Speaker 1: Happy King Holiday. On January sixth, about ten days ago,
Speaker 1: President Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the country's second
Speaker 1: highest honor, to the heroes who defended the US Capital
Speaker 1: during the January sixth insurrection. According to MSN dot com,
Speaker 1: these honorees included Capitol police officers and two election workers
Speaker 1: from Georgia who refused former President Donald Trump's pressure to
Speaker 1: overturn the results of the twenty twenty elections. Three of
Speaker 1: the medals were awarded posthumously to the families of police
Speaker 1: officers who died in the days after the attack, and
Speaker 1: President Biden told the honorees quote, History will remember your names,
Speaker 1: remember your courage, and remember your bravery. We are we
Speaker 1: all were just so proud of the US Capitol Police
Speaker 1: officer Eugene Goodman, the brother who diverted the invading writers
Speaker 1: and domestic terrorists from the Senate Chamber. Take a listen
Speaker 1: to the moment when he was awarded is Presidential Citizens Medal.
Speaker 1: An Army combat veteran and a US Capitol Police officer,
Speaker 1: Eugene Goodman embodies fearless public service in the breach on
Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, he made himself a target
Speaker 1: to divert insurrectionists away from the Senate Chamber, enabling the
Speaker 1: former Vice president, lawmakers, and staff to escape safely in
Speaker 1: the face of a clear and present danger. He did
Speaker 1: his duty. You know what, you know what about that?
Speaker 1: That's amazing to me in this country that steel hasn't
Speaker 1: been total justice for what has what happened next day,
Speaker 1: That's right, you know, that's right, right, that steel hasn't
Speaker 1: been total justice two years ago. Yes, but I can't
Speaker 1: tell you for a fact, had those rioters been black,
Speaker 1: you would have seen one of the biggest slaughters of
Speaker 1: human life rushing in the Capitol like that. Yeah, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has still yet to answer or pay for his
Speaker 1: role in it. If Obama was president and had made
Speaker 1: that speech before the rioters went down to Capitol, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you think this would have played
Speaker 1: out in work? And you know, for Donald Trump not
Speaker 1: to be paying a price for viny of that. Now
Speaker 1: I have noticed, I don't know if you've noticed, but
Speaker 1: Fox Rupert Murdoch has said he would not support Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's bid. So now Fox, oh, they hadn't had Hannity
Speaker 1: and Tucker Carson come and so now they now they're saying,
Speaker 1: we knew all along he lost the election. Also, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh not that that they're coming out because they got
Speaker 1: depositions now they say they knew it all along that
Speaker 1: he had lost the election. Oh Hannity, his main boy
Speaker 1: pulling out, Tucker Carson, They pulling back read these depositions
Speaker 1: that they got, these boys saying that see CNN don't
Speaker 1: tell it, don't they don't fight fair, they they they
Speaker 1: you know they CNN trying and fight like they Christians.
Speaker 1: That ain't what Fox doing. Fox fighting. We need to
Speaker 1: fight dog like we did evil. Yeah, a ball with
Speaker 1: some nails on the end of it, that's how a
Speaker 1: Fox fight. Yeah. And you know those two election workers
Speaker 1: that won the Presidential Citizens Medal Awards, all of that,
Speaker 1: and it is still talking about them on his little
Speaker 1: social media And listen to me how he ain't being
Speaker 1: hell responsible of this now Foxton pulled their support from
Speaker 1: this dude. But man, I'm telling you, it's we're such
Speaker 1: a hypocritical nation this country. Man, This country makes me
Speaker 1: sick at times when we won't do the right thing,
Speaker 1: which has been making me sick for quite some time now.
Speaker 1: It's a wonder, man, I ain't. Just I'm surprised I'm
Speaker 1: still here, sick as I'm been, I've been sicking. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I got, but I got something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank god, man, he ain't took me out with this
Speaker 1: because I've been sick at this for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing, man, And that Marl Luther King's speech
Speaker 1: and his day. We still are grappling and wrestling with equality. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we're still grappling with voter suppression. You know, Dave standing
Speaker 1: out of voting places with fire hoses and guard dogs.
