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Speaker 1: today we will be talking about speaking of harder to get.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about there now cracking down on anti fascists.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild, how wild it is, but this
Speaker 1: is happening in California. We also have great guests. We
Speaker 1: have Rishia Gee at Hiley Vibe on the internets and
Speaker 1: she'll be joining us for sixty second headlines, as well
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Speaker 1: If you don't know Josephine's work, this will give you
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Speaker 11: And is Josephine Gilbo. I'm a seventeen year Army veteran.
Speaker 11: I recently got out of the military last year.
Speaker 12: For one year I have watched andreel barn children alive.
Speaker 3: You don't care about veterans, you don't.
Speaker 7: Care about American You are destroying this company, this country.
Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something. I constantly accidentally say company
Speaker 1: instead of country when I refer to the United States.
Speaker 1: And we all know that is not a Fordian slip.
Speaker 1: That is a factual slap. All right, all right, So yes,
Speaker 1: we got Josephine joining us. Also, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about uprisings. We got uprisings happening all over the world,
Speaker 1: And again the United States acts like it doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to uprise, because I guess it doesn't. But yeah,
Speaker 1: what we gonna do, y'all? In the words of Drew Hill,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? Where are we gonna go?
Speaker 1: What are we the same? When they find out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's get into our word of the day.
Speaker 1: How about it. Let's just let's just get into our
Speaker 1: word day because we have got our sixty second headlines
Speaker 1: guests already prepared. Our word of the day is devon air.
Speaker 1: No do we do wnair? I feel like you've done debonair?
Speaker 1: Torpid torpid t r p I D. It's an adjective
Speaker 1: that means sluggish and dull. Okay, sluggish and dull alrighty.
Speaker 1: The navvy said her coffee is still brewing, so that
Speaker 1: means she might still just be torpid right now until
Speaker 1: she gets that coffee in her system, using in a sentence.
Speaker 8: Y'all torpid.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the way that jet lag be
Speaker 1: hitting me. I be feeling real torpid.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 1: Watching people consistently stand for genocide politicians makes them look
Speaker 1: real torpid. Ah and why that said over in Jersey
Speaker 1: it's quite a torpid and gloomy day.
Speaker 8: It is over here in Nyak as well.
Speaker 1: DJ Blessed said, after getting my wisdom teeth moved yesterday,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling very torpid right now.
Speaker 8: I respect it. I know what that's like. I know
Speaker 8: what that's like.
Speaker 1: Ooh, Florida girl, said Berry Manopun's got me feeling torpid.
Speaker 1: I know about it. Brandon said, I'm feeling real torpid
Speaker 1: this morning because of this Texas weather.
Speaker 8: But clicked on this live like without has a tas.
Speaker 13: We love it.
Speaker 1: You know what looks real torpid? Them pictures of the
Speaker 1: White House staff in Vanity Fair. They look they look
Speaker 1: a mess. Actually, I feel like I want to try
Speaker 1: and show you this video. Yes when she actually summed
Speaker 1: it all up like there's nothing for me to add.
Speaker 1: So actually, let me just let this lady tell y'all
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Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Where where am I gaining? Like, because a grifter is
Speaker 1: someone who's conning people in order to get something from them.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, what's the con? That's what I mean,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's the con? I don't I
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Speaker 14: Photograph is a masterclass in composition. And if you never
Speaker 14: took our history, watch this and you will understand how
Speaker 14: to read any image.
Speaker 5: First and foremost, everything is a choice.
Speaker 14: Do not think the photograph was something that accidentally happened
Speaker 14: photographers either choose to literally frame the composition or choose
Speaker 14: to print the one.
Speaker 3: That worked the best. Often they do both.
Speaker 5: Next, when you're.
Speaker 14: Looking at any image, this is not just a photograph,
Speaker 14: any image, try to figure out what is the focus.
Speaker 5: When it's a portrait, it should be the person.
Speaker 14: However, then you try to figure out if the actually
Speaker 14: a focus. So she is almost completely in the center
Speaker 14: of this image, but slightly off center.
Speaker 5: That is already like a little bit of a tell.
Speaker 14: Next, look at all of the line right, because your
Speaker 14: eye follows lines to look at the composition, to move
Speaker 14: around it, and all the lines are pointing in different directions.
Speaker 14: It's like arrows pointing at all kinds of things, most
Speaker 14: of them not at her and definitely not at her face.
Speaker 5: Next, light is a tool, and it's.
Speaker 14: Supposed to move your eye into focusing on things, except
Speaker 14: for we have a random spotlight and an empty chair,
Speaker 14: and this which what pikes it look like.
Speaker 5: This is the pool of light is on nothing, emptiness.
Speaker 14: And then back here, the brightest part is probably this hallway,
Speaker 14: which then leads your eye away from her to this
Speaker 14: with a shadowy person in the shadows. When you put
Speaker 14: all together, this composition feels like the focus is not
Speaker 14: her but the lack of focus, and it it makes
Speaker 14: you draw the conclusion she is not the center, but
Speaker 14: there's some sort of force behind it.
Speaker 5: Now, am I reading too much into it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 14: These are all purposeful choices to make us make that
Speaker 14: reading exactly. You could do this with any well composed
Speaker 14: image do the same sort of stuff. But I would
Speaker 14: invite you to try to look at one where the
Speaker 14: person seems powerful and compare it to them, because you
Speaker 14: will see that the light will be on their face,
Speaker 14: they will be in the middle, and all the lines
Speaker 14: will be pointing to them.
Speaker 1: Okay, that wasn't the video I wanted to show you,
Speaker 1: but I still think it was great because you learned
Speaker 1: something about composition.
Speaker 8: Now this is art underscore less on the instagrams.
Speaker 12: And you know.
Speaker 1: So I love when people are actually like using things
Speaker 1: that are in front of us to teach us about
Speaker 1: other things, right, things that actually are interesting to us.
Speaker 1: Because these people are the worse, the worst in the world,
Speaker 1: and so we don't really want to know about them,
Speaker 1: but we have to know about them because they are
Speaker 1: the worst in the world. But this is actually the
Speaker 1: video that I wanted you all to watch because it's
Speaker 1: actually funny and interesting.
Speaker 14: Does this picture prove that Stephen Miller is a vampire?
Speaker 14: So before we get to that pressing question, one of
Speaker 14: the things that really struck me about these visual compositions
Speaker 14: is how awkward they are. Remember, photographs are choices. They're
Speaker 14: picking what to frame in and what to frame out.
Speaker 14: This would be a very different image if there was
Speaker 14: nothing on this side. Also, it would be a very
Speaker 14: different image if the light switch wasn't there in this
Speaker 14: whole spread. Light switches and random stuff play major characters
Speaker 14: in the photographs. What it does is it won reminds
Speaker 14: us how big these people are, right, It gives us
Speaker 14: scale because all of us sit and chair, many of
Speaker 14: us have light switches. I mean, this one is truly
Speaker 14: a brilliant photograph, partly because of the weight of it.
Speaker 14: There was a lot of empty space here that dwarfs
Speaker 14: Marco Rube who himself looks like a dwarf. But then
Speaker 14: also it's the fact that there is so much not
Speaker 14: Marco Rubio in this photograph.
Speaker 5: It could be cropped to.
Speaker 14: Show him more close up, but instead it's like a
Speaker 14: giant space with a little Marco Rubio it's hard to
Speaker 14: come off as manly State Department man.
Speaker 5: When you are being framed. Is less consequential than the door.
Speaker 14: And even this red suit, purportedly the color of power,
Speaker 14: looks ill fitting and somehow only adds to the old
Speaker 14: lady vibe that the rest of this room has.
Speaker 5: And again it is framed with half a chair.
Speaker 14: In every instance there's a little bit of like a
Speaker 14: topsy turviness to it, which takes me back to this one.
Speaker 5: I am sorry to report.
Speaker 14: One his hand does have a reflection, and two he
Speaker 14: does not have the rest of the reflection in the
Speaker 14: table because it's at an angle. But let's admit it,
Speaker 14: vampires are meant to be hot. And then there are
Speaker 14: these people. All in all, I think that the images
Speaker 14: together show a group of people who are shorter than
Speaker 14: you thought, but as awkward as you imagined.
Speaker 5: The summation.
Speaker 1: The final summation, and they are shorter than you thought,
Speaker 1: but as awkward as you imagined, and incredible, y'all.
Speaker 8: Let's get into our sixty second.
Speaker 1: Headline.
Speaker 3: Sixty second head.
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Speaker 1: Hello, how are you welcome?
Speaker 7: Welcome?
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy
Speaker 3: to be here to talk to you about these headlines.
Speaker 1: So happy to have you as well. Now let's give
Speaker 1: the people some context. Where are you joining us from?
Speaker 1: How did you become so on point? Because you are
Speaker 1: one of these people that I just came across on
Speaker 1: the internets who never misses. You've always landed on the
Speaker 1: right side of right, and I'm always like, yes, exactly, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So can you please tell people a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. So I am joining you from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I am a law professor. I teach constitutional law at
Speaker 3: the University of Minnesota. I focus on the First Amendment,
Speaker 3: speech and press through a critical race theory lens. And
Speaker 3: that means I spend a lot of time with the ancestors.
Speaker 3: And as long as you spend time with the ancestors,
Speaker 3: you go end up on the right side of history.
Speaker 3: If you spend time with them, you heat they lessons right.
Speaker 3: You treat them as whole human beings, full of nuanced
Speaker 3: and complexity, you're gonna be on the right side. So
Speaker 3: you know, I think that's part of.
Speaker 1: When you got Octavia right over your shows, I do.
Speaker 3: I got Octavia back there. Look, I got Marden up there. Folks,
Speaker 3: we keep them all together. Let's see you, I see you.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a lot of what I do is trying to
Speaker 3: think about the way in which democracy is experienced in
Speaker 3: a racialized state, and right now we're at an inflection
Speaker 3: point of that. So I think, you know, I didn't
Speaker 3: know it before, but I was being prepared for this moment.
Speaker 3: I have, uh something meaningful to say, so I try
Speaker 3: to use that as best I can.
Speaker 1: Here's just a random question I'm throwing out to you
Speaker 1: because I was thinking about it this morning. When I
Speaker 1: was on the road this week, someone asked me, well,
Speaker 1: what is gonna be the difference? Because I keep telling
Speaker 1: people like Israel is about to colonize the United States,
Speaker 1: and even if they don't say it that way, that's
Speaker 1: what's actually happening. I don't know if y'all know this,
Speaker 1: but they were flying the Israel flag on the White
Speaker 1: House yesterday. Yes. And also I saw video the other
Speaker 1: day of somebody I can't remember who it was, but
Speaker 1: they were hugging Donald Trump, saying he's the first Jewish president,
Speaker 1: so like this is a real thing happened at either
Speaker 1: And so I told them, I said, well, we're going
Speaker 1: to experience apartheid, but in a much more outward fashion,
Speaker 1: like they're already talking about we're going to have to
Speaker 1: start carrying our passports because IDs are not going to
Speaker 1: be enough. And I said, we are already experiencing a
Speaker 1: certain level of apartheid, first with white people in this
Speaker 1: nation and the way the Justice Department deals with them differently,
Speaker 1: but also in the way that we see zionis being
Speaker 1: dealt with differently, right, because the First Amendment rights that
Speaker 1: are given to Zionists are not given to people who
Speaker 1: are pro Polecinian. So have you started to kind of
Speaker 1: expand at all your lens under of looking through the
Speaker 1: racialized vent lens to include Zionism.
Speaker 3: Met So what I tell people is that the United
Speaker 3: States has never not been a racialized apartheid. It's just
Speaker 3: typically been confined to the darkest folks and the folks
Speaker 3: who and by the darkest folks, I mean black folks, right.
Speaker 3: And so what we're seeing I want people to stop
Speaker 3: treating what we're seeing as an aberration. The problem is
Speaker 3: just that we don't know this nation's history, and that's
Speaker 3: also on purpose, and so we think how Zionism is
Speaker 3: being treated is somehow an aberration, or the Antifa attacks
Speaker 3: are an aberration. We have never allowed people who were
Speaker 3: pro humanity, who were pro civil rights, who were pro
Speaker 3: human rights to speak freely in this country. It is
Speaker 3: part of the foundational structure. It is part of this
Speaker 3: country's architecture. There's a great line by W. E. B.
Speaker 3: Du Bois where he's testifying in front of Congress and
Speaker 3: he talks about how the United States creates which words
Speaker 3: to stop people from speaking freely, and he says, at
Speaker 3: first the rich word, the witch word, was abolitionists, and
Speaker 3: then it was socialist and communists. And I would argue,
Speaker 3: and that's the the climate, the context in which he's
Speaker 3: speaking at that moment. But I would argue that now
Speaker 3: that word is terrorist, oh absolutely, And so we levy
Speaker 3: it of course at pro Palestine protesters. Because we have
Speaker 3: this architecture in place, we've just now repurposed it for
Speaker 3: the moment, right, even all of the things that Project
Speaker 3: twenty five and I know you're going to get to
Speaker 3: Project twenty twenty six or the revamp of it. Are
Speaker 3: doing are actually a continuation of the history of this
Speaker 3: kind of architecture. It's just that they fought so hard
Speaker 3: and been so effective at keeping this history out of school,
Speaker 3: at keeping it out of the mainstream media, at keeping
Speaker 3: it inaccessible, that people don't have it to frame what's
Speaker 3: happening in this moment. So it's not actually like we're
Speaker 3: moving in a new direction. It's just that what's been
Speaker 3: confined to the mark and to black folks and to
Speaker 3: pro human folks is now reaching the mainstream, is now
Speaker 3: migrating to the rest of society, and they're trying to
Speaker 3: establish it as the paradigm explicitly in a way that
Speaker 3: it's historically kind of been laundered under the patriot under
Speaker 3: the security banner. They're still trying it. It's just not
Speaker 3: as effective, and if it's not effective, they'll use brute force.
Speaker 3: I think that's the I think that's the difference of anything,
Speaker 3: is that we're entering up we will brute force everyone.
Speaker 1: We used to just do it to.
Speaker 3: Black folks and socialists and communists. Now we will make
Speaker 3: you into the person we need to do it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but isn't that isn't the new part what they're
Speaker 1: contextualizing it into. I mean, I feel like I never
Speaker 1: heard of anti zion I never heard of anti Semitism
Speaker 1: or uh, I never heard of anti Semitism as a
Speaker 1: brute force effort, as a brute force tool until the
Speaker 1: last two years. I think that's right.
Speaker 3: I think that's right. I think that certainly this is
Speaker 3: the latest iteration of it. But I think it's important why.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm trying to get at.
Speaker 1: I keep I feel like people are really not riding
Speaker 1: with me on this, and I'm I'm right, and I
Speaker 1: need y'all to understand this because the people in these
Speaker 1: positions are Zionists. Like at one point it's time. It
Speaker 1: used to be all everybody's white in these positions, and
Speaker 1: now it's that everybody is a Zionist in these positions.
Speaker 1: Like the legal field in the United States is very
Speaker 1: much run by Zionists, right, like the actual Supreme Court.
Speaker 8: I mean they may not be Jewish, but they're Zionists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think Zionism right now, the political
Speaker 3: Zionism that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Is the nucleus only Zionism there is sure, sure won't disagree.
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of Israel, like right right, right, right,
Speaker 1: right right right right right now they lie and say
Speaker 1: it's religious, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: Right Like, if we think about what Israel represents right
Speaker 3: on the global geopolitical stage, it is the culmination of
Speaker 3: what all of these earlier iterations have represented.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, right, it is.
Speaker 1: It is so so there are three.
Speaker 3: Things I argue will always provoke the most violent response
Speaker 3: from the United States. And why you didn't see the
Speaker 3: kind of violent response no King's protests, right, it is
Speaker 3: anti white supremacy, anti militarism, and anti capitalism. If you
Speaker 3: attack any of these three things, and especially if you
Speaker 3: attack them all, you will provoke the most violent response
Speaker 3: from the state. Right, on many levels, Israel functions as
Speaker 3: a proxy for the United States for those efforts, for
Speaker 3: those pursuits. It is when you talk about building what
Speaker 3: do they call it, the Riviera or whatever they're talking
Speaker 3: about building in the Gaza strip, When you talk about
Speaker 3: the defense contracts and the amount of money that's flowing
Speaker 3: over there, When you talk about the history of colonialism,
Speaker 3: when you talk about colonization and the eradication of indigenous people.
Speaker 3: You are speaking to the heart of white supremacy. You
Speaker 3: are speaking to the heart of the military industrial complex,
Speaker 3: you are speaking to the heart of capitalism. And so
Speaker 3: those elements of our society are the foundational building blocks
Speaker 3: of this country and have always been. Any time you
Speaker 3: are trying to make inroads into reallocating the power that
Speaker 3: has a mass within that structure, you are going to
Speaker 3: provoke the most violent response. The Palestine Israel conflict is
Speaker 3: the latest front of that in our society, and one
Speaker 3: that we're all intimately connected to in a way that
Speaker 3: we haven't seen in those past iterations because of how
Speaker 3: social media is functioning, because of the way that the
Speaker 3: Internet has allowed us to connect to one another. But
Speaker 3: you had a I mean, a lot of the things
Speaker 3: that we're seeing deporting people, vilifying people, attacking universities, we
Speaker 3: saw in the early nineteen hundreds and early twentieth century
Speaker 3: with communists and socialist movements. You saw with civil rights
Speaker 3: activists during the sixties, from the forties to the sixties.
Speaker 3: You saw during the Antebellum period with abolitionists. It's just
Speaker 3: that we all weren't watching it unfold on our phones.
Speaker 3: And we didn't have those real on the ground accounts
Speaker 3: to compare it to the propagandized media machine, political machine
Speaker 3: that was fast at work in a way that now
Speaker 3: we kind of have to mitigate, which I think is
Speaker 3: making us more engaged, which is why this one feels
Speaker 3: so visceral. This one feels so poignant because we're experiencing
Speaker 3: it in a way that we haven't experienced these earlier iterations.
Speaker 3: But this is the United States, United States.
Speaker 1: It is I just I think that we are shortsighted
Speaker 1: in thinking that this is about the United States, And
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that I agree. I think what
Speaker 1: we I think that that's the thing that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get us intellectuals to kind of expound upon, is
Speaker 1: because we're literally seeing Zionists steal property in the United
Speaker 1: States the same way they're doing in Palestine. I just
Speaker 1: saw a man who is serving time right now for
Speaker 1: stealing twenty homes. He sold twenty people's homes in New
Speaker 1: York grand larceny, and the judge for his next case said,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to give you time served
Speaker 1: and so for this for these new twenty homes that
Speaker 1: he's because he already was serving time for something else.
Speaker 1: So now he's serving time. Now he was on trial
Speaker 1: for twenty homes that he stole in Brooklyn, to my understanding,
Speaker 1: and the judge gave him time served, and he's not
Speaker 1: going to serve a day longer.
Speaker 3: But this also mirrors Donalds and.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a he's doing He's a Zionist, is
Speaker 1: a ju a Hionist.
