Christmas Wishes And Non-Caviar Dreams
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Welcome to The Politocrat. I'm Omar Moore. It is Tuesday, December the 24th, 2024. On this edition of The Politocrat, a few thoughts as Christmas is on the horizon on this Christmas Eve. Plus, a few news updates. All of that, coming up next.

Greetings and salutations, dear listener. Happy Christmas Eve to you, wherever you may be. Welcome to this brand new edition of the Politocrat Daily Podcast. Yours truly, Omar Moore here. On this Christmas Eve, yes, for those of you who observe Christmas, of course, it's coming around the corner just tomorrow, isn't it? Merry Christmas to you. And of course, for those of you who do not observe Christmas or care for it,

then I hope you have a grand Wednesday. May your Wednesday, may every day be filled with health, positivity, prosperity, and good fortune, and peace and love as well as safety. It is great to be back with you. Not a long episode today as we ease into this holiday week, but I want to say to you before I even start,

that this time of year is presented as a very joyous occasion. It is an occasion to be joyful and to spend time with family and friends and to get out and have great spirit at this holiday season. And all of those kinds of things, the time to give, the time to enjoy each other's company, or every time hopefully you enjoy someone's company that you care about or love,

But this time of year, as you know, dear listener, is also a time of year that can be very stressful, very stressful, very demanding, and quite frankly, very depressing and very challenging. And so there are many of us across the world who find this time of year to be very isolating and very depressing and very sad and extremely stressful. So if that is someone who

that fits your description or someone else you know, anyone you know, then I would truly advise you, if you're here in the United States, to dial 988. It's the hotline on mental health and suicide. And I'm not suggesting that you are close to the latter of those two. But what I am suggesting is that you may be, or someone you know may be, but even if you or someone you know is not, if you are struggling, if you're just struggling,

struggling to cope this holiday season. For whatever the reason and whatever the context, I really do think that it would be a good idea for you to dial 988. That is the hotline here in the United States. It's a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week hotline. It's completely anonymous. You do not have to give your name, your real name, if you don't want to. And it is

the opportunity for you to speak to a mental health professional, somebody who can help you, someone who can listen to you, someone who can talk with you. So that is something that I want to start off with on this episode because I just think that it's important to remind us, remind you, remind me, remind everyone that this is a very difficult and challenging time for many people across the world. And so I

I do want to start with that. Well, speaking of challenging times, did you manage to complete your Christmas shopping? Well, I guess today you have this final day in which to do that. If you are someone who believes in shopping for Christmas, if you're someone who observes the holiday, if you're someone who...

Does gift, gives, gifts, gives gifts or gives out presents, whatever you want to call it. Have you finished your shopping yet? I hope you have because you don't really want to be running around on Christmas Eve, do you? It just makes things even more stressful than what I was just talking about to a degree. Well, not more stressful than feeling that your life is not worth very much. But I am saying that it's a stressful enterprise, isn't it? If you leave it to the very last day,

And I have done that in the past, but I did not do that this year. I did not do that this year at all, haven't done that in a number of years now, but

But I do hope that you have completed your Christmas shopping wherever you may have done it, whether it's online, whether it's in a store. It's just a very time now when you leave it to the last minute, you just run into all these other people who are extremely stressed out like you are. And it's just not fun, is it? It's just not fun. But I've been there. I've been there in the past. I know what that feels like. And I'm sure that you do as well, dear listener.

Look, as we go through here and we get very close to Christmas, I wonder what your Christmas wish is for those of us, if those of us in the world who celebrate this day, whether on a religious basis or rather on just the spirit of what the holidays have really become, what this Christmas has really become, a commercialized holiday, isn't it? It's not really about anything to do with religion at this time of year. Now it's minna.

for many, many a decade has been looked at as really a holiday and an excuse to just spend a lot of money or spend money that you don't have depending on where your station in life is. But

I want to know from you, or just, not even just want to know this, just oppose this to you. What is your Christmas wish? Do you have a Christmas wish? What is it? Is it the same as what it was last year? If you make Christmas wishes, what is your Christmas wish? And has it differed, or will it differ, has it differed from what it was last year? Of course, if you made one last year.

