Why Memorial Day yesterday would make a dead soldier cry. Also, State Farm
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Memorial Day, a lot of you barbecued, barbecued, barbecued, barbecued.
I've been barbecued. It's not like electrocuted. Well kinda a lot of
you barbecue yesterday or just you know, did some sort of holiday event.
It's the official kick off to one hundred days of summer. And so it's
a it's a party, you know, it's a Memorial Day. Hey,
and all I could think about yesterday was how the people who died, the
people that we are actually remembering, would be furious about us celebrating anything yesterday.
They would say, not only is there not much to celebrate, but
we should probably be at war if you think about it. And let me
tell you what I mean. Now, I know you probably heard this yesterday.
Maybe it didn't. Memorial Day was not started in any one city by
any one person. It sort of started after the Civil War, basically by
freed black men and some white people to honor the Union soldiers that had fallen
during the Civil War. Now, remember, the Civil War was unlike anything
that we've seen in our lifetime because in the United States, every family,
the estimate is that every single family had a loss, uncle, nephew,
need you know something, you know, brothers, sisters, whatever, they
had a loss. And so it touched everybody in both the North and the
South. And so after the war there was a lot of healing, real
healing we talk about, you know, healing today and healing our differences and
whatever. This was, I mean brother against brother literally, you know,
there could be a family where one brother was for the Union, the other
was for the Confederacy, and they literally fought against each other, and I'm
not making that up. So this was a big deal. This was a
big to do, and we needed to try to put the pieces Lincoln and
others, you know, because he didn't last very long he got assassinated,
tried to put the pieces back together, okay. And one of the ways
they wanted to do this was to lay wreaths and flowers on the graves of
Union soldiers in the beginning, particularly black Union soldiers who had died during this
fight. Now, let's examine, as we talked about yesterday, Memorial Day.
What were they fighting? What was the Union fighting the South? And
why were they fighting the South? You know, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas.
Why were they fighting Well, because they didn't feel that the South should
have an unfair advantage when it came to trade because of the use of slave
labor. It was economics. It wasn't about human rights at first. It
was about economics. In fact, Lincoln himself tried to make eels to get
the Blacks of their own country once it was over, or to just get
them out of the You know, he was not the big African American lover
there one thinks he was, but he was on the right side of history
when it came to the Civil War. Now, remember the Union jack the
Confederate flag, which you can currently buy in targets in the South on children's
clothes, but not gay pride apparel. Now, the Confederate flag never made
it to the Capitol. The Union won the war, okay, and they
beat down the South. The South, which was content and happy to keep
people as property, to beat them and to do whatever they wanted to do
with them at will. The South, which after the Civil War kept archaic
laws in place so they could still dominate African Americans right up until the early
sixties when they finally stopped doing lynching churches in the South. They weren't doing
that in the North. Okay, they weren't having lynchings at churches in Massachusetts,
in Connecticut, No, no, no, we know where it was,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee. So Memorial Day started in eighteen
sixty eight as sort of an informal honoring of the Union soldiers, the Union
soldiers who fought the Confederacy. It's very important to remember that. Well,
then in eighteen seventy three, Mary Williams, a woman thought that we should
honor all soldiers, the Union soldiers and the Confederate soldiers, and that would
be a way to help the country heal, to honor them all, and
she rallied the president, and finally they did a national Memorial Day, and
instead of just saying they were going to honor Union soldiers, they said they
were going to honor all soldiers fallen in battle. Okay, And that is
how we got the modern day Memorial Day. But remember it started to honor
the Union soldiers who defeated the South and their tyranny and their bigotry and their
hatred. They were willing to die to keep people enslaved. They were willing
to die to keep their economic advantage over other states because they had free labor.
They were willing to die to keep their ability to rule over somebody else
for their own economic advantage. That's what it was about. Oh knows about
states rights. Yes, the States wanted the right to have slaves so they
could make more money by having free labor. That's what the Civil War was
about. It. We should be very clear about that. In today's age,
especially cut to today, we've now hat we're very good at warring.
We now have World War One, World War two, Korea, we have
Iraq, the first Iraq, we have Afghanistan. We have many dead soldiers,
unfortunately to remember. And in World War One and World War Two,
which were only separated by a few years. Who is the enemy? Communism,
the Reds, Russia, Rush, you know, the Ruskies, the
Chinese, the Communist they were the enemy. Think about that. Think about
the soldiers who died fighting communism, and what they would think about So many
Americans, all members of the GOP, who glorify, idolize, and who
say that Vladimir Putin is not a bad person, think about the people who
died in World War one and two, and what they would think about an
American president Donald J. Trump, who was instilled by the Russians, who
was aided and abetted by the Russians, and who when in office, acted
like Vladimir Putin was his best friend. So when you add that up,
okay, the Union soldiers who died, the soldiers from World War one,
World War two, Korea where communism became the enemy, Iraq and Afghanistan where
terrorism became the enemy. And you look at today. You look at America
today, a country where a third of the people in it sixty let's say
seventy million people idolize fascism, embrace open fascism. Today, Rhonda Santis on
air said he would be a two term president and he would destroy the woke,
and he would go after anybody that opposed them. That's fascism by definition.
