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Art. Today is Friday, June thirtieth, two and twenty three. Thank
you so much for joining me. We are at the high watermark of white
backlash, white lash in American history, and I would argue in world history
this is the high watermark. This has been one of the most eventful and
successful periods for white grievance politics, white supremacy for sure, and the backlash
against the last you know what, hundred years of progress. We haven't really
had a very long period of progress in America, and we are seeing in
the culmination of all of the efforts from white supremacist organizations who have been investing
quite a bit of money for years to target and overturn some key decisions.
Affirmative action was one of them. This was headed up by an operative,
a political operative by the name of Ed Bloom, who was the founder of
Students for Fair Admissions, which is the organization that brought this case for Asian
students, allegedly for Asian students. Now. Ed Bloom is a white man
who has committed his life to opposing affirmative action. He was behind the case
of Abbey. I forgot Abbey's last name in the Texas University admissions case years
ago that went to the Supreme Court. He has been investing all of his
time and money. His entire life has been invested. This white man's life
has been invested in overturning affirmative action. He couldn't do it with Abby,
so he's spent years. Literally there were landing pages where he was recruiting Asians
students to join this lawsuit, and he found one or found several who were
willing to do this and take this all the way to Supreme Court. And
now as a result, affirmative action has been undone has been reversed in this
country. Again, this is the high watermark for white supremacy if you look
at all of their achievements with from affirmative action to versus way, to the
attack, the ongoing attack on marriage equality and the lgbt QIA community. This
is this is like Christmas for them, Christmas in the early July, right
July starts tomorrow. This is Christmas for them. But I'm not I understand
what this is this is this is the death panks of white supremacy. It's
dying. Doesn't feel like it, it doesn't feel like it. No,
I know this is a really frustrating time for everyone. I'm not I'm not
really going to play a lot of audio today because I you know, really
the audio is either conservatives celebrating their victories, uh, sticking it in the
eye. You know that it's not enough for them to get their wins.
They love to stick it in your eye and twist it into you know,
because they want to. They want to trigger you on top of everything else.
That's what they want, which is why I'm not going to play any
of the audio. And I have completely and totally released myself from the fury
because it deserves don't get don't don't let them fool us, right, they
want to trigger us, and they want to enrage us because of their disingenuous
arguments, even the one that was written by Clarence Thomas, a disingenuous argument
that was shredded by Katanji Brown Jackson shredded. They want these disingenuous arguments to
trigger us because they really do want us to see how much they can get
away with. Because of how much this country capitulates to supremacy. We are
literally living in a time where the most infantile and fatuous arguments they're not even
arguments, all right, they're bad faith arguments if anything. But they take
false su premises and they take them all the way to the Supreme Court.
They would take a false narrative and take it all the way to the Supreme
Court, and so long as they had activist judges on the court, they
were willing to go along with this bad faith argument, these disingenuous arguments.
You know, they get the impact of a law. That's what I've been
talking about. That's the critical mass. And with the Supreme Court cases,
they get so much more bang for their buck. You know, they just
really have to stay the course to make sure that they can find a plaintiff
and get here and get standing and you know, take it before all the
lower courts and then eventually, you know, it takes time to get it
to the Supreme Court, but once the Supreme Court makes that decision, it
has the impact of law all over the country. And this has been one
of the most successful runs for the conservative movement in our lifetime. And it
is all because they have a full throated commitment. I mean they are committed
to the power that they receive through white supremacy, the white patriarchal supremacist Christian
supremacist system. They get all that. How there's no other way to explain
the amount of bad faith, just sheer stupidity, I mean, mind numbingly
ignorant bad faith arguments and downright lies that they are able to get away with.
And this is applicable to every single case, right to every single every
single issue. That's a face that we are facing right now. Have you
noticed that the conservative movement, they are able to get away with it despite
how pitiful their arguments are. Their reasoning is the logic, It has no
logic whatsoever. But it doesn't matter because we're in a stage of white supremacy
that they literally have to get away with everything because they don't have any good
arguments, they don't have any good policies, they don't have a future.
This is the death pangs, and we have to survive it. That's all.
