Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik app Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from a different funker.
Speaker 1: I decided that I needed a vacation, just a short
Speaker 1: trip to visit some friends, the folks. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: you know, this week, like every week in America, is
Speaker 1: becoming increasingly pressurized. I guess is the best word um
Speaker 1: to use, meaning that I feel like we are all
Speaker 1: just being churned right. You know, you know when they
Speaker 1: tell you to stay out of the water at the
Speaker 1: beach because you know there's a rip tie, there's rip
Speaker 1: currents that are coming through. That's what I think is
Speaker 1: the perfect analogy for America right now. Seemingly the water
Speaker 1: looks good, you're at the beach, and then the next
Speaker 1: thing that you know, you're being sucked under and don't
Speaker 1: have the strength to be able to swim back to shore.
Speaker 1: I feel like we are all caught in this rip current.
Speaker 1: New reporting has come out, came out yesterday in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post that I got to tell you. I started
Speaker 1: reading it and was just like, I just want to
Speaker 1: throw everything out. I want to throw the fucking paper out.
Speaker 1: I want to throw the country out. And I just
Speaker 1: want to start over. But new reporting comes out because
Speaker 1: of course folks are getting ready to write a book.
Speaker 1: But in the Washington Post there's an article talking about
Speaker 1: the cowardice of the Republican Party, particularly Mitch McConnell and
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy following the insurrection. So let me give you
Speaker 1: the you know, the cliff notes on this story. So
Speaker 1: as it turns out, and we all know this because
Speaker 1: if you remember a few days after the insurrection, if
Speaker 1: you even remember that the vote that took place, once
Speaker 1: they cleared those thugs and fascists and domestic terrorists out
Speaker 1: of the Capitol Building, that the vote was restored to
Speaker 1: certify Joe Biden's win, right, And at that time, Mitch McConnell,
Speaker 1: along with a handful of Republicans, gave a you know,
Speaker 1: good talking to to Donald Trump and to say that
Speaker 1: this is not who we are, this isn't what this
Speaker 1: country is about. Blah blah blah blah blah. And much
Speaker 1: like you, I thought that the insurrection was going to
Speaker 1: be an extraordinary turning point. I thought that after four
Speaker 1: years under Donald Trump, that would culminate in the you know,
Speaker 1: destruction of our Capitol building. Officers being beaten, a woman
Speaker 1: being killed, that this was going to be a reckoning,
Speaker 1: a collective reckoning about who we were. And what this
Speaker 1: article in the Washington Post laid out is that Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell and Kevin McCarthy wanted Donald Trump to resign, wanted
Speaker 1: the impeachment to happen, wanted it to make clear that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was not going to be able to run
Speaker 1: for office again, and that they wanted to rid him
Speaker 1: of the party, rid him from the party. But then,
Speaker 1: because these people are beholden to their racist, rabid base,
Speaker 1: and they saw that their response no thanks to Fox News,
Speaker 1: O A N Newsmax and QAnon for painting the insurrection
Speaker 1: as if it was, you know, just your regular tourists, visit,
Speaker 1: just your regular demonstration that ends up with thousands of
Speaker 1: people breaking into the Capitol Building, stealing from members of
Speaker 1: comfort of Congress, and defecating in our halls of democracy.
Speaker 1: But because they got that intel right from media who
Speaker 1: was not covering this, their media, right wing media wasn't
Speaker 1: covering this as a gasp, as a oh my god,
Speaker 1: what have we done? Right? As we all thought that
Speaker 1: they would, well, McConnell and McCarthy do what they do
Speaker 1: best with their spinelessness, which is recognized that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: held all the cards, held all the power, and had
Speaker 1: power over the base, and that the base wanted this.
Speaker 1: They want mayhem, they want violence. Right. I look around, Um,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you quick quick side note. I am
Speaker 1: out in Maryland and there are Trump Trump fucking flags
Speaker 1: all over here. And one of these flags isn't just
Speaker 1: it's not enough to just have the name Trump on it.