I'm curious to know what that might be. Well, again, you don't have to tell me. It is something that I'm just asking in a broader way because I don't know. I think for me, it's the same every year, having peace in the world and treating each other much more humanely with respect, love, and all those kinds of things that I think that we hope, I would hope that we all

would wish for. I think we all do. But maybe there's more personalized goals or things that you wish for. And of course, I'll be talking about some of that come 2025 when we get the year kickstarted in just over a week. Would you believe we are just over a week away from 2025? And of course, as we know,

And you know this, dear listener, it's a it's going to be a very especially here. Well, here in the United States, but everywhere, not just here in the United States. 2025 is going to be a very well, you know, I can't forecast what the year is going to be like, but it's definitely going to be a challenging year. And I think 2024 was a challenging year, is a challenging year. What is left of the year?

And so we but overall, it's been a challenging year. It's been a year of setbacks, surprises, and there's been some triumphs and good fortune. But there's also been a lot of setbacks, a lot of pain in 2024.

And of course, I think that if you have people in your life who have gone through some adversity and pain this year, that would also be another example of that kind of adversity, pain and setback. And, you know, certainly this year has been a challenging year on that front as well. So I'm just wondering.

What your view of Christmas is, what your wish for Christmas is. How do you look at Christmas? Is Christmas something that you frown on? I talked about this a few moments ago, the commercialization of Christmas, the commercial aspect of what this holiday has become, really. Because again, you know, it's very different from what it actually was before.

And so that's something that maybe gets under your skin this time of year. If you're an agnostic, if you're an atheist, you must be looking at Christmas and probably laughing at it. I don't know. Maybe I'm pigeonholing an atheist or pigeonholing an agnostic.

And I'm not someone that's particularly religious. I'm brought up in the Christian faith, but nothing on one of those kinds of Bible thumping methods. But certainly, you know, it's I wouldn't say that I am an atheist at all. But I'm just wondering, because a lot of people are and I'm certainly not passing judgment. I don't think there's anything wrong with being an atheist. I think that's a good thing, actually. Maybe you don't subscribe to.

a certain God or a certain idea of a God. I do believe in a higher power. I've said that on a number of occasions here and elsewhere. I do believe that there is a higher power, but I'm not someone who you'll find in a church every Sunday. I mean, that I can tell you now. So, you know, those kinds of things at this time of year are things that

I muse about, you know, this idea of Christmas and what it means. But I think in general, dear listener, it's what you make it. Christmas is what you make it. If Christmas for you is spending time, just taking a nice quiet walk with a few people or just by yourself, that's Christmas. If Christmas for you is going to someone's house and enjoying, um,

time with them that's Christmas for you you know there's no one way and no right way to observe Christmas or even just treat it as another day on the calendar you know there's any number of ways to do that as long as of course you do it safely and responsibly I guess or maybe not maybe you're going to drink up a storm tomorrow maybe you will but really as long as you are

are safe and you don't hurt yourself or anyone else, then of course you're going to have the day as you see it fit. The weather, by the way, here in San Francisco is not supposed to be particularly lovely tomorrow. It's been raining overnight here. It's been storming overnight here. There's some storms that have hit the central coast and that has reverberated around

around here in San Francisco, California. And so there's going to be a bit more of that, I think, over the next day or two, maybe more. So you can expect that there may well be a rainy Christmas on offer, at least in this small part of the world. But I don't know how it will be for you. Maybe the holiday season will be different.

better for you. Maybe Christmas will not be wet or windy or snowy or too cold. And I certainly hope that the weather wherever you are, dear listener, is comfortable and feasible for you and not problematic in any way, shape or form. But we're going to be seeing a lot of the rain here in San Francisco. This is the rain season in San Francisco. So we're going to be seeing

bit more of the rain coming in the next day or two. Certainly, I think tomorrow maybe it will actually hold off, but you know, 2% chance of rain. And then on Thursday, Boxing Day, which is not celebrated here in the United States, but it is in the United Kingdom, there will be some rain. So we've got a