Speaker 3: This also mirrors though Donald Trump partning the home healthcare
Speaker 3: guy who stole the millions of dollars, and then him
Speaker 3: partning the drug trafficker guy from Honduras. And what I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to say, so I would say two things
Speaker 3: back to what you said about about I would say
Speaker 3: one thing in response to the this is not about
Speaker 3: the United States. And in one of the ways I
Speaker 3: think that that is really evident. I saw some one
Speaker 3: on Democracy Now summarize this really well, and they were
Speaker 3: explaining that they were saying that this group of people,
Speaker 3: the cabal of folks who exist for example, around Epstein,
Speaker 3: are not tethered to a nation in the way that
Speaker 3: they're tethered to each other. They use the globe as
Speaker 3: their as their terrain right. It is not a United States.
Speaker 3: So I think thinking framing it in terms of it's
Speaker 3: not about the United States, and that the United States
Speaker 3: is not the pinnacle of the pursuit. It's just one
Speaker 3: more hub that these people use to operate from, right,
Speaker 3: and it has the kind of military infrastructure that allows
Speaker 3: them to wield global power.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 3: And so I think it's important for us to think
Speaker 3: about this in terms of there's no allegiance to the
Speaker 3: United States surviving right. I think that that is probably
Speaker 3: the biggest misconception, is that people believe that there's some
Speaker 3: loyalty or prioritization of the United States making it. There
Speaker 3: is not no right. There is a priority for these
Speaker 3: people to make it, and to the extent that they
Speaker 3: can use the United States to advance that they are
Speaker 3: inplying to do so. Right on the flip side, though,
Speaker 3: the other reason I want to I think you're right
Speaker 3: about the way Zionism is being used. But I think
Speaker 3: Zionism is being used not for the purposes of Zionism itself,
Speaker 3: but because Zionism is such it's so conducive to these
Speaker 3: other priorities. That's why you get the Hondura's president, That's
Speaker 3: why you get the pardons in these other ways. That's
Speaker 3: why the things that villains this is about some fundamental
Speaker 3: priorities for these people in charge, and whatever tools they
Speaker 3: can use to advance that agenda, they will, right.
Speaker 1: And the their agenda is to be one on the tools, right,
Speaker 1: Like the their agenda is is to take Like it
Speaker 1: sounds very pinky in the brain, but their agenda is
Speaker 1: to take over the world.
Speaker 3: You're run by marble villains. I mean, it's absolutely marble
Speaker 3: villains who are in charge.
Speaker 1: So I just find that as I'm watching these things happen,
Speaker 1: Like even the conversations around Jasmine Crockett, people are like, well,
Speaker 1: why does it matter? Then I see James Talerico, you know,
Speaker 1: on an interview today and it's like, well, I have
Speaker 1: some really good bad news for y'all. Both of them
Speaker 1: are trash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would go even further. I think our focus
Speaker 3: on individuals is the problem. This is why I try
Speaker 3: to insist, right that this is the architecture. These are
Speaker 3: the leaders it's going to produce. You want different leaders,
Speaker 3: you want different leadership, you want a different leadership paradigm,
Speaker 3: you need a different architecture. You don't. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: why I keep saying. Right, you know, one of the
Speaker 3: things that happened, I think about six weeks ago is
Speaker 3: Donald Trump administration. The Trump administration sent out letters to
Speaker 3: a bunch of universities. Brown was one of Vanderbilt was
Speaker 3: another one, and essentially they asked for these universities to
Speaker 3: alleviate any commitment to DEI, deificantly scale back the number
Speaker 3: of international students that they're allowing in, and to alleviate
Speaker 3: things that make people hostile to conservative ideology.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: And in exchange for doing this and to agree to
Speaker 3: tuition freeze, which which most people agree with. But in
Speaker 3: exchange for doing these things, they will get priority for university,
Speaker 3: for a federal funding for grants or research dollars or
Speaker 3: two loan dollars.
Speaker 8: Everything is quick pro quo.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, how corrupted all this is.
Speaker 3: It's true, it's true. But what this is essentially saying,
Speaker 3: and what this directly contravenes, is this idea in American
Speaker 3: society that we have a marketplace of ideas, that every
Speaker 3: idea gets to compete equally, and whichever idea is best
Speaker 3: will prevail. What we actually have and have always had,
Speaker 3: is a very carefully curated set of ideas that we
Speaker 3: are allowed to access, and they are ideas that can
Speaker 3: have no robust competition lest they be eliminated. Right, this
Speaker 3: is why you don't This is why they don't teach
Speaker 3: about socialism and communism in schools. This is why they're
Speaker 3: the fight over how much racism you can talk about,
Speaker 3: whose perspective you can talk about it from. Which this
Speaker 3: is all because in order for white supremacy, capitalism, and
Speaker 3: the militarism that we have to survive. It's why King
Speaker 3: shut out to you. Is why King said that they
Speaker 3: were the three evils, because in order for them to survive,
Speaker 3: you have to alleviate competing ideas. So what this administration
Speaker 3: is doing is reluctant as people are to engage with.
Speaker 3: This fact is they're not an aberration or a deviation
Speaker 3: from our trajectory. They are a continuation of it. When
Speaker 3: they say they're trying to reclaim traditions, when they say
Speaker 3: they're trying to bring us back to these American founding ideas,
Speaker 3: they are they're consistent. They're not wrong. And a big
Speaker 3: part of that is inhibiting a free dialogue, is inhibiting
Speaker 3: the free flow in exchange of ideas.
Speaker 1: Right, which actually is a great segue into Project twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Yes, yes, yes, right, because I feel like
Speaker 1: people thought it was just like twenty twenty five all
Speaker 1: the way live, and it's like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they had they had more coming for us. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have more coming for us. And I definitely thought I
Speaker 1: had transferred it into my computer. So I didn't solve
Speaker 1: That's a problem that I'm about to do it right now,
Speaker 1: So tell me this, what did you When did you
Speaker 1: find out about Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I think around the same time everybody else found out
Speaker 3: about it, I mean a twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8: Maybe that's not when everybody else found out about it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean Kamala didn't start talking about Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five till twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Well, let me be clear. I don't think when our
Speaker 3: politicians decide to address something publicly is a good metric
Speaker 3: for when it actually became publicly known.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Again, these are people who are ambassadors for a system
Speaker 3: that thrives on deception.
Speaker 1: Right, But there are many people who did not hear
Speaker 1: about it until they heard about it from her, Because
Speaker 1: they look at them as the source.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got that. You gotta stop that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So here we are, y'all. Heritage Foundations said don't sleep,
Speaker 1: we got more for you, and they have released new
Speaker 1: fascistic policy. Thank you to So Informed for putting this together.
Speaker 1: Some points of note in their blueprint for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six are the American family, the dignity of work, and
Speaker 1: the future of free enterprise, which you were just speaking
Speaker 1: about national security, which we need to always put in
Speaker 1: quotes because we need to put the security in quotes
Speaker 1: within the quotes, because it's not actually securing the nation.
Speaker 1: It's the same ethos as Israel, where it's we're going
Speaker 1: to cause friction with everybody else and call it securing
Speaker 1: ourselves when really what we're doing is creating a reason
Speaker 1: to make weapons and the American heritage and citizenship. They
Speaker 1: want to eliminate ranked choice voting all together. Do you
Speaker 1: know do you know about ranked choice voting?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I know a lot of people are
Speaker 3: supporting it as a way to mitigate the kind of
Speaker 3: corruption that we're seeing, Yeah, and rampant in our political poweries.
Speaker 1: So ranked choice voting, y'all, and correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: because I'm still sometimes a little shaky on this ranked
Speaker 1: choice voting. To my understanding is when basically they put
Speaker 1: a number of folks that are up for election, and
Speaker 1: you can vote by ranking, so you don't just choose one.
Speaker 1: You can rank who you want in preference, and then
Speaker 1: that is narrowed down how many people ranked a certain
Speaker 1: person by one, how many people ranked a certain person
Speaker 1: by two. So that is why when mom Donnie was
Speaker 1: in the primary, everyone was like, rank him as one,
Speaker 1: rank him as one, because that would push him through.
Speaker 1: That allows for there to also be more opportunities for
Speaker 1: different kinds of candidates versus you only getting these two
Speaker 1: options and maybe a possible third. If there is a
Speaker 1: green part of your independent option that actually has elevated
Speaker 1: itself in that district or state, is that correct? People
Speaker 1: are saying that's correct, So okay, they want to roll
Speaker 1: back environmental and energy regulations. This is the part that
Speaker 1: I just I'm I know this about money, I know,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like, do these people know something I
Speaker 1: don't know about cloning living forever?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, so I will say I will say two
Speaker 3: things about that. One, I think it's important for folks
Speaker 3: to keep in mind that for capitalism, every everything is
Speaker 3: a resource. The planet and the people are We're.
Speaker 1: Going to talk about that later for the for the
Speaker 1: for the critical Thinking segment, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw that CNN has has partnered with Kalshi, which
Speaker 1: is a betting app so that you can now bet
Speaker 1: on actual world events. So we're gonna talk about that
Speaker 1: little later because the owner literally says in an interview
Speaker 1: that anything can be made into a commodity. That is,
Speaker 1: please keep.
Speaker 3: Going a fundamental part of the US. And also though
Speaker 3: you know, one of the things that the wealthy kind
Speaker 3: of Rola garc that we talk about. I saw someone
Speaker 3: call them the five Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Yes, Peter Alex. They're on the cover of Time.
Speaker 8: You know these AI folks too, it's just and they're
Speaker 8: praising them.
Speaker 3: They have dumped a lot of money into eugenic They've
Speaker 3: dumped a lot of money into living forever. They've dumped
Speaker 3: a lot of money into immortality, into stopping aging, into
Speaker 3: reversing aging. You know, you've heard these people talk about
Speaker 3: merging their consciousness with UH robots and so forth and
Speaker 3: so on. So there certainly is a push you know,
Speaker 3: I think that there's an acknowledgment that the resources are
Speaker 3: finite and and and that means that people can't survive
Speaker 3: in our current modality into perpetuity. And so on some level,
Speaker 3: these people have accepted that and are attempting to accelerate
Speaker 3: it and prepare themselves forward with bunkers, with technology that
Speaker 3: allows them to extend their life with all kinds of so.
Speaker 3: So there absolutely is uh and they still look for
Speaker 3: up Listen, imagine being such I'm just gonna say this
Speaker 3: one thing about that, about that advanity fair uh uh photograph.
Speaker 3: Imagine being such a self loathing white supermacist that you
Speaker 3: uh LUs stuff the black wom lips because if y'all
Speaker 3: don't see them needo injection marks.
Speaker 16: It is wild.
Speaker 1: It is wild, It looks nuts.
Speaker 3: It's such a you know, I had a student from
Speaker 3: Norway come talk to me, and it was just such
Speaker 3: a refreshing reminder of how untethered this place is from reality,
Speaker 3: That there is no factual basis for the United States,
Speaker 3: that it thrives on its hostility and its antagonistic relationship
Speaker 3: with reality. That is, it's so all of these things
Speaker 3: the way that it it, you know, the way, it's
Speaker 3: trying to convince us that blowing up babies a self defense.
Speaker 3: The hostility to talking about the reality of this country's
Speaker 3: racial history, the you know, unwillingness to deal with the
Speaker 3: failings of capitalism are all emblematic of our hostile relationship
Speaker 3: with reality. We refuse to engage reality, and we punish
Speaker 3: people who try to force us to do it. That
Speaker 3: is kind of the ethos, and that's part of why
Speaker 3: we're in decline because when when you add with reality,
Speaker 3: reality is gonna win every time.
Speaker 13: Facts.
Speaker 1: They want to reclaim institutions, which we were just talking about,
Speaker 1: of higher education from the radical left. By the way,
Speaker 1: you all none of these institutions are the radical left. Oh,
Speaker 1: anybody who has been in an institution, you currently work
Speaker 1: in an institution, you know that it is far from
Speaker 1: the radical left. The idea that learning literally just learning
Speaker 1: is considered radical. Learning about anything outside of the United States,
Speaker 1: learning about anything beyond the context of capitalism, beyond the
Speaker 1: context of white supremacy, is considered radical.
Speaker 3: There is a war on reality. It never occurs to
Speaker 3: these people that whatever left leaning bias they think exists
Speaker 3: in these institutions. And I would agree with you they're
Speaker 3: the furthest thing from radical in my experience that we
Speaker 3: can get, but any left leaning bias. They don't contend
Speaker 3: with the fact that maybe these are just the facts.
Speaker 3: Maybe you got a bunch of smart people together. They
Speaker 3: all looked at the history and the data and they
Speaker 3: were like, well, damn, there's only one. They refuse to
Speaker 3: engage with. And that's why they have to send these
Speaker 3: letters out to say you please eliminate these things from
Speaker 3: your curriculum because our ideas cannot compete with them. The
Speaker 3: reality is so clear, it's so anchored in the truth
Speaker 3: that we can't compete unless they're eradicated in It's the same.
Speaker 1: Way these people like Hillary Clinton and Sarah Hurwitz are like,
Speaker 1: you guys need to stop showing videos of reality because
Speaker 1: it's getting in the way of our indoctrination and lies.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: To cut it out, you guys, that's right.
Speaker 3: And it shows how dependent we've been as a society,
Speaker 3: or the power structure has been on propaganda. Right now,
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like growing up, I mean, I know,
Speaker 3: oh the word propaganda, but only recently was I able
Speaker 3: to really point out just how pervasive.
Speaker 1: It is, it is and completely regular. So let's run
Speaker 1: through these other ones real quick. We got advancing policies
Speaker 1: at the state and federal level to restore the nuclear
Speaker 1: family to the center of American life. So I was
Speaker 1: reading something the other day that was really just basically
Speaker 1: saying that the nuclear family is actually problematic to America,
Speaker 1: to human life because this idea that you would only
Speaker 1: have you in a house with you alone is just
Speaker 1: so they can control you more.
Speaker 8: And I had really thought of it that way.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, the nuclear family is an institution to police women
Speaker 3: and queer folks, and it is to make sure that
Speaker 3: capitalism is a survival mechanism for capitalism because it requires
Speaker 3: you to be tired all the time. You got to
Speaker 3: think if you have people families, and familial models should
Speaker 3: depend on the village model. These people in our community
Speaker 3: who don't have kids as somebody with kids, I need
Speaker 3: my kidless Auntie used to be like, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: come take them a an afternoon for Saturday afternoon, so
Speaker 3: you can have a moment yourself that allows me to
Speaker 3: recharge and restore and do some critical thinking and do
Speaker 3: some reflection. There's no and if they don't want you
Speaker 3: thinking in the universities. If they're gonna take it out
Speaker 3: of the universities, they don't want you to have time
Speaker 3: on your own to do that study neither. And if
Speaker 3: you are in a nuclear family where you are working,
Speaker 3: even when you are at home, where home is a job,
Speaker 3: right to stay in the household, where it's a miniature
Speaker 3: society like they want to play, then you don't have
Speaker 3: that time. That's by design.
Speaker 1: And you know you have Adrien here saying you become
Speaker 1: dependent on the government, and not in a good way.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they force you to be dependent
Speaker 1: on the government and then shame you for being dependent
Speaker 1: on the government. It's just a cycle of nonsense. The
Speaker 1: last one is reducing both the demand and supply for
Speaker 1: abortion at all stages of human development. The demand, the
Speaker 1: everything you listened before. This increases the reality that folks
Speaker 1: will not feel safe having a baby, they won't feel supported,
Speaker 1: they won't feel healthy, all the above.
Speaker 3: Don't they sound like slave owners? Ain't that what a
Speaker 3: slave owner would say? They don't they want you?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what a slave owner would say.
Speaker 3: Damn, this is a reenactment. And this is what I
Speaker 3: keep trying to get people to.
Speaker 1: Understand, like you don't say what I'm saying, say the
Speaker 1: plantation and the slave.
Speaker 3: This is part of the societal architecture. It's never gone away.
Speaker 1: This is just a revival of how our society to
Speaker 1: make America great again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a yeah, absolutely nostalgia for the past. And
Speaker 3: it's a and if you look back at the trajectory
Speaker 3: of the institution of slavery, even after slavery, they were
Speaker 3: nostalgic for it. You had slave in a box, you
Speaker 3: had things being marketed as and for convenience. As it
Speaker 3: is true if you've never looked up you should google.
Speaker 3: You should look you should definitely google it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so so so even our obsession with AI and and
Speaker 3: like robots, it's it's like you can have a slave,
Speaker 3: but it'll be a robots, so it'll be okay. We
Speaker 3: are we have never reckoned with the material implications how
Speaker 3: slavery shaped our expectations, our identity, what we believe luxury
Speaker 3: and success looks like, yes, our quest for leadure, et cetera.
Speaker 3: So this is I mean, the social fabric and social
Speaker 3: mores changed to some extent. But if you recognize that
Speaker 3: the ultra wealthy are are are in a lot of
Speaker 3: ways removed from that social fabric. Right, if you think
Speaker 3: about I mean, and we encounter it on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: Think about when jay Z says, I don't land at
Speaker 3: the airport.
Speaker 8: I call it the clear airport.
Speaker 3: Right, He's saying, I'm somewhere you can't get to. Right,
Speaker 3: I'm removed, I'm far away. I'm somewhere you can't, you
Speaker 3: can't exactly. That's the point. That's the point. So the
Speaker 3: people who and jay Z just a little billionaire, if
Speaker 3: you compare him to Larry Ellison, Billy calm down, if
Speaker 3: you'll compare him to somebody like Larry Ellison or Elon Musk,
Speaker 3: these people are several layers removed from society.
Speaker 1: And there's several generations.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely so, whatever our social morays and sensibilities are
Speaker 3: around slavery are not ones they have been socialized within.
Speaker 3: They exist within a kind of corporate architecture that we've privileged,
Speaker 3: that's privileged in the constitution. This is why people not
Speaker 3: understanding the history of slavery is so detrimental to us collectively.
Speaker 3: Because if you think about people, think about the three
Speaker 3: fifths compromise, and the slave trade clause, and they think
Speaker 3: about it as just a racialized provision. No, these are
Speaker 3: corporate provisions. These are provisions that say the Congress, which
Speaker 3: is supposed to be the most representative body because it's
Speaker 3: the body for the people. Come on, lawyers, cannot regulate
Speaker 3: or cannot stop the importation of slaves. Who is that for?