Speaker 1: It also said like wouldn't you like to take away
Speaker 1: my gun? Fu? It's it's the arrogance, it's the obnoxiousness,
Speaker 1: it is the self aggrandizing. It's just disgusting, really what
Speaker 1: it is. And it's just wrapped in white male fragility, right,
Speaker 1: the need to carry this big gun so that I
Speaker 1: can say that I'm a man, right, just like fucking
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and his tanning testicles. Like that's what masculinity
Speaker 1: looks like that in eating raw eggs, their their their
Speaker 1: idea of masculinity and of power is so fucking cartoonish. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: it is clear that these people don't know themselves. They
Speaker 1: don't care to know themselves or society or anything. Right,
Speaker 1: It's my way or the highway. It's as if they
Speaker 1: all just stayed in in their toddler phase, right, Um,
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, let may not insult toddlers. But the reality
Speaker 1: coming out of this reporting in the Post is basically
Speaker 1: that there was a moment, right, and it was brief,
Speaker 1: apparently maybe it lasted less than twenty four hours, where Republicans,
Speaker 1: you know, if they actually had a real leader and
Speaker 1: didn't just have a bunch of sick offense that we're
Speaker 1: going to leach onto power, regardless of if it was toxic,
Speaker 1: if it was dangerous, if it was violent, but they
Speaker 1: want power above all else. So there was an opportunity
Speaker 1: for Kevin McCart to rally right, to have the votes
Speaker 1: whipped in the House right for Republicans, because in order
Speaker 1: to impeach Donald Trump you needed seventeen Republicans, right, there
Speaker 1: was an opportunity for that vote not to happen along
Speaker 1: party lines, for McCarthy and McConnell to say that for
Speaker 1: the longevity and the health of the Republican Party and
Speaker 1: for us not to be aligned with domestic terrorists and violence,
Speaker 1: and for this to be the lasting impression of this administration,
Speaker 1: we need to rid ourselves of Donald Trump, and we
Speaker 1: will get on Fox News, we will call up these
Speaker 1: folks like there could have been right, the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do what was right. But Republicans don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: at the end of the day about doing anything that
Speaker 1: is right. They do what is about power. And this
Speaker 1: is what I have recognized, you know, over not just
Speaker 1: the power week, because there have just been so many
Speaker 1: low points. And I think that that's the problem too,
Speaker 1: is that when a story like this comes out and
Speaker 1: then you see the about face that these spineless cowards
Speaker 1: took right when they could have put country ahead of party,
Speaker 1: when they could have collectively condemned they what happened, when
Speaker 1: they could have said, you know what, no, we need
Speaker 1: a one six commission to investigate this because this is
Speaker 1: not who our party is, right, But they decided not
Speaker 1: to because they realized that Donald Trump was still powerful,
Speaker 1: that his supporters still had his back, and that they
Speaker 1: were going to go and take this stop the steal
Speaker 1: over the cliff. And as far as they were going
Speaker 1: to go, Donald Trump could continue saying that the election
Speaker 1: was stolen so that he could continue his hundred million
Speaker 1: dollar gripped from these fucking idiots right that he calls
Speaker 1: his base. And so it's just, you know what I
Speaker 1: realize as I continue to just I don't know, folks
Speaker 1: believe that we can make it through this darkness, this ugly,
Speaker 1: ugly side of America, that we can get to the
Speaker 1: other side. I hear stories like this, and I'm just like, no,
Speaker 1: I think that the American project is done. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where I am ending this week in the
Speaker 1: feeling that I'm having, and I'm trying really desperately not
Speaker 1: to marinate in it, not to marinate in the misery.
Speaker 1: I'm really trying desperately to seek my own joy. Which
Speaker 1: is why I decided to leave town just for a
Speaker 1: couple of days, because I needed to shift in energy,
Speaker 1: because I realized that in order to do this work right,
Speaker 1: in order to do this work, to be a part
Speaker 1: of a movement that is about justice, that is about
Speaker 1: the expansion of that is about truth and facts right,
Speaker 1: That is about science, right, that it is about democracy
Speaker 1: and what that means right. It means, you know, government
Speaker 1: foreigned by the people. It means the collaboration of multiple
Speaker 1: sides in order to get the best results for a
Speaker 1: country that I believe we all care about. But somehow
Speaker 1: we allowed the Republican Party to co opt patriotism, to
Speaker 1: co opt, like, you know, the belief that there isn't enough.