Speaker 1: No more. But they got other ways now, yeah, law,
Speaker 1: they're still trying to suppress. So and with all of that,
Speaker 1: we still have so very far to go. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of the accomplishments that a lot of
Speaker 1: us have made. I'm proud of a lot of families
Speaker 1: that's out there that's doing well. You know, Grant car
Speaker 1: Don't said something over the holidays that if a man
Speaker 1: is making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: for his family, he ought to be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 1: And I just looked at this, dude. No wait, man,
Speaker 1: what No, you didn't. Oh that was a big that
Speaker 1: was a big bloke. Grant car don't said if you're
Speaker 1: not making four hundred thousand, and I went, whoa dude,
Speaker 1: hold up, man, if you if you're taking care of
Speaker 1: your family? Yes, yeah right, if you're taking care of
Speaker 1: your family, I don't give them what you make. You're
Speaker 1: doing what you're supposed to do, and you deserve a
Speaker 1: medal for being a man. Grant didn't say that nowhere
Speaker 1: off from our Luke King Diddy. Bro four hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars year. Do you know how many people? But Bro, Bro,
Speaker 1: you how much money that that is? Though that's a
Speaker 1: lot of money, brou The average American don't do that.
Speaker 1: No person does not do that. For you to make
Speaker 1: that statement, I don't know what he was trying to say,
Speaker 1: and I haven't heard him. Is your rebuttal yet? But
Speaker 1: I thought that was just like, man, how idiotic? Can
Speaker 1: you beat out of touch privilege that you are? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's it, that's rights. I was living pretty good without
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars. I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1: And many families of four do you know my father?
Speaker 1: The most he made I think was fifty six thousand
Speaker 1: a year. I was big that's that's good money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is today, that's good money. Were balled a year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were ball all of we balled at year. At
Speaker 1: two paired. I just got wa man, Dog I found Dog.
Speaker 1: I bought my first pair of gym shoes that was
Speaker 1: in a box that wasn't tied together, in the not
Speaker 1: on a table in the produced section at the grocery store.
Speaker 1: I mean, the first pair of gym shoes I got
Speaker 1: that was in a box. Dog, I put them shoes
Speaker 1: in that box every night. Yeah, take care of them.
Speaker 1: You were a good steward. Yeah, and it was. Yes,
Speaker 1: your daddy was there, your mama was there, your sisters
Speaker 1: and brothers and was family. Dog got bike for Christmas.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about? What you are? We rich, living, good,
Speaker 1: bless Yes. Yes, you know, man, you have got to
Speaker 1: appreciate where you are. Yes, And you know, even myself, man,
Speaker 1: I've really had to rethink my goals and aspirations. I
Speaker 1: still have high goals and aspirations, but I've started to
Speaker 1: focus more on to where I am and show way
Speaker 1: more gratitude for where I am as opposed to where
Speaker 1: I want to be, where I want to be, dreams
Speaker 1: and visions you gotta have. But man, I'm way more grateful.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I came to that too. Yeah, and the moment,
Speaker 1: that's good and just Steph, why I Steve. The destruction
Speaker 1: the rioters caused was one point five million dollars okay,
Speaker 1: one point five million dollars in damages. That's according to
Speaker 1: the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Several
Speaker 1: of the accused participants have either been convicted or are
Speaker 1: awaiting trial. The number of federal indictments against individuals accused
Speaker 1: of being involved in the Capitol Capitol Hill siege stands
Speaker 1: at nine hundred and forty as of January fifth of
Speaker 1: this year. Unbelievable. They all need to be in jail,
Speaker 1: Yes they do, including Donald Trump. Yes, yes, their leading
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