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fill in for him. So the opportunity to get to sit down once a month to kind of hash out where the Democratic where the Democratic Party is going as we make the long, long, long fucking March two what midterm twenty twenty two. So in today's conversation we unpack what happened in Virginia as well as why the mainstream media thinks that it's okay to continually use black voters as a scapegoat when we all recognize who the culprit is constantly in our political landscape and guess who it is?

White women, the people that they never want to talk about but instead of want to do fucking docu series of empathy on for us to really understand how Karen and Jill and jan are feeling as opposed to what it is that they're doing to fuck our country over so that they can continue with their proximity to patriarchy and whiteness. The reality, folks, is that there is no one to blame for what happened in Virginia and what will potentially be foreshadowing for what could happen in midterms

other than Democrats. Here's the thing, and I will say this until I am blue in the goddamn face. Democrats don't have a long game. They do not see strategy outside of two and four year elections. They're not even creating strategic plans for down ballot candidates. Right. So, when we are looking at this CONTI made up bullshit controversy. The next the right's new red scare and their new boogeyman right of critical race theory, which by the way, is only taught at the graduate level and is not

taught in K through twelve elementary and high schools. But nonetheless, let's not let logic enter into the chat. The fact is that until Democrats recognize that white people right, are no longer the base of their party. That cow tolling to the white working class is not exactly how you're going to advance and instead, excuse me, instead creating policies

right and working on policies that everybody else wants. And those are the policies that guess what the Progressive Caucus, which is the largest caucus right now in Congress, is pushing for. We're pushing for an expansion of healthcare, not just barely holding on to what it is that we have. We're pushing for an expansion of voting rights, not just barely holding on to what we were able to secure in the nineteen sixties. We want an expansion of abortion care,

not just barely holding onto Roe v. Wade. And I find that with the Democrats, the reality is that all they ever do is just hold on. Nothing is about expansion. And as a matter of fact, that son of a bitch Joe Mansion this week once again says some hot trash with regard to well, I respect the President of the United States, but the United States is not a

progressive country. It's not a center it's left country. Well, fuck you, Joe Mansion, because actually, if you were to pay attention to the numbers outside of your downtrod in West Virginia where a majority of the people are living in fucking poverty, right while you're living high on the hog on your seven hundred thousand dollars yacht, that maybe you would understand that majority of people want to be able to put food on their table, want to be able to get their medicine, and do all of those

things at the same goddamn time, and not pay play three card monte with their lives. Right. That that isn't a leftist sensibility. It is an American value that no one should ever be working forty hours a goddamn week and not be able to have the bare minimum met meeting, food, shelter, clothing. Right. One of the things that I think we forget because once again in America it seems that our memory is that of a fucking gnat, is that during twenty tw twenty,

the lines at food banks, folks were miles long. Places that we're giving out food for free, churches, food pantries, right, different community organizations were running out of food right an hour, two hours after they were opening. What does that show you when we look at the gas prices that are right now through the roof in every state across this country.

I was in California last week, and I will tell you this first of all, every time that I go to California, I'm always like, I don't know how fucking people live here because one, yes, the weather is gorgeous. You know, they don't have any seasons, and it never rains, right, which, frankly I like rain. Maybe that's the scorpio in me, but like I like it. I think it's refreshing. But nonetheless, the traffic, the traffic in LA is like nothing I've ever seen. And I'm from I lived in Washington, DC.

I lived in the DMV where they I thought that they invented traffic because they can't drive in any type of fucking weather. Right, So if the gas prices in LA are at over five dollars a gallon, which I cannot believe, and then you were driving right and sitting in traffic up to two hours to go roughly you know, twenty miles, do you know how much gas your car is requiring and how much money you are spending every single week. So just to think about that and the

fact that people are barely making making ends meet. I don't understand how we are still having conversations about progressivism versus moderism, versus moderation, like we are in crisis in this country, and being moderate is basically about, you know, being complacent, shutting your eyes to the reality that is in front of you, which to me, is what Joe