Speaker 1: And I say that this always comes back to this
Speaker 1: scarcity ideology, the belief that there isn't enough right, and
Speaker 1: that I need to get mine, and in order for
Speaker 1: me to get mine, that means that you have to
Speaker 1: go without. And it's not enough for you to go without.
Speaker 1: I need you to also believe that you are unworthy.
Speaker 1: That's where we are with this iteration of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party is that it isn't enough logic right to state
Speaker 1: that most of government assistants goes to white people, because
Speaker 1: white people are still right the majority in this country.
Speaker 1: So it isn't enough to say that it isn't enough
Speaker 1: to speak the truth right. And I've been doing, you know,
Speaker 1: having a lot of conversations with grassroots organizations, you know,
Speaker 1: across the issue spectrum from abortion to voting and so
Speaker 1: on and so forth, to the LGBTQ movement and what
Speaker 1: have you. And you know, what I keep telling people
Speaker 1: is that you all and I know that each and
Speaker 1: every single one of our issues are righteous. I know
Speaker 1: that we are on the right side of history in
Speaker 1: each and every single one of these movements. But we
Speaker 1: need to move away from stats and figures and bullet
Speaker 1: points and bullshit because here's the thing. I think that
Speaker 1: as Democrats, we have always believed that if we hammer
Speaker 1: our stats and facts and poll numbers that eventually we
Speaker 1: will win over these people and they will come to
Speaker 1: see the light. But the reality is is that they
Speaker 1: have created their own alternative not only their own alternative facts,
Speaker 1: thanks Kelly an Conway, but they have created their own
Speaker 1: alternative universe. Right right now, folks, right now, you have
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis. Ronda Santis has decided that he is in
Speaker 1: competition to be the worst most vile, disgusting Republican politician
Speaker 1: on the planet. Him and Abbot are just in a
Speaker 1: neck and neck race. And right now, Ronda Santis has
Speaker 1: decided that he is going to go after the happiest
Speaker 1: place on Earth, right, that he's going to turn Republicans
Speaker 1: and conservatives against Disney because Disneys. Now, I saw a
Speaker 1: fucking tweet from some conservative nutcracker that turned the d
Speaker 1: in Disney into the sickle right like of Russia, which
Speaker 1: is funny because that's the country that they're rooting for
Speaker 1: right now in the war of aggression in Ukraine. So
Speaker 1: it's like they're calling Disney communist for their embrace of
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus people, and yet they cheer on Russia and
Speaker 1: putin a man who doesn't believe in equity and just
Speaker 1: And it's like they want to call people communists, but
Speaker 1: then they cheer for a communist, like they want to
Speaker 1: call people dictators but then they support dictatorships and fascism.
Speaker 1: They don't know whether they're coming or going. And that's
Speaker 1: what I realized this week too, when I was attacked
Speaker 1: for my stance on Elon Musk and his desire to
Speaker 1: create or to try and buy Twitter to create this
Speaker 1: quote unquote free speech town hall space where everyone gets
Speaker 1: dispute their most disgusting thoughts and do so without accountability,
Speaker 1: because that's what white men sis hetero men want in general,
Speaker 1: right is I want I alone can fix everything. I
Speaker 1: alone can do whatever the fuck I want. And dare you,
Speaker 1: dare you come to me and tell me that I can't?
Speaker 1: Dare you come to me and expect me to be
Speaker 1: accountable for my actions or my harm? I can do
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck I want. I don't have to wear
Speaker 1: a mask. I can tell women and people with uterus
Speaker 1: is when and when and how to have babies. I
Speaker 1: can do whatever the fuck I want, right, That's their attitude.
Speaker 1: And so you look at what rhnd De Santis is doing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take away, you know, Disney's tax exemptions. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do X, Y and Z because Okay, then this
Speaker 1: multibillion dollar beloved company will just pack up and go
Speaker 1: to a state that actually welcomes them. How about that?
Speaker 1: Like you can keep the fucking park, but like they'll
Speaker 1: move their headquarters and their businesses because eventually, because they can, right.