Speaker 3: Who's importing slaves? Big business some of the only people
Speaker 3: who can afford the ships, to staff them, to pay
Speaker 3: to kidnap these folks, to get people to risk alive
Speaker 3: for the likelihood of mutiny when slaves would revolt on
Speaker 3: these ships. You're talking about a car about four big
Speaker 3: business that's constitutionalized as part of our federal architecture, right,
Speaker 3: and so we've always privileged corporations and corporate power. And
Speaker 3: then we connected it to the Three Fifths Compromise, which
Speaker 3: said that cargo, that's how we think about people in
Speaker 3: this country as cargo. So when they treat us like
Speaker 3: inputs and labor and humans as a resource, that's part
Speaker 3: of our foundation, that's part of our architecture. Because they
Speaker 3: called people cargo in the Constitution, and then they said
Speaker 3: that cargo could translate directly into political power. With the
Speaker 3: three fifths compromise. The more slaves you bring in, the
Speaker 3: more representation you have the possibility to get in Congress,
Speaker 3: right in the House of Representatives. And so there's a
Speaker 3: direct link. There's a direct relationship here between the power
Speaker 3: that we see being wielded and the results and the
Speaker 3: lack of care about humans. This is part of our ethos.
Speaker 3: So when they talk about restoring enterprise, when they talk
Speaker 3: about they are talking about even making corporations a person,
Speaker 3: right when they say, I mean people think it started
Speaker 3: with Citizens United. Citizens United is just a modern manifestation
Speaker 3: of that constitutionalized principle, which says that corporate, huge businesses,
Speaker 3: corporations wielding political power is part of our ethos. It's
Speaker 3: good for us. We've always had that. But because we
Speaker 3: don't study those provisions like that within that context, because
Speaker 3: we kind of say, oh, my goodness, those were slave
Speaker 3: clauses and they were about you know, racism, and we
Speaker 3: don't do that anymore. Right, they're inoperable now, we don't
Speaker 3: need to spend time with them, we don't recognize their
Speaker 3: implications for our modern but.
Speaker 1: They also very casually these days be going back to
Speaker 1: those laws.
Speaker 8: Right, laws from.
Speaker 1: Eighteen, So whatever ninety eight, he's doing it right now.
Speaker 3: When the alien the Alien in Sedition Acts, he's using
Speaker 3: some of those acts to deport, which is really just
Speaker 3: to exile people without due process. But he was relying
Speaker 3: on the seventeen ninety eight Alien in Sedition Acts. We
Speaker 3: absolutely use those laws.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of immigration, I'm gonna talk later in the
Speaker 1: show about uprisings that are happening in Portugal and Bulgaria.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to do a uh quick pivot because
Speaker 1: you I did not know that you was from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I'm not, but I'm not that you live in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Live in Minnesota, and so I do want to shout
Speaker 1: out Minnesota because they have been and of course I'm
Speaker 1: saying it just like Bobby's mother would on Bobby's World. Bobby,
Speaker 1: We're going to Minnesota, and I just want to shout
Speaker 1: out Minnesota and the work they're doing against ice.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, wait, wait, wait, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 12: First of all, if he committed a crime in the
Speaker 12: state of Minnesota.
Speaker 3: As an adult, that's a that's a public offense. So
Speaker 3: you walk in the phone.
Speaker 12: So what is the warrants?
Speaker 18: I said, They have one person named one that they
Speaker 18: have to detain, and that person is in side central mix.
Speaker 18: Don Henry has the right to say no to anyone twenty.
Speaker 1: So Don Henry is the owner of the market that
Speaker 1: they are guarding his business.
Speaker 18: So if he went inside to talk to his wife,
Speaker 18: make sure his staff are in the know what's going
Speaker 18: on out here.
Speaker 7: They have not produced a warrant. They asked Don Henny
Speaker 7: if he was a citizen.
Speaker 18: They asked him to identify himself, Don Henry shortman's passport.
Speaker 7: They didn't ask me for my passport.
Speaker 1: It doesn't pay.
Speaker 7: It's called discribination. So we're gonna see here, you guys.
Speaker 3: We're gonna just see what.
Speaker 18: We're gonna make sure that Don Henry needs space and
Speaker 18: type to think about what's best for him, his family
Speaker 18: and his business.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna follow Don Henry's leave.
Speaker 19: We made our way to the center of the crowd
Speaker 19: and found a woman being held face down on the ground.
Speaker 1: People were screaming to let her go. We kept yelling,
Speaker 1: she's pregnant, she's pregnant, she's pregnant. They put their knees
Speaker 1: in her and we kept telling them she can't breathe
Speaker 1: let her up. Let her up in the chaos, the
Speaker 1: woman who was tantruffed was suddenly being dragged by one
Speaker 1: arm as the angry crowd through snowballs and screamed at the.
Speaker 8: Federal age, do you have a heart?
Speaker 1: By the way, throwing snowballs at them is probably the
Speaker 1: most Minnesota thing I've ever heard of, because one thing
Speaker 1: about Minnesota is y'all really know about some snow to
Speaker 1: look like a nice guy. You haven't heard now, I
Speaker 1: don't know about your this. You gotta have different folks,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's why you gotta have different folks in
Speaker 1: the organization, because this couldn't be me talking. Agreed, don't
Speaker 1: do no shooting around me.
Speaker 7: I can't.
Speaker 1: Don't got no shooting. Let's be family. Let's treat each
Speaker 1: other good. Let's show the media that we care for
Speaker 1: one another.
Speaker 10: Thank you, guys, Thank you for standing down.
Speaker 3: Don't father love you child.
Speaker 13: For y'all.
Speaker 7: We'll pray for you.
Speaker 3: I adopt a snuffy car my perspective. You gotta have
Speaker 3: a conscience for you to reason with them and appeal
Speaker 3: to their conscience. And I just can't believe if you're
Speaker 3: out here dragging folks out of the car. Line from schools,
Speaker 3: knee and on pregnant women. You gotta ancience for me
Speaker 3: to speak to friends.
Speaker 1: But you know what, but they left, I mean and
Speaker 1: but it was a combination of all. It was a
Speaker 1: multi pronged approach, right, because folks was not playing with them.
Speaker 8: Folks stood stood up, they linked arms.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 1: Then you had the person who was the communicator, like
Speaker 1: I would tell Claudia de la Cruz, like, don't expect.
Speaker 1: Don't send me to talk to no cops.
Speaker 3: It ain't gonna go.
Speaker 16: Well, it's not.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ruin the whole operation. Y'll never let me
Speaker 1: talk to cops. I will ruin the whole operation. Everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna get arrested. We all did against shot, don't.
Speaker 3: That's not your ministry, that's not my No.
Speaker 8: You send me to talk to the thugs, right, send
Speaker 8: me to talk to the yns.
Speaker 1: I'm good with them. But the cops, no, no, y'all
Speaker 1: got them. Put a bail fund together for me, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we.
Speaker 3: Are operating in an extra legal terrain. That's the other thing.
Speaker 3: Folks are not recktling with people like that. Whatever this is,
Speaker 3: thank you, like so yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah again,
Speaker 3: we don't know history. If we knew history, we would
Speaker 3: know how like unreliable you just it's like.
Speaker 13: A hit or miss.
Speaker 3: You might as well, I mean, play the lottery. If
Speaker 3: you're feeling unlucky, you know, you should play the lottery.
Speaker 3: It's just these all of this, and this is really,
Speaker 3: I think the most powerful point. It is both terrifying
Speaker 3: and powerful. All of this was created. We created it.
Speaker 3: We created it. Yeah, that means we can uncreate it.
Speaker 8: Say it right, bring it back, bring it back.
Speaker 1: We can uncreate it.
Speaker 3: We can make new stuff. And here's the thing. I
Speaker 3: trust us to make new stuff more than I trust
Speaker 3: the Brola garchs, certainly to us. I trust the people.
Speaker 3: I trust humans. I trust us and and this has
Speaker 3: been proven over and over again. It's why they don't
Speaker 3: leave us to our own devices.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 3: It's why they have to manipulate what we learn and
Speaker 3: what we see and what we hear, and how we
Speaker 3: speak to one another. And you know, the lines we
Speaker 3: draw connect ourselves and separate ourselves, because if we were
Speaker 3: this is why they went after TikTok, because they thought
Speaker 3: it was just an apple. Folks was over there dancing.
Speaker 3: They found our folks was over there having conversations, and
Speaker 3: they was like, oh, we have to shut this shit down.
Speaker 3: Let the kids talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't talk. Then they tricked them and started
Speaker 1: dancing and teaching, Hey, Zionism gonna take us down. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: project twenty five, learn about it.
Speaker 3: And then Lady Ellison was like, I'm a buy it.
Speaker 3: I'm a buy it because we can't have this, and
Speaker 3: I'll buy whatever other mediums I need to. Right, like,
Speaker 3: It's yo, it's an active it's an active desperation. We
Speaker 3: should absolutely see it as an active desperation and it
Speaker 3: should also terrify us. And I'm I'm hoping we I
Speaker 3: don't know what it's going.
Speaker 1: Desperate desperate measures. You know, when people get into that phase,
Speaker 1: they lose any semblance of humanity that they did, and
Speaker 1: that's a human thing.
Speaker 3: Right, This is why we had this is violent crime
Speaker 3: when people are. The more desperate people are, the more
Speaker 3: desperate they're willing.
Speaker 1: To be, which is also why they are creating scenarioation
Speaker 1: for you know, when people were talking about Snap, I
Speaker 1: saw someone say, oh, well, they're just trying to make
Speaker 1: people feel bad. I'm like, no, they're trying to make
Speaker 1: those on snap Snap that's right. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: because they're always, of course trying to feed a free
Speaker 1: labor force.
Speaker 3: Right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: So tell me this. We were going to talk about
Speaker 1: a bunch of things. Then we ended up talking about
Speaker 1: a bunch of things. You are a First Amendment right specialist,
Speaker 1: and so we got to talk about what's going on
Speaker 1: in Cali with this Antifa indictment.
Speaker 3: Well, did you say Benny Thompson's exchange with the FBI
Speaker 3: director about Antifa? Did you?
Speaker 1: I'm about to play it for me. I'm about to
Speaker 1: play it for you right now. Let's let's let's let's start.
Speaker 12: With that.
Speaker 17: As an Antifa headquarters. What we're doing right now with
Speaker 17: your where in the United States?
Speaker 7: Does it?
Speaker 3: That's somebody, Grandpa, that's somebody.
Speaker 1: Grandpa just asked you, did you ate the cookie?
Speaker 3: And then you start being like, well, what I said.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 13: I asked you one question, did you eat the cooky?
Speaker 7: That's it?
Speaker 17: No, no, no, Antifa exist. If it's a terrorist organization
Speaker 17: and you've identified it as number one.
Speaker 1: We are building out an infrastructure right now.
Speaker 17: So what does that mean. I'm just we're trying to
Speaker 17: get the information. You said Antifa is a terrorist organization.
Speaker 17: Tell us as a committee, how did you come to that?
Speaker 2: What do it exists?
Speaker 17: How many members do they have in the United States
Speaker 17: as of right now?
Speaker 3: Well, that's very fluid.
Speaker 12: It's ongoing for us to understand that the same no
Speaker 12: different than alkadan isis.
Speaker 17: I don't want you I'll ask one person, sir, I
Speaker 17: just want you to tell us if you said Antifa
Speaker 17: is the number one domestic terrorist organization operating in the
Speaker 17: United States. I just need to know where they are.
Speaker 17: How many people. I don't want a name, I don't
Speaker 17: want anything like that. Just how many people have you
Speaker 17: identified with the FBI that Antifa.
Speaker 2: Is made of.
Speaker 3: Well, the investigations you're active.
Speaker 17: Sir, you wouldn't come to this committee and say something
Speaker 17: you can't prove by note I knew you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 20: What you do.
Speaker 8: And would be funny if it wasn't real.
Speaker 3: This is it was such a glaring example of how
Speaker 3: disconnected we are from reality and we don't have to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the scarier part is that we don't
Speaker 3: have to be connected to reality and I would also
Speaker 3: argue this is true to the FBI's tradition. This is
Speaker 3: the type of stuff Jaeger whoever used to do.
Speaker 1: They were able to do it under the shroud of
Speaker 1: secrecy in a way that they're really not able to
Speaker 1: do at this level. Yeah, agreed. So let me just
Speaker 1: give you all some background around what's going on. So,
Speaker 1: federal prosecutors in California have indicted four people on charges
Speaker 1: they plotted to bomb multiple targets in California beginning on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. The Justice Department describes the individuals as
Speaker 1: being part of the Turtle Island Liberation Front okay, and
Speaker 1: that they're absolutely pro Palestine, far left, anti government, and
Speaker 1: anti capitalist. The four people arrested, Audrey Ellen, Audrey Eileen Carol,
Speaker 1: Dante Garfield, Zachary Aaron Page, and Tina Lai have what
Speaker 1: the Justice Department and FBI have deemed an anti government ideology.
Speaker 1: And this was apparently initiated due to the September twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five executive order signed by President Trump to root
Speaker 1: out left wing domestic terrort organization is in our country. Now,
Speaker 1: I just want to add this very important caveat that
Speaker 1: the indictment relies heavily on a paid FBI informant. Yeah this,
Speaker 1: I mean this sounds like yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: This is both right. Has mccartyism popped off because of
Speaker 1: a really like zealous senator being like, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: pop off, like he couldn't care less if people were communists,
Speaker 1: but he was like, oh, I can get a name
Speaker 1: doing this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then you had Hoover who was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: also trying to get people to not know that I'm
Speaker 1: gay and black, so let me just then get busiedo.
Speaker 3: Hoover was also raised under if you will like his
Speaker 3: political tutelage, he was originally so he's hired in the
Speaker 3: nineteen teens. A lot of people don't realize Hoover is
Speaker 3: hired by the federal government in the nineteen teens and
Speaker 3: he leaves the FBI until nineteen seventy two, So he
Speaker 3: has a career spanning more than fifty decades with the
Speaker 3: federal government. And when he starts out, mutiple wars out
Speaker 3: absolutely under Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson introduces the Espionage
Speaker 3: Acts that says you can't say anything bad about the
Speaker 3: government he uses a muck rackers, which are propagandists, to
Speaker 3: drum up support for the war. He labels anybody who's
Speaker 3: anti war, anybody who's anti government, anybody who's anti white supremacy,
Speaker 3: as a threat to the national security. So this is
Speaker 3: the climate, the rearing, the tutelage under which j. Rgar
Speaker 3: Hoover is introduced to the federal government. And so if
Speaker 3: you just look at the lineage, I mean we're talking
Speaker 3: about apples falling from trees.
Speaker 8: This is I mean, this is this is the fruit
Speaker 8: the tree.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the fruit.
Speaker 3: This is the fruit of that. And because we've never
Speaker 3: been willing to grapple with it and tackle it and
Speaker 3: unpacked and dissect and break down.
Speaker 6: Yah.
Speaker 3: Is these markers, these as markers on white paper, signs
Speaker 3: that they drew. Is this the evidence?
Speaker 1: This is the evidence, This is the evidence. We also
Speaker 1: have to understand that quote unquote evidence always has to
Speaker 1: be in quotes, right, because even as we're talking about Luigi,
Speaker 1: we understand that there's just simply is all is sideways
Speaker 1: stuff going on, and they are not able to track
Speaker 1: possession of evidence. You constantly have Forget Luigi, Let's go
Speaker 1: back to Oh jy.
Speaker 8: Like this, where are you?
Speaker 1: It's not like these cops are in any way above board.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the other evidence here.
Speaker 8: It is hold on, so PBC pipes.
Speaker 3: These were just these were just out in the open
Speaker 3: and somebody front yard. They just took a picture. I mean,
Speaker 3: none of this stuff makes sense, Like at this what
Speaker 3: oh who writing them signed? You got a whole internet,
Speaker 3: you can speak to who writing with Prayola markers on
Speaker 3: eighty five printer paper. They're I like even the way
Speaker 3: that they're And this is another thing though, This is
Speaker 3: why they attack education the way that they do, because
Speaker 3: they don't count on us being smart enough hootically about
Speaker 3: what they put in front of us.
Speaker 1: And then look at the bullets and the whole gun
Speaker 1: situation after c K right and how it was like,
Speaker 1: oh there was nothing there, all of a sudden, there's
Speaker 1: something there, and then on the bullets it just looked
Speaker 1: like chicken scratch, and so like we I don't like
Speaker 1: black people, you know what I mean? Like stuff like that,
Speaker 1: it's just nonsense. Let me also add that the indictment,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that the UH attorney what's his name, the
Speaker 1: federal the federal prosecutor Bill Asiley, and I'm actually I
Speaker 1: want to I want to show you all a picture
Speaker 1: of him so you can just see what a prick
Speaker 1: looks like, because I think it's also like sometimes you
Speaker 1: just see certain pitts of people you like. You you
Speaker 1: could tell that this is somebody who wasn't getting none,
Speaker 1: and this is his way to try and get some. Vagine,
Speaker 1: this is first assistant. Look at them, Look at him,
Speaker 1: Look at him. You can tell he's just corny. He's
Speaker 1: a corny guy.
Speaker 8: This is Bill A.
Speaker 1: Saley, who says the group was targeting US companies with
Speaker 1: their bombs. He did not elaborate on the companies. The
Speaker 1: complaint also alleges that the four involved in the plot
Speaker 1: were not attempting to kill people, and if they saw
Speaker 1: anyone in the area of their bombs, they would try
Speaker 1: to warn them. They're going to make their initial appearance
Speaker 1: in federal court Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. I bet
Speaker 1: you there was a lot of pressure to find an
Speaker 1: indictment after that very embarrassing exchange with Benny Thompson. I
Speaker 1: bet you there was all of a sudden and urgent
Speaker 1: pressure to produce something or someone, even if it doesn't stick.
Speaker 3: That's the other thing. All of this is about the
Speaker 3: orc of the theater of it. So much political theater
Speaker 3: happening that I think is meant to distract us from
Speaker 3: the real actual maneuvering that's happening. And they use Crayola
Speaker 3: markers and eight and a half by eleven printer paper
Speaker 3: to do it because they believe that we don't have
Speaker 3: the literacy, the media literacy, the critical thinking skills, the
Speaker 3: historical contexts to situate their efforts, and didn't I think
Speaker 3: there was a judge too who ruled that that person
Speaker 3: was not supposed to be in charge of that office,
Speaker 3: and then they just kind of changed. Yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure there's a court ruling from a judge that that
Speaker 3: what did you say? It is, SI, he's not supposed
Speaker 3: to be leading that office, so they changed his title,
Speaker 3: but he's still doing the same thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, Again, we're in an extra legal Well.
Speaker 1: The other of nonsense that is happening is that they
Speaker 1: also know that mainstream media is not going to dig further.
Speaker 3: That's right, right.
Speaker 1: They also know that mainstream media is not going to
Speaker 1: correct with the same effort that they promote, So mainstream
Speaker 1: media might put this story out there. But let's say,
Speaker 1: like you said, the theatrics then dissolve into this was nonsense,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna throw this out of court and you
Speaker 1: all can go your merry way. We're not gonna see
Speaker 1: that story.
Speaker 3: That's right. Well, I mean, the media is invested in
Speaker 3: invested is as much as the political apparatus in those
Speaker 3: fundamental building blocks, so they're not I mean, this is
Speaker 3: why you don't see media that's critical up shout out
Speaker 3: to African stream. They get to African streaming, right, This
Speaker 3: is why you don't see media.
