The Board of Epic Fury

Hi, I'm Allie Hamilton, and I'm so happy to welcome you to the KamaezuR podcast.

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Hi there, welcome to our talk.

Today the topic is Board of Epic Fury, and of course I was doing a play on the board of

peace, and the war in Iran that has happened, and how it is being called Operation Epic

Fury.

So, a very depressing heartbreaking mashup, the Board of Epic Fury, and I had a really

hard time writing the essay of this week because I have had a really hard time since

last, you know, it's now like a little over a week ago on that Friday night, early Saturday

morning, I was still awake when the announcement came that the United States had started

bombing Iran with Israel, and I just felt so scared and sad and anxious and all the things,

you know, all the emotions.

And I have continued to feel all of the emotions imaginable since then I woke up Saturday morning,

and I have Iranian friends, and one of those people was celebrating, one of my friends

was devastated, you know, and that's part of what I, obviously at that point we had heard

about the girls school in Tehran being bombed, and it's now I think 170 young girls whose

lives have been lost.

And, you know, one of the things that I really wanted to write about and talk about is this

idea of people not being a monolith that, you know, I think this is part of what has happened

that has been so difficult in the discourse generally is that there's such a desire for the

binary, you know, like you're either, like this way or that, you're either, you're on one side

or the other, you know, you're either going to celebrate that the Ayatollah community is dead,

and the Iranian people are out from under this authoritarian regime, or, you know, you're not,

you know, you're like, and it's not a one or the other, there's no one or the other thing here,

you know, and so I think part of what I wanted to try to talk about and write about is that idea,

is that, you know, even with the Iranian people and here in America and in Israel everywhere,

you know, there's this desire to paint people with one brush and to conflate the leader of a country

with the people who live there, and if you think about what's happening here in America, right,

and how divided we are, you have, you know, people outside our country who hate Americans because of

what this president is doing, you know, they're just disgusted with him or how could you elect this man

again, and it's understandable, I understand when I run into that and I run into it a lot,

and, you know, people in Europe and other parts of the world are looking at this country,

they cannot believe that we elected this man again. So if you live here and you, you know, you,

let's say you support him or you know, you don't maybe read other, like, maybe your algorithm is

completely different than mine, and which you're probably not listening to me if it is, but, you know,

then, you know, maybe that's, that's news to you, like, you know, but there's just a huge,

I mean, we've alienated our allies. We've alienated our allies because of this president who,

you know, is very disparaging toward NATO countries who came to our aid after 9-11,

you know, very disparaging, very, very ungrateful. He's such a horribly ungrateful things to

countries who sent their young people to defend us and countries who's not all those people came

home, you know. So this idea even here, right, like, if you take this, our country is an example,

you've got, you know, 342 million people who live in the United States roughly,

and of those 342 million people, only 77 million of them voted for this president and this

administration. So, and 74 million voted for Harris Walls, and a lot of people stayed home

and didn't vote at all, and some people were not eligible to vote. You know, anyone who's not a

citizen cannot vote. We don't have a problem with that in this country. There is no voter fraud

to speak of. It is such a non-issue that the few instances where that shows that they have no

impact whatsoever on free and fair elections. So, we have a lot of people who are not eligible

to vote. Millions and millions of our immigrant community, anyone who's not a United States

citizen cannot vote in our elections. So, 77 million of 342 million people living here, 77 million

voted for this president. 74 million did not. They voted for someone else, and then, you know,

as I said, a lot of people stayed home and did not vote for anyone, and then there were people

who are not allowed to vote at all. So, when you can flate this president with the people who

live in this country, you know, if people do that from outside the United States, if they just say,

oh, these awful Americans who are, you know, doing it, it's, you're missing a huge part of the

story, right? There's 74 million of us here who are devastated, never wanted this to happen,

did not vote for this person. Any of the times would never have voted for him. I'm one of them,

you know, and I could not be more devastated that he is the president again. I can't believe it.

