Hey friends. Welcome to episode five of activist Collective. And I want to give a quick plug to a friend of mine. Uh, her name is Robin, and on TikTok you'll find her as Robin Sparkly Pond. That's one of her usernames. Um, she helped me out with a lot of this equipment. So I wanna plug her website, which is rise united va.com.
Uh, rise united va.com. That is where you can, um, sign up. Um, for, uh, self defense classes. It's women training women. Their goal is to, um, help you to walk differently in this world with confidence and feeling safe in your abilities. Uh, and Robin is newly minted by, uh, Gloria Marcotte. And let me just pause and give you that information for her.
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Okay. So, um, the, the, uh, website, if you're not in Virginia to find something near you is soulpunch. info. Um, and you will, you will find Gloria Marcotte is the owner of this and she's training women to become self defense coaches. Uh, she wants to train, um, a million women who will train a million women and so on.
So that it is a movement across the nation. Gloria Marcotte also has an amazing story, uh, where she was abducted as a child, um, and her, her, her background in law enforcement is stellar. So please go check out my friend Robin sparkly pond on tick tock. Her website is rise united, uh, va. com. That is she, she's trained through Soul Punch Info, so you can go to her page.
If you're in Virginia, check her out anyway. She's amazing. Or Soul Punch info, uh, to get yourself trained up or find a trainer or become a trainer now on to the s**t, the b******t.
So I was going to show the clip I was going to show the clip Real time here friends. Look it. I'm not going to edit that out Um I was going to show the clip but there are so many people Who begged me not to show his face and they're like I can watch you But I can't watch him and i'm just going to tell you what he said He said that they are going to eradicate anti christian bias immediately halt Any Anti christian hate Uh, that's been going on in the federal government.
He says the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI, um, and he says that they're going to prosecute, they're going to prosecute anti Christian violence, um, and then he says, you've never heard of that one before. And then there's a room full of applause. You want to know why we've never heard of that before, you f*****g d*****s?
Because we already have that. You cannot commit a crime in this country against any religion, including Christians. There's already a law for that. This man is a f*****g moron. And it is because we already have this law that I am concerned, friends. We already have this law. What does he need this for? What is he going to do with this?
It's like this is just him spitballing and saying this is what we're gonna do. I'm creating a task force These are your tax dollars being wasted because we literally already have a law for this He is trying to pander to his Christian base of fools Who just keeps shelling out the money to him? the minute he got elected He became a multi billionaire And that is why he wanted this president, this, this, he wanted this so bad because he knew that he was going to become a multi-billionaire.
Um, I wanna talk about, um, this thing called a a, a Gish gallop or whatever it is. Um, this is a term that we've been, uh, discussing for probably about a year now. Um, and it's making, its its way around. Um, in the circles again, and basically what it is, is just flooding the system over, overworking the system.
It, it is to overwhelm you, make your head spin, make you feel like you are powerless to make you feel, um, overwhelmed and emotionally drained. And it works, friends, it works. And they know it works. A lot of the things. That he is doing a lot of his executive orders, uh, can be chalked up to, um, performance.
Okay. But some of them are frightening. Donald Trump cannot legally ban transgender people from the United States without a congressional approval. Donald Trump cannot freeze funds that Congress has already spent. Um, Donald Trump cannot create new laws to protect Christians more than anyone else at the stroke of a pen.
These are things that he is doing to overwhelm you, to make the idiots in his voting base think that what he's doing is, you know, working. Okay. So please understand. That a lot of this is to make your head spin, and it does work, but we've got to take a step back and try to see if our democratic process is going to be able to save us.
And if it can't, well then, we hit the streets, friends. I can say that here. We, we, we organize. We mobilize. And we protest and we protest day in and day out. And I feel like it's hard to say, do that when we know that even if he's removed, JD Vance is going to come in. But I will say what I said in a video, um, a couple of days ago, if we can get Republican senators and congressmen to see the light.
By telling them, here's the thing, friends. So let me take a step back. If you consistently call your senators and you tell them or your Congress people and you tell them, look, MAGA morons, you are literally fighting to eradicate your own jobs. You are fighting to make your job non existent. So why are you fighting so hard?
Do they think? That Donald Trump, after all is said and done, if the Congress is eradicated, that Donald Trump is going to point at them and go, you, I want all 250 or whatever of you to come with me and I'm going to make sure you're paid for the rest of your life. That's never going to happen. Look what he did to Rudy Giuliani.
That man was hung up to dry, put away wet. I mean, by Donald Trump. And he literally ruined his life for that man. Rudy Giuliani gave up his entire life for that man. So, it will be on us to make sure that the Republican congressmen know that they're, they're fighting to end their own jobs if they keep this up.
So it would be in their best interest to fight for democracy instead of fascism and plutocracy. So, back to my original thought. If we can get enough Congress people on board with this impeachment to change laws, to secure things, um, then once Donald Trump is out, I would think that JD Vance would see that we aren't f*****g around and we are going to remove you too, if you try to usurp the law.
Um, and, and, and eradicate the middle class and, um, all of the above friends. We have to stay on top of our senators and it's important that we stay on top of Republican senators too. I know it feels like I don't want to f*****g call Marshall Blackburn's office like f**k that b***h. I don't want to call and, and talk to, uh, Kennedy I don't want to call and talk to Tom Cotton but you gotta and you gotta make sure you tell him you sir or madam better see the error of your ways very soon or you will not have a job your reason for coming to work every day will be gone so Let's, uh, gather together.
