America is No More

last week that is surely yeah, is it an eye roll? Absolutely? Is it something that we should really probably be paying attention to. Yeah, I think so. So we've talked about this on the show before, which is that Justice Alito, in front of his home had flown a flag that was an upside down American flag on his home in Virginia, and he said, well, that wasn't really me, it was my wife. You know, she handles apparently the decorating, you

know how nineteen fifties of him. And you know, this goes in line with other politicians that love to throw their wives under the bus or just like feign ignorance in their own homes, you know. Well, come to find out that the New York Times found another quote unquote provocative flag, as they've put in their article that quote, the Justice's beach house displayed an appeal to Heaven flag, a symbol carried on January sixth and associated with a

push for a more Christian minded government. I'll go you one step further, New York Times, because you never seem to go far enough, which is that, No, this isn't just about a quote unquote Christian minded government. This is about Christian nationalism. It is about white Christian nationalism right in this country that Justice Alito and his entire family, including his little lady of a wife who's in charge of the decorating, believe in and so reminded that justices

are supposed to just look at the law. They're supposed to be, you know, aligned with precedent, aligned with what the law and the Constitution states. But what we have seen with regard to these justices is that that couldn't be further from the fucking truth. They are all political, fucking HAPs And frankly, what Justice Alito is showing, and again, what's the recourse, what's the punishment? Is it just the finger wag. There is no punishment, friends, for a lifetime appointment.

You can't even call Justice Roberts before the Senate Judiciary Committee because guess what, he just won't show up. And for the New York Times to say it is a provocative flag, give me a fucking break. What do you think would happen if Katanji Brown Jackson or Sonya sotomayor right hung a Black Lives Matter flag at their homes? Now, I am not trying to equate white Christian nationalism with Black Lives Matter, But what I'm saying is, what do you think that the right would do if that were

to happen. What do you think would happen if Katanji Brown Jackson's husband had been on the phone with Biden's chief of staff trying to talk to them about the upcoming twenty twenty four election. What do you think that the right would do with that information? They'd be forced to resign. So when I see these stories that continue to just mount, I don't want us to become desensitized to the fact that we are supposed to be able

to hold our justices in esteem. But what Donald Trump and what the Republican Party has done to the Supreme Court over the last several years is bring it into the sewer. Is use and weaponize this Supreme Court to push through a white nationalist agenda. I haven't heard yet Biden's campaign talk about the importance of the courts or

expanding the courts. Oh, because that's too controversial. But apparently Justice Alito flying whatever flags he wants in front of his house that denote his political allegiance and his ideology. Apparently that's okay. So I want to read part of this article in the New York Times about Alito's flag, just so you have an idea of where our Supreme

Court is right now. Quote. Last summer, two years after an upside down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel Alito Junior, another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs. This time it was the quote appeal to Heaven flag, which, like the inverted US flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on January sixth, twenty

twenty one. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years, and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald Trump for a religious strand of the Stop the Steel campaign for a push to

remake American government in Christian terms. Three photographs obtained by The New York Times, along with accounts from a half dozen neighbors and passer buyers, show that the Appeal to Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long Beach Island in July and September of twenty twenty three. A Google street View image from late August also shows the flag. The photographs, each taken independently, are from four

different dates. It is not clear whether the flag was displayed continuously during those months or how long it flown was flown overall. Who gives a fuck? Who cares if it was flown throughout the year, if it was flown for five minutes. We now have a black and white understanding of what the flag means where it was carried previously, right, and it is in front of a Supreme Court justices home, not once, but fucking twice, not one home but two homes.

So are we all just supposed to be like, oh, well, you can fly whatever you want out of your home when you're supposed to be the arbiter of law and order in this country. And that is a symbol that was used on one of the darkest days in modern history, in this coy for our Capitol building that had never been breached, not in any war, except for on January sixth,

twenty twenty one. And you're telling me that two years after that most disgusting display of white supremacy, that a Supreme Court justice two years later is flying that flag and thinking nothing of it. And we're just supposed to what dismiss it? I tell you, folks, You know it

is wild. It is ridiculous that these people are even right in at like Justice Alito hasn't recused himself from Donald Trump's immunity case, right, Clarence Thomas hasn't recused himself from anything having to do with Donald Trump, knowing that both of their wives are clearly in bed with MAGA. Justice John Roberts is not saying, you know what, our poll numbers are in the shitter. This looks really bad. Y'all.

Two should sit this one out. We just continue to move along with business as usual while these people wreck havoc on our country and try and mold it into what they deem to be true. America is not a fucking Christian nation. America was founded by some religious zealots who didn't want to pay taxes and fled the rule of the king. America is indigenous land that was home to many and many a tribes that believed in community, that believed in alignment with nature and spirit and the universe.