I am astounded that people could get past so many. The minute he said he grabs women by the

pussy, I can't believe this. People still voted for that. I cannot believe it. You know,

I, so, you know, this tendency to talk about the people, you know, to talk about countries this way,

it's the same thing, like how it is here is how it is in any country, you know, you're never going

to get millions upon millions of people in any country who all feel exactly the same way about

everything. So you're not even going to get 40 people in a room who all feel the same way about

everything, let alone millions of people. So it's a thing that we tend to do, especially if we're

talking about countries we've never visited, let alone lived in for any length of time. And so you

can get yourself into a lot of trouble that way, trying to speak like an expert about how the

Iranian people feel. Well, the Iranian people are celebrating in the streets. They're so

some, some of the Iranian people are celebrating in the streets. And some of the Iranian people are

devastated to see their country being bombed. Some of the Iranian people are outside a school right now

trying to pull their daughters out from under the rubble. You know, there are Iranians that don't

live in Iran anymore who have different feelings about what is happening. You can't paint

the Iranian people with one brush. And it's an ignorant thing to do that. People do it all the time,

but it's not, you know, it's not an educated perspective. You're missing a huge, huge part of the

story when you do that. And it's the same in Israel. You know, there are people who are absolutely,

there are Israelis who are, did not, are not okay with Netanyahu, do not support what he is doing,

what he has done, what has happened in Gaza, who are heartbroken and devastated about what has

gone on there. You know, it's, it's not a monolith. And it's very painful when, you know, these

conversations happen online. And you, you just can't have any kind of nuanced conversation

because people are so, they want to, you know, put everyone quickly in a box. They want the

binary conversation. You're, you know, you're either, I have my political perspective, my prism

that I'm seeing everything through. And so I want to hear what I want to hear. So I know where to

place this other person, right? Like, are they with me or against me? Are they in the good pool of

people or the pool of people I don't like? And, you know, most of these things are not, you're,

that's not what you're going to find. You're going to find people who are having all kinds of

devastating feelings in all kinds of different directions. And if you want to really be having

meaningful conversation, you have to leave some space for people to feel safe to express themselves.

You know, if you immediately start screaming at somebody or jumping down someone's throat,

you don't leave them any room to tell you about the different ways that they're feeling. You know,

whatever it is, I don't want my tax dollars spent killing anyone ever, you know, ever. I want my

tax dollars spent taking care of people. I don't, I don't want this. I'm not okay with what's

happening. I didn't vote for this, you know, so it would be nice if people would extrapolate

and say to themselves, okay, like there are things happening in the country where I live that I

don't like, that I don't support, that break my heart, that are devastating to me. So let me assume

the same is true in other countries before I just paint everyone in another country with the same

brush. But on social media, for example, that's what people do so quickly, you know, they want the

hashtag, they want the quick take, they, you know, they're not, it's, it's not an environment that is

conducive for these painful emotional conversations where people want to be heard, they want, you know,

they want to be able to talk about their heartbreak or their confusion or their, you know, devastation

over the situation. And that's one of the things that I think is so incredibly sad about what's

happened is we've, we've lost a lot of those people that I think really would love to be having

conversations are feeling really alienated. Now, one of the best essays I have read this entire

time about, for example, Gaza and, you know, October 7th, October 8th, Palestine, Israel, what

happened was written by Joanna Chen. And you can still find it. I think it's called from, from the

edges of a broken world. It is so beautiful. And, you know, those are the kinds of conversations we

need to be making space for. And the original publication, actually, it was a Gernick, they pulled

it. And now it's available somewhere else. I can link it in the, I'll link it in the

underneath the podcast here. But it is, they pulled it because, you know, people are,

that's how heated it is. You can even like have a conversation.

And to this day, it's one of the most beautiful, painful things I've read. You know, I don't know

what we're going to do. If we can't, for me, I am never okay ever when I see children dying

anywhere, especially if we're talking about children who are dying because of war,

because of greed, because of depravity, it doesn't matter to me where it's happening.

