Joy Reid (105:51)
Thank you. All right, so, so listen, I, I, I've blown out. I, I went way over. I had a whole nother segment I wanted to do. I'm probably have to now do on Monday. But listen, I'm telling y' all this, this is very important for you guys to understand, right? Is, is to as Maurice said, John Roberts thinks he's very smart. He thinks he's very slick. He is a Republican first and final, right? All he cares about is Republican outcomes. He is a right wing Republican who has better manners than Alito, but he's really no better than him. He's a neo confederate like all the rest of them. They want to eliminate the twin. I've said this before, there's a thing called that I've always wanted to write a book called repeal the 20th century. That is the goal. They want to repeal the 20th century because in the minds of people like John Roberts and Sam Alito and even Clarence Thomas, they believed the 20th century was an abomination. They believe that the 20th century ruined America. It's the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And they believe that the country was ideal between the Declaration of independence and 1913. And they believe that after 1913, this country went downhill. And it went downhill because rather than being an oligarchy, which is what they believe in, or a monarchy, which is what they clearly want back and what they clearly miss, which is why they all were so geeked up and excited to go and party with Donald Trump and the King of England. They were so excited to be in the presence of the King of England. And I wanna let you know, this is some reporting I can give you based on very strong sources. The entire Supreme Court was at that state dinner for King Charles. You know who was not at that state dinner? Neither of the three liberal members who were appointed by Democrats were not there. And a lot of people took that to mean that the three liberals were boycotting. But no, no, no, no. I have very solid sources that say that that is not true, that they were actually not invited. And that state dinner took place on the exact same day that John Roberts and Alito released their decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. They very pointedly gutted the Voting Rights act and then went to dinner with the King of England and Donald Trump, with their spouses, several of whom have been enriched, enriched through the presidency of Donald Trump. Amy Coney Barrett's husband opened his White Shoe law firm in D.C. after Amy Coney Barrett joined the United States Supreme Court, and her husband represents many White Shoe and Whale Hill clients, including the parent company of Fox News, whom he has represented in lawsuits. We already know Samuel Alito has absolutely benefited from the, in the, in, you know, the presence of Donald Trump, who has essentially been given the license to bribe. Right? But he's been doing his, getting his free gifts even before Trump came along. But Donald Trump got them to essentially do a ruling that said bribery is basically legal if politicians do it. Mainly Republican politicians, right? Same with him and same with Clarence Thomas. They've been doing this sort of organized bribery for decades. But Trump basically put a rubber stamp on it. Donald Trump gave Samuel, gave Neil Gorsuch a stolen seat that shouldn't have even been his. He shouldn't even be there. And since he's been there, he's been working on behalf of polluters the whole time. His sort of goal is to essentially allow polluters to run roughshod over our rights. We know that Brett Kavanaugh would have never made it through a hearing had Republicans not been lockstep because of the very credible allegations of sexual abuse of a schoolmate when he was a young man. And he now has gotten to come in and create what we now call Kavanaugh stops, where he said, you can use race to profile non white people with immigration stops, but you can't use race to draw districts that allow black people to vote. And I say black people to say that it isn't about. It isn't that they're not also doing this to target women and Asian Americans and Latinos, but they're very specifically focused both on the affirmative action rulings and in the rulings on dei and in all of these rulings that have to do with gerrymandering on black people, they're very focused on black people. And the reason they're specifically focused on black people is that it is black people for whom the best three amendments in the Constitution were written. The 13, 14, 14th and 15th amendments. Those three amendments were written specifically for black people who had been slaves. And this sex tuplet. These six people who came from the Federalist Society are very specifically focused on neutering those three amendments. And so in order to do that, they're targeting the people who first of all vote the most liberally, who vote most consistently for Democrats, who used to vote most consistently for Republicans. I gave a stat on the other week when I was doing this that at the time that black people switched and voted for FDR in 1932, something like 70% of African Americans were still Republicans, but they gave him. Or 60% were Republicans, but they gave FDR 70 plus percent of their votes. And they were still calling themselves Republicans while voting for the Democrat. They didn't formally switch parties yet through all three of his terms. Roosevelt, during all three of his reelections, black people who voted overwhelmingly for him were. Were never majority Democrat. They weren't majority Democrat till Harry Truman, but they just started voting the other way, right? And so black people have consistently voted for the most progressive candidate who they think can win. It's why black Democrats voted for Joe Biden over Kamala Harris in 2020 in that primary, because they're like, we're going to vote for the most progressive Democrat who can win. It's why the majority of black Democrats initially voted for Hillary Clinton now, not Barack Obama, or at least sided with him in the polls before he started to beat her in the polls. When he won in South Carolina, that's when they believed. And black people then started voting for him. But black people are very consistent. Whoever's the most progressive candidate who can win, regardless of how socially conservative black people are, black people are the most consistent about voting for Democratic policies and liberal ideas because liberalization has always helped to free black people from oppression. And so we're the most consistent. The next most consistent have been