1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Wika f Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, um, 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: I want to start off this Monday with my reflections 4 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: on attending the White House commemoration for our new America's 5 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: new and first black woman Justice of the Supreme Court, 6 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: Katangi Brown Jackson. And if you all follow me on 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: social media, which if you don't, you should on Instagram, Twitter, 8 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: D two cents, d E, t w O c E, 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: NTFU and now on TikTok as Danielle Moody underscore. I 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: posted a lot of pictures, but I wanted to save 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: kind of my in depth reflection for all of you, 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: and I particularly you know, for the folks that asked 13 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: to say, you know, they want to know how how 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: it happened and you know how it felt. Um. I 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: have to say that for folks that have been listening 16 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: to woke fum you know over the years or have 17 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: been following me, have known that you know, during the 18 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: Obama years, I spent a lot of time at the 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: White House. I did not work for the Obama administration, 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: but by virtue of my role in lgbt Q politics, 21 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: and in UM movement politics, I will say whether that 22 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: is specifically on black you know, Black Americans, UM, the 23 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: diaspora and people of color and social justice or you know, 24 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: the intersections right of where marginalized people are. I spent 25 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: a lot of time at the White House, UH during 26 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: the Obama years because I believe wholeheartedly in democracy. I 27 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: believe wholeheartedly in our duty and responsibilities as citizens of 28 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: this country to do what we can in order to 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: preserve our democracy. It's something that I've never taken lightly. 30 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: I fell in love with politics when I was in 31 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: high school. When I was in high school, History and 32 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: English were always, you know, the two subjects that I 33 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: excelled at the most and the ones that I loved. 34 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: But politics I got turned on to in my AP 35 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: government in politics class. Because I could say this all 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: the time. I believe that my teacher was a communist, 37 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: and I believe that she had a very globalized view 38 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: on politics, and you know, and on the people's ability 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: if they were informed, if they were educated to really participate, right, 40 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: that you don't have to be just a deposit to 41 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: a deposit, right for whatever it is that the powers 42 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: that be want that in order for government and democracy, 43 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: I should say, in order for democracy to thrive, and 44 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: then even in order for capitalism to exist, there has 45 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: to be an agreement, right, And there was an agreement made. 46 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: It was called the Constitution, right, and it was in 47 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: agreement on how we were going to operate, how we 48 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: were going to create government for and by the people. 49 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: And as society evolved, so too, right did our laws 50 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: and amendments. But what we didn't know, what we were 51 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: not privy to, was a crystal ball in realizing what 52 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: would happen if people stopped really paying attention, if people 53 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: got complacent, because after the election of their first black president, 54 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: they believed that all was well, that we were quote 55 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: unquote post racial, and I you know, as and many 56 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: people that I know that exist in different ways in 57 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: the political sphere, we also got complacent, right, Like we 58 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: thought that we had done the work and that now 59 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: we were going to be reaping the benefits of what 60 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: it was going to be like to continue right, bending 61 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: this arc towards justice. That we thought, by virtue of 62 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: the election of Barack Obama that Americans would have opened 63 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: up their eyes to seeing what society can look like 64 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: if you put it in the hands of people who 65 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: are compassionate, who are smart, who are empathetic, who are strategic, 66 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: and what that can look like. And you know, so 67 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: over the course of the Obama years, I spent a 68 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: lot of time, you know, working with and around the 69 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: Obama administration. And when Hilary Clinton was defeated, I was 70 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: on air, right I was doing election night coverage in Canada, 71 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: and that coverage that night went viral because I was 72 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: absolutely beside myself. It took everything in me not to 73 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: cry on national television. And you know, people always ask 74 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: me why do I get so angry, right, Like, why 75 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: do I have so much rage? Because I