It's always devastating. It always stops me in my tracks. It's always a failure.

It's always a failure if we are allowing children to die, whether it's happening in the Congo or

Sudan or Gaza, you know, whether it's happening in Israel, whether it's happening here in the United

States every day when our kids go to school, it doesn't matter to me where it's happening. I don't,

I don't meet out my empathy for only some children. It doesn't work like that. You know, you either

have empathy or you don't have empathy. It's not a thing that you say, only these kids get my

empathy. These other children don't get my empathy. All children are all of our responsibility

here on this planet. If you're an adult, you know, our job is to take care of

the most vulnerable. That's the job. And so, you know, when you see

that that is not happening and that babies are dying, it's a failure. It's a moral and ethical

failure. And, you know, I think part of what is, part of what what completely is so difficult

here in the States is the cognitive dissonance piece of things, you know. For people like me who

are, who did not want this, did not vote for this, I like, I don't want my tax dollars being spent

this way. I want affordable health care, you know, more funding for public schools,

social programs, access to clean air and water, a livable wage. You know, all these things that

they tell us, universal health care, we can't have affordable child care and day care and parental

leave. All these things they tell us, you know, Medicare, Medicaid snap benefits, free

school lunches, like those are the things that I would like my tax dollars to to to to be going

toward environmental protections. And these are all the things they tell us we can't afford,

but then we can spend a billion dollars a day on a war. Always we can afford death and destruction.

Always we can afford to go for the oil. You know, we can afford to kill people. We can

bomb people, but we can't take care of people. It's such garbage. It's such a lie. It's a lie. And

you know, part of what is, as I was starting to say, so difficult for someone like me who didn't

vote for this, who actively tried to make sure this did not happen, who shouted from every

rooftop I possibly could do not vote for these people, please do not vote for these people.

You know, is to watch like part of what happened, you know, I could be here for eight days if we

started going back and talking about, you know, too much history here. So I'm debating because I

wrote about, I wrote about, I'm just to be honest, deciding how far, how far back to go. Part of what

happened, I'll just go back to like December, the end of December 2025. There were protests in

Iran because the, they're the currency just went into a free fall partly because of the United

States, which Scott, like he, Scott, percent talked about that openly, you know, that we,

we contributed, we were, we were adding to that pressure. The economy was already in, you know,

precarious state and we pushed it like over the edge and people started protesting. It started in

Tehran. There were shopkeepers went on strike and then more people joined and then there were

nationwide strikes and the Ayatollah community heat and the authorities in Iran responded with

lethal force. They called the protesters rioters, sounds familiar, right? And they were killing

people in the streets and arresting people as young as 14 and putting them in detention centers

and a lot of them were in, in communicado detention, couldn't, their families couldn't find them,

couldn't speak to them, couldn't locate them, couldn't, couldn't, does this not sound familiar to you?

So our president here was, you know, using his truth social tweeting at the Iranian people and

saying, you know, if, if they keep using lethal force against you, I'll, I'll come and intervene.

This man, you think this man is intervening because he cares about citizens in Iran, protesters in

Iran being killed in the streets, human rights violations and people being detained. Hi, Renee

good, Alex, Freddie, like, are you kidding me right now? It's so insane for me to listen to that

and to imagine that anyone's believing that narrative because he doesn't care, he doesn't care

about that happening here. He's, he's causing that to happen here. He's sending ice into states

and cities, blue states and cities, he does not like and he's, that's what's happening here in the

country he is the president of. So you think he cares about what's happening there, isn't care?

You think he cares about human rights violations and what's happening in these detention centers there?