Mansion is doing. He doesn't care. He's a two bit ho that is bought and sold by either coal or big Pharma, right, like those are the ones that are riding his tickets. So he could give a fuck clearly about the people of West Virginia. And you will hear in my conversation with Mark one of the things that he offers up that would help to I guess, cut Joe's knees off, right, cut him off at the knees, so that he is not able to use the people

of West Virginia as his bargaining chip. If you just include them in legislation and then heavily campaign that you're going to get everything that you need and Joe Mansion still doesn't come to the table, then he's showing his whole ass, right, Then he's showing his whole entire ass. And we know where he is. So the other thing, unfortunately that I wasn't able to get to in my conversation with Mark, and so I want to switch gears

and talk to you all about now. There are multitude of cases that we are paying attention to and have been talking about on woke a f. We know that oral arguments started in the Texas Ban case that we talked about earlier in the week, and the feeling, the sentiment at least from my legal colleagues is that the portion, the portion of the Texas Ban which is about the bounty right, is about essentially deputizing everyone in Texas and everyone in the United States for that matter, to be

able to bring up charges right and collect up to ten thousand dollars or past go like we're all living in black Merri monopoly. Is that what the justices at least have signaled thus far, Gorsitch as being one of them and one of the conservatives and one of Trumpers, is that if you're allowed to create this kind of bounty with abortion, then what is to stop you from being able to do this with any other issue? Right?

And then we are creating this chaotic, wild wild West in our adjudication, right and so that in and of itself, the fact that Gorsitch even mentioned this signals to me that even the most staunch advocate that our anti abortion are looking at the Texas law, which was written in such a malicious way that that will be part and

parceled and thrown out, God willing. The other thing, though, that we are that we are watching, and what will come up next month is the Mississippi band, which I believe that they will most likely uphold, which is the teen week abortion ban, which would bring again Roe v. Wade, making it more and more toothless. Right now, you're not allowed to seek an abortion after twenty four weeks. The

Mississippi ban is looking at fifteen weeks. I believe that they are going to uphold the Mississippi ban, and then that is going to be the law of the land. And then what white evangelical Christians will see is that they can continue to chip away, chip away, because they have friends on the Court that will then decide that eventually Roe v. Wade will just be null and void. It'll still exist, It'll just get to a point where it's just like, doesn't even matter that we have this.

If women and people with uteruses are being forced to have to make these decisions before they even have as menstrual cycle. So there's that the other two cases right now that are and there are a couple of other cases one that I will say another insurrectionist was sentenced to prison, which is great, but again I believe that

these people should have the books thrown at them. I saw on Twitter that somebody I believe it's Michael Harriet, one of the senior writers at the Root dot com and he's been on wok F tweeted that there are fifty people right now across the country that are serving life sentences for marijuana, while white people are making billions of dollars. If you can provide a life sentence for marijuana, you can provide a life sentence for trying to overthrow

the government. And so those are the feelings that I have with regard to how our criminal justice system is completely unbalanced and purposefully. So. The other case that is starting is the Written House, the Kyle Rittenhouse case, where we have learned that Kyle Rittenhouse will most likely take the stand. One of the people who survived his brazen shootout spoke about and we saw a video of different vantage points of Kyle Rittenhouse going on the hunt for

trouble and on the hunt for people. And I hope that those videos and the words of the victim that did survive, and the SI will use the word victim, Judge Schrober, you can go fuck yourself. Is that it resonates that we do not want to live in a society. And frankly, this is what the prosecution should ask the jury. What kind of world do you want to live in?

Do you want to live in a society when anyone anywhere can sling an AAR fifteen over their shoulder and decide that they're going to go take the law into their own hands and just shoot people up and then

are able to walk. Because if Kyle Rittenhouse is not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and does not receive a guilty verdict and the maximum sentencing, then what you are setting up is that very scenario, Well, we will see angry, grieved white males grab guns and go out and solve their own problems or do what

they've always wanted to do, which is hunt people of color. Right, which brings me to the other case that we are going to have eyes on on Woke a f which is the case that involved the murder of Ahmad Aubrey.

The judge has already said that there is discrimination in terms of how the jury was selected in that case, with there being only one black juror that is going to be sitting in hearing this case of a group of white men that decided that they, once again, we're going to go on the hunt for a black person and then murder him in cold blood and think that that was going to be acceptable and without public outcry, once again, we would have never heard of a mod Aubrey, right,

because the buddies on the police force were friends with the murderers, right, and without the outrage from the public, would have gotten away with it as they do across these small white towns every fucking where. Right. So we will see how this case unfolds with a jury of eleven white people and one black person and see whether