Speaker 1: And what Ronda Santis is trying to do is make
Speaker 1: an example out of this corporation and out of Twitter
Speaker 1: and out of these places and say that like private
Speaker 1: industry has to succumb to like the will of Republicans.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying, folks, everybody need to be paying attention, right,
Speaker 1: Like these motherfuckers are out for blood. They are not
Speaker 1: just out for power for powers sake, but like I've
Speaker 1: been saying all week long, they are out for punishment, right,
Speaker 1: they are out for cruelty. This is why they love,
Speaker 1: you know. Putin so goddamn much right, because they believe
Speaker 1: that he's a man's man. He's gonna just take Ukraine
Speaker 1: and grab it by the pussy apparently, the way that
Speaker 1: they love Donald Trump and how he takes control over
Speaker 1: women against their fucking will, because that's his right. It's
Speaker 1: you know, I honestly believe that these people. And I
Speaker 1: don't say this as to disparage mentally ill, but there
Speaker 1: is something not right with these people, and you know,
Speaker 1: it is really indeed occult. And so I just have
Speaker 1: come to a place where I really need the media
Speaker 1: not to just care about fucking clicks, right, like, I
Speaker 1: need the media to actually recognize that they have the
Speaker 1: power to wake people up, they have the power to
Speaker 1: shift thoughts and open minds, and instead they're just choosing
Speaker 1: to go where the money is, and the money is
Speaker 1: in fear. The money is in denial. The money apparently
Speaker 1: is inside of Hunter Biden's laptop, as opposed to Trump
Speaker 1: juniors fucking tweets, you know, as opposed to inside of
Speaker 1: Trump Junior's text messages to Mark Meadows, which, as our
Speaker 1: friend Glenn Kirshner has said on his YouTube show Justice Matters,
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows out there running like a fucking treason as hotline.
Speaker 1: First it's Jenny Thomas, then it's Don Trump Junior, like
Speaker 1: and like McCarthy. Who else was Mark Meadows in cahoots
Speaker 1: with on January six and again paging Merritt Garland, Paging
Speaker 1: Merritt Garland, bitch you awake? Do we need to dump
Speaker 1: some cold water on you right in order to snap
Speaker 1: you out of your fucking slow like sleep right now?
Speaker 1: It is so obvious to me that this is only
Speaker 1: ending one way, and that is badly right, that is violently,
Speaker 1: that is in I you know, folks, And I don't
Speaker 1: want to say this because I honestly believe that words
Speaker 1: have power, and I don't want to speak, you know,
Speaker 1: evil into the world. But evil is already here. And
Speaker 1: it's just amazing to me that mainstream media continues to
Speaker 1: refer to the Republican Party as a legitimate political party
Speaker 1: that is just ideologically opposed to Democrats, as opposed to
Speaker 1: wanting them dead right. The vileness, just the acute vileness
Speaker 1: that I experienced this week over social media, for me,
Speaker 1: was just the realization that they're not going to be
Speaker 1: satisfied with just power. They want subjugation, they want the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties when black and brown people were forced to
Speaker 1: step off the sidewalk and lower their eyes when white
Speaker 1: people were walking by. They want women in subjugation to
Speaker 1: their husbands right, and tied to children that they do
Speaker 1: not want, tied into relationships that they do not want
Speaker 1: because they have no other choice. They want to limit
Speaker 1: the choices. They want to limit the avenues so that
Speaker 1: they can increase the pain. And you see when you
Speaker 1: look at history and you look at these areas of
Speaker 1: the world where fascism and authoritarianism were able to take hold,
Speaker 1: you look at economic devastation, you look at lack of
Speaker 1: social safety nets, you look at you know, terrible or
Speaker 1: no access to public education. You see these things, and
Speaker 1: we're watching them, one by one, one by one roll
Speaker 1: out in America, you know, And I just I know
Speaker 1: that it's just so much to pay attention to because
Speaker 1: the onslaught is just never ending, like it is just
Speaker 1: headline after headline. I had to stop myself yesterday my
Speaker 1: alerts with the New York Times. My phone just kept
Speaker 1: buzzing and buzzing, and finally I was just like, I'm
Speaker 1: fucking done right, and this is my job. But I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm done for the day. So I encourage
Speaker 1: each and every one of you, like I say often,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta unplug in order for us to
Speaker 1: be able to save ourselves and even develop right our
Speaker 1: own kitchen table strategy for how we are going to
Speaker 1: survive America's dark ages. We are going to need to
Speaker 1: be able to tap out and tap back in, because
Speaker 1: where there is no one that is going to be
Speaker 1: able to consistently stay in this toxic, fucking dump and
Speaker 1: not lose their mind. I mean, that's just the real
Speaker 1: of it. And so you know, as story after story
Speaker 1: comes out, and come to find out, you know, another
Speaker 1: great story as to the fact that now we have
Speaker 1: learned that only one textbook is allowed in the whole
Speaker 1: state of Florida. There are multiple companies, by the way,
Speaker 1: that publish public school textbooks, but now with Florida's new
Speaker 1: ban on books and critical race theory, there is only
Speaker 1: one company that they're going to be using accelerated learning.
