There is No Middle Ground

they've been doing. So if you remember, like take a walk back to your youth, right to the Republicans of yesteryear, whose slogan was about small government, right, that they didn't want government intrusion. And I would argue that today's libertarians or whoever those people are that still identify as libertarians, are roughly what the earlier machination of the Republican Party was. It was like small government, no government overreached, the government's

too much in my business, YadA, YadA, YadA. Now, right, you can see by virtue of what is happening across multiple red states, right, and a majority of her states in this country. I believe it's about thirty eight states are it's definitely over thirty are controlled by Republican governors, and you have this matchup between Florida and Texas, between death Santis and Abbott on who can be the worst? Right, It's like Texas will do something egregious and then Florida's like, wait,

hold my beer, let me do something. You'reconian. Oh wait hold my beer, I can one up you. And it seems to be this continued one uping of how horrible

can be for your constituents. Right, So, to make matters even worse, We've been talking a lot on woke a f with abortion advocates, with abortion storytellers, talking about prior to the dab's decision, which totally got rid of, wiped out, decimated, destroyed a nearly fifty year precedent with Roe v. Wade, and then following the decision, We've talked with a lot of people and the thing that I have been most upset about is the lack of urgency, and not only

the lack of urgency from the Biden administration, but just the lack of strategy altogether. When we think about when the leaked document came out, we had at least a two and a half month lead on what we knew could potentially be coming down the pike. And I know if it was just this hopeful nature of Democrats to think like, oh no, no, they would never do that, even though it was written in black and white, over ninety eight pages exactly what it was that they were

going to do. But this administration waited until after the fact to even put together a task force to we even start to think about, well, what can we do?

And my anger and frustration comes because I'm just like, not only did they give you a two months plus lead time to the destruction that a reversal of this magnitude was going to have on this country immediately in the states that all had trigger laws for Robie Wade, But if you really think about it, y'all had like five decades lead because Republicans never stopped organizing in plain sight saying that their number one objective, which they finally

got after fifty years, was to overturn Roe v. Wade. So again, confused about the lack of decision to codify Roe v. Wade when we did have a supermajority for the brief time that we did in the Obama administration, and why Democrats have always stayed away from doing what was right by taking those measures because they're so concerned with their present day power they can't fathom what could

potentially be coming down the road. And therein lies my problem with the fucking Democratic Party, which is, if you at this stage, having lived through the last several years under Donald Trump and Trump is um if you are not well aware of the lengths that Republicans are willing to go in order to secure their power. I don't know what else it is to tell you, and I don't know how else to ring the alarm. So let

me ring this alarm. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who, by the way, apparently some point in time was fucking indicted, but then the DOJ took forever to put his trial together. Nonetheless, Ken Paxton and the state of Texas are suing the

Biden administration. Why are they suing the Biden administration because one of the pushbacks that Biden did have in his toolbox was to have HHS say that all places, all states, all areas that are receiving federal money under HHS guidelines must if the life of the pregnant person is at risk right due to a complicated emergency situation in their pregnancy, then an abortion must and should be an option, and

that that is directly in HHS guidelines. So Texas which was one of the first states to have their six week abortion ban, which again, for those of you who have never had a menstrual cycle, most people do not know that they are fucking pregnant after six weeks. It takes you to miss said period, and many pregnant, many people who have the ability to get pregnant miss periods. Right, that is just part of cycles, and so or they come late or what have you. So they had a

six week ban. They then institute their vigilante band. But now Ken Paxton is saying, oh no, no, no, that's not enough. We don't give a fuck if anyone's life is at risk of at all. There is no there is no where what Republicans are saying, and let me just say this and no on certain terms, there is no middle ground. There is no where to meet these people. Right. Rape is on the table, incest is on the table, death of the pregnant person is on the table. There

is nowhere to go. They see absolutely no exception needing to be made and they don't give a fuck if your life is going to be at risk, so long as they can preserve a collection of cells. So you breathing, living, heart,

pounding human that is breathing oxygen. We could give a fuck so long as we can preserve these cells, or it actually doesn't even matter, because Danielle Campamore, our friend and writer for The Today Show, has also said for today dot Com has also lifted up a story about a woman who is pregnant was received information living in a red stack that her pregnancy was not going to make it determine it was not. It is not a viable pregnancy. She cannot get an abortion. The baby is