Latinos, but they've sort of slipped. The next most. Well, actually, the next most consistent are Jewish voters who are 80, 20 Democrat. Then the next most consistent have become Asian Americans, who are about 70, 30 Democrats since Obama came along, and then Latinos who have been about 60, 40. But the most consistent throughout the history of the United States in fighting for civil rights, for more freedom, for free public schools, for universal health care, for all the things that eventually benefit even white liberals, are black people. And so black people are always the target. It's not that they specifically care only about black. They don't like anybody that isn't a white conservative Christian. They don't like any of these groups. But black people are the largest group of consistently progressive voters. That's why they target them. And so now John Roberts thinks he's finally found a way to outwit the 20th century. They hate the 20th century because in the 20th century, you got labor rights, you got child labor abolished, you got union rights. Women got the right to go to work and get out of the home and not just be homemakers. That will be white women. White women broke out of the home and stopped being obedient to Their husbands stopped marrying in large numbers, started becoming more single, started becoming professional, started going to college even more than white men. They got birth control, they got abortion rights. They hate the 20th century. The disabled got rights, immigrants got rights, they destroyed. The Asian Exclusion act was ended in 1965 with that 65 voting rights. And the Supreme Court throughout the 20th century affirmed all of these positive changes affirm what we think of as progress. But those six think of that as regression. They think it destroyed the country because in their mind, the perfect America is the America that existed in 1776, 1776 to 1778. That is the perfect, perfect America to them. And oligarchy were very wealthy white Christian men owned everybody else, including their wives and daughters. They want that back. If they can't have an outright king, they're going to get damn near close to it with a conservative Republican president. And so John Roberts has always hated the Voting Rights act because it enabled black people to gain enough power to tax rich people or to cause rich people to be taxed, to cause universal health care to finally come to fore with, with Obamacare, to, you know, to, to challenge social hierarchy, which he clearly believes in. And he hates it. He hates it as much as Alito hates it. But he has to be more urbane because he still wants to go to the nice dinner parties. So you have at this state dinner, these monarchists literally dining with a king, the King of England and his consort, Queen Camilla, and the three liberals were not invited to be there. And that was the same day that that six, while clinking glasses with the literal King of England and the wannabe king, Donald Trump, eviscerated the Voting Rights act, put the last stake in the heart of it, destroyed it. It's still there in name only, but it doesn't really exist. It's. It's dead. It's like a zombie. And that's what John Roberts has always wanted. He finally got. He thinks he checkmated us. But here's the way you checkmate him back. In chess, it can seem like you're losing when you're down to your last few pieces. But you, I mean, I play chess against our youngest son. Sometimes I think I'm winning and I get to the last bit. Now that he's gotten good at chess, sometimes he'll beat me. In the end, when I think I won, you think you've got the person down to their last few pieces, but you never know who the other side can turn into a queen. You never know when the other side will come out of nowhere and make one of their pieces elevate to a queen and kick and kick your ass. In chess, you've never won until you've checkmated the other side. What the Supreme Court did was check, not checkmate. And there are still moves on the board for the pro democracy side. And one of those moves is if you're. When. When the right was the Democrats and the left, if you can call it the left, or the liberals, were the Republicans, Democrats looked at the Democratic party, which was the Klan party, and said, if this is the only way to wield power in the south, we're going to join the Klan party. And it was literally the party of the Ku Klux Klan. They were like, you know what? If this is the only way for us to wield power or to gain power in the south, we're going to just join that party. And then the white people in that party did white flight and went into the party they hated, which was the Republican party. Moving into the Democratic party was a strategic move by Democrats and at first, I mean, by black people. And it was a strategic move that they started by doing just by voting for Democrats, voting for the hated Klan party in 1932, even as they continue to call themselves Republicans over time. They said, we're not just going to vote there, we're going to move there. And they moved there in the 50s, and the white flight started on the other side, where white Democrats said, we don't want to be in a party with them. We're going in this hated Republican Party. Black voters have always been very strategic like that. Right? They can move again. Y' all have no idea what we're thinking most of the time. You. You think our Afros are cloud bobs. Like, you really have not paid attention to us. You don't really know us very well, which is an advantage for us. We're kind of still the unknown, unknowable. We're the people who at work, if we're not smiling, white people get nervous. They're like, we don't know what you're thinking. We need you to say what you're thinking and smile so that we know you're you. Like us. Black people can use this to our advantage and not just black people. I'm speaking to black people right now, But I mean this for all of the groups who are being targeted by John Roberts, But I'm focusing on black people because he is. He thinks he's checkmated black people by wiping them out in the south and that there will be no more black Democrats in the South. And most Democrats in the south are black. So he's like, checkmate. No, it's check. It's check. Because there is still a move. And one of those moves in theory could be so fine. If the Democratic Party has no power in the south, why should we be Democrats? Maybe some of us should just be Working Families Party. And y' all try to figure out who's in this party. And are all of us liberal? Ask