And we will maybe have some rain tomorrow on Christmas Day. But in San Francisco, we will definitely be getting rain today. And Thursday, Christmas may be a little bit less likely, but there may be some rain tomorrow as well. So I'm wondering, I hope the weather is good where you are. And, you know, I just want to just start with that on this Christmas Eve. Or for those of you who don't really know,

Look at this as a Christmas Eve, just your Tuesday, on your Tuesday here on the Politocrat Daily Podcast. Now what I'm going to do is take a quick break and then come back and talk about just a few of the things that have been happening over the last few days since I last did one of these podcast episodes, dear listener, and I hope you'll be right back with me. Dear listener, welcome back. It has been quite a week, hasn't it? We, at the end of last week,

got a government shutdown averted. There was a vote in the House on Friday of this past week, and the House passed a bill overwhelmingly, thanks to the Democrats. Let's make that very clear. The Democratic Party did the right thing, as they always seem to do when it comes to these kinds of critical votes on keeping the government open and solvent.

And so there was a deal that was done that did that. And there were still a lot of Republicans that opposed this. So Speaker Mike Johnson, the Republican, really was saved by the Democrats on this occasion after the previous bill, which had some nonsense in it that both Trump and Elon Musk wanted. You know, this extension of the debt ceiling and all this other stuff that

was thrown out in the second bill. That first bill failed, the second bill prevailed, and the Senate then in the early hours of Saturday morning voted on the House bill as well, and they passed it as well. And so President Biden signed it not too long after that.

And so the government will be kept solvent for at least, I think it's another three or four months into 2025. This is something that, you know, these kinds of government, let me just tell you, these kinds of government shutdowns get averted under Democrats and under Republicans, they largely don't. You know, when this orange fool was in the White House,

previously, there were two government shutdowns in the space of a few weeks, in a space of a few months under him. And people tend to forget that. They tend to forget it. I think there were a total of three government shutdowns under him in one term in office. So, you know, that doesn't get talked about in the corporate news media, does it now? But yeah, he has had a number of shutdowns. And I dare say,

that once he gets his grubby hands on the White House again, which will be in less than three and a half weeks from now. Oh, dear. In three, it will be three and a half weeks from now, actually. I can bet you there will be a government shutdown, but we will see. You know, the House at the moment is now this is before the House gets sworn in, I think, on January 3rd.

The House at the moment is in Republican control. It will continue to be as of January the 3rd of next year. There will be a Republican majority, but it will be an even slimmer majority than it is now. So it could really be as low as one seat for the Republicans. Their majority come January 3rd could be as low as one seat or sometime after January 3rd. So

The House is really on thin ice. The House control for the Republicans at this point is really on thin ice when you really look at things in the House because there are still a couple, at least a couple, of House races that still, still at this late date, have not yet been decided. They still are undecided races in at least two House races that are going on, the counts going on,

or recount, the bottom line is that there still is that particular scenario. So we do not yet know

What the composition exactly of the House will be on January 3rd. But we do know that it will be in Republican hands. But it could be in Republican hands by only maybe one seat or two. Because it's very, very close. Without that being that close, without those two races, it's I think still around four seats or five seats perhaps. So it's a very, very close race.

situation, a close run thing now with the House. And what the Democrats obviously in Washington, in Washington, D.C. have to do is focus on trying to get that House back in the midterms.

In the Senate, it's a bit more of a challenge. I think the Republicans have a six or seven seat majority there in the Senate. Now, this is something that Chuck Schumer told us. I talked about this last week, told us over and over again that the Republicans would not take back the House and that they would not take back the Senate. And he said that all three branches would be in Democratic hands. Well, he was wrong. He was wrong, completely wrong.

And the Senate will be in Republican hands as of January the 3rd, currently in Democratic hands. And we saw the chicanery, didn't we, during the time that the Democrats had that Senate majority? We saw it. We saw Joe Manchin, the Democrat, change and become an independent. We saw Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, change and become an independent. We saw both of them scuttle President Biden's agenda during his term in the White House. Remember,

There was the Build Back Better plan. That bill was set to make life a whole lot better for a lot of working class families in this country. Poor and working class people would have really benefited from Build Back Better and all the provisions that it offered, helping people with childcare and all kinds of things. And you had these two Democrats, in quotes, scuttled the whole thing.

