WEBVTT - Family Reunion 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Wika f Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.840 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, um, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:25.080 I want to start off this Monday with my reflections 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:31.240 on attending the White House commemoration for our new America's 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.520 new and first black woman Justice of the Supreme Court, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.360 Katangi Brown Jackson. And if you all follow me on 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.360 social media, which if you don't, you should on Instagram, Twitter, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.080 D two cents, d E, t w O c E, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:54.760 NTFU and now on TikTok as Danielle Moody underscore. I 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.440 posted a lot of pictures, but I wanted to save 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.160 kind of my in depth reflection for all of you, 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.080 and I particularly you know, for the folks that asked 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.800 to say, you know, they want to know how how 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.600 it happened and you know how it felt. Um. I 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.800 have to say that for folks that have been listening 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.320 to woke fum you know over the years or have 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.120 been following me, have known that you know, during the 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.760 Obama years, I spent a lot of time at the 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.959 White House. I did not work for the Obama administration, 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.720 but by virtue of my role in lgbt Q politics, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.760 and in UM movement politics, I will say whether that 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:45.080 is specifically on black you know, Black Americans, UM, the 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.320 diaspora and people of color and social justice or you know, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.480 the intersections right of where marginalized people are. I spent 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.360 a lot of time at the White House, UH during 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.720 the Obama years because I believe wholeheartedly in democracy. I 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.960 believe wholeheartedly in our duty and responsibilities as citizens of 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.320 this country to do what we can in order to 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.720 preserve our democracy. It's something that I've never taken lightly. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.280 I fell in love with politics when I was in 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.600 high school. When I was in high school, History and 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.760 English were always, you know, the two subjects that I 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.840 excelled at the most and the ones that I loved. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.640 But politics I got turned on to in my AP 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.240 government in politics class. Because I could say this all 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.239 the time. I believe that my teacher was a communist, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.359 and I believe that she had a very globalized view 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.840 on politics, and you know, and on the people's ability 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:57.480 if they were informed, if they were educated to really participate, right, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.160 that you don't have to be just a deposit to 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:06.320 a deposit, right for whatever it is that the powers 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:11.520 that be want that in order for government and democracy, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.520 I should say, in order for democracy to thrive, and 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.920 then even in order for capitalism to exist, there has 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.880 to be an agreement, right, And there was an agreement made. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.919 It was called the Constitution, right, and it was in 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.840 agreement on how we were going to operate, how we 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.760 were going to create government for and by the people. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:39.000 And as society evolved, so too, right did our laws 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:44.320 and amendments. But what we didn't know, what we were 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.920 not privy to, was a crystal ball in realizing what 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.640 would happen if people stopped really paying attention, if people 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.000 got complacent, because after the election of their first black president, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.080 they believed that all was well, that we were quote 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.800 unquote post racial, and I you know, as and many 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.040 people that I know that exist in different ways in 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:15.440 the political sphere, we also got complacent, right, Like we 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.279 thought that we had done the work and that now 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.760 we were going to be reaping the benefits of what 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.080 it was going to be like to continue right, bending 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.840 this arc towards justice. That we thought, by virtue of 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.159 the election of Barack Obama that Americans would have opened 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.000 up their eyes to seeing what society can look like 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.080 if you put it in the hands of people who 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:44.120 are compassionate, who are smart, who are empathetic, who are strategic, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.280 and what that can look like. And you know, so 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.640 over the course of the Obama years, I spent a 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:55.400 lot of time, you know, working with and around the 0:04:55.440 --> 0:05:04.359 Obama administration. And when Hilary Clinton was defeated, I was 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:10.400 on air, right I was doing election night coverage in Canada, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.200 and that coverage that night went viral because I was 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.080 absolutely beside myself. It took everything in me not to 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.280 cry on national television. And you know, people always ask 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.640 me why do I get so angry, right, Like, why 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.520 do I have so much rage? Because I believe that 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:34.920 much in democracy. I believe that much in our body 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.800 politic and there is nothing more that can send me 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:44.400 into a fucking tailspin of anger and rage. Then watching 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:49.160 white mediocrity and white rage topple the progress that has 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.159 been made in this country, the progress that my ancestors, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.599 for your ancestors fort for. And I took up the 