The Hoods Are Off

to be a debate show. But I do tell you to head over to The New Abnormal, my show with Andy Levy, where we are going to talk about what we saw in the debates. So if you don't already listen to The New Abnormal, which you totally should and can get anywhere you get your podcasts, that show I will. You will get my immediate reactions to what we saw. Nonetheless, I want to talk today, on this fucking Friday, about the decisions that have come out of this Supreme Court

this week. And they're not done. They're not done fucking up this country yet, because they still coming for us

on Monday with more hot shit. But folks, you know I continue to say this and I've said it so many times on social media that if you are not a person that has been anxious with knots in your stomach, waiting on opinions for the Supreme Court to decide whether or not you live or die, whether or not your marriage is still valid, whether or not you know you're able to sue those that do harm like you were part of the very privileged class right because for the

rest of us, watching this weaponized, radicalized right wing, fucking chrysto fascist Supreme Court is terrifying. I'll tell you what a little tidbit. I went to a new dentist this week. And I go to the dentist and you know, on one of the forums, they're like, oh, you know, what do you do for a living? Right, like what's your employment?

And I put down political strategists, And I have to remind myself I need to change it to something else when I go, because when I do that and actually say what it is that I do, as opposed to like podcaster or like whatever. When I say the fullness of what I do a political strategist, people want to have conversations. And so my dentist was like, oh, political strategists say, how are you feeling? Like blah blah. He's like,

cause I'm fucking terrified. And so we started talking about the decisions coming down from the Supreme Court and all of these things. And you know, when I tell you that, I am talking to so many different kinds of people, so many different groups of people, and there is not one group that is saying like, oh, don't worry. You know, I feel really good about where we are and I feel good about our chances. Not one fucking person do

I talk to that. That is their response. I told you about going to the White House this week, right to celebrate pride, and my issue and feelings about doing that of feeling you know, very conflicted. Right, And so I'm there, and I'm at the White House and I'm seeing lots of old friends and colleagues and you know, talking to folks, and there was this air of both I don't know, I would say, happiness and joy, you know, to celebrate pride in this big manner at the White House.

It was on the South Lawn, huge guests and just like lots of kids running around and hot dogs. It's just like one big family picnic, is the way that they do lgbtqwo pride at the White House these days, and it's wonderful, right, it's a beautiful experience. But a lot of us attended with our conflicts, and we attended because many people were saying that this could in fact be the last pride that we ever see at the

White House ever again. And so to see the images of the columns of the White House covered in rainbow flags, to see you know, the full inclusive LGBTQ flag flying right on government buildings all around DC, like you realize that this can all go away? Why because it did before, right they took down the LGBTQ site on white House dot gov. When Donald Trump was in there, there were no celebrations that were at the White House for different

communities at all. You know, for every month there is a series of celeb whether it is Black History Month, whether it is Asian Pacific Islander Month, whether it's women's you know, like there are always celebrations, right to recognize different groups and to have, you know, to give them an opportunity to feel right like, this White House is

actually the people's house, all people's homes. So when you look at the ways in which this Supreme Court and the Republican Party is working over time to ensure that we know in no uncertain terms that this country is for white men only, and that everything that they are doing, whether it is the attacks on DEI, the attacks on trans youth, the attacks on LGBTQ people, the attacks on women, so on and so forth, is to make it very apparent that if you do not fall into their protected

class of being wealthy, powerful, sis, hetero white Christian quote unquote men, then you do not belong. I was listening the other fucking day to a clip of Jesse Waters, that fucking dingbat motherfucker who sits on Fox News and runs off his mouth about a whole host of things that he doesn't know about, doesn't understand, but gets paid millions of dollars to lie to millions of people on a regular basis. Refer to Vice President Kamala Harris and

the Biden administration as a DEI administration. And I gotta tell you because they use the word DEI right, like that acronym as a replacement for what they really want to say, which is the N word. And I'm like, say, what's your fucking chest? If that is what you want to say you don't need to use dog whistles anymore, because the hoods are often we know who the fuck you are, right and how you all are re maneuvering.

You don't want black people, women, queer people, or anyone that is getting even an inch closer to having a seat at the fucking table of this country, and in any decision making power, you want it ripped away. And so your code for that is DEI because you believe that the only people that should ever have power, that should ever have authority, and that quote unquote earned it is white men. Let me tell you about a group

that I know that hasn't earned a fucking thing. And I say that and I mean it because without the obstacles, without the gate keeping right, I would like to see exactly how competitive white men in this country would be, because every other group has had to climb over obstacle after obstacle, basically run a fucking steeplechase just to survive.

And the people that have been making the laws since the beginning of time have been white men who own property, whether that property was people, enslaved people, their wives right, or actual what we consider in modern times, property, but without the ability to bar other people from opportunities for generations,

where would white men be. It's a real fucking question, right, if having to compete on merit alone, No lies about who invented what right, No blocking women and black people and people of color from universities, barring them from voting. This is the question that we never ask because they're too busy covering up and lying about the dirt that has been done so that they can stay on top of the pyramid. Because what they don't want is for you to peel back the layers and to ask those

critical questions. So what do they do They get rid of critical thought? Oh that's banned, right, This is damn near nineteen eighty four. Up in this bitch with the thought police. You think it too much, you're out of here. Just keep your head down, your mouth closed, and your eyes closed. Right will tell you where to go. And so I say that very real because I want people