People here are dying in detention centers. You know, it just happened this week a man died in a

detention center because of a toothache. They didn't get him medical attention. This poor man died

of a toothache that went, he got sepsis, it became infected. Uh, you know, they're, when,

they're, we have people be sexually abused sexually assaulted in these detention centers and

they say very openly, we can't, there's nothing we can do, you know, we can't protect people in

these detention centers. Like, sorry. Um, there are reports of worms and mold in the food, like

at dilly detention center where they've got families. That's where most of the families go when

they take kids like Liam, right? Raymost when his, he was with his dad at dilly, there are

hundreds of reports coming out of dilly that these kids, the food is full of worms.

This man does not care about human rights violations or what's happening to protesters. So

when I hear things like that, my brain explodes, you know, my mind, it's just, it's so

painful to think that anyone would believe that, you know, he's not sending

uh, any of our military to Iran because he cares about freedom for people. Like, that is not what's

going on. This is a self-serving transactional narcissist, an old man, a billionaire, he's been

making billions of dollars in his second term. These are all things you can fact check. I always

link everything in the essay so you can go. Um, his family has made billions of dollars

since his second term. He is just raking in money, hand over fist, and could not

care less about Americans, about Iranians. Like, this is just all about what is good for,

what's good for me? Uh, how do I make more money? That's really it. And so it's painful, you know,

and so many of the people in power are these old men who are authoritarian, you know,

billionaires who do not care about the people they're supposed to be serving. They're supposed to

be public servants. They don't care about the people they're supposed to serve. They're not,

they don't think of what they're doing as serving anyone, but themselves. They're in their last

decade of life. And, you know, here we are. One of my Iranian friends was saying that we're heading

into Ramadan here and they just martyred the Iatola Communion. He probably would have died. And

now they've made him a martyr. Um, you know, they're all different perspectives on. This is why I'm

saying there's no monolith. You have these are human beings and human beings are going to have

different feelings about different things, whether you're talking about Americans, whether you're

talking about Palestinians, whether you're talking about Israelis, whether you're talking about

Iranians, you know, not all people have the same feelings about everything. And so you reduce people

when you start talking about, you know, people feel this way or that way. It's like,

unless you've lived somewhere, you are, you know, not an expert. And you probably really want to

defer to people who are who have lived in these places, um, who are living there now, you know,

who can speak intelligently about the different ways that people are feeling. And

if you're lucky enough to know people in all of these, in countries where things are happening,

that is always your, you know, your best bet is to be for me, at least. I always want to hear

personal stories from people. I want to try to understand as many different perspectives as

possible. Um, but this, this binary, you know, hashtag, like, this is not helpful. These people that are,

you know, um, like social media warriors, but like not actually trying to help anyone. Like,

you're not, that's not helpful to anyone. You want to be helping people as much as possible.

And I'll tell you, like, one thing that helps is just try really hard to not be putting this kind

of these people in power, these people. And they've done such an incredible job of getting us to

scream at each other while they're just, you know, like breaking laws left and right. And

yeah, wreaking havoc and dropping bombs. And I, I don't know, you know, I really, I don't know,

it's just, it's so painful to watch. And we have, I mean, the girls school, right? It's like,

that also was incredibly painful because out of one side of their mouths are saying, like, oh,

these are high precision airstrikes, high precision and advanced technology. And then out of the

other side, it's like, you just bombed a girls school. So if it's high precision and advanced

technology, did you do it on purpose? Or are you so incompetent that you used an old map?

Because that's, you know, the other story that's being flipped. It's like,

and you have a president, you know, that's the other part of the reason that I was just feeling so

devastated over the last week is because I have no faith in this administration. There's no,

they, they've changed the objectives like four times in four days, right? First, it was, oh,

they were, they were about to have like nuclear capability. So we had to, you know, strike first,

well, there's zero evidence of that. We were told they, we already dropped a bomb back in June.

I think it was like June 22nd and took out their, you know, their nuclear capability.