believe that 76 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: much in democracy. I believe that much in our body 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: politic and there is nothing more that can send me 78 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: into a fucking tailspin of anger and rage. Then watching 79 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: white mediocrity and white rage topple the progress that has 80 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: been made in this country, the progress that my ancestors, 81 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: for your ancestors fort for. And I took up the 82 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: mantle in my own small way to be able to 83 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: contribute to the progress of this nation. And when you 84 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: see it being taken advantage of, when you see the 85 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: toxicity when you see the racism, when you see the 86 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: worst in us, having success after success after success, you 87 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: become disillusioned. And so that brings me to Friday. On 88 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: Thursday night, Like all of the fortunate people that were 89 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: able to attend the White House event commemorating Judge Katangi 90 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: Brown Jackson, I opened up my inbox and it was 91 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: just like, hey, you're invited to attend history, right, And 92 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: for me, you know, and a lot of people who 93 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: spent years living you know, almost two decades or pretty 94 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: much two decades living inside the Beltway, you know, a 95 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: lot of us moved right, like the Obamas were out 96 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: and we were like sis, you know, it was the 97 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: possibility of a Trump presidency, but never really truly deep down, 98 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: I wanted to believe that America was better, but I 99 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: was done and I wanted to move on to something else. 100 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: But when you receive a message from the White House, 101 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: you attend. And that's what happened on Thursday evening. And 102 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: so I would find myself Friday morning on a six 103 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: am train to Washington, d C. It was going to 104 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: be my first time going to the White House in 105 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: you know, what would be five years, and I'm getting 106 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: emotional now because the last day, my last day celebrating 107 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: at the White House with my friends and colleagues. You know, 108 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: we cried because we didn't know what was coming. And 109 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: I think that those tiers weren't just like the end 110 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: of this Golden Error, but it was a fear of 111 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: what was coming, what could potentially come if we lost. 112 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: And then to live through that, to see our White 113 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: House destroyed, the sanctity of it, the beauty of it, 114 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: the prestige of it, To see the Capitol Building, a 115 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: place of such pride as a child of immigrants who 116 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: walked those halls and worked in those halls four years, 117 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: for years, to watch it desecrated. This is why it 118 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: isn't just white privilege, it isn't just white supremacy. It 119 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: isn't all of these things. It's the demeaning of what 120 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: enslaved Africans built and where we were able to have 121 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: this amazing full circle moment with the Obamas, and so 122 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: to be back there after four horrific years under Donald Trump, 123 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: two years of a fucking global health pandemic, and having 124 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: left the firms that I've worked for the institutions and 125 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: be an independent voice and not tied to any institution, 126 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: and to be invited back to witness this history and 127 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: have front row, have a front row seat to history 128 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: was it was the honor of my career to this point. 129 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: And I hadn't expected to be emotional because for some 130 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: people that were in attendance, it was there very first time. 131 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: And so being with people who it was their very 132 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: first time attending a White House event, attending a major event, 133 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: and then but then being on the South Lawn with 134 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: friends and colleagues who you haven't seen in five years, 135 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:33,719 Speaker 1: it felt like, you know, a family reunion, right, like 136 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: a family picnic um outside as we're all greeting and 137 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: hugging and just can't believe that we're we're back because 138 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: we never expected to be back. Um, having dropped everything, 139 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: uh that you had ever planned to do on that Friday, Um, 140 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: and you know, and and head back right and be 141 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: to be to quote Hamilton, to be in the room 142 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: where it happened, to be on the lawn where history 143 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: was being made, and so to listen to Judge Jackson, 144 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: to listen to the Vice President, to listen to Biden, 145 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: and you know, and folks know, like I made the 146 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: joke while I was there that I was surprised that 147 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: I was invited back because I don't give this administration 148 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: a pass. I don't give anybody a pass, frankly, like, 