You know, they decided not to vote on it. They decided to vote against it. They decided to put a monkey wrench in. They made this noise about a filibuster. We don't want the filibuster to go away and all this other stuff. Scuttling parts of what would have been an even more successful first term and only term, it turns out, for President Biden in the White House. So, you know, I'll be talking about this more toward the end of the year in a few days. I'll be talking about some of these things later.

that happened over the course of this calendar year. That was one of them. Well, that didn't happen this year, but it happened during the term, the first year of the first term of the only term of President Biden. So I guarantee you, you won't be finding too many Republican turncoats during the four years plus potentially of this dictatorial regime that will be coming in on

on January the 20th. You won't be finding too many Republicans or any Republicans at all who will stab him and his agenda in the back. They won't be doing any of that. I can assure you they will not.

be turning against Trump, I can guarantee you. And if they do, it will be done in a subtle way. It won't be done in an outwardly visible way. I mean, if you want to look at this vote just last week against him, he's not in the White House yet. And you see all of this obeying and advance that I've talked about. But

We will see how things shake out. Of course, I do not hold out any hope whatsoever about what will be happening in these next four years. But again, as I've always said, dear listeners, it's a chance for us to organize locally. And if you want to look at where the real juice is, it's locally, local politics.

And we can have a measure of control around that. And if you want to see how dastardly Republicans are, look at the local level, look at politics on the local and state level. And you look at places like North Carolina, the state of North Carolina, the state of Wisconsin, where the Republicans, and it's not just those two states, but those are two of the most egregious examples of

of Republicans just absolutely trampling all over any notion of democracy whatsoever. You have people who are trying to, with their legislative majorities in both of those states, these Republicans, not trying, they are undermining the power

of democratically elected politicians who are Democrats in the statehouse, whether it's the Democratic governor in Wisconsin, Tony Evers, whether it is the Democratic governor in the state of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, and of course his successor, soon to be successor, Josh Stein,

They're already doing this. They've been doing this for years, undercutting the power of democratically elected Democratic governors, undercutting the power of their tasks and their positions and what they do, and having it so that Republicans who are not in the power circles that these Democratic governors are,

have a say or control over certain things. And that's just obscene. You don't see Democrats doing this. You don't see Democrats passing legislation to do this. Well, the reason why you don't is pretty obvious. One, Democrats don't have the majority in a lot of these state legislatures where all this nonsense is going on. Republicans do.

And in a number of situations, like North Carolina, Republicans have super majorities. So there is absolutely no opposition, no chance of any opposition from Democrats that's going to be fierce enough to overturn whatever the Republicans in the super majority do in terms of their vote. Politics, when it comes to this stuff, is about the vote. It's about voting. And I really wish...

Of course, that's a wish that's gone by the boards. But the American public understood that voting is their power. I mean, they see the Republicans doing all the things they're doing in all these state legislatures. They see what's going on and they're doing it by the power of their vote.

But somehow that didn't translate to more than the more than 100 million people who stayed at home this past November. Well, you know, we've talked about that ad infinitum here. I know I'm a broken record when it comes to talking about things like that, how the couch won the election. Donald Trump didn't win it. Vice President Harris obviously didn't win it. The couch won the 2024 presidential election. That is really a fact.

any way you slice it. So yeah, there's a lot of information. The Associated Press had a story

about what's happening in these state legislatures as well that I would urge you to look at. I put that in the line of notes for this episode, actually. It's quite dastardly. It really, really is. And we have to get familiar with our local politics and our state politics as well. We've seen these kinds of things going on in legislatures with Republicans. But that's what happens when you don't have people who are informed in the voting populace

who will actually think it fit to vote in these midterm or off-year elections. That's where the sausage gets made in the local races, in the state races. That's where the sausage gets made. And that's where we need to be voting. And we're not doing that. We are just not voting in these off-year elections. And now we're not voting in presidential elections.

