00:00You talked about putting the mirror up to the Trump administration.
00:03I'm not necessarily pointing to this, but in social media, with the Patriot shop that you've established.
00:10I mean, is this a way still, though, to sort of do that?
00:13I mean, I've been, look, we've been at this, as you know.
00:19We've been to all these events for months and months.
00:22I think we kicked this off with the AG a few years back in San Jose.
00:27We were very vocal about the legislature moving on that legislative package a year-plus ago.
00:34So I think it's a continuation of that.
00:36I mean, but I think it is important to highlight the National Guard issue.
00:40I thought it was the right question.
00:41And it's a question on all our minds.
00:43Is this America?
00:45Is this, are we losing our country?
00:48Have we lost grip with reality?
00:50The idea that the military can be out there in every street corner.
00:54In the United States of America, that people that don't look like me, the black and brown
01:02community, quite literally feeling like they're racially profiled, scared to death to walk
01:06their dogs or go to the grocery store, even in some cases.
01:10Now you're hearing more and more about it, going to the hospital to get emergency care,
01:14let alone preventative care.
01:16That matter, even going to school or a graduation.
01:18We saw last year, funerals, weddings, events.
01:24So, no, I think it's important to build on what we're doing, yes, to extend that narrative,
01:29to expand our successful programs, to acknowledge we have work to do, not suggesting otherwise,
01:36but also acknowledge that this country needs to wake up to what's going on,
01:39and not just the authoritarian tendencies, but the authoritarian actions by this president.
01:44This cannot be normalized, and yes, so I'm highlighting some just blatant hypocrisy.
01:54Yes, we're putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is Trump's tweets and his grift,
02:01the madness that is someone that would dress up as the pope and tweet that out,
02:07or put his face up there on Mount Rushmore in a Superman costume, president of the United States.
02:12So, I do think it's important to put that mirror, that lens, back and have everyone reflect on it
02:17and say, well, is this, have we accepted this as normal?
02:20Why aren't we calling this out more clearly?
02:23So, extension of what we're doing, but also, yes, highlighting some of that.
02:29We know that he often, you know,
02:30that he often happens to be str Ric
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