149 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: because our democracy is too fucking important to hurt people 150 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: to be concerned about hurting motherfucker's feelings, right, Like, I'm 151 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: not concerned about people's feelings. I'm concerned about fascism, right, 152 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about making friends. I'm concerned about authoritarianism 153 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: and how quickly, how quickly our democratic norms fell and 154 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: are falling, and faith in institution and agencies that have 155 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: been built up over two hundred and thirty some odd 156 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: years is terrifying. So to have this brief moment in 157 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: the midst of Mayhem, to be able to celebrate this 158 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:23,479 Speaker 1: extraordinary human being and listen to her quote, my Angelou, 159 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: it sent me over. I was in tears, and so 160 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: many people around, you know, because if you ever have 161 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: the privilege of being able to attend an event or 162 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: events at the White House, like the energy when you're 163 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: at a White House that you know isn't run by 164 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: a criminal enterprise, the energy is just so beautiful because 165 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: we've all spent our lives and our careers, working in 166 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: this space, trying to make the world better in our 167 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: small part and place, and then you get to go 168 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: and be at in the seats of power. And it's humbling. 169 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: That's the only word that I can say. That it's 170 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: humbling um to experience and for me to remember like 171 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: this long forgotten time which feels like one hundred years ago. 172 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: And I noticed some people like five years. You know, 173 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: there are people that have never been to the White House. 174 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: There are people that and I trust me, I get 175 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: how how it can land. But that that's my truth. 176 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: That's you know, it's it's the space that I have 177 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: been in and worked in and put in time in 178 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: for you know, for a really long time. So it 179 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: was incredibly humbling and beautiful. It was a beautiful day. 180 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: There was you know, white, huge puffy clouds in the 181 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: sky and the sun was beaming down and you know, 182 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: the garden, the White House gardens, you know, look beautiful 183 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: and UM, it was just so joyous and it was 184 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: so joyous to see um, to be able to see 185 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: Reverend Jesse Jesse Jackson who is ailing um from Parkinson's 186 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: but was present. And this man has fought his entire life. 187 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: You know and has gotten to see these moments that 188 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: they couldn't have even have dreamt of. You know, when 189 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: they're battling against police batons and hoses, um, and you 190 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: know in cradling, uh, you know Martin Luther King as 191 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: he died in their arms, the promise of the future 192 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: to see him. And you know Reverend Al Sharpton, who 193 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: over the years I have gotten to know just by 194 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: virtue of going on tv UM to see them there 195 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: and to watch their faces as they are listening to 196 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: Judge Jackson soon to be Justice Jackson. Once Briar officially 197 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: resigns in June. It was extraordinary. It was a day 198 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: for black women, I think, everywhere in every industry to 199 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: know that we are overqualified most times for the things 200 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: that we are doing, and largely overlooked. And on Friday, 201 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: the spotlight was on the extraordinary grace, brilliance, perseverance, fortitude 202 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: of this extraordinary black woman. And what I really appreciated 203 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: as well was Biden being honest about how disgusting and 204 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: despicable her confirmation hearing was and how it was an 205 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: insult not only to her to black people, but to 206 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, and that Republicans showed their whole ass right. 207 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: They showed exactly who they are, what they stand for, 208 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: as if anybody had any fucking doubts in their mind. 209 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: But they're always those motherfuckers that want to consider themselves undecided. 210 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: I just say that they're desperate for attention. But those 211 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: that love to believe that they're undecided or independent, you know, 212 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: need constant reminders of the vitriol, of the racism, of 213 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: the hatred that Republicans embody. And because of that and 214 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: the handling that this beautiful soul showed the world during 215 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: her confirmation hearing, she went into her commemoration with the 216 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: highest approval rating of any justice. It took two hundred 217 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: and thirty three years for a black woman to sit 218 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court, for a black woman in an 219 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: Asian Pacific islander to be vice President of the United States. 