Speaker 1: Well off Mets started something new called Sovereign Media.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know that, Thank you for sharing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm fine.
Speaker 1: And so it's called Sovereign Media and he's working on it,
Speaker 1: and we actually have journalists that join once a month
Speaker 1: from African from the previous African stream, but now sobern
Speaker 1: Media to do what we call the Africa Tappen and
Speaker 1: they give us the one two on what's going on
Speaker 1: in the continent.
Speaker 3: I love that, and I love you for making space
Speaker 3: for that, because that that kind of elimination is also
Speaker 3: why we're here. Because you don't see media that's critical
Speaker 3: of the United States. You don't see media from the
Speaker 3: marginalized perspective, and mainstream media will not do it. They will,
Speaker 3: they will create the campaigns for these awful things to happen,
Speaker 3: and then years later apologize for the lynching campaign, apologize
Speaker 3: for Iraq, and I imagine we will see in a
Speaker 3: decade or so apologize for Palestine.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Iraq, you know, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about Rob Reiner later in the show. And Rob Reinner
Speaker 1: did the film Shock and Awe, which is about the
Speaker 1: ways in which the New York Times and mainstream media
Speaker 1: helped to support the lies of the administration at the time.
Speaker 1: You know, Rumsfelds and these folks in carrying out the
Speaker 1: manufactured consent for the war. How can people follow you?
Speaker 1: Where can they get more Russia ghe in their lives?
Speaker 3: So I love you dearly, and I'm going to correct you, Rashia.
Speaker 13: Why have you let me talk to you.
Speaker 7: The time I was waiting?
Speaker 9: I just did it.
Speaker 3: So there it is. You can follow me. I'm on
Speaker 3: Instagram as highly viby, but there's underscore, isn't there yet?
Speaker 3: Maybe in the middle highly underscore viby okay, and yes
Speaker 3: like that, And I'm working on other stuff that I
Speaker 3: will put on. I'm working on doing podcast stuff. I
Speaker 3: don't have the scheduling. I don't have the time right
Speaker 3: now to add it into all the other stuff that
Speaker 3: I'm doing, but I am working on it. So my
Speaker 3: hope is to talk more about the ways in which race,
Speaker 3: law and politics are engendering the American decline. And you
Speaker 3: know a lot of folks are talking about leaving or
Speaker 3: talking about what they can do. You know, I want
Speaker 3: Black folks to realize that our home is with each other.
Speaker 3: I would be hesitant to call this place or any
Speaker 3: other place, our home. A home is a place that
Speaker 3: nourishes you. A home is a place that nurtures you,
Speaker 3: that welcomes you, that's happy to see you up where
Speaker 3: you find refuge. I don't know if any of those
Speaker 3: characterizations would fit our experience anywhere, especially here. So I
Speaker 3: want us to start thinking about each other as our
Speaker 3: home and whatever we do.
Speaker 1: I hope we began to think of ourselves collectively with that,
Speaker 1: and that connects to my concept of we are the soil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we did not get to connect to the land
Speaker 1: that we had to become experts at, so we have
Speaker 1: had to be the land.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope, I hope we take that in internalize.
Speaker 3: So I think our attempts to save this without engaging
Speaker 3: with what that means for the globe, for our speed,
Speaker 3: for the.
Speaker 1: Planet, what are we saving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're talking about saving American democracy, and if you.
Speaker 8: Were never an American, it was never a democracy.
Speaker 3: And it's gonna kill the planet. It's gonna kill us all.
Speaker 3: Whatever you think you're trying to say. You want prop
Speaker 3: up Jasmine crocket while they sending tax dollars over there
Speaker 3: to bomb babies. I need us to, I need us to.
Speaker 3: I just I want us all to be well. I
Speaker 3: want us all to be well with each other, and
Speaker 3: I want us to understand that. You know, ain't nothing
Speaker 3: particularly wrong with Jasmine or Ama except that they exist
Speaker 3: in the system that demands this of them. This is
Speaker 3: the price.
Speaker 1: No wrong with that. Why are you even giving them
Speaker 1: that out? Like they made a choice going there, Like
Speaker 1: no one held a gun to theay head and said
Speaker 1: you got to go in here and do this, And
Speaker 1: other people have gone in there and not done that,
Speaker 1: so they actually did not have to be that. Corey
Speaker 1: Bush went in there and didn't do that, or she
Speaker 1: was like he went in there and didn't do that.
Speaker 1: Summer Lee went in there.
Speaker 3: And their fairness, they got Corey Bush and Jamal Bowman's
Speaker 3: ass out of there.
Speaker 8: And this is not out of there if the Democrats
Speaker 8: actually had their back.
Speaker 3: But that was my other point, more so about the
Speaker 3: democratic apparatus of which Dasmin Crockett and Kamala they support,
Speaker 3: that they didn't say nothing. You talked about you for
Speaker 3: the people. They just snatched your people who for the
Speaker 3: people out of here and everybody was quiet.
Speaker 1: I don't like that Kamala married a Zionists. Do you
Speaker 1: know how much it takes to marry somebody, y'all? Do
Speaker 1: you understand in this country what it means to marry somebody.
Speaker 1: She married them their family, their family, and married him.
Speaker 3: As black folks who experience, who know that we are
Speaker 3: ways on the bottom of any calibration about human worth.
Speaker 3: I just don't know how you can endorse any position
Speaker 3: where you calibrating human worth and putting people on the bottom.
Speaker 3: And don't think your ass is next.
Speaker 1: And Dan, you'll say to yourself, well, this is for
Speaker 1: the preservation of America, which Jasmine Crockett has said. So again,
Speaker 1: like you said, we are caught up in this preservation
Speaker 1: of a place that has never preserved.
Speaker 3: Us and can't. And the preservation at what costs? You
Speaker 3: willing to burn the whole planet?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And what you think gonna happen when the whole planet burned?
Speaker 3: Who you think next? Will you think they feed into
Speaker 3: the fire next?
Speaker 1: I just the logic just seems so obvious to me.
Speaker 1: And that's why I can't give them a pass. These
Speaker 1: are not young people. These are not people who are
Speaker 1: somehow you know, misled. These are not people who are
Speaker 1: struggling financially. These are not people with children. These are
Speaker 1: not people who have any excuse other than a desire
Speaker 1: for attention.
Speaker 22: Power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think a lot of it is
Speaker 3: getting a fuck, especially for black folks. We have not healed.
Speaker 3: So we understand our wholeness as proximity to white power,
Speaker 3: and so we believe that that can restore art of
Speaker 3: our humanity. That's well, no, because I spend time with
Speaker 3: the ancestors, So I mean, I know my worth and
Speaker 3: my value. I just spent time this woman present. You
Speaker 3: just want to forget them what were going through twenty
Speaker 3: years ago, twenty nine.
Speaker 1: I also want us to change how we refer to
Speaker 1: black people because I know so many black people that
Speaker 1: actually don't right, that actually don't operate like that, that
Speaker 1: do spend their time with the ancestors. They come on
Speaker 1: this show all the good day time, they come to
Speaker 1: my book tours. So like this whole we enable at
Speaker 1: a certain point when we're just like I get it.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, but everybody ain't healed to the
Speaker 1: same extent. No they're not, But and everybody ain't had
Speaker 1: the same opportunities.
Speaker 3: Some people don't even know that healing is available.
Speaker 1: Correct, I'm just saying that we apply that to people
Speaker 1: who do have that access. We apply that to people
Speaker 1: who are actually available, who do have the availability financially,
Speaker 1: time wise, et cetera to do that. And we do
Speaker 1: that because we have an ingrained love and grace that
Speaker 1: I believe is actually a part of our just being humanity,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, I need.
Speaker 3: To see I mean, my ability to recognize the humanity
Speaker 3: and every other person is part of my own humanity, right,
Speaker 3: My humanity survives because I can see humanity and everybody else.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's an excuse. I think it's just
Speaker 3: an acknowledgment of where we are and how much work
Speaker 3: needs to be done. If we just say these people
Speaker 3: are bad and write them off, it doesn't give us
Speaker 3: a pathway for the healing that will need to take place. Collectively,
Speaker 3: I think there are more unhealed people than there are
Speaker 3: healed people, and I think just the majority of unkilled
Speaker 3: people don't have power. I think that's why we don't
Speaker 3: see it manifesting in this way. I think there's a
Speaker 3: lot of healing that needs to happen, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: have to make space for that and create an architecture
Speaker 3: and talk about what healing looks like and what it
Speaker 3: doesn't look like. In one of the ways it doesn't
Speaker 3: look like is turning towards white power as a form
Speaker 3: of validation, as a form of redemption.
Speaker 23: So do we.
Speaker 1: Continue to platform unhealed people?
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, we should not be platforming these people.
Speaker 3: I think I think that's the difference, right. We don't
Speaker 3: throw people away because people aren't disposable, we don't platform them.
Speaker 8: Efair, Okay, yes, we're on the same page.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, on the same page.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get there because the page is the same.
Speaker 1: Because I think that's the thing is that that nuance
Speaker 1: is what so many people are missing. Like when you
Speaker 1: critique a black politician and they say you're tearing her down,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, this is actually a constructive criticism based
Speaker 1: on facts that actually addresses them as a politician even
Speaker 1: more than them as a character as an individual. Right
Speaker 1: at least the book reading I did, in the book
Speaker 1: talk I did in Dallas, someone was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to support Jasmine Crockett just as a person,
Speaker 1: I said, then send her a birthday card.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, like she's not.
Speaker 1: Running as your sister. She's not running she's running as
Speaker 1: a representative for office. And you know, there just really
Speaker 1: is a very reality, a very real reality, that there's
Speaker 1: a system in place that is bigger than the individual.
Speaker 19: Yes.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And some might say, well, then why are we expecting
Speaker 1: an individual to change the system. And what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is I don't expect an individual to change the system.
Speaker 1: I do expect that if an individual goes into that
Speaker 1: system and they are telling you about change, that they
Speaker 1: need to be acting differently than other individuals in that system.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I think we have to come to
Speaker 3: groups with the system. It's not receptive to change. You
Speaker 3: have to be an arrogant ass motherfucker to believe that
Speaker 3: all these people who came before you, all the brilliance
Speaker 3: that you draw from, all these other people just couldn't
Speaker 3: figure out you got the answer.
Speaker 1: Or you're telling me, like you need to run for office.
Speaker 1: You and some people say Amanda, you need to rum office.
Speaker 1: Either side of that spectrum means that you think that
Speaker 1: just me.
Speaker 3: That's not to flip this whole crit That's right, that's right,
Speaker 3: that's right, that's right. It's the system. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it's like anything else. You not changing, it's changing you.
Speaker 3: You got to respond to it. You have to respond
Speaker 3: to its incentives, right what it incentivizes, the behavior and incentivizes,
Speaker 3: and the behavior.
Speaker 1: And desiless unless your goal is not to stay there, Yes,
Speaker 1: which we shouldn't.
Speaker 3: We need to if we're going to do anything. We
Speaker 3: talk about the system we need to build. We need
Speaker 3: to build a system where people do not make careers,
Speaker 3: lifelong careers out of these positions, so that so that
Speaker 3: way that they are not trying to please interests that
Speaker 3: are not the ones that they promised to address when
Speaker 3: they got in there. I absolutely think that that's true,
Speaker 3: but I think that that also means that governance needs
Speaker 3: to be more collectively shared. A big part of this
Speaker 3: is that million opting out. They don't want to do
Speaker 3: the work. They want to show up every four years,
Speaker 3: cast a back. It be like I did my job,
Speaker 3: and it's not that it's a weekly, daily kind of
Speaker 3: burden that requires us all to participate.
Speaker 1: But that also not even really genuinely possible and correct absolutely,
Speaker 1: So that's why you have we also know that they're cheating.
Speaker 1: So I think that also leaves people like this, Uh,
Speaker 1: what's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 3: It's in chanted.
Speaker 1: You mean this is cheating?
Speaker 3: Who's cheating?
Speaker 8: All these elections are cheating?
Speaker 3: How can you cheat a rid system?
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm saying. It's raal, that's right.
Speaker 7: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, there are those fundamental building blocks, and this is
Speaker 3: why anti capitalism, anti white supremacy, and anti militarism will
Speaker 3: always provoke the violence of the state, because in order
Speaker 3: to get any of those other pieces, in order to
Speaker 3: get collective governance, in order to get an educated polity,
Speaker 3: in order to get you need to attack those concentrations
Speaker 3: of power. And so those are the heart of the thing.
Speaker 3: Those are the heart of the thing. When you attack,
Speaker 3: when you attack the amount of money we send in
Speaker 3: over the Israel, when you attack how corporations can amass
Speaker 3: the wealth that they amassed. When you attack the way
Speaker 3: that a race is taught in history, when you get
Speaker 3: to the heart of the thing, when you attack colonialism,
Speaker 3: how colonialism is taught in school. When you get to
Speaker 3: the heart of the thing, that's when you begin to
Speaker 3: break down those power structures. As someone who's taught this
Speaker 3: for years, I would get people in my class who
Speaker 3: would be like really hostile at the outset, and then
Speaker 3: by the end of the class they'd be like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I didn't know, I had no idea, I
Speaker 3: hadn't been taught blah blah, blah blah blah. That's why
Speaker 3: schools are as contested as any election in any court case,
Speaker 3: because the moment you can get to the students, that's
Speaker 3: why they're opening a turning point chapter on every high
Speaker 3: school campus in Texas, right while simultaneously outlining honest discussion
Speaker 3: of history, outline critiques of the United States. Because if
Speaker 3: you can get to the minds of people, if you
Speaker 3: can orient and socialize and socialize them into a particular
Speaker 3: kind of critical thought. These all of the rest of
Speaker 3: this becomes newt right, they will adjust accordingly. And so
Speaker 3: uh yeah, I think if we start, we need to
Speaker 3: start there, not fucking Jasmincrockett.
Speaker 1: And there you got it.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much, God Lee, I'm so glad we
Speaker 8: got you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: I appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: We are here.
Speaker 25: We are here.
Speaker 1: Our second guest has not come on screen yet, So
Speaker 1: in the meantime, in between time, I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: to you about what's been going on with these uprisings,
Speaker 1: because it really is worth noting that other countries are
Speaker 1: holding their government's feats to the fires, right, they are
Speaker 1: holding their feets to the fires. So let me show
Speaker 1: you all what's going on in uh Bulgaria right now.
Speaker 1: So some of y'all may be like, what is a Bulgaria?
Speaker 12: Though?
Speaker 1: What is a Bulgaria? But you need to know. And
Speaker 1: then there's also what's going on in Portugal. H So,
Speaker 1: first of all Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a European country that
Speaker 1: is basically going through what a number of other European
Speaker 1: countries are, which is their their parliament keeps getting removed
Speaker 1: and having to be like re established because there is
Speaker 1: a vote of no confidence. A vote of no confidence
Speaker 1: is similar to remember when Kevin McCarthy uh the Republican
Speaker 1: he was put in the sea with the caveat f
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, he was put in the seat
Speaker 1: with the kavia was sorry with the caveat that he
Speaker 1: would be able to be removed, okay, because we have
Speaker 1: different rules because we don't have a parliament. So he
Speaker 1: was put in with that kaviat. And then when Matt
Speaker 1: gets you know, decided that he wasn't happy with something,
Speaker 1: he was able to get him removed.
Speaker 8: There was like a new vote that got him removed, and.
Speaker 1: That was very effective because they were able to basically
Speaker 1: flip the script. So Bulgaria. All right, So Bulgaria, they
Speaker 1: have literally gotten a new government because the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: rosen Jelyyaskov announced his resignation on December eleventh.
Speaker 8: But I want you to hear what he said.
Speaker 1: So basically they were about to do another vote of
Speaker 1: no confidence, and there were six votes of no confidence
Speaker 1: over the past few years. There was about to be
Speaker 1: another one, and there was all these protests that were
Speaker 1: happening because they was like, yo, we know that we
Speaker 1: are about to actually become a part of the European Union.
Speaker 1: We're afraid for inflation, and we know that y'all playing around,
Speaker 1: and we also know that y'all got corruption going on
Speaker 1: and we're not here for that. And we also know
Speaker 1: that y'all don't be listening to anything we're saying. So
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, we are absolutely upset about this,
Speaker 1: and they keep calling these protests gen z protests, but
Speaker 1: really it's just people who are like, we're not here
Speaker 1: for this, okay. So it wasn't just the economic grievance,
Speaker 1: but they don't like the government in general. But this
Speaker 1: is what I thought was interesting. Their Prime Minister Rosen's
Speaker 1: jel jell zely Yazov, jely Yezkov, that's what it is,
Speaker 1: Rosen Jeyevskov.
Speaker 8: He said, we have no doubt that in.
Speaker 1: The upcoming vote of no confidence the government will receive reports,
Speaker 1: will receive support. So basically he's saying that in Parliament.
Speaker 1: They had no doubt that even in the next no
Speaker 1: confidence vote that was brought to the table, they would
Speaker 1: still get voted as y'all good within the government, he
Speaker 1: goes on to say, But for us, the decisions of
Speaker 1: the National Assembly have meaning only when they express the
Speaker 1: will of the sovereign. Young and old people from different
Speaker 1: ethnic groups have spoken out for the resignation. We support
Speaker 1: this civic energy and encourage it. I don't know nothing
Speaker 1: about Zelyazkov. I don't know what his dealings is. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's full of it. But those are
Speaker 1: really strong words.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, Portugal is also in these streets right now. You've
Speaker 1: got a million workers on general strike in Portugal. Now,
Speaker 1: folks often refer to the necessity for a general strike
Speaker 1: here in the United States to really bring capitalism to
Speaker 1: a grinding halt. If we are trying to actually stop
Speaker 1: the administration that's in power from continuing to do their nonsense.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what they've got going on over
Speaker 1: there before we bring up our next guest. So Portugal
Speaker 1: is a really interesting place because Portugal has had a
Speaker 1: revolution of its own that was a people's revolution, and
Speaker 1: you know, in Europe folks really only talk about the revolution,
Speaker 1: the French Revolution, but Portugal had its own revolution, they
Speaker 1: call it the Carnation Revolution in nineteen seventy four, So
Speaker 1: there was a revolution that actually happened long before that.
Speaker 8: Hold on, let me get my notes. That started in
Speaker 8: nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 1: Okay. There was a coup that happened in nineteen twenty six,
Speaker 1: and it brought in Catholicism, integralism, and this regime.
Speaker 8: Okay, called the Estado Novo.
Speaker 1: The New State had Antonio de Oliveira Salasar as prime
Speaker 1: minister till nineteen sixty eight. Are y'all here on what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. This man was up in their running things
Speaker 1: till nineteen sixty eight, and of course during this time
Speaker 1: we have a lot of colonialism going on. So the
Speaker 1: cool that happened that shifted all of this went down
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four, and it's called the Carnation Revolution,
Speaker 1: the Trabajo twenty one, and basically that is the package
Speaker 1: that was presented by the government as a profound reform
Speaker 1: that would revise more than one hundred articles that were
Speaker 1: already passed and put in place during the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: four Revolution, which was really about workers and bringing the
Speaker 1: authoritarianism out that was in place for so long, and
Speaker 1: it was an actual military coup, but then the people
Speaker 1: was also on board with it, so they was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess we all cooling.