or not a Mard Aubrey's family will receive justice. So coming up next, friends, is my conversation with my friend, colleague and activists Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain. Let me know what you think about this conversation and frankly We're looking for a name for our crossover episode. So if you have an idea of how we can match together Make It Plain and Woke as Fuck, do

drop it in the comments section, Folks. I am so excited to do a special that we have decided to do a crossover episode of Mark Thompson's Make It Plain and Woke as Fuck. So Mark and I have decided that as a countdown to the midterm elections, we are going to be gathering monthly and raging together about whether or not Democrats are going to be able to pull out a win and whether or not black people will continue to be blamed by their dysfunction. Mark, I am

so happy to be back in studio with you. Um this week we got a take you say, crossover, What do you mean exactly? Crossover of our two shows. Yeah, okay, here you want to make sure. So this week we had a sample of what the midterm elections could potentially look like. We did not get election results, as we will no longer ever get the day of an election.

We got results that in New Jersey the Democrat was able to screech by and for the first time in four decades New Jersey, folks, decided to re elect a Democrat, but in Virginia. Virginia has been the story of the week, whereas Terry mcculloff, who was trying to go for another stab at being governor, was defeated by newcomer businessman and Trump light or, as some have said, the delta variant of Trump, Glenn Yuncan, was able to snatch the governorship

and essentially roll Virginia back into the nineteen fifties. Currently, black voters, once again by mainstream media and white pundents, are being blamed for Terry mcculloff's lackluster campaign. What are your thoughts on what happened in Virginia. Well, first of all, it is fun to be with you, Daniel, looking forward to this. I think that first of all, Democrats, we've been fortunate in Virginia past few elections cycles because Virginia usually,

like traditional midterms, goes back and forth. And the fact that it's stayed blue since Obama's first election, I mean that was a blessing that should not have been taken for granted. I think there were several issues in Virginia, first of all, that being one of those issues being Terry mcculiffe he was not the ideal candidate. He is a political operative, he always has been. He is not a charismatic, hope inspiring, social justice changing type politician. He's

not going to inspire anybody of the polls. In fact, when he won the first time, it's pretty much what he was seeing as Also, people talk about culture wars, but let's talk about the culture of Virginia. You can only serve one term as governor. You can't succeed yourself, and so in four years, most Virginia governors are not that memorable. There's only so much you can do it for you. So it's not like somebody who has come to Virginia be the governor and is all of a

sudden Lyndon Johnson. And I mean, who can name the greatest Virginia governor? No one. The only one that most people can name historically is L. Douglas Wilder, because he was the first African American one to make a decision for the Democratic Party to make a decision to resurrect a one term governor when you really can't point of anything he did. The nature of Virginia is to get

a new person every four years. The Democrats should have followed that culture and gotten someone new for this four years. This is never has only happened one other time in history where a previous governor comes back later on to win again. That was sometime ago. Nobody remembers what he did, so that was a mistake, and let's be honest about it. Why did that happen? And I think this may not only be for telling for the midterms, but for the

presidential election. Vice president's lieutenant governors are usually groomed or given a runway to be a successor. That would have been justin Fairfax now, not to litigate the charges against him. In this era of me too, there were charges brought up against Tim on the eve of Ralph Northam's presume presumptive resignation because of black face. And let's just be honest. We can support women, but we also have to state

objective facts. Those allegations came up at that moment, and at that moment only didn't come up a week before or a week later, when Ralph Northam was pressured to resign, those allegations came up. So we just put that out there,

that being the case that nullified Ralph Northam's resignation. It nullified Justin Fairfax being able to assume the governorship, and just even with those allegations being there and never really being resolved or litigated, it probably nullified Justin Fairfax's hopes of ever being governor. That's just a factum. So where there was there no one else. I don't believe that there were other black women who ran, and I'm not sure about the numbers. I'm looked at them. I think

there were two black women and just Fairfax. And what do we do? We split the vote. It's like we did, and you didn't bring up Boston. Now the progressive A woman of color who won in Boston is progressive. She's good. But there were four black people on the ballot. All of their votes combined in Boston were greater than her votes, the votes for her. So that's what we do. We split up. And people should have been more intelligent about

that in Virginia. But there were even black establishment Virginia politicians like um LeVar Stoney. I think he's the mayor of Richmond who had a an acquaintance with Justin Fairfax's accuser, and conspicuusly she comes forward. He's at this pushing for Terry McCullough, But what are you doing? I mean, even as a young black man, why wouldn't you push for someone else that could have won this? And again, it's not a personal attack on Terry. If somebody said marku

