Kal Penn

I'll be super transparent and biased, living in a place like New York City, which has a hard left turn as of the last two weeks, is for those of us who are on the left, a pretty hopeful place to be, especially when there's so much regression at the federal level and in a lot of other supposedly blue states.

I am not ready to abandon yet.

If it continues down this path, I would like to explore Ireland.

No, I'm just kidding.

No, I think hit it.

This is our home and you have to continue to fight for what you believe in.

I think one of the most insidious things that the right certainly does, but even frankly, Kamala and Biden did so well, is if you speak up and protest, making you feel like you're anti-American or you're part of the problem.

right kamala did this with a lot of the human rights protesters uh on the gaza issue when she was running biden obviously did trump and vance do it now regularly for almost any issue including ice protests and abortion protests and and all of the above so the second we start believing that raising our voices means we're un-american

I think that feeds into the like, should we move somewhere else?

It's like, no, don't believe that.

That thing is false that they're asking you to believe.

They're asking you to believe that so that you feel disempowered and that you feel complacent.

And then that's how they continue to win.

So I'm going to say hit because I'm still a believer that we have to keep showing up and doing the right thing.

That false, the false self-defined alpha thing is clearly just massive insecurity.

Totally.

It's just, and it's so obvious that it's massive insecurity.

It just is, it makes me kind of laugh, except then the stakes get real for really vulnerable people.

And that's why we got to keep showing up.

This was really fun.