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.920 mantle in my own small way to be able to 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.120 contribute to the progress of this nation. And when you 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.440 see it being taken advantage of, when you see the 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.360 toxicity when you see the racism, when you see the 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:16.080 worst in us, having success after success after success, you 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:23.360 become disillusioned. And so that brings me to Friday. On 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.080 Thursday night, Like all of the fortunate people that were 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:33.400 able to attend the White House event commemorating Judge Katangi 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.000 Brown Jackson, I opened up my inbox and it was 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:43.520 just like, hey, you're invited to attend history, right, And 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.360 for me, you know, and a lot of people who 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.520 spent years living you know, almost two decades or pretty 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.200 much two decades living inside the Beltway, you know, a 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.719 lot of us moved right, like the Obamas were out 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.599 and we were like sis, you know, it was the 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.839 possibility of a Trump presidency, but never really truly deep down, 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.520 I wanted to believe that America was better, but I 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.920 was done and I wanted to move on to something else. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.160 But when you receive a message from the White House, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:27.880 you attend. And that's what happened on Thursday evening. And 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.120 so I would find myself Friday morning on a six 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.520 am train to Washington, d C. It was going to 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:40.080 be my first time going to the White House in 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.680 you know, what would be five years, and I'm getting 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:54.200 emotional now because the last day, my last day celebrating 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.240 at the White House with my friends and colleagues. You know, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:03.160 we cried because we didn't know what was coming. And 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:09.080 I think that those tiers weren't just like the end 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.160 of this Golden Error, but it was a fear of 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.920 what was coming, what could potentially come if we lost. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.200 And then to live through that, to see our White 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:26.080 House destroyed, the sanctity of it, the beauty of it, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:32.080 the prestige of it, To see the Capitol Building, a 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.800 place of such pride as a child of immigrants who 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.959 walked those halls and worked in those halls four years, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:46.640 for years, to watch it desecrated. This is why it 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.520 isn't just white privilege, it isn't just white supremacy. It 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.760 isn't all of these things. It's the demeaning of what 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.720 enslaved Africans built and where we were able to have 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:08.520 this amazing full circle moment with the Obamas, and so 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:17.440 to be back there after four horrific years under Donald Trump, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:23.480 two years of a fucking global health pandemic, and having 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:30.440 left the firms that I've worked for the institutions and 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:36.720 be an independent voice and not tied to any institution, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:45.480 and to be invited back to witness this history and 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.000 have front row, have a front row seat to history 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:58.240 was it was the honor of my career to this point. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:06.040 And I hadn't expected to be emotional because for some 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.000 people that were in attendance, it was there very first time. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.679 And so being with people who it was their very 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:18.080 first time attending a White House event, attending a major event, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:23.960 and then but then being on the South Lawn with 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.480 friends and colleagues who you haven't seen in five years, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.719 it felt like, you know, a family reunion, right, like 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:39.560 a family picnic um outside as we're all greeting and 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.720 hugging and just can't believe that we're we're back because 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.960 we never expected to be back. Um, having dropped everything, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.719 uh that you had ever planned to do on that Friday, Um, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.480 and you know, and and head back right and be 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.959 to be to quote Hamilton, to be in the room 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.240 where it happened, to be on the lawn where history 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:12.280 was being made, and so to listen to Judge Jackson, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:18.320 to listen to the Vice President, to listen to Biden, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.040 and you know, and folks know, like I made the 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.800 joke while I was there that I was surprised that 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.760 I was invited back because I don't give this administration 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.920 a pass. I don't give anybody a pass, frankly, like, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.280 because our democracy is too fucking important to hurt people 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.679 to be concerned about hurting motherfucker's feelings, right, Like, I'm 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.560 not concerned about people's feelings. I'm concerned about fascism, right, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:52.000 I'm not concerned about making friends. I'm concerned about authoritarianism 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:58.400 and how quickly, how quickly our democratic norms fell and 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.920 are falling, and faith in institution and agencies that have 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.040 been built up over two hundred and thirty some odd 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:13.280 years is terrifying. So to have this brief moment in 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.760 the midst of Mayhem, to be able to celebrate this 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:23.479 extraordinary human being and listen to her quote, my Angelou, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.880 it sent me over. I was in tears, and so 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.320 many people around, you know, because if you ever have 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.360 the privilege of being able to attend an event or 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.920 events at the White House, like the energy when you're 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.120 at a White House that you know isn't run by 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:47.560 a criminal enterprise, the energy is just so beautiful because 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.960 we've all spent our lives and our careers, working in 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.280 this space, trying to make the world better in our 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.160 small part and place, and then you get to go 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:06.480 and be at in the seats of power. And it's humbling. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.640 That's the only word that I can say. That it's 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:17.080 humbling um to experience and for me to remember like 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.720 this long forgotten time which feels like one hundred years ago. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.480 And I noticed some people like five years. You know, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.360 there are people that have never been to the White House. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.080 There are people that and I trust me, I get 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.000 how how it can land. But that that's my truth. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.520 That's you know, it's it's the space that I have 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.760 been in and worked in and put in time in 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.560 for you know, for a really long time. So it 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.640 was incredibly humbling and beautiful. It was a beautiful day. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.960 There was you know, white, huge puffy clouds in the 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.240 sky and the sun was beaming down and you know, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.000 the garden, the White House gardens, you know, look beautiful 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:03.760 and UM, it was just so joyous and it was 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.480 so joyous to see um, to be able to see 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:14.960 Reverend Jesse Jesse Jackson who is ailing um from Parkinson's 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:20.760 but was present. And this man has fought his entire life. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.320 You know and has gotten to see these moments that 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.360 they couldn't have even have dreamt of. You know, when 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:34.200 they're battling against police batons and hoses, um, and you 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.560 know in cradling, uh, you know Martin Luther King as 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.360 he died in their arms, the promise of the future 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.760 to see him. And you know Reverend Al Sharpton, who 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.040 over the years I have gotten to know just by 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:55.440 virtue of going on tv UM to see them there 0:14:55.480 --> 0:15:01.040 and to watch their faces as they are listening to 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.160 Judge Jackson soon to be Justice Jackson. Once Briar officially 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:15.640 resigns in June. It was extraordinary. It was a day 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:22.440 for black women, I think, everywhere in every industry to 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:27.240 know that we are overqualified most times for the things 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:32.720 that we are doing, and largely overlooked. And on Friday, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:46.560 the spotlight was on the extraordinary grace, brilliance, perseverance, fortitude 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:52.760 of this extraordinary black woman. And what I really appreciated 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:58.600 as well was Biden being honest about how disgusting and 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:05.440 despicable her confirmation hearing was and how it was an 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:11.240 insult not only to her to black people, but to 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:18.160 the Supreme Court, and that Republicans showed their whole ass right. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.080 They showed exactly who they are, what they stand for, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.320 as if anybody had any fucking doubts in their mind. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.720 But they're always those motherfuckers that want to consider themselves undecided. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.720 I just say that they're desperate for attention. But those 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.720 that love to believe that they're undecided or independent, you know, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.400 need constant reminders of the vitriol, of the racism, of 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:47.720 the hatred that Republicans embody. And because of that and 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:55.160 the handling that this beautiful soul showed the world during 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:00.400 her confirmation hearing, she went into her commemoration with the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:07.600 highest approval rating of any justice. It took two hundred 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:14.520 and thirty three years for a black woman to sit 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.800 on the Supreme Court, for a black woman in an 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.640 Asian Pacific islander to be vice President of the United States. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:33.159 Centuries so to be able to sit and watch and 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:38.520 applaud and scream and then drink copious amounts of champagne 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:45.720 with friends, to celebrate, to celebrate the day, to celebrate 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.720 this history, just for a moment, right to really be 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:56.439 present in joy and present in this space was a 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.440 beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. If you haven't already, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:06.000 you can check out some of the photos and videos 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.399 that I took on my Instagram at D two cents 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:15.440 and on Twitter, which I tweeted out over the weekend 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:20.800 as well. But it was truly truly day to remember 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:27.080 and one that I will cherish and remember for, you know, 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:34.000 for the rest of my life. And I am just 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:41.680 so incredibly grateful. And it was a reminder too as 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:46.199 well that there is still so much goddamn work to 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:51.000 be done, because I hope that we don't have to 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.800 wait another two hundred and thirty years for a second 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.480 black woman to be on the Supreme Court, or the 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:05.359 first Asian woman to be on the Supreme Court, or 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.600 for the third black man to be on the Supreme Court. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:15.080 That's only if you count Clarence Thomas. So with that said, folks, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.639 I am going to switch gears and get into the 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:25.520 news of the day. Over the weekend, multiple stories in 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.240 the New York Times sent my blood absolutely boiling. But 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.160 one of the first that I want to get into 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.879 is actually coming out of Texas, and it is a 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.160 despicable story that I'm certain many of you have heard, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:45.480 and if not, then let me enlighten you. Twenty six 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:52.080 years Twenty six year old Lizzelle Herrera was in custody 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:57.720 last week being held on five hundred thousand dollar bond 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:07.800 for performing a self induced abortion. Now we know that 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.520 this was going to happen. That the whole point of 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:20.920 what Texas has done, what Oklahoma has done, what Alabama 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:25.200 is doing, what Mississippi has done, is all to force 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:33.560 women back into back alley situations where they are being 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.480 forced to take their health into their own hands, their 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:43.520 lives into their own hands. But thankfully, there are you know, 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.639 abortion pills. There are abortion you know abortion pills that 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.680 we've talked about with our friend Danielle Campomore that there 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.520 are safe ways right. But the way that these laws 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.480 are working is that they are written in a way 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:06.080 that Atlante law in Texas that hospitals and people can report. 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.560 Hospitals are supposed to report. There's a reason why when 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.320 people are shot, right, they don't oftentimes go to the 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:19.720 hospital because it triggers the cops to come. Well, that's 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:24.760 what happens with criminals, but is not supposed to happen 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.240 with a woman or a person with a uterus trying 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.800 to access an abortion. So let me read you this 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:37.359 story out of Texas Public Radio Star and here's the thing. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.040 Lizzelle Herrera has since been released from custody. An abortion 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:47.920 rights organization paid her bond in order to have her released, 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:54.879 and since last week. She was released over the weekend 0:21:55.640 --> 0:22:02.000 because Star County District Attorney gotcha. Alan Ramirez said Sunday 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.800 he had filed emotion to dismiss a murder charge against 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:12.200 a woman for performing a self induced abortion. Ramirez said 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.840 that the case stemmed from a report made two police 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:21.119 by a local hospital in January. Ramirez said that the 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:25.680 Star County Sheriff's Department quote did their duty in investigating 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.879 the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital, 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:33.440 but this was not a criminal matter under Texas law. Quote. 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.040 In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that miss 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:41.240 Harrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegations 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:46.040 against her. Texas Public Radio goes on to write, this 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.879 is a dramatic turnaround from an indictment signed March thirtieth, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:54.399 twenty twenty two, stating that Herrera quote did then and 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.760 there intentionally and knowingly caused the death of an individual 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:06.919 by a self induced abortion. The specifics and the strength 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:11.360 of the case, as they write, were murky from the start. Quote. 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.800 The Texas Murder Statute does apply to the killing of 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:22.280 an unborn fetus, Ramirez said, but it specifically exempts cases 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:29.560 where the person who terminated the fetus is the pregnant woman. Folks, 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:36.199 We're in hell, okay, And the reality is this is 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.439 just one of many cases that we are going to 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.760 hear about that we are going to lose sleepover, that 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.840 we are going to raise our blood pressure over that 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:49.639 we are going to cause that's going to cause so 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:56.720 much dysfucking ease in our lives. This is what they wanted. 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:03.560 The outcome, however, in this case is going the way 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.720 that it should go. First of all, there should have 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.560 never been a fucking case to begin with, because we 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:15.080 did believe up until last year that a woman and 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.440 a person with a uterus had the right to make 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:22.480 the decisions about their own reproductive health and when and 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:27.359 where and if they wanted to have a fucking baby. 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:32.040 So what I want to go back to is the 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:35.480 thing that again, I feel like even when I was 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:40.640 at the White House on Friday, I said, Wow, so 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.720 this is a missed opportunity, because why are we celebrating 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:53.320 Justice Katangi Brown Jackson because of Georgia and the two 0:24:53.400 --> 0:25:00.840 senators that one war Knock and Orseth oh Seth. Excuse 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:07.160 me Warnock, who was currently trailing behind the black right 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:14.639 wing fucking Republican in Georgia. Without Stacy Abrams, Black Pack, 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:20.800 Black Vote Matters, and all of the grassroots organizations that 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:26.159 worked to get out the vote in Georgia, Joe Biden 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:31.639 wouldn't have had a Supreme Court justice to bring because 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.560 we wouldn't have had the numbers. And much in the 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:39.280 same way that Mitch McConnell had blocked the seating of 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:46.480 Merritt Garland, the confirmation hearing, even just blatant meetings, would 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:51.520 have been the same. So I said at the White 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:53.080 House to the folks next to me, I said, you 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:56.280 know what would be nice is if in the entire 0:25:56.440 --> 0:26:00.520 speech where everybody was thanking everybody, that the President of 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:02.520 the United States said, and I want to say a 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.520 special thank you to the people of Georgia for giving 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:10.399 us war Knock and OSAF so that we could have 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:17.240 this moment today. This is why voting matters right now. 