There's, again, I linked this, you know, every, all evidence points to it being years before they

were going to be anywhere close to having nuclear capability. And then it, and then it became,

you know, oh, it's, it's, we need a regime change. And, but, oh, oops, we, we killed the like

four people that we had in mind, you know? So, I guess that's, it's not that. And then, you know,

then, then over the last few days, there started to be reports that it was like, oh,

um, officer, there's like this commander's and officer, there's this conversation where the

commanders are telling officers to tell the troops that the president has been anointed

by Jesus Christ to start this war and set off Armageddon and prepare for the second coming.

It's a holy war. At which point, I really don't know what to, it's like say anymore.

We, this is not what we do, you know, the military is supposed to be free from all of that.

We have people in our military from many different faiths. And this is not, that is some

extremist stuff there. That is, that is radical. That is a radical, radical, religious viewpoint there

that is terrifying and does not belong in any messaging to our troops. That is deeply concerning

and not normal. Um, and, you know, so this is why you're someone like me and you're hearing these

things. And then they put out, you know, a video of like 40 people praying over the president

in the Oval Office. Okay. This man who says he grabs women by the pussy, who has been accused

by a woman in the Epstein files, right, that the DOJ tried to pull out. They were trying to hide

these files from this woman who was interviewed four different times by this FBI,

by the FBI under this president, four different times. She accused this president of raping her

when she was 13 years old. And they interviewed her four different times and then tried to hide

those files. Um, I, why? Why, if there's nothing to hide, why pull those out? If she is not saying,

you know, saying things that are credible, why would you go back four times?

Um, why are we the only country that hasn't launched investigations,

no arrests have been made? Like, you know, I saw a, um, a thread that someone had that, that was just

like, you know, really, it really captured how I was feeling. And it was, she said, um,

the way the United States treats children as casualties of war, casualties of men's desires,

and casualties of the Second Amendment has her in such a, it's just changed her. And she is in

such a state of, of absolute rage over it. I want to try to, um, I want to give credit where credit

is due. Margot Christine is her name. And it just, it really, really spoke to me, you know,

I was like, yeah, it's so painful right now to, I mean, you know, that is another thing that

occurred to me is that the way the, the way this war started is at a girl school with absolute

carnage, which is such an American. It's just, it's brutal. Am I allowed to be upset about that?

You know, it's like, you feel like, um, you are, you have to be careful about being upset about

things about being heartbroken. You have to, you have to be really careful about how you express,

you know, when you're heartbroken, because, you know, if you, if you say you're heartbroken

over like this girl school, I can't even tell you like, I've seen some things where people online,

you know, oh, you only care when it's like, you know, this administration, it's like, no,

yeah, stop. Stop right now. Just stop yourself. These girls, these particular girls,

these girls are gone now. They're gone. And this is always what happens in war. Okay, innocent people

die. Always. We have six service members gone, gone. You know, it's like, this is the toll

that you, the price you pay is people die. And I'm always not okay with that. It doesn't matter to

me where they're from. It doesn't matter to me where they're from. I like, that should not be

a problem for me to say. It shouldn't be a problem for me to say, I'm devastated that innocent people

are going to die and have already died. And when we've gotten to that point where, you know,

your empathy can be weaponized. And we have terms like toxic empathy, like that's, you know,

I am not, that's a litmus test. I will not take, you know, that's just not, I refuse it. It's

for me. We are on a, a spinning planet in one solar system in a vast universe for a blink of

time. We own nothing here. This is not ours. This is not our planet. You know, these things that we

said, my house, my yard, my tree, we're not taking any of this stuff with us. This planet doesn't,

we're visitors here. We show up. Boom, we're gone. We're here for a blink. And it is a shock to me

and a heartbreak to me that so many people use their blink of time to be violent, to try to

like plant a flag, you know, to hoard, to be cruel. It's such a waste. It's so ignorant. It is,

so incredibly sad. And when that ignorance leads to the death of innocent people and especially

children, I, yeah, I'm not okay. And I don't know why anyone is okay. And I don't know why anyone is

okay right now in this country period. I don't, you know, I hope that the young people can try to like

live their lives right now because this is not their mess. But the grown-ups in the room,

like, really, you know, anyone who's still supporting this administration, I genuinely don't know

what to say anymore because, you know, some, I mean, people were saying so many things like, well,