Shrman for governor of Virginia, I shouldn't. It's not personal. That don't mean I'm a bad person or people should like me. That's just not what is appropriate at this time. I don't live in Virginia, I don't have Somebody who was indigenous to Virginia politics should have run for office in that state, and that's where it was. So that's the first mistake in terms of blaming black voters. Of course it's going to happen. But I'm gonna be real with y'all, and this is where folk might get a

little uncomfortable. But the real culprit in this as always as white women. I mean, that's white women are responsible for Trump. In twenty sixteen, ye white women were almost responsible for Roy and Moore in Alabama. White women, Um so, I'm so. And our friend Ellie Mistol even tweeted, you mean, do you mean to say the day after their oral arguments to get rid of Row which is suppose see this, this is something that's scary. Row could actually save Democrats

in the mid terms. And Row goes down, you would think more women of all colors would come out in droves. But what did Virginia women do. Oh no, no no, no, we don't care about that because we're more worried about critical race theory. Be more specific than that. Not just critical race theory, Danielle, but a black woman author. Come on, Come on, so what what is what is going on?

And you know it's it's it's just like twenty sixteen white women elected Trump and then all of them were out with us at the Women's March on a day after innauguration? Is everybody back Poland how do you do that? How do you vote for him and then show up at the Women's march? That means you know something is wrong, something in therapy is not everybody's in therapy. Well, something may work in therapy. Mark my words, voted for Junkin. He's gonna do something crazy. It's gonna offend those women.

Oh we shouldn't done it, But why did you do it in first place? Because I have said this over and over again, is that white women get their power from their proximity to white men, and that has that has been the case since slavery and beyond right is that so long as they is a white patriarchal figure in their life, that is where they will assume their power from. And you know, it's funny because was jahat Ali who I have to who I have to pull up because his peace in the Daily Beast that I

read a part of it. I read a part of it yesterday on woke af because I said, you know, here's the thing. Everybody consistently, consistently wants to call out black voters, wants to come for us and say, well, we're the reason why you're not going to get someone elected. Meanwhile, we're the reason. We're the ones that are always showing up for you. We're the reason why Biden is president

right now. And so what troubles me about white women in general is the fact that you know, he says in in wash his Peace, he says something like, you know, white women are never going to vote in favor of you. He's like he's he's like, here's the thing, and this is what and this is what this is what he wrote that I have to that I want. I'm trying

to pull up. We will see if I can. But he basically said, if you wouldn't get your economic stability, you get your housing stability, you get all of those things from your proximity to white males. Why would you then decide to disrupt that? How does that work for you? Right? And so the reality is is that they do live in this very unbalanced and instable place because at one time they want to say, oh, well I am woman,

hear me, roar. But then when you have an opportunity to step out on your own, they always always prove where their allegiance lies. And I saw when in twenty sixteen, I think I was the most shock that I had ever been because I said, one of your own is on the ballot. This woman, this white woman, is going to break the glass ceiling that you all in the first wave of feminis some second wave feminism have been talking about four fucking decades. And so here she is

and they turned on her. Yeah, and with a quickness for a man that literally had said that he could grab a woman anywhere he wants because he's a star and he can do that. And they said, that's just the locker room talk. Yeah, yeah, Um the eggs of pose Virginia twenty twenty fifty percent white women fifty percent by forty nine percent Trump, which still too close. Um. The other night, white women fifty seven percent from young forty three percent for mcculloff. So it's a combination. It

is there is in Wajahat is correct. Their proximity to whiteness plus the weakness of Terry McAuliffe. Terry mccauliffe is a He's an operator. Uh And I'm not even trying to say that in the pejorative since he's popular all of his all the Democratic Party elite and not so elite. Everybody knows Terry's friendly. I oh, hey, it was up, you know. But that's not a reason for him to

run for governor Virginia. And this should have been thought out more strategically by the party to the extent that there is any party, and unfortunately we're in some situations where there is no real party, no real organization, nor real thought going on. People make political mistakes, but these

types of mistakes are devastating. This was not really thought out well and it goes back to even before nor if if you look at the undermining of or the fall of Northam and Fairfax, they still had what a couple of years to try to come up with something, and they didn't. No one did. You couldn't even find a way. And I know a couple of people in that legislature who are black and minority of people of color.

