Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

I mean, of course, like what could be a bigger story than the fact that we're headed towards World War three? I have no idea, But when I think about people in the way that they want to defend Joe mansion and they want to talk about the fact that no one else could win in Virginia, and I'm like, this motherfucker is trolling us like out into public in the streets.

You're not even sitting with your own team. You're actually sitting with the enemy who in that very chamber there were people that voted to decertify the man that was speaking in front of you, but you sat with them to show what exactly. I am so sick and tired, guys of this foe bipartisan bullshit. You know, I was thinking too about the fact that here we have Joe Biden wanted to tout the infrastructure bill, right, the only thing that his administration has been able to pass as

this bipartisan and refer to Republicans as their friends. And I'm just like, the more that I sit with this, the more that I just get enraged at the state of stupidity and fuckery that we are in. That Democrats who are supposed to be We're supposed to be our saving grace from the hell scape that was the Trump administration are literally just taken out guns and shooting themselves in the foot, are just finding any way any way

to lose. And this is the thing is that you know, you already know how this is going to play out in the next eight months. We know how Democrats are going to blame this, blame their loss in the midterm election once again on being too progressive, you know, giving the people the base too much of what it is that they want. Meanwhile, they gave us absolutely fucking nothing, right, like, absolutely not a goddamn thing, And it's going to be the same cycle of bullshit like, oh, we need to

move for they're to the center. Republicans get to move as far off right as fucking possible off of a goddamn cliff, and we keep chasing behind them. The party keeps chasing behind them, moving us further and further. So their extreme What used to be considered a moderate Republican is now just the new Fengal Democrat and their plan is fucking winning. And it says if no one, no one is paying attention. So when I saw the headline with Joe Mansion and I'm just like, just become a Republican.

Can you just change just change parties? I honestly I don't care. People say, oh my god, Danielle, then things will get so much worse. Uh huh, They're gonna get worse regardless, Right. I have said this so many times over that things are going to get bloodier in this country before they get better. We are headed into the fucking dark ages. Friends. Okay, so light a match, because that's the only light that you're going to be seeing. And so the idea here is just like, let's just

all tell the fucking truth. Joe Mansion is not a Democrat. Joe Mansion doesn't sit with Democrats, he doesn't fucking vote with Democrats. So what exactly are we holding onto? Because the fifty fifty split is just that, right like, there is no power here, whatever power, whatever procedural power that Democrats have, they're not using, right Chuck Schumer is not using it. He's not using the power that he has right now in the way that Mitch McConnell would if

there was a fifty fifty split. So, you know, I'm so tired of us pretending that these people are our friends when they're telling you, showing you out in fucking public, that they don't fuck with you. And it's obscene, obscene. Do you know what else is obscene? Fucking Merrick Garland sloth ass, That's what's obscene. This fucking slow walk in

backwards motherfucker? Who has yet, who has yet with his Department of Justice to get us any type of justice with regard to the insurrection and the organizers of the insurrection. I don't care. I don't care anymore about the little people, right the little foot soldiers that went in and shit inside of the Capital. Bill, I don't give a fuck.

I care about the people that brought them there. So now we have right the one six Commission doing literally all of the heavy lifting, over five hundred interviews, right, millions of documents lining up the fact and saying so in a California court that there was criminal activity, that the former president of the United States committed crimes, he

defrauded the American people. You would think that after this bombshell news drop last week, that Merritt Garland's Justice Department would be announcing the seizure of American oligarchy, from the Murdocks to the Cookes, to the Trumps, to the Eastman's, to the mcconnells, to whomever they believe in suspect was in part of funding the fucking insurrection. But no, do you know what a task force that the Department of Justice decides to announce, Oh, the task force to go

after the Russian oligarchs. They moved like this ten days into war. Ten days into war, and the Department of Justice created an entire task force to go after Russian oligarchs. We are a year, right, a year in three fucking months following the insurrection. Where the fuck is the Department of Justice's task force? Where the fuck was the press conference that he gave with his tepid bullshit that would tell us here's what it is that we're doing so

that we can have some transparency and fucking accountability. But no, the only smoke that America has right, the only tough talk that they do is about other nations securing other countries democracies right now. Folks will say to me, you know, Danielle, well, you know, there's really there's a lot of important things going on. You know, we're talking about a potential nuclear crisis.