I had to, I had to vote for him because I'm Christian. Okay, this man's not Christian. Are you

kidding me? He's in the Epstein files a million times. He was best friends with a known

pedophile for 15 years. And he got the man's girlfriend out of federal prison where she was for 20

years behind bars. She was convicted and put behind bars for 20 years. And he got her this great

sweetheart deal. Now she's in a prison camp with no bars where she gets to go to Pilates and

eat organic food and have her dog. He did that for her. You think this man's Christian? She's been

convicted of raping little children and helping Jeffrey Epstein rape children. Girls, this is no

Christian. He is a lying, grifting, conman rapist, adjudicated rapist. You know, 34-time convicted

felon. He's not a Christian. He's cheated on every wife he's ever had. He's lusted after his

daughter publicly. So let's not do that. I mean, come on. Let's not do that. You know, he was a

Democrat when it served him. Now he's a Republican because it's serving him. He's just he serves.

He'll say whatever he needs to say to serve himself. He's no Christian. So people so I have to

I had to vote for him because you know, I'm a Christian and I don't believe in abortion. We'll

look at all the children dying. If you are a pro life, please, please look at all the children

dying. Take a look around, you know, and not just abroad here in this country too.

This man who will not talk about, you know, school shootings, thoughts and prayers like

children are dying in the detention centers. Do you not care because they're brown children?

Then you're not Christian either. Jesus was a brown person.

I like, I don't know, you know, what to say, but Jesus would have fed the little children.

He wouldn't have said, oh, I'm only going to feed the white children. You know, children can't

afford school lunch. Jesus, I am pretty positive. Would have been like, let's feed the little

children. Let's do that. Let's make sure if children are dying because too many people have

these crazy guns. Let's not do that. You know, let's not deport people in these horrific ways and

grab people on the street and throw them down onto the ground and throw them into the backs of

vans and come on. This is not, let's just not with the Christianity, you know, that's insulting.

It's insulting. And, oh, America first, you know, we're going to vote for him because we don't want

anymore of these expensive, drawn out wars and other places. Well, hi. Look where we are.

A billion dollar a day war that we did not need to, this was not, there was no imminent threat.

This was a war of choice by the president of peace, looking for his Nobel Peace Prize. Come on now.

It's like, it's a joke. And the price of eggs has not come down and it's about to go up.

So, you know, I just, I don't know, it's just the last thing I want to say is the problem here

is that you've got a bunch of people fighting with each other, you know, and here in America,

right? You've got like, oh, red versus blue, Democrats are Republican. Yeah, he's graded it.

He's, he's got his AI videos dropping feces on the radical left lunatics, whatever.

He's, they've done a brilliant job at Fox News, you know, getting, getting like the conservative

people to really hate the liberal people and the liberal people to, you know, there's a huge divide

here. Meanwhile, what everyone should be looking at is the billionaire class. These are the guys

that are, it's like, you know, if you look in this administration, all of them are in the one

percent. They're in the one percent of wealth. And they own, they own the social media platforms,

right? You've got, Zuck has meta. He's got Facebook. He's got Instagram threads. And I think,

you know, Instagram and threads are just, they're like, they're like funnels. I mean, Facebook is

very, has become very conservative. I'm not even comfortable on Facebook anymore. I've gotten

attacked there so many times now. It's just really not what it was. You have Musk owns X.

You've got, now TikTok was just basically purchased by Oracle. And that's Ellison.

That's Richard Ellison. And he's a huge Trump guy. You know, huge, huge Trump supporter.

