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were some bubblegums, softball, bullshit questions from the press. And yeah, granted they stopped doing pressers, and granted Donald Trump was only doing shit, you know, on his way tomorrow Lago and on his way back on the South Lawn. But I find it really fresh trading when I listened to people talking about, oh, well, Joe Biden made a promise to do X, Y and C and it's just like, bitch,

it's been like thirty five days. Take a fucking breath, right, And I'm not saying that we're not going to hold this administration accountable, but like, let's be clear that we had a wayward, indecent, morally corrupt, criminal president for the

past four years. Nobody asked Donald Trump thirty days into his corrupt administration what he was doing, what he was doing for the American people, And what I find so fucking disgusting, aside from the overt projection right is again, like I keep saying, it is as if Trump bought the media at some point in time that they are so reluctant to continue to tell the truth. Now everybody wants to move on from Donald Trump, but the media

doesn't want to move on from Donald Trump. That was their golden goose and their cash cow for the past four years. But when you have an opportunity to now use his own words to tell the truth, to spread the truth to the American people, to recognize just how important the media is to the preservation of our democracy, it's like as if the whole of them have amnesia.

Imagine what this country would have looked like today. If Donald Trump a year ago had met the coronavirus pandemic with the type of fierce attention, focus and strategy that was needed, maybe we wouldn't have been at a place where over five hundred and fifteen thousand Americans are dead

a year later. Maybe we would have never gotten to the place where tens of millions are infected, maybe we wouldn't have to be rushing against time and fate in order to save as many people as possible with the vaccine. Maybe we would have had a better rollout plan for the vaccine because we would have used the same highly

strategic and efficient testing. But we didn't test. Remember, Donald Trump didn't want to set up national testing standards or testing facilities, or COVID standards or anything that was mandatory. So it would be great if on this bleak and dim anniversary, if in fact, the media did this time around what they failed to do last time, which was to shed light onto the inadequacy of the Republican Party.

And not only they're inadequacy, but their sheer cruelty. You know, when we don't call out the truth, when we continue to operate as if we are living in a two party system when we know that that is not true, we allow for people to persist with a narrative of bullshit of both sides, and only if both sides came together. And frankly, I want to say that it's not just the media that is responsible for that falsity, it's also democrats.

I watched so many Democrats get on television over this past weekend, after a week where the Republican Party voted down not only the Equality Act, ensuring that LGBTQ people could not be discriminated against right in an expansion of our Civil Rights Act. Not only did all but three Republicans in the House vote against equality, but they also voted against giving the American people a fourteen hundred dollars

relief check and voted against the COVID nineteen package. Now, the frustration is that when you get Democrats on television, they're not speaking from the same hymnal, They're not having the same conversation. Oh they say, well, you know, not all Republicans, but most No, just say all Republicans. They don't hesitate to put all Democrats into the same box.

And frankly, if we're going to be in the box that is pro equality, pro gun control, pro the environment, pro people living, then fuck it, let's own that box. But make them own the ship that they're doing too, and do not let the people forget because when you go on television, dear Democratic leaders, and you want to try and provide some type of cover to Republicans that they do not deserve. You are doing yourselves a disservice. Just tell the truth. Republicans are not for equality, They're

not for justice, They're not for health and safety. They are not for the well being of the American public. They are for their shareholders, their donors, right, the billionaires and the trillionaires. That's who they are for. Much in the same way that Ted Cruz gave us a beautiful visual of what it means to be completely and totally irresponsible and hop a plane to go and save yourself right, rather than staying to stick shoulder by shoulder with your constituencies.

That is who the Republican Party is. And if you're not cutting this shit up into digestible fucking ads moving into our next election cycle, then what are you doing. It should be a low fucking lift for Democrats to hold onto power for the next decades if they were to actually play their media cards right. You know, if you don't know how to do it, then hire the best fucking pr communications teams and trust me, they will

get your ass all the way together. Hire the people at the DNC who were never Trumpers, that were part of the Lincoln project that have since left, and get them to run your media, get them to do your rapid response, get them to be pushing out to the American people via social media platforms and the like, everything that is wrong with their Republican party. And look, you have to do no work except cut up their own ads,

