Radical Rage: When Kindness Cracks and Fury Fights Back

Has your joy been hijacked by justified fury?

This week, we ditch the pleasantries and dive into a full-on feelings firestorm—rage, reckoning, and real talk.

From Texas floods and trans rights to unsolicited beekeeping advice and shoelace sabotage, we’re naming names and calling out the chaos. This isn’t about polite politics or playing nice. It’s about protecting your peace when performative kindness just won’t cut it.

Swear words fly. Truth bombs drop. The gloves? Fully off. If you’ve been quietly combusting in the chaos—hit play. You’re in powerful company.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, welcome back.
If this is your first time with me, well I'm
glad you're here. Each week, i'm here with you talking
to myself about things that weigh on my mind and heart.
Hoping if you've been dealing with something similar, we can
adjust our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if you're struggling

(00:27):
with something that needs immediate attention, please know that help
is available. Just on nine eight eight nationwide in the
US to reach the Mental Health and Suicide Crisis Hotline.
All of us here at CLW Studios believe that mental
health is a vital part of our well being. The
more people I meet and the more places I go,
the more I realize how important it is to make

(00:49):
people aware of the fact that there is no shame
in enjoying the parts of our lives that are incredible.
It's time for some radical joy, and this week the
three fingers pointing back at me are radical rage and
finding the balance. Hello, and welcome. I was pondering this

(01:12):
topic a little while back. I put it in the
notes in my phone because it was one of those
things that just continues to weigh on my mind and heart,
and if it is weighing on me, it can't be
my journey to face alone. So in order to perhaps
explore this a little more deeply, I would like to
walk a path with all of us today in regards

(01:33):
to the anger and the disappointment, the frustration that is
facing so many of us in just the way that
the world is working, the way the United States is
working in that relationship, and how it's affecting us on
several different levels. Now, I can already tell that there

(01:54):
are hackles going up, and they are eyebrows raised, and
we're all curious as to where the hell this is
going to go. Fantastic. I want you to stay on
high alert, wave those red flags, because today is about rage.
We have talked about joy, we have talked about how
to cultivate it, how to nourish it in our own lives,
And today I thought, well, you know what, we continue

(02:14):
and continue and continue to talk about all these warm
and fuzzy feelings whenever, quite frankly, quite often here, especially lately,
it's getting difficult to ignore the other side, or at
least one other side of the emotion. This and this
would be anger, rage, all the emotions and the colors

(02:36):
of it that lead in and feed into a feeling
of ready to take your neighbor's face and squeeze it
until they just shut up. I'm not proud of it.
I'm not saying I am. What I'm saying is to
ignore it, to instead focus all of our energy and

(02:57):
efforts on cultivating the joy and the happiness, instead of
acknowledging the fact that people in our communities have lost
their flipping minds. Doesn't serve us. It's not true, it's
not authentic, it's not sincere. What it is is living
in denial and hoping beyond all hope. Not that I

(03:18):
have any problem with hope. Love it one of my
favorites that for whatever reason, someone will have a change
of heart, even though they have proven over and over
and over and over again that whatever new fresh hell
is spewing force from the mouth of that orange asshole,
that for whatever reason, now this is the right, true,

(03:40):
and good not having it. Today's about letting us know
that whenever we see that, whenever we hear it or
feel that, that is not something we got to deal with. No,
it ain't, it ain't and The best part of it
is what we're going to try to do is figure
out a way to sublimate this rage, this red, white,
blue hot anger that we have burning in our souls

(04:03):
for this hatred, this bigotry, this anger, rage and vitriol
toward an idea of a group of people that make
up such a slender amount of the population in one case,
which make up a giant portion of tax paying and
economy uplifting population. There's another group of people, and how

(04:29):
we continue to move ourselves towards reliance on a group
of people who have proven to us on repeated occasion
that they are incapable and inept at moving the country
or the world forward. What they are is really good
at playing a game that continues to benefit a very small, small,
small part of the population. The rest of us are

