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that folks are dming me and what is percolating. But I got to go back to beating this drum again that is really starting to trouble me. So over the weekend, I was invited on the Katie Fangs Show on MSNBC. Katie is great and she is a friend of mine, and I enjoyed the opportunity to do her show whenever I'm asked. And you know, on the show, Katie is you know, running through basically recent threats by Donald Trump.

We're talking about Biden and how folks are frustrated, and you know, we're talking about a whole host of things. What are we expecting is going to happen in twenty twenty four? I mean, no one knows. That is like I wish, I wish, and then at some point I don't write, but maybe i'd pack my bags. Maybe I could learn us all to pack our bags and get the fuck out of Dodge before it's too late. Who knows. But here's the thing. I posted the clip on my

Instagram account yesterday and the fucking comments are wild. The video is both on TikTok and on Instagram, and I will say this that the TikTok comments are out of this world. Some of the ig commentary is also like what is happening? So let me give you a pre you and then you all can go over there and

tell me what you think. So TikTok, as we know in age roughly Skew's younger age, but not super young, right, Like, I'm on there, y'all are probably on there, and I know the people that listen to this show are in you know, their thirties, forties and fifties, right, generally there may be some young folks. Hey, shout out to you if you're there. But the comments were, I'm not voting

for Joe Biden, you can't make fetch happen? Not voting for genocide Joe and so on and so forth, right, and you know, calling me some type of you know, democratic jeff like hack and all of these things. So let me go ahead and set the record straight, which is that nobody from the fucking administration pays me. Okay, I wouldn't run my mouth the way that I fucking

do if I was being paid by the administration. It's why I'm an independent, so I can say what the fuck I want, when I want, and how I want, right Like, that's the beauty of it. So let's just dead that commentary right there, that I'm on nobody's payroll, Okay, in that way, So the things that are coming out of my mouth come out of my mouth because I give a fuck about our democracy, which I believe we are readily going to sell down the river in this

next selection. If I'm using eleven months prior as like a preview or a wake up call better yet to what actually needs to be fucking happening. So normally you all know, I don't care about polls, particularly this far out, but I gotta tell you that when the president's approval ratings drop below forty percent, that's fucking concerning, right, Like, we know that there is never going to be a president of the United States moving forward that is going

to have an approval rating that is anything above the forties. Like, that's a fucking p that's never gonna happen, not in this fucking divisive, tribalized country that we are living in now. Thanks Republicans, Thanks Donald Trump, thanks Mada, thanks mainstream media. Nonetheless, when you drop below thirty percent, that's a cause for fucking concern because that means that not only are people not really trying to fuck with you, it means that

they are actually hating you. Right now, here's what I want folks to also understand. I am very well aware of what is happening in Gaza. There is not a day that goes by that I am not watching multiple media reports, multiple news outlets from all around the world so that I can actually make sense of what is happening outside of the Western, sanitized fucking lens that is

being broadcast over our news. So I look at Sky News, I look at BBC, I look at Al Jazeera, I look at Haretz, I look at a whole bunch of things to basically be able to piece together what the fuck is going on and what we know to be true is that Israel right is out of fucking pocket at this point, right, like, yes, absolutely, October seventh, horrific fucking day in the history of that country, full stop. That being said, two wrongs do not make a right right.

Adding up the body count that is happening right now in fucking Palestine in Gaza is sickening. The fucking New York Times story that came out about the abandoned, fucking premature babies that were left for dead, fucking disgusting, full families being wiped the fuck out. The Israeli government tell telling people to leave a million people to leave the north and go to the south, and then you start bombing the south. Where the fuck are these people supposed

to go? Where are they supposed to go? Where the fuck are these people supposed to go? Absolutely nowhere. That's the fucking point, folks, that's the point. They don't want them to exist, they want them gone. Right. You can't tell people to leave the north and go to the south, and go to the south, and then we say, where is there left to go? Like Jake Tapper said the other night on CNN, where are they supposed to go? There is nowhere that is safe, and you are not

gonna fucking bomb your way to peace. I say that over and over and over again. And what I'm concerned about. What I'm concerned about is that the Biden administration ain't getting it. They are not getting the fact that their poll numbers right as far out as they are are giving us a temperature check on where their party is.

Young people, black people, people of color, people of multiple faiths are marching, are looking, are outraged and disgusted by what is happening and what their tax dollars are going to fund. So you can't continue to have this absolutist stance when it comes to this horrific war and think

that it's not going to adversely affect you. Now, I will tell you this that I have some friends right in politics and policy who are telling me, Danielle, national presidential elections are never decided by what is happening globally. American people generally, by the time it gets down to it,

don't really care. And I want to say, you know what, there's a first fucking time for everything, just like there was a first fucking time for a pussy grab in grifting motherfucker to become president of the United States, just like there was a first time for a global health pandemic to kill millions of people, right, there was a first time for America to elect a black president and for us for a period of eight years to think

that we were post racial. How fucking stupid. The fact is, folks, that I get it, because I feel it, because I agree. But let me paint a picture of the alternative. When Donald Trump came into office. Donald Trump came down that escalator saying that Mexicans were rapists and murderers and all of these things. And we all thought, oh, he's gonna

go away. Know the fuck he did not. He became a malignant, fucking tumor on our democracy because mainstream media just loves a good show and kept boosting him up. When he came into office. Donald Trump said he was gonna ban Muslims. He did when he came into office, right. Donald Trump said that he was gonna put those Mexicans in their babies in cages. He did. Right. When Donald Trump came into office, he said that there were good people on both sides. After white supremacists that were chanting