220 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: Centuries so to be able to sit and watch and 221 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: applaud and scream and then drink copious amounts of champagne 222 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: with friends, to celebrate, to celebrate the day, to celebrate 223 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: this history, just for a moment, right to really be 224 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: present in joy and present in this space was a 225 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. If you haven't already, 226 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: you can check out some of the photos and videos 227 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: that I took on my Instagram at D two cents 228 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: and on Twitter, which I tweeted out over the weekend 229 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: as well. But it was truly truly day to remember 230 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: and one that I will cherish and remember for, you know, 231 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. And I am just 232 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: so incredibly grateful. And it was a reminder too as 233 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: well that there is still so much goddamn work to 234 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: be done, because I hope that we don't have to 235 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: wait another two hundred and thirty years for a second 236 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: black woman to be on the Supreme Court, or the 237 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: first Asian woman to be on the Supreme Court, or 238 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: for the third black man to be on the Supreme Court. 239 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: That's only if you count Clarence Thomas. So with that said, folks, 240 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: I am going to switch gears and get into the 241 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: news of the day. Over the weekend, multiple stories in 242 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: the New York Times sent my blood absolutely boiling. But 243 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: one of the first that I want to get into 244 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: is actually coming out of Texas, and it is a 245 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: despicable story that I'm certain many of you have heard, 246 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: and if not, then let me enlighten you. Twenty six 247 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: years Twenty six year old Lizzelle Herrera was in custody 248 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: last week being held on five hundred thousand dollar bond 249 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: for performing a self induced abortion. Now we know that 250 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: this was going to happen. That the whole point of 251 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: what Texas has done, what Oklahoma has done, what Alabama 252 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: is doing, what Mississippi has done, is all to force 253 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: women back into back alley situations where they are being 254 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: forced to take their health into their own hands, their 255 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: lives into their own hands. But thankfully, there are you know, 256 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: abortion pills. There are abortion you know abortion pills that 257 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: we've talked about with our friend Danielle Campomore that there 258 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: are safe ways right. But the way that these laws 259 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: are working is that they are written in a way 260 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: that Atlante law in Texas that hospitals and people can report. 261 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: Hospitals are supposed to report. There's a reason why when 262 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: people are shot, right, they don't oftentimes go to the 263 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: hospital because it triggers the cops to come. Well, that's 264 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: what happens with criminals, but is not supposed to happen 265 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: with a woman or a person with a uterus trying 266 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: to access an abortion. So let me read you this 267 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: story out of Texas Public Radio Star and here's the thing. 268 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: Lizzelle Herrera has since been released from custody. An abortion 269 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: rights organization paid her bond in order to have her released, 270 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: and since last week. She was released over the weekend 271 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: because Star County District Attorney gotcha. Alan Ramirez said Sunday 272 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: he had filed emotion to dismiss a murder charge against 273 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: a woman for performing a self induced abortion. Ramirez said 274 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: that the case stemmed from a report made two police 275 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: by a local hospital in January. Ramirez said that the 276 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: Star County Sheriff's Department quote did their duty in investigating 277 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital, 278 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: but this was not a criminal matter under Texas law. Quote. 279 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that miss 280 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: Harrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegations 281 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: against her. Texas Public Radio goes on to write, this 282 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: is a dramatic turnaround from an indictment signed March thirtieth, 283 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, stating that Herrera quote did then and 284 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: there intentionally and knowingly caused the death of an individual 285 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: by a self induced abortion. The specifics and the strength 286 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: of the case, as they write, were murky from the start. Quote. 287 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: The Texas Murder Statute does apply to the killing of 288 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: an unborn fetus, Ramirez said, but it specifically exempts cases 289 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: where the person who terminated the fetus is the pregnant woman. Folks, 290 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: We're in hell, okay, And the reality is this is 291 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 1: just one of many cases that we are going to 292 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: hear about that we are going to lose sleepover, that 293 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: we are going to raise our blood pressure over that 294 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: we are going to cause that's going to cause so 295 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: much dysfucking ease in our lives. This is what they wanted. 