And who knows, before you know it, because the voting totals are so poor, someone will come up and say, oh, why do we need to vote at all? I mean, the public's not voting. The public didn't vote that much in the presidential election and they're not voting these off-year elections and turnouts down. Why even vote at all? Watch that be a refrain from a Republican next. In fact, it already has been. You heard Trump during the campaign saying, oh, you won't ever have to vote again.

And apparently there's a cross-section of people in this country, at least 100 million of them, who are okay with that. Oh, do we live in some odious times. But you know what? We always have. I'll be right back. Dear listener, there is going to be a Politocrat Lady podcast episode tomorrow, December the 25th, Christmas Day, but it's going to be the most unusual episode of this podcast that you have ever listened to. In fact...

I won't tell you what that episode's going to be. You just have to tune into it tomorrow. Here's a hint. There is certainly no way out. I know that doesn't make much sense now, but it will make sense tomorrow. Stay tuned to tomorrow's episode of the Politocrat Daily Podcast on Christmas Day. A very different episode than what you have ever heard before on the Politocrat Daily Podcast.

Welcome back. Well, there are a lot of things to reflect on for 2024. And as I say, I will be talking about that in a bit more detail coming up before the end of the year, right near the end of the year on the Politocrat Daily podcast. And we've lost a lot of people this year. And you may know someone.

who has lost someone this year. You yourself may have lost someone this year, someone you are very close to, someone in your family who you're very close to, someone in your family, a friend of yours or your spouse or your child or your brother or sister or someone. It's been a year of losses. I think every year is in the human calendar, the human lifespan. And so...

I do want to send my deepest condolences to you if you have lost someone or if you know someone who lost someone. I certainly have experienced some of this this year with loss, with people who are close to you, close to me in family and in a number of areas of life. This happens as you get older. You do lose people and...

Death is a part of life. And that's something that I think can be quite unnerving to really come to grips with. But it is something that this society does not do a very good job of acknowledging or putting forth. And we really do need to be aware of that, obviously, that it is part of life. And I think that certainly, and I know there have been a few people who have said this to me,

in the past, if we were more prepared, um, to understand that and more equipped to understand it and deal with that and face that, then I think we'd have a lot less fear and maybe a lot less hate. I would add as well to that, um, in this world and in our lives and in our hearts and souls. So those are things again, uh, as we are here on Christmas Eve to be contemplating, um,

Because a lot of people we've lost. I just think of people, whether they're people in family, people I have known of, people who you know of, people that you and I know of independently in our lives, people close to us. It's been a pretty tough year, I would say. Now,

Again, I do wish you peace and happiness. Of course, we've also lost a lot of people that are famous, people that we may know of. I think of people like John Amos and also Art Evans, who passed away very recently. John Amos passed away back in the summer, but Art Evans over the weekend passed away, and both of them were in Die Hard 2. It's just remarkable. Those two brothers...

were in the same movie and passed away in the same year. I don't know if that means anything. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it probably means nothing of anything to you. But I kind of look at these things and I just kind of not shake my head, but kind of have a very puzzled look on my face. Not this moment, not at this moment, but it happens that way. I don't know why. But

Life is random. Life is precious. And of course, we must keep those things in mind. Treat others the way you yourself would love to be treated and like to be treated. It's the golden rule. We are here for but a moment, dear listener. And so we have to do something positive and loving and life affirming with the time that we have. And yeah, it's not all the straight line. Life is not all a straight line. Anything but is

We learn, we make mistakes, and hopefully we get better and become better human beings because of our learning from the mistakes that we have made. And of course, we do positive, good things. And we must continue to do that. And we must educate ourselves, educate each other.

As to all the goodness and the positivity. And also just be better people. That's one thing that I look at. The opportunity to be better every day in our own lives. In my life. In your life. The opportunity to better yourself. And I don't mean by bettering yourself with material possessions. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about looking within yourself. Looking within yourself.

and challenging yourself to be better. I'll be talking about that in 2025 as well. I'll be talking a lot more about that and in some detail and things that we must be doing. And so

This opportunity on this Christmas Eve is, you know, we have a number of news stories all over the place. You know, there's been a news story about the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, halting every single American Airlines flight in the United States.

after technical issues have been reported system-wide through American Airlines flights. So I really urge you, if you are flying during this holiday season, if you're flying today, if you're flying tomorrow, some people do fly on Christmas Day. It's actually the best day to travel, obviously, because there's very few people traveling on Christmas Day. But some people do fly on Christmas Day.

