Black Voters Matter

Yunkin and Democrat Terry mccauliffe. Why is this race so critical, Well, because all elections these days are absolutely critical and spell for us the future of what our democracy and the country is going to look like. Or a better way to say that is to give us a signal as to where things are going to go in the twenty twenty two midterm elections. Now here's the thing that I

find really interesting about this Virginia race. One is that as the days go on, that the race gets tighter and tighter, and for us to be able to say comfortably that Terry mcculloff is going to win is not something that we can say right now. I mean, look, you know that I can't stand poles, pole watchers and reading the tea leaves because I don't think that after twenty sixteen we can affirmly say that, oh, yes, these numbers are correct. We just don't know, right, we don't.

Polls essentially determine whether or not how far ahead a candidate is or how far behind they are. But it's also about the questions that are asked, how those questions are asked, who those questions are asked, right, And so here's the problem with that. We know that the numbers are tightening, but among who and who is really being asked?

Right now? We know that already over a million votes have been cast in Virginia, which usually bodes very well for Democrats, why because we favor mail in voting, early voting, and all of the things that should in fact just be the norm across the country. But thank you so much to the three hundred and some odd voter suppression laws that have been rolled out and for the Supreme Court, you know, not giving a fuck about our democracy. But

I digress. What I'm finding most interesting about this race right now is what Glenn Yunkn is deciding that he's going to be paying attention to education is on the top of his docket, but not education, as in, here are the things that Republicans are going to offer to make our public school systems better, right, or what he's going to do to make education in Virginia top notch? Right in comparison to other states across the country. No education is number one because of Fox News. Danielle, what

is this connection that you're making. We'll let me walk you through it. Over the summer, we heard what term became part of our lexicon, critical race theory. This made up right title for essentially talking about and teaching history in a way that isn't just through the lens of white supremacy, isn't just through the lens of false white exceptionalism.

It is history that is taught and the truth about the founding of this nation that is about everyone, right, not just the conquerors, right, but those that were conquered. It is history taught through the lens of non white people. But here's the kicker. In Virginia, it's not even being taught. And in most places, critical race theory is something that

is taught in higher education. But you see the right wing glabbed globbed onto this as a part of their ongoing culture wars, right, because white grievance is so fucking strong. Nine points is the number that this particular issue has jumped to the top of everyone's minds in Virginia education.

But again, it's not education. It is about white grievances, right, And the fact that essentially what white people are using in Virginia as code for their racism is the fact that they don't want their grandchildren or their children to be taught to feel bad about themselves. But it's totally okay that we have designed an entire curriculum that is about making black and brown children feel like shit, and

so that should just be customary. And what do I mean by that, Well, here's what I mean is that if you think back to your own public school education, think back for a moment that outside of February, outside of Black History Month, who did you learn about, right, What black people were you taught about in your school? What did you learn about the founding of this country that the pilgrims came over and they were so friendly and nice and then poof, you know, the Native America

just started dying off. Did you learn about slavery and how it built the entire economy and infrastructure and capitalism not only of this country, but around the world. Did you learn about that? What people did you learn about that were significant as innovators as scientists in this country. Was it a slew of people that helped to move our country forward, that helped to create what we know

now as America? Or was it a small group of white people that get celebrated every single year, year after year, decade after decade to perpetuate the idea of white excellence.

So when we are talking about our education system and our education curriculum and what kids are learning, right, this was all brought on by the success and brilliance of the sixteen nineteen project that it gave us a greater picture and window into how America evolved and on whose back it evolved on and who story was erased from the history of this country. It's like, oh, there were

black people, we stole them. They arrived in the United States. Oh, they were fed three meals a day and worked really hard for fucking free. Right. Tortured, abused, beaten, raped, all of these things children ripped from them, literally ripped from their bodies, then forced to throw them on their back and continue working in the fields where they were raped. Right. So like when we think about the reality of this

