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the New York Times of watching. But let these places die the fuck out because they contribute absolutely nothing. And what do I mean by that, Well, let me just say this that over the last two weeks since the debate, we have watched stochastic terrorism turn into real world terrorism in Springfield, Ohio. We have watched the manipulation by Donald Trump and JD. Vance in the media choose their words to make the Haitian immigrant community the target of their

latest stream of racist attacks. We have watched the media parrot the white supremacist statements by JD. Vance and Donald Trump as if to suggest that maybe there is some merit into the conversation, or, as Jady Vance told Dana Bash, the narrative that he's trying to create, or let me just cut through all of that and say the lies that he's trying to spin. Because even when called out by the media and asked, where are you getting your

information from? Cause it's not the officials in Ohio, in Springfield, Ohio, it's not coming from the mayor, it's not coming from the police department. And Jady Vance's response, well, some of my constituents, because they're investigative reporters now right, Like, so that's where the sitting junior senator from Ohio is getting his information that he is spreading to millions of people.

And so I look at these outlets and the fact that and we've talked about this, the Saine washing that has been done to kind of search through the absolute mess and chaos and incoherent rambling narrative of Donald Trump to try and piece together some sort of analysis, some sort of policy measures that he may be talking about when he's talking about how to elector or electric sharks or whatever it is that comes to his stream of consciousness.

But when faced with when these media outlets are faced with very easy to connect horrible, dehumanizing rhetoric, make the connection to real world threats. They seem to just like lose themselves. They just don't know what to do. And so I'm saying to folks, you know what, get out of these places, unsubscribe because I'm just so exhausted with their And it's not even an inability, so let me not even call that, right. They just don't want to.

It's not that they don't know how, they just don't want to connect the dots for you, because what's better for their bottom line is this bullshit horse race that they're trying to present to the American people as if these two parties are the same, you have one that is readily contributing to a rise in political violence against whatever group they deem to be poisoning the blood of this country to be unacceptable or un American. That day, I was thinking about this because I've talked about it

multiple times now on different shows. Right, and here's the thing. Twenty fifteen, Donald Trump comes down that TACKI golden escalator, Right, who is he talking about Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers coming across our borders? Then it is Muslims. He gets into office and it's the Muslim pan We can't have these people in our country, right, because it's a quote unquote Christian nation and all of these countries are terrible.

So Mexicans twenty sixteen, Muslims twenty seventeen. Then where does Donald Trump go? Shithole countries? Right, African nations? Then where does Donald Trump go? Oh, it's COVID and so we're going to start calling it kung flu and the China flu. And what are we seeing in each of these instances? What follows the rise in violence against the community that he is targeting? Then after Asian Americans are the targets and being attacked, then where does he go? Trans people right,

the LGBTQ community. Then it's bomb threats at drag Story times right, and libraries are shutting down and going on lockdowns. Then where does he go? Right? Next up on the hit list literally Haitians right, who are in this country legally?

I don't need to say that because you know, frankly, I don't actually give a fuck, but it is important because what most sane people think is that, regardless of your citizenship status, you should not live a life that is unsafe because of the rhetoric from one of the biggest politicians with siny million followers, who at the drop

of a hat says, go take your country back. And then what do those people do attack the Capitol building each of these instances, each of these groups that I named, It doesn't matter whether or not you identify with any of them. What matters is you're next in the queue.

Your number will be called to. And you know who's not alerting people to that mainstream corporate media because they would rather print bullshit that jd Vance says, like these two attempted assassination attempts on Donald Trump are because of Democrat rhetoric. Sir, do you think that we're stupid? Because

I believe that they do. I believe that they think that we're dumb and that we don't know who not only lights the spark, who drops it into the bonfire, who blows the air on it and pours gasoline everywhere? It's the Republican Party. So you can't continue to navigate and tell the stories about the importance of this election without telling people the truth. And this is why I

tell you to divest. Go to places like social media, YouTube podcasters like myself, right, like, go to spaces where you can find trusted voices that are going to tell you the truth, because these places, these legacy spaces, are paid to fucking live to you. I just in an interview for my other show, The New Abnormal, right, and I'm talking to this guest and he said something so

good and I want to repeat it here. David Rothkoff, who is a writer at The Daily Beast, he said, you know why Kamala Harris and Tim Walls are not doing the traditional thing of going and having sit downs with legacy media because they know that it's dying, and they know that legacy media is no longer to be trusted with the awesome responsibility of informing the public. Why am I going to sit down with people who lie to me on a regular basis, who lie about me

on a regular basis, Like, how does that make sense? Instead, they are going directly to the American people and having conversations. They are using their own social media platforms to engage in conversation with those that are unable to attend their rallies.