You have a fascist regime. The GOP that staged a coup in twenty
twenty. It's a coup when people commit seditious conspiracy. What would the soldiers,
the Union soldiers think of when the Confederate flag finally made it to the
state House, not in eighteen, you know, fifty five, but in
twenty twenty, being proudly carried by someone from where the South? What would
they think? So? How dare us? How dare us set aside a
day to remember these people? As every day the GOP spits on their graves,
spits on the graves of those that died in the Civil War. Every
day the GLP adopts the thinking of the Tyrannis South. Every day. Make
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and I think instead of topics here right, like I was going to,
you know, like I always do, I want to talk more about the
fact that Memorial Day and the GOP they are spitting on the graves of those
that they say that they you know, they're all about old patriotism, waving
flags. And if you told them that they hated veterans, if you told
MAGA that most veterans would hate them, they wouldn't. Oh, they'd be
angry, they wouldn't get it, they wouldn't understand. But the truth is,
if you are a true veteran of any war, you would hate the
GOP and everything that they stand for. You would hate these people who are
getting books burned and banned. You would have banning books in a country that
fought communism, that fought fascism, that fought to end slavery, and then
making slaves out of women. What is it when you control another person's body?
What do you call that? Do you not call that slavery? When
a person has no choice as to what medical procedures they can have without consulting
the state, is that not tyranny and fascism? You know, I don't
want to be a ranter and Raver every show. But let's take off the
blinders here. People. The GOP is a fascist regime that wants total control
of America and of every single American. And be careful. If you're not
like them, be careful, if you're not a white, cisgendered male,
just be careful because they don't want you. They want to rule you.
And they don't love veterans. They always cut from veterans programs. You know,
they don't love Americans. They really truly do not love Americans. How
can you say you love a country. So yesterday I'm walking Amber at night,
you know, seven o'clock. We're going to the park across the street,
which I go to now, and I don't like it, but there's
nothing I can do. I want a two mile walk. It's no more
safer here at my complex anymore, thanks to inadequate security. Mitch Brown,
HIA president refusing to do anything. And so I was walking and I saw
a couple that I've seen for five years, A large white gentleman he's very
tall, and his very small Asian wife. It's quite a juxtaposition. There's
literally it's like and you know, I said to them, because they said,
oh, we haven't seen you for a while, for like a year.
I said, yeah, I stopped coming over And they said why,
and I said, because out of the ten picnic enclosures that are here,
eight of them are lived in and not you know, in a neat fashion,
but in a filthy fashion. It's filth. And I said, you
know, I gotta take a little drink of tea from my throat. There
we go. I said, you know, why don't we solve this problem?
You know, I'm gonna cough. I'm sorry, but I am.
The wind is blowing outside, My allergies are acting up. Why don't we
solve this problem? You know, here in Vegas they're going to approve a
half a billion dollars to give it to a billionaire, okay, a billionaire
to build a stadium for baseball. Every part of that sentence is ridiculous,
every part of that sentence, and it goes back to Memorial Day. Is
that what soldiers died for so their country can have homeless people? Because I
asked us couple, I said, is there any city in America where we
don't see this? Now? Any city? And they're like, well no,
And I thought, how do we not solve the problem. How do
we not demand that they spend no money on anything else? And then I
said, because A there's no money in it, and B because it's hard,
because we stopped wanting to be the nation that did hard things a long
time ago. Let's go back to the Memorial Day. It's hard to remember
that the South was bad, that the people in it were bad people,
and that those people haven't died, their descendants are alive. They still want
to fly a flag of a conquered people. We are the only country that
has gone to war and still lets people fly the losing flag. The only
country fly a Nazi flag in Germany. Go ahead, see what happens to
you. Can you imagine what the soldiers that we claim to love and to
honor on Memorial Day would think that so many of their ranks, people who
served, are living in the park across the street from you and from me.
Can you imagine what they would think of if they could rise from the
grave and see the America of today, where kids are wiped out by weapons
more powerful than anything they had in war. Can you imagine what they would
think? They would not be happy. You know, it is not as
we stand here in America. We are going back and back and back,
and we're going back because we will not push back on the GOP and MAGA.
We will not tell them to sit down and shut the f up.
We won't do it. I don't know why we want for that. I
don't know why we don't solve homelessness. We act like we can't. We
created the problem. Man created poverty, and only man can destroy it.
Why don't we solve it? Well, there's not the money. There's plenty
of money to solve homelessness. If we can give all told sixty seventy billion
to Ukraine, then there's plenty of money to solve the problems in our country.
Can you imagine soldiers rising up that died in World War One and World
War Two? Who see soldiers that served in Vietnam and Iraq and desert storm
homeless, begging for money, begging for medicine at the VA. Can you
imagine these soldiers that we claim to love and honor going to a VA hospital
and seeing how archaic and horrifying they are, while rich people go to hospitals
that are state of the art. People who didn't serve anybody except the God
of money. Can you imagine how they would feel about their sacrifice, about
their death. Can you imagine people who served in Vietnam and what they would
say about Afghanistan, which lasted nineteen years and was unwinnable from the very incursion.