yourself, Republicans, do you think for sure? Are you sure that every Working Family's Party person is a liberal? Are you sure? Because you really can't be sure. If you look at Mamdani's base, you have no idea what those people believe internally. Inside of the Mamdani coalition are some conservatives, some liberals, some libertarians. There are all kinds of people. And you have no idea what they're going to do. You have no idea what they want. You have no idea what they think. You have no idea. So maybe it's time for pro democracy voters to become a little less predictable. Figure out some ways to be unpredictable. So they have no idea what you're going to do. But one thing you absolutely have to do is vote. It's never been more important that. Whatever. If you can't stand the Democrats and you're in the south, you know, like, the Democrats are a bad brand. I like it, then good, join the Working Families Party. But you have to vote. And one thing you must do is you must remove every single Republican elected that you can. They're all tainted at this point. I don't care if they're nice, I don't care if they're friendly. The only thing they understand is power and unemployment. And at this point, they have declared war on us. And not just black people, people. They've declared war on women, gay people, trans people. They've declared war on basically unmarried women. They've declared war on Democrats, liberals. They've declared war on independence. They declared war on people who have to use gas. They've declared war on military people who have to go to war but can't get decent food to eat. They're eating slop while they're being sent to a war they didn't decide that they wanted to to wage. They declared war on Jewish people by linking them to a genocidal maniac and saying that he represents all of them. They have besmirched and disparaged the Jewish faith by tying it to Israel and beating Netanyahu and Smotrich and Ben Gvir. As if that's what all of them believe. They've declared war on Muslims lying and saying they're trying to take over America. It's a complete lie. They've declared war on the Hindu people inside their own party. All these Indian Americans running for all office like Vivek Ramaswamy, they hate them. They want to get canceled all their H1B visas. They hate y'. All. They hate Asians too. They hate every single one of you. They use Asian Americans to try to win these wars against affirmative action. And then once they've won, the Asian people get slighted too and can't get in either. They pretend they care about Asians, don't give a damn about Asians. They've declared war on y' all too. You guys just don't know it yet. Y' all will figure it out. Their war against everybody that's not a white conservative, conservative right wing Christian ban. Even white folks. If you're not a right conservative Christian, if you're not a conservative right wing Christian of the exact same sect they are, they hate you too. They declare we're on poor people, middle class people, working people, people who want to go on vacation who now can't afford it. Spirit Airlines is dead. They said they were going to buy it. They didn't. They declared war on anyone who uses social media. They declared war on anyone who needs truth in the media. They've declared war on the press. They've declared war on everybody except the small group of people who they think are going to live in Elysium while the rest of y' all are cattle. And if you don't know they're at war with you, it's just because you're not paying attention. You don't want to believe it, but one day you're going to figure it out because they're going to come for each and every one of you. Black people are the canary in the coal mine. They always come for us first because they hate us the most, but they hate you the second most. And whoever you are, I mean you. And so you need to figure out a way to be a little unpredictable in this moment. You need to play a little crazy and you need to do a few crazy things. One crazy thing. Go ahead and elect that black man in Mississippi and put him in the set instead of Cindy Hyde Smith. Watch them shake and watch them be real scared if all of a sudden they can't win Mississippi as freaked out as they were when they lost Georgia because they never thought they were going to lose Georgia and all said, poof, they lost Georgia. Make them lose states they think they're going to win. Make them spend money in Florida. Why not? What the hell have you got to lose at this point? They've already declared check on us as Americans, as free people. They're trying to turn us into Hungary. And even Hungary figured that shit out and got rid of Orban. So that's it. That is the end of my rant. I'm telling y', all, you need to be a little unpredictable. Working families party is an option. If you're in the South. You don't like the Democrats, join them. But you cannot not vote. I'm being Gary Chambers for a minute. If you're in Louisiana, you are governed by the devil. That man wants to lock every single one of you up. Unless you are literally related to him or his business partners or friends. He wants to lock you up. That's his industry in the state of Louisiana. He wants to put AI factories in your backyard. He wants to poison your air, poison your water. He doesn't care about any of you. And you, he's going to take your health care away. He's declared war in every single Louisiana. And that's not his friends. Y' all need to do some crazy stuff. You need to play crazy, elect a whole bunch of people they do not expect coming. And if that means you're going to come at it as a working families voter or even as a Republican, you guys need to stop being so damn predictable. America. Y' all do predictable shit. And that's why the right is trying to destroy you. They're going to destroy this whole country if you don't do something about it. We have a few more months until these midterm elections. Y' all better all vote. I don't want to hear about anybody staying home at this point because we are at war with them. Because they are at war with us. I'm not saying I'm declaring war on them. I'm saying they declared war on me. All right, we need a moment of joy. So. So to set up my moment of joy, with apologies to my amazing winsome who got all this data and information about the segment I'm going to do on Monday. I'm going to take it all. I'm going to do it on Monday. But I want to skip forward and I want to play a piece that I call. Why am I agreeing with Curtis Lewa? Here it is. E3. Speaking of strange bedfellows, go ahead or nay?