Somebody should have say, hey, let's get this person together run for governor like tonight, it could have been done two years ago. To Northam controversy was what almost two years ago, and when it was clear that Northam couldn't run again anyway, when it was clear that Justin never overcome that scandal. And I'm not adjudicating that, but once there's out there on you, there's not a whole lot you can do with it. So Justin was finished. I know we have friends who, oh, we gotta save Justin.

I'm like, well, you know, that's not the air in which we live. No, and it may not be fair to him, the allegations may or may not be true, but the fact that they put that on him, So then you go back, you deal with that as a sidebar, but you recruit, cultivate, incubate, but to someone else to run. But that's the thing that Democrats don't ever do. They don't do with people of color, and they don't do well.

And this is the thing that is frustrating me is that Republicans are running a playbook that they've been running for fifty years. Roe v. Wade passed in nineteen seventy three, and since nineteen seventy three and some minutes after right Republicans have gathered themselves and said we are going to overturn Roe v. Wade. For forty damn ne or fifty years, that has been of top of mind. No other issue has mattered. It has always been about judges. For them,

has always been about the courts. Let us roll back Rob Wade so that we can reinstitute Christian white Christian fundamentalism as the core pinnacle of values and morals in this country. And people forget that the Pilgrims came here right because they were religious zealots, right, who decided that they wanted to be able to live the way that they wanted and then not have to deal with the king right and the monarchy. But they came here as religious zealots. That is the foundation, right of how we

understand America. And so it's not shocking, and yet Democrats act every time that they are so blown away by what Republicans are doing. And I'm saying, but we saw the writing on the wall decades ago, so where was? Where is your long game? And this is what I realize about Virginia and I realize about all of these kind of purple states and then these right states, is that there's no significant investment that is made by Democrats.

The reason why Roy Moore didn't become Senator of Alabama was because of black women and black people, not because of the DFCC and the DNC that decided to invest in Alabama because they saw it as like an opportunity. The fact is is that Democrats only see low hanging fruit as opportunity and they never want to sew any seeds.

And then the question becomes for us going into the midterms, are do black women still have the morale or the desire to save America from itself when America that won't do a dog on thing in return, not even the littlest thing you know that we need or that we want as a people. Just over a dozen votes away from passage of HR forty, the Reparations Bill, Oh, we scared can't do that, Mark, but you know, can get anything from Bill backbetter. Nothing of the agenda is going forward.

There's not a thin single thing we can point to that our community and we just focus on black women and black women specifically have benefited from let me a couple of small things. You know, the question becomes, what is the point? How many more people can we motivate out to the polls with that type of record coming from the Democratic Party and Joe Biden have a black woman as vice president, Well, what do we have to show it? And again it's not a personal tag against her, no,

but it's it's a real question. It's a real question. And I asked this because Mark, you have been an activist on the front lines, marching for speaking out for social justice, for racial justice for over three decades. And my frustration is that how do we continue to get black people, young people, the bipoc, you know, people to want to go to the polls when it's been eleven

months and we can't point to anything that Biden has done. Right, it's been and and everybody wants to tell me, well, Danielle, it's only been some months, right, But I don't also don't know where our vice president is. Have you seen her? Because because I haven't. Yeah, yeah, um that all of these things are problems. It's as though they want to lose, kind of like Obama in twenty ten. Obama came out early on after he was elected, sid I'm gonna lose

the mid terms already. No, I'm gonna lose the bit terms. And we're like, why are you saying that? Why don't you try to fight for it? Was like they just accepted it, and some of the same operators that were in the Biden administration, I mean, the Obama administration around and I think they may have already conceded that, but it's going to be devastating UM. And and maybe they need to be honest about that that maybe the party

itself needs a total overhaul and redirection. And I just don't see that as as forthcoming could bounce back from this. But there's gonna have to be a list of some stuff is gonna have to get done. The people gonna have to see some type of track record in this UM and there's gonna have to be some you know, some backbone in the party it's candidates and in its rhetoric, and that is really the message from Virginia. There's going to have to be a direct call out of specific

issues for Candida. I just don't think they can run an anti Trump message in every district. UM deal with the candidate that's there and call that person out specifically like they should have done, yun Ken. I think those are things that are gonna have to gonna have to happen to have any shot of holding the House, much less the Senate. UM and then put some candidates out there that are really going to inspire people, not the

