A Hopeful Place

you've made it. And if no one else has congratulated you on this week, let me be the first to do. So let's get right into it with the stories that I think are important for folks to know. So let's start out with the fact that Alabama is fucking busy these days. They're not busy improving their public education system. They're not busy improving healthcare. They're not busy doing any of the things for their constituents that matter right to

creating a good, healthy, happy, wholesome society. No, no, they are busy going back to their roots of racism and patriarchy. So what is up next? Okay, A couple of weeks ago, they got on their high horse and decided that embryos are people, that there is some type of embryo personhood. Meanwhile, one good meme that I saw was if you put a baby in the freezer, they would die. You put embryos in the freezer, you can defrost them. See one

is alive and the other one isn't. But let us not let science and facts get in the way of their bullshit, godfaring country that they're trying to recreate. But up next on Alabama as well as Kentucky's chopping list is diversity equity and inclusion. All of the programs, all of the staff people are now fired and they are getting rid of it. And this is not the first state, right we have watched this happen in Florida where everything unfolded.

Now Kentucky, now Alabama, and I'm certain that it will take hold in every red state because what they want you to go back to is white supremacy. So for me, this is what I want folks to start talking about when they're talking about the rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion, is that this is the new whites only sign that states are putting up. So just say what the fuck it? Is don't hide behind legal eese and make pretend that

you're trying to stop some divisiveness. The only divisiveness that has existed is the divide between white people, black people, and people of color in this country to try and subjugate them, to try and invisibilize them as well as their history, which is your history that you're too ashamed to fucking teach, so you ban it. The fact is is that this is the new whites only, and this is how I want people to start talking about it. They used to put up signs and over water fountains

and in restaurants and in banks and in movie theaters. Right, Well, they don't have to go ahead and put out up these individual signs. They just put up a sign on the whole state that said, hey black person, Hey brown person, we don't fucking want you. And what I want to say to the young people that are looking at universities right that are looking and getting athletic scholarships to the schools in these states, tell them to go fuck themselves,

right let they're all whites only. Shit. Relate to all of the money that they were bringing in through their sports teams, through different investments just refuse to go go to win HBCU. Do you know what I'm saying, Go where you were fucking welcome and wanted, not just for your talent and skills, and how it will better right those universities and those white coaches and what have you. Go to where you were always wanted. So that's my

first story. Second up is the fact that Donald Trump, y'all, as of this recording is broke, broke, broke, broke broke. He cannot pony up the four hundred and fifty four million dollars. And that is without the interest that Attorney General Tiss James has been after. Since Judge Engren has ruled in New York City's favor in the fraud case, right, Donald Trump has been going around and inflating the value and work of his buildings in order to secure other loans.

And the fact is is that that is fraudulent. That is fucking fraud. His lawyers walked into court a couple of weeks ago and tried to say, hey, we know that in order to appeal this, we need to come up with the entirety of what is owed the four hundred and fifty some million dollars. Close to six hundred million when you add in the interest that just keeps accruing as I speak. They wanted to go ahead and say, hey, let me just slide you over this one hundred million

dollar bond, and Judge and Goren said, miss me with it. No. So Donald Trump has until Monday to come up with all of the money in order to deal with his appeal. If he does not come up with this money, then Tish James, the Age is allowed to begin seizing Donald Trump's buildings. Now, while I would love this to look like what some slum landlords do in New York City where they throw people out of their homes, sadly that

will not be the case. We will not see Donald Trump's gold toilets on the side of streets in Manhattan, or his Tacki chandeliers or any of the other things. But she will go ahead and begin the long drawn out court process of taking over ownership of those buildings. And she has already begun to draw up that paperwork.

So while we laugh on one hand, folks, what I want to bring into clear view that I think is incredibly important is the fact that Donald Trump is now, in my humble opinion, one of the most dangerous, if not the most dangerous man in America. Why do I say that, Well, let me run this by you. There is no law that prohibits a foreign entity from loaning Donald Trump this six hundred million dollars that he needs.

