What Democracy Provides

days in, but let me start out with this. So this week South Africa is presenting a case in front of the Hague laying out how Israel has broken international law and is committing genocide with their consistent and nonstose hummeling of Gaza, which has killed well over twenty thousand

Palestinians in two months. And you would be hard pressed to find any fucking coverage in the United States of this really important case that is being brought by South Africa in front of the Hague because guess what, It's not being covered on any American news channel. It is only being covered by Al Jazeera English. Now. I have posted several clips to my stories on Instagram because I am only finding out the information via clipse of what

is actually happening. And let me tell you something. You know that shit is fucking dirty when no American news cable news outlet is deciding to cover it, right, is making you believe that it doesn't exist, that it's not actually happening. That when the United States was pressed in recent press conference, they said, oh, there's nothing to see here,

it's nothing but nonsense. I want to remind folks something that I saw recently too, that said, it was the United States and the UK that were among the last countries in the world to recognize apartheid that was happening in South Africa. So should it shock any of us that, as we are witnessing with our own fucking eyes what is transpiring in Gaza, that the United States would be having an entire blackout as it pertains to what South Africa is charging. So you know, you can find the

story in the New York Times. Like I said, you can follow Al Jazeera America, you can follow put in the Hague, put in South Africa, and you will be

able to get that information. It is just so fucking disgusting where the world is right now, right that you want to claim quote unquote fucking democracy and oh we got to uphold this, that and the other thing, and the key to democracy being an educated citizenship citizensree and in order for there to be an educated citizen injury, you would have to allow for information to break through.

So you tell me the difference between how China and Russia block information and what the United States cable networks are doing. Now. The difference is that the Chinese government and the Russian government own the television networks, right, so

it's state run TV. But when every single network is in cahoots with who they've decided is the enemy of the people and who is worth the coverage and who is not, are we really actually getting any semblance of truth from these outlets or again, are we all just living in some type of matrix Truman Show meshup. The difference between what is happening right now in Gaza and what happened in South Africa is that we didn't have

the internet, we didn't have social media. So the only way that you were getting information again was relying on these major broadcast networks and cable news networks to tell you what was happening through their white supremact lens. And so now through the democratization of social media and the use of the Internet, folks, you don't need to wait for other people to tell you what is right and what is wrong. You can see with your own two eyes, right.

I say this because the decisions that we have to make in the next ten months are so weighted and so fucking heavy and existential at that I can't pretend to you that I have faith, encouragement, and excitement about the Biden administration, because I would be lying to you,

and I do not lie. What I will continue to say is that whatever situation we are finding ourselves in right now as a nation and as a globe, can, in fact, and will in fact, get a million times worse if Republicans regain power, because they will never let it go. And the shit that we are seeing happening in Idaho right with the Supreme Court allowing them to institute their total abortion ban regardless of if a woman are a pregnant person shows up in an emergency room

and needs emergency care. Idaho says, let them die, and the Supreme Court has just said that's okay with us. That will be nationalized right right now. Florida, following their guideline, says, just banned the Dictionary, the fucking dictionary from schools. What so that the complete curriculum wide out that is happening in not only K through twelve education, but in higher

education in Florida will be nationalized. Texas has just turned down three hundred and fifty million dollars worth of federal LAID assistance that would allow the state to be able to feed hungry children over the summer when school is closed. Texas has turned down that aid, saying they don't have the resources or the ability to implement such a program. But do you know what they have the resources and

the ability to do. Oh to prosecute and hunt down Kate Cox and other women that are looking for abortion care. Do you know what else they have the ability to do. Oh, turn their police department into a migrant hunting group. So they love themselves some fetuses, but hate the fucking kids. That's what their policies tell you. That will be nationalized.

So everywhere that you see in states like Idaho, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, where you are seeing them institute abortion bands, get rid of d and I Diversity equity and inclusion programs, where they are firing presidents of universities. You know what happens in fascist and authoritarian regimes. You know, the first people to go the educated ones, the professors, the teachers, right

the presidents of universities. Then you go after the rabble rousers, those that have the audacity to march, to speak out, to use their platforms. They start disappearing. Then little by little you look around and all of a sudden, there

are no places to have intellectual debate or conversation. There are no longer any protests because you see that as a right that is stated in our constitution, and much like abortion and affirmative action and the right to vote, those rights to assemble will be taken away, to have the freedom of speech will be taken away. So I am not sitting here to tell you that Joe Biden is the best president and the best person for the job. What I am saying is that is who the fuck