If you don't think that the upending of America's democracy isn't just as dangerous as the potential fucking nuclear attacks that we are facing. If you do not think right, just imagine what would be happening right now if Donald Trump was president. Do you think that we would be working with NATO. No, we fucking would not. We would be working with Putin Right, America would have formed a

new access of evil. This is what we are talking about when we say that the state of our democracy, the fate of the free world is resting on what it is that the Department of Justice is choosing not to do. They want to talk about, oh, securing institutions and agencies and all of this bullshit, and at the same time going and putting full weight money and resources into getting Russian oligarchs and doing nothing about the Trump

family that literally literally we know our frauds. Everything they touch has been shut down, folks, Right, Their university shut down because it was a fucking money grammed scheme, just like their entire time in the White House. But it's as if Merrick Garland and everybody just wants us to forget about it. Let's turn the page, Let's turn the page.

It is mind boggling where we are mind boggling to me because you have the only people that are doing work right now are people without the actual teeth to

bring criminal charges. So we have a couple of cases, right, we know that Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan DA ain't doing dick right because we had the two prosecutors that quit two weeks ago, right who By the way, when we talk with our friend Glenn Kushner in a minute, Glenn will tell us that Alvin Bragg, when Foyer requests came in, Freedom of Information Act came in to say they reporters want to see the fucking resignation letters of the two prosecutors that quit. Well, guess what he's saying.

Oh no, there is pertinent and important information in there specific to the investigation, so it can't be released. How much you want to bet that the fucker's just really worried about how their resignation letters will make him look. Right,

and I keep saying, follow the money. Why did Alvin Bragg, right, who is backed by Bloomberg and others, why did he decide after his predecessor called for a special grand jury to sit for a longer period of time, Because that's how much evidence there is to indict Donald Trump, that then he would get in and decide that, oh no, we're not going to do this. Who gave to his campaign? Check his fucking bank accounts. I'm just tired, folks, I'm

exhausted by this bullshit. I'm exhausted by these people that have power and don't do anything. So we have Tish James, right, we still got Tish James. But Tish James is dealing with a civil suit. That's not jail time, right, that's shutting down Trump organization. That's maybe millions of dollars in fines and shuttering their business. But guess what, They will just pop up under a new shingle with a different name. We need fucking prosecution for crimes, crimes against the people

of this country. Not only have we talked about it so many times with Glenn about the fact that he believes that there is a criminal negligent case in terms of COVID. Right, Donald Trump knew how dangerous COVID was, he knew how transmissible it was in December of twenty nineteen, and he did nothing except lie to the American people and tell us that it was a hoax, tell the world that it was a democratic hoax. Now we're at almost a million people dead. No one is being held

responsible for that. And my question is why you know, And I said this last week on Woke Wednesday, I said, you know, the problem here is money in politics. That's the problem is that everybody is being paid off, right, everyone is being paid off. And we are hoping what that these people are going to investigate themselves. We're hoping that magically they're just going to do the right thing

because of what their morals. Oh, it's just you know, folks, there is so much cowardice that I am seeing right now from our leaders from these elected officials, and when we lose, when we lose in November, it isn't going to be Republicans faults. It isn't because we have nothing to show. We have nothing to show. I have no idea what those people were standing up and clapping for. With the state of the Union. I'll say it again, the state of our Union is basura. It is trash trash.

But everybody's walking around like everything is a okay, like our impending doom as we're watching war unfold, right that, folks, what is happening there is going to happen here, except it's not going to be a foreign invasion and we're doing nothing to stop it, not one good goddamn thing. So in the coming weeks, in the coming months, is

Merritt Garland gonna wake the fuck up? Right? Is Joe Biden gonna start to actually realize that these people that he keeps calling his friends are not that if given the opportunity, they would build the guillotine and hang his ass out front, that as soon as Republicans get power back, that they're going to begin impeachment proceedings and just base it on bullshit. And then everybody who's gonna once again look around all fucking shocked, like, oh my god, this

came out of nowhere. I just I don't understand how it happened. Negligence is how it happened, folks. Coming up