So keep that in mind. But please avoid American Airlines. That's one thing I'll say. As the Associated Press reports that there is certainly a nationwide ground stop that has been actually now done as a result of the American Airlines saying that their aircraft,

have some, and their subsidiary aircraft have some technical issues system-wide. I mean, this is really scary stuff, by the way. As I'm talking to you about doing positive things, up comes this story, and it's a scary thing because you're going to have someone coming in. This is why the American public, and this is deliberate, how the American public has done something really silly and is not educated. I've talked about this, and I will talk about it again at some point,

Why this result happened the way it did last month. But this is why this is so dangerous. Because the upcoming administration, the tyrants who are going to come in in January, they totally want to

Make air travel. Less safe. They absolutely will reward the billionaires. Who own these airlines. Remember when he was in. The Orange Menace the first time around. It took him forever to decide. To ground Boeing aircraft.

particular Boeing jets that were falling out of the sky. I'm sorry to put it that way, but they were those two major flights that we heard about where within a year of each other or so, year and a half of each other, all of those people on those airlines perished. It was awful. Boeing aircraft, Boeing engineered aircraft,

I think it was the MD-80 or whatever it was. I forget what these actual aircraft were. And they had these technical malfunctions and problems. And they were still flying. And it took this orange menace forever before he decided to call, tell the FAA to just get, you know, just take them out of the sky. You know, let them, keep them grounded. And remember the whole thing with Boeing, the whole scandal around that. And then a whistleblower earlier this year ended his life, took his life.

I mean, this kind of... And there were hearings on Capitol Hill this year. I talked about this earlier this year. There were hearings on Capitol Hill this year about the aircraft safety and Boeing and how destabilized... And what Boeing were telling people, its employees, to do or not do and not care about the safety and the technical, mechanical problems in the aircraft. And now you're seeing the FAA halting every American Airlines flight.

Here in the United States, after the airline reports these technical issues system-wide, this should absolutely send a shockwave through you, especially if you are an American Airlines frequent flyer, which I used to be many years ago, but I have never, after they denied me a million, basically a million miles, it was a lot of miles, it wasn't a million, but it was not far off of, well, it was loads of hundreds, you know, it was a lot of frequent flyer miles.

And ever since then, I've not ever gone back on American Airlines and never will. And I've just seen press after bad press on American Airlines and what they do and some of the racist incidents that have happened on American Airlines. Most recently, earlier this year, I think it was, or last year, where these eight black male passengers, all sitting in different parts of an aircraft plane,

of an American Airlines aircraft were all ejected from the aircraft for what some white flight attendant said was a bad odor that they could smell coming from eight black people who were sitting in different parts of the aircraft. Oh, great. So only those eight black people, you know,

Only eight black people and they were all sitting in different parts of the aircraft, but there's a foul odor, said this white flight attendant in the aircraft.

that was coming from eight black people. And it was all in different areas of the aircraft. True story, true story. I'll talk about that one after we get back from Christmas. I will get into that, believe me. In the meantime, you might want to look that up if you choose. I am not making this up, dear listener, I am not. So American Airlines, and it's not the only airline that has had racist incidents on it. And so American Airlines is an airline that is fraught with all kinds of things

That are very perilous. And anyway, so that's something I just wanted to say in the midst of everything I was saying previously, which is really to, you know,

Enjoy the holiday if you can. If you're able to tomorrow, enjoy Christmas. If you believe in Christmas, if you don't believe in it, enjoy the day tomorrow. The middle of the week is hump day. Think of it if you're not someone who celebrates Christmas and doesn't believe in the spirit of giving and all that kind of thing and being with family. If you're a family, because you might have a family that's downright cruel and you might not want anything to do with them. I completely understand that.