fucking country. The sixteen nineteen project brought into our purview the truth, and do you know what Republicans do not like facts and truth. And so they decided that they were going to make critical race theory their next boogeyman. That it wasn't just going to be abortion, and it wasn't just going to be transgender children, or wasn't just going to be the bathroom issue and not to allow

transgender people into bathrooms. Know that they were going to find yet another boogeyman to use to get white people on their side, because what the right knows inherently is that white people are racist, Right. They don't want their children to learn about their past and their history. They want the status quo to be maintained. So if we scare them just enough, if we utilize Fox News as the scaremongering tool that it is, then we continue to

have these quote unquote white conservatives on our side. So what's really funny to me is that if you're watching the news reports right as we build up to this election today and probably just be very clear, we probably won't know right at the end of tomorrow who the next governor of Virginia is okay that let's just be really clear about that that we are now in a space where we will no longer find out on the

day of an election who actually fucking won. I say all that to say that the right is really good at one thing, which is creating a fear campaign, and so the idea that white people don't want their kids to feel bad, the idea that we need to continue to perpetuate the lie of white American exceptionalism, and the fact that none of this is actually being taught in Virginia schools at all. Glenn Yuncan has successfully taken over the narrative and allowed for the poll numbers in the

concern around education to rise nine points. And what is Terry mcculloff doing in response that? What are Democrats doing in response to that? Nothing? And so again without direct and total contrast right, without offering the contrary, without telling the truth, without taking these issue who's head on you

give Republicans all the fucking runway that they need. It is infuriating to me that this is where we continue to be That Republicans get to offer nothing, they get to provide no policy platform, they get to just essentially you know, use Fox News talking points and their poll numbers fucking rise, and so I ask you, it's like, what are Democrats doing? What are you paying attention to? Because it sure as fuck is not what the people

actually want. And then, to make matters even worse, if I hear one more person get on television to talk about how black voters are not motivated and so black voters are going to cost right the Virginia Democratic candidate the election. No, no, no, no, no, let's not even start with the fuck scapegoating bullshit. The fact of the matter is is that the only reason why Joe Biden is sitting in the goddamn White House is because of

Black voters. The only reason why most politicians are sitting any fucking place is because of black voters, and particularly black women that come out in large numbers all the time and get the fucking job done, knowing, knowing sadly that they're never going to have any of their fucking

needs met. Right, But we're just so accustomed to this as black people in America that we're the one that have to bear the burden when everything fucking goes left, but that nobody provides us with any of the attention with any of the policies that we actually need, and then when we decide that we may sit home and not vote, that all of a sudden, it's now our problem.

How about democrats, how about white politicians that you do something out of the ordinary, What about you actually deliver on the things that the black community and brown communities need so that they want to vote for you, right the same way that we are so fucking interested each and every single day of going into the white working class communities and Biden is in Scranton, or he's in Ohio, or he's in these places, but never going to densely

populated black rural areas or suburban areas or cities to talk to them about what you are going to do for them. I'm so fucking tired of using the same coded bullshit language that has been used for decades to deny black people right what they are fucking do. And so once again, if Flora, if Virginia, excuse me, if Virginia goes to junkin, then who do you think that they are going to blame their service? Fuck not going

to blame democrats for not having a clear message. They're not going to blame Joe Mansion for not eaving the president in a win for which can be campaigned on. No, no, no, no, no, it's either going to be blamed on black people or blamed on progressives, but never laying the blame where it fucking goes, right, which is understanding that what the right is doing is constantly, constantly preying on white resentment, white rage, white backlash. And why are they able to do that,

because it's ever fucking present. And what do Democrats do in response to that? No, they don't broaden out their base. They don't try and get people on their side. They try and play Kate to white people, right too, right, to the fucking disadvantage of everybody else. So where Virginia goes later today or early Wednesday, Lord only knows. The polls, however, don't look good and should be the writing on the