next is my conversation Weekly conversation. We're so grateful for his time with Glen Kershner, who is going to walk us through where we are with the one six Commission where he believes that the Department of Justice is going to end up and whether or not we're gonna see testimony right from Kimberly Gilfoyle, who is the coked up, fucking fiancee of the other the other coked up one Trump Junior, and see whether or not we're gonna get anything other than I plead the fifth over a hundred

and fifty times like every other Trump spawn is done. That's coming up next, folks. I have been waiting for this conversation with our friend MSNBC legal analyst and host of Justice Matters Glenn Kirshner to walk us through the one six Commission's conclusion that they believe that Donald Trump and company, including Eastman, may have committed actual crimes and in saying so, in saying that Eastman may have committed crimes, meaning that he is no longer able to use his

privilege right of confidentiality between him and Donald Trump. Glenn, make us make this make sense? Is this? Should we be energized by this? Should we get excited? Or should I not go head out too far on the limb with this latest reporting from the Commission in the New

York Times, this is a decidedly good development. But even more important than this development in isolation, as I'm with Joy last night doing a pretty extended one on one for which I was grateful, and I told her, I said, you know, this has actually brought something into full focus for me. Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake, but here's what we can now say. We have three coequal branches of government. Only one has the power to prosecute people. But let's look at what the other two

have said and done regarding Donald Trump's crimes. How Select Committee one is conducting this unbelievably deep, broad, far reaching investigation. I don't care call it what you will. It's a criminal investigation. And what that investigation has produced after more than five hundred and fifty witnesses and countless documents is a court filing and I have it here John Eastman versus Benny Thompson and Danielle This court filing was signed by more than a dozen lawyers, some of whom I

know well and worked with. These are deadly serious people. There is not a Roodie or a Sydney Powell anywhere near the signature page of this mega pleading in federal court. In this pleading, it says how Select Committee has developed evidence that Donald Trump committed fraud against the United States, against the people of the United States, and obstructed the

congressional proceeding designed to give Joe Biden his win. But the House Select Committee, Congress, the legislative branch, can't prosecute anybody, but they're acting as prosecutors. Let's shift over to the other coequal branch of government, the judiciary. Judges have been screaming from the rooftops in the cases where the foot soldiers,

the people who breached the capital are being prosecuted. They said, listen, Department of Justice, we understand that you're prosecuting the people who actually invaded the capital and committed crimes, and we appreciate that, but they are but pawns in Donald Trump's game, and then recently, Federal Court Judge A meet Meta said that Donald Trump's conduct on January six is quote the

essence closed, quote of a conspiracy. But the judiciary can't prosecute anybody, Danielle, I'm not going to say two branches of government can't be wrong, because they probably can. But they're not wrong. They are yelling and screaming and documenting and filing in court serious legal pleadings saying Donald Trump

committed crimes against the United States. And from the Department of Justice, the only of the three branches of government that has the power to prosecute people, we hear nothing crickets. All of this in combination, Danielle tells me the Department of Justice cannot decline to prosecute Donald Trump. They can't. They can't. They will prosecute him when they will do it, How they will do it, Will they do it in

time to save our democracy? Those are open questions. But I will bet everything in my bank account much that they will. You went above a dollar glen one dollar betting limit that time they will prosecute him. The other two branches of government are saying, we've got the goods the federal government has the goods DJ move out. And Merrick Garland stepped to the mic the other day yesterday, I think, or the day before, in a rare you know, showing of a sign of life, and said, we are

going to fight like Keck to protect Ukrainian democracy. I sweitt, I don't forge, I don't forgrudge him. This is not a criticism. I want us involved in the fight on behalf of the Ukrainian people fight, broadly speaking, one way or another. I want to help our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. But come on, Sport, how about you? You fight just as hard for American democracy. So it's coming, you know. I know it's coming. I know it's coming because of what the other two who equal branches of

government have said and done and found. It's coming. I just don't know if it's going to be soon enough. Glenn walk us through the court filing and why this quote? Like why did they file? Why why was this file filed in court? Like what what? What is it? What does that actually mean? Um? And and is and is this normal? Is this normal proceeding for a commission? Because I want the listeners to really understand, like why this step was taken. Sure, So John Eastman is a treasonoust

lawyer who authored a memo. It was a blueprint how to corruptly overturn the elections results. That wasn't the express title, but that was the substance, right, the memo, And so naturally, Oh and by the way, let me add he went on TV and said, and I can almost quote him verbatim, anybody who thought my memo should have been taken seriously is crazy. That's his word. So what does that tell us?

