W. Kamau Bell
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last heard 14 Oct
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So I think at least AOC is actually demanding her turn. And I feel like I take her more seriously that way. And like I said, I think that like, I don't know that America's ready for a woman of color president. Like I'm not saying that we like should, a little bit I feel like, okay, find the best looking square jawed white guy available. And that's why I sort of have given up on America.
But I think you're not gonna find that person unless you let that person, you're not gonna, you have to go find that person.
I think that if we think this country is eventually going to settle back to some sense of like, all right, that was a crazy period. Now we're back to regular. I think that's naive. I think without actually fighting, scrapping, clawing,
figuring out, like, being invested in the solution, it's naive to think that America's gonna, like, settle in to, like... You know, Trump already has gone faster than even some Republicans expected. Yeah. Have you seen all these meetings where Republicans are showing up in their district? Yeah, they're mad. Talk about, Doge is doing... Stop yelling! You know what I mean?
Like, so, he's already, like, upsetting the apple cart so much that it's, like, that Republicans can't keep up with it. And I think that there's clearly gonna be more of that. And I think that we are naive to think that America sort of naturally pulls towards justice... I think America has been pushed towards justice.
And I think that it's not going to get to justice unless it is actually like bullied into justice, which is a funny way to put it. But I think that we can't sort of go.
And I think that whenever I see people on TV, especially in media who are like, you know, who are still in this place of like, for example, Elon Musk with this awkward hand gesture, I'm like, what you're telling me is that you're going to be fine.
That you've got, that you've, that you own a place in the Hamptons or you've got enough and you're invested in your 401k or you've got enough in the stock market that you're not actually worried. You don't have to be worried.
And so I think whenever I see people, celebrities talk about like, you know, things we go through stuff sometimes, like what you're saying is you're going to be fine. And I, and I, one of the great things about living in Oakland and in Oakland is that most people aren't fine. Yeah. You know, you know, most people, and I, and I see it every day.
And so it makes me sort of be like, I can't relax into my own, like, I'll figure it out. Like, I'll figure it out, but it doesn't mean I'm going to be fine.
And I got to be invested in everybody's fineness, just not my fineness.
Or it's a society. But I think the thing, people always come to me now because I'm this guy, like, Kamau, what can I do? What should I do? What should I do? You got to do something.
And I don't mean, I think we get caught up in like, I guess I'll start a nonprofit where I collect the sweaters from, you know, just like, and not that I'm pushing it, but like Donors Shoes is an organization I'm involved with that helps provide classroom supplies and equipment for public schools. You can go to DonorsChoose right now.
Like the word choose. Choose. Donors choose. So the donor gets to choose. So you can look up classrooms in your area code, wherever you live, in your zip code. Not area code, zip code. And you'll find public schools in your area where a teacher's like, I need $300 to buy hygiene supplies. And you just go. Boop.
On your credit card. And that happens. That's something. It's not like now you can't walk around and brag the rest of the day. But I think the idea being like, yeah. Watch me. Watch me. But the idea being that we all have to find something because nothing ain't going to get it. Yeah. So that's all I'm saying is all of us who want America to be
the thing that we thought it was when we were kids, have to be actually invested in something.
I'm not, I just think like right now you have all these Trumpers who are like, I voted for Trump and I have the hat and I just got laid off from my job because da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And people are like, ha-ha-ha. Yeah, and we don't think ha-ha-ha is not a good approach. No, no, no, ha-ha-ha. Not a good approach. But now I'm like, well, what are you going to do now?
Because if in four years you vote for him again, because he's going to run again for some time, or you vote for J.D. Vance, I need to know, I'm not going to laugh at you, but I do need to know, have you learned? Are you going to change?
Does Social Security spark joy? Does it spark joy?
As they say, it's way harder to build than break.
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