Tsunami of Hate

if you will, the unraveling is picking up steam. And by that I mean that I have inside of me when things start to pick up pace, my reaction is not to try and keep pace with it any longer.

And this is something that I've taken through my time during COVID, which is, I, you know, like some of you had the privilege to slow down, had the privilege to work from home and to develop a whole new type of way of working that didn't involve being in person, And so by virtue of that, there was an ability to kind of get off of the treadmill and create a different pace for the work that I do and largely what I am feeling and what I'm sensing is like,

as we get closer and closer to this election, as Donald Trump's trials start to take place, is that there is this frenetic energy that is expanding, for lack of a better term, And you know that frenetic energy. It is that very busy, very impulsive energy that just kind of grows, and if you're not paying attention to it, it can consume you. And then all of a sudden, you feel yourself rushing, and you feel yourself agitated, and you feel your anxiety growing, and you feel your foundation

being shaken. And what I want to offer to myself as well as to all of you, is that that is part of their plan. Part of the plan of flooding the zone and throwing everything at the wall is to create a dizzy frenzy of disaster, of doom, of grief, of pain. If you can keep people in a frenzy,

then all they spend their time doing is reacting. They don't have time to think, they don't have time to plan, they don't have time to develop anything, because all you're doing is reacting to the frenzy and anticipating that frenzy. And what that robs you of is your piece. What that robs you of is your imagination. And those are the two tools that are needed and required for innovation

this moment that we're in. I think that a lot of people across a lot of different movements inside and outside of the Democratic Party believe that fighting is going to be the only tool that we have. That we need to respond to everything, which is fucking impossible in order to keep pace with their crazy Right, we got to match their energy. We got to match their pace, We got to match their intensity. And what I am saying,

I'm going to offer something that is radical. How about no, how about when they speed up, we slow down and become a lot more thoughtful and methodical about what it is that we're doing and what it is that we're trying to do. In the first place. It isn't just to stop Republicans from their assault on our democracy, on freedom, on our rights, our values. It isn't just to stop them in this moment. It is for us to actually create and design the world that we want to live in.

And we cannot do that if we are constantly reacting to their bullshit. Now, look, there are people whose role it is to respond quickly, right to be in every single aspect of the quote unquote, No, that is not everybody's role. Some people's role is to pause, to think, to plan, to dream, to imagine, to create something different. And I offer this because I think that as we watch the headlines get worse and worse and worse, there is this desire for us to respond and meet their

aggression with more aggression. And look, if you've listened to me long enough, you know that what I'm stating right now is kind of a departure from the ways in which I open this show back in twenty seventeen on you know, we got to match their might. We gotta you know, when they go low, we go like. You know that we have to continue pushing, pushing, pushing at the same pace. And what I'm realizing is that one we don't have the fuel for that, and two, that

is how we all burn the fuck out. Everyone's role at this time is going to be different. And I think that the work that we're finding is what is your role right? Where do you feel like you can have impact? Because folks, pushing against this tsunami of hate requires more than our usual direct action. And I came out of a conversation most recently where people are looking for another alternative for a pivot, but our concern earned and have guilt and are worried about what the repercussions

of making that pivot are. For me to say that things feel like they're speeding up, and my response to that is to slow down. Well, what if I get left behind? What if I don't get the breaking news as soon as it happens, and then I can't put out a response and I can't do this, that and the other thing. And folks, the question that we need to have ask ourselves is what is the impact that we want? This is the question that I want the Biden administration to ask themselves. What is the impact that

we want? What is a story that we actually want to tell and to be told about this time? This is a time folks that let me tell you, you can feel it and sense it that it is pivotal that we are and have reached acrossroads. And I don't want to be pushed at anyone else's pace in deciding how I'm choosing to move at this moment, because it's too consequential. And so we are coming up on six months, six months until potentially everything that we've ever known and

understood about America changes forever. It is already changed in ways that I think that we refuse to acknowledge. It is changed because of a global health pandemic. It is changed because of the climate crisis. It has changed because of the rise in white supremacy. It has changed, and because of the pasm between the haves and the have not. It has changed and continues to change because, as Octavier Butler wrote Imparable of the Sewer, the only constant thing

that we have is change. But when I talk about the change that will happen and so quickly, if Donald Trump becomes president again, what those coming days will look like, I don't think that folks are prepared. And so how

do you prepare? You think you plan? You start to ask really important questions, right because what I've been reading, you know of, just like times in Germany and what happened in Austria and what happened in these countries in the nineteen thirties with the rise of Hitler, is that people were not prepared for how fast things were going

to move. They thought that they had more time. And what I'm saying is, if we are not going to use this pre time not to work ourselves into a frenzy, but to plan for multiple scenarios of the what ifs, the very real what ifs, folks, Because this is not hyperbolic.