not going to make it right. And so this woman is essentially walking around with a living with a living coffin inside of her, right, Like, can you imagine that the state is getting to decide your emotional and physical well being, that they are forcing this woman to continue each day carrying a baby inside of her that is

not going to make it. Just just think about receiving that news right and then feeling like, my God, I need to make this decision as soon as possible, because I need at some point not only to begin my physical healing process, but to begin my emotional and mental healing process. And the State's saying no, you should continue to suffer because that's what's happening. And Ken Paxton and the state of Texas have basically said to every person who can become pregnant in that state, fuck you, that's

what That's what they've said. So they're gonna sue hhs and say, oh, no, you have government overreach. They have the federal government has overreach and ensuring that the life of the person that is carrying said baby should supersede the baby that has yet to be born. And again, I use baby right now because I'm using the language of what Ken Paxson is saying. This is not what this is, and this is the trap that we all

fall into. But the reality is that when we then say callous, they put on us this callousness that we do not care about life. And the reality is that we have not found the way to say, are you

fucking kidding me? You don't care about life? Do you see the pushback that is happening right now, the backtracking, I should say, with Republicans and outlets like the disgusting Wall Street Journal who had the audacity to put together an op ed about the ten year old girl that was raped in Ohio and then they put out an op ed that said, oh, this abortion, this story is just too good to be true, too good to be true.

How the fuck? What kind of human being would even think to write something like that without doing any verification. And the trauma that we just repeatedly put rape and incests victims through in this country before Rovie Wade was reversed is disturbing and disgusting. But then to write quote unquote think pieces to provide your opinion and then lo

and behold, what do we find out? Oh, the ten year old girl who was six weeks and three days pregnant so was not able to get an abortion in Ohio then has to be taken across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion there. Her rapist, by the way, was caught confessed she was raped on two different occasions. Now the state Republican ag in Indiana has decided to investigate the doctor that did the abortion. What the fuck? Oh, because the doctor should have turned away the ten year

old girl. That's right, because we don't care. In this country, white sis men in power could care less, right, I mean, we know this country is patriarchal. We know that is built upon on misogyny. But a ten year old girl conservative quote unquote conservative fascists can't find it, can't find the ticking in their own heart to think about their own fucking kids, their own families. No, and what gets me, folks, is that Democrats will not use this. No, they will

not use this for mid terms. They will not tell stories over and over again that will run on your television that tell you exactly who the Republicans are. Oh, by the way, one hundred and sixty eight Republicans voted against an active shooter bill that was put out because we shouldn't be putting out alerts apparently about active shooters.

What the fuck? How do we allow this crystal fascist cult to continue to control this country and not even so much as message in a way that should run over and over and over again that they don't care about life, they don't care about your kids. We just got new video of the Uvaldi police doing not a fucking thing as nineteen children and their teachers were murdered. The video shows which was edited, by the way, to take out the sounds of screaming children. And I say,

for whose benefit? For whose benefit was that? I'm sure as fuck. It was not the parents benefit. I'm pretty sure it was for the benefit of the police and

the benefit of the fucking governor. Oh let them not hear the screaming children that those police officers surely fucking heard as they were sitting out putting hand sanitizer on their hands and looking at their phones, fully in combat gear, and then denying parents who are running into the building with absolutely nothing on but just the fire inside them to go rescue their children and do the job that

cops don't want to do. But these are the same people, the same politicians who vote against legislation to keep your children safe, to take weapons of war off the street. And they turn around and they say, oh, no, you know what we should do. We should arm teachers. Motherfucker. You arm cops and they don't do a fucking thing, But now you expect teachers to do more than the

police officers do. Right, every single one of those Uvaldi police officers should be charged as an accessory to murder nineteen counts, every single one of them that were called to the scene of rob elementary school. Every single one of them should lose their fucking jobs. Their pension should go to those families, and they should be tried as accessories to murder because that is what they are. How we continue to take the word of police officers to

hold them in some high esteem. And the question that I ask is why, why are they deserving? Because I can name at least five things that have happened this fucking month, and the month is not even halfway over yet, that have happened that show us that police officers in this country not only should they not be able to carry guns, they shouldn't have the protection of qualified immunity.

