Race, Religion, and Rhetoric: The MAGA Cult Taps into Their Nazi Roots

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A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime for do naans and esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's. Nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Irans key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East. Musts now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.

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Now, whether the mission was as successful as he claims is still an open question. You have tons of reporting across foreign and even domestic sources indicating that. Really nothing was done in terms of delaying the Iranian nuclear pursuit.

Let's keep in mind that this whole sequence of events has only occurred because of Trump's ego getting in the way in his first term and eliminating the nuclear agreement that Barack Obama, along with a number of other countries had negotiated and had set up.

So taking all of that into account, and we'll come to some of this a little bit later. How did we actually get here? There's a lot of different ways that you can answer this question.

If you zoom out, we are here.

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when you look at the story of Iran, you have a nation that's sandwiched between two different imperial powers in the late 18 hundreds and the early 19 hundreds. You have Russia on one hand who is seeking to gain influence within the Iranian territory.

And. You have the British who are also looking to gain influence within Iranian territory as well. All of that shifted with the Bolshevik revolution. When that happened, Russia was in a state of chaos and the British saw an opportunity to expand their influence within Iranian borders, specifically with the interests of expanding their oil interests through British petroleum.

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Wanted to audit the revenues that were being generated from the oil industry.

When the British refused to do a full and comprehensive audit the Iranians threatened to. Nationalized the entire oil industry so that the Iranian people could benefit more from the revenues that were being generated.

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From the oil industry. Now, this was something that the British refused to do and refused to deal with. So the British in conjunction with the US and particularly the CIA, installed the Shah of Iran, who was more western friendly and extremely repressive to the Iranian people. And you fast forward to.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran, you have decades of interference by the US and the British that comes. It came to a head, and the Islamic Revolution led to the ayatollah taking power. And now Iran has gone from a pro-Western puppet government to an extremely anti-Western.

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But we know that historically this has never been the case.

You have centuries of British interference all across the global south, and then they passed the baton after World War II to the United States. To handle that same sort of interference anywhere where you're looking at the global south, whether it's Africa, whether it's Asia, whether it's South America.

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The comfort that they've become accustomed to

when it comes to this pattern of behavior by the British and by the United States. This is pretty consistent. You can look through the history of the 19 hundreds. You can look through the history of the 18 hundreds and see the interference that has happened at the hands of both of these imperial powers and the damage that it's caused the global south.

When we asked the question, how did Iran become public Enemy number one, the top reason that you have to point to is repeated interference and meddling by the United States,

and you've seen that happen throughout the entire Middle East. Think about all the different countries that are pro propped up by. US interests and Western interests. Every single one of those countries at one point or another had a leader in place that was at some level supporting US interests.

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The Iran Iraq War is a perfect example. You have to keep in mind that before the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein and that.

Regime that was in place in Iraq was a US ally. In fact, the war between Iraq and Iran was largely funded by the US through overt and covert means. And there's even evidence that indicates that the US funded both sides in the hopes that it would create permanent chaos to the benefit of the military industrial complex and defense contractors that the US relies on.

When you think about the US' history, for a country that often talks about the beacon of freedom, this is a country that has in effect been waging war almost its entire existence. There's roughly a period of 12 years where the US hasn't been at war with some country or another and hasn't been meddling in some other foreign affairs.

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The US has done such a great job of. Propagandizing to its people that these precision strikes hit the ears of the general American public, as if it's some sort of video game that these are completely targeted with no collateral damage, [00:09:00] with no records. That happens to civilians and none of that actually exists.

You've seen evidence of this double speak even in this regime's leadership

VP Couch Humper: what we've said to the Iranians is, we do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace, but we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program. And that's exactly what the president accomplished last night. I really think there are two big questions for the Iranians here.

Are they going to attack American troops or are they gonna continue with their nuclear weapons program? And if they leave American troops out of it. And they decide to give up their nuclear weapons program once and for all. Then I think the president has been very clear. We can have a good relationship with the Iranians.