People of all different faiths call America home. What makes America exceptional? If there is anything left that makes America exceptional, it's a fact that, you know what. When I go walking in one of my favorite parks in New York City, I hear a barrage of languages. I see people meditating, praying, and it is beautiful. I see drivers at times pull over with their prayermats so they can observe their islam faith right. I walk past Jewish delis that are closed

on the high holidays. I see people adorned in all different modes, expressive of their religious faith, and largely do so without harassment, without fear, because that's what it means to have freedom of religion in this country. But what these Republicans are doing aided and abedded by this grifting, cheating Supreme Court is to shape it into their vision where they put prayer back in school, but not your prayer or my prayer, but the prayer that they want you to do. Let me take you into a dark

place in my mind. Donald Trump is elected and within the first one hundred days, moss all across this country are closed. Synagogues are shuddered, All houses of faith that are not white or Christian are shuddered because Trump says so, and people say no, that could never happen, because blah

blah blah, stop with the that could never happen. If there is anything that we have learned over the last nine years of trump Ism is that any fucking thing is possible, That even the darkest corners of our mind where we're just like you know what, I don't even want to think it because if I think it, then I give it energy, and if I give it energy, I give it life. Those dark, dark things that we push out of our minds can happen and will happen.

The other day I posted a video on TikTok and I was responding to a comment that was made, and it was an honest comment and I think the person who had posted it. The comment said I hate that I have to vote Biden, but I will. And I responded to that comment and I said, I appreciate you right, because I know that people are angry. I am angry, I am disgusted, But I will tell you that I don't care if I have to wash down this hard pill that we are going to need to swallow together

on November fifth. But I'm going to tell you, folks that you don't have to be aligned with this man on everything. You don't have to like him, We don't have to want to have a beer with him. We don't have to want to put his face on a T shirt or a flag in our front yard. But what we need to do, what we need to reconcile with, is that this time around, maybe we do want to be like Republicans and be single issue voters, and that single issue be our freedom, be our rights, be our democracy.

If you care about women, right, if you care about women, or you are a woman, or you have a uterus, I suggest you take a look at what is happening in places like Louisiana and Virginia, places where those Republican governors are voting to block access to contraception, where Donald Trump himself came out and want to do double talk on contraception right signaling to his religious zealot base that that's next on the chopping block. We then doing a double talk and being like, oh no, no, I didn't

mean what I said. Donald Trump at this point means everything that he says, and he should take him at his word. And so when we look out at this country right now, this post ro v. Wade world, twenty states no longer have full access to abortion. In twelve plus of those states, abortion is banned outright, with no exceptions for rape or incest or even right the life

of the pregnant person. They don't give a fuck. The other day at the Supreme Court hearing, you listen to Justice's debate how much blood a patient would have to lose in order for a doctor to be able to administer abortion care, how many organs need to be failing. They don't see women and people with uteruses as whole, complete human beings, worthy of life and dignity and respect and autonomy. They see us as parts parts that they don't care if they fail, are wherever able to rebound.

I don't know if these motherfuckers think that pregnancy and childbirth looks like this stork visiting your house, knocking on the door and leaving and just a fresh, clean, healthy baby. That's not what childbirth is. That's not what pregnancy is.

And most people don't know that until they become pregnant that it is indeed a miracle if you choose and are able to give birth to a healthy child, because the amount of things that can and do go wrong is terrifying, the amount of things that can go wrong

in delivery terrifying. I had somebody say to me the other day that they were talking to a friend that is trying to get pregnant, And I probably mentioned this to you before, but it is sticking with me that they're worried about flying around the country for work and need to make sure that their flights are rooted through, routed through states that still allow abortion, because what if she miscarries and her layovers in Georgia or Louisiana, It

doesn't matter that she's not from there, it matters what hospital she would be denied care at. No person, no person should have to deal with that kind of stress and worry, you know, That's one of the stories that we used to tell as LGBTQ plus people with regard

to marriage equality. What if before we had marriage equality, you were traveling with your partner and they fell ill, and you were denied the ability to make their care decisions or even see them because you were gay, because you were trans. We had to make it visual the patchwork of protections that people had, and what folks need to think about, what they need to have on their person.

It's too much, folks. So when I say that there is so much, so very much that is at stake in this election, you don't need to check every issue and say, well, he's not Biden isn't one hundred percent with me on all of the issues that I care about. So I'm going to sit this one out, pick one of them, and I will remain steadfast with the fact that you cannot fight for democracy anywhere else in this

world if you lose it at home. Because if we lose democracy in this country, we lose our voice, we lose our power, and we won't be able to exercise it or wield it elsewhere. That's the truth, that's what we're facing. Donald Trump is very clear. Maga is very clear. It is laid out in Project twenty twenty five, in nine hundred plus pages on the Heritage Foundation dot org. What their plan is, what's your plan for November twenty twenty four. That's what we need to be thinking about

over the next several months. That is it for me today. Dear friends on wokf as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.