wall for Democrats. But as I'm coming on air to deliver this to you once again, guess what Joe Mansion delivered yet another blow to President Biden's fucking infrastructure agenda and again wanting to place the blame on progressives and on the Progressive Caucus that is being run by a

woman of color. And led by women of color to blame them and not the fucking old white guy who is so out of touch with what is going on in the country, but very much in touch with what is going on in his own pocket right in terms of getting all of these paybacks by big coal, right and also pharmaceuticals and anyone that is anti climate change

or anti family leave. Because right now, Joe Mansion decided that he was going to have a press conference to essentially say that he's not going to vote for reconciliation because he needs to know where the money is coming from, how this is going to affect the debt. Let me tell you something about America right now. If you don't understand the sense of urgency and the place of urgency

that we are in, then you're not paying attention. If you are more concerned with the debt and these fucking rules of the filibuster, then you are with the day to day lives of the American people. You are fucking out of touch. And what I'm tired of being told is that, oh, the President doesn't have this power. Oh, it's all up to the Senate. No, do you know

who these things are up to? Fucking Chuck Schumer, it is time that you start casting penalties right for Mansion and Cinema that the majority of America didn't have the opportunity to vote for. They voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, not fucking President Joe Mansion and Vice President

Kersen's fucking cinema. And much in the same way that Mitch McConnell has always been able to get his fucking team in line and have them shut the fuck up and vote in accordance because they understand power for power's sake, we still have motherfucker's wanting to get on television and do this soft euphemism and negotiation with our two right, with our two very own obstructionists. Where are the penalties. Where is the fear that Chuck Schumer is putting in?

Where is the threat to say, we're stripping you of your committee assignments like you are not a team player, right And if you want to go ahead and switch your party and be a Republican, then fucking do that. But you're not going to continue to hold up progress for over three hundred million Americans because you don't like right different parts of this bill, or you want to see a pay for Where was this fucking outrage when Donald Trump was raising our debt right when was adding

to it by trillions of fucking dollars? I'm you know it? Just and then when when will you offer up a path to be able to pay for this legislation to pay for the expansion of social safety nets? You have Kirsten Cinema that's like, oh, I don't want the billionaire tacks. No, no, no, no, no, Well why not, right, because the last time I checked,

there were no fucking billionaires in West Virginia. Right. I don't know how many billionaires exist in Arizona, but I will tell you this that if the rich in this country were to actually pay for their fair share, then we wouldn't have to be concerned with how much is

being added to the debt. Speaking of the fucking rich, let me tell you what is rich Elon Musk right making a statement to the UN that he would provide six billion dollars in order to fight world hunger if in fact they told him how they were going to be spending the money. This is some patriarchal, like fucking white suprema bullshit. The fact that you would have six billion dollars to spare right, that isn't going to hurt your pockets, and you dangle it like a fucking carrot.

But much in the same way that nonprofit organizations have to do a step and fetch it for fucking philanthropic organizations so that they can get their general operating funds. This is what Elon Musk is doing to the United Nations. And you want to tell me that there is nothing wrong with capitalism when one man, one man who is not a fucking elected world leader, can make demands of

the United Nations. When I tell you that we are living in black mirror, when I tell you that squid games is about to be fucking real, because you have these ultra rich right who are either bored and going into outer space, or maybe they will develop their own real world squid game where they get to watch the rest of us kill each other for their enjoyment. Because

that's the world that we have lived in. That is the world that are imbalanced fucking capitalistic structure has created where you have people that are so fucking wealthy, so fucking wealthy that they could end some of the world's problems in a blink of an eye. But choose not to, and if they choose too, they're going to be able to be in a position to be able to dictate how that money is spent. So we're we're what're do we live in a democracy? Is the world is kleptocracy? Like?