Jews will not replace us. His fucking followers saying that and killing a young protester said that there were good people on both sides, and because of that gave air and gave rise to the oathkeepers and the proud boys who found allegiance from their leader in the White House. So when Donald Trump then and told them to stand back and stand by January sixth, twenty twenty one, they fucking did everything that this motherfucker said that he would do.

He did. Right. Remember the picture of Donald Trump walking across Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, after he had the police brutally clear out the protesters so that he could go take a picture in front of a church he don't go to with a book he don't read upside down, no less with the fucking general, so that he could look like the strong man that his the fucking fan art makes him look like, even though we know that he has knocked Rambo from the nineteen eighties. Miss me

with it. But here's the thing. When he said that he wanted tanks to showcase on the fourth of July to show his strength to North Korea, he got them. Everything that Donald Trump said that he would do, he did, the only reason why those protesters weren't shot in the leg is because General Mattis, who took an oath to the Constitution as well, said we don't do that here in America. That's not what our constitution says. People have

the right to assemble. So when Donald Trump, now on his campaign trail, is saying that I will be your retribution, right, I am your retribution, I am your redemption. When he is talking about throwing his political opponents and dissenters in jail, When he is talking about shutting down networks like MSNBC, NBC and others that disagree with him or show unfavorable coverage,

believe him. Do not think for a moment to yourself, Oh, this can't possibly happen, fucking ear, because if you're saying that, then you're not paying attention. And if anybody around you is saying some stupid hot shit like that, then point them in the direction of all of the genocides that are taking place right now. That shit didn't just happen, right, It happens slowly over time with people giving away their rights, just like people thought Rothy Wade will never be overturned.

So we don't need to worry about all of the fucking trigger laws that Republicans were putting on the books. We don't have to pay attention, we don't have to fight them, because that'll never happen until it does. You want to be disgusted and outraged by what is happening in Gaza, in the Congo, right in our media, in China with the wigers, If you want to be upset by what is happening, you can only protest and push

a president that actually believes in the fucking constitution. There is going to be no one inside of a Trump administration Part two that is going to show allegiance to anything other than Donald Trump. Everything else will be a

fucking farce. So if you and anyone that you know is how bent on Donald Trump being the last president of the United States, then by all means, go off, go off, Go off, right, because there is a very fine line between the freedoms that some of us in joy and the horror show that we are witnessing elsewhere. Israel got the blueprint of apartheid and segregation from the

United States. Israel and Palestine look like what would be in the United States with black and white people if the civil rights movement hadn't have happened and it hadn't have been carried out through the courts. They wanted separate but equal Maga world, those white evangelical Christians wanting salivating

at the thoughts of a Christian national estate. Folks, they want the ability to say, you can't come here, you can't go to school here, you can't read that book, you can't abort that beat us, you can't have that job, you can't have that healthcare. The only things stopping them from doing that are laws. But if there are no more people who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution, which we know there is not a fucking Republican standing right now, who does What the fuck do

you think is gonna happen? If people decide to sit out because they don't like Joe Biden. It isn't about Joe Biden. You ain't voting for Joe Biden. You are voting for your freedom. You are voting for your liberation. You are voting for your bodily autonomy. You are voting to hold the fuck on, That's what you are voting for. You are not voting for a person, miss me with that.

We are voting to save democracy for another four fucking years, and hopefully in that timeframe, Donald Trump will find himself either broke or imprison or both, and then we can surgically remove the rest of Maga. We don't get an opportunity to do that. If we put that motherfucker back in the white outs, it will be the less inauguration that you see. So I need folks, right, get out all your anger. Now, do whatever it is that you gotta do. But you better get right. You better get right.

Come eleven fucking months from now, and everybody else around you that want to be popping off about this out of the other thing. What they not gonna do. What you're not gonna do is have any fucking freedom. Because unless you're white, and you're straight, and you're Christian and you pledge allegiance to Donald Trump and Magada, you ain't gonna be nowhere, Okay, not a fucking place. People say, oh, Danielle,

don't fear monger. I don't want to vote from fear. Yeah, neither do I. But I don't know if you're gonna have time to exit out this bitch if Donald Trump takes over, because I know people like me already on

somebody's list and they are checking it twice. So be very very clear, dear dear friends, that the ability to be angry, to empty out into the streets, to protest, to use your voice, that is a right that can be taken away, just like abortion because we have a Supreme Court that is willing and able to disregard precedent, and three of them were seated by Donald Trump. Wake up, folks, because now is not the time to go to sleep. That is it for me today, dear friends, on this

Woke Wednesday. As always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.