Oh boy. Happy Monday, everybody. I hope you got through the weekend. Wow. You know, I think every time

we think we've heard it all, a new wrench or zinger is kind of thrown into the mix. So last week,

what was it? Thursday? Yes, it was Thursday. We found out that Trump tested positive for COVID.

Trump and his wife, first lady. Man, didn't see that coming or did you?

Interesting because often the red states, the Republican states are the ones that aren't taking

the mask wearing seriously. I've heard a lot of stories of people traveling and being told as they're

entering certain bars, restaurants and environments that masks aren't required or we don't do that here. Whoa. Public

safety. What happened to that? Care and compassion. Just trying to pack them in, make some money and

dig their heels into. I don't know. I honestly don't know. I'll acknowledge this. I very much live under

a rock. I am constantly generally surrounded by very liberal, progressive, or radical thinkers.

Why? Well, that's the world that makes sense to me. That's the kind of thinking that I want to

internalize. I don't have any interest in hearing people's thoughts about the value of certain lives.

And so I don't know what the rhetoric is, or rhetoric has some say. What's the rhetoric around

the lack of mask wearing,

that it's not real, that we don't need to worry, that they're defending their rights. You know,

again, I think we have to look at the hierarchy of values. And for me, the highest value is care,

compassion, and trying to save lives. And that comes before maybe some of my civil rights being

stamped upon. Look, I'm a radical. I'm an anarchist.

I don't believe in a lot of government control. I think that sometimes the law is quite unjust.

But, you know, what all those things are led with, especially my feminism, is care and compassion,

mutual aid, looking out for others, more of a collective responsibility. First is the more liberal

perspective in our culture, right? Neoliberalism and capitalism, that's what

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