we have. So if you like freedom, even if you are like me in this country and are just free ish, the only way that we continue to have the ability to try and perfect this very imperfect union, this very imperfect country, is if we have a president in office and in power that actually believes in the constitutions and the tenants of a democracy, aps in that you have Donald Trump having the ability to shoot protesters, because remember what Mark Milly's book, right, General Millie's book stated out

very clearly, was that when Donald Trump wanted Lafayette Park cleared following protests so that he could go take a picture in front of a church he doesn't attend with a book that he doesn't read, aka the Bible, he said, can't we just shoot them in the leg or something.

General Milly said, Uh no, that's against the law. Who do you think is going to be around or who would dare say to the new dictator in chief that you are not allowed to shoot protesters, that you're not allowed to weaponize the military and law enforcement against the people. There will be no one. There will be Tienemin Squares

all across this country. And for those that don't remember, Tieneman Square is when Chinese students stood up to protest the Chinese government and they literally rolled tanks over those students. That little bit of Chinese history is not taught and the Chinese don't know about that. We know about it. Those parents of those students were not even allowed to grieve, They weren't even allowed to have funerals. And if they

did so, they would find themselves behind bars. That is what Donald Trump and the modest supremacist Party want the ability to do in the United States. Those who are not pledging allegiance to Donald Trump and white supremacy will in fact be rolled over. So, folks, this is not really a hard fucking decision that we have to make

in ten months. Do you want freedom or not? Do you want the ability to send your children to a robust public school or one that is trying to improve with each administration, or do you want the Republican Party to finish the job that Donald Trump started by gutting the public education budget, putting that into charter schools and

real religious schools. Because what will happen is that for ninety percent of the country that attends public schools, for those that can afford private schools, oh well, go ahead, if it's within your family budget to afford, you know, an additional thirty forty fifty sixty thousand dollars a year, not just for four years, but for twelve plus. By all means, you have young kids, you want them to

have the ability to dictate their life and their future. Well, you can't do that if you are pregnant at fifteen fourteen. What democracy provides is possibility, is a hopefulness, something to reach for, something too perfect. It isn't perfect. There is no one that is coming to save us. We no longer have the ability to have some type of political

and cultural dissonance. Every four years. We see that the cost is too great, that the stakes are too fucking hot, that the misinformation campaigns aren't just about spreading lies, but they are about blacking out the truth. This country has reached a precipice. It's either we move forward with this American and Democratic project or MAGA supremists take over and we lose our voice, our vote, our bodily autonomy, and no place and no space in this country will be safe.

There will be no next time. So as I sit here on this fucked Friday, I want people to be angry. I want people to call out this administration's hypocrisy. I want people to hold this administration's feet to the fire right and to disrupt speeches and events in March because we have the right to do that right now. We have the right and the responsibility as citizens of this

country to question our leaders. That's what it means to live inside of a democracy, but you lose that right when you decide that you're not going to vote, or you're gonna throw your vote away with the third party, or just say oh I can't it doesn't align with my values. Well, does maga supremacy align with your values?

Does white supremacy align with your values? Because that that's the alternative Some elections, dear friends, are just about hanging on and we have got to give this one ten months out every fucking thing that we got because we are not getting another chance. This is not a twenty twenty REDUS, as people are saying, we thought that when we got rid of Trump in twenty twenty that somehow

we were gonna quote unquote go back to normal. Well, just like normal has not occurred following COVID, which a thousand people a week are still dying from and being hospitalized from. We just don't talk about it. It doesn't mean that it's not happening. Just like we're not talking about what is going on in Gaza and what the United States is funding and how South Africa has brought

the case to the Hague. We're not talking about It doesn't mean that it's not happening, and so I will be talking every day until election day because I am not a representative of the DNC. I am a person in this country that cares about our ability to continue enjoying the freedoms and fighting for more for generations to come. We friends, may not see the fruits of our labor, which is why we have to depart ourselves from our ego that says somehow I must reap the reward for

what I am fighting for. That is not what enslaved people did. They were dreaming a dream that they were never going to touch and feel. But it was because of their perseverance, because of their strength, that we arrive at this moment today. So what we are fighting for is not about us. It's about future generations and what they will have the opportunity to do, to be to dream.

So what side will you come down on? That's the question that is it for me today, Dear friends, on woke a f as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck. M