1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording still from the Long 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: Island Bunker. Folks, how fucking hard is it do you 4 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: think to be able to, I don't know, not carry 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: a loaded gun through Tsaw? How difficult do you think 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: that that is? While apparently for a Republican rep Madison Cawthorne, 7 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: who we've talked about before for his praising of Vladimir 8 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: Putin UM and saying that he is a strong man, 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: apparently he decided that he was going to go through 10 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina with a 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: loaded nine millimeter HANDGUNUM. Once again Republicans, white Republicans, Republics 12 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: in general, just deciding that, guess what, the rules don't 13 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: apply to me. I can do whatever the fuck I want. 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: And while we have seen tsa wrestle to the ground, 15 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: people who are carrying, oh, I don't know, two extra toothpaste, 16 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: I've seen people be carted off into the little room 17 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: because they have locks like I do, and be padded down, 18 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: Madison Carthorne once again was able to just walk away 19 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: with a citation. And here's the thing you and I know, 20 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: good god damn well that if any of us walked 21 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: through TSA with a loaded fucking handgun in this day 22 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: and age, that we would maybe not have, depending on 23 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: your hue, maybe not have even been able to leave 24 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the airport alive, let alone just receive some type of citation. 25 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: And I realize that these consistent acts of defiance by 26 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: the Republican Party seemed to be escalating. Right, So you 27 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: had a couple you had last year, remember Lauren Bobert 28 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: decide that she needed her gun because I guess Capitol 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: Police and the DC Metropolitan Police are not good enough 30 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: at their jobs that she needed to be carrying a 31 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: gun onto the house floor and just bypassing the very 32 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: very deep screening that one has to go through in 33 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: order to get into the congressional buildings. And the reality 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: is is that they never get in trouble, which is 35 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: why they think that they can do whatever they want, 36 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: and which is why they do and they believe that 37 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: the police are benevolent and that you know, TSA is 38 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: totally fine because they are white, they are in positions 39 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: of power, and so they are able to flex and 40 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: know that they can flex in ways that people from 41 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: marginalized communities, namely black and brown people, are not able 42 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: to do. And that's how they think that the world 43 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: should be because they have created a narrative, right, created 44 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: a narrative that allows them to be able to perpetuate 45 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: lies of criminality and violence right about black lives matter, 46 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: about quote unquote Antifa. You know what we realize, what 47 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: we learned in the treasure trove of Mark Meadows text 48 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: message messages aka his treason, his hotline, as our friend 49 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner described it, is that Marjorie Taylor Green, in 50 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: the midst of the insurrection and the Capitol building being attacked, 51 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: was able to put together a whole lie, right, being 52 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: able to what take in the QAnon bullshit and then 53 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: start to spread that around to Republican leadership that oh, 54 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: these aren't Trump supporters, even though they're clad from head 55 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: to toe and fucking Trump signs and flags and outfits 56 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: and all of these things. No, no, no no, we got 57 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: word that it is Antifa. Well, according to the FBI 58 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: right who has been rounding up these people visa their 59 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: fucking social media, every single person of the eight hundred 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: or so that have pleaded not guilty that have been 61 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: investigated were in fact linked to guess what, not Antifa, 62 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: but Donald Trump and Trumpism and the entire MAGA faction. 63 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: But that didn't stop Marshorie Taylor Green and others from 64 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: being able to spew and share lives with Mark Meadows. 65 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: And Mark Meadows did what he has been trained to do. 66 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: Just go along for the get along, right, Genie Thomas. 67 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's wife is going off on conspiracy theories and 68 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: he doesn't shut her down. You would think that the 69 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: wife of the Justice of the Supreme Court would have 70 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: some working knowledge of the Constitution, but again that's lost 71 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: as well. I wonder, friends, you know, as we are 72 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: learning from this, you know, slow leak of the McCarthy tapes, 73 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: even though yesterday that son of a bitch received a 74 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: standing ovation right by the Republican Conference. And as I 75 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: was watching the news with my mother, I was getting 76 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: so angry, as I normally do. But I said to her, 77 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: you know, listen to what these reporters who are describing 78 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: the standing ovation. Listen to what they are doing and 79 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: how they are saying it. I said, Mom, you know 80 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: the truth. This is nothing other than pr This is 81 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: nothing other than a coordinated gaslight that the Republicans do 82 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 1: to say we are a united front against this left 83 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: wing quote unquote media which is being bought off by 84 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: right wing fucking billionaires, that we are united against the 85 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: media liberal left who are trying to take down our 86 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: good leaders. Your good leaders are filled with criminals, right, 87 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: are filled with liars, are filled with gun toting, violent insurrectionists. 