Shards of Justice

with the obvious. For those of you who may be one of the one hundred million people that were affected this week by the wildfire, smog, smoke, hazardous, hazardous air that had blanketed New York City for two days in a row, making it the most hazardous air on the planet. To be briefing in, you know, I got to tell you that I have been having so many like outer body experiences. It feels like where I'm I'm like, is this a novel? Like I know that I say this

often on the show. Are we the leftovers? Like did the rapture already happen? Because when the sky turned the apocalyptic shade of yellow that it did on Thursday and on Wednesday, I swear to god, I was just like, oh, this is it like this is it, This is what the Bible had talked about, This is what like, you know, climate scientists had talked about, Like is this what the

sky look like right before the dinosaurs became extinct? Like these are the things that are going through my mind and the minds of millions of Americans because frankly, you know, for those folks, and there were many that said, well, welcome to California. You know, California has been experiencing this, and I want people to understand that there is a big difference between what happens in California during wildfire season and what has been happening in New York and surrounding

regions downwind of Canada. So when these fires happen in California, one, California is in some instances not into the extreme that the wildfires have been occurring earlier and lasting longer and coming into more populated areas, But in the mountainous regions, in the forest regions, like this is not new, and the issue is that the air quality was different and it also wasn't affecting as many people because as the wildfires were burning, they're kind of burning over less populous,

less densely populated places. That is not the case for what we have experienced with the Canadian wildfires. One, it's happening in a completely different region of Canada than is used to having wildfires. Two, it's happening because Canada has experienced the hottest spring on record, creating the conditions for a very dry right foliage, very dry trees and ground, making it fertile ground right for fires that happen with lightning strikes that happen when it's too hot, and they're

burning earlier and longer and completely out of control. So what has happened now because of the jet stream that is going on? And I'm getting a little meteorological for you. Did I say that word right? Probably not meteor Nope, I'm not going to say it because I can't say it quickly. But the reality is that because of the jet stream, because of climate change, because of the hotter weather,

the warmer climate, we are locked in. Over one hundred million people are locked in to this pressure system that is not going to be lifting for a few days. And when folks are saying like, oh well, it's just like a fireplace burning, like it's not a big deal, it's just like a bonfire. Well, let me ask you something.

If you've ever lit a fireplace or have a fireplace in your home, and one you check to make sure that the shoot is actually cleaned out right, because why you don't want that backed up smoke to be coming inside of your house. You want it to be leaving and going out of the house through the chimney. Well, if that smoke were to come inside of the house, what are you going to be doing. You're going to open up windows, right, You're going to potentially leave, depending

on how much smoke is there. And with chimneys that is burning wood. When we're talking about wildfires, you're talking about pesticides, you're talking about chemicals, you're talking about rubber. You're talking about a whole bunch of fucking particles going into the air that get into our lungs and our

bloodstream that aren't good for our body. Just like you wouldn't sit inside of a burning house and say, oh, it's warm in here, you don't sit outside during a time when the air quality index is reporting unhealthy and or hazardous, And it doesn't matter whether or not you have underlying conditions. They have told us that when the air Index says unhealthy or hazardous. It is bad for everybody,

not just people with underlying conditions. And the worst part, folks, is that the masks that we have, unless you have a cane nineten five mask, are not helpful right for the outdoors. And so I just want people to understand that this actually is a big deal, right, that it isn't something to laugh out. And I think that a lot of us laugh because we're scared because we don't actually know what the fuck else to do when the sky turns orange and it feels like we are on

Mars and not on Earth. And in the conversations that I've had as of late with climatologists and environmental scientists and what have you, is the question that I'm asking, is this going to be our new normal? Like are we going to be entering into seasons in areas, geographical locations of the country that don't normally experience these things where we're going to be forced indoors because the air

is going to be that unsafe. And their response was yes, And we don't know how long it will last, We don't know when it will happen. It's not like there

were predictors for this, you're literally following the wind. And so, you know, just this experience over the last couple of days had led me to my feelings around my first fucket, which is, fuck it to the Republican Party, fuck it to these politicians that are making drag queens and trans athletes a priority and not the fucking air we breathe like you know all I imagine, And somebody had posted this underneath the TikTok video that I did the other day,

when they said, you know, they won't do anything. They'll just hand out respiratory mass, but only right to their donors, that's what it will look like. And the rest of us, they'll say, let them eat cake, let them chew the air, and send them off to work, right because the economy. So it's just a wild fucking place that we are.