(04:50):
left to go kicker, rocks anger. How do I move
past this? Because it is crippling me and my joy.
It is knocking me in the knees whenever I'm trying
to continue to climb. It ties my shoelaces together when
all I want to do is get to the next ridge,

(05:11):
And they're like, well, too flipping bad. It's gonna cost
you another fifty bucks, and we've got this very handy
dandy set of shoelace clippers that will sell you for
forty nine to ninety five. But it's also a subscription,
so you're gonna have to pay that every year in
order to continue to untying the shoes or cutting the
laces that we will continue to attempt to tie while

(05:32):
you try to move through this. How do we survive?
We will? We will persevere. Why because that's who we are,
It's what we do. We're survivors. We're strong, our spirits,
our souls, our senses of humor, resilient, sharpest tax raizors. Okay, exactly.

(05:56):
The thing that we have to continue to find a
way around is that their people out there who continue
to just chip away or worse, take a sledgehammer to
everything that we're trying to do. Most of us are
just out here trying to live our own lives. Right.
I got enough on my plate. My bees wax is
rich enough and abundant enough that I don't need to
tend to no damnbody else's. And I'm real, real, real

(06:21):
tired of those of us out here who don't or
haven't invested enough in their own bees wax and find
the need to put their nose in mine. Folks, you
best back in the hell up, because I don't need
your attention in my hive. If I did, trust, I

(06:43):
have reached an age and a level where I would
ask for it. Unsolicited bee keeping advice or counsel will
not be met with kindness. From here on, it will
be met with direct I'll try my best to say
as kind as I possibly can, and the time for

(07:05):
tolerating these kinds of behaviors is behind us. It is
abundantly clear that there are people out there who only
want to step on your happy They want to piss
on your parade and try to call it a rain.
Please do not allow that to happen any longer. We
are reaching a point where that is no longer serving us.
We have attempted, We have open circles, we have invited

(07:29):
with warmth and goodwill, and people continue to walk in
with poison in their pot to share with the circle.
No longer. I'm over it. I'm done, and I encourage
you to feel the same way. We're reaching a point where,
if given the opportunity, there are those out there who
would attempt to harm us. Turn the other cheek is

(07:51):
for a different situation instead of circumstances. I want you
to gird your loins. I want you to watch out
for who you are, what you stand, watch out for
those around you, whom you love and know are struggling.
Those are where we're putting our energy from this day
forward until folks can get their heads out of their

(08:12):
hindquarters and start acting like a member of the community. Again.
This US and them bullshit is done. I'm done with it.
They continue to force that, Honus. I have no need
to have that be a part of my entire situation.
What I also have even less need for is to
let them make it so. And then we are the

(08:33):
ones who suffer because we continue to attempt to build
bridges while all they do is set fire and jack
hammer the foundations of everything we try to hold. Dear
Absolutely not well, now, James, that's not very nice. That's
not very Christian, that's not very pleasant, that's not very
blah blah blah blah blah. Fill in that blank with

(08:54):
any number of nouns that mean, roll over, show me
your belly and let me thump it while I do
whatever the hell it is I want to do and
continue to hurt the idea of people, most of whom
I don't even know personally. That's the thing that really
makes me crazy. Had a discussion about this with a
friend of mine not long ago, like, well, what do

(09:14):
you do with a transperson? I was like, whoop, I'm
gonna put the pause on that right here, right now.
Chances are really good you're never gonna meet a trans
person in your daily walks of life. Where you work,
where you live, where you this, that, and the other.
You may never see someone who's gender you question. First
of all, not you damn business number two? Who cares

(09:39):
if it doesn't directly affect your life or your well being.
I have no need to worry about that person unless
they come into my circle and then curious, Hey, what's
the deal? What's the shakes? Can I assist? Nine times
out of ten nine nine times out of one hundred
nine million, nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred nine

