All right, everyone. Welcome to the show. This is pseudo-intellectual live. As always, I appreciate you tuning in today. We have a very special guest. She is the executive director of Rebellion Pack, a former congressional candidate, and a software engineer,

please welcome to the show Brianna Wu.

Brianna, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me, Laura.

You know, I was really looking forward to this I do a lot of media but

everyone says you're one of the very nicest people in all of media you know

Lauren my friend Lauren Southern she says great things about you Sean over at the actual

justice warrior he says great things about people really looking forward to this today

Thanks and you know speaking of you know being nice I want to apologize to everybody and thank you

Brianna for this schedule change we usually try to go live every Wednesday was traveling

for some family health stuff so I appreciate everyone's

flexibility really means a lot but we have so much to talk about and so I mean I

don't it's kind of hard deciding where to jump to things but as a starting off point why don't we kind of go over where you see yourself politically you know

rebellion back I was looking at their page a little bit they they describe themselves or the organization describes itself.

It's kind of like progressive.

Is that a fair label?

And obviously we can have a discussion as to what exactly that means, but by and large would you call yourself a progressive?

I definitely would, which is why, you know, kind of the current progressive politics,

I feel so betrayed by kind of the way it's gone, particularly in the last few years.

You may not know this about me, but I grew up in Mississippi, which is one of the poorest states

in the country.

I saw how, you know, the poorest states in the country.

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