What the fuck is going on? And if you're not having a conversation or outraged about the utter imbalance in the world right now, then you're not paying attention. So I'm sitting here and unlike, So, on one hand, you have Joe Mansion, who is a man that is elected by I don't even know. West Virginia isn't even the size of Brooklyn. I've said that before, right, Like West Virginia, this state doesn't have nearly as many people, is not

as population dense as one borough in New York. But yet you have this man who also has a population of people where the demographics do not look like the changing demographics of America, where it is over ninety five percent white, being able to stop voting rights right, being able to stop any work on climate change, which by the way, adversely affects low income black and brown people because guests who has homes in low lying areas, right

that are oftentimes flooded or or in tornado zones. Guests who is living in conditions where there is diesel f and unclean and unsafe drinking water, low income and people of color. But you have this man with a demographic makeup of a state that looks nothing like the America that we live in now being able to flex without any fear of any retaliation. Why do you think that he continues on this destruction path because who's pushing back

against him? No one. He gets all the fame, all the headlines, all the flashing lights and cameras in front of him in the way that this fame Hohr wants, and he faces no consequences. But we know this in America that white men in power and are never going to face consequences for a fucking thing. Ever, that's just the reality of what it's like to live here. And every day I think to myself, Wow, you know, we

really are a shiitthole country when you look around. I think somebody had put up a slide infographic where it was measuring all of the countries in the world that have paid family leave and to see how many days people get in other countries, other developed nations that don't have a GDP of our size, right, and you are providing in some places almost two hundred days a paid leave and America has zero. But we have the audacity to go around the world and talk about how great

we are. Joe Biden being abroad right now talking about his plans for the world and how America is going to work in partnership, and I'm like, if I am a foreign leader, I'm saying, you can't even get your own fucking house in order. So what do you doing over here telling us what your plans are for the world. You can't even get an infrastructure bill passed, you can't even get voting rights passed. Who is America right now? That's the question that we really should be asking, who

are we? Because we are getting no work done, let alone Joe Biden being able to say to foreign leaders like America is back? Is it? Because it doesn't seem back to me? Right, It doesn't seem that with a little bit of time that we had with the Presidency, with the Senate, and with the House, that we have gotten anything done. We have spent the last ten eleven months just fighting amongst ourselves because you have two stunts, obstructionists right, who don't want to see progress, who barely

want to uphold the status quo. But then you want to turn around and blame the fact that we can't get things done on progressives because what because they are listening to their constituents that put them in office in the first place, who want to see action on climate change, who want to see paid family leave, who want to have broadband, who want to see stronger bridges and tunnels that are able right, that are able to withstand every

single season's thousand year storm. I tell you that all of this, to me, is not even about Republicans obstructionism. It's not even about their desire to win at their slow moving coup and just ushering fascism and authoritarianism. It's part of it. But what this really boils down to, and what the American people are thinking right now as they go to the polls in Virginia and in New Jersey and another jurisdiction around the country, is what have

Democrats done? What is the messaging here right? What are we selling? Why are we better? It is not just enough right to say that we're not the Republicans when you have nothing else to offer. The only thing that Democrats can run on right now is their botch vaccination rollout, where we are still stuck right in the high fifty percentile fifty seven fifty eight percentile of the amount of

people that have been vaccinated in this country. And again when you measure us against other industrialized, high wealth nations, we are last in terms of vaccinations. So again I ask you, how is it that we think that the rest of the world is looking at us and thinking that we are the leaders that are swooping in that

they've needed after four years of Donald Trump. If I am a for and leader and I'm looking around and I'm saying, America, have a fucking seat, get your own house in order before you want to come out the gate and start dictating to us about what it is that we need to do in order to preserve democracy when you don't even have free and fair elections in your country anymore. I just you know, every great empire

right falls. History has shown us that some last for hundreds and thousands of years, right, but they all eventually fall. We are living inside of America's decline. Everywhere you look, and you're measuring the United States against other countries right now and we are coming in dead last. So what does that say about us? How do you not stop, pivot and reflect on how you got here and figure

