. 282 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: That is what abuse looks like. Throwing parents in jail 283 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: for wanting to affirm and love their children for who 284 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: they are and not who you want them to be. 285 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: That is what child abuse looks like. We're enrolling your 286 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: child in a church program that would beat the gay 287 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 1: out of them and tell them that they are worthless 288 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: if they don't embrace heteronormativity is what the fuck abuse 289 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: looks like. Allowing administrators and teachers to discriminate and demean 290 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: children who are asking for dignity and respecting the classroom 291 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: by virtue of identifying them by the pronouns that they 292 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: use is what abuse looks like. So you tell me 293 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: why the fuck Democrats just can't say that, here's what 294 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: abuse looks like and list out all of the ways 295 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: that the Republican Party is not only harming LGBTQ children, 296 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: but you know, instead of giving them I don't know, 297 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: gun safety policy, we're giving you DNA kids. You want 298 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: to talk about the party of child abuse, look no 299 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: further than the Republican Party and all of the sex 300 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: traffickers and offenders that they wrap their arms around. Fundamentally, 301 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: we are trying to create a society that respects and 302 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: shows dignity for all people, not just the people you 303 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:49,479 Speaker 1: fucking like. So the fact that we cannot articulate that 304 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: truth to the American public very clearly. And let me 305 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: tell you something, I am not in the business of 306 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: not all Republicans. If you are identify with today's Republican Party, 307 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: if you proudly rock that ard, then you are a 308 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: fucking racist. You are a homophobe, You are a transphobe, 309 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: you are an islamophobe. You are not a patriot. You 310 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: are a white nationalist, period point fucking black. Because I 311 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: don't see Marjory tailor Green or these other motherfuckers part 312 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: and parceling and saying not all Democrats know when they 313 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: get up on a microphone they say that Democrats are 314 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: trying to kill us. Funny because they're the only ones 315 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: that are putting crosshairs over the faces of their Democratic opponents. 316 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: I don't see any language or hear any language that 317 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: Democrats use that look to paint their Republican opponents as 318 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: their enemy at war. I see only one fucking party 319 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: doing that. So let's just tell the truth. I say 320 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: this all the goddamn time. It's not that hard. Do 321 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: not waste your time contorting yourself into a place to 322 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: say not all Republicans and there are some good Republicans, No, 323 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: there are not. They are all part of the same 324 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: fucking poisoned orchard that when they have their way, this 325 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: country will look worse than it did in nineteen fifty. 326 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 1: They are trying to create a climate of desperation that 327 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: will turn neighbor against neighbor in order to be able 328 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: to pick up the little crumbs that the one percent 329 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: will leave behind. This is not the fucking country that 330 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: we want, and it's only heading in one direction, and 331 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: it's because of the Republican Party. So if you are 332 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: not identifying them as the villains, as the enemies of democracy, 333 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: the enemies of progress, the enemies of family, of freedom, 334 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 1: and of love, then what are you doing. You're wasting 335 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: my fucking time and the very little time that we 336 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 1: have left to save our democracy. 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Tune in 346 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts. Folks, we are 347 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: not in a good place. We haven't been in a 348 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 1: good place probably since Obama left office. Right, let's all 349 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: just be clear. But the problem of the Obama presidency 350 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: is this. We didn't create the pipeline, the megaphone. We 351 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: didn't start to institutionalize the ideas of progress and justice 352 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: for all. We didn't tell people to go run at 353 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: the school board level, to go run at the city 354 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: council level. Right. We made Democrats made folks believe that, oh, 355 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: everything happens at the national level. No, if we had 356 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: it in our mind to have the national type of 357 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: takeover that Republicans are instituting now and have been doing 358 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: blanketing the country oh the last couple of decades. If 359 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: we use the power and the megaphone that Obama had 360 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: while we were in office to get good people to 361 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: run for office at the state and local level, to 362 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: introduce curriculum and policies right that couldn't be stripped away. 363 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: We wouldn't be here right now. But we were too 364 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: busy patting ourselves on the back in the early two 365 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: thousand saying, oh, we're post racial, Oh we did it. 366 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: We didn't, And now we're in the fight for our 367 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: fucking lives. So my call to action to all of you. 368 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: I know that you are registered to vote. I know 369 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: many of you have probably already early voted in your states. 370 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: What I need you to do with the time, the treasure, 371 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: and the treasure and the talent that you have is 372 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: get as many young people to vote in this midterm election. 373 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: Get your kids to call their friends, get them to 374 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: do tiktoks about it, get them to connect. I need 375 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: as many older people right to tell them that Republicans 376 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: take over power. And guess what, you're losing Social Security 377 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: and Medicaid because those are the two big entitlements that 378 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 1: they are coming for. They're telling you that you're too expensive, 379 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: that the years in decades that you poured into our 380 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: economy you're never going to get back. They're gonna pocket it. Instead, 381 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: wake people up. Do what you can with what it 382 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: is that you have. If we all did that, then 383 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: we stand a fighting chance. And right now that's what 384 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: we need. Fighters, warriors for justice, reminding ourselves that we, 385 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: dear friends, are the real patriots. We are the ones 386 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: that are defending democracy, that are defending this country. But 387 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 1: we can't do it with lip service alone. We need 388 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: to put action behind our words. That is it for 389 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: me today, dear friends, on woke f as always power 390 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 391 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.