same old UM. I don't really like the term corporate because any given day somebody can be corporate or not, but more so people with with energy, enthusiasm, progressive ideas. It's the progressive ideas and agenda that most voters are motivated by any way. And if to the extent I mentioned cultural wars earlier, don't want to get in, but to get into that now, Okay, So if there is a cultural war coming up going going on, let's take a claim and get in it. You know, is the

culture war about white supremacy versus is justice? Let's call that what it is. Right, celebrating the Confederacy, all the things. Yeah, all of that. I mean, let's call it out and let us offer alternatives as Democrats for the opposite. Let's expand curricular. First of all, critical race theory is taught at the earliest at the graduate level. There is no

such thing. They are weaponizing something in the same way they're weaponized Jeremiah right and Jim Cone into thousand and eight, you mean to tell me, in all these years you have been maybe to figure out an answer to that, You're just gonna ignore it, you know, succumb to it. We've got to know, we've got to draw these uh, these challenges, and the only way to do that is by having inspiring candidates that inspire and motivate BIPOC voters

to the polls and give them something to do. But then but then you also at the same time have to show have something to show for it. This is what Democrats have done since we fought to get Biden elected and to bring a House and sent a majority, nothing to show for nothing. And you know what really is troubling to me is that my mother, right, staunch Democrat, used to sit herself in front of MSNBC every day all day, has become absolutely disgusted with mainstream cable news.

Has become absolute disgusted with the political climate. She told me the other day. She goes, yeah, I don't watch anything anymore. I just need your sixty second updates. And I'm good because I don't need to steep myself in this toxicity. And I think to myself, if you are turning if the Democrats are turning off people like my mother, right, a black woman, business, small business owner, immigrant to this country. You know, middle class, highly educated, second, you know, multiple degrees.

If you are turning her off, then how do we have any possibility of turning on folks who were never engaged in the first place? And the things that you were offering are the things that we've been saying. Yeah. Right, So we have a new head of the DNC. Right, you have Jamie Harrison black Man. Right, you have all of these black politicos that are in places of power now, and yet Mark nothing has seemed to change. Why is that? Are we just putting black faces in high spaces and

assuming that that is enough? Well breaking news? The chair of the the DNC has little or no power, influence, or authority. And I know Jamie loved brother, He's a good brother. But that's not where the source of change and influence is. It's it's sort of in you know, it's really an honorary position. It's the people who run these local races that are important, and Jamie really can't tell them what

to do. I think we have an embedded consultant class throughout the Democratic Party, and these consultants are mostly white, many of them Zuckerberg types, and they think they know everything and they just don't. And people like us don't know squat. They think we're not qualified or intelligent enough to offer any type of input or advice in these situations.

And I think that's where the problem is. That a Terry mcculoff campaign that wasn't just a casual decision that he and some friends made, that was consultant to death. This is what you do want to do it, right? They I'm assuming they focus grouped that. Yeah, and they and it was stupid. Even the whole idea behind him running all of that was a mistake and a real long shot. And so I think that all of this has to be rethought reset, and it starts at the top.

I mean, you cannot have a president who is beholden to one at the most wanting to have if you include cinema senators, So, Daniel, most of us went to school, elementary, high school. Who the presidents. We learned about a school, We learned about Lincoln, we learned about Roosevelt, you know, we learned about Kennedy, Johnson and mixing because of Watergate, and now Obama because it was first. So that's pretty

much what you get. So you go through the history of those presidents and you get to Johnson, what's the first thing or even after they are here, with presidents who got things done in spite of the legislature or with the support of legislature, there's no day, there's no lesson in school. There's no page in the history book that explains a senator controlling a president. And so that's incomprehensible. So I think, what happens with your vomit? Everybody else

it's a hamstudent. What I need to the cable news because cable news can't even explain it. It's incomprehensible and inexplicable for people to say, wait a minute, we vote of him, but why can't he get anything done? Mansion, mansion, mansion, there's the people don't that doesn't compute for people. I mean, you turn it off. We hear that man's name Mansion, more than I hear Biden's name, and frankly more than I have heard our you know, vice president who I said the other day, I want to put on a

milk carton because I honestly don't know. I don't know if it's strategy that they are keeping Kamala Harris out of you know, the limelight, or or what is happening there. But the reality is is that what pisses people off, like my mother, is that she didn't have an opportunity to vote for Joe Mansion. She don't live in West vir right, she don't live in Arizona, so she sure

is hel didn't vote for Kristen Cinema. So when we look at these things that we say, wait a minute, the balance of power is absolutely off in so many ways.