296 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: The outcome, however, in this case is going the way 297 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: that it should go. First of all, there should have 298 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: never been a fucking case to begin with, because we 299 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: did believe up until last year that a woman and 300 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: a person with a uterus had the right to make 301 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: the decisions about their own reproductive health and when and 302 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: where and if they wanted to have a fucking baby. 303 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: So what I want to go back to is the 304 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: thing that again, I feel like even when I was 305 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: at the White House on Friday, I said, Wow, so 306 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: this is a missed opportunity, because why are we celebrating 307 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: Justice Katangi Brown Jackson because of Georgia and the two 308 00:24:53,400 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: senators that one war Knock and Orseth oh Seth. Excuse 309 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: me Warnock, who was currently trailing behind the black right 310 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: wing fucking Republican in Georgia. Without Stacy Abrams, Black Pack, 311 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: Black Vote Matters, and all of the grassroots organizations that 312 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: worked to get out the vote in Georgia, Joe Biden 313 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: wouldn't have had a Supreme Court justice to bring because 314 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have had the numbers. And much in the 315 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: same way that Mitch McConnell had blocked the seating of 316 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: Merritt Garland, the confirmation hearing, even just blatant meetings, would 317 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: have been the same. So I said at the White 318 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: House to the folks next to me, I said, you 319 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: know what would be nice is if in the entire 320 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: speech where everybody was thanking everybody, that the President of 321 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: the United States said, and I want to say a 322 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: special thank you to the people of Georgia for giving 323 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: us war Knock and OSAF so that we could have 324 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: this moment today. This is why voting matters right now. 325 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: Democrats are always tiptoeing around the fucking rules and the 326 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: law and what you can and can't use the White 327 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: House for. Meanwhile, if you recall, Donald Trump did an 328 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: entire campaign event from the White House, which is actually illegal, 329 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: but of course Democrats don't hold him to account. There's 330 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: a whole other fucking story, folks, that I'm going to 331 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: be getting into in just a little bit about where 332 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: we are right with finding out more information about what 333 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: happened on January sixth, and what the House Commission is 334 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: or is not considering doing following the mountains of evidence 335 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:03,959 Speaker 1: that they have now on Donald Trump. But the reality 336 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: is that if you don't consistently remind the people why 337 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: the courts matter, why fucking voting matters, why it matters 338 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: that Democrats hold the seats of power that they refuse 339 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: to actually use to the fullest extent that they have. 340 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: If you don't do that, then how are you getting 341 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: people to actually get out and vote in a couple 342 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: of months for midterms? What case are you bringing to 343 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: the American people if you're not going to use every 344 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: opportunity that there's a fucking microphone in your face to 345 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: tell the goddamn truth about what we are up against right. 346 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: You have no problem poken at your chest for Ukraine, 347 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: poken at your chest against Putin right and his violence 348 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: and aggression. But are we not talking about how he's 349 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: able to continue to do so because he's being uplifted 350 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: in this country by the radical right. Over the weekend 351 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: I finally saw for read Zakira on CNN do an 352 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: entire cold open about the global far right and do 353 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 1: an entire like two three minutes on Tucker Carson, and 354 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: how there He's like, if you were to just watch 355 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: Fox News, you wouldn't even know there's a war in Ukraine. 