(10:00):
twenty nine times out of ten million. That person is
just trying to live their flipping life. How about we
just leave them to it? Well, what about the children?
And stop knock it off. I'm sick of this excuse.
I'm sick of this example. It absolutely blows my mind.
One not my job, not the community's job, to raise

(10:22):
your children. You've made that abundantly clear, because when left
of the community, we don't do it right. Great, you
don't get a cake and eat it. You gotta choose.
If the community isn't serving your purposes and you want
to do it alone, fine, do it alone. Don't come
to me expecting me to change my entire life and

(10:43):
the way I look at the world just because you
can't have an interesting conversation with your offspring. Not my problem.
I did not sign up to help raise your children.
If you ask me to, fantastic you give me the
leeway to make sure or that child grows up without
hatred or bigotry in their mindset. They will be exposed

(11:05):
to it in their lives. You cannot quote unquote protect
them from their lives. When you do that, it is
a disservice because you are leaving a giant hole in
their existence and their education just by continuing to inflict
upon them your ignorant, narrow minded, teeny tiny, stupid ass
worldview that does not include the entire population of this

(11:29):
gorgeous world in which we live. And my worst is
the fact that you continue to raise up people who
have been proven to be a threat and danger to
their way of life, their safety, and their health only
because they wear a cross around their neck or a
robe to church on Sunday. I said what I said.
I make zero flipping apology for it. One Number two,

(11:57):
don't try to protect them from something that isn't a danger.
Trans people are not a danger to your way of life.
If a person walks into a bathroom and you have
a suspicion about it, mind your business, take care of
your business. All these stories you hear in media and
blah blah blah, and hearsay and so and so told

(12:19):
me that their step cousin's hairdresser, shut up. If you
don't know it, if it didn't happen to you, I'm
gonna need you to leave that behind. If you don't
know the source. And if you got even a hair,
a single eyebrow hair that raises when this person tries
to tell you something, I want you to take that
with the biggest grain of salt. I want you to
take that with Lot's wife. Once she turned back to

(12:42):
look behind her as they were leaving. That is the
amount of salt I need you to take with that.
I'm sick of it, sick of it, absolutely exhausted and
disgusted for those of you out there. That's as much
as I want to do with people's children. You got that.
That's number next. We're just gonna move on past it.
Ice these absolute flipping thugs, all of this redirection of

(13:04):
this money to take care of these problems that do
not exist. We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot
by going after people who are contributing members of our society, taxpayers.
These people come over here and they work themselves to
the bone, to exhaustion, through all manner of terrible weather,

(13:24):
to make sure there is food on the table, to
make sure there is a roof overhead, and what you
ask them to do as masked vigilantes, not wearing a badge,
not wearing a uniform, getting paid to be cruel to
these people who are fine, upstanding members of our community.
Shut up. If you've got anything to say other than that,

(13:45):
bring me the proof or sit down and be quiet.
I'm over it. All of this is stirring hate on
nothing but conjecture. That means we made it up. And
threw it at your face and you were just gullible
enough to swallow it. I'm done, I'm over it. That
is not how we move forward. Dude, Why are you

(14:05):
so angry about us? Because people are getting hurt, and
they're getting hurt for no apparent reason whatsoever other than bigotry, fear, hatred,
and the fact that you were born on third base.
And there are people still lapping you who are smaller, browner,
harder working than you, that get home before you do,
not their problem, and you're making it a problem. And

(14:31):
I'm sick of it. Now. Here's the thing. The people
who probably need to hear this the worst may never
tune into Radical Joy. People who are normally listening to
Radical Joy know this is wildly different than the normal
content we keep here. But I need you to know
I can't hold this in my heart and not say

(14:55):
something about this. I go to my regular channels where
I have a voice, and I feel as though it
is irresponsible of me to express this in a way
that feels satisfying to me, that feels as though it
is leaving my body, as it must if it is
to not poison my soul. Because people who raised me,