When I was reading and read sci fi novels and you know, watch sci fi movies, and I think to myself, well, in reality, that would never happen because politicians and the president and people would totally intervene in you know, before we got to parable of the sower levels where it never rains anymore, where like water is a commodity, and you know where you have to go indoors certain times of the day because of the sun, because of the heat,

because it's piercing. It's not just like oh, sun tanning weather. It's like you're skin could actually bubble up. I folks, I gotta tell you some days it hits me worse than others when I realize how far we have fallen, just how much of a dystopia America has become because of the Republican Party, and until enough of us decide that this is not how we want to live, right, like this is preventable. You can say, like, oh, well,

forest fires happen, and wild fires happen. Uhah, yeah they do, but they don't spread as quickly, they don't burn as long, and they don't happen as early as they do now because of our warming fucking climate. And I just want to take again New York City as a microcosm because I'm living here. You saw airport delayge, you saw school closures, you saw games canceled, and consistent amount of reports coming

in to urge people to stay inside. Talk about what happens, right, if you only care about the fucking economy, talk about what happens when that becomes the norm, when travel becomes almost impossible because you can't predict the type of turbulence that is going to take a plane down because of the jet streams that have gotten crazier, right, and more unpredictable because of climate change, because of the heat. Now, scientists have been saying air travel is going to get

increasingly dangerous because of what we are seeing. So this is going to affect everyone, everyone, and everything. Kids are not going to be able to go to school. It's not even going to be about oh well, no outside activities. It's going to be about you can't leave your home because it is that unsafe. Like imagine instead of tornado alerts or hurricane alerts that it's telling you, guess what,

you're locked inside. We're on quote unquote lockdown again, quarantining inside for days, weeks on hand until the air changes and is safe for people to go outside. Folks, it's not a joke, and I know that those of you that listen to the show and follow me recognize that. But I just want you to feel less alone if you're the one in your family or in your home that's like, don't go outside, wear a mask, like, you know, let's be safe, and everyone else is looking at you like, oh,

it's not that big of a deal. I'm with you. Next up on my list of fuck it's Lord Jesus. Let's go to Mike Pence's announcement for president, shall we? First of all, the man makes communion wafers look delicious and exciting, and that's saying a lot. And he goes and does his town hall after his horrible press conference and his bullshit video that he puts out where he has headlines attacking drag and trans people and talking about

a return to traditional values and what God wants. And I believe that this United States were founded on, Oh I don't know, religious freedom, not their freedom to oppress other people with your Bible and your verses, but the freedom for all people to live how they would like to live. Right, that's not at all what Mike Pence's understanding is of the constitution or of the values of

this country. And that was evident, and it was even made clearer in his conversation with Dana Bash on CNN where CNNs decided to platform all of these Republicans, which, by the way, there is really no difference between them and Donald Trump, not even they can discern what the difference is between them and Donald Trump, except for the

fact that maybe they're not under indictment. Dana Bash asked, you know, as Mike Pence is trying to distinguish himself from his former boss, the man who tried to have him killed by the constituents that Mike Pence now finds himself trying to court. She says, well, if Donald Trump becomes the nominee, even though you're saying here right now that no one that puts himself above the Constitution or ask somebody else to put themselves above the Constitution, should

ever be able to be president again. If he's in fact the nominee, are you supporting him? And Pence was like, yes, because I'll support the Republican nominee. So you've made you opened up your entire presidential run on the fact that you quote unquote kept your oath, but you're willing to once again swear allegiance to a man that you're saying broke his oath to the Constitution and to the American people because he has an R after his name. So

that is what you call leadership, sir. I don't fucking think so. And it's just like, it's amazing to me when you look at the field of Nicki Haley, who is a transphobe and a hate mongerer and a liar in her town hall where she made up lies about cisteen girls suicide rates having something to do with trans students, when in fact, there are about one hundred transathletes in the entire fucking country and somehow that's what's sending sis

teen girls suicide rates through the roof. It's not. And let us be clear, and we've talked about it on this show that teen emotional health and well being is actually declining at an alarming rate and is the silent pandemic that we're not talking about. And so it's a real issue. And the fact that Nicki Haley would use her ninety minutes of fame to make up a lie about something that is very real just shows you again the character of these people. There is no daylight between

them and Donald Trump. So when the mainstream media wants to say that a Chris Christie, who has shown the only backbone so far in the bunch that is willing to actually call Donald Trump by his name and call him out when they say that, oh, these are the moderates. You have pulled us so far to the fucking right that you think that Mike Pence is a fucking moderate? Are you kidding me? You think that Nikki Haley is

a moderate? Are you fucking dumb? These people were inside of the Trump administration support every single Trump policy, are using right the copycat terms of being anti woke and having a war on wokeism, and can't fucking define it. They are all right this same version of each other. There is no one that is moderate in this bunch because they would not make it. And many of these motherfuckers are not even going to make it to debates

stage because they're in single digits. Right. The only person that may in fact have some place to challenge Donald Trump for real for the Republican nomination is rond De Santis, and stories just broke this week that he is fucking trailing in the polls. Since his announcement, his poll numbers have taken a fucking nosedive over the last two weeks. That's not what people want when they announce for president.

It is probably the highest that your poll numbers will be because people are now excited about what it is that you have to offer. That's not the case for Rond De Santis, who Donald Trump is leading by I don't know thirty fucking points. So the only thing that these motherfuckers can pray for at this point is that the Department of Justice does drop their indictments and that we see justice a lot quicker than the Republican nomination process.