And then CBS Barry Weiss and Rupert Murdoch obviously owns Fox News. I mean, Jeffrey Bezos

has the Washington Post. So you have all these billionaires who own the media. And they own the

social media platforms that were on. And if you think that's not having an impact on like

everything, the way that were, the information that we're getting and these echo chambers that

were in and the way that, you know, the rage is being fed. I like, I don't know what to say,

but they're doing a great job of keeping us screaming at each other. So we're not paying attention.

And these billionaires, they love, they love this administration because no regulations

and tax breaks and, you know, making money hand over fist. And this particular administration,

they don't care about checks and balances. They don't care about Congress. They don't care about

the Supreme Court. Man, they don't care. Says he doesn't care. So it's a free for all. Just

give me some money and I'll pardon you. Christy, you know, you know, you see, she got moved sideways.

She's not fired. She got moved sideways because she funneled, it's like $220 million of tax

payer funds for this ad campaign, you know, DHS, she's sitting on a horse telling undocumented

people to self-deport. And she awarded, I think it's $143 million of that money to her friend

at like strategy marketing group, I think. But she did it through this shill company that was

created, you know, in order to do it, to channel the money through, called like America's Safe Media

LLC. I mean, pro-publica did a great, great story on it, again, linked in the essay. So you can,

you can look at it. But these people are corrupt through and through all of them. And they're just,

they're making money hand over fist and we have no affordable health care. We have, you know,

cuts to Medicaid that like we've never seen before. It's, anyway, it's very, very painful to watch.

And what we need to be doing is we need to stop screaming at each other. We need to start being

able to like take some deep breaths and have those nuanced conversations, you know, and really

try to meet people where they are and allow them to speak and allow people to have complicated

feelings and listen and, you know, really listen with the intent to understand, we need to start

healing and recognizing that the people we need to be fighting are this billionaire class that

do not care about us at all. And if we don't get it together, there isn't, there isn't going to be

anything to save. You know, it's, it's just really, really sad to me. And meanwhile, more

children will, more children will die. Like we have got to get it together here. These are not the

people and not just in this country. Like we really need to have a full sweep of leadership

quickly because this authoritarian patriarchal, you know,

chest pounding, bombing, going to pretend everything's a video game and look at these NPCs on

the ground. That's how they treat us. Can't you see it? They don't care if it's girls in a school.

If it's our kids at school here in the States, if it's our service members, they don't care.

They don't care. It's all a big game that White House official account was putting out these

like horrible videos, these memes with SpongeBob. You know, it's demeaning to people who are

putting their lives on the line. It's like we really, we really need to be, um, banding together here

and starting to try to regroup and think about what kind of country we want to be, who we

want to be, and also really seeing if we can repair the damage with our allies. And I like,

what are we doing generally? Just

we've everything we need on this planet for everyone if we just we're sharing. I know that

that also sounds really radical and sadly naive in this day and age, but um, from my perspective,

everything else that we're doing is insane. And what I'm saying is just rational, normal.

So I hope some of this like helped some of you feel less alone if you've been struggling to

and I hope that you're taking care of yourself. You know, it is important to like fill your own tank

with some joy. You can't let these people steal your joy. You got to find some things to like

refill that little, I was calling it like the tiny pot of joy we carry in our hearts every day.

Like you got to refill that because that's fuel. Um, I gotta, you know, find way joy is an

act of resistance as well, right? But, um, but not to check out and act like everything's fine,

la la la. You know, to be finding the right balance here and trying to help. It's like in all

hands on deck moment. And, you know, this whole idea of like whatever it is that,

that made you vote for this person, I just want you to really start thinking to yourself like,

like the maha moms, right? Um, like if you were worried about like red dye number 40,

hi, like if your kid gets called to war, do you know what they're going to be breathing in?

I, you know, I'd like what people are getting measles. I, in detention centers and I'd like work

jeez, do you want polio? Like, please just really pause, breathe, try to come back to center, you know?

Um, okay. I love y'all and, um, you know where to find me if you, if you need a little support.

And, um, I'll talk to you soon. Okay, bye for now.

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