Ep. 629 - Joe Biden & The Democratic Party have failed to meet the severity and enormity of the moment we are in
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We knew 2 months ago that it was all but a sure thing that Roe v Wade would be overturned and that millions of women would lose their civil and human rights as a result.
Joe Biden and The White House had MONTHS to prepare for this moment. Months. And instead they've offered a few badly delivered words and a bunch of fundraising emails in response to it all.
Guess what conservatives did? They passed robust laws months ago, state by state, that would be immediately triggered if Roe was overturned. THEY were prepared to meet this moment.
And even though Democrats have real options on what they can do, and what they should fight for, they've taken virtually none of them.
It's time that we begin thinking of new people to lead the party - from the top down.
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| 0:20.5 | It's Monday, June 27th, and this country has had a hard few days. |
| 0:25.6 | On an unpack and explain what I think the overturning of Roe vs Wade means for all of civil rights, |
| 0:32.7 | all of human rights, and all of women's rights. In unpack how horrible the response has been |
| 0:41.4 | from President Joe Biden and really the Democratic Party itself. There's a lot that should have |
| 0:47.1 | already been said and done and virtually none of it has been said or done. And it's really in my |
| 0:53.7 | opinion time that all of us who tend to vote for Democrats demand new leadership from the top down. |
| 1:02.0 | This is Sean King and you're listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:12.8 | Hey everybody, it's really, really good to be back. My family and I had a vacation this past week |
| 1:29.0 | and got some time off of work and some time with each other. So I'm actually feeling exhausted |
| 1:37.6 | today. Yesterday was a long trip home but refreshed in other ways. Emotionally I'm refreshed. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm glad to be back. While I was away, Roe vs Wade very obviously was overturned. |
| 1:53.1 | And it is alarming that it was overturned in great part because the majority of the Supreme Court |
| 2:04.1 | were appointed by presidents that didn't even win the popular vote. And we have nominees |
| 2:11.5 | that from the Obama administration that were literally just denied a place on the court. They |
| 2:17.3 | literally stole a Supreme Court seat and they did all of that. This illegitimate Supreme Court |
| 2:24.1 | did everything that they did really for this moment. And they have been building and campaigning |
| 2:32.0 | and organizing for this very moment really for the past 50 years. And I'm not here to congratulate |
| 2:39.2 | conservatives or Republicans but I am here to acknowledge to them and to teach to you |
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