The New Dark Ages

I think that they really work to sainwash Donald Trump and Republicans, because Scarsborough is a Republican. And you know what pisces me off about this is that cable news and MSNBC particularly is in a ratings downward spiral. They are in a just a tail spin because following the election two weeks ago, millions of people have tuned them out, and you are seeing that MSNBC's ratings are down by

fifty percent, CNN's ratings down by thirty percent. And you know, many people are thinking that, well, maybe folks are just exhausted and they'll tune back in once the administration takes over. But what we are seeing by Amika and Joe is what folks who study dictatorships and a authoritarianism say not to do. Do not preemptively bend the knee, do not

obey in advance. And what Mika and Joe have done by going over to mar Lago to sit down with Donald Trump, who is called Joe Scarsboa murderer, who has said awful, sexist, misogynistic things about Meka, is that, oh, the door is open, and we're willing to treat your appointees and treat this Trump regime as if it is just a normal function of our democracy and say wash it for the American people as a way to show that, oh, look at us, we exist in the middle. Look at us,

we're objective. And the fact is is that this is as far from objective as you can possibly fucking get. They are not objective, right, They are in the business of cya covering their own asses. And so by virtue of seeing this, the leading show on MSM make this decision. Folks. You know where this is headed. You know that MSNBC is most likely going to make a hard pivot for the right. And this is what Democrats have done over

the last decade. This is why you see that progressives have wanted to abandon this party, vote third party, or not vote at all. And it's because as Republicans became more and more radicalized, more and more extreme in their policy views, in their ideology, Democrats have just followed behind them at what they believe is a safe distance. But it actually hasn't been because it has compromised our democracy entirely as they continue to search for the white voter

to come back to them. And so here you are right where I will tell you this. I do not think that after tuning out cable news for however many weeks that it's been right now about two weeks in time, that people are going to then say to themselves, you know,

I think I'm ready to ingest poison again. I think that what is ultimately going to happen is that those people in this interim have either just jumped ship altogether from ingesting the news, or they have found independent media outlets like podcasts, YouTube, where voices like mine and many

others exist. Because we saw the writing on the wall for cable news a long time ago, and with now the announcement of a Brendan Carr taking over the FCC and saying that he is going to use the authority of the FCC not to increase broadband or increase speed or compete with other countries in terms of what it is that we're doing with telecommunications. No, he is going to go after networks and go after places and spaces that have elevated the voices of diverse people and underserved communities.

And instead he's going to weaponize these agencies that want to be able to tell the truth about what is happening inside of this regime. He's going to take away licenses, he's going to bring lawsuits. And so again I've been saying this for how long, guys, that if Donald Trump were to ever sees power again, we would see the end of democracy as we know it. And that is exactly where we are. So I don't know why anybody, because there's all this outrage on the internet right now

around Mika and Joe. How dare they? How could they? And I'm like, y'all run the tapes. They've been like this, they've been doing this. But what you were going to see is more capitulation, right, is more organizations, more networks, and more people who are going to turn their backs on the truth, who are going to turn their backs on their journalistic integrity, all for the sake of saving their own asses at the expense of educating the American public.

And you know this is and I say this, I don't know how many times, this is how democracies die. And our democracy, for all intensive purposes, folks, is dead right when you have the amount of voter suppression that we've seen take place, the gutting of the Civil Rights Act, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and now you have all of these champions of extremism taking over some of our most important agencies, Like what do we expect is going to happen over the next four years? America

is being hollowed out by the inside out. The keys of the kingdom have been given to Republican extremists, and all we can do is basically hold on. But here's the reality, and this is what we talked about last week on wokef everybody's not making it so, whether it be the deregulation that we are going to see at the hands of the FDA and Health and Human services,

that again is going to make America sicker. Whether it's going to be at the hands of the National Intelligence Director, who is going to give our most intimate and deepest secrets of American operations over to our biggest enemies right in Tulca, Gabbard, whether we're going to see how again the Department of Justice is not going to be looking out for the American people. It is going to be Donald Trump's legal arm for the folks that voted for disruption.

They wanted to disrupt the status quo. And oh everything was about the economy and Democrats just didn't speak to the economy. Give me a fucking break, because what these people are now getting is not going to be disruption of the status quo. It is going to be a destruction of our democracy, of our constitution, of our free

and fair society. That is what is happening. And you know, Americans are going to be sicker, They're going to be broke, They're going to be unhinged, a more violent because our resources are going to dwindle, right, And so I'm just like, you know, and what's going to happen as what is already evidence is that some people are waking up and they're like, oh, man, I didn't vote for this, this isn't what I wanted. Well, this is now what we're

all in for. And you know, I just it breaks my heart because I had more faith in the American people than I should have. I genuinely thought that there were more good people, thoughtful people, strategic people, then there

were those that really just cared about themselves. Because at the end of the day, it is selfishness that won in this election, because if you were thinking collectively minded, then someone like Donald Trump would have never come into your consciousness because he had already talked about attacking the most vulnerable, he had already talked about attacking the most marginalized.