cut up their own fucking testimony. You should listen to some of the Republicans last week as they are asking the new acting head of the Capitol Police, why are there still National Guard at the Capitol, Like with an attitude, why are there still National Guard at the Capitol? Oh, I don't know, because a mob of thousands try to kill all of you a month ago, and we're thinking that that's just the beginning, because we're getting threats that are about the first state of the U in and

blowing this place up. Does that answer your question? The audacity that they had. And then over the weekend you had these fools at Sea Pack where they have Donald Trump speaking and this is brilliant, This was brilliant. There was a presser that was done at Sea Pack where that spineless piece of trash Kevin McCarthy was speaking and behind him is Republican leadership, including Liz Cheney. Republican leadership

from the House, including Liz Cheney. Now, when a reporter puts a mike in Kevin McCarthy's face, you know Kevin who decided to chop on a jet to go kiss the ring of Donald Trump and Marlago. When a reporter asked, is don should Donald Trump be speaking at Sea Pack and is he the future of the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy responded, yes, of course Donald Trump should be speaking, absolutely, and yes he is. Then the reporter turns and goes right behind him and put the microphone in Liz Cheney's

face and says, what do you think? And she goes, you know exactly what I think and where I stand on Donald Trump. No, I don't think that he should be speaking at Seapack. Do I believe that we should be moving on from him as a party? Absolutely? And I said, you know what, again, Liz Cheney deserves no applause, but I will appreciate the bucking that she is doing

right behind the Minority House leader Kevin McCarthy. And when the reporter was just like, well, oh, okay, seems like you guys are not on the same page, Kevin McCarthy wills like, whoa I'm that high note. Let us move on. So you know, the thing is is that the media keeps talking about the fact that there is some type of civil war within the Republican Party. Don't get it twisted, and don't get yourselves like all hyped up in the

fact that that is true. There is not. There is not a civil war that is happening in the Publican Party right now. They are a more lockstep than ever. It's a civil war if the party is split down the middle, where half of them are for sanity and truth and upholding their allegiance to the Constitution, and then the other half are crazy. No, you have like five Republicans out of all of them that are sane, relatively so, because they still voted with Donald Trump ninety percent on

the time. So they may be sane in the respect that like, they're not a QAnon nut job posting transphobic signs and carrying a gun and waving it on the House floor, right, They're not that crazy. But they're also, let's understand, not anybody's compassionate conservative or moderate when their voting record proves that they have voted with Donald Trump ninety nine percent of the time when he was president,

so there is no civil war. You got a few sprinklings of Republicans that trust me, I believe that by the end of this or they will be out of that party, and maybe they'll already be in the works of starting their own third party, who the fuck knows. But I don't think until we see a viable third party will there be a sizeable fracture enough with the

Republicans in order to take them down. But here's the thing is that while they are fracturing themselves are picking off one by one slowly, Democrats need to stay completely and totally united. And right now I don't really see that it's not really happening because I don't know if it is just the media that poses this push between progressives and the center or not. But I don't want us to be operating on this isn't enough space. I want us to repair the damage, right, repair the damage

that's been done, and then expand where we are. And I believe that we can do that walk and chew gum at the same time. But we should be united in our viciousness against the Republican Party that is a party of authoritarianism and fascism. And there should never be a time when we are trying to move on from

that truth. In every opportunity that these leaders have, when they are sitting down with a microphone in front of their faces, they should be talking about their agenda and talking about how opposed the Republican Party is to democracy, and the American people be like, you have to look no further than this, this and this example. That should be easy, that should be frankly, a no fucking brainer.

But I find that even still now, even still now, I'm gritting my teeth when I'm listening to Democrats gun on television and talk about the fact that not all Republicans, not all Republicans. What just because you get three that vote for the Equality Act out of how fucking many out of well over two hundred you get three? Come on, that's embarrassing. It should be embarrassing for them, but it should be embarrassing for us to say that this is

somehow bipartisan. It wasn't. And what the American people need to understand is that given the opportunity to slither their way back into power, they will reverse every good thing that gets done because that is their way. That is the pattern of this country. And that is why we are stagnant in comparison to every place else. To me, it is an abomination that we even have to sell our ideals to the American people at this point. We should.

We're not racist, we're not cruel, we're not vile. So why do I have to convince you of otherwise when Republicans don't even offer you an agenda that to me, this is about selling right. But you're not making up a campaign, you're not making up a platform. You are for the American people. You are for the values of this country. You are for giving the American people relief instead of the billionaires and trillionaires. Thank you so much

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