Pandora's White Supremacist Box

Happy brigin Friday. I swear to God, I know that I've said this so many times, but there just comes a point where you're just so grateful that you made it to Friday because so many things have careeamed off of a cliff this week where you're just like, what are we as the time of this recording eleven days away from the election, and I have to steal stomach bullshit from Dana Bash, like Vice President Kamala Harris didn't seal the deal in her latest town hall with CNN,

Dana Bash, like, you are an embarrassment to the field of journalism in all honesty, And I will give this to Jake Tapper, and I said this yesterday on Mary Trump's show, which is that he said, you know, these are two completely different campaigns in two completely different universes where you are judging Kamala Harris as if this is a normal election and a normal candidate, and yet not judging Donald Trump for the existential threat that he actually is.

Like you want to critique Dana Bash and Hallie Jackson and all of these, like, particularly these white women journalists want to frankly critique Kamala Harris as if the difference between a Democrat and a Republican losing this election isn't

the end of democracy. Isn't the fact that if Donald Trump and Jade Vance get into the actual White House, that they will be policing women's bodies across this country, that they want to have women essentially have to register if you are pregnant or not before leaving the state, right, like,

this is what America is in for. But Dana Bash and Harley Jackson, in their recent you know, interactions with the Vice President of the United States, would have you believed that, like, oh, if we lose this election, it's just like losing to Romney or even like George W. Bush for that fucking matter, and that motherfucker took us into a war. So you know, I know, I know, it's eleven days to go, and I'm still lam bassing

against you know, corporate media and journalists. But I honestly, I really thought that at some point during this election cycle, at some point that folks would recognize what a dangerous situation that we're in and that they would look to themselves and look to history and say, you know, you know, Hitler came about largely right because people didn't believe what he was saying, because the media was too busy doing puff pieces on his garden and not the fact that

he was setting up concentration camps, right like, it's always, oh, well, we should have known there were signs, like how many more signs do you need? From Donald Trump? Donald Trump has since twenty fifteen, he's talked about sexually assaulting women, and he has been convicted of doing so. He has invited white supremacists to dinner. He has championed white supremacists.

He refers to the insurrectionists as we. He plays their January sixth national anthem as opposed to America's national anthem. He has talked about wanting generals like those that Hitler. He has said Hitler has done some quote good things. He is called white supremacists good people. He has referred

to African nations as shithole countries. When talking about a young private, Vanessa Gillion, that was murdered at Fort Hood and the response to the fee for her burial, he said it doesn't cost sixty thousand dollars to bury an effing Mexican. Meanwhile, you have the likes of at Tucker Carlson at a rally saying some of the most vile shit that I've heard in a long time, talking about Donald Trump being America's daddy and America needing a spanking.

They're like weird twisted sexual fantasies like come to life in their policies of control and paternalism and patriarchy is on full display. So how do we not have headlines that conveyed the seriousness of this moment? How do we have outlets like the La Times that for the first time refuse to endorse a presidential candidate, Like, do people really think that their neutrality quote unquote neutrality in this moment is going to save them down the road in

an authoritarian regime. I'm just so fucking confused. One of the great things that Kamala Harris said at our town hall was that on day one, if Donald Trump is elected, He's going to be sitting down in the Oval office making a list of all of his enemies so that he can seek retribution on them. She, however, is going

to be working on America's to do list? Do you want a president that speaks more about themselves and their own problems rather than concentrate and trying to fix any of yours things that have happened this week, two hundred and thirty psychiatrists came out and said that Donald Trump is unstable and that his brain is basically deteriorating right now. None of these are his actual doctors. But Donald Trump also,

much like his taxes, won't release his medical records. But we have listened to him mix up Biden and Obama now on a number of occasions, not knowing who he's actually running against. We have watched him refer to different cities that he's in. We also listen to him tell people to go vote on January fifth. We learned this week that in a sham set up at a barber shop where he's supposedly speaking to black and Latino men. We heard that Fox News edited out all of Donald

Trump's meandering and rambling. CNN got a hold of it and posted it like I just I feel like this week and the next couple of weeks are really going to test us, test our will, test our faith, test our emotional capacity, test our health and well being because the fuckery knows no bounce, and the fact that I can't confidently say that, guess what, folks, in a couple of weeks, we are going to have an amazing new president and a new era that it's going to take

this country forward, and that we don't have to worry anymore about saving democracy, that we will have done it in this election, and then hopefully in the four years of the Harris Walls administration, Donald Trump will end up penniless or in jail. Those are the two things that