Can you imagine what Union soldiers would say as they see more blacks being
shot in the streets at the hand of white cops, As they see more
black children in foster care, as they see more black people making half or
one quarter what their white counterparts get, and as the white GOP now pushes
back against them. Can you imagine what Union soldiers would think about the South
and its power, how it controls the House and the Senate, the states
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dot com. That's really ka r el dot com. You know, I
didn't plan on having this be the whole show today, but I really think,
you know, as we have a three day holiday to celebrate yesterday,
that we need to think really hard about how we are our soldiers. Now.
I've always said I have no more respect for a soldier than I do
for a doctor or a lawyer. I don't they all choose the way that
they are going to serve, you know, I don't. It's not like
I think that when you wear a uniform you are in some way, you
know, deified. You're not. You're someone who chose to serve their country
by being in their countries military. You and I can serve our nation in
many, many, many ways. But I do believe that we should treat
them as well as any other corporation treats their employees. I think soldiers that
serve, fight and die, and their families should be treated as good as
an Apple or a Google employee. I think that soldiers who and anyone that
commits their life to community service, which is what being a soldier is,
should have access to the best healthcare. But then again, I feel that
everybody should have access to the best healthcare. You know, no one should
be denied healthcare in this country at all, and that includes the homeless,
you know. And as we talk about the dead soldiers that we're honoring on
Memorial Day and how many soldiers are now homeless, we have to look at
that and say we've let them down. Every homeless person is someone we have
let down because when you're broken is when you need the most help, and
in America, when you're broken is when you get the least help. As
the debt ceiling deal has new work requirements for people on foodstands, we'll feed
you, but jump through another hoop. Everything we do is tied to a
condition. And now we have people from the seditious South making those decisions.
Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Bobert, Taylor, Greene Howley. These are
all people from horrific states who since the inception of the United States, have
done nothing but say how they don't want to be apart. Memorial Day was
about the Union triumphing over the evilness that was the South and the Confederacy.
And now we're supposed to just acknowledge those people like they're okay. These maga
idiots with their Confederate flags on their shirts, on their clothing, on their
trucks. Those people should be arrested. You want to idolize the enemy,
and that's the point. Lincoln and others after the Civil War didn't want to
paint the South as our enemy. They wanted reconciliation. The problem is and
always been. The people on the other side don't want to reconcile. You
know, MAGA doesn't want to live with woke people. They don't want to
say live and let live. I just won't patronize those companies whatever they want
to do away. Lizzo was at a festival in San Francisco and on stage
she said, you know, they want to choke me. They want to
harm me, because there were signs that say choke the woke right outside the
festival. She didn't understand. It's like, why do they want to do
this because they're the enemy. I'm tired of acting like they're not. They're
the enemy. The Red States are the enemy. They're the enemy of progress.
They're the enemy of liberalism, which is something we should all want liberal
to me. I'm sorry, I'm sweating, but I can't go run and
grab the air conditioner thermostat, and my power company takes it over in the
afternoon and sets it to seventy eight or eighty while power is in demand.
And I'm doing the show late because I've spent fourteen hours total just trying to
get the show going because I need a new computer and I don't have the
money to buy one. I've been trying to make do. But anyway as
you all do, you make to Anyone that doesn't want to address climate change
is the enemy of the people. Anyone that and I don't want you know
there are different ways. No, no, no, no, no.
Other's not. Anybody that doesn't believe in freedom for women to make their own
choices. Anyone that doesn't believe that LGBTQ people have the right to exist equally
in all sections of society, not hide is an enemy of the people.
Anyone that thinks drag queens are bad is an enemy of the people. And
I mean that they're performers, they're artists. If you are against art and
performance being done in a free manner, you're an enemy of the Constitution of
the United States, just like you always were, just like your grandfather was
and your great grandfather was. Let's stop pretending the people of the South want
to belong with you, with me. They don't. They want to conquer
you and I. They want to eliminate you and I. They want to
rule. Rohn de Santus has made it clear he wants to choke the woke.
That includes corporations. They want to hinder business if business is done in
a way that they don't approve. They want open fascism like they always did.
What are we gonna do about that? Have another barbecue? Really?
What good is a day like Memorial Day? If we don't ask the hard
questions? Would the soldiers like the world they die for? Would those who
died and I'd love to hear from you in the comments down below or comments
that really correlled dot com Wood soldiers that fought and died for this country?
Would they like the country that they that is here? Would they like it?
Would they think that they died for something? If they came back today,
you know, right here, right at the end of May, right
before June. If all the soldiers from the Union, from World War One,
from World War Two, Korea, Iraq, desert storm, if they
all could rise up from their graves, would they be happy with what we've
done with their country or what we've let happen. You know, if mag
is winning, it's because we're not. We're not being forceful enough, We're
not getting the message across and if there's a group of people that don't want
the message, then we're not making tough decisions. Just like homelessness, Like
maybe we should split the country up. Maybe Lincoln and others were wrong and
reconciliation isn't the best course of action for this group of states. Because I
don't know about you, but I'm tired of fighting for common sense, for
decency, equality, to save the planet, aren't you? I am Correll?
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