356 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: You wouldn't even know that we're on the brink of 357 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: a fucking nuclear meltdown in catastrophe. You would think he 358 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: said that the biggest thing that we have going on 359 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: for us here are battles at the school board and 360 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: critical race theory. So the point being obviously that those 361 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: things are important because I talk about them on my 362 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: show all the time, because I know exactly what Republicans 363 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,719 Speaker 1: are doing right while everyone is paying attention to the 364 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: role level, they are staking their claim at the local 365 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: and state levels, and they are putting their people in 366 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: place because they believe that the next election, whether it 367 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: is mid terms, right, which will be our first test 368 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: post twenty twenty, where we've put no guardrails in place 369 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: to hold a free and fair election, knowing all of 370 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: the fucking holes that we saw in twenty twenty, that 371 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: they will have all the people in place to not 372 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: certify the next election if it is Biden or another 373 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: Democrat that wins, to say, oh, no, right, this is 374 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: a false flag operation. We're not moving forward with this, 375 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: and we decline to certify. We decline to certify and 376 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: set up a whole new group of electors. The reality, however, 377 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: is that if we don't talk about it, then the 378 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: people don't know. The other major story that happened over 379 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: the weekend, and again I tweeted and I said, this 380 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: shit is foreshadowing, and somebody wanted once again to come 381 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: for me. And I'm just like, folks like you don't 382 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: know how I roll, So like, unless you're coming with 383 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: a battery of facts and reports and stats and all 384 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: of these things, don't think that you can come for me, okay, 385 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: because I will light your entire shit up because I'm 386 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: not in the mood, like I said, if the president 387 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: of the United States can get it. If you think 388 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: that you on Twitter can't, you are sadly mistaken. But 389 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: what happened is this over the weekend, it is now 390 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: determined that the French election is going to be between 391 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: McCrone and la Penn. Now Lapen is pretty much Donald 392 00:30:54,400 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: Trump in in women's clothing. She is a far right, 393 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: bigoted zealot who wants to get rid of immigrants in France, 394 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: who wants to like eliminate equity right, who pretty much 395 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: wants to model France after Hungary, which by the way, 396 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: is the only European nation outside of Russia because Russia 397 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: is not a democracy whatsoever that they call a partial 398 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: democracy because they have elections, they just don't mean shit, right, 399 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: And that's what Lapen wants. What is happening in the 400 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: United States is happening all around the world, and it's 401 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: started with Brexit, And so what when I said that, folks, 402 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: what we are seeing right now is foreshadowing and people 403 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: need to fucking pay attention that if Lapen wins, right, like, 404 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: France is going to decimate they're standing in the free 405 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: world following World War two, Like this is the kind 406 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: of stakes that we are living in. And I said specifically, this, 407 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: the Macron and Lapin run off in France is going 408 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: to be foreshadow for the world. Will the global far 409 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: right succeed in reshaping the world or will democracy win? 410 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: These are the stakes for France, America and everyone. And 411 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: so when you see me screaming my fucking head off, 412 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: this is the type of shit that I am talking 413 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: about that while everyone is in a place of disrepair 414 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: following like the continuation of a global health pandemic, following 415 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, increased violence, right, increase white supremacy, global warming, inflation, 416 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: a war in Ukraine. Like the amount of shit that 417 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: is rolling downhill right on all of us is suffocating. 418 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: And so when you don't have your basic needs met 419 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: and you are just being put up against a rock 420 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: and a hard place, like I need to be making 421 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,959 Speaker 1: decisions about my medicine that I'm buying, and food on 422 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: the table and clothing for my children, and my mortgage 423 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,959 Speaker 1: or my rent. You think you're given a fuck about 424 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: what is happening outside of what you're dealing with in 425 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: your own household. No, but that's how fascism rises. Right 426 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: whenever you look, if you look back in history to 427 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: the spikes and fascism that we've had an authoritarianism around 428 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 1: the world. It has all come from economic devastation, right, 429 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: That's where the fuck we are. So this election, right 430 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: is going to be extraordinarily terrifying. And you know, somebody 431 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 1: said to me, well, Danielle, I don't know why you're 432 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: saying this, because you know we had Brexit and Brexit 433 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: was foreshadowing. Yes, yes, Brexit was foreshadowing. And guess what. 434 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: Most Americans have the fucking memory of a gnat. Right, 435 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: you barely know, You barely remember all of the hot 436 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: shit that Trump did over four years, because his four 437 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: years felt like forty Those