Some Good News

I don't know the last time when that happened, which is so fucking sad, But I honestly was trying to jog my memory as to the last time that I got to an end of the week, and I was just like, oh, there are good things to report, So let us revel in this moment, Smoke them if you got them, and raise a glass to a good end

of the week in this god forsaken country. So first up to bat, I want to talk about the Supreme Court, and for once I actually want to say something relatively good, which is that the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision which they are never unanimous about a fucking thing, had decided that the plaintiffs who brought a case against the FDA on mifipristone, which had been approved by the FDA roughly like twenty five or twenty six years ago, in

their remarks written by Brett Kavanaugh, said that they had no standing to bring this case to try and overturn the usage of MiFi pristone. Now, for those of you, you know you listen to this show and you've heard experts that have come on here to talk about abortion access and the abortion pill. A MiFi pristone is readily used. Most abortions in this country are medical abortions, meaning that they are prescribe a pill like MiFi pristone and be

able to expel a pregnancy. And what this case had the impact to do if, in fact they decided this in the way that they decided Dobbs, which was not only to impact Red states right that already have bands right on MiFi pristone or what have you, but to halt the usage of this in all states. This is why I continue to say that this Republican cult, they

are absolutely unrelenting. Their goal is complete and total oppression and subjugation of women, people of color, people with you there says trans people, LGBTQ plus, people, people with disabilities like you name it, They're coming for you. And what this case is not that these people won't go back to the drawing board, because they will. Right what Kavanaugh said, wasn't that like we're not gonna decide this because we

think that it's ridiculous. They're basically giving them pointers like, well, you don't really have standing, so maybe come back and find somebody that does have standing and we can try this whole rigamaroau again. What we have to understand is that they never give up. They never give up. Fifty fucking years they have been going after abortion and it finally fell. So while yes, today I am going to say absolutely celebrate this decision, we also know that this

is not the end. And I think that that is what becomes so daunting is that they are like a fucking dog with a bone. They will not give this shit up until everyone has been a sign their proper cloak from the Handmaid's Tail, that women only leave their homes to like go to the grocery store or to you know, in the case of Martha Alito, go buy

a fucking flag and hang it from their doorways. Like they're not going to stop until they are able to actualize their new vision, their nineteenth century vision of America. But in this instance, today the Supreme Court, for the first time, and I don't even know how fucking long, actually did the right thing. What I will say because

I just want people to pause for a moment. We are still waiting for the decision on whether or not Donald Trump and all presidents apparently are immune from prosecution, right, And you know, the cynical side of me, which is pretty much I don't know, like ninety percent of me, believes that this decision was a way to soften their striking,

fucking death blow to our constitution into our democracy. Because let me tell you something, they decide on this case that Donald Trump has absolute immunity and all presidents have absolute immunity. Democracy is done. Because I don't care who you are, right, the idea that you would be doing this job or seek this job because you know you have an agenda to pursue for Americans to make their lives better or to do whatever. No, the presidency will

now become your personal fucking playground. If you're above the law, I don't care. If you're the best fucking person, right, you are going to do some unethical and illegal shit because you know that you're not going to be prosecuted for those crimes. So if the best of people would do that, what do you think that the worst of

people will do? Well? We don't have to wonder because that person is actually Donald Trump, who is just a few weeks away from claiming the nomination of the Republican Party, regardless of his thirty four fucking felonies. So it's so deep that nine black robes that we did not fucking elect right are going to make a decision that can totally upend the founder's vision of America. Right now, let me be clear, the founders were fucked up about a

whole host of things. It's why we have amendments. But the idea that you would then turn around and say that basically we're creating an American monarchy or oligarchy in the case of the Trumps, and that he could now literally just order Seal Team six to go and kill Joe Biden and go off, you know, Obama, go lock up Hillary Clinton and there would be no recourse for that. Yo. That shit is wild. But this session is getting ready

to close. This session of the Supreme Court nightmare is getting ready to close, and they have yet to decide on this, and this is on their docket. So brace yourselves because once they decide, guess what, we have no recourse. There's no place to go. But down to help up next again a bit of good news at least for the moment, and because we don't know what is coming next,

I say that we relish in the good right. So this comes from PBSS dot org, which is a federal judge throughout a Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children. So if you all remember last year, which I mean to try and remember last year is a feed upon itself, But if you remember last year, Governor Ron DeSantis passed the law that would block gender firm and care for

transgender miners and severely restrict such treatment for adults. And the treatment that we're talking about are the puberty blockers for young people? And why are those puberty blockers necessary? Well, because if you have the ability to transition before puberty strikes, there's more like seamless integration and adaptation with the hormones

that you need to take right. And so it's really like, just think about what it was like to go through puberty yourself, now, think about doing that inside of a body that you feel trapped in. I cannot, honestly and I will ever understand, because I am sists like that feeling and the fear that would go through you. That would say that you would have to go through that experience of puberty, and then on top of that be denied the ability to basically transition fully in a way

that you want to live until what you're eighteen. But then even then this decision would block such treatments for adults. So in order for you, as a trans person to live free and safe and whole, basically the state of Florida said, deuces, get the fuck out of here, because

there's no way for you to do that. I guess you could maybe have the money to be able to travel to get said medication blah blah blah, but they were extending this to online purchases of medication and the like, basically making it impossible and or criminalizing trans people for

accessing the kind of healthcare that you need. Thankfully, Senior Judge Robert Hinkel, who was hearing the case, blocked the measure, and he said that the law went too far when it barred transgender miners from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their parents' permission. Because here's the thing with minors, like with anything, you need to have your parents' permission. So Basically, what the State of Florida was saying is that,