That every time that they empty out their cartridges into the bodies of unarmed black people, every single one of those bullets should carry a year, two, three, four, five years in jail when it comes out that they emptied their weapon on the wrong person or an unarmed person. That every time, for every make an example. You know, this government always wants to make an example of black and brown people, never want to make an example of

white people that just get away literally with murder. It's amazing. I have people, you know. The other day I had posted my video on TikTok about the valdiol Please, if you're not following me on TikTok, I'm at Danielle Moody Underscore totally follow me there. I'm having the most fun. When I posted this video about the Uvaldi police and somebody in my comments who I later blocked, said the way that you go after police and then you expect them to protect you. Wait what so oh they didn't.

They didn't pledge an oath to protect and serve. It's contingent upon my attitude. So if I'm nice, if I kiss their ass, if I beg right for dignity and respect, you mean that, then I'll be deserving of the protection that my tax dollars pay for. Is that how that works? I don't fucking think so, Hey there, I want to tell you about another podcast I think you'll love. The Brown Girl's Guide to Politics, hosted by a Shanty Goehler,

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wild as the sixth hearing that featured Cassidy Hutchinson. But folks, I want to tell you that that December eighteenth meeting that we learned about that fucking as Cassidy Hutchinson said in her text messages, the unhinged meeting, you know it would read Axios did a fantastic like thirteen minute read or thirteen minute listen on exactly what went down in the West Wing and then would later continue on into

the Presidential residence on that night. And how these people Sidney Powell, Juliani, Mark Flynn, the fucking overstocked guy, and whoever else were able to just mosey on into the White House just shows you what a loose operation that they were running over there. But nonetheless, Sidney Powell, I am just so confused about how this woman got a

law degree. I really am, because even like the accusations, the baseless accusations that she was throwing around in the West Wing about we need to seize the machines because they're corrupted from Venezuela, and I have the evidence. And Pat Sippoloni, White House counsel, whose video we watched during the seventh Congression the seventh Congressional hearing, is like, oh, you have evidence, show me. Oh you you have real evidence, show me, because that's what we're looking for. But you

have no evidence. Everything that you were saying is bullshit. But then I want people to understand the mindset of these people who were surrounding Donald Trump and how they feed into Donald Trump's megalomania. The man was clearly desperate and unhinged, right, that is the only way to think about Donald Trump in the days following the election, following

the certification, leading into the inauguration. This was a man that was literally grasping at straws and just wanted to hear from anybody, didn't matter who it was, didn't matter if they made sense at all, didn't matter if there was a legal route to take, so long as they would tell him, I am fighting for you. You're going to remain president. We still have a path to victory. What are you talking about? There was no path. Mark Meadows,

My god, Mark Meadows. If Mark Meadows does not get indicted by the Department of Justice, among many other people, but him in particular, I really have no faith then, no faith in this Justice Department, no faith in government. Right, we might as well all develop our own compounds, have our own laws, and just govern ourselves, which is essentially where we're headed. Parable of the Sewer, if you didn't read it yet, will be a really good guide and

necessary for this next phase of America. But Mark Meadows, knowing that these people are absolute crackpots, says, oh well, I'm going to find a constitutional loophole. I'm sorry, Is Mark Meadows a constitutional scholar, and so Mark Meadows also only gets his power from being a leech onto Donald Trump. All of these people do, and is busy just trying to find some random loophole in the constitution that allows

Donald Trump to rule like a king. Thank God that the founding Fathers, in some way, shape or form kind of sorder foresaw a Donald Trump coming, but clearly not good enough because with these original lists that are now overseeing our country from there, from upon high at the Supreme Court. You know, I don't even think that if this case, say, say go on this walk with me.

If Donald Trump and all of his lackeys that were criming in the fucking Oval Office, criming all over that White House were the masterminds of the violent insurrection, donald Trump knew what was happening. Not only did Donald Trump know it was Plan B right, Plan A was all of the lawsuits that were laughed out of court, according to Axios. Sidney Powell then says, when she's called out in the Oval Office on the day December eighteenth meeting, all of the judges are corrupt. We can't trust any

of them. One of White House staff says, even the ones that we appointed, the ones that are laughing you out of court? You mean those we can't trust either, they're also right doing something, they're they're also corrupt. What are you talking about? And is this your basis for everything? That everyone needs to be replaced in every such place and run by you lunatics, which is essentially what she wanted.