He knows just how guilty he is. That demonstrates his consciousness of guilt walking away from his own legal memo. He's going to get God, He's going to be Yeah, yeah, I believe so. Not surprisingly, the House Select Committee subpoened him because they wanted to hear all about you know how he came to write this treasonous memo and help

his friend Donald Trump try to corruptly retain power. He and they subpoened documents from him, emails and text messages and all sorts of communications that would assist the House Select Committee in its investigation. And he sued. He said, nope, I'm filing suit to stop you from getting all that stuff. You can't have my emails or my phone records or anything. And so that was actually helpful because it gave the House Select Committee the opportunity to file a response to

his suit. And the response said, guess what, you can't invoke attorney client privilege to keep to keep from giving us these things we have subpoena because there's a little thing called the crime fraud exception. We have evidence that you and Donald Trump were involved in committing crimes and fraud together. So you don't get to hold up the shield of attorney client privilege and say you can't have the incriminating evidence that I have in my possession that

you have now subpoena. So that's just the crime fraud exception is just one of the reasons the How Select Committee puts in this pleading as to why John Eastman's

claims fail. So that's procedurally how we got where we are, okay, And so Eastman's lawyer, right, according to the article in the New York Times, Eastman's lawyer is coming out and saying, well, this is obviously their favorite refrain, a witch hime, and that the Commission is saying that there is there's potential criminal or fraud here so that they can get him out of the attorney client privilege and that so now is the burden of proof put back on the commission

to then prove that there is actual criminal activities so that they get his documents. Where do we go from here? So now this will be litigated, and I think technically in this civil proceeding, the burden of proof will be on the person resisting the subpoena got it, and he'll have to prove. But it's all going to be part and parcel of an evidentiary hearing. I assume if the judge orders an evidentiary hearing, judges can do two things.

They can decide the issue on the papers, which means they can just look at the two pleadings and the attachments to the two pleadings. They usually will attach affidavits and other information. And if the judge says, you know what, I've reviewed it all and the decision in this case is absolutely clear. And if and if they do that, I predict they will rule in favor of the House

Select Committee, not in favor of John Eastman. Or they could say, you know what, there's a contested issue of fact that I need to resolve with an evidentiary hearing before I can make my ruling, and then he'll set a hearing in the case. So that's kind of procedurally how this is going to play out. But listen, John Eastman, as a set out on page one of this pleading, went into the House Select Committee and he pleaded his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination one hundred and forty

six times. So he's not starting from a place of strength when he's trying to say, oh, there's no crime fraud here, no crime fraud, well Sport, you just invoked the fifth one forty six times, which means you're truthful. Testimony would tend to incriminate you. So listen, John Eastman

will lose. It's just a question of how quickly you know, here's my thing too, and you know you you mentioned it a little bit before or and I do not hide my anger and rage at Merrick Garland and this Department of Justice when they decided to come out full force against the Russian oligarchs. Right, we're going to seize yachts. We're going to do this, We're gonna do that. I tweeted Glenn, and I said, so what about the American

oligarchs that funded the insurrection. There were chartered buses that were leaving from multiple states, right Like, there were hotels that were paid for. There were I mean, there were things like where is where is the logic here that we would put this kind of smoke and energy at Russian oligarchs and defending democracy in Ukraine and that kind of energy. I have been saying since the beginning, follow the goddamn money. Where is the where the insurrection was funded?

Why haven't we been following money? Like I just I don't I don't understand, like how much longer the Department of Justice can twiddle their fingers And what I'm starting like, and again I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but what I'm starting to wonder is who else is entwined in this? Why they're slow walking? Yeah? Right? Like does this make sense at this point that the Commission has done more

heavy lifting than our Department of Justice. It's a great point because we have two things working in combination that are killing our view of the legitimacy of our institutions. It is the inaction, as you point out, but it's coupled with a lack of transparency. Those two things in combination are corrosive to the public's confidence in our institutions, because if there's inaction, you're not moving out. When we have all seen the crimes Donald Trump committed in the

