WEBVTT - Pressure Drop 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik app Daily with 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.200 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from a different funker. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.080 I decided that I needed a vacation, just a short 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.400 trip to visit some friends, the folks. I gotta tell you, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:33.640 you know, this week, like every week in America, is 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:41.000 becoming increasingly pressurized. I guess is the best word um 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.480 to use, meaning that I feel like we are all 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:52.599 just being churned right. You know, you know when they 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.360 tell you to stay out of the water at the 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.520 beach because you know there's a rip tie, there's rip 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.560 currents that are coming through. That's what I think is 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.480 the perfect analogy for America right now. Seemingly the water 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.880 looks good, you're at the beach, and then the next 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.400 thing that you know, you're being sucked under and don't 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.440 have the strength to be able to swim back to shore. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.240 I feel like we are all caught in this rip current. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.960 New reporting has come out, came out yesterday in the 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.200 Washington Post that I got to tell you. I started 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.720 reading it and was just like, I just want to 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.640 throw everything out. I want to throw the fucking paper out. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.800 I want to throw the country out. And I just 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.039 want to start over. But new reporting comes out because 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.679 of course folks are getting ready to write a book. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.640 But in the Washington Post there's an article talking about 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.720 the cowardice of the Republican Party, particularly Mitch McConnell and 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.400 Kevin McCarthy following the insurrection. So let me give you 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.200 the you know, the cliff notes on this story. So 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.600 as it turns out, and we all know this because 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.240 if you remember a few days after the insurrection, if 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.320 you even remember that the vote that took place, once 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.440 they cleared those thugs and fascists and domestic terrorists out 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:23.639 of the Capitol Building, that the vote was restored to 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:30.000 certify Joe Biden's win, right, And at that time, Mitch McConnell, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.400 along with a handful of Republicans, gave a you know, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.200 good talking to to Donald Trump and to say that 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.400 this is not who we are, this isn't what this 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.200 country is about. Blah blah blah blah blah. And much 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.800 like you, I thought that the insurrection was going to 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:59.560 be an extraordinary turning point. I thought that after four 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:05.680 years under Donald Trump, that would culminate in the you know, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:13.120 destruction of our Capitol building. Officers being beaten, a woman 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.680 being killed, that this was going to be a reckoning, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:24.040 a collective reckoning about who we were. And what this 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.920 article in the Washington Post laid out is that Mitch 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:34.480 McConnell and Kevin McCarthy wanted Donald Trump to resign, wanted 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.880 the impeachment to happen, wanted it to make clear that 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.640 Donald Trump was not going to be able to run 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.680 for office again, and that they wanted to rid him 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.920 of the party, rid him from the party. But then, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.920 because these people are beholden to their racist, rabid base, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:01.920 and they saw that their response no thanks to Fox News, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:09.880 O A N Newsmax and QAnon for painting the insurrection 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.159 as if it was, you know, just your regular tourists, visit, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:21.000 just your regular demonstration that ends up with thousands of 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.839 people breaking into the Capitol Building, stealing from members of 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:30.160 comfort of Congress, and defecating in our halls of democracy. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.200 But because they got that intel right from media who 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:40.080 was not covering this, their media, right wing media wasn't 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.719 covering this as a gasp, as a oh my god, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 what have we done? Right? As we all thought that 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.440 they would, well, McConnell and McCarthy do what they do 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.240 best with their spinelessness, which is recognized that Donald Trump 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.040 held all the cards, held all the power, and had 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.240 power over the base, and that the base wanted this. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.120 They want mayhem, they want violence. Right. I look around, Um, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.840 I gotta tell you quick quick side note. I am 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:20.040 out in Maryland and there are Trump Trump fucking flags 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.800 all over here. And one of these flags isn't just 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.200 it's not enough to just have the name Trump on it. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.800 It also said like wouldn't you like to take away 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:37.680 my gun? Fu? It's it's the arrogance, it's the obnoxiousness, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:43.160 it is the self aggrandizing. It's just disgusting, really what 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.520 it is. And it's just wrapped in white male fragility, right, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.960 the need to carry this big gun so that I 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.080 can say that I'm a man, right, just like fucking 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.599 Tucker Carlson and his tanning testicles. Like that's what masculinity 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.360 looks like that in eating raw eggs, their their their 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:08.560 idea of masculinity and of power is so fucking cartoonish. Right. Um, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.600 it is clear that these people don't know themselves. They 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.520 don't care to know themselves or society or anything. Right, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.040 It's my way or the highway. It's as if they 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.800 all just stayed in in their toddler phase, right, Um, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.960 But nonetheless, let may not insult toddlers. But the reality 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:33.160 coming out of this reporting in the Post is basically 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.320 that there was a moment, right, and it was brief, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.960 apparently maybe it lasted less than twenty four hours, where Republicans, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.760 you know, if they actually had a real leader and 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.480 didn't just have a bunch of sick offense that we're 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.360 going to leach onto power, regardless of if it was toxic, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.240 if it was dangerous, if it was violent, but they 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.840 want power above all else. So there was an opportunity 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:04.520 for Kevin McCart to rally right, to have the votes 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:10.120 whipped in the House right for Republicans, because in order 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.280 to impeach Donald Trump you needed seventeen Republicans, right, there 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.880 was an opportunity for that vote not to happen along 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.560 party lines, for McCarthy and McConnell to say that for 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.440 the longevity and the health of the Republican Party and 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:30.040 for us not to be aligned with domestic terrorists and violence, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:34.040 and for this to be the lasting impression of this administration, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:38.240 we need to rid ourselves of Donald Trump, and we 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.440 will get on Fox News, we will call up these 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:47.040 folks like there could have been right, the opportunity to 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.119 do what was right. But Republicans don't give a fuck 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.400 at the end of the day about doing anything that 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.560 is right. They do what is about power. And this 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.560 is what I have recognized, you know, over not just 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.160 the power week, because there have just been so many 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.080 low points. And I think that that's the problem too, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.440 is that when a story like this comes out and 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.560 then you see the about face that these spineless cowards 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:19.080 took right when they could have put country ahead of party, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.360 when they could have collectively condemned they what happened, when 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.120 they could have said, you know what, no, we need 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.320 a one six commission to investigate this because this is 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.920 not who our party is, right, But they decided not 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.960 to because they realized that Donald Trump was still powerful, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.520 that his supporters still had his back, and that they 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.360 were going to go and take this stop the steal 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.320 over the cliff. And as far as they were going 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.320 to go, Donald Trump could continue saying that the election 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.240 was stolen so that he could continue his hundred million 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:59.200 dollar gripped from these fucking idiots right that he calls 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.640 his base. And so it's just, you know what I 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:07.600 realize as I continue to just I don't know, folks 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:16.800 believe that we can make it through this darkness, this ugly, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.160 ugly side of America, that we can get to the 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.840 other side. I hear stories like this, and I'm just like, no, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.240 I think that the American project is done. And that's 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.000 kind of where I am ending this week in the 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.200 feeling that I'm having, and I'm trying really desperately not 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.280 to marinate in it, not to marinate in the misery. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.480 I'm really trying desperately to seek my own joy. Which 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.360 is why I decided to leave town just for a 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.520 couple of days, because I needed to shift in energy, 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.160 because I realized that in order to do this work right, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.040 in order to do this work, to be a part 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.840 of a movement that is about justice, that is about 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.560 the expansion of that is about truth and facts right, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.880 That is about science, right, that it is about democracy 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.880 and what that means right. It means, you know, government 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.280 foreigned by the people. It means the collaboration of multiple 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.920 sides in order to get the best results for a 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:24.120 country that I believe we all care about. But somehow 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:29.080 we allowed the Republican Party to co opt patriotism, to 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.520 co opt, like, you know, the belief that there isn't enough. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.760 And I say that this always comes back to this 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:42.280 scarcity ideology, the belief that there isn't enough right, and 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.600 that I need to get mine, and in order for 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.680 me to get mine, that means that you have to 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.199 go without. And it's not enough for you to go without. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.720 I need you to also believe that you are unworthy. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.199 That's where we are with this iteration of the Republican 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.920 Party is that it isn't enough logic right to state 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.400 that most of government assistants goes to white people, because 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.199 white people are still right the majority in this country. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.400 So it isn't enough to say that it isn't enough 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.120 to speak the truth right. And I've been doing, you know, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.800 having a lot of conversations with grassroots organizations, you know, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.600 across the issue spectrum from abortion to voting and so 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.120 on and so forth, to the LGBTQ movement and what 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.960 have you. And you know, what I keep telling people 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.360 is that you all and I know that each and 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.280 every single one of our issues are righteous. I know 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.160 that we are on the right side of history in 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.920 each and every single one of these movements. But we 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:55.240 need to move away from stats and figures and bullet 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.240 points and bullshit because here's the thing. I think that 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.640 as Democrats, we have always believed that if we hammer 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:09.360 our stats and facts and poll numbers that eventually we 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.320 will win over these people and they will come to 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.840 see the light. But the reality is is that they 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:22.079 have created their own alternative not only their own alternative facts, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.440 thanks Kelly an Conway, but they have created their own 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:32.000 alternative universe. Right right now, folks, right now, you have 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:39.319 Ronda Santis. Ronda Santis has decided that he is in 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:48.040 competition to be the worst most vile, disgusting Republican politician 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.880 on the planet. Him and Abbot are just in a 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.680 neck and neck race. And right now, Ronda Santis has 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.600 decided that he is going to go after the happiest 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.720 place on Earth, right, that he's going to turn Republicans 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:06.200 and conservatives against Disney because Disneys. Now, I saw a 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:12.240 fucking tweet from some conservative nutcracker that turned the d 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.560 in Disney into the sickle right like of Russia, which 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.280 is funny because that's the country that they're rooting for 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:24.800 right now in the war of aggression in Ukraine. So 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:31.080 it's like they're calling Disney communist for their embrace of 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:39.680 LGBTQ plus people, and yet they cheer on Russia and 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:45.080 putin a man who doesn't believe in equity and just 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.680 And it's like they want to call people communists, but 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.920 then they cheer for a communist, like they want to 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.920 call people dictators but then they support dictatorships and fascism. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.320 They don't know whether they're coming or going. And that's 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.480 what I realized this week too, when I was attacked 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.000 for my stance on Elon Musk and his desire to 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.160 create or to try and buy Twitter to create this 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.600 quote unquote free speech town hall space where everyone gets 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.680 dispute their most disgusting thoughts and do so without accountability, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.360 because that's what white men sis hetero men want in general, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.520 right is I want I alone can fix everything. I 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.880 alone can do whatever the fuck I want. And dare you, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.040 dare you come to me and tell me that I can't? 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.440 Dare you come to me and expect me to be 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.840 accountable for my actions or my harm? I can do 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.960 whatever the fuck I want. I don't have to wear 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.000 a mask. I can tell women and people with uterus 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.920 is when and when and how to have babies. I 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.600 can do whatever the fuck I want, right, That's their attitude. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:59.280 And so you look at what rhnd De Santis is doing. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.480 I'm gonna take away, you know, Disney's tax exemptions. I'm 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.520 gonna do X, Y and Z because Okay, then this 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.440 multibillion dollar beloved company will just pack up and go 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.720 to a state that actually welcomes them. How about that? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.080 Like you can keep the fucking park, but like they'll 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:23.720 move their headquarters and their businesses because eventually, because they can, right. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.120 And what Ronda Santis is trying to do is make 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.480 an example out of this corporation and out of Twitter 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.920 and out of these places and say that like private 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:38.040 industry has to succumb to like the will of Republicans. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.360 And I'm saying, folks, everybody need to be paying attention, right, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.880 Like these motherfuckers are out for blood. They are not 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.520 just out for power for powers sake, but like I've 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.200 been saying all week long, they are out for punishment, right, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.000 they are out for cruelty. This is why they love, 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:03.280 you know. Putin so goddamn much right, because they believe 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.280 that he's a man's man. He's gonna just take Ukraine 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.080 and grab it by the pussy apparently, the way that 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.600 they love Donald Trump and how he takes control over 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:19.320 women against their fucking will, because that's his right. It's 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.640 you know, I honestly believe that these people. And I 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.880 don't say this as to disparage mentally ill, but there 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:34.760 is something not right with these people, and you know, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.640 it is really indeed occult. And so I just have 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:43.480 come to a place where I really need the media 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:50.360 not to just care about fucking clicks, right, like, I 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:59.000 need the media to actually recognize that they have the 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.600 power to wake people up, they have the power to 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:09.600 shift thoughts and open minds, and instead they're just choosing 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.000 to go where the money is, and the money is 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.720 in fear. The money is in denial. The money apparently 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.840 is inside of Hunter Biden's laptop, as opposed to Trump 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:24.640 juniors fucking tweets, you know, as opposed to inside of 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.720 Trump Junior's text messages to Mark Meadows, which, as our 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.000 friend Glenn Kirshner has said on his YouTube show Justice Matters, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.920 Mark Meadows out there running like a fucking treason as hotline. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.919 First it's Jenny Thomas, then it's Don Trump Junior, like 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.680 and like McCarthy. Who else was Mark Meadows in cahoots 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.880 with on January six and again paging Merritt Garland, Paging 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.960 Merritt Garland, bitch you awake? Do we need to dump 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.439 some cold water on you right in order to snap 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.280 you out of your fucking slow like sleep right now? 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.199 It is so obvious to me that this is only 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:13.720 ending one way, and that is badly right, that is violently, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.720 that is in I you know, folks, And I don't 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.080 want to say this because I honestly believe that words 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.280 have power, and I don't want to speak, you know, 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:32.280 evil into the world. But evil is already here. And 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.479 it's just amazing to me that mainstream media continues to 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.199 refer to the Republican Party as a legitimate political party 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.000 that is just ideologically opposed to Democrats, as opposed to 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:51.840 wanting them dead right. The vileness, just the acute vileness 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.840 that I experienced this week over social media, for me, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.480 was just the realization that they're not going to be 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:06.399 satisfied with just power. They want subjugation, they want the 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.479 nineteen fifties when black and brown people were forced to 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:16.560 step off the sidewalk and lower their eyes when white 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:22.280 people were walking by. They want women in subjugation to 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:28.080 their husbands right, and tied to children that they do 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:33.040 not want, tied into relationships that they do not want 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:38.480 because they have no other choice. They want to limit 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.880 the choices. They want to limit the avenues so that 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:47.000 they can increase the pain. And you see when you 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.000 look at history and you look at these areas of 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:54.800 the world where fascism and authoritarianism were able to take hold, 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.760 you look at economic devastation, you look at lack of 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:05.879 social safety nets, you look at you know, terrible or 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.960 no access to public education. You see these things, and 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.920 we're watching them, one by one, one by one roll 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:19.480 out in America, you know, And I just I know 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.800 that it's just so much to pay attention to because 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:28.000 the onslaught is just never ending, like it is just 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.120 headline after headline. I had to stop myself yesterday my 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.920 alerts with the New York Times. My phone just kept 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.320 buzzing and buzzing, and finally I was just like, I'm 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.399 fucking done right, and this is my job. But I 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.480 was like, I'm done for the day. So I encourage 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.000 each and every one of you, like I say often, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.919 you know, you gotta unplug in order for us to 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.520 be able to save ourselves and even develop right our 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.920 own kitchen table strategy for how we are going to 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:03.199 survive America's dark ages. We are going to need to 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.760 be able to tap out and tap back in, because 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.879 where there is no one that is going to be 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:15.120 able to consistently stay in this toxic, fucking dump and 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.600 not lose their mind. I mean, that's just the real 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.280 of it. And so you know, as story after story 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.000 comes out, and come to find out, you know, another 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.520 great story as to the fact that now we have 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.879 learned that only one textbook is allowed in the whole 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.800 state of Florida. There are multiple companies, by the way, 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.760 that publish public school textbooks, but now with Florida's new 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.400 ban on books and critical race theory, there is only 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.879 one company that they're going to be using accelerated learning. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.600 Funny enough, someone has been doing a little bit of 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.880 a Twitter dive. Judy Levine has been doing a little 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:00.000 bit of a Twitter dive into understanding who this company 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.760 and he is that is the sole company that is 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:07.080 allowed to distribute textbooks to public schools in Florida. Come 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:12.240 to find out they have campaign ties to Ronda Santis. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.240 Come to find out guess who used to work there, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.920 Glenn Junkin. Glenn Junkin who is now the governor of 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:28.160 Virginia modeling his parental control after Florida. Come to find 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:33.640 out they're all financially benefiting from this one textbook company 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:38.000 right out of Houston, where most textbooks come from. And 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.600 if you remember, if you've been listening to wokaf for 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.959 a while, for a couple of years, there's a story 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.280 that I will never forget. It was a couple of 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:51.200 years ago where one of the Texas publishers had decided 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.680 that we were no longer going to refer to slavery 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.680 as slavery. They were just going to take that out, 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.040 that it was going to be unpaid labor, like as 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.240 if it was as if slavery the four hundred years 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:08.439 of oppression, right, and torture and rape and brutalization and 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:15.520 