out where you're going. I listened to Joe Biden speaking and I'm like, again, you sound like a president for the twentieth century, not the twenty first century. After we've lived through and are continuing to live through, a global health pandemic, racial uprisings, white resentments, right voting rights that have been gutted, abortion bands that are rolling out all over the country, and the threat to our democracy has never been stopped because you have Merritt Garland sitting somewhere

in the Justice Department doing what exactly? Because if you are not holding people accountable for attempting to overthrow this government, then what the fuck are you doing. You can't call yourself an institutionalist. You can't say that you're protecting an institution above protecting our democracy. Everyone else seems to see this except for the people that are in power. And Democrats are sure as fuck going to stay home. And I'm not going to blame them because I don't know

what democrats are running on. What have you done that you can say to the American people that you deserve a sixty threshold in the Senate, that you deserve to have a larger margin in the House of Representatives. What are you saying? Nancy Pelosi always wants to talk about all of the bills that have passed through the House.

They mean nothing. It's like walking into a department store or fucking going bringing up online at your favorite online shopping place and using what monopoly money and saying, oh, well, here's the money. That's what she's doing with these bills. It's like, oh, look at all we've done. They mean nothing. If they're not going through the Senate, they mean nothing.

If the President is not signing them into law. It's you doing busy work and presenting that busy work to the American people and saying, see, we can get things done. But they don't see the effects. The effects are not trickling down to them because what you are doing is performing politics, not providing the people with the solutions that they need to better their own lives. This is the problem is that when you are on the right, you don't need to offer anything. There is no expectation of

offering something new. It is always about taking away what has been established. Think about that. Republicans don't offer anything new over in Virginia. Juncan isn't offering to have a overhaul to our education system. Know what he is doing is telling white people, Oh, we're not going to teach this black business over here, because it doesn't matter, because

that's not American history. Our American history is draped in the Confederacy and our ability to conquer and oppress right and then say yeay national anthem, yeay patriotism, and not understanding what the meaning of that word is. It is always about taking something away, taking away women's rights, denying LGBTQ people their full humanity, taking away right the ability to vote, right, and reinforcing your right to have a gun.

They don't offer anything, and so it's easy for them to run on all of the things that they're going to take away. And frankly, frankly, without having the House or the Senate or the presidency, Republicans seem to be

doing really fucking well right now across the country. They are doing really well with all of the pieces of state legislation that they're rolling out, and we're sitting around twiddling our thumbs, worrying about the federal level, and meanwhile they are applying all of the tactics that Trump put into play at the local and state level. That is what should be scaring the shit out of all of us. But for some reason Democrats are like, you know, we just need to play the long game. We'll get them

next time, folks. There is not going to be a next time following midterms, following twenty twenty four. There is no next time we lose it is it. It's a rap, that is not hyperbole, that is reality. Look at what

is happening. And I just wonder, I'm like, where the fuck is the Biden Harris administration's sense of urgency right Where is the forceful fucking language coming from Joe Biden saying yeah, Joe, Mansion, Kursten Cinema, have a fucking seat in the Oval office right there now, Because I'm going to ensure that you lose your next election. I am going to ensure that your money drives the fuck up. And as a matter of fact, we are going to run an aggressive and aggressive campaign against the two of

you unless you get the fucking line. Where's that Where's that heat? I see it? Nowhere? All I see is you know, tepid responses of We're going to get this done for the American people, really, because it doesn't show any signs of getting things done when you have Joe Mansion holding press conferences that essentially give the entire administration

the finger moving on folks. So another story caught my eye, which is that a gunmaker is selling pieces in AAR fifteen with Joe Biden's face by the trigger and using a term that is used in right wing circles, used in these white supremacy circles, and it's being championed by members of Congress. And the idea is whether or not this gunmaker and his use of you know, fuck Joe Biden phrases and having the trigger with his picture by it,