88 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: You know, folks, when you look down the list of 89 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: those that have been in and around Donald Trump's close circle, 90 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: remember he only surrounds himself with such good, good people. 91 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: The series of Donald Trump's good good people have all 92 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: been under investigation and or indicted, right, And so how 93 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: is it that they are still able to own this 94 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: narrative that it is progressives that are the criminals, that 95 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: is progressives that are the problem. When was the last 96 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,799 Speaker 1: time you heard, right during the uprising in twenty twenty 97 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: that we thought was actually going to alter the police 98 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: reform landscape, which didn't it? Just we lasted for a 99 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: fucking minute. When was the last time you heard about 100 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: violence at the hands of progressives? I just want to 101 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: think about that for a minute, because I wrote a 102 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: recent article that went up yesterday for the Daily Beasts, 103 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: which I'm going to get to where I was googling 104 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: around about school boards, right, because if you remember that, 105 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: as schools were coming back and there were massive protests 106 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: at school boards that were turning violent, not just it 107 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: violence because of COVID nineteen mandates, but violence because of 108 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: this made up boogeyman of critical race theory. And as 109 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: I'm going through, I mean the number, folks, the number 110 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: of Google hits with major outlets talking about violence at 111 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: school boards, and once again does the media begin to 112 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: pull out and tease out these stories and ask questions 113 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: about why Republicans and base have become so volatile and 114 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: violent that you listen to McCarthy's tapes and you hear 115 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: him talk about his fear of physical violence from his 116 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: own colleagues, that you hear murmurings of Republicans feeling like, oh, 117 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: I'm just backed against the wall because they've created a 118 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: monster that they no longer have the ability to fucking tame. Right, 119 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: But that's not how the media is reporting it. Earlier today, 120 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: I saw a fucking New York Times story that was like, oh, 121 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: the Trump administration apparently mishandled seven hundred million dollars of 122 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: pandemic relief money that went to some random trucking company, 123 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: but the title was like mishandled, mishandle the money, or 124 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: it was a fucking payoff and a bribe. I just 125 00:08:53,120 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: I am so infuriated this week by so many things, 126 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: and I find that what is pissing me off the 127 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: most is the laziness and the lack of integrity and 128 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: conviction of the media, who is supposed to be the 129 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: fourth state, right journalists that are supposed to actually be 130 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: educating the citizens of this country about what they should 131 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: know and when they should know it, and then how 132 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: they can be activated. But that's not what this kind 133 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: of click bait bullshit neutrality journalism looks like. And I 134 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: don't even know if you can call it journalism frankly, 135 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: because it's sure as fuck, isn't all it is. Every 136 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: single thing is just touched by the greedy, fucking hands 137 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: of white CEOs and their fucking shareholders and just sitting 138 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: on piles and piles and piles of more money because 139 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: you know, greed is good, right. I have written about 140 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: that movie Wall Street from the nineteen eighties and Gordon 141 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: Gecko and the fact that we are just living in 142 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: a country filled with either them that are controlling all 143 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: of our quote unquote free speech outlets, all of our 144 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: media outlets are being controlled by billionaires playing fucking monopoly. 145 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: You have that, and then you have the people that 146 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: prop them up. What you are those that aspire to 147 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: be like them? You know, there is a there was 148 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: a story and not ed in the New York Times, 149 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: and it was about the fact that what is it 150 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: that Elon must believes in terms of freedom of speech, 151 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: that he believes isn't happening right on Twitter right now? 152 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: That he believes that, Oh no, no, no, no, we 153 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: need to just take off all the training wheels. We 154 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: need to take off the guardrails and just let people 155 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: will have at it. And this piece, Let's be clear 156 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: about what it's like to be harassed on Twitter, written 157 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: by Elizabeth Spiers, goes on to talk about her own harassment. 158 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: Right so she says this, She goes A couple of 159 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,599 Speaker 1: weeks ago, a former colleague of mister muss at PayPal, Oh, 160 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: Keith Rabios called me dumb on Twitter after I suggested 161 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: that eliminating moderation policies would be bad for Twitter's business. 