So for that, I say fuck it to Mike Pennce, fuck it to the entire Republican primary field, because you're the same fucking clown right. You just don't have the temerity to actually take on Donald Trump to his face because your chicken shit of his fucking vile and violent supporters, and you're worried about what they will do to you if you go after their fucking king, which says more about you, and it says a lot about the people that you have been gassing up over the last seven

years to do your bidding. So for that, fuck it to the entire Republican field. Next up, folks, I also want to talk about, first of all, the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court has come back with the decision this week where they surprised everyone in holding up this

status quo. So again from mainstream media that wants to hail this as a victory for the Voting Rights Act, which they completely and totally hobbled right with gutting preclearance in saying Chief Justice John Roberts saying that you know, America is passed preclearance and apparently pass racism. And then the minute that that came out, every single racist state that was required to get pre clearance before creating new voting rights laws, right went straight back to racism in

the blink of a fucking eye. So fuck you, Chief Justice John Roberts, all the way to hell for that and so many other fucking things that you've done during your tenure. But more importantly, in this case that was brought up by went through the lower courts in Alabama because Alabama decided to change and jerry mander their congressional maps, taking those seats for Democrats from to one and condensing all black voters essentially into having one representative, essentially erasing

their voice and their power in the body politic. And so this case was brought by the NAACP, LDF and others right and basically stating that the decision was racist and that it robs black people of their vote and

of their power. So, in a surprise five to four decision, with Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts siding with the progressive side of the bench, they decided to uphold the lower court's decision and basically tell Alabama you need to go back, literally to the drawing board and try and leave your racism and the wide out out. And so people are hailing this like, oh my god, this is so wonderful. Folks,

don't fall for the fucking ropodote. Why do you think that Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts decided to side with the liberal side of the court. Maybe it has to do with the fact that their poll numbers and people's you know, sense of the Supreme Court is in

the fucking toilet. Maybe it's because every time that we have uttered the word the Supreme Court these days, and it's followed by Arence Thomas, and we're thinking about just how fucking criminal and grifting that court is and how it has been bought and sold by Republican and conservative billionaires over the last few decades, and that there is no check and balance for the court. And so guess what in the perception of the people's eyes in this country.

The Supreme Court no longer should have the kind of power that it does. And so in order to do a little pr spin and give the perception, not the reality, that this court is being dictated by the law and the law alone, I think that Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh decided to throw the American people a bone. You see, we're not that bad. We won't gut everything

because now people are hipped to their fucking tricks. So if we think that somebody had a change of heart or that this is signaling a new path for the Supreme Court, wake the fuck up. That ain't it. This was a cya move right and so so, as Melissa Murray said to me on Twitter, and you see her as an MSNBC legal analyst and has joined this program many times, she said that we shouldn't have to settle for shards of freedom, right, we shouldn't have to settle

for chards of justice. And that is exactly what the Supreme Court just doled out. So for them, and for Chief Justice Roberts and all of the grifting motherfuckers that are on the bench, I say fuck you and fuck them for this week. To round it out, my dear friends, let's turn to sports for a minute, which I never really talked about on this show at all, unless it has to do with politics, which in this case, of course,

it does. Saudi Arabia, a Saudi backed sports company, Live, has decided to merge with the PGA, and there was incredible backlash to that on social media that the PGA would dare to enter into a partnership with this authoritarian and fascist regime that we know, you know, kills journalists like Jamal Kashogi, you know, Rob's women of their bodily autonomy, civil liberties, and you know, hates the gays, and the

list goes on and on and on. But you know, their pockets are deep, so our values go out the window because we're capitalists and fucking greedy. So the PGA is now linking arms. And you know, all I can say is, you know all of the things that I listed out, and the human rights violations and the murders of journalists, and you know all of those things. I think that the Saudis not only are playing the long political game in the United States, I also think that

they no longer see the United States. I think that, based on the movements of the Republican Party, that they see America these days more aligned with their values than with our founding values. Right, we are sitting around here persecuting gay people, criminalizing transgender folks, erasing black people, taking away the body, the autonomy of women and people with uteruses,

overturning voting rights, instituting fascist book bands. We have more in common with our supposed enemies in terms of how our policy and our politics have been moving, then we

have differences. And I think that the Saudis see that if they come in and they start to buy up wrestling, buy up golf, and probably buy up you know, the NFL and other American pastimes, then they're going to be able to, little by little, right gain real clause into our political system, into our American system, right by using sports as a way to sports wash their fucking bad policies.

But again, their policies seem more aligned with today's Republican Party and what they're doing around a majority of the country than anything else, and that should scare the shit out of us. So it is a long list this week of my fuckets I want to hear from you, So do tweet me out at d two cent dee two c e nts, hit me up on Instagram under the same name and tell me what you are saying

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