if that is breaking the law. And I'm saying to myself, man, once again, white people can really do whatever the fuck they want. They can threaten to kill the vice president of the United States. They can now make equipment and machinery to threaten to kill the president of the United States. And the rest of us are sitting around and going, oh, I wonder if that's illegal. I wonder if that's considered a threat. Oh, I guess it's free speech when it's

happening out of white people's mouth. But let me let a black manufacturer make anything with any kind of innuendo to threatening violence, and see what the fuck happens. It's just so apparent, how racist, how prejudice, how uneven our

justice is in this country. And the fact that this manufacturer is making this and it's not being abruptly stopped by the federal government, that it's not being seen by the FBI or the CIA as a threat to national security because it is threatening the president of the United States is beyond me. It's really beyond me. You know what isn't beyond me? Let me tell you this. So right now in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Kyle Rittenhouse case is

selecting jurors. Now. I've talked about Kyle Rittenhouse at NASEM because I think that this case, among many others that America is watching, is going to dictate what our future looks like. And it doesn't look bright. But you know that because you listen to wokaf so. Rittenhouse killed two people and wounded one at the age of seventeen when he decided to drive from a different state to Wisconsin to participate or, as he has said, to arm himself

within R fifteen to protect businesses. Who does that sound like that's what Donald Trump was telling people to do to get arm to protect businesses. He was unloading the Coastguard and all of these military groups and outfitting the police and the latest military gear in order to protect businesses. Not people right, but property, but white property in particular.

This is the same line of defense that is being used right now by Kyle Rittenhouse and his team, which is that, oh, we are going to say that he was acting in self defense. I don't see how it can be taken as self defense to go ahead and put yourself purposefully in harm's way in a state that you don't live in, arming yourself and then saying that that is self defense after you shoot and kill people

that you don't agree with politically. But this is where we are, and in fact I talked about this last week.

Circuit judge who is hearing this case, Bruce Schroeder, has decided that we are not allowed in this courtroom, in his courtroom to refer to the people, to the victims, to the people that were murdered and injured by Kyle Rittenhouse as victims but that instead they can be referred to as rioters and looters if the defense can prove that they were in the act of rioting and looting, which I don't know how you would be able to do that, because, mind you, once again, this is right

wing rhetoric that was being spread on Fox News and on Newsmax and on QAnon and all of these things that people that were protesting against unarmed black people being shot, right,

and Jacob Blake being paralyzed. He was the black man that was trying to break up a fight, was walking away from police officers when they unloaded seven rounds his fucking back, right, But those cops didn't lose their job, and protests broke out, and Kyle Rittenhouse decided to grab his AR fifteen, drive to a state that he doesn't live in and insert himself into a situation he did not belong in and then unload on those people. And you know what the cops did. The cops offered him water.

What do you need, son, Hope you are okay? Do you need any rest? As he's walking past police officers within AR fifteen slung over his fucking shoulder. But in America, that is okay. So long as you were male, so long as you were white. Because the cops are on their side, not on ours, Which is why you have the people in Minneapolis who are going to decide whether or not they want police in their cities anymore, right

following the murder of George Floyd. That is on the ballot today as well, is whether or not they should defund the police and put that money towards social services and different departments right to actually aid the people and work in partnership with them. Even the decision by this judge to refer to people that were murdered who were exercising their fucking right to protest, be referred to as looters and rioters when that is not who they are. I just I can imagine, I cannot imagine how the

family and the friends of these victims feel. Right. So, we always want to talk about the fact that justice is blind and it is anything fucking but it is racist, it is misogynistic, it is steeped in patriarchy, it is anything but neutral. And this judge's actions already show us where this case is headed. Kyle Rittenhouse will get off just like all of the people who decided to storm the Capitol Building with only a handful getting a couple

of months of sentences in federal prison. But the large majority of white folks deciding to rage against this made up machine, they get to go on with their lives. But the Jacob Blakes of the world, yeah, they either find themselves in a wheelchair because of police officers or in a casket like George Floyd and Brianna Taylor. It is really hard to continue to have faith in this country when you spend time just paying attention, it is really hard to be woke, to be conscious of all