Keep biting, don't throw in the towel, because this is the inflection
point for white supremacy. It is downhill from here. This morning's episode is
going to be briefed. All right, I'm not going to hold you a
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want us to lay down. They want us to become so disillusioned, they
want us to become so demoralized that we throw in the tile and just you
know, turn our focus back to our nine to five jobs and just keep
our head down and work and pay no attention to the world that's changing around
us. That's one of the greatest tools that this white supremacist system has,
its complacency and normalcy. Right once things get into the pattern of normal then
they're able to get away with it. You know, we've had a full
year without Row versus Weight and it's become normalized the number of number of women
who have even more life threatening situations because they're unable to get the healthcare that
they need because the conservative movement destroyed ro versus Wade. Why. Because they
want to control women's bodies, period, full stop. They don't care about
children. They do not care about children because once those children are born,
they completely abandon them either to the foster system, they abandoned them to their
various churches to be molested. I mean, call a spade to spade.
They don't. They have not even remotely tried to stop the amount of assault
and grooming that goes on in their churches. So they can't tell me they
actually care about the lives of children. So when they went after ro versus
Wade, it is one hundred percent because they want to control the lives of
women. They're not done yet. They still are going to run the football
as far as they can against the LGBTQIA community. Right That's their crown jewel,
that's their primary organizing tool right now, is hatred towards the lgbtq A
community. And what they know, this is what conservatives know. They know
that people are going to forget their their anger about versus Wade. That's because
it was a year ago. We've had a full year for people to let
their frustration and anger about versus Wade die down. And now we're going to
have a full year between now and June twenty twenty four leading up to elections
for people to calm down about affirmative action. And it's going to be somewhere
around then that they're going to try to make a fatal blow towards either marriage
equality or the lgbt Qia community written large. And the way they feel like
they can get away with it is because they know that fear of the LGBTQIA
community, homophobia, transphobia, those are their greatest organizing tools. And they're
just waiting for a whole lot of support from the Black community, from Muslims
right They're building that support base right now, so when they strike against the
lgbt QIA community, and this give them a year. When they strike,
then they are counting on there being enough support from black people and Muslims and
other minorities who will agree with the hatred and the homophobia, and they would
have forgotten the fact or at least the initial, the visceral reaction to what
happened in this summer with affirmative action and last summer versus way. They're counting
on us not remembering the anger and the frustration and the laps, you know,
the little victory laps that they're making their you know, their little insulting
comments. Right they are finding ways to They always find ways to add insult
to injury. And that's what we're living in right now today. They know
that in nobody here, most of us will forget that, and they will
be able to make their next move. That's what's happening. And the question
is are we going to be ready for it by then? We don't have
any support from the White House. I will play one bit of audio here
is Joe Biden, based on MSNBC yesterday, saying that he doesn't want to
talk even talk about expanding the court because he believes that that will be politicizing
the court. I swear for everything, Joe Biden does not make a good
case for anyone to support him in twenty twenty four, and in many ways
because of just the sheer apathy, the lack of action on any of these
issues. I am convinced that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party they are complicit
with these types of decisions in the fact that they will not fight back.
You cannot tell me. I'm supposed to play the clip, but now I'm
pissed. You cannot tell me that you actually care about an issue if you're
not going to fight on behalf of the issue, you just can't. But
for the Democratic Party, particularly this administration, to be such institutionalist, right,
I get it right. Maybe they're not complicit, but they're institutionalists,
and they don't want to change one iota of the institution, the structure of
the United States government that gives the Supreme Court the kind of power that it
has with no accountability. They don't want to change. They don't want to
change those institutions. Here's Joe Biden. Do you worry that without court reform,
this conservative majority is too young and too conservative, that they might do
too much harm? Well, I think they may do too much harm.
But I think if we start the process of trying to expand the court,
we're gonna politicize them, maybe forever. In a way that is not healthy,
that you can't get back, and it can't get back, And I
think, look, I think maybe it's just the optimist in me. I
think that some of the Court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned
in ways that hadn't been questioned in the past. And I think there's a
concern on some maybe even the Chief Justice, that maybe maybe we may well
in the independent Legislature's decision. It looks like maybe Roberts has that in mind.
I don't know. I don't either, but you could the optimists could
help up the folks. Watch out for a next year. Let's see if
another case about the independent state Legislature comes up, because that's you know,
they would not give us enough enough lead time to actually respond to the potential
impact of the state Independent State Legislature's theory. In other words, they would
not make that decision in twenty twenty three because that gives us enough structural time
to make a change before twenty twenty four. So look in June twenty twenty
four for another case to have come around that would give them the opportunity to
stand bags the twenty twenty four election. Now if if Joe Biden's team is
not gaming gaming this out like that, if they're not really just sitting back
and realizing, Okay, the Supreme Court has had the methodology, this is
their m What do they do. They will give a little bit and take
a lot, and they will spread it out over several years. They would
not have given us Row versus Wade and affirmative action in the same year,
so they space it out. They're not going to give us an independent state
legislature, theory and affirmative action in the same year, so they space it
out. They're not going to do all of that, and especially with enough
lead time for us to structurally prepare to have a response, And so Joe
Biden is sleeping. Get the wheel again anyway, We'll be back after this
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no, I believe I'm going to get out of here. Just a
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a Patron party. Please come out and have a great time with us.