Speaker 1: Funny enough, someone has been doing a little bit of
Speaker 1: a Twitter dive. Judy Levine has been doing a little
Speaker 1: bit of a Twitter dive into understanding who this company
Speaker 1: and he is that is the sole company that is
Speaker 1: allowed to distribute textbooks to public schools in Florida. Come
Speaker 1: to find out they have campaign ties to Ronda Santis.
Speaker 1: Come to find out guess who used to work there,
Speaker 1: Glenn Junkin. Glenn Junkin who is now the governor of
Speaker 1: Virginia modeling his parental control after Florida. Come to find
Speaker 1: out they're all financially benefiting from this one textbook company
Speaker 1: right out of Houston, where most textbooks come from. And
Speaker 1: if you remember, if you've been listening to wokaf for
Speaker 1: a while, for a couple of years, there's a story
Speaker 1: that I will never forget. It was a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago where one of the Texas publishers had decided
Speaker 1: that we were no longer going to refer to slavery
Speaker 1: as slavery. They were just going to take that out,
Speaker 1: that it was going to be unpaid labor, like as
Speaker 1: if it was as if slavery the four hundred years
Speaker 1: of oppression, right, and torture and rape and brutalization and
Speaker 1: terrorization of black people was somehow somebody's unpaid fucking internship, right,
Speaker 1: and that we were going to play up the benevolence
Speaker 1: of these slave masters incredible. But this is the type
Speaker 1: of quote unquote education that dissantists and JUNCN and the
Speaker 1: Republican Party want. Oh, we don't know why black people
Speaker 1: are so outraged and why police murder them at the
Speaker 1: rate that they do, and there is no justice, and
Speaker 1: oh they're just asking for things, but all they ever
Speaker 1: get or handouts, and so that you can create and
Speaker 1: continue this distorted view of systemic racism that you've created
Speaker 1: and benefit from. But let's not educate people, because God forbid,
Speaker 1: we develop critical thinkers that then ask questions like why.
Speaker 1: It's like, how do you see these things? See the
Speaker 1: criminal nature of everything that is being done, See the
Speaker 1: money that is in politics in these lies that see
Speaker 1: the punishment, see the desire to harm people? Right, and
Speaker 1: there be no credible investigations into anything, no fucking accountability anywhere,
Speaker 1: And you wonder why these people are doing what they're
Speaker 1: doing and getting emboldened by the fucking hour because nothing
Speaker 1: is being done. It isn't enough for these reporters and
Speaker 1: folks to like unearth these things if they're unearthing them,
Speaker 1: and there's no Department of Justice to actually take any
Speaker 1: fucking action because they're too chicken shit right to go
Speaker 1: off against the Republican Party and say, no, this isn't
Speaker 1: about politics. This is about we're storing faith and integrity
Speaker 1: into the agencies that you have spoiled. But nobody's doing that.