of the injustice that is happening. And that's why I continue to say that being woke as fuck isn't just about being in a state of rage, as James Baldwin talked about all the time. It is not just about being in a state of rage, but it is finding balance in your life, finding ways right to create balance where you can both be at rage and at rest

and not just opervacillating between those two extremes. Being conscious to the fact that the leaves are changing if you're on the East Coast and you're in you know, fall right, to being conscious to the beauty, to the good you come across in your feed and not just focusing on the bad. Because I'm telling you, after a few hours a day each day of watching news, reading news, you want to give up, right, because it's a self fulfilling prophecy in a lot of ways, because all the news

does is highlight everything that is bad. It's not like we have daily segments each and every hour that are dedicated to even five minutes worth of good news. That doesn't sell. What sells is pain. That's what Facebook knows, right. They know that as long as people stay enraged, as long as people stay in their tribes, then they stay

online and they make more money. Capitalism and greed is going to be what kills us and what destroys our democracy because we have leaders like Mansion and Cinema that are bought and sold, right, bought and sold by big corporations. Because we've allowed so much money, so much bullshit to be a part of our politics, that our voices don't even make it up to the top. It's hard. I know, I find myself some days, and I've been finding myself friends.

I got to tell you quite emotional these days, right, And I'm not beating myself up about it because frankly, I think that tears are helpful, right. I said to a friend the other day, I said, you know what crying is like mini baptismals. Right, It's just a kind of you know, rebirth in a way, allow it to

to wash through you. But at the same time, I'm just like the I have to balance the amount of bad with a lot of good and even overdue the good, overdue acts of service and kindness and joy and looking actively searching for those things because the alternative is just

too much. The last thing that I want to touch on on today's will Gate app is this, which is on top of you know, cases that are being heard in states and at the federal level with regard to the insurrectionists, we also have the abortion ban that is

being heard, the Texas abortion ban. Oral arguments happened today and that ban was written in a very sneaky way where the power of deciding who gets charged with whatever it is that they're trying to charge people within Texas is that the states have let their hands go, right, have put their hands up and essentially deputized every member of Texas and every member of the United States to be able to bring charges against anyone that they like at any time, So in a de facto way, shutting

down all abortion clinics because these people who are providers do not have the bank roll to be able to be subject to ten thousand dollars bounties by each and every individual that chooses to do so, so they have

forced them to close down. That was the point. But what the Supreme Court and what some of even the conservative justice are saying, are how dangerous it is if this is allowed to stand, because you can then use that same bit of logic on anything, right, deputize people in this country to do a whole host of things on policies that you don't like, which is and putting the authority into the people's hands, not our voting of course,

and turning America back into the wild, wild West. But that is how they are making these incredibly precarious laws. So we're watching that case. Later on next month is going to be the Mississippi case with a fifteen week abortion ban. And I said over the weekend on Reverend Owl's show on MSNBC that effectively we are gutting Roe v. Wade. It will just be in name only, because once you allow a fifteen week ban to stand. Right now, we're

at twenty four weeks. If you allow that to decrease to fifteen, we know what is going to happen again. There are a number of reasons why people who are pregnant do not know that they are pregnant right at that time. And when you crunch in the time line with the effective you know, oh, you need to come back after a day when you go to the clinic, you need to come back because there's a waiting period

in some states. And then when you have to drive cross states, write or change states in order to go to these places, it's just more time. And that's what these anti choice, pro force birth people want to happen.

So those are the cases that we are going to be watching, along with the Written House case and others that we will be keeping our eyes on here on Woke af And now that we're in video, please do share your comments and thoughts under how you think that it's going, if you are enjoying it, and what else you would like to see. We love to hear from all of you as always, dear friends, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke. As fuck