She was going to be named some type of general counsel within the Department of Justice so that she could lead up the Voting Task Force. What and then when Trump is told once again by I guess the kind of rational people in the room, you can't do that. That is actually the Attorney General would be able to make that appointment happen, and that's not happening. First you try with Jeffrey Clark, and everybody in the DOJ is like,

so we're out. If that's the move that you're going to make, is to get rid of Bill Barren these last couple of weeks and then install Jeffrey Clark and then install Sydney Powell, and then somehow Donald Trump was going to remain president of the United States? Like, was that the timeline? Was that the chain reaction that we were looking at that they were looking for, folks, If you have not read the Axios article by all means like it would. It would be amazing entertainment. It reads

like murder, she wrote, without the murder. It's like an Agatha Christie novel right the way that it reads, And it would be amazing entertainment. If I don't know, our democracy wasn't hanging in the balance as to whether or not the Department of Justice is going to wake the fire up and actually do their job. The other thing that I keep hearing come out from cable news outlets is asking questions to legal analysts about whether or not the Department of Justice will indict Donald Trump, and if

that indictment will be bad for the country. I'm sorry, what, what the fuck do you think could be worse than

what is happening right now? You mean, holding the rich white man accountable for obstructing justice, for seditious conspiracy, for fraud, for all of the things would do more harm than not holding said person accountable and then blatantly telling the American people what we already know is that there are multiple tracks of justice, and unless you have the bank account to match the first track, you will always end

up in jail, right, Because that's how it works. If you are poor and you are a person of color, you have no defense, right you are a criminal from the jump. But if you have the complexion for the protection and then the bank account right for that, oh, then we'll just look the other way. That's essentially the question that's being asked on cable news, and I wish that they would just stop beating around the bush and say the fucking truth. The country will not be harmed

if a former twice impeached criminal is fucking indicted. It would give us hope that everything hasn't crumbled to the ground, that maybe, just maybe our democracy can hang on just a little bit longer because we are dusting off the fucking like the grinders and like going back to work to protect this country from another Donald Trump who was smarter, which is not that fucking hard to do, because you've seen the battle, like I said earlier, that is going

on between depth Santis and Abbott. These are the people that would be a part of a Republican open primary against Joe Biden, if God damn it he runs in twenty twenty four. They're younger, they're smarter, they've actually been career politicians, and they have the same sick ideology as Donald Trump. So if you are not signaling to the people that are coming behind Trump, that are literally riding his wings, then you basically just said it's open season

for anybody. That's what you just said. And I don't know if the Department of Justice has wrapped their fucking minds around this yet, but that's what they're doing. Lastly, folks, I wrote a piece in The Daily Beast this week talking about Biden and the fact that it's not too late for Democrats to fight and to win midterm elections. That we don't just have to acquiesce and resign ourselves to losing, because that's what happens when the party in

power goes up in midterms. Right, it doesn't have to be the way, But if we do not make a serious pivot, a serious shift, and start to embrace the younger upstarts that actually have the pulse of the people, like AOC, like Corey Bush, like Jamal Bowman and others, Right, if we if this administration and democratic establishment that are well into their seventies and eighties do not begin to

embrace and lift up those younger voices. There's another article in the New York Times today that says Generation Z ain't trying to fuck with Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment. Right the poll that came out with New York Times in Sienna said ninety four percent of Generation Z, the generation that is thirty and below, it's not trying to fuck with this administration, and just you know, as a

heads up as well, something that really struck me. They don't really have a strong memory, particularly those in their twenties, of America's good old days. We've pretty much been handing them a pile of shit since they were born, from climate change to voter suppression to now that not being able to get an abortion right, to everything just worsening to the rise of fascism and white supremacy. Like we are handing them a shit sandwich. So if they opt

out altogether, where does that leave us? And what I said in my piece at the Daily Beast right now

is that there is still time. But instead of calling out activists as the Biden administration chose to do following the Road decision and say that those that are calling for him to do more are quote unquote out of step with mainstream Democrats, this entire establishment is out of step with fucking reality, and there's just a handful of weeks for them to get their shit together before it's November. That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke app as always, Power to the people and to all

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