people who are not in 438 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: politics day in and day out, regular Americans do not 439 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: remember how Boris Johnson got into office. And so what 440 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: I'm saying is, if you are not doing the job 441 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: of continually repeating the truth and deciding that you were 442 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: going to stop leading from the fucking back, then how 443 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: are you going to ignite people into a state of 444 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: rage that is going to put them into action. And 445 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,879 Speaker 1: I don't mean the state of rage that Trump did 446 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,320 Speaker 1: with their white grievance. I'm talking about the state of 447 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,720 Speaker 1: rage that you could lose everything that we've all taken 448 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: for granted because we were born into this democracy that 449 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: seemed with each generation to be getting better, that the 450 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: arc was bending a little bit more, and the Obama 451 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: administration was the pinnacle of that moment. We felt like 452 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: we fucking made it, but it was a blip on 453 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: the radar, and we didn't do the work while he 454 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: was in office to continue to build the pipeline to 455 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: progress and think that it's not a one and done. 456 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,799 Speaker 1: You know. It's like I said this the other day, 457 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: you know, because sometimes and I say this all the 458 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: time on the show, sometimes I ask myself why I 459 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: continue to do the work that I do, because it 460 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: absolutely drives me crazy and has made me at different 461 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: points in my life very unwell, like emotionally unwell and 462 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,960 Speaker 1: physically unwell because of the fucking stress. It's why I 463 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: talk these days about self care and wellness because up 464 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 1: until you know the pandemic, the beginning of the pandemic, 465 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: I used to work seven days a week, right, had 466 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: my regular job, had television, had writing, had a radio show, 467 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:06,839 Speaker 1: and literally worked seven days a week. And so when 468 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: you take that into consideration, the amount of work and 469 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:17,879 Speaker 1: effort that it takes to hold this country together, right 470 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 1: and recognize that Americans have so many things going on. 471 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: There is so much to fucking distract us. Right, and 472 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: by virtue of living throughout a pandemic, working from home 473 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 1: raising kids, like school shutting down, work shutting down. Now 474 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: we're having more spikes of COVID. To get folks to 475 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: realize that their literal life depends on the next midterm 476 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: election and the next presidential election is the only thing 477 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,120 Speaker 1: that I can think that matters. So when I see 478 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: missed opportunities, particularly on the lawn of the White House, 479 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, do they not see the sense 480 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: of urgency? Because I'm listening to former generals say we 481 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: haven't been this concerned since World War Two? When you're 482 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: listening to Zelenski say, how many deaths is the right 483 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: number for the world to do more than sanctions? Right, 484 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 1: Like how many more Bouchas and marapaulse do you need? 485 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: Because what we are learning as reporting is getting to 486 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: these smaller suburban areas outside of Kiev, these smaller townships, 487 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 1: the war crimes that are happening, the action of rape 488 00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: and the weaponization of rape executions. They sent a missile 489 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 1: and blew up a fucking train station, killing people in 490 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: the act of trying to get out of harm's way. 491 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: And we're still talking about, Oh, how is not taking 492 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,080 Speaker 1: Russian oil going to effect the European economy. It's going 493 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: to fucking affect it. Do you know what else is 494 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:34,120 Speaker 1: going to affect it? World War three? So at what 495 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:41,600 Speaker 1: point do you make a decision between capitalism and your 496 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: fucking integrity and morals? But this is where we are. 497 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 1: The last thing, the last story that I want to 498 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:56,840 Speaker 1: bring to your attention. Actually there is two more, the 499 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: January sixth panel. I just shake my head. I shake 500 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 1: my head because you know, I don't want to end 501 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 1: the show with just a string of explicitives. But according 502 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 1: to The New York Times, the January sixth Panel has 503 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: evidence for a criminal referral which we knew to the 504 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: Department of Justice on Donald Trump Junior, one of the 505 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: stupider suns, and it's a toss up because they're both 506 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: dumb as bricks Junior. As part of the committee's investigation, 507 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: not emails text messages have become available between him and 508 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows two days after the election on a series 509 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 1: of ways to keep Donald Trump in power and what 510 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 1: is incredible about this is that Junior says all of 511 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: the things that shouldn't be said in text message ever, 512 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,359 Speaker 1: because you should always be paying attention to the fact 513 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 1: that you know, particularly you learn from your mobster ass father. 