like they know better than a parent. I'm a parent, right, and my child is trans and wants to be able to fully transition. I have worked through whatever difficulties I may have in loving my child into the kind of life that they need to be living and they want to be living. We've reconciled whatever issues we may have had as a family. But now big brother's going to come in and tell you, no, you don't know what you're doing, because that's what Ron DeSantis in the State

of Florida want to do. Right. It would be one thing if they said that this was a case that was saying, oh, well, parents haven't had the say so, and so like that is problematic. That would be one thing because they're minors and unfortunately, until you're eighteen, right, your parents have the say so, whether they're good people

or not. But to go on and then say that even for an adult, right, So basically what was done here was not done so in the name of science, in the name of health care, in terms of care and treatment that has been researched and developed over decades, this is not what this was about. And so This was what Judge Hinkle said in a portion of his one hundred and five page decision. Quote, some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position, just as some once

invoked religion to support their racism or misogyny. Transgender opponents are, of course free to hold their beliefs, but they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender. In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished. To paraphrase a civil rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral

universe is long, but it been towards justice. And what I think is so important about this statement, and the only thing that I will push back on, is that racism and misogyny have not diminished in this country. They are actually moving full speed and throttle ahead. Right. It was racism that had people out in the streets in the summer of twenty twenty because of the public execution of a black man by a police officer. Right. It was the most historic march in the history of the

United States after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Right, that happened because of direct misogyny coming from the Supreme Court of these United States and the entirety of the Republican Party. Now you have Southern Baptists that are going after IVF and other ways because these people say that they are about family, but they want to control the way in which you create a family, and if you don't want one, they will force you to have one.

But if you have a family and you are a parent, and you are a parent of a transgender child, then they also want to tell you how to parent that child. This has never been about medical care, it has never been about safety and well being. It is only an ever about control. And that is what people have to understand here. Republicans don't give a fuck about anything other than power and control. They want the power to be able to control how people live, how people pray, if

and when and where they go to school. They want the power to be able to fire people simply right for being queer or being black, and disallow people the opportunity to access some version of the American dream because they happen to be trans. It is sick, it is twisted, and this judge laid it out very clearly. There was no medical basis for this law. This law was solely about let me be the worst type of person so

that I can run for office. Because minds you that the reason why Ron DeSantis picked a fight with Mickey Mouse and then picked a fight with trans people was so that he could look tough for the maga Republican base. And then when that failed, you see that you don't really hear from Ron DeSantis anymore with the same aggression, in the same false bravado that he once had because

no one believed it. Hence his miserable ass campaign that he was once the talk of the fucking town until people started actually listening to him and realizing that he's a bit of a fucking punk. Right, so, Ron DeSantis, in order to look tough, needed to gang up on some of the most marginalized people in this country, which are trans people, which are particularly black trans women. Ron DeSantis is nothing more than a fucking bully, and he's not even good about it because he looks like a

little bitch when he's next to Donald Trump. And yeah, I said little bitch, because that's exactly what he acts like. Soon as he decided to end his campaign, he went running to Donald Trump to go and kiss his ring to go give him what was left of his spine. But this is the type of person that wants to

bully children. Do you guys remember, Oh my god, do you remember that press conference that he gave where kids were on stage with their masks on, and he bullied the white kids into taking their mask off, And there was some black kids on the stage that were like, so, no right and kept their masks on. That's who Ron DeSantis is. We know that there will be appeals. Rond de Santis has already said that this ruling was erroneous

and vowing to appeal it. And I'm sure that he will, and I'm sure that the good people that were behind building the case will not stop, will be unrelenting. But I want to also read you this from one of the people in the case who sued the state of Florida, and this is Lucian Hamil, a transgender adult, and he said this, I'm so relieved the court saw there is no medical basis for this law. It was passed just to target transgender people like me and trying to push

us out of the state of Florida. This is my home. I've lived here my entire life. This is my son's home. I can't just uproot my family and move across the country. And you know, I will say that. I have said on a number of occasions when I get fed up with these red states, that like people should just leave and move. And I've stopped saying that because one it's just stupid to say, and two, it's a privileged place to come from, because not everybody can just pick up

and move right have them resources to do that. And two you shouldn't have to fucking do so. You should be able to live in the state that you grew up in, that you've called home and do so safely, do so without a target on your back. But Ron de Santis has made the state of Florida uninhabitable for queer people, for black people, for LATINX people, for trans people. He says that now this is the state of unwokeness.

It's the state of zero consciousness or empathy. Any of the traits that you like want human beings to have is absent under the leadership of Rondi Santis. And so while today we celebrate absolutely these two decisions, we know that they're never going to stop. And so this is why I talk about rest. This is why I talk about coming at these people from every single angle, because that's what they are doing to us, and so there

is no time to rest on our laurels. This is why we say that every election is in fact the most fucking consequential election, because every election they move closer you're and closer to their authoritarian regime. And we know that the only thing standing between them and Project twenty twenty five is us. And that is the thing that we need to remember, no matter how exhausted, how angry

with Biden, we get. The only thing that is standing between us and the nationalizing of an abortion ban and a ban on IBP and a ban on books, and a ban on trans people and a ban on affirmative action and all of these things is us. Remember that. As I closed out today on this Friday, folks, I want to remind you the damn shop is open at Daniel Moody dot com. Go and cop the Future is Woke capsule collection, stickers, totes, sweatshirts, t shirts and more.

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