(15:17):
people who taught me how to be what I hope
is a good person have turned their back on the
entire curriculum to follow a person in an administration that
continues to pump out nothing but awful, and not just
for these small communities, but for literally anyone under a
certain income level, and they continue to cheer their support

(15:41):
and it makes me crazy because I know they're smarter
than this, I know their hearts are bigger than this,
But for whatever reason that I cannot seem to grasp
or wrap my head around, they continue to thunderously applaud
this entire bullshit. And there's a part of me that

(16:03):
wants to go to their door knocking. And occasionally I lose.
Occasionally I lose because I try to be the bigger person.
I try to be the smarter, the better, the kinder.
And there are days I'm like, I don't even know
what you just said. You continue to screen this and
it doesn't make any kind of coherent sentence, no sense
at all, and I don't know what to tell you

(16:25):
because from what you've written, what you've said, all I
hear is parrot, parrot, parrot, Fox, Fox, Fox, And I'm like, stop, stop, it.
You're smarter than this, You're better than this. Don't compare it,
don't blame it, don't try to put it on somebody else.
All of this shrinks down to one teeny tiny little moment,

(16:46):
one pinpoint in time, where you and I are talking
about what is happening right now in a snapshot. Don't
give two hoots about what Biden did, Obama did, the
Clintons did. Don't give a hoot about a Bush. I
don't care none about none of that. What I do
care about is what is happening exactly right now. And
all I need you to do to get us to
a point where we can talk again is to tell me,

(17:10):
with your whole chess that this ain't right. Don't care
who started it, don't care where it started. Great if
you want to throw that aspersion, fantastic. If I'm willing
to acknowledge that, are we willing to say that we
need to stop it. I'm just so unbelievably tired of
every time we face some new horror, because this is
what I hated about last time this all happened. It's

(17:32):
the fact that every morning we wake to more terrible.
It disrupts our peace. It continues to keep us on
high alert, and our nervous systems were not made for
this kind of stress and awful and terrible. Well, just
turn it off, Just put down the phone, Just don't
look at all of it. No, no, no enough. If

(17:52):
your little pansy, libtard snowflake can't handle all this, where
do I look? It is everywhere. It pervades every single
aspect of life in living in the United States and elsewhere,

(18:13):
And there is nowhere to go. There is nowhere to
turn where you are not inundated with a hateful, awful
and talking about hating people. Now, I don't give to
who's how you feel about the president. I really don't.
You could love him, you could hate him. At this point,
I don't care. I really don't. How you support what

(18:36):
he's doing will tell me a lot. We were in
Bali last year. Yeah, that's right. I'm gonna drop an
anecdote and it starts in Bali. You're welcome if you
want to think me too, bouge to continue. There's a
pause button, or you can scroll right on. I'm over it.
This is my day to just let it out. Okay,

(18:57):
we'll go back to previous programming. Her content next week.
Right now, I'm just too mad to see straight. I
need to get it out because I want to be
truthful in all of these things. I want to put
it out there. People who are feeling this can't show
up and expect me to be just rainbows and sunshine
shooting out my rear end all the time. Okay, most

(19:20):
days pretty easy. I got a pretty great life. Data
da da da Today ain't that day starts in Bali.
This kid comes in and he's South Africa or New Zealand.
I think he's New Zealand. And he's got what can
only be described as probably five or six women who
very clearly work in adult entertainment, and his assistant who
is sort of like this opie dude who's just there

(19:42):
for the good time. I get it, we've all been there, fantastic.
This guy turns to me and he says, so after
he finds out that you know, American, YadA YadA, he's like,
what do you think about Donald Trump? And boy howdy
did he come at just the right moment Because I'd
already had a couple of watermelon marguerite, a feeling majuice.
I'm like, well, let me just let you a little

