W. Kamau Bell
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He's not always โ he just started a podcast where he's interviewing right-wing people.
He also made gay marriage legal.
He also won a universal health care, but he didn't want $35 insulin.
There's just a lot.
There's just a lot.
There's just a lot.
He has many pictures of him like dismantling homeless encampments but looking good looking, so it gets confusing.
So I've just been here to say, hey, guys, like, let's not get โ yes, he's saying the right thing, but let's also not forget who he is.
And the number of people who are like, this is why the left can't ever win.
This is why Democrats can't ever da-da-da.
This is why we're โ just basically let him cook, basically is what they're saying.
Like, let him โ and I brought up the example of, like, do you think LBJ signed or pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he was excited about it?
No, he pushed it because Martin Luther King Jr.
wouldn't stop showing up in his office.
And he was like, I got a lot of people outside who are marching this way.
Like he was pushed into doing that.
And at some point realized I want to be on the right side of history, whether or not he had a moral thing or not.
That's for him.
That's for his biographers to talk about.
But from the outside, it was clear without MLK, it doesn't happen.