We can have a peaceful situation in that region of the world.

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Of what happened in the second Gulf War. We've seen all of this before. Remember the language that came out of the post nine 11 era. Here's George W. Bush talking about his worldview in the post nine 11 aftermath. How he justified his illegal war that dragged us into a 20 year foreign adventure.

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We come to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilization and for the religious faiths they practice. We have no ambition in Iraq except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people.

Dr. Jim 2.0: When we listen to all that, we need to listen to it with a critical ear. Here we are talking about the message of freedom and democracy, and in the, all the while throughout our history, we've propped up every sort of dictator around the world who completely savages their people, but. The resources keep coming to American corporate interests and it feeds the capitalist engine that drives America.

And the mythology of all of that is that we're driving freedom through the world and we're making our standard of living in the US even better.

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What's happened to the rest of us? Where have the bottom 90% been? You've heard me talk about how the bottom 90% has in experienced a 50 trillion dollar transfer of wealth to the top 1%. Perpetual war enables for that to happen.

Now when we look at what's happened in the Middle East over the last 40 years, we have to be honest about what is driving that. Certainly American military interests and energy interests are driving a lot of it, but there's also the fact that this plays right into the agenda that Benjamin Netanyahu has wanted to have happened for.

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Benjamin Netyanhu: The deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely, is extremely close, and Iran, by the way, is also outpacing Iraq in the development of ballistic missile systems that they hope will reach the eastern seaboard of the United States within 15 years. By next spring, at most, by next summer at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage.

From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough rich uranium. For the first bomb. The foremost sponsor of global terrorism could be weeks away from having enough rich uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons that would place a militant Islamic terror regime weeks away from having the fist all material.

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Dr. Jim 2.0: So what you've heard is Benjamin Netanyahu. Singing the same song in the same verse for a period of almost 40 years, and he finally was able to have somebody dumb enough to fully act on his behalf.

Now, you had Kamala Harris tell you exactly what was gonna happen if Donald Trump got in power, every dictator around the world would love to have Trump in power because he's too stupid to know that he's being manipulated. And what just happened? Trump did Netanyahu's bidding and brought us to the brink of World War iii,

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The Red Hat turnips are giggling and laughing and acting like they've actually accomplished something, thinking that this is a video game, having no concept of what an actual nuclear event would look like. In fact, they're so lazy. They haven't even heard some of the things that have come from their own party, from people within this administration about the dire risks that are faced by a nuclear war

Tulsi Gabbard: I recently visited Hiroshima in Japan and stood at the epicenter of a city that remains scarred by the unimaginable horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in 19 45, 80 years ago. It's hard for me to find the words to express what I saw. The stories that I heard, the haunting sadness that still remains.

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Nuclear weapon today could kill millions in just minutes. Just one of these nuclear bombs would vaporize everything. At its core, this is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now, because as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and war mongers are carelessly fomenting, fear and tensions between nuclear powers.

We must reject this past to nuclear war and work toward a world where. No one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.

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We've been so desensitized that we forget the humanity of people all around the world. This is why the Republican Party constantly labels people as murderers, killers, rapists, terrorists, because it lulls you into a sense of imagining all of these people as in humans, and that makes it easier for.

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Now, as you see voices coming out to the forefront, debating what's going on within Republican circles. You have to ask yourself the question, does this signal a rift within the party?

Take a look at this from Tucker Carlson.

Ted Cruz: Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. And from my perspective, I wanna be on the blessing side of things of the go.

Tucker Carlson: Those who bless the government of Israel,

Ted Cruz: those who bless Israel, is what it says. It doesn't say the government of it says the nation of Israel.

So that's in the Bible. I, as a Christian, I believe that.

Tucker Carlson: Where is that?

Ted Cruz: I can find it to you. I don't have the scripture off the tip of my. You pull out the phone and use the word

Tucker Carlson: it's in Genesis.

So you're quoting a Bible phrase. You don't have context for it, and you don't know where in the Bible it is, but that's like your theology.