Speaker 1: No one is doing that. And so now we have
Speaker 1: a country that has a patchwork of abortion protections, and
Speaker 1: by the time that June runs around, they will be
Speaker 1: less than half of the country where people with uteruses
Speaker 1: are able to get an abortion. Soon, the CRT push
Speaker 1: won't just be in Florida and in Virginia. It'll be
Speaker 1: in Texas and Alabama and Mississippi and Maine and Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and everywhere. And what they really want, right, what they've
Speaker 1: always wanted, is the privatization of everything. Right, because you
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. This is the thing that
Speaker 1: I want to see happen. Know that it can't and
Speaker 1: why can't it. But let me tell you what I'd
Speaker 1: love to see happen. I'd love to see a mass
Speaker 1: home schooling movement. I would love to see black people,
Speaker 1: brown people, progressives, queer people, everyone, right, the collective, everyone
Speaker 1: pulling their fucking kids out of public school. But then
Speaker 1: you know what Republicans will turn around and do they
Speaker 1: will decertify the accreditations that you can get as a homeschooler,
Speaker 1: or they will change them. Right, So then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you can't go into you can't get a degree,
Speaker 1: you can't go to college, you can't get into certain positions, right, folks.
Speaker 1: It just some weeks are better than others. I can't
Speaker 1: really tell you the last time that there was a
Speaker 1: good one. I'm trying to really rack my brain about it.
Speaker 1: But the reality is this, They're not going to stop
Speaker 1: and things are going to get far worse than they
Speaker 1: are right now. And you know, I heard another report
Speaker 1: that I refuse to like wade into that Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: may want to run for office again. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: is there no one new? Is there no one knew?
Speaker 1: But then I think to myself, who the fuck wants
Speaker 1: to be president of this shit whole nation? Because that's
Speaker 1: what we've become, right Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Like, they're
Speaker 1: not really president and vice president. They're fucking janitors right now,
Speaker 1: trying to clean up like this mess that I mean,
Speaker 1: it's spewing everywhere over everything. I don't know who wants
Speaker 1: this job to be honest, because the damage that has
Speaker 1: been done is far worse. And I think that what
Speaker 1: is so difficult to grasp is that how can the
Speaker 1: American project that is two over two centuries old crumble
Speaker 1: in four years? Like? How does that happen? And it
Speaker 1: happens by assuming that you that we as citizens didn't
Speaker 1: need to put any work and any vigilance into our
Speaker 1: relationship with the country that we live in. Just think
Speaker 1: about it like this. If you are coupled, right, if
Speaker 1: you're in a couple, I don't care if you're married,
Speaker 1: you know, you're living with somebody like whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Imagine being in relationship with somebody and putting in no
Speaker 1: work at all, no conversations, no collaboration, and just assuming
Speaker 1: that everything is going to go well, that your relationship
Speaker 1: is going to be healthy, right, that there isn't going
Speaker 1: to be cheating or lying or misgivings or any of
Speaker 1: those things, when you yourself have put in no work
Speaker 1: and have no accountability for how it's going. That has
Speaker 1: been our relationship to our democracy. Sure we vote, and voting, friends,
Speaker 1: is the bare fucking minimum. It is holding these motherfuckers accountable, right,
Speaker 1: It is paying attention to even the most minuscule details.
Speaker 1: But who can do that when you can barely keep
Speaker 1: food on the table and you've got to make choices
Speaker 1: between food and medicine and fucking clothing. You see, the
Speaker 1: whole point that Republicans really serve up well is that
Speaker 1: if you keep people in desperate situations, if you ensure
Speaker 1: that they are unable to meet their bare minimum right food, shelter,
Speaker 1: and clothing, then you think that they're going to have
Speaker 1: the ability to pay attention to how you are robbing
Speaker 1: them fucking blind day in and to day out. You're not.
Speaker 1: You're not because what you have to struggle through each
Speaker 1: and every day, you don't have the attention, the time,
Speaker 1: and the wherewithal to keep track of what the fuck
Speaker 1: they are doing. And that is the point. That is
Speaker 1: the point. So it's up to those of us who
Speaker 1: aren't in those situations to be the ones that are activated,
Speaker 1: right for those that are unable to activate because they
Speaker 1: have been locked into cycles of poverty. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you know, the attack has been on the middle class
Speaker 1: and squeezing and squeezing and squeezing. So that really what
Speaker 1: is the separation between the middle class right now and
Speaker 1: low income folks, because a couple of miss checks and
Speaker 1: you had fucking food lines wrapped around for miles during COVID.