162 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: This is not a particularly sophisticated criticism, but neither is 163 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: it harassment. However, I've also received rape threats, anonymous letters 164 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: to my home address, the threatening comments about my family, 165 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: and all manner of misogynistic pejoratives that are not printable 166 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: in this newspaper for my stated positions on everything from 167 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: abortion to hiring practices that startups to who the next 168 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: James Bond should be. She goes on to write, I 169 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: don't even have to write anything particularly provocative for this 170 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: to happen. I once got a violent threat for a 171 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: column I wrote about why I disagree with the way 172 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the Consumer Price Index. 173 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: These are not uncommon experiences for women and minorities who 174 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: speak in public on Twitter and beyond, and I've suffered 175 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: far less harassment than others. It happens all the time. 176 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: Twitter's current moderation policies can't completely prevent it, but they 177 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: are designed to mitigate it. Twitter requires its users to 178 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: comply with the Term of Service agreement that banns certain 179 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: types of speech harassment. In particular, It also has moderation 180 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: policies in place to combat disinformation. The value of these 181 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: measures isn't always apparent to powerful people such as mister Musk, 182 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: because if you're a white man on the Internet, you're 183 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: far less likely to get a rape threat, and you're 184 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: also heavily insulated from the possibility of real world violence. 185 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: I want to stop right there, because this is the 186 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: reality for so many people, including myself, that I shared 187 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: with you all earlier this week, that the people that 188 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: are making decisions about free speech right, the people that 189 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: are deciding what is or is not violence right, are 190 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: those that never experience it. Like this is what gets 191 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: me to my core. Elon Musk doesn't know what it's 192 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: like to be called a nigger bitch on Twitter. I do. 193 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: He doesn't know what it's like to be called an 194 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: array of homophobic and transphobic slurs. But he doesn't. He 195 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: doesn't know what it's like to wonder whether or not 196 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: those trolls are actual bots or real people that are 197 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: unhinged that are going to start, you know, going through 198 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: your mail figuring out where you live. This woman who 199 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: wrote this peace said that she received hate mail at 200 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: her home address, which means that it isn't just nameless, 201 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: faceless bots that are being run by the Republican Party, 202 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: you know, backed by Russia. No, these are real life people, 203 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: right who we have no idea how unfucking hinged they are. 204 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: But you see, the whole purpose of the town Square 205 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: was to be able to democratize how we get our information. 206 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: And so what happens then when even the smallest of 207 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: mitigation regulations are removed completely? I can tell you that 208 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: since the announcement of Elon Musk right and will get 209 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: to this story the next story as well, since the 210 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: announcement of his him going to buy Twitter, which again 211 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: still has to be approved by shareholders, but no doubt 212 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: will because it's just more white people making more money 213 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: so that they can oppress more people. But the reality, 214 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: the reality here is that it is progressives who have fled. 215 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: This is according to NBC News reports, right, which frankly 216 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: I don't believe. But yesterday I lost about three hundred followers. 217 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: Barack Obama, who is the most followed person on Twitter, 218 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: lost three hundred thousand. Singer Katie Perry also lost two 219 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers yesterday, And this is what NBC News 220 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: was reporting. Quote. Twitter has been flooded with user reports 221 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: of high profile accounts losing thousands of followers after news 222 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: broke that Tesla ceo Elon Musk would purchase the social network. 223 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: The company said Tuesday that the quote fluctuation in follower 224 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: counts came from quote organic account closures. What's funny about 225 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: these organic account closures is that folks like Marjorie Taylor 226 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: Green saw over one hundred thousand follower increase, as did 227 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: other right wing folks, including Balsonado President Balsonado out of Brazil, 228 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: He got ninety thousand followers earlier this week. So you 229 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: mean to tell me that legitimately hundreds of thousands of 230 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: people decided to leave Twitter earlier this week, before the 231 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: sale even goes through, and then at that same time, 232 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of right wingers decided to join the platform. 233 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: And you want me to believe that to be true? 234 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: Do I look like I was born yesterday day. It's 235 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: stories like this that are going to increase right And 236 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: so here's what I will say, because I said earlier 237 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: in the week on Twitter that I don't know if 238 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: I'm going to stay on the platform because frankly, my 239 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: emotional and spiritual wellbeing is more important than being in 240 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: the quote unquote Cybertown Hall. Not when I'm going to 241 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: be called the N word and a bitch and a 242 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: dike and all of these hard rit thic things that 243 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: people of color, queer people, people of non Christian faith 244 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: right receive on a day to day basis, and so 245 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: should we right Because Molly jung Fast tweeted this as well, 246 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: she goes, do you mean to tell me that we're 247 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: just going to seed Twitter in its entirety to the 248 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: right wing so that they have one unified space to 249 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: share and spread their hate without any pushback whatsoever. Frankly, 250 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to be able to 251 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: have pushback. Who knows what the fuck they're going to 252 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: do with the algorithm. Who knows if they're going to 253 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: get rid of blue checks, which people have worked for 254 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: right Who has any idea what is going to happen? 