I mean, we have workers' strikes happening in across industries because we realize that the capitalist structure that we live in is unbalanced, right, and so our society, our political landscape is so unbalanced where you have exactly one and a half senators that no one voted for outside of their combined maybe fourteen, maybe ten million people that live

in those places combined, right, that voted for them. And so if you are a person that believes in the power of your citizensury and the responsibility thereof, and then you recognize that the person that you voted for is beholden to them, then you're going to start second guessing your vote and why how you voted to begin with right right, well, and and again it's frustrating because nobody can understand it. Nobody can can explain it. So you do what you gotta do. Mansions for sale, see it again,

it's the consultant class. It. Well, you can do this to it. We don't hear from common because I'm gonna tell you one thing the consultant class I think really has perfected is the art of nothingness. Don't take it. Vice President Daniel Moody Mills LAILO. Don't take a position on anything because you can't. Then you can't be held a counter everything, you can't be blamed for anything. So just kind of fading to the back. I mean, I really think that's what the mentality is. Don't take a

hard line position or step out there on anything. Plus the fact in terms of mansion. He's for sale. Yeah, so wait a minute. Democratic Party, somebody was saying, uh, Black Women's views on Twitter was saying, one thing we need a couple of days break from is all these emails and texts to send five dollars because you're only doing nothing with the money. Obviously, y'all Democrats with sendmi five dollars. Give us a just give us the weekend

off after a gin. You didn't go back Monday, but they still the next day they text and send it. Send some money, sends some money. People sick of that. They burned out from it. But the fact is the Democrats, unlike Democrats of thirty years ago, raised a whole lot of money, got big Hollywood constituencies. If matching is for sale, go back. What is your price? You w what is the price now? One price might be And Marcos and

Daily Coast have talked about this. The Democrats are considering some form of restitution, you could almost call the reparations for families whose children were taken from them and dislocated right during it. And I'm not opposed to that. That should happen, just like HR four, they should happen. But that's a whole other situation. That's not even the money yet, but they don't. They're scared of that, So do that. But go to Joe manchioner, their bad West Virginia, who's struggling,

who's poor. They would benefit from bill back better in West Virginia, even more than we would. So okay, let's put in the bill all these coal miners and coal miners families who are in an obsolete entry industry. Let's put him on a pension from from now to the rest of their lives. Pay him who would be opposed to take them? Take them, cut Joe under his very knees with his own constituency. Let's take care of those people. So he didn't have that as an excuse anymore. They

are taken care of because their industry is dead. They're paid for life. What's your excuse now? But if he's for sale, then going by him all this will we gotta see what he's gonna do, and let's just kind of talk what is it? And Joe Biden is supposed to be as much a master of the Senate and Senate politics as LBJ was, So people like your mom,

I know, and others don't get it. And so there's a point if you don't get you turned on on TV off, This is not telling you anything if you can't explain to me how the's one person this has never happened before in history. One senator and then then Biden. Then who was a consultant watched this? Who was a consultant? Y'all to says, now, before you go to Rome, go give a speech and say this is the biggest moment of your agenda, and if this doesn't pass, then that

will define your presidency. And I need this pass before I leave a room. Don't do that before you know if you've really got the votes or not, even on the progressive side. Not to mention Mansion because Mansion never agreed to it. And that's what Jara Paul and everybody else sait, Wait a minute, has Mansion agreed to this? Corey Bush had a good suggestion, make them in the Senate pass build back better before we pass infastr That's

what I said, the same thing. And Representative Corey Bush is so strategic and so smart, because I am so tired too of Nancy Pelosi saying, well, we've passed hundreds of pieces of legislation in the house. I don't give a damn right, because to me, that is like a substitute teacher coming into a class and saying, here are all the dittos that you need to fill out until your real teacher comes back, because I just need to

keep you busy. Yeah, right, And so this is this is the problem that we are going to continue to have until we restabilize right our political landscape and recognize who actually should have the power and who doesn't and figure out how to reorient that. Folks. This is our first ever, make it plain and woke as fuck crossover. We are trying to come up with a name for what it's going to be when Mark and I sit

down and talk once a month. So if you have ideas, drop them in the comments section on both of our shows and let us know. Mark, thank you so much. We gotta go rage against the machine, but off the mic.

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