They're sitting down with people in new media because what purpose do these outlets have I guess they're holders for advertisers, but in terms of the value that I used to place on places like The New York Times and The Washington Post, I mean outside of their book review sections and the style, I don't really care. I don't take anything that they say. Have you seen some of their editorial board pieces that have gone up And I'm like, somebody,

let that leave the newsroom. If you really cared, right, what is it? The Washington Post says, oh, you know, democracy dies in darkness. No democracy dies because legacy media turns off the fucking lights. They're not shining a light on any goddamn thing except to create these false equivalencies of both sides. Well, again, if both sides their agism and questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity drove that man from the ticket, I am grateful right that Joe Biden

decided to step aside and endorse Kamala Harris. So I'm not saying that, But if you have questions about Joe Biden's age and mental acuity, then where is the same barrage of reporting and headlines around Donald Trump now being the oldest person in the race who does not know where he is he's in Arizona, but he shouts out Philadelphia that again is going on these extraordinarily long winded rambling fits where his own supporters are walking out of

his rallies. But where are the headlines about that? Where are the questions about Donald Trump's mental fitness? When you saw the cliff at the Economic Club of New York where Donald Trump is asked about childcare and the economy, and this mffort goes off on a tangent and just says the word childcare over and over again and then throws in tariffs. And I saw a headline from the AP that said Donald Trump gave an economic speech. Bitch, where were we listening to the same thing? Because it

couldn't possibly be. And so when people are readily seeing these stark contrasts between what they are actually hearing and seeing, like they did on the debate stage two weeks ago, sixty million people saw Donald Trump for who he was, and some of them for the first time this cycle. Because while I know the folks that listen to WOKP are like in the weeds on things in the same way that I am, the average American person is not

paying attention. So they tuned in that night, Donald Trump has asked questions about abortion, he goes off on a tangent about crowd size. Nothing that that man said made any sense and it was alarming. But did they report it that way? Nope, they did not. So when I think about the role that we have right as citizens of this country to keep ourselves informed, it cannot be through the same means that we have been using, because we have to ask the question who is this really for?

Is it for my education so that I can make informed decisions? Is it for the shareholders and CEOs so that they can make more money? Who is it for? Because you all know that when I talk, whether it's here, whether it's making videos on my YouTube channel, right, whether it's on social media, you know that I am for educating the public. That's what my job is, to make sense out of nonsense. And I'm not taking, you know,

big backings from anywhere. That's why I stay independent and only link in partner with places that allow me to do so, because otherwise I'm out. Now. Unfortunately, I have integrity, which means that I am not wealthy, but that's just something that I have to live with. I want to switch gears for a moment on this fucking Friday. Also to bring attention to recent poll numbers. Now you know that I say I don't care about polls. I like to bring them up, however, because it is connected to

what I've been talking about. Recent Fox News poll comes out with regard to independence, and I've shared this on the brokedown site Twitter. Independence on August eighth were eight

plus points in the bag for Donald Trump. Now, as of the time this poll was done, which was September sixteen, plus twelve for Harris, Donald Trump is bleeding independence, and I think it is largely because people are finally coming to the place where they are fucking exhausted, where they are just tired, where they are walking in real time. How the violent rhetoric coming from the Republican Party, coming from the top of the ticket is traumatizing and terrorizing

a small town in Ohio. Recognizing that this can be any place USA that Donald Trump and jd Vance decide to lie about create a story around. People want stability, they want normalcy. I personally would love to go back to a place where guess what I didn't think about every day the president of the United States. I'd like to just focus on other policy issues, other things that are happening, but not the mental fitness and whether or not that mf or is going to tweet us into

World War three that he's so keen on. By the way, Independent right are people who supposedly decide things issue by issue, but I think in this case that they are looking at Donald Trump over the last eight years and saying I can't go through four to infinity because, by the way, another podcast that JD. Vance was on because apparently there's not a lot of work to do as a senator, he says that Republicans need to be quote unquote ruthless about their pursuit of power and that if they need

to overthrow systems, then so be it. So these are not people that are interested in participating in democracy, that are interested in collaboration on ideas that are good for the American people. It's either their way or no way.

And I do believe that as we get closer and closer to this election, which as of the time that you all are listening to this, we are forty six days away, that the violence that they are going to rain down will ratchet up because they are not going to be satisfied until people are killed, and then they're going to use that as a way to say, this is why we need a strong police state, and we need X, Y and Z. They create the violence, they yell fire in the theater, drop a bomb to actually

create the fire. Then they want to fool you into believing that they are the firefighters. Make it make sense because it does not, but people fall for it. I'll say this in closing today. There is also a video circulating of Donald Trump on Long Island, Suffolk County, Long Island, where where I'm from. It's packed because an area that I grew up in that was largely Democratic, middle working and middle class, and some upper class people have just

abandoned the Democratic Party in lieu of wanting whiteness. It's not the place that I grew up in, but I saw the arena full, and I'm like, this is what they want. White people pumping their fists in the air right, thinking that everyone is the enemy, that their way of life would be preserved if only those people didn't exhipt it, if only those people weren't there. If we can just get rid of the gates, send the women back to the kitchen, get rid of the blacks or put them

in their place, then all would be well. Rather than creating industry right that people are able to live on, you just give them somebody to point the finger at so that they don't have to play a part in being responsible for how their lives turned out. I love Long Island, but when I saw those images, I was disgusted. But when I go to visit my hometown, right there is a mix of Trump flex in places that had

been represented by Democrats my whole life. So you know, we are up against a lot in these forty six days, and I believe that things, and I've said this before, will get bloodier before they get better. But we have got to keep doing the work. We have got to keep organizing, we've got to keep donating, We've got to keep talking to each other and making the case, even if it's hard, because there is just way too much at stake for us to think that this is a

foregone conclusion. Because it's either us or them come November, and I want it to be us because I don't want to live inside of their dystopian America. That is it for me today. Dear friends on woke af as always power to the people and to all the people power. Get woke and stay woke as fuck.