Speaker 5: Let's cool it up.
Speaker 1: And it got its name because barely any shots were fired,
Speaker 1: and the restaurant worker Celeste Guyetro, offered carnations to soldiers
Speaker 1: when the population took to the streets, and then you've
Speaker 1: seen the images of the carnations in the rifles, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So every year they celebrate this with holding
Speaker 1: up carnations. Now what's going on right now, though, is
Speaker 1: that the current government is trying to reverse the efforts
Speaker 1: that were put forth during that revolution, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to make for easier dismissals, expanded employer control. They are
Speaker 1: removing the socialist gains that happened during that time, and
Speaker 1: the people are not having it. And I'm loving to
Speaker 1: see it. I love to see it. The people are
Speaker 1: not having it that people are like, wait, we didn't
Speaker 1: say we don't like it.
Speaker 8: We said we about this life.
Speaker 1: Why are y'all actually doing this?
Speaker 16: No, this is not cool.
Speaker 1: And this is the Democratic Alliance that's actually trying to
Speaker 1: do this, and they are right wing and trying to
Speaker 1: move the goalposts. And this is a part of an
Speaker 1: international effort. Okay, this is not just an American thing.
Speaker 1: This is an international effort. I don't know if you know.
Speaker 1: But the person who just got elected as I can
Speaker 1: never remember if they're president or Prime minister, but of Japan,
Speaker 1: she's on this wave as well. We all know that
Speaker 1: Italy been on this wave. Okay, So this is a
Speaker 1: really powerful fascist movement that is happening all over the globe.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to discount the efforts of the
Speaker 1: people to push back against this, because I also want
Speaker 1: to remind us as Ussians that we can also do
Speaker 1: the same. Now, speaking of pushing back, we have Captain Josephine. Wait,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I pronounce your last name correctly.
Speaker 1: We have Josephine Gilbo with us, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: show y'all a little bit about Josephine, because I don't
Speaker 1: think y'all understand.
Speaker 8: We're dealing with a real wine.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with a real wine. Okay, So let me
Speaker 1: just show y'all how Josephine moves.
Speaker 11: Missus Josephine Gilbo. I'm a seventeen year Army veteran. I
Speaker 11: recently got out of the military last year.
Speaker 1: For one year, I have watched Israel bar children alive.
Speaker 1: You don't care about veterans, you don't care about American values.
Speaker 1: You are destroying this company.
Speaker 7: This country.
Speaker 1: May not give you the moral courage to do the
Speaker 1: right day.
Speaker 11: Having that background as an intelligence officer and understanding what
Speaker 11: defense actually is, I can see clearly that this.
Speaker 7: Is not self defense.
Speaker 3: Shay about you.
Speaker 12: So we just approached Brian Matt and I asked him,
Speaker 12: are you spine for Israel? We need veterans from California
Speaker 12: all the way to New York to stand against what
Speaker 12: we are witnessing right now.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, breaking news.
Speaker 21: Congress has just passed FY twenty twenty six National Defense
Speaker 21: Authorization Act, which authorizes nearly nine hundred billion dollars of
Speaker 21: American taxpayer dollars to defense but spending right up, right up.
Speaker 3: America, right up. It is time to take back this
Speaker 3: country from the corrupt politicians.
Speaker 22: Amen.
Speaker 26: Good we are, we are, Hello Joseph, Hello Amanda, it
Speaker 26: is good to see you.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, what a question that is. So I
Speaker 7: am low about half.
Speaker 12: A mile from Roosevelt Roads Base in Puerto Rico. It
Speaker 12: is a base that was closed down in two thousand
Speaker 12: and four and the United States military has recently opened
Speaker 12: it back up in order to orchestrate this it's imperialism
Speaker 12: on Venezuela. And so I am actually here joined investigative
Speaker 12: journalism to see exactly what is going on here and
Speaker 12: to also show solidarity with the people in Puerto Rico
Speaker 12: that they have.
Speaker 7: A right to resist this. This is their island.
Speaker 12: The United States does not have the authority to use
Speaker 12: their island as a forward operating base to fight this
Speaker 12: war as they like to call it, with Venezuela. So
Speaker 12: I'm here just getting some grassroots actions off the ground.
Speaker 1: And yeah, wow, I mean I had no idea that
Speaker 1: was going on. And that is why investigative reporting is
Speaker 1: so necessary, because the goal is to keep it quiet,
Speaker 1: and you are putting it on blasts. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your service in that regard as well as
Speaker 1: in the military. What even brought you to the military.
Speaker 7: Actually, you know, I grew up really poor in America.
Speaker 12: My father was a disabled veteran and you know, if
Speaker 12: anyone in your audience doesn't understand how they collect a check,
Speaker 12: like it's based off of, you know what percentage you're disabled.
Speaker 7: And you know, I watched him fight.
Speaker 12: With the VA my entire childhood to collect like liveable
Speaker 12: wage money because he was in severe pain all the
Speaker 12: time from an injury from the military. So we were
Speaker 12: really really poor living off of that. And when I
Speaker 12: turned eighteen, I wanted to go to college. Both of
Speaker 12: my parents had not graduated high school, so this was
Speaker 12: like a huge goal and like, you know, something I
Speaker 12: wanted to do, and the only path that I really
Speaker 12: saw that could be possible was to join the military
Speaker 12: because at the time they had started introducing the free
Speaker 12: college incentives, so I was basically a part of the
Speaker 12: economic draft into the military, you know, seeking the ability
Speaker 12: to go to college.
Speaker 1: When did the flip happen for you?
Speaker 12: I think, like in all honestly, it wasn't like a
Speaker 12: one time situation. I think that like over time, things
Speaker 12: were started happening in my life, like seeds maybe getting planted,
Speaker 12: and then like something else would happen and it would
Speaker 12: go back and like kind of water, that idea that
Speaker 12: had come in my head before, and I think really
Speaker 12: like the biggest impact as far as it comes to
Speaker 12: understanding what's going on, but with the genocide and Gaza specifically,
Speaker 12: which is really what pushed me to the edge of
Speaker 12: like saying.
Speaker 7: Enough is enough. Yeah, was in twenty seventeen. I was doing.
Speaker 12: I was an intelligence analyst for DA Defense Intelligence Agency
Speaker 12: working on a Habeas Corpus contract, which is focused on
Speaker 12: like legal processes for the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. There
Speaker 12: is a like a a due process I guess and
Speaker 12: I quote because it's not really due process, but called
Speaker 12: Habeas Corpus that if you're being detained without charge, you
Speaker 12: can file through Habeas Corpus to for your legal right
Speaker 12: to be freed. And many of the detainees and Guantanamo
Speaker 12: Bay are still there almost two decades now without any charges.
Speaker 12: So I was a part of that team, and some
Speaker 12: of the information that I was reading was really kind
Speaker 12: of shocking my consciousness, Like some information all the way
Speaker 12: back that now has gone public about torture camps and
Speaker 12: black sites and you know, Abu graves, like all of
Speaker 12: those things I was kind of reading about from the inside,
Speaker 12: and it kind of shook me a little bit. And
Speaker 12: so I mean I didn't really, it didn't shake me
Speaker 12: too much, but enough that I was like, I'm going
Speaker 12: to start following international media outlets. I want to start
Speaker 12: hearing what are people saying in these other countries that
Speaker 12: this is happening to or other powerful global leaders. What
Speaker 12: are they all sort of saying this. This is twenty seventeen,
Speaker 12: fast forward to October seventh. I'm following these media outlets
Speaker 12: and literally on my phone is video after video after
Speaker 12: video of mass slaughter of children. I mean what I
Speaker 12: was witnessing children's body parts everywhere, Like I was just
Speaker 12: like in shock and in a matter of two weeks
Speaker 12: witnessing this, and then also witnessing my government, my leaders, western.
Speaker 7: Media outlets lying literally what my eyes could see. So
Speaker 7: you're telling me my eyes are lying. This was not
Speaker 7: self defense.
Speaker 12: I've seen some really crazy things in the US military,
Speaker 12: but I had never seen anything to this scale of
Speaker 12: devastation of death and destruction. And form our leaders to
Speaker 12: say that this was justified as self defense, that we
Speaker 12: were gonna not normalize this. I was like, hell, no,
Speaker 12: not under my name. I have four children. We are
Speaker 12: not going to normalize this. Like what we do there
Speaker 12: will always come back here.
Speaker 7: Hell no.
Speaker 12: So this is like what pushed me out to start
Speaker 12: speaking and saying you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 12: say something like publicly it's and I'm going to use
Speaker 12: my credentials to say, look, I was a part of it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: So you know, people love to use their kids as
Speaker 1: a reason for why they won't do that. People love
Speaker 1: to say, well, I have kids, so I just I
Speaker 1: can't speak out.
Speaker 8: How does that work for you.
Speaker 12: I'm doing this in part for not only my kids,
Speaker 12: because I have an instinctual feeling that all children are
Speaker 12: my children. I'm doing this for the future of our children,
Speaker 12: for the future of our species, for the future of humanity.
Speaker 12: If we don't do this the like this is, you know,
Speaker 12: things are going.
Speaker 7: To get worse.
Speaker 12: I mean, I'm not trying to be like a doomer,
Speaker 12: but things aren't going but things are going to get worse.
Speaker 12: Like I came here to Puerto Rico to study the
Speaker 12: military escalation only to find out a whole nother shlew
Speaker 12: of things that are happening on this island to these people,
Speaker 12: by US government, by the elite, by corporations like this
Speaker 12: is you were talking about it right before I came on.
Speaker 12: This is happening internationally on a global scale. The leaders
Speaker 12: in Japan have been brainwashed and corrupted. The leaders in
Speaker 12: Puerto Rico have been brainwashed and corrupted. There are literally
Speaker 12: coups happening across the planet in order for empire to
Speaker 12: keep itself going.
Speaker 1: So when we see that, where do we pivot to?
Speaker 1: Because I'm curious, actually, did you know that you were
Speaker 1: going to Was it a plan to pivot to journal?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 12: I was a cybersecurity engineer working for a centure, like
Speaker 12: making over two hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 7: I quit everything.
Speaker 12: And you know the reason I quitted a centre I
Speaker 12: was trying to do both was because I emailed them
Speaker 12: and I asked for full transparency if they employed IDF soldiers,
Speaker 12: because we have a cyber lab in Israel? What company
Speaker 12: does And I was like, Uh, I'm not comfortable working
Speaker 12: for a company where I may be in the presence
Speaker 12: of these war criminals, these murders of children. So I
Speaker 12: asked HR for transparency if they employed current IDF or
Speaker 12: former IDF soldiers from Israel that could potentially be complicit
Speaker 12: in war crimes and that if they couldn't provide me
Speaker 12: that transparency, that I was going to resign, and they said,
Speaker 12: your resignation is effective immediately.
Speaker 1: So I pivoted.
Speaker 7: I was like, okay, bye, and then I was like,
Speaker 7: what am I going to do? So you know, I
Speaker 7: knew I wanted to do something that I could use
Speaker 7: my voice.
Speaker 12: I can inspire other people to use their voice to
Speaker 12: like get out of the sheep mentality, to become like,
Speaker 12: you know, leaders and people who are guiding everyone into
Speaker 12: the right direction.
Speaker 7: I knew I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Do that in some way.
Speaker 7: And how do you not go?
Speaker 1: Because here's the art, Josephine, Like, I could talk to
Speaker 1: you about like the politics of it all, but what
Speaker 1: really is fascinating to me about you is you right?
Speaker 1: Like watching the passion that you speak with and watching
Speaker 1: the conviction that you have committed to is the thing
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to get people to find in themselves.
Speaker 8: Right, And so tell me this before we.
Speaker 1: Even talk about that. Once they said okay, it's a wrap,
Speaker 1: you're resigned. What was the space between that and then okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do journalism? Like were you panicked? Did
Speaker 1: you get from your family? From anyone?
Speaker 7: Who is Well, I mean, what is journalism? Speaking truth
Speaker 7: is what I'm doing? Journalism? I guess I call it
Speaker 7: that now it's the easiest word to use. I think
Speaker 7: that like a use word.
Speaker 12: We using this language that describes I guess what we're doing.
Speaker 12: But I really just feel like I'm just speaking truth
Speaker 12: to power.
Speaker 7: That like, if that's journalism, then that's journalism.
Speaker 1: But you say, I'm here.
Speaker 7: Because I feel like.
Speaker 12: Your audience would understand, you know, like I'm here to.
Speaker 7: Find out the truth and then I'm gonna tell y'all
Speaker 7: about it. That's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 1: Where are you from? Where are you from? Where are
Speaker 1: you from?
Speaker 7: I'm from Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Okay, we saw it just now. I'm here to find
Speaker 1: the hands.
Speaker 13: I'm here to find out.
Speaker 7: And then I'm gonna tell y'all and now we're gonna
Speaker 7: go from there. Like, you know, if that's journalism, put
Speaker 7: it in my title.
Speaker 12: Okay, how did I get here?
Speaker 7: Because I cannot sit back. I cannot in that.
Speaker 1: Like, you have four kids? Did the people that are
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you have a partner
Speaker 1: or not, but like, did your family did they support
Speaker 1: you in this?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 12: No, my family actually stopped talking to me November of
Speaker 12: twenty twenty three because of my advocacy for Palestine.
Speaker 7: Like my family are devo Catholics, they are all they
Speaker 7: all have been programmed to be.
Speaker 12: Christian Zionists and didn't even know it, did not even
Speaker 12: understand that they were.
Speaker 7: Underneath those layers.
Speaker 12: But over two years of very very much patience, I
Speaker 12: have finally peeled those layers back and they support me now.
Speaker 12: And after two years of them cutting me off, we
Speaker 12: spent things giving together.
Speaker 7: They're ready for our revolution.
Speaker 8: Look tell them this shit neither wait till you.
Speaker 7: Oh we talked about it. Oh believe me. I was
Speaker 7: at the table talking about it for sure.
Speaker 12: I was opening up the Bible show and my aunts
Speaker 12: and uncles out signed.
Speaker 7: I was that one at the table.
Speaker 1: Of course, that makes perfect sense, That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you've been able to bring them around.
Speaker 1: That's tough, you know, that's tough. It's like you're already
Speaker 1: fighting the world and then you're having to fight your world,
Speaker 1: and it's like it just feels oftentimes very isolating. But
Speaker 1: I'm really happy that you've been able to break through
Speaker 1: and now you you are finding your path in this way.
Speaker 1: How has that been, Like, what's been do you feel
Speaker 1: like you're I don't want to say struggles because I
Speaker 1: don't want to, but what's been your process in this
Speaker 1: new trajectory of life?
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, I had been so hyper focused
Speaker 12: on what was going on in Gaza and this genocide
Speaker 12: that there were these like macro and even micro situations
Speaker 12: I wasn't aware of that really was the puppet masters
Speaker 12: of everything going on. And I think that as Americans,
Speaker 12: we have for the past two years really come to
Speaker 12: this awareness of what's going on across party lines.
Speaker 7: There's really an opportunity right now for people that.
Speaker 12: Are decolonizing, that are deconstructing these narratives that we've been told.
Speaker 7: And there's a vacuum.
Speaker 12: And I really do feel like we as people who
Speaker 12: are fighting for humanity, no matter you know what, party line, color, race, religion,
Speaker 12: no matter what, we have to fill that vacuum with truth,
Speaker 12: and we have to fill that vacuum with love and
Speaker 12: like this understanding that another there could be another vision
Speaker 12: for this planet. And so I really do feel like
Speaker 12: bringing Truth to Power continues that awareness while also in
Speaker 12: practice as myself trying to be a person filled with love,
Speaker 12: trying not to spread hate on any you know, person
Speaker 12: understanding their own invinvironment, their own construction. You know, we
Speaker 12: talk about my family two years it took to deconstruct
Speaker 12: their colonized minds and that wasn't easy, but doing it
Speaker 12: with love. We didn't call each other names, we didn't
Speaker 12: argue with each other. We took a distance and then
Speaker 12: when when I could, I would meet them where they were,
Speaker 12: try and pull them a little bit more. Because what
Speaker 12: you hear that that's the military, that's some of the
Speaker 12: military from Roosevelt Roads.
Speaker 7: We have to meet people where they are, we really do.
Speaker 7: That's that's the work. That's the hard work. You know,
Speaker 7: you can't preach to the choir. That's not going to work.
Speaker 12: You know, if you're talking to someone that already agrees
Speaker 12: with you, then what kind of.
Speaker 7: Work are you doing.
Speaker 12: You have to talk to people that disagree with you,
Speaker 12: meet them where they are, don't scream at them, don't
Speaker 12: call them names, just say, like, just present a better vision,
Speaker 12: a better option for the world, because this is going
Speaker 12: to take generations to change, because we are deep, deep,
Speaker 12: deep in the horrors of our species.
Speaker 1: Just mean, I feel like you're yelling at me because.
Speaker 7: Why do you call people names?
Speaker 1: Sometimes they can't help it.
Speaker 7: Yet that grace and mercy, we have to have grace
Speaker 7: and mercy. Those are like.
Speaker 1: Defense first.
Speaker 7: Hey, grace and mercy, that's what I say.
Speaker 12: And and that's doors for me, like learning about Jesus,
Speaker 12: learning about the teachings of Jesus. After all these layers
Speaker 12: deconstructed out of my mind of all this bs I've
Speaker 12: been taught, raised, raised as a Republican super white supremacist environment,
Speaker 12: like with you know, patriotism is almost like a sacrifice,
Speaker 12: like a sacrifice, like a ritual to patriots, to the country.
Speaker 12: It's its own like spiritual sacrifice that they've programmed us
Speaker 12: to do.
Speaker 7: And after I like colonize a.
Speaker 12: Lot of those things, what left was the teachings of Jesus,
Speaker 12: almost like a manuscript like, oh, you know, if we
Speaker 12: do some of these things he was talking about, y,
Speaker 12: it really makes sense that we could bring heaven on earth.
Speaker 7: We could get rid of these you know.
Speaker 12: This, these ways of thinking that our elite are trying
Speaker 12: to pressure all of us and in.
Speaker 7: Doing that or getting rid of the indigenous communities.
Speaker 12: And that's the part because their brains are decolonized, So
Speaker 12: who do they want to get rid of the most,
Speaker 12: the ones who still who are not in the matrix.