to really consider. Right, you have white supremacist men like Elon Musk and Donald Trump talking about DEI talking about this, that and the other thing, and people who are undeserving. I can think of no other group of people that is undeserving than those that have made their wealth their name off of the backs of other people. So without being handed everything, where would these men be, without having the ability to manipulate laws to protect their greed, Where

would they be? I can tell you where I believe that the rest of us would be. With the ability to afford homes right, having built up communities that weren't burned to the ground by crazed white mobs, black people would have had generational wealth, right, But with generational wealth comes actual power, and they did not want us to have that. People always say, well, why can't black people

do for themselves? Oh no, no, no, they fucking did, and they build grocery stores and barbershops and businesses throughout this country, and they were terrorized and lynched and beaten and dismembered and run out of town because of it. The very last survivors of the Tulsa massacre were just denied the hearing of a case. These one hundred year old people, the least surviving witnesses to the atrocities that were hidden for generations, were denied their hearing to call

for reparations. So the question has always been, oh, what do these communities do for themselves? Oh? No, There are fucking books upon books upon books upon books that can lift up the work that black people had done and have continued to do to build out their communities into thriving spaces until the klu Klux Klan, the White Citizens' Council and craze white mobs who did not want to

compete murdered them and ran them out of town. These are the histories that they do not want you to know because it doesn't fit into the narrative of laziness

of racial superiority. So what this Supreme Court is doing is what has always been done, the protection of white, rich, cis hetero men and their property and the stripping away from those that they don't believe are deserving because you see, affirmative action and all of these other laws that were put into place were to combat the generations of laws that have been on the fucking books that disallowed people

the autonomy to create the American dream for themselves. Instead of reparations, it was affirmative action that was put in place to allow access to higher educations and employment. And so then when black people wanted to create their own schools and do their own thing, those were torched and bombed too. You see the point of white supremacies for black people not to exist, and if they do exist, it is to exist only to be in service to

and of whiteness. Anything outside of that they want to be illegal, and they are doing it one decision at a time and with their lap dog Clarence Thomas leading the way. The other decision that came out was Mtala case that went through the court coming from Idaho. Idaho has a total abortion ban or a nearer total abortion ban. The federal government sued and said that we have provisions in m Tala in emergency cases to preserve the health and well being of a pregnant person. So they sued

the Sate of Idaho. And let me just tell you that who I appreciate right now in one of the decisions in the Amtala case that came down was Katanji Brown Jackson. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, and what she said, because what they did decide in some halfway was that oh, for right now, pregnant people in Idaho get to live for right now. But they didn't actually decide the merits

of the case. And I want to read to you a piece of her descent So to be clear, today's decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay. While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires. This court had a chance to bring clarity and certainty to this tragic situation, and we have

squandered it. And for as long as we refuse to declare what the law requires, pregnant patients in Idaho, Texas and elsewhere will be paying the price because we owe them and the nation an answer to the straightforward preemption question presented in these cases. I respectfully dissent in Layman's terms. These motherfuckers are out here playing games. They're out here playing games with people's lives, whether those people be bleeding

out in an emergency room. They're playing games with doctors' lives who don't know whether to save a patient, which is the oath that they took, or to save themselves from prosecution. Therefore, I can't express to you what a place of discovers we are in in this country, what a place of just absolute embarrassment. What I posted on social media following the decision, which was this, we live in a country where a pregnancy isn't a blessing or a miracle, but a potential death sentence or jail time,

all depending on the whims of nine black robes. It's really sick. The women in Idaho get to live for the moment. How nice. The last thing I will say today, on this fucking Friday, is that there is an ad that is going around on social media and frankly it needs to be everywhere. It is so I don't think folks that people get what is happening. But the ad, which is done so beautifully and I shared it, and it's from Way to Win, which is a national strategy tank.

And in the ad you have this straight couple that is in a car and they're making out, you know, and then the guy says, hey, they're in front of a convenience store. I'll be right back, I'll be quick. Girl's like, okay, she's fixing her, you know, our lipstick. And he runs into the store and he picks up at the front of the counter a pack of condoms and one of those rose roses in a rose in plastic and he puts it down on the counter, and the woman behind the counter says, do you have ID?

And so he's like, you need ID to buy condoms now, and the woman says yeah, Republicans have passed legislation that voted against the Right to Contraception Act. And she's like, I don't make the rules. So then she takes out a clipboard. The woman the sales clerk. She starts asking a lot of questions. Are these cond for use with a spouse? Are you in a committed relationship? Is that relationship monogamous? Is it a heterosexual relationship? And then ask

something about Taylor Swift? Right? Do you listen to Taylor Swift? And then she goes down to listen. She says, oh, I'm sorry, you're not eligible to buy condoms. And he's like what, and she's like, yeah, I don't make the rules. You're not eligible to buy condoms right now, But do

you want the rose? And the ad ends with the black screen that says they haven't come for condoms yet, but they are definitely coming for contraception IVF birth control, and they said, you want to preserve your rights and your privacy and your future vote Democrats. That is an ad that needs to play on every billboard, on every social media platform, on every television station from now until the election. But of course to do so costs money.

But this is what people have to understand. Your lives will change like that if Donald Trump is reelected, if these Republicans gain any more power, and there will be no recourse, much like we are learning with the decisions that are coming down from the Supreme Court for generations to come. If this fucking country does not get its shit together and recognize the existential threat that we are facing, we will be fucked for generations. That's it. So are

you a gambling person or not? That is it for me today, Dear friends on woke a app as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.