People Are Not Statistics

just gonna rattle off the dome. But I got to start with Tim Scott. I gotta start with Tim Scott, y'all. And I have to find nice words, not the words that I want you to know. And if you're watching this video, look into my eyes that I want to use about Tim Scott. But I'm not gonna use those words because I'm better than that. But what I will say is that we have never ever seen a man debase himself the way that Tim Scott did this week

for Donald Trump. No one is paying Tim Scott to be this step and fetch it fool that he offers himself up to be for free. Donald Trump says to him and remarks at the fact that he is a senator out of South Carolina that was appointed by Nicky Haley and yet he has endorsed Donald Trump. Tim Scott, with a shit eating grin on his face, comes behind Donald Trump and gets up to the microphone and says, I don't hate Nicky Haley, I just love you. Wow.

All I can say is that at least at least Clarence Thomas gets paid for his fuckery right, that he has a billion dollar sugar daddy that has been setting up his life and his wife's life. And is you know the kiddy's raisings life, you know, nice and easy, that he's on jets and yachts and like doing the fucking most. Do you know what I'm saying? What is Tim Scott get out of his fuckery, of his buffoonery right?

Not a goddamn thing. Also to boot, he has just announced his engagement to a woman that no one has ever seen him with, was not dating, did not have a girlfriend, and now all of a sudden he has found some white woman to put a ring on. And Donald Trump and his response to that says, well, we never thought it was gonna happen, you know. That was his congratulations to that fool. You know, sometimes I ask myself, like, what is it that these people get from groveling on

their knees to be loved by Donald Trump? Like what is it that they are getting in return? I don't think we will ever truly understand it, because I've never found myself in a position to want to debase myself degrade myself in such a manner right that I could even get into the mindset. It's so foreign to me.

But I don't know. But it'll continue, you know, because behind Donald Trump the day that Tim Scott bowed his love for him was vivek Ramaswami and the other fucking losers that Donald Trump has made a fool of in front of national audiences. And yet there they are patting him on the back, smiling and chuckling on a stage with them, as if Donald Trump gives a fuck about them.

Speaking of not giving a fuck Nicki Haley, So, Nicky Haley did not exit the race in the way that Donald Trump has wanted her to exit the race, and he is now following by the way which wasn't a blowout for Donald Trump in New Hampshire. Like, I just want folks to get that clear too, that I expected when the polls closed in New Hampshire that Donald Trump would have seventy eighty percent of the vote. He had a little over fifty. Nicky Haley had forty five percent

of the vote. And as of this recording, her super pack is saying that they raised fifty million dollars in the last couple of days. Right, So we all know that Nicky Haley is in for this for the money, for the cash grab. But the reality is that it wasn't a slam dunk for Donald Trump. We knew he was gonna win, but my assumption in the way that media has been talking about it was that he was gonna win, you know, by ten, fifteen, twenty thirty, forty

fifty points. Right, So that was very eye opening when you break down the people who did end up in Nicky Helly's camp and so on to South Carolina we go. And what Donald Trump is vowing right now as he is calling Nicky Haley everything other than her name, is he has vowed to blacklist the billion dollar donors that are funding her campaign. He has vowed to make it hurt, and he is vowed to destroy Nicki Haley right because she's refusing to exit the race. Now understand, I don't

believe that Nicki Helly has a shot in hell. She's not going to win South Carolina, her home state, and it's just going to continue on. But she will stay in the race so long as the money doesn't dry up. So these billionaires, right, they have tens of millions of dollars that they can just throw away and they'll continue to do so. I don't know the point of it, but what I do know is that it absolutely favors Joe Biden for Nicki Haley to stay in the race

because Donald Trump is going to become increasingly unhinged. He's going to start saying a lot of hot shit right that he's been saying about her, and he's going to do it over and over and over again. And if I'm the Biden campaign, I'm just pulling clips. I'm running these people's mouths, do you know what I'm saying? But we have yet to see that out of this campaign. I don't know what they're waiting for. But the fact is, you know, when the money drives up, Nicky Haley will

do what every other person has done. They will bow out. They'll say I swore pledge to support the Republican nominee, and that nominee is Donald Trump, and I stand by him, and I hope that he understands that I was just a worthy opponent. Blah blah blah blah blah. So you know, we know how this is going to end. But what I want to draw attention to is the fact that what Donald Trump is saying about blacklisting billionaires and about going after his political opponent and making it hurt, these

are not the things that a president says, right. These are not the actions of somebody that wants to be president. It's talk that comes out of the mouth of a mob boss, and it is that of an authoritarian and a dictator, right, And Nobody's going to say anything, and nobody's going to draw attention to that because we've all become so numb by the bullshit rhetoric that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth that you know, all of this just seems normal. It's not, and it should never seem

normal or become normal. But it is him using the same playbook that he's used on everybody. It's going to be how he governs. You cross him, you ask a question, you don't just bow, kiss the ring, kiss the feet, kiss his ass, do whatever, you will be exiled. Like that's how these people want to rock. So it is beyond me. It is beyond me to continue to pledge your allegiance to a man that has no allegiance to anyone, not even his own fucking kids. Do you know what

I'm saying. So it's beyond It's above me. Now next up on my fuck it list. And this is not even I don't even know how to say it, so I'm just gonna say it. A report has come out from the American Medical Association saying that in the sixties months since Roe v. Wade has been overturned and that Texas has instituted an entire abortion ban total abortion ban in the state, there have been over twenty six thousand

rape related pregnancies. Let me say that again. In the sixteen months since Texas has instituted a full and complete abortion ban in their state, with no exemptions for rape, incest, or the life of the pregnant person, there have been twenty six thousand rape related pregnancies in that state, which by far eclipse the other fourteen states that have total

abortion fans. Back in twenty twenty two, Greg Gabbitt said that he would eliminate rape in the state, so there would be no reason for anyone to seek out an abortion, so that they did not have the life sentence of carrying their rapist baby. We're going to eliminate rape. Of course, nobody asked the follow up question as to how that is going to happen. But with twenty six thousand rape related pregnancies, I guess he didn't get that job done.