Speaker 12: They are targeting these communities on purpose, knowing that they're
Speaker 12: the ones that still exist that are decolonized.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's so I feel like I had no real understanding
Speaker 1: of what indigenous communities were until the context of Palestine
Speaker 1: as an indigenous community. It's like I felt like I
Speaker 1: was just understanding that, you know, there are folks whose
Speaker 1: land was stolen, and you know that, But I didn't
Speaker 1: understand the knowledge and the uniqueness of what it means
Speaker 1: to be an indigenous community. Where did you get that
Speaker 1: insight from and that knowledge?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think understanding the plight of Palestinians really made
Speaker 12: me understand that too, because, if I'm being honest in
Speaker 12: my mind, I thought indigenous communities were just people that
Speaker 12: still lived like you know, in like African villages like
Speaker 12: in the rainown untouched in Jungles. I always kind of
Speaker 12: just like assume that's an indigenous community. But no, Indigenous
Speaker 12: communities are people that still live in harmony with the earth,
Speaker 12: that still see humanity as a priority, that still believed
Speaker 12: that we.
Speaker 7: Are all one.
Speaker 8: We are all one.
Speaker 12: Family, and that karma goes around, and that energies go around,
Speaker 12: and what we do here can affect there. And like
Speaker 12: they truly, most indigenous people, I mean don't believe in
Speaker 12: killing our own offspring.
Speaker 13: This is a human being.
Speaker 12: Like human beings, human species literally kill their own offspring.
Speaker 12: What other mammal does that besides a lion when it
Speaker 12: kills the male cubs. You don't find it often where
Speaker 12: there's mammals that mass slaughter their own offspring.
Speaker 1: They reject.
Speaker 8: They may not slaughter, but they reject. They may I'm
Speaker 8: not really knocking with you.
Speaker 12: Go if we're supposed to be the most advanced species,
Speaker 12: the most conscious species, and we're doing this kind of thing,
Speaker 12: you know, we have to ask ourselves are we really
Speaker 12: evolved as a species. And the indigenous people really teach
Speaker 12: you to have that harmony back with Earth and you know, creation,
Speaker 12: God's creation of who you are and what you're really
Speaker 12: meant to do here, and I think we're really erasing
Speaker 12: that sacred knowledge.
Speaker 8: How do you connect this to your kids?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Number one?
Speaker 12: Number one, it's because it's not easy to decolonize while
Speaker 12: also trying to raise children to not be colonized it's
Speaker 12: not easy.
Speaker 7: You know, I have four children and my oldest is
Speaker 7: six scene so to a.
Speaker 12: Degree, I'm starting a little bit later with her, and
Speaker 12: I do get a lot of hesitation because I think
Speaker 12: capitalism and like material things and like Lululemon tights, like
Speaker 12: for her that she was Homecoming Queen this year.
Speaker 7: She's still in this like oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: So it's a little bit harder with her, but for
Speaker 12: sure she's for free Palestine one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: Ok.
Speaker 1: We love home Queen who is pro Palestinian.
Speaker 12: We have it exactly, and you know she has. She
Speaker 12: her and her friends boycott Starbucks. They don't go to
Speaker 12: Starbucks for coffee anymore.
Speaker 1: All the cheerily giving your credit like that's big, because.
Speaker 3: That's I've done.
Speaker 7: So I think, so, hey steps, baby steps. Now I
Speaker 7: have a two, four and five year old.
Speaker 12: So this is really some crucial times for us as
Speaker 12: mothers with young children, where we are imprinting on them
Speaker 12: like forever, and so I am very careful in what
Speaker 12: we're teaching them, what we're saying, what they're watching.
Speaker 7: It's so important, especially.
Speaker 12: When you got YouTube running for three hours with whatever
Speaker 12: it wants to put in your algorithm, like everything like
Speaker 12: in their environment. I'm hyper focused on because I want
Speaker 12: to make sure that they become just like I am
Speaker 12: right now speaking out for people, especially as white blondies
Speaker 12: like and and two of them are boys.
Speaker 7: So like white blonde boys speaking out for oppressed people,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna need that.
Speaker 1: I mean, because Josephine we here at Views from Mandolin
Speaker 1: do consider you a hmm hih quad letty white and
Speaker 1: that is a very that's a big deal. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I mean I'm at some point I'm gonna do a
Speaker 1: book of high quality whites and.
Speaker 7: You're in it. Yeah, my first proh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one needs to know about peace prize gets
Speaker 1: you a high quality white prize.
Speaker 22: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I do want to have my four kids like that
Speaker 12: because that is where I can make the first difference,
Speaker 12: The number one difference I can make for the future
Speaker 12: of this world is my kids, Like I have direct
Speaker 12: access and control over what goes in and out of
Speaker 12: their little brains and their hearts, and so number one for.
Speaker 7: Me is a mother. That is a priority.
Speaker 12: Like I am hyper focused on making sure that I'm
Speaker 12: talking about things with them, even about food, healthy food,
Speaker 12: unhealthy food, happy food versus healthy food.
Speaker 7: That's what we call it. And like I'm deconstructing all
Speaker 7: of these.
Speaker 12: Things because I want them to carry on this knowledge
Speaker 12: and these ideas. And I hope other mothers like if
Speaker 12: they feel like, oh, I can't go to protests or
Speaker 12: I can't you know, do any of these things. The
Speaker 12: one thing you can do in your home is decolonize
Speaker 12: your children.
Speaker 1: Y'all heard that that's the one thing you can do
Speaker 1: in your home. Can you give people any tips on
Speaker 1: and beginning that process? I know one you said, it's
Speaker 1: also about what they're it's about what they're watching.
Speaker 12: Yes, watching cultural things like putting things on TV that
Speaker 12: talks about another culture, or like a cartoon that is
Speaker 12: placed in like another culture. I really love Bluie And
Speaker 12: you know, if you have like a two three year old,
Speaker 12: it's the perfect one. Bluey is so I mean, they're
Speaker 12: they're from Australia and they have, you know, the little
Speaker 12: funny accent. It's gonna probably be your kid's first time
Speaker 12: hearing a different accent. But they're such a nice family
Speaker 12: and they love each other. It's like a great way
Speaker 12: to introduce your kids to another that speaks English that
Speaker 12: they can understand, but also introducing them to like little
Speaker 12: mini animated documentaries about Palestine or about Sudan, or about
Speaker 12: I mean, like anywhere China just fill in the blank, right,
Speaker 12: So I think like as far as like television goes,
Speaker 12: just making sure things are cultural books.
Speaker 7: What books are you reading to your kids that night?
Speaker 7: What do the characters look like?
Speaker 12: Are you picking books with all white as a white
Speaker 12: weather of all white children?
Speaker 7: Or am I picking books where the people look.
Speaker 12: Different and dress different and maybe speak differently. That's important too,
Speaker 12: because that's imprinting in their mind. We read books every night,
Speaker 12: So my books are about I get books about Ramadan.
Speaker 12: I get books about Palestine, you know, to like why
Speaker 12: is mommy saving the children? Well, let me tell you
Speaker 12: about the still children mommy's trying to save, and like
Speaker 12: introducing them to that and also taking them to events
Speaker 12: like story times that are in a community of people
Speaker 12: that you might not normally go there. So like, if
Speaker 12: you want to introduce your children to have Muslim friends,
Speaker 12: go to the community where the Muslim people are, go
Speaker 12: to the park, go to their library, go to their
Speaker 12: story time, go to events that they put on, like
Speaker 12: their you know markets, what do you call the markets
Speaker 12: on the weekends, not fresh markets.
Speaker 7: Like farmer farmers markets, the farmer's markets.
Speaker 12: Like go into these different communities and introduce your kids
Speaker 12: to them, because I'm telling you, the minute that your
Speaker 12: child grows up, for example, with a Muslim friend, any
Speaker 12: propaganda about Muslim.
Speaker 7: They're gonna be like, what are they talking about? Like
Speaker 7: I got a Muslim friend, right, that's not right.
Speaker 1: And the other one that you named is decolonizing their palate,
Speaker 1: right because this the food that they're eating, right, welcoming them,
Speaker 1: introducing them to different foods. And you know, my first
Speaker 1: grade teacher, I'm still in touch with her, and she
Speaker 1: said that she ended up leaving education when she stopped
Speaker 1: being able to be creative with how she was bringing
Speaker 1: that to kids. And they used to do a unit
Speaker 1: where they would have on every Friday they would bring
Speaker 1: in like a dish from somebody's parents culture, and they
Speaker 1: said it wasn't allowed to do that anymore, right, Jack.
Speaker 12: Rie to hear that, I'm honestly not surprised to hear that,
Speaker 12: because in America are like like the Department of Education,
Speaker 12: and the curriculum that they pushed down our throats is
Speaker 12: very much to colonize us, very much, to put these
Speaker 12: walls between us and these other ideas about people, or
Speaker 12: to extend love to other people. They definitely from a
Speaker 12: young age in our public schools start that brainwashing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean I feel very fortunate to have been
Speaker 1: to public school in the early eighties before things got
Speaker 1: really really crazy. Like I remember us learning how to
Speaker 1: make guacamole because there was mad Mexicans in the class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we had to learn how to make guacamole. And
Speaker 1: at the time, my palette was not developed yet. Josephine
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is nasty, and now you
Speaker 1: cannot keep me away from guacamole.
Speaker 7: I just had some here.
Speaker 12: I went to the restaurant and I said, uh, do
Speaker 12: you have guacamole not from the bag because I don't
Speaker 12: use gluac emu only from a bag.
Speaker 7: Like if you didn't make that guacam.
Speaker 12: Only from avocado like two hours ago, I can't touch it.
Speaker 1: So where do you find yourself? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: like asking people what's next, because you're already in the
Speaker 1: midst of what's next, right, Like you're literally in Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico and you are working with the people. I guess
Speaker 1: the question I have for you is what is an
Speaker 1: interest that has that has come into your horizon that
Speaker 1: you feel like Americans don't know about but need to.
Speaker 7: I think running for office.
Speaker 12: I think people need to understand how impactful it is
Speaker 12: to run for school board, to run for local city council,
Speaker 12: to run for Congress, to run for mayor, and don't
Speaker 12: under like not to underestimate themselves. I have met so
Speaker 12: many people right now that are running for positions in Congress,
Speaker 12: and like, if we back them, and these are people
Speaker 12: with like humanity principled in their heart?
Speaker 7: Do I agree with them about everything?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 12: But do I see that at least principled in their
Speaker 12: you know, its souls is humanity. If we get around
Speaker 12: and like primaries are coming up, March primaries, if we
Speaker 12: can get five to ten candidates that we can all
Speaker 12: grassroots throw our efforts behind to promote, we could start
Speaker 12: showing these politicians that have been corrupted.
Speaker 7: That we do hold the power.
Speaker 12: And I think that's one of the biggest things is
Speaker 12: people need to understand we hold the power. We do.
Speaker 12: They've tried brainwashing us to believe that we don't, but
Speaker 12: we really do do. I think we can vote our
Speaker 12: way out of this no, not as.
Speaker 20: No, no, no.
Speaker 12: But if we're not going to have if we're not
Speaker 12: out a seventeen seventy six revolution, then we need to
Speaker 12: use the tools that we do have right now to
Speaker 12: at least slow down what is coming like down the pipeline,
Speaker 12: the death and destruction that is increasing across the planet,
Speaker 12: both here at home with immigrants getting separated, mothers and
Speaker 12: children getting separated, and then this, you know, nation is
Speaker 12: claiming Christianity. It's all being done under the name of Christianity.
Speaker 12: Do you like I talk to people who support the
Speaker 12: ice and immigration, I'm like you, as a Christian, are
Speaker 12: supporting like these police to separate Christian families. Most of
Speaker 12: these immigrants, by the way, are are Christians brothers and
Speaker 12: Christian brothers and sisters.
Speaker 7: So how is that christian? It's Christian? They're not Christian.
Speaker 12: They're abusing the religion of Christianity, just like Benjamin Netanyah,
Speaker 12: who has abused the.
Speaker 7: Religion of Judaism to perpetrate an agenda.
Speaker 12: And of course I'm not going to leave out the
Speaker 12: fact that there are Muslims that abuse is to perpetrate agenda.
Speaker 12: It happens across the board and recognizing that and calling
Speaker 12: that that out is so important. So if we're not
Speaker 12: going to have a seventeen seventy six revolution, we got
Speaker 12: to start voting for people until.
Speaker 3: We could get there.
Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate you and thank you so much for
Speaker 1: all of your efforts and for always being willing to
Speaker 1: raise your voice, put your body on the line, get arrested,
Speaker 1: and also for actually taking a very direct and proactive
Speaker 1: effort as a parent to raising people right because people
Speaker 1: think about kids. No, you're raising adults that are carrying
Speaker 1: forth and need to understand that the world they're coming
Speaker 1: into is going to require them to actually be the
Speaker 1: ones that shift it. So that is not lost on me.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Josephine. We are definitely lifting
Speaker 1: you up in a high vibration over there in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 7: And stay safe.
Speaker 8: And I say say safe, but you're not going to
Speaker 8: stay safe, So just be.
Speaker 1: Protected, everybody.
Speaker 7: I'm here.
Speaker 12: I met up with a friend in Puerto Rico who's
Speaker 12: been on this journey with me, and I literally left
Speaker 12: her house and told her mom and Anne.
Speaker 7: I said, all right, we're going to get in trouble now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They say, it's a silly way to send you off,
Speaker 1: So be protected and just know that we're all here
Speaker 1: rooting for you.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 12: I appreciate it. Free Puerto Rico, free Palestine, free Turtle.
Speaker 1: Island, all the above.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much, Josephine.
Speaker 1: We're so lucky, y'all. We are so lucky here at
Speaker 1: this show that we get to have such great folks
Speaker 1: come on and talk to us and share with us
Speaker 1: their journey. You know, when people will say to me,
Speaker 1: like Amanda, what are you doing? You're not doing anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, on a very basic level, what I'm
Speaker 1: doing is creating a place for people who are doing
Speaker 1: the things. They aren't gonna get mainstream coverage, or even
Speaker 1: if they do, they are gonna have to be speaking
Speaker 1: in defense of their work, versus speaking in exalting and
Speaker 1: also in pushing other folks to share and join with them. Right.
Speaker 1: I feel like so often when I see folks like
Speaker 1: Josephine on mainstream media, they're being expected to defend the
Speaker 1: work that they do, as if the work that they
Speaker 1: do isn't what everybody should be doing.
Speaker 8: It just drives me nuts. That's why I stop going
Speaker 8: on mainstream media.
Speaker 1: Actually, because I feel like they are always, you know,
Speaker 1: asking me dumb ass questions. I'm just like, I'm not
Speaker 1: coming out here for free, so you ask me some
Speaker 1: dumb ass questions. Y'all need to keep it. So thank
Speaker 1: you again to Josephine for joining us and for Arshaia.
Speaker 1: We are so lucky and I'm just gonna pat myself
Speaker 1: on the back because people don't come on this show
Speaker 1: and are sharing for no reason. Right, It's not like
Speaker 1: I have some million followers, etc. They come on this
Speaker 1: show because we are continuously creating a network of people
Speaker 1: that understand that we are all connected, Like we are
Speaker 1: demonstrating the mysoleum. Like that's what we're demonstrating, right. So
Speaker 1: like when I see folks that come in my comments
Speaker 1: and they say things like, oh, you know, what are
Speaker 1: you even doing, I'm like, you must not be a
Speaker 1: part of the Mysoleum, baby, or else you would know
Speaker 1: what we was doing.
Speaker 8: So let me just tell you how black I feel today.
Speaker 1: So I just came back from the first run like
Speaker 1: all together run of the what would the Ancestors Say
Speaker 1: Mission vision Book Tour, and I went to DC, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: La San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston.
Speaker 8: And New Orleans.
Speaker 1: And it was really interesting going to all of these
Speaker 1: different places and just really getting to be in all
Speaker 1: of these different venues. Because they also allowed me to
Speaker 1: keep one hundred percent of my book sales, which I
Speaker 1: truly appreciate because I don't think people really understand that
Speaker 1: this is what pays for me to be able to
Speaker 1: come and be in existence in this way.
Speaker 8: When you guys subscribe to my Patreon, which is.
Speaker 1: Five dollars, when you guys buy pins and buy books,
Speaker 1: this is what allows me to be out here. There's
Speaker 1: no sponsorship, y'all, Like I'm paying for the travel by
Speaker 1: the books that I'm selling. There's no publishing company that
Speaker 1: has a budget set aside to send me out on
Speaker 1: the road. The work that's happening on the road is
Speaker 1: the work of decolonizing, but it's also the work that
Speaker 1: you guys are doing when you guys create community in
Speaker 1: line or while you're waiting to start. And it was
Speaker 1: so dope seeing folks actually leaving the space talking to
Speaker 1: each other that didn't know each other when they got there.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to show you all that it's aw
Speaker 1: reeal that I put together from all of the cities
Speaker 1: and some of the highlights of things that were said.
Speaker 1: But really it's about you guys showing that this is
Speaker 1: a necessary space that continues and needs that continuously needs
Speaker 1: to be built. And I feel so honored to be
Speaker 1: a part of building that space.
Speaker 12: Name is shows.
Speaker 22: So I'm here in San Diego for the first stop
Speaker 22: on the what would the ancestors say, Mission driven book tour,
Speaker 22: and I'm being treated really lovely and it feels beautiful
Speaker 22: and folks are shown up.
Speaker 1: Man, when we heard about that Lincoln about to bring
Speaker 1: that mess of pain problem.
Speaker 9: Main it's the fact that someone over here went stupid.
Speaker 3: Cause you're correct.
Speaker 12: For those of us who want to insire courage in others,
Speaker 12: what advice do you have.
Speaker 23: Do you.
Speaker 9: Demonstrate courage?
Speaker 1: We know that folks are not on it, so you're like, come.
Speaker 3: Let's do courage, guys, and they're like, bit Like you
Speaker 3: know it's.
Speaker 1: Folks are like, I'm busy, you know, I have a
Speaker 1: hair appoint then I can't do courage today. I don't
Speaker 1: even know the next time she's gonna be breathe Like.
Speaker 9: I just I can't. Who's gonna be there that courage.
Speaker 1: We have now become the tools of capitalism in a
Speaker 1: mental form. And I'm not saying anything that hasn't already
Speaker 1: been set like this is not like oh my gods,
Speaker 1: she cracked a cold jawl. It ain't bad. However, the
Speaker 1: code continues to require cracking. They keep coming up with
Speaker 1: new codes, and because so many of us do not
Speaker 1: see that, we don't prevent it. But tell us how
Speaker 1: we can really utilize how you've put in a book
Speaker 1: as a resource.
Speaker 9: And tool in reference side right is Zalie.
Speaker 3: But we don't have to day here.
Speaker 1: We know somebody else.
Speaker 18: We all.
Speaker 3: Imagination?
Speaker 16: Did you use.
Speaker 1: I just an We had our gods, we had our land,
Speaker 1: and we were strict from that, and we were forced
Speaker 1: to establish something brand.
Speaker 3: New here in spite of the constant threat of.
Speaker 1: Death, degradation and terrorism, and somehow we managed to form blackness.
Speaker 1: Say books won't change the world. Tell that to every
Speaker 1: colonizer that burns them. Look at this, they have a
Speaker 1: free uh bookshelf here at burst into books. You having
Speaker 1: a face like this in this neighborhood with a bookshelf
Speaker 1: for free book from outside.