Let's make sure that we're doing what we are capable of doing on our, on our own, in our own homes, at our own time. And, uh, do what we can. Pause.
The next thing I would like to discuss is, um, Donald Trump's blatant assault on the media. Um, he said he would do it and he's doing it. Um, it even started before he was inaugurated. Um, when Kamala Harris was on 60 Minutes, she also was on Face the Nation, right? But at some point, Donald Trump and his cronies claimed that her 60 Minutes interview and her answer about Israel was doctored.
Um, and because of this, um, Donald Trump claimed that's the reason he wouldn't go on 60 Minutes. And so he pulled out of the 60 Minutes interview and tried pressuring CBS to release the raw footage and transcripts. And CBS, rightfully, Said that's an assault on our first amendment rights. We don't have to hand you anything And then Brendan Carr was made to be the chairman of the FCC Once Donald Trump was inaugurated Brendan Carr pressured CBS yet again to release those transcripts in the raw footage and CBS bent the knee.
They're like, okay fine. Here you go, and they released the raw footage on Monday And the transcripts to the FCC. Brendan Carr tweeted out, there'd be a full investigation, the world will know, blah, blah, blah. And CBS replied by publishing that raw footage and transcripts, uh, for everyone to see. Um, I believe if you go to their page, it's somewhere on there, but it's, it's not, it's unremarkable.
Nothing happened. Um, you know, just as CBS says, we often edit videos for time, for clarity, to cut out stuff that's not important, and um, if anything, that's all that they did, and they are not guilty of doing anything wrong, and I stand by them, and I don't like them, I don't like CBS, I don't like any legacy media outlet, but I stand by them on this, um.
This is just, um, a representation of what will be going on as he moves through his presidency. He's going to go after everybody who said anything bad about him. Um, he's already going after PBS and NPR. PBS and NPR are, um, Funded by the viewers, they get this much money from the federal government, but because they get any money from the federal government at all Donald Trump feels he has the right to verbally assault these these media outlets And so there's a full investigation into NPR and PBS now I mean,
I don't know what to tell you. Oh, hold, please
here are the things you can do. Um, keep calling your, your senators, if it's a Republican senator, you want to keep reminding them that if they continue down this path, they are going to quite literally be fighting to eliminate their own jobs. Um, it makes no sense to, um, pledge allegiance to, um, a fascist dictator when you swore an oath to uphold, um, and defend a constitution, um, democracy and freedom.
Um, keep reminding them of that. Get a letter writing campaign going. Dump a hundred thousand letters on his desk on a Monday morning You guys can call your Democratic senators urge them to continue following the Democratic plan Which is to vote no on every single thing that they do hold up the process slow down the process Urge your friends to become activists alongside you And remember if you go to protests Watch out for the agitators.
Uh, Matt Maddox showed up at the one in Lansing trying to get people, uh, to get pissed off at him. And that's what he and his wife, Meeshawn, do. They, they see liberals and they wanna, they, they lose their minds. They, they're untouchable. These people have done so much criminal s**t. Um, so don't let these agitators get your ass tossed in jail.
They're not worth it. You would be doing them a favor. So be Be careful. Um, make sure you're calling the Democratic National Committee. Uh, you want to speak to the chair and the vice chair and you want to tell them both. Um, you know. Make sure that your Democrats are staying in line. I wanna know what you're doing.
Make sure that you're talking to the public. Tell them to talk to the public. Quit keeping everybody in the dark. They have the opportunity to go live every day and have every media outlet there listening. Tell them and urge them to do that. Uh, the more people are informed, the better. Um. Make sure that they are including, uh, social media people.
Because if the media won't put it out, we'll put it out the right way. So urge them to include social media people. Um, and that's all I really have for you guys. Um, and I want to wish you guys, um, the best weekend. Do everything you can to enjoy your family. Uh, we don't have grass right now or I'd go and f*****g touch some right now because I need it desperately.
Um, I'm feeling the weight. I'm feeling the weight of all of this, but I'm trying not to let it get me down. Uh, we got a lot of work to do ahead of us and I need for everybody to be taking care of their mental health, me included. Um, but as always know that I love you and, um, remember if you would like to donate to my Venmo, um, my Venmo name, Sorry, I know that this is super not very, uh, professional, but I'm working on learning on how to edit all this stuff, so, um, it's Mama Dad Jeans 5, Mama Dad Jeans 5,
I don't know if you'll get that, but that's it, Mama Dad Jeans 5 for my Venmo, um, and if you wanted my Cash App, my Cash App is, um, Mama, dad, jeans, without the five. Mama, dad, jeans, without the five. I don't know, there we go. That makes, if that helps you out at all. So if you wanted to donate, those are my, those are the two that I have right now.
Um, any amount that you donate, obviously goes right back to the family bills and the groceries, so. I appreciate it, and I appreciate you listening. Um, remember there's a discord. Go to my tiktok go to my blue sky. There's a link tree. I Entered it. I made a channel for all 50 states friends. Find your community organized from there.
You can do this. We can do this It's not illegal to protest. It's not illegal to organize. It's not illegal to speak out it's not illegal to fight back against fascism and Illegality and our government so do that do that often stand up for people who can't stand up for themselves Big fist bump. I love you guys very much and we'll talk soon.