I'm confused. What does that even mean,

Ted Cruz: Tucker? I'm a Christian. I want to know what you're talking about. Okay. Where does my support for Israel come from? Number one, because biblically, we are commanded to support Israel.

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And I'm a Christian. I am allowed to weigh in on this. We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel. We are commanded to support Israel. And we're told, what does that mean? Israel? We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed. But what, hold on, define Israel. This is important. Are you kidding?

I this is a majority Christian country. Define Israel. Could do you not know what Israel is? I, that would be the country you've asked 49 questions about. So that's what Genesis ref, that's what God is talking about, the nation of Israel. Yes. And he's So is that the current borders, the current leadership?

He's talking about the political entity called Israel. He's talking about the nation of Israel. He had nations exists and he's discussing a nation. A nation was the people of Israel is the nation. They're the descendants the Abraham's referring to in Genesis. Is that the same as the country run by Benjamin Netanyahu right now?

Yes.

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And Ted Cruz is a perfect example of what a uneducated ill-informed maga. Political mouthpiece looks like he is wrong on the historical context, and he's also wrong on the biblical context. Take a listen to this from Dan McClellan.

Dan McClellan: There are absolutely no data that support the notion there are any biblical end times on the way. Hey everybody. I'm Dan McClellan. I'm a scholar of the Bible and religion and all of the data. Point to the conclusion that there is nothing in the Bible that is labeled a prophecy, that has anything at all to do with anything that is going on today.

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These were things that people hoped or feared would happen in their own day or in the near future, or these were warnings that were being leveraged in order to try to influence. Behavior on the parts of their audiences in their own time or in the near future. The book of Ezekiel is about the sixth century, BCE.

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The more we do harm to our ability to thrive, the more we do harm to minoritized, marginalized, oppressed, and otherwise vulnerable groups. The more we do harm to the mental and the emotional and the physical health of young people, the more we do harm to our own future. Only because I. Of our raging and belligerent dogmatism and refusal to think critically about these things.

The only end times that could plausibly be in our future are unrelated to biblical prophecy and are directly related to the harm we're causing to our ecosystems and to our environments, and to our social stability and to our ability to respond to environmental and to social and to geopolitical and other kinds of crises that we are causing by.

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Dr. Jim 2.0: what you heard from Dan McClellan is a perfect illustration of how far off base most of the evangelical crowd is when it comes to their pining. For the end times and these actions that they keep advocating for, which will lead to a nuclear catastrophe, these are people who sit in pulpits and listen to preachers who are telling them that anybody brown is evil and should not be trusted.

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But the reality of it is that what you are witnessing with these debates is not any sort of fundamental shift within the Republican Party or even a rift within the Republican party. What you're seeing. Two factions of the Republican Party that are wholly owned subsidiaries of two completely different foreign interests.

The Tucker Carlsons and the Marjorie Taylor Greens are wholly owned Russian assets and the Ted Cruzs and other evangelicals are in varying ways, assets of Benjamin Netanyahu. That is what we're seeing. This is not a principle debate. This is an argument about who gets to own all of the spoils of whatever conflict this regime decides to get into.

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Let's be clear about this. The Republican party is a Messianic death cult. We might as well call them vanilla ISIS or Al-Qaeda. That is the Ted Cruz wing of the Republican Party,

There's a line of evangelical thought that advocates for Jews to locate in Israel and as many Jews as possible to be located in Israel and that a nuclear war needs to happen. And once we are at the brink of absolute destruction, the second coming of Jesus will come down and win the war against evil for the forces of good.

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And as I mentioned earlier, and as you heard from Dan McClellan, none of this holds water. So when we take inventory of where we are right now, we are where we are because a group of uneducated, toothless morons who probably have very few branches in their family trees, blamed all the brown people for the problems of their own laziness and their own making.

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They found their avatar in Donald Trump who was going to bring them divine retribution. That is why we are where we are. We are here because these stupidest people were able to mobilize. Elect somebody to be the vessel for their retribution.