We need to see each other and to fellowship, especially during this season,
which I believe is the inflection point, because this is the high watermark.
See from this place, from this space forward, you could almost guarantee that
the conservative movement is getting ready to jump the shark. There. They have
been miscalculating all alone. But the reason they've been able to get so far
with their victories. Is because I don't think a lot of people understood just
how tolerant this system would be for white supremacy, how much it would how
patient it would be with white supremacy, how much it would bend for white
supremacy. Even now, as this court, this conservative court, has rolled
back a good portion of the twentieth century, the system still protects it.
As evidenced by the clip that I played in the last segment, Joe Biden
being an institutionalist. See in this case, when you're an institute, these
are institutions of white supremacy. Or if I, if I can give some
benefit of the doubt, okay, will I will be a little kinder.
These are institutions that could stand separate from white supremacy. They could function separate
from white supremacy. So the institutions themselves don't necessarily have to be burned down
to the ground. But because these institutions have historically just completely capitulated one to
white supremacy and don't they don't even know how to operate outside of that framewwork.
We really are dealing with whether or not the United States of America can
function outside of the framework of white supremacy, not because we need whiteness to
survive. There are plenty this empire. This country was not only built by
minorities black people. It is sustained by minorities, particularly black people. Every
aspect of this empire, every lever that has to be pulled, every purchasing
order, contract that has to be signed, there are black and brown people
who help sustain this country. So it's not a question of whether or not
these institutions can function and survive without white supremacy. Clearly they can. It's
a question of whether or not these institutions are willing to stop cowtowing to the
pitiful nature of white supremacy. Because that's where we are. We have to
see if America. We saw for four years whether or not America could sustain
it still through the stupidity, the sheer, the unfathomable ignorance of the Donald
Trump administration, we barely survive that. We're having to see if the United
States of America can survive the brain, the mind numbingly ignorance of Marjorie Taylor
Green, Lauren Bobert, Matt Gates, right, we have. We're trying
to see if we can sustain the proplem. If we can survive the propaganda
that's necessary to sustain white supremacy in the form of a Fox News o Ann
Newsmax. If we could survive the fact that they have to purchase Twitter,
they have to buy Twitter in order to put their thumb on the scales for
white supremacy. Can we survive that? So it's not just American institutions.
It's media, it's social media, it's technology. We are having to survive
a system that has shown us that it's willing to just open the door and
let any old village idiot in, no matter how destructive they are, no
matter if they're in bed with Vladimir Putin, no matter if they're in bed
with Nazis. We're having to see if America can survive it. And you
know what, I think we will. I think we will. I think
that there are enough people of good faith. I think that there are enough
white folks who are looking at this and saying, my God, Like,
if you're a decent white person of good faith, and you have to be
looking at how utterly ridiculous, but not just ridiculous, how dangerous it is
for this system to keep capitulating to the pathetic nature of white supremacy. It
this White supremacy cannot allow science. For science, it can white supremacy.
It must reject science because science is a threat to white supremacy, because it
is sustained. White supremacy is sustained by ignorance, by backwards thinking. It's
sustained by rejecting science. COVID nineteen is the best example of that. Right
now, they're willing to die. We're dealing with an ideology that's willing to
die. Not only die of themselves personally, but they're willing to kill their
own kids. See that, they're willing to not get their children vaccinated and
send them back out into these petrie dishes called schools and make sure that nobody
wears a mask. They were willing to kill their own children. They just
want to be This is what is required for white supremacy to stay where it
is. We are at the apex of white supremacy, which means we are
also at the apex of the amount of ignorance that's necessary to keep it in
power. So it's downhill from here. The only question really is is it
downhill from here? Because we make the decision to get rid of it or
as a downhill from here because while we're downhill as an empire, because America
is destroyed because it would not relinquish its love affair with white supremacy, It
would not free its institutions from the bondage that is white supremacy and the ignorance
that is required to sustain white supremacy. Free yourselves, America, Patreon dot
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