So there are a lot of really dangerous billionaires around the world who could much in the same way that the Supreme Court has been bought right for less money. By the way, apparently Clarence Thomas is cheap. It just costs you know, some I have at school, a home, some first class flights, and you know, and a couple, you know, tens of thousands of dollars. But Supreme Court justices are cheaper than presidents, particularly when those former presidents

are in fact fucking crooked. Right, So imagine this, It's Sunday evening. You hear a yo, Donald Yodonald, I got you right, I got you covered. I'll give you this six hundred million dollars. You do me about six hundred million favors, though, let me see some documents, let me see some classified information. What is the United States next move going to be? Show me where there are vested

American interests? Right, that's what we're looking at folks. Again, the document's case is ongoing, even though Judge can and is doing her best to stall it, which she was put in there to do. But the fact is that there has never been a more dangerous person than a person that it has access to information, that has access to senators, right to Supreme Court judges, that is in

considerable fucking debt. So to me, this Donald Trump twenty twenty four, Donald Trump is more dangerous than twenty twenty insurrectionist Donald Trump. Right, He's more dangerous than escalator Donald Trump in twenty fifteen. So you know, while we joke and laugh because I do it so that I don't cry on a regular basis, the reality is that this threat that Donald Trump has right by virtue of his debt is America's problem. So here's the other scenario that

I want to lay out in terms of the fact. Also, it's been reported Donald Trump's pack, what is it, Trump's Pack to Save America or whatever the fuck it's called, y'all come in closer to this video, is spending two hundred and thirty thousand dollars a day, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars a day on his legal fees. That's what was reported for February, which was a short month. Just to paint the picture for you, the average American

salary is fifty nine thousand dollars a year. Donald Trump is spending four times if my math is right, which it probably isn't that a day. So the pack Trump Save America, it's really a pack to save Trump from prison. And I just think about all of the appeals, right, all of the pushback in time is just more money that these lawyers, these law firms are racking up. Right. The more delayed that they have, the more time that

they are spending on this case. So it is not a win win for Donald Trump, right, because again, who is ponying up this money? And this is the thing that I again want folks to remember. Without running for president right now, without the ability to develop multiple slush funds through these different packs, without the ability to take over the RNC, right all under the guys that he's running for president of the United States. Without that, folks, he loses the ability to have a slush fund for

his own legal defense. So take a walk with me for a moment. Let's walk some place hopeful, because you all know I've been struggling, and I know that we've all been struggling, and I'm fine with saying that, because it's the fucking truth. Walk with me someplace, hopeful. Picture it. November twenty twenty four. Mid November elections are done. Biden wins by a landslide. Trump now has no means to collect money to grift off of these dumb dums that

have been opening up their coffers for him. The packs are dried up, right, and guess what all of the cases now rev back up. He's lost his final ability at the last great heist that Donald Trump needed to do. And the best that he can do is pretty much go ahead and start a go fundme in order to weasel money out of people, or to try and get

those tacky as sneakers off of the clearance rack. That motherfucker will be up to his eyeballs with no one to grift off of because he won't be running for anything. Not only that, if he loses, the Republican Party goes up in smoke for at least the next four to six years because they have invested all of their energy and all their resources into a loser. Oh what a happy happy day. Let us collectively put our energy into manifesting that tree. Ruth y'all, Because that, dear friends, that happens.

Your girl is taken off for a month. I swear to God, I am out of here. You will not hear from me because I will be sleeping somewhere on a beach with cocktails lined up around me and the water, sounds of the water, and the sun on my skin. That is what I am manifesting come mid November. And why do I say mid November Because I know that we are not going to find out who won that election on election night. I know that there is going to be contesting. I know that there's going to be

a bunch of bullshit. So that's why I say mid November. But if that fantasy becomes reality, your girl is out okay, and you can catch me sometime in the new year. So that story number two, you know, I gotta say too. What I find really really frustrating, which is, you know, just so very much. But what I find really really frustrating is the lies that are just not unpacked by the media right like that just doesn't do their job. But the Republicans right put out a new budget plan

one hundred and seventy GOP lawmakers. This is, according to NBC News put out a new Republican study where they want to, like Joe Biden had said in the State of the Union, tinker with your retirement age and tinker with medicaid, right, because it would be too much to let's say, oh, I don't know, put in some good, good work, to tinker with the you know, tax system, to you get money, all of the money from the uber wealthy that pay less than their personal assistance in taxes,

because that wouldn't be the thing, right that they're going to do. They want to go for the people that have been working their whole lives, investing into a system, and the hopeset that system at the sunset of their lives is going to give them back what they have invested.