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:22.240 Democrats are always tiptoeing around the fucking rules and the 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:24.280 law and what you can and can't use the White 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.440 House for. Meanwhile, if you recall, Donald Trump did an 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:32.119 entire campaign event from the White House, which is actually illegal, 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:35.720 but of course Democrats don't hold him to account. There's 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:37.639 a whole other fucking story, folks, that I'm going to 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:40.280 be getting into in just a little bit about where 0:26:40.280 --> 0:26:44.320 we are right with finding out more information about what 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:50.199 happened on January sixth, and what the House Commission is 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:56.119 or is not considering doing following the mountains of evidence 0:26:56.160 --> 0:27:03.959 that they have now on Donald Trump. But the reality 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:08.480 is that if you don't consistently remind the people why 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:12.520 the courts matter, why fucking voting matters, why it matters 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.960 that Democrats hold the seats of power that they refuse 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.800 to actually use to the fullest extent that they have. 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:22.399 If you don't do that, then how are you getting 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:25.439 people to actually get out and vote in a couple 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:29.040 of months for midterms? What case are you bringing to 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:32.080 the American people if you're not going to use every 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:35.040 opportunity that there's a fucking microphone in your face to 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.920 tell the goddamn truth about what we are up against right. 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:42.880 You have no problem poken at your chest for Ukraine, 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:48.520 poken at your chest against Putin right and his violence 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:52.280 and aggression. But are we not talking about how he's 0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:55.840 able to continue to do so because he's being uplifted 0:27:55.880 --> 0:28:01.160 in this country by the radical right. Over the weekend 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:08.080 I finally saw for read Zakira on CNN do an 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:16.199 entire cold open about the global far right and do 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:22.199 an entire like two three minutes on Tucker Carson, and 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.399 how there He's like, if you were to just watch 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:29.040 Fox News, you wouldn't even know there's a war in Ukraine. 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.080 You wouldn't even know that we're on the brink of 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:37.600 a fucking nuclear meltdown in catastrophe. You would think he 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:40.000 said that the biggest thing that we have going on 0:28:40.080 --> 0:28:43.680 for us here are battles at the school board and 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:49.960 critical race theory. So the point being obviously that those 0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:51.920 things are important because I talk about them on my 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:54.960 show all the time, because I know exactly what Republicans 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:59.719 are doing right while everyone is paying attention to the 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:04.400 role level, they are staking their claim at the local 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:08.920 and state levels, and they are putting their people in 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:14.800 place because they believe that the next election, whether it 0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:17.680 is mid terms, right, which will be our first test 0:29:17.760 --> 0:29:21.280 post twenty twenty, where we've put no guardrails in place 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:24.000 to hold a free and fair election, knowing all of 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:28.600 the fucking holes that we saw in twenty twenty, that 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:32.640 they will have all the people in place to not 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:36.200 certify the next election if it is Biden or another 0:29:36.280 --> 0:29:40.640 Democrat that wins, to say, oh, no, right, this is 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:43.480 a false flag operation. We're not moving forward with this, 0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:47.040 and we decline to certify. We decline to certify and 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:52.240 set up a whole new group of electors. The reality, however, 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.560 is that if we don't talk about it, then the 0:29:56.640 --> 0:30:02.760 people don't know. The other major story that happened over 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.720 the weekend, and again I tweeted and I said, this 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:09.720 shit is foreshadowing, and somebody wanted once again to come 0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:12.680 for me. And I'm just like, folks like you don't 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:16.080 know how I roll, So like, unless you're coming with 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:19.560 a battery of facts and reports and stats and all 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:22.720 of these things, don't think that you can come for me, okay, 0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:25.720 because I will light your entire shit up because I'm 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:28.560 not in the mood, like I said, if the president 0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:31.520 of the United States can get it. If you think 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:36.360 that you on Twitter can't, you are sadly mistaken. But 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:40.040 what happened is this over the weekend, it is now 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:45.720 determined that the French election is going to be between 0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:54.320 McCrone and la Penn. Now Lapen is pretty much Donald 0:30:54.400 --> 0:31:05.960 Trump in in women's clothing. She is a far right, 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:14.720 bigoted zealot who wants to get rid of immigrants in France, 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:20.520 who wants to like eliminate equity right, who pretty much 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:25.000 wants to model France after Hungary, which by the way, 0:31:25.360 --> 0:31:30.800 is the only European nation outside of Russia because Russia 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:35.520 is not a democracy whatsoever that they call a partial 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:40.400 democracy because they have elections, they just don't mean shit, right, 0:31:41.520 --> 0:31:45.400 And that's what Lapen wants. What is happening in the 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:48.120 United States is happening all around the world, and it's 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:53.040