So what how have you how have you gotten support and how you actually ask for help? What does that look like? Yeah.

So to kind of talk about two parts of the question.

So my my my my mom passed away a year ago.

My dad is ninety two.

And he used to, you know, a long time ago, be a big help with the kids.

But now obviously he can't, which is a whole other situation because he's like, why can't I help him? Like, because you can't walk great.

So really, you know, it's not a great situation.

this is too

[whoosh] You're gonna need your representatives to listen to you, and if they have drawn the voters out of power, you're in trouble, too.

I think, uh, it, it's astounding to me the inability that women have had and continue to have to actually forge and solidify with common interests to protectThe rights that took us generations to earn, to win, to fight for, and we are so easily manipulated, or some of us, so easily manipulated to throw them away.

Because I, I think about what the Republicans are doing, and I really do feel like the Republicans will say, "State's rights." What has the Republican Party done, this Republican Party, this particular administration, to bolster state rights? Besides Roe v.

Wade, which by the way just serves their agenda so they don't have to worry about it, so they don't have to protect it, so they don't have to pay for it.

The current incarnation of Republicans are federalists.

They are more power to federal government.

ICE, going to war, the draft, slashing budget after budget after budget that goes to those states.

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Then we get back to might makes right.

A- a- and might makes right, I mean, I love Teddy Roosevelt, we started by talking about Teddy Roosevelt, you know, walk softly, carry a big stick.

Might makes right, and that's always been the way it is, and that's always been the way of the world because we've always had this militarized, isolationist kind of drive from each individual country.

And you would think we would start to recognize how interconnected we all are.

It's like COVID did the opposite of what it should've done.

COVID should've made us all sit down and go, "Oh, shit, we're all on the same planet, Mother Nature kicks our ass whenever, you know, she deems appropriate, and if we don't figure out soon how to act as a collective, how to understand what our health and our human rights should look like, we're gonna be picked off country by country due to our own neglect and stupidity." But instead, because that's really scary, right, instead of acknowledging the uncontrollability of that, well, half the countries in the world and half the people in the countries in the world went to government conspiracy, control, and we're gonna go back to vaccines cause autism.

'Cause they can control that, 'cause that's not gonna make them shift their brain, right? And what we need to shift from, and I know there's gonna be tons of people in the comments going, "Oh, she's a globalist." Listen, we're on a globe.

now.Yeah

Go ahead, Lee, crash out.

Crash out.

Here's what I think, and this is...

It's, it's positive.

It's gonna be very odd how, how this is- uh, how I'm going to spin this into something positive.

What we're seeing has been true for a very long time.

I wanna be really clear.

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realize it or not.

Yeah, exactly.

Labor rights exist because of unions.

Labor legislation, labor law, it exists because of what unions have fought for in the past.

What's going on in Alberta is disgusting.

Using the not, listen, the notwithstanding clause is also a ridiculous aspect of our constitution, of our charter.

And using it to usurp workers' rights is ridiculous.

Okay, Joanna, before the break, you said, do we think that kids are actually doing what they're supposed to be doing on their computer?

Yeah.

It's absolutely laughable.

But fascism always comes around because it is end-stage capitalism.

I have lots of money.

I have lots of control, so guess what? I get to walk in and stand beside the president with my $300 billion.

I get to go into Medicaid.

I get to go in Social Security.

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