And Republicans are like, oh no, not only are you not deserving of that right, but we want to make it so that we actually change if you've done well and you've been able to sock away some money that like you're also we're going to rejigger how medicaid works, folks. It is just if it were up to Republicans, there would be no retirement age, there would be no ability to retire, and there would be no entitlements whatsoever. You

would just be taxed to death. You're a cogon machine for their greed and their capitalistic grift, and you're disposable. Like that's it. That's what the Republicans, that's who they are, that's what they believe in. That's what every single one of their policies states. So it is amazing to me that people still vote for them. And I mean like your average Republican. I don't mean your CEO and your shareholder. I mean your average you know, quote unquote middle American

that like votes for this shit. It's wild. This is why Jonathan comes on the show every week because I just I don't get the desire to die from whiteness. I don't get the desire to you know, just like it doesn't matter, right, Like, so long as the people that you hate are hated publicly and are living miserable lives, I guess that's enough. It's really uncanny. And let me end today with some good news, which I think is really important to try and dig up and also very

hard to find. But right now, Joe Biden has with his student loan debt relief has forgiven close to one hundred and I think it is. Let me not get to lieon, let me tell you all the real number. It looks like Joe Biden has once again canceled another six billion dollars worth of student loans for seventy eight thousand borrowers who work in public service, so teachers, nurses, firefighters all qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and to date, right, because this was a big point

on Joe Biden's campaign trail. Outside of the fucking Supreme Court's decisions, once again decide, you know, to make decisions on the benefit of the wealthy, Joe Biden has canceled upwards of one hundred and fifty billion dollars in student loans. That is extraordinary given what he has been up against. That is not something to take lightly. It's not something to just be like, oh well, that doesn't matter. It

absolutely fucking matters. He said that he would do it, and he continues to do it despite the Supreme Court ruling and find ways right to get people who are unable to buy homes to buy cars, to move out of their families' homes, to at least try to reach for what is left of the American dream. Joe Biden is making it happen. And I want folks to understand that, particularly young people who are coming out with six figures worth of debt right, and you're getting jobs that are

not going to help you pay that money back. And it's ridiculous, particularly those that aren't in service oriented fields that basically by virtue of you going in to be a teacher, a firefighter, a police officer or whatever, you're not making the money right that you've invested in your future and you're invested in your education. So I think that this is brilliant. The last thing that I will say of bit of good news, which is this that

y'all the Biden campaign's late US AD. So the question has been asked by the Trump campaign are you better off now than you were four years ago? I honestly don't know what time machine they are using, like where they think that anyone was better off four years ago. And just to say this, Hillary Clinton nailed it when she I think she tweeted out and said the only person that was better off four years ago was Donald Trump because he wasn't in nearly half a billion dollars

worth of debt. He didn't have four indictments, he didn't have ninety one charges against him, So the only one that was better off four years ago was Donald Trump. But Joe Biden campaign just put out an ad. I have retweeted it, y'all go and see it. I'm sure folks are going to post it. I posted it into my ig stories that says, oh, better off four years ago? Fade cuts two empty shelves with no toilet paper, food lines, right, gas lines, like people saying goodbye to love ones through

their windows, right because they were dying of COVID. Like four years ago, you had a president that told you to shoot up bleach. Right, That's what we had four years ago. So were we better off four years ago? Nah? Go, folks watch that commercial. It is so fucking brilliant. It is the best ad. All I say to the Biden campaign keep it up. Just use Donald Trump's own words, use his you know, staff's own words. Put Mike Pence up on a thing that says I cannot endorse Donald Trump.

Your own vice former vice president is not in your corner because you're trash. So ending on some good news folks, I hope that you have a brilliant, beautiful, RESTful weekend. Sent it around joy, Go do something, drop it in the comment section and tell me what you are up to this weekend and how you are continuing continuing to ground your self enjoy. That is it for me today, dear friends on Woke a f as always Power to the people and to all the people power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.