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So what's the real story? The real story is that you have a failing flailing moron in charge of a regime who got embarrassed at his birthday parade because nobody showed up. It exposed him as a soft, weak, diapered, addled fool, and demonstrated to the world stage that the emperor had no clothes.

Dr. Jim 2.0: The squeaky tank is the perfect image for the leader of this regime.

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The fact of the matter is you have a massive realization by a thin-skinned moron that he doesn't have support, and now even his own base is. Complaining about the things that were promised that they haven't gotten yet.

Angry Trump Voter: What in the fuck am I gonna do with a Trump phone? I don't need another phone bill. We didn't get a stimulus. We didn't get a do check. We didn't get no debt relief. No help for rent, no help for your mortgage. No help for groceries. They won't raise their wages, they won't lower prices. We're fucking drowning in debt, but guess what we get?

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Can't call your doctor. Can't afford your medications. But don't worry. You can call your landlord and tell 'em you still can't pay the rent money with your Trump bone. This is what America's come to. No solutions, no support. Just a $47 and 45 cents. Phone bill, phone plan. What is this? Is this a marketing plan?

Are we saving the country or is this all about marketing? They gave up on helping us, but hey, at least the phone comes with a flag so you can show your patriotism. I guess. I don't fucking know anymore.

Dr. Jim 2.0: you just heard a level of frustration by that Trump voter about what he isn't getting.

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And all sorts of services are gonna be his voter base.

We all know that the vast majority of the Republican voter base is made up of uneducated white males. And we also know that the vast majority of the Republican voter base relies heavily on public assistance and government services. What's gonna happen when trillions of dollars are cut from those services in order to pay for several trillion dollar tax cut to the top 1%.

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They did what they did and they're getting exactly what they voted for.

what you're observing through all of this is just a reaction to being exposed as being a complete failure.

This is a pattern of behavior. This is something that's happened throughout his entire career. Donald Trump is someone who has the reverse Midas touch. Everything that he touches turns to shit. That's the bottom line of his professional history. And the fact of the matter is that what's interesting is that he is the king of projection.

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TACO Dementia Don: Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective, so the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected and as sure as you're sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.

Dr. Jim 2.0: Isn't it interesting that Taco Don. Made that accusation and we find ourselves in the situation that we're in right now. The guy that took over after Obama's term tore up the agreement because he didn't like the idea of a black man having his name on anything swore he would get a better deal.

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That is how big of a failure this guy is.

We have so much evidence of us being warned about the failure. A second Trump administration would lead to, if his first term wasn't enough evidence, certainly all of the political comment commenters and even Kamala Harris pointing out the disaster that was coming should have been enough to get people to move away from this absolute disaster.

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Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That is who he is,

Dr. Jim 2.0: and it's funny how the Trump campaign. Pointed the finger at Harris being the person that's gonna get us into World War iii.

Tulsi Gabbard: A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney and it's a vote for war. More war. Likely World War III and nuclear war.

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars. Not start them.

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That's before we talk about the Supreme Court that is bought and paid for in the pockets of the billionaire interest, signing away their responsibility and saying that basically the executive branch can do whatever they want. Things are already at a stage where it's absolutely terrible.

What you're looking at is an absolute disaster of a regime. This regime in less than six months, has already demonstrated that it doesn't care about the American people. How many different states have been left hung out to dry with lack of aid to recover from disasters ?

And that's before we get into the peak of the hurricane season that that's coming, what do you think is gonna be the impact of the shutting down of all of the weather observation services and early warning services that this regime has gone and done? All in the interest of making government more more efficient.

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That's the pattern for Republicans. They will. Give tax cuts to the ultra wealthy, steal and strip everything and anything possible that benefits the bottom 90%. And when things go wrong, they'll blame government instead of blaming the billionaires and millionaire class that are complete parasites of society.