He's made targets of every single community that is not white, right, and so just by that alone, America should have been like, no, we don't want this person. This is not who we are and this is not who we want to be. But because Donald Trump said, don't worry, I'm just gonna hurt the people that you don't like, Americans said, yeah,

go do that. So here we are with you know, about two months until it is full steam ahead with PROJECTI twenty twenty five becoming institutionalized across this country, where no one will have any safety nets or outlets to go to and look towards for their information, for their health and well being. And you know, it's so frustrating because it didn't have to be this way, and there are so many millions of people are going to be

so harmed by this. Just thinking about Donald Trump saying this week that he is going to utilize the US military in order to deport eleven million Americans, and by the way, that number continues to grow every time somebody from his administration speaks, and they're going to utilize the military and the National Guard, and he's going to declare an emergency, and people are going to be scooped up at schools and workplaces and churches and in the streets, and it will be a mix, right of those that

they want to denaturalize for this country. And people will say, oh, well, you know, I'm certain it will just be those that have that you know, just got here and just got their naturalization. No, it won't, folks. And again I've talked about this on the Danielle Moody Show. I talked about this horrible, disgusting operation that was called Operation wetback in the nineteen fifties that rounded up a million Mexican migrants

and disappeared people. This is something that was done before, right, and you can see where the American mindset was just by the title of the operation. So I continue to say that Donald Trump is not doing anything new. He is just resurrecting old laws that we actually never got rid of, and we never put any safeguards into our system to make sure that they couldn't be resurrected in

the first place. You know what I've learned over the last decade of covering Trumps and the rise of MAGA is that too many of what we thought were actual laws in this country were just political norms that were easily disrupted by someone that is criminally minded, somebody that is only in it for themselves. Never before had we seen a presidency that was totally in it for the grift, totally in it for the power over rather than the power with. That is this sole difference between autocracies and

democracies is that an autocrat wants power over right. In a democracy, a president wants power with and sees their role as protecting their constituents protecting the citizens of this country, all of them. But that's no longer where we are. And so when we're in this moment and we see the writing on the wall, we know in many ways how this story ends, right, And I have to tell you that I cannot express it enough that people need

to fortify themselves. I am about to go through a series of doctor's appointments because as an entrepreneur, I get

my healthcare through the marketplace in New York. And they are going to eliminate the ACA, which means that people like me, I am one of the twenty million or twenty seven million Americans that will lose their healthcare right when this trifecta of power that the Republicans now have decide that they are going to repeal the ACA and by the way, put nothing in its place, right, so that is already going to ensure that tens of millions of Americans are sick and will see the emergency room

as their primary care physician. Right on top of which you were talking about raising of the retirement age, gutting of Social Security, gutting of Medicaid, right creating the conditions for absolute despair in this country. We've seen this done before, we just have not seen it done in America. Right now, they are talking about the fact that Russia is on the verge of like an economic collapse because the price of food has soared like twenty some odd percent over

the last year. No one can buy homes right, debt has soared. And what does Putent care. He does not care about his people. He cares about the oligarch. He cares about his ability to continue to make money. He cares about his ability to gobble up Europe and recreate the USSR. This is who American Republicans are modeling themselves after, a man that has completely and totally gutted his country.

You know, the term eat the rich comes from when the fat cats become so fucking greedy and there is absolutely nothing for anyone else, and then the people turn on them. And that's where I fear that America is headed. In this place that we have been told is so abundant, and yet we don't feed the poor, and yet we

don't take care of our most vulnerable. The people that are going to make out the most in Donald Trump's regime, the prison industrial complex, because crime is going to soar because when people have limited amount of resources, they will resort to anything in order to provide for themselves, and the media is just going to go along with it, right and say that this is normal. So, folks, what I will tell you is make your doctor's appointments, make

arrangements for yourselves and your family. Right if you were in a mixed status household, I told people, you know, contact an immigration attorney so that you understand or have a plan of operation in place. If January twenty first, twenty twenty five, your loved ones are scooped up, right, so you know where to go and what to do. The road ahead is incredibly dark and incredibly bumpy, and all we can do in the next two months is try and prepare as much as possible for the next

iteration of the dark Ages. I don't know for how long a free press is going to exist. I don't know for how long free speech is going to exist. But these are the first things to go. And we've already seen signs that our biggest agencies, this entire government is going to be weaponized against the people of the United States, And so you need to protect yourselves in

the best way possible. You know, the last thing that I will say today is that over the weekend was with my friends and their you know, very small children, and I'm looking at these, you know, three year olds, five year olds, and I'm just like, I'm scared for them because the America that they're getting ready to grow up in is light years away from what we all grew up in and knowing this safety that we felt, the security that we felt that came with being American.

And I say this, folks, as a black queer person that understands very much in the ways that government has been weaponized against black people, against indigenous people, Like I know all of these things to be true, but still, the possibility of America was greater than many of its missteps. But now the possibility is gone. And I don't know how we exist in a space and in a country

where hopefulness is being squeezed out. So when I talk about fortifying, I mean figuring out what resistance looks like for you, looks like for your family. Right, if your children are not going to be given the rigorous public education that is going to allow them to be globally competitive, then what are you doing? How are you supplementing their education in your home? Right? Because everybody can't afford tutors. So the pain that we're in for in the next

four plus years is going to have generational impact. And I don't yet think that Americans really understand and can wrap their minds around where everything is headed in the next two months. But it's extraordinary and all I can say, friends is fortify and buckle up. That is it for me today here on wok F as always Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.