Speaker 1: That just goes to show you how economically unstable a
Speaker 1: majority of this fucking country is. Because it wasn't just
Speaker 1: happening in rural areas or you know, or quote unquote
Speaker 1: inner cities. It was happening everywhere. Suburban townships, right, which
Speaker 1: is supposed to be the American gym, where you have
Speaker 1: the house in the white picket fence in the front,
Speaker 1: in the backyard, and the two car garage. Those are
Speaker 1: the places where you saw people wrapped around for miles
Speaker 1: in food lines. So what does that say right about
Speaker 1: our country? Not fucking much. I go back to parable
Speaker 1: of this. I go back to Octavia Butler. I go
Speaker 1: back to the fact that that woman was a soothsayer,
Speaker 1: that the confluence of just disaster crisis after crisis after crisis,
Speaker 1: that all you needed to do was have one person
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump, just pull one thread and keep yanking
Speaker 1: it until the entire project fell apart. It breaks my
Speaker 1: heart on a regular basis, and that is, you know,
Speaker 1: I realize some days that the core of my anger
Speaker 1: and rage is really grief. It is truly grief. And
Speaker 1: when you think about it, unpack your own. Where does
Speaker 1: our anger, our righteous anger, come from. It comes from
Speaker 1: a place of reef. We wanted to believe that this
Speaker 1: country was better than it was because we were gas
Speaker 1: lit our entire lives thinking that America was exceptional. We
Speaker 1: sold American exceptionalism everywhere and anywhere. And I've said this
Speaker 1: time and time again on this show and others. America
Speaker 1: is not exceptional. It just has better pr right. It
Speaker 1: just had a bigger megaphone and the ability to spread
Speaker 1: its lies far and wide. But anybody sitting back now
Speaker 1: who is not actually in America but looking at America,
Speaker 1: is like, how y'all are a fucking mess. And this
Speaker 1: whole time I thought that you were better than us,
Speaker 1: that you had this whole political democracy thing worked out.
Speaker 1: Come to find out you don't know shit. Come to
Speaker 1: find out one man alone could ruin this. Donald Trump said,
Speaker 1: one man alone, I alone can fix this. No, I
Speaker 1: alone can ruin this. Who would have thought I sure
Speaker 1: as fucked didn't. Oh, dear friends, this is what I say,
Speaker 1: at the end of this week, on this Friday, is
Speaker 1: take some time, take a lot of time, you know,
Speaker 1: take take time to I don't know, connect with nature, meditate,
Speaker 1: you know, connect with friends. Just unplug from this mess
Speaker 1: and not and don't just do it over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I made the joke the other day that weekends are alive.
Speaker 1: They're not two days. It's actually one day and a half. Right, Saturday,
Speaker 1: Saturday is the one full day that you have of rest.
Speaker 1: It isn't Sunday because part of Sunday is preparing for Monday. Right, So,
Speaker 1: and Friday you're working, and then you have Friday night,
Speaker 1: and most of us are too fucking exhausted to even
Speaker 1: enjoy Friday nights anymore. Right, so you get one day Saturday.
Speaker 1: But that can't be all that we're working towards or
Speaker 1: all that we're hanging onto. It has to be our joy, friends,
Speaker 1: Our sanity is relying on our ability to find joy
Speaker 1: in the most minuscule things. We must grab onto those
Speaker 1: things on a daily basis. We must make joy a
Speaker 1: part of our daily practice. Otherwise we are not going
Speaker 1: to make it to the other side. And if we
Speaker 1: cannot conjure the light within us to lead us through
Speaker 1: this darkness, we will not make it. So, you know, please, please, please, please,
Speaker 1: as these days get, you know, just feel heavier, please
Speaker 1: figure out what your joy center is and hone it.
Speaker 1: Grow it, grow your light, because I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: this darkness, if you don't hone that light inside of
Speaker 1: you right you're not going to be able to navigate through.
Speaker 1: So please take that time. That is it for me
Speaker 1: this week, dear friends. As always, power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fun and joyful, joyful as fuck. You deserve
Speaker 1: it by virtue of your birth, not because you have
Speaker 1: to earn it. Be well, friends, see you back here
Speaker 1: on my day