(20:02):
secret said, I hate the man. I absolutely do. Please
come at me with some Trump arrangement syndrome. Please, if
you're feeling it, by all means, give it to me,
both barrels. Are you just hate him? Okay? Great? Number next?
You know what else? The sky is blue and water
is wet? Anything else I can like feeling for you?
I'm so glad. Yes, hate the man, hate him? And

(20:22):
do you want to know why? Because what he has
done is literally given permission to every single person with
a terrible impulse and an awful habit with the way
that they were raised or the way that they have
been where they are for as long as they are
without moving forward. He just gave everybody in the nation
permission to slide back, and he is punishing people for

(20:45):
wanting to move forward and trying to acknowledge the fact
that we have a problem with it. And yeah, absolutely great.
Are we good with that? Super fine? Also, what I
want to say is Trump arrangement syndrome works works both
ways because the way y'all cante and you to support
all this hateful, awful just because he wakes up one
morning and changes his mind and be like, oh, so
we're doing this today. Tell me that ain't deranged. So

(21:08):
it has at least two sides to it. Kids, all right,
so great, congratulations. I am commandeering this entire made up condition,
and I'm throwing it right back at the feet of
anybody with a red hat or a flag on the
back of their pickups, saying, you know what, the fact
that you continue to contort yourself just to follow this bullshit, great,

(21:28):
that's another portion of the same disease. Anyway, In BALI
I said, I don't like the guy. I think he's dangerous.
I don't think that what he's doing is good for
the country. I think it's good for a very small
handful of people. I said, and that's just what I think.
The guy turns to me and says, well, I think
he's a bit of all right. I think what he's
got some great ideas. I was like, well, super, you
know this was great. I'm glad we got you know

(21:50):
right out the gate. Now I know you're just a
piece of shit, James. You can't say that to people.
The hell I can't. The hell I cannot. We've had
five years of this horse, nearly five of this man
and his administrations, and their utter incompetence and ridiculous, and
how people have gotten hurt, how they continue to drive

(22:10):
it into the ground. And if you've got a different
opinion on that, congratulations, that's just like an asshole. You're
welcome to it, keep it, have it, it's yours, wipe
it yourself. I'm not here to do any more of
that for you. You're either gonna sit in your filth,
You're gonna learn to wipe it and live with it.
I just don't have the time for it. The more
I just do not do I want to talk like
that to people, of course not. Also, I think it

(22:32):
is beyond the scope of good sense to look at
what is happening in the world and think that this
is anyhow a benefit to what's supposed to be the
greatest nation in the world. Whenever I was raised to
think that the reason it was great was because of
the melting pot, that it was liberty and justice for
all life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, not the guarantee of happiness,

(22:56):
but you are at least guaranteed the right to pursue
it due process, being born here, birthright, citizenship, so many
of these things that they're just attacking because they can,
and the fact the hypocrisy of it just absolutely boggles
my mind, considering the fact that if you look at
the legacy in the Trump family, how many of those

(23:18):
people got here illegally, continue to stay here illegally, and
those children were not even necessarily born under the auspices
of birthright citizenship. And yet these laws only apply to
poor people. These laws only apply to the people who
will comply. And so I'm here to make sure that

(23:39):
we know that I think compliance is a hock of horseshit. Okay,
if someone comes at you and they are wearing a mask,
no badge, no uniform. We've heard the stories, and I'm
absolutely fine to go with some hearsay on this. Someone
comes to you and tries to do something like that,
you fight with all due diligence to escape that dangerous situation.