Speaker 9: Handing out a condition.
Speaker 27: So the people.
Speaker 3: Not y'all hav enough actual.
Speaker 1: Many black folks who have served in the Civil War
Speaker 1: have said it the first time that they felt like
Speaker 1: they were seen by white hopes because they.
Speaker 9: Had enough name.
Speaker 1: They were seen as a friend, but they were also
Speaker 1: seen as capable do it. The first thing that all
Speaker 1: of these fascists do is burn books. And I read
Speaker 1: somewhere that it's not that they're burning books because they
Speaker 1: want to destroy art. It's not that they're burning books
Speaker 1: because they want to disrupt history. They're burning books because
Speaker 1: they want to destroy memory. They want to destroy the
Speaker 1: memory of what was there before they got there so
Speaker 1: that folks will not fight to get it back. I
Speaker 1: start with the fact that it's not about being black,
Speaker 1: it's about being people.
Speaker 7: And you know, Malcolm went all the.
Speaker 3: Way Semetha to figure that out, and so that was
Speaker 3: a journey he did.
Speaker 1: So I don't got to go to back up figure.
Speaker 1: We have media companies that claim to be black, media
Speaker 1: peddling a concept that questioning is problematic. Sometimes a mission
Speaker 1: is literally the thing you're doing to get to the
Speaker 1: thing you're doing. And I ask myself, but what can
Speaker 1: we take control of?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So if I feel like I don't have control of that,
Speaker 1: then I start mapping a chord. I'm also an artist,
Speaker 1: so I'm like imaginative in what.
Speaker 7: That can be.
Speaker 1: And I know that for a lot of us we
Speaker 1: are stuck to a grid of only what we have
Speaker 1: seen is possible. I have a master's degree in African
Speaker 1: American studies, but I don't realize the proximity with which
Speaker 1: things happen in the sixties.
Speaker 3: In my mind they exist.
Speaker 1: As these separate, siloed events, when in actuality they have
Speaker 1: been in rapid succession. I have a master's degree in
Speaker 1: African American studies, but I cannot tell you the contents
Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you the contents of the nineteen sixty four Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Act, and I can't tell you how it was gutted,
Speaker 1: no matter how tapped in I thought I was. I
Speaker 1: was left out, and I had to check myself and
Speaker 1: get over myself and step in.
Speaker 12: My final question, you've shared recently that witnessing the faith
Speaker 12: and spirituality of Palestinians has shifted.
Speaker 3: Your own views of a higher power.
Speaker 12: Could you talk more about how that experience influenced you all.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I was ostracized from Black Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I was realizing I'm autistic. I was deeply vested in
Speaker 1: the Palestine movement. Okay, So my friend Laura Changa is
Speaker 1: an astrologer, and she always talks about how like astrology
Speaker 1: just came to her, like it wasn't something she had
Speaker 1: to really like study.
Speaker 3: She's like, even when she started learning the words, it was.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, of course, that's how spirit came to me.
Speaker 1: It was like one day it was like I didn't
Speaker 1: get it, and I just got it. And I think
Speaker 1: the reason why it happened is because when I was
Speaker 1: ousted from Hollywood, I was disconnected and I gained a
Speaker 1: new consciousness around manufactured consent and the lives of our government.
Speaker 1: I became available to being able to te in the
Speaker 1: indigenous knowledge of how we really are connected in the soil.
Speaker 1: And there was a block that we prevented that before,
Speaker 1: and it was capitalism.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? People have the power and you know.
Speaker 24: H Hrap Brown, make you rest in peace and I
Speaker 24: don't save us some power rest in peace because you
Speaker 24: was here going through it and they was not giving
Speaker 24: you the care you deserve when you were locked up
Speaker 24: as a prisoner of war in the United States, and
Speaker 24: I really want our ancestors to rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Like when I start in the book, I talked about
Speaker 1: Harriet Huban saying like, every time y'all be on some bullshit, you.
Speaker 3: Are disrupting us.
Speaker 1: We are literally rolling on our graves and Rosa Parks
Speaker 1: broke her glasses.
Speaker 3: So y'all need to get it together.
Speaker 1: Can you just give people a good word?
Speaker 12: Listen?
Speaker 15: The good word was just seeing Amanda was overing you
Speaker 15: to give the preaching to the people, telling us to
Speaker 15: make sure that we use our minds and our radical
Speaker 15: imagination to transform the world.
Speaker 13: I have two of the smartest people on the body.
Speaker 1: Some people think I'm trying to scare people, and I'm like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: They're like, you're being alarmist.
Speaker 5: Yes, alarm.
Speaker 1: Because there's just a history of folk being reactionary, and
Speaker 1: there's always people who are like, you know, it's about
Speaker 1: to go down, and everyone's like, no, it's.
Speaker 3: Brother a Mere said it look like you about to
Speaker 3: give a lecture on the top and then go to
Speaker 3: a protest on the box. So you all.
Speaker 1: So they talk about all of those things to get
Speaker 1: this piece. I told you to do so through different
Speaker 1: methods because I am somebody who needs variation, right, Like
Speaker 1: I love a nonfiction book for the first chapter, it's
Speaker 1: a lot going on.
Speaker 25: God loves it all, we love him. The ones that
Speaker 25: you're the one mainertain you all gonna work out. But
Speaker 25: them that that ain't right, they gonna get they do
Speaker 25: and they deserve it because they's wrong. And stop playing
Speaker 25: and love everybody.
Speaker 3: Keep playing, y'all do it and keep loving him.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 1: They want you to say I think instead of I know,
Speaker 1: And so you get trained in that, even with your
Speaker 1: own internal voice, and you start doubting your internal voice.
Speaker 1: And now you've also been trained to be in fear
Speaker 1: all the goddamn time, so you can't even tell the
Speaker 1: difference between intuition and to t White people.
Speaker 3: Were all lot, there's a coming a little.
Speaker 2: Y'all have to shut up.
Speaker 1: That that is what I believe should have to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm junet. She just shut up because there is so
Speaker 1: much reflection that happens in silence. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about twerking, and I'm not talking about having a good time.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm talking about. I'm talking about the literal
Speaker 1: decision to be arrogantly ignorant, which is a very American trait,
Speaker 1: because in order to perpetuate white supremacy, you have to
Speaker 1: believe the lie that white is supreme. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a goddamn lie. There's nothing that about this nothing Look
Speaker 1: at basketball.
Speaker 12: I did, y'all.
Speaker 1: This is one of the real ones, one of the
Speaker 1: last ones, one of the next ones, missus Mary Hooks,
Speaker 1: and I just want to thank you on camera for
Speaker 1: the continued, unrelenting effort and pressure on these motherfucker's next period.
Speaker 1: Thank you, We appreciate you, We appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I'm so glad I could be a
Speaker 1: part of your journey to helping yourself.
Speaker 9: And thank you for receiving my assistance.
Speaker 4: Yes, I love that she uses her voice like she
Speaker 4: doesn't hold back from speaking the truth and really just
Speaker 4: magnifying what needs to be spoken about and then really
Speaker 4: creating a forum for people to articulate themselves.
Speaker 1: Would also like to point out that coalition has been
Speaker 1: a thing, you know, and the folks that I see
Speaker 1: say really generalized statements never can tell me where their
Speaker 1: sources are from. And I will ask them, where have
Speaker 1: you learned majority of your information, and they will tell
Speaker 1: me from school, from mainstream media, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: neither of these places are created to tell you the truth,
Speaker 1: particularly as it relates to black people. I like what
Speaker 1: she's young spot.
Speaker 24: I'm like how.
Speaker 3: She encourages us to something.
Speaker 19: Outside of the book.
Speaker 1: There's an awakening happening because folks are starting to ask questions,
Speaker 1: and more folks are starting to say yeah when folks
Speaker 1: ask questions, And I think that's a really beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And I encourage all of you all to do the
Speaker 1: same to you know, get in the habit of saying
Speaker 1: why and not just about like out external stuff, but
Speaker 1: internal stuff.
Speaker 3: Why am I reacting like that? I'm really excited today.
Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be surrounded by Amanda and over.
Speaker 1: Knowledge to me any adult who gets it.
Speaker 3: We should be in service.
Speaker 1: We should be trying to figure out how do we
Speaker 1: get young people around us like in tune. Thank y'all
Speaker 1: for having me all right till why are you being
Speaker 1: so serious over till twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3: We did it.
Speaker 1: We'll see then, all right. I hope y'all enjoyed that
Speaker 1: little recap there. I purposely did not plut Isabelle in
Speaker 1: the recap because I know she'd be trying to be Incognegro.
Speaker 1: And then you said it right here in the chat,
Speaker 1: and I was like, so fabulous getting to meet so
Speaker 1: many seal squatters out here in the world. And I
Speaker 1: really am just so appreciative of the attentiveness and the
Speaker 1: willingness of folks to also volunteer and be a part
Speaker 1: of helping me with selling merch etc. It is no
Speaker 1: small effort being independent, and it requires a village, and
Speaker 1: you guys are that village. So thank you to the
Speaker 1: Amanda Landers and the Seal Squad. So you know, guys,
Speaker 1: it's time for us to get into our critical thinking exercise.
Speaker 14: Love wee.
Speaker 1: So actually, before we do that, I.
Speaker 9: Want to.
Speaker 1: Talk about Rob Reiner. So unless you've been like basically
Speaker 1: living under a rock in the United States, you may
Speaker 1: not have heard that director Rob Reiner, actor, director Rob
Speaker 1: Reiner was very brutally murdered in his home this weekend
Speaker 1: with his wife and now his son is actually under
Speaker 1: to my knowledge, indicted at the very least under arrest
Speaker 1: for the murder. And you know, I think it's a
Speaker 1: really difficult thing to be not I think I know
Speaker 1: that it is a difficult thing to be in Hollywood
Speaker 1: and be non white and standing for stuff, But it
Speaker 1: also is difficult to be in Hollywood and be white
Speaker 1: and actually stand for stuff. He was also Jewish and
Speaker 1: to stand for stuff because there is an assumed idea
Speaker 1: that you're just gonna go along with whatever is the
Speaker 1: get along. And Rob Reiner is somebody who really was
Speaker 1: not about that. And I appreciate that not only in
Speaker 1: just his work, but also in his life. You can
Speaker 1: see from early on when he was on All in
Speaker 1: the Family, like, this is the type of dialogue that
Speaker 1: he was dialogue that he was bringing to the United States.
Speaker 23: We got a break down in law and order in
Speaker 23: this country, Archie, because we got poverty, real poverty. And
Speaker 23: you know why we got that because guys like you
Speaker 23: are I'm willing to give the black man, the Mexican
Speaker 23: American and only other minorities that just in rightful heart
Speaker 23: and charity American dream.
Speaker 1: Like in the seventies, that was not a small thing
Speaker 1: to be on national television talking about. But I don't
Speaker 1: think a lot of you all know that Rob Rainer
Speaker 1: also directed some of the greatest films of all time. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can't handle the truth, all right, A few good men.
Speaker 7: Misery.
Speaker 1: We all remember misery when she put that piece of
Speaker 1: wood between that man legs. Pop pot ooh, and that's
Speaker 1: not a Harriet tubman Pop pop. The Princess Bride, y'all.
Speaker 8: My name is Nigo Montoya.
Speaker 1: Did you kill my father?
Speaker 8: Pretty? Beare to lie?
Speaker 1: I mean, if I sit here and run down every
Speaker 1: line from The Princess Bride, will be here all day? Ah, inconceivable.
Speaker 1: I don't know think that. What means? What you thinking means?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean a classic Shock and Awe was his latest film.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was his latest film, but
Speaker 1: it was a very recent film that I hope everybody
Speaker 1: will watch, and it is about the manufactured consent of
Speaker 1: the Iraq War. This is a very big deal to
Speaker 1: make this film because he's making it within the context
Speaker 1: of consciousness and we are seeing the same thing happen
Speaker 1: right now with Venezuela, and he actually calls folks by name.
Speaker 1: The New York Times is talked about very deliberately in
Speaker 1: this film in how they actualized the manufactured consent of
Speaker 1: the Adoq War and how it was an independent newspaper,
Speaker 1: a small newspaper that was actually the ones that had
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 8: He also did stand by me when.
Speaker 24: The ninth.
Speaker 1: Is done. Yeah, and the day wait, what is it?
Speaker 1: When the day is on the day?
Speaker 8: Is that just saying?
Speaker 1: Sambai? And last, but not least, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: films ever made in the history of filmmaking, What Harry Not?
Speaker 8: Written by one of the greatest, Nora Ephron.
Speaker 23: Geez.
Speaker 13: Film is.
Speaker 1: Such an incredible art form. Film is something that really
Speaker 1: in its invention, which stamps human existence in a really
Speaker 1: unique ways.
Speaker 8: So, Rachel, who is it there?
Speaker 1: Here am gonzo? All of what she's having, Everything has
Speaker 1: to be so urgent with you, Yes, Because when you
Speaker 1: figure out you want to spend the rest of your
Speaker 1: life with somebody you want the rest of his life,
Speaker 1: you start as soon as possible. I'm just saying, and
Speaker 1: someone here said, not a sappy movie guy. When Harry
Speaker 1: met Sally is not sappy. When Harry Met Sally is
Speaker 1: one of the best written films ever. It has no
Speaker 1: extra lines. There are no extra lines. Same with Coming
Speaker 1: to America, by the way, there are no extra lines.
Speaker 1: Every single line either moves the story forward or moves
Speaker 1: the character depth, makes the character analysis deeper every single
Speaker 1: line that type of writing. Come on, and then it
Speaker 1: is filmed comedically without forfeiting cinematography. He gives you New York.
Speaker 7: You see it.
Speaker 1: Look at this cover right here and right was playing
Speaker 1: at that point is autumn in New York. And by
Speaker 1: the way, randomly, in addition to this, you got an
Speaker 1: entire Harry conneg junior soundtrack.
Speaker 8: It's had to be you Boom boom.
Speaker 9: It had to be.
Speaker 1: I wandered around and finally found that somebody who could
Speaker 1: make me.
Speaker 28: Feel true, could make me feel blue or even be glad,
Speaker 28: just to be sad thinking of you scoom.
Speaker 3: And oom boom.
Speaker 13: Come on.
Speaker 1: Now, it's just so unfortunately he met such a violent
Speaker 1: end at the hands of his own child, you know.
Speaker 1: But what I also want to point out is that
Speaker 1: I absolutely googled was he Asignianist? Okay, because these days
Speaker 1: you ab solutely need to look.
Speaker 17: And I.
Speaker 1: Was very happy about what I came across. And what
Speaker 1: I came across.
Speaker 8: Is hold on, I have it right here. Some others
Speaker 8: I've seen.
Speaker 1: Might never be made. In the week of Shock and
Speaker 1: Oz release in twenty seventeen, Reiner joined several Arab filmmakers
Speaker 1: to criticize Trump, who, during his first term unilaterally recognized.
Speaker 8: Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move.
Speaker 1: That was criticized by Palestinian officials and other Arab nations. Reiner,
Speaker 1: who was Jewish, signed a petition led by Palestinian director
Speaker 1: and Marie Jasser, slamming the decision. We stand in solidarity
Speaker 1: with the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine and
Speaker 1: an open, sacred city that belongs to all Muslims, Christians
Speaker 1: and Jews. The petition read, in your decision, mister President,
Speaker 1: you have created more animosity, less faith, and profound sorrow
Speaker 1: in the hearts and minds of all justice lovers in
Speaker 1: the world. I was really relieved to see that, and
Speaker 1: to also see in the film Chakanaw how conscious he
Speaker 1: was about the Islamophobia being attached to the manufactured consent.
Speaker 1: So I saw someone here in the chat say that
Speaker 1: apparently his son was upset about a film that he
Speaker 1: had put out, called Being Charlie. I read his son
Speaker 1: was apprehensive about the making of Being Charlie for fear
Speaker 1: of it triggering unwonted thoughts while he was newly newly clean.
Speaker 1: He had drug demons and when he gets clean, he
Speaker 1: will I'm not sure what the what the end of
Speaker 1: that was still still not a reason to to to
Speaker 1: stab folks, though still not a reason. So rest in
Speaker 1: peace to Rob Reiner and his wife, and you know,
Speaker 1: may we continue to feel the joy of his films,
Speaker 1: you know, to carry us through the terror that we
Speaker 1: are in the midst of.
Speaker 22: A man.
Speaker 1: So, I don't know if you all heard about this,
Speaker 1: but CNN has partnered with a company called Calshi that
Speaker 1: is a cash Calshi that is a betting service, and
Speaker 1: I want to tell you more about it. I made
Speaker 1: a video about it for the Internet, so I want
Speaker 1: to just catch you up to.
Speaker 8: Speed with it real quick.
Speaker 1: So like every day I wake up and I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: it can't get wilder, and then it does. CNN has
Speaker 1: partnered with a gambling app that lets you wager on
Speaker 1: current events and world events. Basically, they are literally making
Speaker 1: betting around war, around starvation, around natural disasters which at
Speaker 1: this point are unnatural disasters, etc. You're literally betting on demise.
Speaker 1: Remembering Gladiator, how people would make bets on which Gladiator
Speaker 1: would beat the beast. Now the people making the bets
Speaker 1: are the ones making the beasts. We're the gladiators in
Speaker 1: the ring. How quick before people are literally betting on
Speaker 1: whether or not they'll survive a situation, hoping that if
Speaker 1: they do, they'll get a payout. We're in the squid games.
Speaker 1: That's where we are.
Speaker 3: That that that that.
Speaker 20: I think.
Speaker 1: I think that's the most dystopious I've ever seen. I
Speaker 1: think it is.
Speaker 13: I I think we've done it.
Speaker 1: I think we've met the final boss of capitalism, betting
Speaker 1: on our demise. So I wanted to understand more about
Speaker 1: how this even happens. Right, Like, this company Klshi has
Speaker 1: definitely been getting money by creating these betting uh universes. Right,
Speaker 1: So people told me that this has actually been going
Speaker 1: on in a number of other like spaces and places
Speaker 1: beyond sports. But now it's expanded and now it's become,
Speaker 1: of course so commonplace that they can actually make it
Speaker 1: an industry.
Speaker 8: However, you have to have a certain kind of mind
Speaker 8: to think this way.
Speaker 1: And so I want to show you a video that
Speaker 1: is the actual owner of Kyushi and he's gonna look
Speaker 1: different than I think you may expect, and him talking
Speaker 1: about what this is really connected to in a broader sense.
Speaker 20: Point tier is that it's not about yes no question
Speaker 20: Like over time we're going to produce different structures and
Speaker 20: there's going to be questions that are not yes nos.
Speaker 20: But it's about underlyings that are non traditional, like could
Speaker 20: could you financialize in anything that people care about? And
Speaker 20: you know, calshi is everything in Arabic. The long term
Speaker 20: vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset
Speaker 20: out of any difference in opinion.