I'm going after. But we can't say that with confidence because of the electoral college, because I know and you know that if it were up to one person, one vote, much in the way that Donald Trump had his hat handed to him in twenty twenty, it would happen again. Why is it that we live inside of a democracy where all of our votes don't count equally. I don't want a handful of fucking people in the Midwest deciding

this election. I want all of us having a say and who is going to lead this country because guess what, they're not just going to be the president for the Midwest. They're going to be a president for the rest of us. So why shouldn't our voices count just as much? But that is again the electoral college being one of many relics still in operation from the Transatlantic slave trade. You know, folks, as we in shout the rest of this election cycle, I pray that we make it to the other side

of this. I pray for all of us in this country that we make it to the other side of trump Ism. Now, as I have said before, trump Ism is never going to go away. I don't think I think that it will reinvent itself. If in fact Donald Trump loses, I think it'll reinvent itself. Find a young, slicker, more articulate, saner white supremacists to run for office again in twenty twenty eight, same proposal, same people, just a

different package. And that's the thing that people need to keep in mind, is that Donald Trump broke open Pandora's white supremact box, and it is going to take a lot a lot to close it. But Republicans won't learn their lesson. There won't be like a moratorium. There won't be a going back to the Bushes and the Romneys and the mccains of their party. Even with the over two hundred Republicans that have now come out and said

that they are voting for Kamala Harris. These are two hundred people who formerly worked for Trump, McCain, Romney, Bush's You know what I find really interesting And people keep saying this is that, like, why is George W. Bush so silent? Because, folks, do we really need him to weigh in? Do we think that this version of the Republican Party, if they don't give a damn about what Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney of all people is saying, who

was the real mastermind behind the w administration? Do we think that they give a shit about what George Bush would say? But it says a lot that his vice president would come out and with no equivocation say Donald Trump cannot be president. And it is just I mean, Dick Cheney's the reason why we went to war after nine to eleven with the wrong country, right weapons of mass destruction. That was all Cheney. And for him to look at Donald Trump and say that Donald Trump is

a threat is like wild. But also the moment that we are in, folks, it is it's sad, it is frustrating, it is disgusting, it's all of the things. I will say this, though, what is really important is for us to recognize that either way, if Donald Trump somehow is able to steal this election, we're going to have the fight of our lives on our hand. Literally. If Kamala Harris is able to win, we're going to have so much work ahead of us to try and rebuild this country.

So either way, our job is not going to be done. I will say this that never again can we have an election like this happen again. Like I said that, there is going to be so much work to do, But never again are we just going to be able to sit back and think that our democracy is just going to work right, the way that you don't have to think about your breath or you don't have to

think about your heart beating right, it just does. That's not the way that democracy stay healthy or stay functioning, right, Because what we know now and what I hope that we remember from this moment, is that, frankly, folks, that democracy is something that needs tending to. Like a garden.

Democracy is something that needs watering and sunshine and people that are engaged and activated all the time, not just every four years, not just every two years, but every year because Republicans are like termites looking for inns in the wall. They're looking for weak spots, right, and if we allow our guard to drop right, then they enter and the rot begins. We can't have that happen. And I think that if there is anything that we have learned in this time is how precious this democracy is,

even as imperfect as it is. I will be the first to tell you I've been taking the bind administration to task for things that they had not done. I said, you know, spoke out when I thought that Obama could have been doing things that are better. Right. The reality is is that when we are up against an existential threat, that's where all our focus needs to go. Once that threat is removed, then we can begin to assess the damage and how we don't allow something like that to

ever happen again. And so I believe that we begin to do that with the election of Kamala Harris and

Tim Walls. We do that by figuring out what were these giant loopholes that have allowed a character a moral less figure like Donald Trump to even ascend to the presidency in the first place, and let us put in those significant guardrails, those breaks, those checks and balances and strengthen them and understand that like without our attention, without our persistence, this will happen again, and we can never

let that be. So, you know, folks, I also know that for places like Texas, unless we are able to regain Roe v. Wade, which I don't necessarily see happening in our lifetime, unfortunately, people like the folks in Texas

in Florida will need our help. And I want to raise up organizations because people always ask what are the places that we can you know, help, And some of them are this Fund, Texas Choice, an organization that has been funding transportation for people, Texas Equal Access Fund, another organization that is funding aid for pregnant people and reproductive

care in Texas, and then Lilith Fund. Folks check out these places because these are places when folks are just like I don't know what to do, I don't know to donate, where to give my money, where to help out. Go to these red red states and put in reproductive care groups. Of course, make sure that they are actually reproductive care groups and not just some Christian group that is using language to like rope people in and put

you into a registry. But the three organizations that I named in Texas are ones that are doing incredible work and need funding, need support because they are being criminalized and you know, may not be able to operate anymore because of the Supreme Court decision. But we know that people are not going to stop having children, right, They're just going to stop being able to live once they

are pregnant and if something goes wrong. So please consider joining forces and taking action with organizations like Fund Texas Choice, which is at Fund Texaschoice dot org, Texas Equal Access Fund which is at Tteafund dot org, and then Lilithfund which is at lilithfund dot org. Consider getting involved. If you have the treasure, consider donating. It doesn't matter whether or not you live in Texas because things like this can and will be nationalized if we do not keep

our eye on our democracy. That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke af as always power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.