255 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: Which is why so many folks are saying, figure out 256 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: a way to have a platform that you, again are 257 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: not going to own, because even if you own a website, 258 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: it's still going through word Press, right, it's still going 259 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: through these back channels that you don't own. So whether 260 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,360 Speaker 1: or not you're on a platform like Meta or you're 261 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, word press or any of the 262 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: other ones. You don't fucking own that content, right because 263 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: they can shut it down, sell it to the Russian 264 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: Scaudi's at any time that they want to. So what 265 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: are we supposed to do? Where are we supposed to go? 266 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: Do we stay and fight and be drowned out by 267 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: right wingers and stay the fighting route? As Molly junk 268 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: Facets said, do not seed right? We need to get 269 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: these people back on Twitter. Do we find a way 270 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: to create a yet another social media space that will 271 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: what make make some splashes, but then in a couple 272 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 1: of years also be sold to some billionaire that's just 273 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: bored right and wants to figure out a way to 274 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: continually have their name in the mix because they're also egomaniacs. 275 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: I am just so at a loss this week. I'm 276 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: gonna be honest as a content creator, as somebody who 277 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: has utilized social media for all aspects of my work, 278 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: whether as a writer, a podcaster, a commentator on television. 279 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: I have been using social media as a main tool 280 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: right of my connection and correspondence with you all for 281 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: years now, and in a blink of an eye, the 282 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: Musks of the world are able to put a stop 283 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: to a decade plus of hard work, right of crafting 284 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: a brand of building, you know, content of building a 285 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: treasure trove of work to then have it disseminate, have it, 286 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: have it decimated? Transitioning on. So you tell me, folks 287 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: in the comments section below, whether or not you left Twitter, 288 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: and if you did, what was your reasoning for and 289 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: what platform have you decided that you would rather use, 290 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 1: And if you didn't do, tell me why you are 291 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: deciding to stay. Is it because you want to fight? 292 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: Is it because you want to see the shit show 293 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: that will transpire? What are your reasons for staying? And 294 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,959 Speaker 1: I think that right now I will be remaining on Twitter. 295 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: I will continue to stay vigilant to the changes that 296 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: are going to be made and following the news and 297 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: keeping you guys up to date on where we end 298 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 1: up with this sale, right because there are some right 299 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: now that are saying that, oh, he's all Elon Mosk 300 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: has already breached some aspects of what it would be 301 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: that he would need to do in order to get 302 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: through get through and finalize the sale. But who knows? 303 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: So switching gears, I have a piece right now that 304 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: went up in the Daily Beast entitled conservatives will use 305 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: the fight over prayer in schools to attack diversity. This 306 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: is how the right bends the arc of history back 307 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: toward injustice. So let me give you my thoughts on 308 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: this piece and then read a few As a former educator, 309 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: I have often talked about how important education is, how important, 310 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: particularly public education is to our democracy. That without public education, 311 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: which was fought for by black Americans in this country, 312 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: without public education, we don't have a healthy democracy, much 313 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: in the same way that without voting, without the ability 314 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: to vote right, we don't have a healthy democracy. And 315 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: isn't it funny that both of these things, both of 316 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: these tenants right of what used to be our shared 317 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: values and belief system as American citizens, are being attacked 318 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: by the right wing. And it has often been said 319 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: that schools have been on the front lines of our 320 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 1: political and cultural wars for decades. Right, you can go 321 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: back to looking at brown versus the board of education. 