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Tammy Bruce: We do not anticipate offering direct US government assisted departure from Iran. Americans seeking departure should take advantage of existing means to leave. The Department of State has provided information and support to over 25,000 people seeking guidance regarding the situation in Israel, the West Bank, and Iran.

Dr. Jim 2.0: You just heard Tammy Bruce of the State Department saying that Americans are on their own when it comes to evacuating Iran. Who do you think the Ayatollah is gonna go for and look for? Now that there is open hostility and they've sworn revenge against the American people, thanks to small D Energy from Taco Don,

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They're setting up concentration camps in Florida. They're making transportation arrangements for these people that they're kidnapping and trafficking in cargo planes that are able to open their rear doors and are somehow not landing anywhere. Everything that this regime is doing is normalizing the type of atrocities that happened in World War II era Germany.

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The first thing that regime did was round up the opposition along with the class of people that they wanted to round up and disappeared them by loading them onto the back of cargo planes and dumping them into the ocean.

And isn't it interesting? We are now starting to see reports of bodies washing up on various shores with hands and feet that are bound and zip tied together and are washing up on resorts all over the world.

I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but it certainly looks fishy enough to investigate and would you really leave it? Would you really discount it?

Considering that one of the key officials within this regime, Stephen Miller, has said that his ideal vision of the US is one where there is a population of a hundred million people and they all look like him.

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That is where we're headed.

This is a gangster government that is rounding up people, disappearing them. All the while paying off their private billionaire and millionaire interests with government contracts. So realistically, you're looking at a whole slew of billionaires, millionaires, and their corporate interests that are getting filthy rich by looting the American people and committing ethnic cleansing and genocide.

That is what's happening.

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George W Bush: Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us. Or you are with the terrorists

Dr. Jim 2.0: let's not forget that the playbook that's being executed right now is a playbook that was put into place in the post nine 11 era by George W. Bush and the Patriot Act. All of this flows back to that.

This continues the trend of fleecing Americans so that billionaires, millionaires, defense contractors and the military industrial complex can get rich.

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You're either with us or you're with the terrorists. You're gonna see that coming through. And you've already seen the dehumanization efforts from that regime all the way from their first term in office over the last 10 years into the campaign. And now every person that is brown is automatically assumed to be a rapist, a felon, a terrorist, or a murderer, or a criminal or felon, or all of the above.

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What we are watching is a slow speed crash. Into what 1930s Germany looked like. That is what we're seeing. There is no disputing it at this point when you're loading up zip tied migrants into the back of cargo planes and never landing anywhere and coming back empty.

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One thing that I will say is that at One thing that I will say is that at least the German citizens showed some level of shame as their government exterminated their friends and neighbors, at least the, that regime did their mass exterminations in other countries, quote unquote, out of the line of sight of their people in America.

We're doing it fully in the open. To the sound of thunderous applause. That is what these red state people are doing. They're cheering as these extermination camps are being put up, and that gives you a signal of the sickness that exists within the MAGA and Republican circles. There is no question about it.

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So now that we know what is going on, what should we do about it?

Frankly, when it comes to what we should do about it, there should be a lot more being done than what's being done right now. Yes, protests are good. Yes, we should continue those. We should continue those in terms of frequency and intensity.

We should be much more active in obstructing these traffickers that are kidnapping people in broad daylight. When I talk about escalating this and bringing this being more intense about this. We know the people who are pulling the strings behind this.

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They should know zero peace, because the reality of it is brown and black people all around this country. Are not finding any peace. They're living in terror and fear of being kidnapped off the streets, whether they're citizens or not. So it's time to give these Nazis a taste of their own medicine.

We need to be meeting them in the streets. We need to be meeting them in their neighborhoods. We need to be meeting them on their doorsteps and making sure that they understand that none of what they're doing is acceptable. They need to understand they have no room for movement. They will be given no quarter and when it comes to how we respond, it's all options on the table, and it's gotta be led by the people in our communities who have the most privilege.

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Now you know how we got here and now you know the way forward.