harsh light of day, that's bad enough. But if there's no transparency regarding that inaction. If they could step to the mic and convincingly say, listen, friends, this is why things have seemed to be moving so slowly ABCD, and they gave us transparency, I think it would reduce the temperature, and it would reduce our anxiety because then they would be at least having enough respect for us to explain what the heck is going on. That is inexplicable, that

is unjust, and that is killing our democracy. But it's inaction plus a lack of transparency that kills public confidence in our institutions. Same thing, in a smaller sense happening in the New York District Attorney's office. I just wrote a piece for MSNBC Daily on this that will go up this weekend. And you have Alvin Bragg who is apparently slow walking or disinclined to indict Donald Trump. So

you have the two top prosecutors resigning. These are two serious people who have been involved in this investigation for years, and by all accounts, were moving toward indicting Donald Trump. They abruptly resign, They issue letters of resignation, and then Alvin Bragg refuses after a foyer or the version in the New York State law of a Freedom of Information Act request. After reporters make a foyer request, he says, no, no, no, no no. If I release these letters of resignation, it

could divulge investigative details. And so I asked myself, Okay, did these two prosecutors in their resignation letters put all kinds of intimate investigative detail about the Trump? No? What did they do? They probably put a home came out critical of Alvin Bright, and now he's refusing to release them. What does that give us? In action plus a lack of transparency, and that's killing confidence in our institutions of government.

You know what, if I let me tell you something, If I were those two prosecutors who resign, I would send it. I would send it to the media. I would they have they have? I mean what what what? What? What? What? What? What could they possibly do? Right? They can't fire you. You already quit? Right? Could they sue you? Sue you for what? Right? What would be what would be the grounds of a lawsuit? If I were them, I would absolutely publish the publish the letters. I would give it

to whatever outlet. I would post it on medium, you know, and say, here's the resignation letter. I don't know why he didn't want to share it? Well, And then I would say, and by the way, do you see any investigative detail in the letter? Like Alvin Bragg said, was his basis for not releasing it? And what have you just done? You've proved that the new DA for New York is a liar if that is the way it plays out. So yet transparency, transparency is what we need,

and transparency is what we lack. And it's just getting worse. What is it, Glenn about Donald Trump that when we are always on the precipice of an indictment, that it goes up in the air. This has been happening for decades. What is it like does he have a dossier on every single person? Like I just I don't understand the cowardice here, and it has it has to come back

to something that he has on these people. It's got to be some combination of fear, timidity, aversion to criticism, or losing a k It's got to be corruption in part. It's got to be compromise in part. I mean, think about how when the New York District Attorney's office, the career prosecutors wanted to indict Ivanka and Don Junior, and they had enough evidence, they claimed, and Sivance overruled his own prosecutors and then took a big fat campaign contribution

from Don and then Ivanka's lawyer. Come on, now, if that doesn't smell like corruption, I don't know what does. So. I don't think it's one thing. I think it's it's a perience of things. Yeah. I think at its core, there is a fear in timidity that that prevents prosecutors from being the first one to step out to indict a former president of the United States. Somebody's got to step up, somebody's got to be brave, somebody's got to get over that fear and timidity and fight for the

America people. I just don't I don't know who that is. Because I also want to say to you that the state of the Union that we all watched. I found sorely disappointing that in this chamber that a year plus before you had those very members that were in there hiding under their desks, barricading doors, and the President of the United States mentioned nothing about the insurrection, mentioned nothing whatsoever.

And I said to my I'm like, this isn't just a missed opportunity, this is like gross negligence at this point of all of our leaders, the Department of Justice and the President of the United States. I'm like, what is going on here? The only people that are doing any type of heavy lifting here have no teeth or

authority to take it any further than research. So I'm like, I am losing faith that even with the steps that we're taking this week in California, with this, you know, with this court, I just I'm like, Merritt Garland is going to do what with it? He has eight months, we have eight months until midterm elections. He hasn't done anything at all, and and the only time that he opens up his mouth is to talk about the Ukraine.

Again important, but like, we can't look over there and say their democracy is falling and not pay attention to what's happening at home. And I understand the President of the United States is a salesman. That's what that's Politicians are salesmen and saleswomen. So he had to go out and try to put the best possible face on it. But let's be real. The state of the Union is precarious because of the insurrection, and that is the truth.