322 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: You can go back to looking at the denial of 323 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: lesbian and gay teachers to be in the classroom. You 324 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: can go back to all sorts of things that always 325 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: started with our public school system. It has also been 326 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: a tool of the right than any time that they 327 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: are in power to defund public education right as a 328 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: way then to bolster up charter schools that don't have 329 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 1: to follow any rules, that can let in or not 330 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: let in whomever that they want. Right. We saw that 331 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: post Katrina, that Katrina, right, the hurricane that decimated parts 332 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, that in particularly in the 333 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: lower income areas, that they just redid those areas, completely 334 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: refaced them and didn't put didn't restore the public education system. Instead, 335 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: they just had a bunch of privately funded charter schools 336 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: pop up from all over the place that don't have 337 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: any type of core curriculum. So in the piece that 338 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: I wrote, it is based on a Supreme Court case 339 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: that is currently being being heard. Oral arguments started this 340 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: week with a case out of Washington. So let me 341 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: read you a bit of this piece. Conservatives have a 342 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,199 Speaker 1: new hero in their culture war over public schooling. His 343 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: name is Joseph Kennedy, a former public high school football 344 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: coach who lost his job in twenty fifteen after refusing 345 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: his employer's demand that he stopped engaging an on field 346 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: player a prayer following games. What he would do, Joseph Kennedy, 347 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: who has been a coach of this football team for 348 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: quite some time, is that post game he would go 349 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: out to the fifty yard line right, have the football 350 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: players from both teams join him out there, and then 351 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: offer up some type of prayer. He was doing this 352 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: in the locker rooms. He was doing this most notably 353 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 1: at the fifty yard line. And when a parent complained 354 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: that their child, who identifies as an atheist, was being 355 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: coerced into participating in the postgame team prayers, less they'd 356 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: be perceived at disrespecting the coach and resultedly have less 357 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: playing time. The school tried to intervene, and while coach 358 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 1: Kennedy eventually stopped leading his team in prayers, he still 359 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: made a show of praying himself after games. Then he 360 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: was fired. So what is happening right now? Kennedy verse 361 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,719 Speaker 1: Bremerton School District is now before the Supreme Court, and 362 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: the six to three Conservative majority seems likely to rule 363 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: in favor of the coach, though to what degree still 364 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: remains uncertain. So in my peace, I bring us back 365 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 1: sixty years to a case that if you went through 366 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: public school, you may actually remember if you took history 367 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: or government in politics. Sixty years ago, in Angle Vi Vitally, 368 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: a case that brought prayer in school to the national spotlight, 369 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court weighed the actions of the Board of 370 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: Education of Union Free School District Number nine in New 371 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: Hyde Park, New York, which had directed a principle to 372 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: begin each day with a particular prayer in the presence 373 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: of a teacher. The Court determined that the state may 374 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: not coerce or precious students to pray in a particular 375 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: way to adhere to a particular faith. Justice Hugo. Black 376 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: wrote in the decision's opinion, quote, one of the greatest 377 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in 378 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: his own way lay in the government's placing its official 379 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or 380 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: one particular form of religious services. I go on to 381 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: write that at a time when Republicans are pushing anti 382 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: LGBTQ legislation like Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill, and Virginia 383 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: Governor Glenn Yuncan rode into office on quote critical race 384 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: theory panic, the Kennedy case seems to fall perfectly in 385 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: line with the Republican's white evangelical agenda and the ultimate 386 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: erasure of any measure of diversity. It's Christian fundamentalism presented 387 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: as parental choice. Now, funny enough, when I was doing 388 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: the research for this piece, I wanted to delve further 389 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: as well into the Brown Versus Board of Education decision 390 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: that would proceed the engle Vi Vitali case. And what 391 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: I found so shocking is that in the Brown Versus 392 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: Board of Education the language that the opposition was using. 393 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: And I hate using the word opposition when we really 394 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: mean fucking racists. So let me say that the opposition, 395 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: the racist opposition used parental choice. School choice was the 396 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: big campaign behind the fight to not desegregate schools. Now, 397 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: what that ultimately would lead to would be white flight 398 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: from heavily populated black and brown communities in urban densely 399 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: populated urban centers. All of the white folks, right, if 400 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: you remember, gotta packed up their ship and went to 401 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: the suburbs and took their tax dollars with them, leaving 402 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: urban centers with dilapidated schools right that did not have 403 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: their resources. Because once again we tie your tax dollars 404 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: and your economic status to whether or not we have 405 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: fully operational public schools that don't look like fucking prisons. 