From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor captioning sponsored by Comedy Central lets kick things off in florida. The state america dropped on its head as a baby. You may remember that two years ago the state passed a referendum allowing exconvicts to have their Voting Rights restored. But then republican officials passed a law saying that most felons had to pay all their court fines and fees before registering to vote. And even though critics said this amounted to an illegal poll tax the u. S. Supreme court refused to overturn the law. But now someone is stepping in to help the people power forward. Nba superstar lebron james is advocating for efelons to return to the the voting booth in florida. James Voting Rights group more than a vote is donating did 100,000 to help pay court debts keeping florida vetters from casting vote, now more than 700,000 floor i had danes floridians have financial obligati
System that we have and the chaos that is causing and just for those of you out there who are you know perhaps like myself perhaps too busy reading twitter all the time and not enough time to devote to reading a tale to cities i want to read the rest of that quote from the opening of a tele to cities because its quite relevant i think to our time because that book was written in the period leading up to the french revolution and then through the reign of terror which i think is similar to what we have today it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was that of belief it was a part of incredulity it was the season of light it was a season of darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us well well done Charles Dickens captured the guys at that moment to make a Christmas Carol being a condemnation of capitalism osama yes you know the ghost of christmas futu
System that we have and the chaos that is causing and just for those of you out there who are you know perhaps like myself perhaps too busy reading twitter all the time and not enough time to devote to reading a tale to cities i want to read the rest of that quote from the opening of a tele to cities because its quite relevant i think to our time because that book was written in the period leading up to the french revolution and then through the reign of terror which i think is similar to what we have today it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was that of belief it was a pot of incredulity it was the season of light it was a season of darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us well well done Charles Dickens captured the guys at that moment to make a Christmas Carol being a condemnation of capitalism osama yes you know the ghost of christmas futur
Cant show you my face but im going to tell you must story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. They get charged with capital murder even though he didnt have the gun didnt pull the trigger didnt intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with his son of a 23. 00. Confined within 4 gray walls fun its using hard to turn on to help him to leave death row. Max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know it was the best of times it was the worst of times stacey this sounds like the opening lines to a tale of 2 cities by Charles Dickens and he was somebody quite useful and relevant to this age because he was writing during the beginning of the end of the British Empire and also during the explosion of the wrong take class a lot of what he wrote about is the disaster capitalism caused by the ron to class so were in a very similar time to that with this pandemic meeting the over leveraged fake system that we have and the chaos that is causing and just for those of yo
Consumption today christmas being a holiday of consumption or losing its its significance as a spiritual soulful occasion and here we are you know weve all been very very naughty and weve all been sent to our room and were all sitting in our rooms now thinking about what we did this is a moment of self reflection for the Global Community to sit in your room and think about what youve done because youve been very very naughty and theres a sort of sense that yes it is bad on the way to Something Better ok yes for example the revolution and france and the reign of terror were not pleasant events in themselves but at the end of the day they led to a republic and. A wealth and income gap that declined rapidly and you know a flourishing of the ordinary person the same here what were seeing is were seeing the end of a Financial System a debt based system. Im a fee based system it was never going to be nice it was never going to be great it was never going to be easy but you had that insurance