I think that so many people believe that because they made it out of the first Trump administration, which mind you, hundreds of thousands of people did not, because Donald Trump downplayed the global health pandemic that by the time he left off had already killed half a million people that he just didn't care about. And by the way, we don't acknowledge at all. That being said, now is the time to think about the fact that this time around,

there are no adults in the room. This time around, they would be going for blood from everyone this time around. I'm reading reports that just broke as I was coming to record that the potential Secretary of Treasury under Trump wants to devalue the dollar in order to boost exports. And that's incredibly risky to do and will probably be looked down upon, you know, by Wall Street and you know the likes. But what would that mean to regular folks that don't have their money wrapped up in Wall

Street and in exports? Right A Secretary of Education that would essentially divert all public school funding and resources to charter schools and religious institutions. The closing down of historically black colleges and universities that receive a large amount of

their money from the federal government. What happens to nonprofit organizations that are LGBTQ black that also receive government grants this time around, when they've spent the last year two three criminalizing DEI and black and around people, queer people, et cetera. Folks, I don't think that people recognize that.

I would rather be really thoughtful in the next six months about planning for the best and worst case scenarios then being caught out in the wind because we won't have time then and all of the things that we are watching play out on our screens right now, and we're still fairly far geographically removed from the wars that we are seeing play out. I mean, there's a movie right now called Civil War that I'm not going to

go see. Everybody tells me, Oh, it's really great, and it'll probably get nominated for all these things, but I don't need to go see what I feel like I'm living through right now. For entertainment purposes, because they're nothing entertaining at all about the way that I've been feeling.

And so, rather than just trying to move and jump to the next thing, I am taking the time to pause, to reflect, and to think about the next few months, the next crucial six months of America, my family, my friends, my work, and I want everyone to do the same thing, because if Donald Trump and the Republicans sink their claws into the White House are able to hold on to the House and take back the Senate, Folks, our marching

won't matter, Our boycotts won't matter. The decision to throw away your vote on a third candidate won't matter because

it will be done. And so rather than spending time with frenetic energy and just spinning our wheels and trying to respond in every which way to everything that is happening, I'm going to encourage us to take some time to pause and to really think and to plan with our families, with our friends, particularly those of us from vulnerable populations, targeted populations, about what your plans are, because I will

tell you it will not be business as usual. Will the camps open the next day, maybe not, but will executive order can shut down America can shut down, borders can shut down certain populations, can name people as enemies of the state, right, like, I want us to have plans. This is not to be an ominous episode of this show, but it is to be a very real one because I think that some of the conversations that I'm having with people that are a lot more in the know,

they're not good conversations. And I would be doing a disservice to all of you if I didn't implore you at this time to really start to think. Put it this way, if Joe Biden is able to win, right, if democracy is able to hang on, I want you to think back to January sixth, and I want you to understand that even if Biden wins, we are going to be in a dangerous, dangerous, highly contentious several months following the election, and folks need to prepare for that.

And so some of you will, you know, ask me in the comment section under this video, or get at me on social media on x at D two cents, on Instagram at D two cents and on TikTok. Danielle Moody underscore and I get at me. Ask the questions right, and I will do my best to provide answers and resources.

But what I will say, folks, is that the Heritage Foundation's Project twenty twenty five lays out not their plan for the election, that lays out their plan for America for the next like fifty sid years, and it is

dark and it doesn't include many of us. So it is incredibly important that we take this time that is in front of us and ask ourselves and our families, and our friends and our community some real questions about what happens after the election and what you're prepared for or not, because I think that it is going to be really important, and now is the time when we still have that time on our side to plan. So that is what I offer to you on this wook Wednesday.

You know, when I start seeing you know, when we know how the Supreme Court is moving, we know how the court system is working to the benefit of Donald Trump and his sycophants. You know, they're starting to feel very confident, you know, about the directions that they're moving in, and I want us to feel the same. That is it for me today, dear friends on wokef As always, power to the people, and to all the people power, get woke and stay wop as fuck.