terrorization of black people was somehow somebody's unpaid fucking internship, right, 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.280 and that we were going to play up the benevolence 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:25.639 of these slave masters incredible. But this is the type 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:30.240 of quote unquote education that dissantists and JUNCN and the 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:34.359 Republican Party want. Oh, we don't know why black people 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.800 are so outraged and why police murder them at the 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:41.240 rate that they do, and there is no justice, and 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:43.840 oh they're just asking for things, but all they ever 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.719 get or handouts, and so that you can create and 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:52.240 continue this distorted view of systemic racism that you've created 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:56.440 and benefit from. But let's not educate people, because God forbid, 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:01.399 we develop critical thinkers that then ask questions like why. 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:10.439 It's like, how do you see these things? See the 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:13.800 criminal nature of everything that is being done, See the 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:18.199 money that is in politics in these lies that see 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:24.160 the punishment, see the desire to harm people? Right, and 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:30.960 there be no credible investigations into anything, no fucking accountability anywhere, 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:34.160 And you wonder why these people are doing what they're 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:41.000 doing and getting emboldened by the fucking hour because nothing 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.679 is being done. It isn't enough for these reporters and 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:48.120 folks to like unearth these things if they're unearthing them, 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:51.080 and there's no Department of Justice to actually take any 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:55.479 fucking action because they're too chicken shit right to go 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.160 off against the Republican Party and say, no, this isn't 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:02.320 about politics. This is about we're storing faith and integrity 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:09.920 into the agencies that you have spoiled. But nobody's doing that. 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.720 No one is doing that. And so now we have 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.200 a country that has a patchwork of abortion protections, and 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.080 by the time that June runs around, they will be 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.320 less than half of the country where people with uteruses 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:33.920 are able to get an abortion. Soon, the CRT push 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:37.680 won't just be in Florida and in Virginia. It'll be 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:43.600 in Texas and Alabama and Mississippi and Maine and Oklahoma 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:50.399 and everywhere. And what they really want, right, what they've 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:55.560 always wanted, is the privatization of everything. Right, because you 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:57.320 let me tell you something. This is the thing that 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:01.080 I want to see happen. Know that it can't and 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:02.880 why can't it. But let me tell you what I'd 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:05.919 love to see happen. I'd love to see a mass 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:12.240 home schooling movement. I would love to see black people, 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:18.760 brown people, progressives, queer people, everyone, right, the collective, everyone 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:22.920 pulling their fucking kids out of public school. But then 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:25.399 you know what Republicans will turn around and do they 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:30.200 will decertify the accreditations that you can get as a homeschooler, 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:33.119 or they will change them. Right, So then all of 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:37.040 a sudden, you can't go into you can't get a degree, 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:44.400 you can't go to college, you can't get into certain positions, right, folks. 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:50.880 It just some weeks are better than others. I can't 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:54.040 really tell you the last time that there was a 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:57.600 good one. I'm trying to really rack my brain about it. 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:03.719 But the reality is this, They're not going to stop 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.960 and things are going to get far worse than they 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:13.120 are right now. And you know, I heard another report 0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:17.800 that I refuse to like wade into that Bernie Sanders 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:21.800 may want to run for office again. And I'm like, 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:25.960 is there no one new? Is there no one knew? 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:29.880 But then I think to myself, who the fuck wants 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:33.480 to be president of this shit whole nation? Because that's 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:39.160 what we've become, right Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Like, they're 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:43.760 not really president and vice president. They're fucking janitors right now, 0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:47.680 trying to clean up like this mess that I mean, 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:54.280 it's spewing everywhere over everything. I don't know who wants 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:59.280 this job to be honest, because the damage that has 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:03.639 been done is far worse. And I think that what 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:09.080 is so difficult to grasp is that how can the 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:14.840 American project that is two over two centuries old crumble 0:28:14.960 --> 0:28:20.800 in four years? Like? How does that happen? And it 0:28:20.880 --> 0:28:25.960 happens by assuming that you that we as citizens didn't 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:29.680 need to put any work and any vigilance into our 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:33.880 relationship with the country that we live in. Just think 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:37.560 about it like this. If you are coupled, right, if 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:39.479 you're in a couple, I don't care if you're married, 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:43.640 you know, you're living with somebody like whatever it is. 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:48.160 Imagine being in relationship with somebody and putting in no 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:53.400 work at all, no conversations, no collaboration, and just assuming 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:57.560 that everything is going to go well, that your relationship 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:01.360 is going to be healthy, right, that there isn't going 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:05.000 to be cheating or lying or misgivings or any of 0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:07.920