(24:01):
If you leave somebody in a crumpled heap because they
just wanted to be a mean ass something or another,
I have no problem with it. If someone cannot identify themselves,
if there is not a uniform, if there is not
a badge, I thoroughly recommend taking care of your self.
It'll have consequences. I have no doubt it'll have consequences,

(24:24):
because that's what we're seeing. I'm encouraging you to take
care of yourself as best you can, because which is
worse the consequences of attacking someone unidentified? At least there
may be a chance of due process in that situation
versus compliance and finding yourself somewhere where you may never
find a way out unless it's in a pine box

(24:47):
or worse. Please take care of yourself. I don't know
how much of this is gonna be okay, I'll be honest.
The way that I'm talking right now, Carrie may say
we're gonna have to throw this whole thing out. We
can't use any of this. I'm trying to be say,
I'm trying to be something that is palatable for the
platform so we don't get in trouble. I'm also really, really,
really sick and tired of one group of people among several,

(25:09):
being the one that's expected to be responsible and kind
and outgoing and reaching across the aisle and da da
da da da da dad. No, screw it, this whole
thing in Texas with the kids camp, with these girls,
these what is it now twenty seven that we found
out that are dead. Don't make this political. You started it.
You started it. No one here is happy about these

(25:30):
children's deaths. No one nobody's happy about it. However, ten
point two million dollars was offered to put in flood
warning apparatus all over the situation, because we knew it
was a problem. Texas did not take it because they
did not want it from a socialist, Marxist, communist, fill

(25:51):
in the ist that everybody loves to throw around, but
nobody knows what is and so they put it towards
the police force instead. Congratulations, and now there are lives
on the line and you refuse to take accountability. Screw it.
I ain't letting that go by. Nobody here's making it political.
You did whenever you didn't take the money, whenever we
knew that was a problem. However long ago, it was

(26:11):
like a year ago, and then here we sit. There
were steps taken, they were refused out of hand Texas
tooke secure Texas bullshit? The hell it does? Texas like
to flex and strut around like they got something, and
what do they do? They'll let poor people die. And

(26:33):
then there goes your Senor Ted Cruz off on another
vacation and he's out of there because he can't stand
the heat in the kitchen, Sir, public service serve. And
then they want to get up on a thing and
say they didn't do nothing for us. They said, no, no,
you refuse the help, and you have a convenient memory.

(26:53):
Shut up, Sit down, Sit in the fact that your
lack of responsibility and your aversion to taking help from
the President of the United States and federal funds that
were put in place to help you avoid a catastrophe
like this was just something that you found unpalatable and
now you don't want to make it political. Fuck you

(27:14):
all of it. I'm done. You don't get to come
to the table and holler Democrat or Biden or Clinton
whenever it was literally offered with hat in hand and
you said no, thank you. Super No one here is
celebrating those babies' desks. You could have avoided it all.
We tried. That's what that money is there for. That's

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what that money is there for, not ice, not bloated
military bullshit overspending. It's there to make sure that people
who need that help, because there are things like children's
camps in these places we know need protection from natural disasters,
just like flooding that just happened. But because you just

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don't want to, you stubborn asses, because you don't want
the quote unquote strings attached to this money. May you
revel in what you did. No one here is celebrating
their deaths. But to come to us, to try to
make this a problem that you didn't make yourselves, will

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no longer be tolerated in this camp. Not having it.
I'm just not and I'm quite frankly, I'm disgusted that
you want to try to lay those babies' deaths at
our feet, knowing full well that you are the one
holding the weapon that is covered in their blood. No,
no longer your accountability or the lack thereof, stops right

(28:41):
here at this episode today. There have been several other
stumbling blocks to try to slow you down. I just
want to make sure that you know if you continue
to support this administration, absolutely not. What is happening, what
is terrible. Unfortunately, it's like a dead rat. It will
have to be brought to your door before you give
a hoot. Oh, we're just so upset this is happening.

(29:04):
Oh well, in an attempt to make everything better in
the United States, some people, some innocence, are gonna get hurt.
I pray it does not come to your doorstep before
you realize just how dangerous this is. And I recognize
the fact that for some of you hardheaded kinnuckle nampties,
it's going to have to before you realize this is

(29:28):
not okay. I don't wish it on you. I pray
that you are smart enough to figure it out before
it literally comes knocking your doorstep, before your granddaughter or
your niece or your daughter comes up with a pregnancy
that she can't terminate, that it's threatening her life. Because
people think that babies are more important than full on people.