514 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,879 Speaker 1: But this is what he said, one of the things 515 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 1: that he said to Mark Meadows in a text message 516 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 1: two days following his loss. So again, what does that 517 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,439 Speaker 1: tell you that they all knew that Trump lost, They 518 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: all knew that the election was free and fair. But 519 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,960 Speaker 1: what they were going to do regardless, because they are 520 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 1: not patriots. They are treasonous criminals that need to be 521 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:48,240 Speaker 1: prosecuted for their role in trying to overthrow the fucking government. 522 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 1: But right now the January sixth Commission is deciding whether 523 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 1: they think it's too political to make the referral because 524 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 1: they know that the Department of Justice is opened an 525 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,200 Speaker 1: investigation into and I'm saying, so, if you know that 526 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: it's already happening, but you've done more investigation and interviews 527 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 1: over the last fucking year, why with the last thing 528 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: that you can do, which is provide a letter of 529 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: referral to the Attorney fuck in General stating that the 530 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 1: former president of the United States committed criminal activity and 531 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 1: is part of the architecture to overthrow the fucking government. 532 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 1: Why you wouldn't make that move because you're concerned with 533 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 1: how it will look politically. I'll tell you how it's 534 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,399 Speaker 1: gonna look. It's gonna look like fascism if Democrats don't 535 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 1: develop a fucking spine. That's how it's going to look. 536 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,319 Speaker 1: Because what Don Junior said is what Republicans are biting for. 537 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:52,640 Speaker 1: He said, quote, it's very simple. We have multiple paths, 538 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 1: we control them all. That is the only thing that 539 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,320 Speaker 1: you need to take away from this New York Times 540 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,600 Speaker 1: article is that they knew that they had lost, but 541 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,440 Speaker 1: that they knew that for a short amount of time 542 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 1: before the January sixth certification, that they were going to 543 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 1: attempt to obstruct the will of the American people because 544 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:24,680 Speaker 1: a hand full of Trumpers controlled different states and the 545 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: vice President was going to seal the deal by deciding 546 00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,960 Speaker 1: not to certify the election. They are telling you what 547 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,879 Speaker 1: they were planning to do with the information that they 548 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: had that Donald Trump lost fair and square, but they 549 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: didn't give a fuck. So what do you think that 550 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,600 Speaker 1: they're going to do with a second bite at the apple? 551 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,800 Speaker 1: Because no one has taught them a lesson from the outset, 552 00:43:55,040 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: because no one who is responsible for how we got 553 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,879 Speaker 1: here is in jail or indicted. So you tell me why. 554 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,080 Speaker 1: The one six Commission would say, mm, I don't know. 555 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,360 Speaker 1: If it's gonna go too far. You have a fucking 556 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,680 Speaker 1: election and you ain't got ship to run on. You 557 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:21,640 Speaker 1: may want to try and run on this. They test 558 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:27,880 Speaker 1: my nerves. They test my fucking nerves because between the 559 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,319 Speaker 1: loss of abortion, the loss of voting rights, row back 560 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: on LGBTQ equality, no movement on climate change. I mean, 561 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:48,160 Speaker 1: my god, it is sometimes embarrassing to continue to call 562 00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 1: myself a democrat. But then I have to hold on. 563 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,520 Speaker 1: I got to hold onto the light and the love 564 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,320 Speaker 1: that I was filled with on Friday, watching and listening 565 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: to Judge Katangi Brown Jackson and believing that there is 566 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,480 Speaker 1: still some shred of hope left, because if we don't 567 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: hold on to that mustard seed, my god, the despair 568 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: will consume us. That is it for me today, dear friends, 569 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:22,520 Speaker 1: on this wonderful Monday. I hope that we have a 570 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,920 Speaker 1: good week, but something tells me, something tells me that 571 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,600 Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot. So make sure that 572 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: you ground yourself and meditation, prayer, exercise, hydration, all of 573 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:39,640 Speaker 1: the good things, folks, because it's a long road to Friday. 574 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,279 Speaker 1: Has always power to the people and to all the 575 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 1: people power. Get woke and stay woke as fuck.