It's a truth that a president probably feels he can't speak to the American people, which is what upsets us because we know the true state of affairs, and we know the state of our union is precarious because Donald Trump and his Republican allies and enablers and criminal associates are trying every day to kill our democracy, are trying every day to nullify our votes, are trying every day to pass legislation that claus back, particularly from women, their

constitutional privacy rights. That's the state of our union. And I'm glad we're helping Ukraine, and I want us to help Ukraine. But this wasn't the state of the Ukrainian Union address. Come on, this was the state of our address, and the state of our Union is precarious. Glenn, Quickly, before I let you go, the last headline around the Commission was also around subpoena in Kimberly Gillifoile, who is the fiance of Don Trump Junior. What do we think

about this subpoena? Is she gonna show and what do we think she knows? And my joke was, I'm certain this woman is going to get a quickie Vegas wedding. But then I was told that it doesn't preclude a quickie wedding. Wouldn't preclude what happened before. It just happened.

Is what it'll cover what happens after. So just as John Eastman, who we were just talking about, went into the House Select Committee and pled the Fifth one hundred and forty six times, just as Roger Stone pled the Fifth countless times, just like Eric Trump pled the Fifth more than five hundred times in the Tiss James deposition. Just like the rest of them, will please the Fifth and the dish James case, Guilfoyle will go in and

plead the Fifth. I have no doubt about that, because you know, she'll make a lot of noise and garner some media attention, but she's not going to testify because if she did, she would incriminate herself and she would incriminate Trump and others. And Ovonka hasn't testified yet, right, but they made her way in front of the committee. Yet they say she's cooperating. So when they say that, you know, if that's accurate. Maybe it is. Maybe they're

saying it for pr purposes. Maybe they're saying it to try to drive wedges because they know if they tell people she's cooperating, other people might be like, oh no, if Ivanka's telling them x Y and Z, I better get in there and tell them x Y and Z as well. So there are tactical reasons to say she's cooperating, frankly, whether or not she is. But you know, she will probably also invoked the fifth when and if she ever appears.

But I have to tell you based on this filing in court where Congress, a bipartisan committee let's not forget two Republicans and ten or so Democrats, eight or eight or ten Democrats, that is a bipartisan committee put in writing more than a dozen lawyers that there's enough evidence based on what they have learned, that Donald Trump committed offenses against the United States, defrauded the people of the United States, and criminally obstructed the congressional count of the

electoral votes. Those are crimes that have to be addressed. And I'm telling you they will be addressed when and whether or not they're addressed they're addressed in time are open questions, but they have to be addressed. I mean we shall see. I mean we'll continue to follow in and we'll continue to be in conversation until we have the day that we say, oh, guess who's been indicted. Finally after decades of grift and crime and fraud and all of these things, that it finally comes to pass.

But I am not holding my breath because I don't want to pass out. As always, Glenn, thank you so much for making the time to join woke a f We appreciate you and we'll keep fighting alongside you. We'll see you next week, then yell and now, dear friends, for your woke moment of wellness. It is Monday, and Monday sometimes feels like a drag And I say, I am very very big on rituals. I'm very big on rituals that will make me feel good. All we need to do these days, folks, is focus on what is

making us feel good. We still have to work, even though you know, people want to pretend there's not a p pandemic. We want to put out of our minds that World War three is breaking out. We want to put out of our minds that black people just get killed in this country and no one, no one has any accountability around it. So create rituals for yourself. How you start your day is how you are going to feel all week long. How you start your Monday is going to be how you can carry that energy through

your week. My rituals begin like this. I wake up, I open my curtains, I choose a meditation to start my day. Am I looking to feel, you know, abundant? Am I trying to manifest? Do I need a visualization? Am I feeling anxious? I check in with myself. I do not turn on the news right, I do not turn on the news until the afternoon. I read right,

and I'm in social media. I make my coffee, I make my concoction right, which is apple side of vinegar, which I believe just works wonders on your digestion with the mother apple side of vinegar, A couple of shots of that a day. Rituals they allow me to feel like when I am out of control, when the world is out of control, that I have control over how I feel, how I approach my day, my work, my friends,

my family. We need to be more conscious, more grounded on how we're using our energy, how we are storing our energy, and how we are releasing it out into the world. So I say to you on this good Monday, to really think about some rituals that you can add into your daily routine that are centered around your joy, your happiness and well being. That is it for me today here friends, as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.