Speaker 1: So that is Tadek Mansour who is the co founder
Speaker 1: and CEO along with Luana Lopez Lara. They are married,
Speaker 1: and I am just I'm just like, how does one
Speaker 1: get this way? But then I think about how many
Speaker 1: Arab countries have completely disregarded for the theme, for the
Speaker 1: goal of capitalism, for the goal of money. Because if
Speaker 1: I'm assuming if his name is Tadek Mansour, I mean
Speaker 1: he's at a big but I don't know if he's Muslim,
Speaker 1: and I don't know where his like family is from.
Speaker 1: It sounds a little bit Pakistani, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: But they did meet at MIT, and some of y'all
Speaker 1: may be like, well, why are we even talking about
Speaker 1: his personal life? Because the way that these people are
Speaker 1: raised and the way that they are, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of conditioned in the world is what they end up
Speaker 1: actually giving to the world. Right, that is nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten how it happens. Now you look at
Speaker 1: a unique person like Josephine Gilbo, where you look at
Speaker 1: a unique person like Mark Wayne, who were actually raised
Speaker 1: a certain way, but then they were put and thrust
Speaker 1: into a certain scenario that allowed them to expand these
Speaker 1: folks were put into like see y'all in the chat mit,
Speaker 1: where are these places where we are seeing technocracies grow
Speaker 1: in such a despared, in such a disparaging fashion. We're
Speaker 1: seeing these technocracies in a way that is beyond any
Speaker 1: consideration for human life. So I wanted to hear from
Speaker 1: you guys. How do you feel about the consistent encroaching
Speaker 1: of making everything financialized, every single aspect of your life
Speaker 1: being financialized. How do you feel that that can be challenged?
Speaker 1: What are ways in which you feel like there is
Speaker 1: effort to push back against this. I'll play some hold music. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to play that. So we got people
Speaker 1: saying it's offensive. This is the bad place actively addicted.
Speaker 1: These tech bros are not human I'm disgusted by it.
Speaker 1: Paywalls everywhere is just gross mutual aid and co ops
Speaker 1: learning to live.
Speaker 8: That's their suggestion.
Speaker 1: Eve's story says, if we financialize everything, then our lives
Speaker 1: will hold no true value. I want to just also
Speaker 1: point out that money is made up, because that's the
Speaker 1: other part of this. It's like we're living in a
Speaker 1: literal one pep be like we're living in the Truman Show.
Speaker 1: I know that some people think and like laugh that off,
Speaker 1: like oh ha haha, No, it's actually real. But to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, we in a way are living in
Speaker 1: the Truman Show because they've literally made up the system
Speaker 1: of our existence, like money is a made up system.
Speaker 1: These banks are literally the ones who run the show.
Speaker 1: I saw a scroll the other day, and I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten the fact check yet, but it was essentially saying
Speaker 1: that several presidents who were outwardly against an oppositional to
Speaker 1: the banks were either assassinated or attempted to be assassinated.
Speaker 1: And so when we see this actualizing of this on
Speaker 1: a whole other level, that is so dystopian. And now
Speaker 1: this is a partnership with CNN, So I have been
Speaker 1: talking about CNN being a absolute source of dystopia for
Speaker 1: quite some time now. But this I should, this should
Speaker 1: give you everything you need to know. So any news
Speaker 1: that you're getting via CNN is now now attached to
Speaker 1: a financial gain, and that financial gain will come in
Speaker 1: how they report it, right, because how they conceptualize it,
Speaker 1: how they contextualize it, all the above that's going to
Speaker 1: be about how it relates to the parlay. So when
Speaker 1: I see this, I'm like, this is deeper than I
Speaker 1: think people could really imagined. Happiness, the brand said, emphasizing
Speaker 1: that the end game of life is not simply wealth,
Speaker 1: but the quality of life you lived, redefining the purpose
Speaker 1: of life. I mean, happiness is the brand is the
Speaker 1: great name. If this is how you're talking, because I
Speaker 1: completely agree. I feel like I was sold from a
Speaker 1: very early age, and not even by my mother, but
Speaker 1: more so just by that which was around me, this
Speaker 1: idea that material wealth was actually the example of success
Speaker 1: and that I really could not be considered successful unless
Speaker 1: I had material gains. And there was a time where
Speaker 1: my mom was literally like, you don't care enough about money,
Speaker 1: and I know she was saying that more from the
Speaker 1: mindset of like you really need to be able to
Speaker 1: take care of yourself, but there was still also within
Speaker 1: that this idea that you are not going to be
Speaker 1: considered of status if you don't have money. And to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, now that I've been able to become
Speaker 1: financially secure in that way, I think that there's a
Speaker 1: version of life that if you can if you're able
Speaker 1: to just be able to not think about and not
Speaker 1: worry about money, that is the goal, and that can
Speaker 1: be addressed in socialism. That can be addressed in the
Speaker 1: way that our societies support each other, and that could
Speaker 1: be addressed also in how you choose to live your life,
Speaker 1: Like I changed the way I lived my life right,
Speaker 1: Vito says, I actually feel we need to be going
Speaker 1: to opposite direction, indigenous ways of engaging communal systems where
Speaker 1: we can exist in reciprocity. I one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 1: Problem is that I don't have the knowledge yet on
Speaker 1: how to do that right. And then it's like, okay, Amanda,
Speaker 1: but listen to the things that you always tell us.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to do something, there's already somebody that's
Speaker 1: already trying to do it.
Speaker 8: So it's like I got to figure out where those
Speaker 8: people are you.
Speaker 1: Feel me, I got to figure out where they are
Speaker 1: so that I can bring them on the show, so
Speaker 1: I can get involved with them, et cetera. And I
Speaker 1: feel like it's also a reflection of us really being
Speaker 1: at the behest of all of these media like inputs
Speaker 1: selling us this lie, right, selling us this lie. And
Speaker 1: someone said, even in socialism, somebody is still going to
Speaker 1: need the run the hospitals and sewer systems.
Speaker 7: Fair.
Speaker 1: Yes, however, the checks and balances are far greater, and
Speaker 1: there is a reality that is expected, which is that
Speaker 1: those systems run efficiently and effectively by because they are
Speaker 1: being because the people's money is funding it. So people
Speaker 1: can actually be far more demanding on how things are
Speaker 1: operating because we are the ones that are making it operate.
Speaker 1: Whereas right now, if you privatize everything, we don't get
Speaker 1: to be that, we don't get to have a say
Speaker 1: in nothing. You know, they basically are like, no, we're private,
Speaker 1: so we can do whatever we want. That is incredibly
Speaker 1: problematic and it is not a democracy. And now they
Speaker 1: have privatized how you are getting the news within the
Speaker 1: context of gambling. It's deeply disturbing, and the tech bros
Speaker 1: are going to just levels that I don't think any
Speaker 1: of us can even truly grasp. I want to play
Speaker 1: for you this TED talk by journalists?
Speaker 6: Is it here?
Speaker 1: Hold on? I want to play for you this Ted
Speaker 1: talk because I really want you guys. It's not a
Speaker 1: long type talk at all. It's just a clip. But
Speaker 1: I want you all to hear what this woman is
Speaker 1: saying about the technocracies and how they are financializing everything
Speaker 1: about us and even how we live and where we live.
Speaker 7: And I saw a.
Speaker 1: Woman in Detroit who the community or the government gave
Speaker 1: her a house or gave her basically an apartment to
Speaker 1: live in, and they had this happy music and they
Speaker 1: made it a feel good story. Do you know why
Speaker 1: they gave her the house or why they gave her
Speaker 1: the apartment to live in? She has five kids. Two
Speaker 1: of them died of hypothermia because they were sleeping in
Speaker 1: the car. That is a comple completely avoidable situation. No
Speaker 1: one had to be kicked out of that apartment for
Speaker 1: her to live in. It completely avoidable. It is deeply
Speaker 1: disturbing that this is how we are like literally making
Speaker 1: feel good. We are doing the thing in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of tragedy that was avoidable and we're doing it because
Speaker 1: everything has been financialized, and so all the housing that
Speaker 1: could be provided to people ends up sitting empty unless
Speaker 1: tragedy strikes.
Speaker 29: Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words,
Speaker 29: They are telling the same lies. We are watching the
Speaker 29: collapse of the international order in real time, and this
Speaker 29: is just the start. Kaus are like concrete when they
Speaker 29: stop moving. They yet it is already later.
Speaker 16: Than we think. This image. Some of you in this
Speaker 16: room might know these people. I call it tech bros.
Speaker 29: In hostage situations. It's a message to you. This is
Speaker 29: Putin's playbook. He allows a business elite to make untold
Speaker 29: riches in exchange for absolute loyalty. Some people are calling
Speaker 29: this oligarchy, but it's actually bigger than that. These are
Speaker 29: global platforms.
Speaker 16: It's proligarchy.
Speaker 29: There is an alignment of interests that runs from through
Speaker 29: Silicon Valley to what is now a coming autocracy. It's
Speaker 29: a type of power that the world has never seen before. Correct,
Speaker 29: it's always the data.
Speaker 16: It's the crack cocaine of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 29: You know the first thing that Elon Musk did was
Speaker 29: to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury.
Speaker 16: To get as to the data. That is not a coincidence.
Speaker 16: It's a hack.
Speaker 29: That data is now feeding ais that are choosing who
Speaker 29: to resack and who to replace. Sorry, eliminate fraudam waste.
Speaker 29: When we broke the Cambridge Analyticas story about the harvesting
Speaker 29: eighty seven million people's Facebook data, people freaked out rightly.
Speaker 29: This is chicken feed compared to that. But it is
Speaker 29: the blueprint. It's always the data, which is why it's.
Speaker 16: So important that you start thinking about.
Speaker 29: Your private life. The bronigarchy doesn't want you to have one.
Speaker 29: This is the old headquarters of the East German Secret Police.
Speaker 29: They kept detailed files and almost one in three of
Speaker 29: their citizens. That is nothing compared to what Google has
Speaker 29: on every single one of us and hundreds of other companies.
Speaker 29: The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It
Speaker 29: harvests our data in order to sell us stuff. We
Speaker 29: are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism. It may
Speaker 29: not have been deliberate, but we now have to start
Speaker 29: acting as if we live in East.
Speaker 16: Germany and Instagram is the Stazi.
Speaker 3: So this.
Speaker 1: Also references the financializing of our data. So the overarching
Speaker 1: conversation here today is around financializing, and financializing is the
Speaker 1: commodifying basically creating a financial value around everything in your
Speaker 1: life that can be capitalized on. And so now to
Speaker 1: see that CNN has partnered with a betting app to
Speaker 1: actualize the financializing of our very experiences, we can of
Speaker 1: course say that it can only go down from there. So,
Speaker 1: you know, oftentimes when I do these critical thinking exercises,
Speaker 1: I have a path.
Speaker 3: That I'm going to take us through that lands in you.
Speaker 1: Know, solution based ideas and you know, really just trying
Speaker 1: to identify how to challenge and whatnot. And it always
Speaker 1: ends up coming back to the same stuff when it
Speaker 1: has to do with capitalism, and that really ends up
Speaker 1: being that we have to slow the system. And Adrian said,
Speaker 1: you know, we need to stop buying stuff, and that's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's like, I try to minimize eyes the
Speaker 1: way in which people are engaging with a system in
Speaker 1: order to support my stuff. But then at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, here we are and we're on YouTube
Speaker 1: and we're on ig right, Like, eventually I want to
Speaker 1: be able to have a place where I do my
Speaker 1: show and you all come and watch my show and
Speaker 1: hopefully people who agree with us will create spaces that
Speaker 1: do the work that's done here outside of these frameworks.
Speaker 1: And I know that it's a long shot, but I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that we will get there. I started seeing people
Speaker 1: creating There's someone who used to work for Twitter. I
Speaker 1: think it is created an app that doesn't require created
Speaker 1: like a texting app. I think like a Twitter kind
Speaker 1: of app that doesn't require.
Speaker 3: Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: And then I saw somewhere that they created that there's
Speaker 1: like a phone that you can get now that doesn't
Speaker 1: require you to put in your name. I believe. So
Speaker 1: you know, all of these things, the surveillance, et cetera.
Speaker 1: When we ask ourselves, how does it connect? It's all
Speaker 1: about making all of our lives able to make money
Speaker 1: from and they will surveil and use that surveillance in
Speaker 1: order to do that. And they're just psychotic, greedy people.
Speaker 1: Like it's not like it's anything even deeper than that.
Speaker 1: These people are psychotic sociopaths who have been able to
Speaker 1: amass wealth and hang out with each other and be pedophiles.
Speaker 1: That's what we're dealing with. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a doozy, it really is. And I am hoping I'm
Speaker 1: hoping to God that more of us continue to wake
Speaker 1: up and challenge what is coming at us in more
Speaker 1: innovative ways, because I got to tell you, sometimes I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got nothing. I got nothing, But there's always somebody
Speaker 1: out there who's like, well.
Speaker 8: Now wait a minute, A man.
Speaker 7: She as.
Speaker 1: One of the things that keeps me saying, because that's
Speaker 1: a question that I got in every stop on the black,
Speaker 1: I mean, on the what the ancestors say to her
Speaker 1: was people asking me what keeps you saying?
Speaker 8: What keeps you saying? And I started really thinking.
Speaker 1: About it, and I think once upon a time I
Speaker 1: would have had so much more elaborate answers. And at
Speaker 1: this point, what keeps me sane is literally going to
Speaker 1: sleep and going outside. And also, and this is the
Speaker 1: most important one, not expecting myself to be sane. Okay,
Speaker 1: not expecting myself to be sane. Why would I be
Speaker 1: like composed, like, why would I feel myself? Why would
Speaker 1: I be like regular? No, this concept of sanity in
Speaker 1: this United States, sanity is your ability to manage a
Speaker 1: semblance of non reaction to whatever comes at you. That's
Speaker 1: why people end up on xanax and all of these
Speaker 1: in depressants that essentially, if you take a sho Hi
Speaker 1: have adosin just give you no reaction to nothing. There
Speaker 1: has to be there has to be a very real
Speaker 1: connection to reality in order to actually have a true
Speaker 1: human experience. And I find myself having let go of
Speaker 1: this idea that I am insane for seeing things for
Speaker 1: what they are, for having strong feelings, and for sometimes
Speaker 1: being worn out, and so instead I have tools, and
Speaker 1: my tools are sleep and nature, and nature involves my
Speaker 1: animals because sometimes it's just too cold to go outside.
Speaker 1: But that's really what it is, I mean. And we've
Speaker 1: even seen the drugs affect our music, you know, Like
Speaker 1: our driver to the airport the other day was playing
Speaker 1: nineties R and B. And I think about now R
Speaker 1: and B and it's like completely different. There's not even
Speaker 1: any like dynamics to it. It's always so just the
Speaker 1: same four notes. It sounds like xanax, same with rap.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for music to.
Speaker 8: Get sober again.
Speaker 1: And to start being a reflection again of actual feelings.
Speaker 8: Of the human existence.
Speaker 1: And I want to see the digitization era not necessarily
Speaker 1: have to continue. It doesn't have to necessarily be completely depleted,
Speaker 1: but to be combined with the analog of our reality.
Speaker 1: And I know that some people are like Amanda, you're
Speaker 1: being picketty persnicity, and I'm really not, because music is
Speaker 1: a genuine aspect of our like in tune with a
Speaker 1: being in tune, you know, like the term in tune,
Speaker 1: being in tune. You know, we have a heartbeat, and
Speaker 1: when it's when it's not in rhythm, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: That should let you know how powerful music is. The
Speaker 1: earth has a heartbeat, like it has a literal heartbeat.
Speaker 1: So if you don't acknowledge this reality, sorry, I had
Speaker 1: to acknowledge this reality.
Speaker 13: Oh my gosh, did you hear me?
Speaker 1: The Mumba Park. If we don't acknowledge that reality, then
Speaker 1: we are just completely disregarding how valuable this piece of
Speaker 1: thing is.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 1: Listen to music, I go outside, I engage with nature,
Speaker 1: and I go to sleep. And out of all of
Speaker 1: those things, the biggest thing is that I have a
Speaker 1: very free concept of what I consider to be sanity.
Speaker 1: And that's what keeps me saying.
Speaker 13: Hey, come on now, we gonna close it out.
Speaker 1: Shout out everyone hanging out. It's big, big, argues.
Speaker 27: Joseph, a little worried when she said for office as
Speaker 27: a solution, but when she said we can't vote our
Speaker 27: way out of.
Speaker 1: This, I came that dude and Bliss I said, show you.
Speaker 8: Up, showing your up, showing you up, show you.
Speaker 7: Show you up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I will be recording the audio book for what
Speaker 1: would the Ancestors say tomorrow, looking for it to come
Speaker 1: out in February. For all of my Patreon subscribers, run
Speaker 1: and remind everybody that on Patreon you can if you sorry,
Speaker 1: if you are a Patreon subscriber, then you can join
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Speaker 1: the Patreon book Club. You also get the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: The other thing that I am looking for is I
Speaker 1: am looking to hire somebody who watches views for Amandoland,
Speaker 1: but who can also edit clips for views for Amandoland
Speaker 1: that can go on the interns and if you are
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Speaker 1: know that I'm putting that out there in the world. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm putting that out there in the world. People in
Speaker 1: the chat are talking about all the different things that
Speaker 1: we actually do on the sorry in the Seal Squad
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Speaker 1: And for those of you all who are coming over
Speaker 1: to the after show, I'm about to be over there shortly.
Speaker 1: I want to send you all a happy December. It
Speaker 1: is a crazy time in the world right now, and
Speaker 1: I am not going to be doing Christmas this year,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to know, Seal Squad, would you be
Speaker 1: interested in having a in watching Sinners together on Christmas?
Speaker 1: Would that be something that you're interested in, Seal Squad
Speaker 1: in watching Sinners together on Christmas? Because that's something I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of doing, and.
Speaker 8: You know, we I've always said I was gonna do
Speaker 8: a watch a watch.
Speaker 1: With y'all, but I never did it about Sinners, and
Speaker 1: so I feel like that's something. Okay, so y'all are
Speaker 1: saying yes, you know, once I get my three yeses,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, So Brandon, basically, the way that
Speaker 1: we would do it is I'm watching and pausing and
Speaker 1: commenting and pausing and commenting. You can watch along and
Speaker 1: pause and colm and pause and whatever if you want to.
Speaker 1: But it really ends up being more like alive that
Speaker 1: you are attending as I watch Sinners and give you commentary.
Speaker 1: That's more kind of that's more the context of what it.
Speaker 8: Is, all right, So.
Speaker 1: That's gonna happen, all right, I'll do that on Christmas.
Speaker 1: You guys, thank you for your support of what the
Speaker 1: ancestor say. If you're enjoying the book. If you enjoyed
Speaker 1: the book, please let me know and share with your
Speaker 1: peoples and all the good things. Have a great rest
Speaker 1: of your day, and I will see you all over
Speaker 1: in the after show. Kick back, Shine you Shine, Let's
Speaker 1: go to the beach. I would a second same name.
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