406 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: Because let me tell you something, there have been some 407 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: schools that I have seen where I'm like, I wouldn't 408 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: send a fucking dog to daycare there, let alone a 409 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: child that I hope to come out educated and with 410 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: pride and self esteem and an understanding of their responsibility 411 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: as citizens in this country. So we see that what 412 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is doing and using are the same 413 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: tactics that thankfully fifty and sixty years ago it didn't 414 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: win out. But you see, Republicans are smart because they 415 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: never rest on their laurels. They continued their whole rapid 416 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: fight right against any type of progress, and they continued on. 417 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: What did Democrats do? Well, we assume that because the 418 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: Supreme Court is all supreme, that somehow the wizard had 419 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: spoken and that everything was codified. Well, what the fuck 420 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: are we learning now with the Mississippi abortion case, with 421 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: this Kennedy and bremer Mare case. What are we learning 422 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: that everything that was quote unquote codified by law, all 423 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: it needed was a change in court. Right, And so 424 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: while Democrats have been celebrating all the progress that we 425 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: have made and thinking that, oh, we just need to 426 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: now be in a place of expansion. Republicans never let 427 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: up on their campaign of regression. This is what else 428 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: I say. Republicans have been waiting for the prime opportunity 429 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: to rebalance what they believe to be the rightful hierarchy 430 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: in this country, which enables white comfort and ease above 431 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: all else. None of the moves being made by the 432 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: Republican Party are happening by accident. They have always been 433 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: aware of what Democrats refuse to focus on the judiciary. 434 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: Once Donald Trump became president, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch 435 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: McConnell's dreamscape was actualized with the appointment of more than 436 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: more federal judges. More federal judges were appointed in Donald 437 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: Trump's four year term than in the entirety of Obama's 438 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: eight years. Think about that for a moment. Federal judges 439 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: have been the to every bend the arc towards justice 440 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: has made. To cite one obvious example, in Brown v. 441 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared the segregation of 442 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: schools not only to be economically disadvantageous, but undemocratic. But 443 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: Republicans block so many of Obama's judicial nominees, including Garland 444 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: right that ultimately that seat went to Gorsich, that conservatives 445 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: are now in a position to reverse the arc of 446 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: history and subvert the will of the people. So when 447 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: folks ask me this week, of all weeks, how am 448 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: I doing, how am I feeling? This article sums up 449 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: how I'm feeling. We are fucked. And when I say 450 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: that we are fucked, I mean generationally. It has taken 451 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: Republicans sixty something years to get to the position that 452 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: they are in today with a six to three Supreme 453 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: Court where they can relitigate some of our most historic cases, 454 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,479 Speaker 1: from abortion to school prayer, and soon up next Brown, 455 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: and then after that marriage equality, and then maybe even 456 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: after that interracial marriage, and possibly plusy v. Ferguson. This 457 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: is where we are headed. And if you remember during 458 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: COVID Barrett's confirmation hearing where that dingbat could barely string 459 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: together a sentence when she was asked if Brown v. 460 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: Board of Education was settled law, she sidestepped. And that 461 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: should let you know everything and anything that you need 462 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: to know. Because the cases that I mentioned, right, Angel 463 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: was a unanimous decision not to have prayer in school. 464 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: It won't be un amiss now. So needless to say, Folks, 465 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: as we head into the month of June, where the 466 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 1: Supreme Court will roll out some of their most egregious 467 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: decisions that are going to reshape our country, know that 468 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: we did have an opportunity to intervene. We did have 469 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: an opportunity to slow things down. One would have been, oh, 470 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, an impeachment inquiry into Clarence Thomas to 471 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,399 Speaker 1: find out whether or not he was actually involved in 472 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: the insurrection in some way, and whether or not his 473 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: decision to be the sole person to dissent against release 474 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's phone records had anything to do with 475 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: the fact that his wife's number was going to be 476 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: in there. Or what about the investigation that the FBI, 477 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: after thousands of tips about Brett Kavanaugh and his sexual 478 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: predator ass how about an investigation into him? These people 479 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: are unqualified and Democrats somehow think that it is okay 480 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: to not go to the mattresses and fight for what 481 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,399 Speaker 1: is right, even if we don't win, because in that fight, 482 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: you show the people that they fucking matter and that 483 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: they are seen. But that is something that this current 484 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: Democratic party and establishment doesn't get. That is it for 485 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on this Woke af We are 486 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: almost through the week, y'all. We are almost through, So 487 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: take again your three deep cleansing breaths, put this podcast aside, 488 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: and go do something that brings you joy, because we 489 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,839 Speaker 1: need to be centered and grounded these days more than ever, 490 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: because the vitriol and the fuckery is at an all 491 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: time high. As always, dear friends, power to the people 492 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,760 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 493 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.