I guess he was too busy defying the Supreme Court and continuing to put up razor wire fences to maim and kill immigrants that are trying to come into the country and seek asylum. Guess he was too busy doing that, right, He was too busy trying to end the life of one person by ruining the lives of others. Let me tell you something, Greg Abbott and the Republican Maga Supremacist Party are sick. They are so sick, so violent, so grotesque, so depraved in their view of America and their role

as political leaders. These are people who should not be in charge of a fucking thing, let alone a state or a country. And so when I saw that number, all I can think about, folks, is what I want us to truly sit with. It's not just stats. These

are people. These are women who have been brutalized, assaulted, traumatized, and are being re traumatized by the state that they live in to carry the baby of the person who rape them, or if they actually have the means and the ability to leave the state in order to have an abortion, they risk going to jail. What kind of

party is this? What kind of country is this? And So for those people who continue to want to tell me in my comments sections that you're not going to vote for Joe Biden because he doesn't believe in your values, what is happening in Texas will be nationalized. There will be a national abortion band. There will be nowhere for women and people with uteruses to go when tragedy strikes. Is this what you want for yourself, for the next generation,

for your grandchildren, for your daughters, for your nieces. You think that somehow lobbing off some bullshit protests vote is going to change this country, It's not. I mean it'll change it it'll change it for the worst. It'll ensure that generations to come won't know anything about democracy because it won't exist. Neither will textbooks, neither will the right

to be to be employed and be black. Everyone who is not white, who is not cis, who is not straight, who is not Christian, they will make life a living hell. How do you help bring democracy to other nations and other places that are in deep suffering, like the Palestinians in Gaza. If you lose your own democracy, you can't How you change things right from the inside out or the outside in via protest, via boycott the inside by starting to run third party candidates at all levels of government.

You don't start with the pres You start with school boards and city councils and townships and appointments, and you run slights and you work those people up. But to say, when you're seeing headlines like this, twenty six thousand women being forced to carry their rapist babies, and we think that that's gonna change under Donald Trump? Are we fucking kidding ourselves? Yeah, it'll change, It'll get worse. That number will go from twenty six thousand to millions in a

blink of a fucking eye. It's exhausting, I know, everywhere it just you know, it feels like the walls are closing in. You can't find light anywhere, and it's becoming hard to breathe. The air is getting thick. And what I want to offer in the last couple of minutes is a transition into a feel good Friday. You know. I want to shout out one of my followers, Phoebe, who DM me asking if I had started working out again, because they'd find working out to be a really good

outlet for the anger and the rage. And I was so appreciative of this DM, because the fact is I did start working out again, you know, and I feel a shift this time because I want to really practice discipline, focus, and you know, in the realm of my health and well being, because everywhere I look, if I feel like somebody's trying to kill me, right, whether it's the food that we're ingesting, the cops that are out on the street, right these maga supreme Like, So my way to combat

is to focus on getting as healthy as possible, being as mindful as possible, being as you know, rested as possible, because we're getting it from every single angle. So if you're not taking care of your health and you, like me, fall off into bad patterns of either eating too much or drinking too much, or smoking too much, or whatever your vices happen to be, ask yourself who that's helping. Because it's helping them because they need us to be weak and to be hopeless, to be sick so that

they can finish us off. Let's not give them that ability. We have to be able to focus and control the things that we can control, make progress where we can

make progress. Sometimes it's incremental, sometimes it's big. But if we can focus on those things rather than what is being taken away, if we can focus on what we can give ourselves of how we fill ourselves up with the nourishment for our physical, mental, spiritual selves, then we will continue to have the strength and the power to persist. Because when I tell you that what we are fighting for, we may never see the fruits of that labor. We will most likely not see the fruits of that labor.

But that doesn't mean that you don't fight. But in order to fight, we need to be well. We need to be putting our cells number one, two, and three on our priority list before we get to anything else. Have you moved today? Have you breathed today? You know, deep, beautiful, nourishing breaths. Have you found something to be grateful for today? Whatever your practice may be, but whatever it is, folks, we need to fill ourselves up with it, you know,

find accountability, partners and friends and family. Because when we allow these things, the nourishment that is necessary in order to give our bodies and our minds and our spirit strength when they fall by the wayside, the opposition wins because we become easy to take advantage of. So I want to thank listener Phoebe for you know, checking in on how I am taking care of myself, and I turn that over to all of you. How are you taking care of yourselves on a regular basis? How are

you nourishing your spirit? You know? Share it in the comments below this video. If you are a patron DM, you know this is about creating community so that we can get through this together. That is it for me today, dear friends, on this fuck It Friday. As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.