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Fetuses are more important than full on people. Blast Jela
at six weeks are more important than full on people.
Until you get it through your head, it it just
might come to knock on your door. The neighbor down
the street who does nothing but tries to work himself
to death to make sure he can make a better

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life for his family while trying his damnedest to get
through immigration the right way air quotes, and then he
gets supported because for whatever reason it just took too long,
or people riding up just because of whatever and he
wasn't asked, he wasn't given any kind of new process,
he wasn't given any chance to explain himself or talk

(30:33):
to a magistrate of any sort. And now he's hanging
out in a hole that some of y'all want to
tell me they get air conditioning in three squares a day.
Please sit down, educate your ignorant ass. I'm done having
any sort of conversation with people who cannot be bothered
to look up a Google for free for eleven seconds

(30:55):
to realize that the parenting talking points that they are
spewing are wrong. There is no responsibility for the media
to tell you the truth. And if your inconvenient truth
is robbing people of their lives, livelihoods, or the promise

(31:15):
of their pursuit of happiness, I need you to reassess.
I need you to wake up. And if you don't
like the way I'm talking to you today, tough life
stinks sometimes, and this is one of those times. I
am tired of policing tone. I am exhausted with all
these people giving out the hateful, awful twenty four flipping

(31:35):
seven and the rest of everybody else trying to talk
sense or goodwill or kindness or so well. I don't
like the way you said it. I don't fucking care.
I don't care. What I do care about is taking
care of everyone in this nation who calls her home
wherever that is sick of it. I hope you're shamed.

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I hope whatever I've said today it makes you mad,
because there's going to be a freckle of shame in
the middle. Because you know I'm telling the truth. You
know it. How do I know you know it? Because
you're not stupid, You're wilful, You're stubborn, and you're ready
to swallow anything that someone feeds you on an orange spoon,

(32:24):
just because the fellow whose picture is hanging in your
living room. Also, let's not even get into the how
crazy that is told you it was true. After we
know for a fact that mother's a liar. Good luck.
I wish you well. It will continue to worsen until

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it affects you, and by then it will be too late,
because you will be too deep once you shuffle off
this mortal coil. Which is a phrase I have used
often lately. I wish you well when you meet your maker,
because there is something in you, deep down in the
middle that you know is wrong, and you continue to
support it and work tirelessly for it. And eyes smarter

(33:10):
than mine, sharper and keener than mine, see your soul
and know. If you're not a believer, if you're not
a faithful person, great, that last little bit wasn't necessarily
for you. If you are, you know, and you better
get right because you continue to dig your own path

(33:33):
to hell and eternal damnation that you continue to threaten
others with because of their political affiliation, ignoring the beam
in your own eye. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm
not saying folks on another part of the political spectrum
are Don't get me wrong, don't try to change the subject.
What I'm saying is, if you continue to support this

(33:54):
hateful and terrible, it'll come home to you. And I
pray that you are strong enough to support it. Thank
you for joining. This is not already normal, fair, But
I could not let it go by another day. I
could not face another week of sitting here trying to

(34:16):
be kind and good and sweet and precious and just
let's come together and kumbay y'ah. Know there are people
out there who are actively fighting against it, and they
need acknowledgment. By God, they need so much attention. Super
here's your attention. You're screwing it up. You're getting yourself
real close to a dangerous situation, and you know it.

(34:39):
Your situation, your vote, your skin color, your community, the
money in the bank, none of that is gonna save you.
The thing that's gonna come closest to saving you is
money in the bank. But I don't know anybody that's
got enough to keep whatever's coming from coming for them.
You better assess it. Me and my country got all

(35:03):
warm up in your business today. And I make no apology.
I would like to pardon a couple of words. I
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