But whatever your feeling about Christmas, whatever your feeling is, just look at it as another day and don't even bother celebrating it if you don't celebrate it. I just want you to have the best day you can possibly have for a hump day Wednesday and make it grand, make it great, make it all you want it to be.

and then some for tomorrow. For those of you who do celebrate Christmas and do believe in all those things, or maybe you believe in giving, but you just don't believe in Christmas, whatever it is, I wish you the best Christmas ever. Make it count. Have a great day. Do something joyful.

Be with family. Connect with people that you haven't connected with in a long time. Be with family members. If you can't be with them in the same city or the same country, make a video. Or better yet, do a live video chat with them. Call them. Let them know that you're thinking of them. Be out there with them. Connect with them in some way, shape, or form. Be with people who care about you. Be with people you care about. People who love you. People who

are close to you, people you trust, people who trust you. Make sure that you have some community around you. It's very important in these days and beyond every day. It's great to have people who have your back and you have theirs as well. These are tough times. But remember, dear listener, tough times do not last. Tough people like you do. Remember that.

on Christmas Eve and tomorrow on Christmas Day and beyond.

It's been a pleasure, dear listener, on this episode of the Politico-Critical Daily Podcast. My name, of course, is Omar Moore. It's always good to be able to speak to you and have you listening. I do really appreciate that very much indeed. I want you, again, to have the happiest, merriest Christmas that you've ever had and reach out to someone, make a difference in someone's life.

Touch someone. And I mean that by spiritual touch. I don't mean touch someone physically. Although you may be doing that on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day tomorrow. But I mean...

An act of kindness goes a long way in this world. And I really do mean that. And it means not wanting to seek something in return because, yeah, actually human beings are quite transactional creatures. God forbid I even think about that orange menace. But human beings are transactional, but not crudely transactional. We all have that kind of give and take, give and receive thing in us. I understand all that.

But we're not nakedly transactional in the way that that orange you-know-what is. But all I'm saying is, make a difference in someone's life, even someone you don't know. Donate to an organization. I'm sure you probably do that, dear listener. Donate some money somewhere. Give someone who is not in the same economic position as you some comfort. Whether it is some money, whether it is a meal at this time of year or any day of the year.

Just do something, some gesture that is going to impact someone's life and it doesn't have to be a grand gesture. It could be something very small, an act of kindness. It could be a smile. It could be a hello. It could be just your presence in their lives. It could be a bit of money. It could be a meal that you've cooked. It could be something small, small.

But it could mean everything to the person that you are giving it to. It could be everything to them. The recipient of your kindness, the recipient of your smile, the recipient of that one moment that you touch someone's life, touch their hearts. And you may never ever get to see them again in your life. You may never ever come across them again. But you know what? For those few seconds, you have made a profound difference in their lives.

That is really the spirit of Christmas that matters most. You can find me on social media, although, you know what? Social media, I have now really tried to curtail my time on social media. I will tell you that freely. No, I'm not going to charge you for me telling you that. But I do believe in

dialing down the social media, especially this time of year, but any time of year. Not to say that I won't, that I don't go on it. I do, but I try to keep it to a minimum. And believe me, I actually feel better. Mental health is another thing I'll be talking about again in 2025, as I have been doing during the course of this year. And you know,

It helps your mental health, really. Get out there and walk around if you're able to walk. If you're not able to walk, make sure someone takes you outdoors. I know that the weather in this part of the world isn't great, but get out there and have someone take you outside and experience the fresh air, as fresh as it can be given the circumstances.

But make sure that you are active. Make sure you get out and move about if you can. Move your arms if you're able to. Make sure that you make use of the outdoors. And reduce your time on social media, please. But you can find me there on, of course, a number of platforms, including Spotify. Excuse me, Spoutable, not Spotify. That's something different. Spoutable, of course, on Fanbase as well. The Isaac Hayes, the third Fanbase, which is just...

really a great social media platform. Some of the things I post, by the way, on fan base are not posted elsewhere. There is something that I have posted. Maybe I might post it somewhere else, but there's a photograph on fan base. Uh, if you go to fan base dot a P P four slash popcorn, R E U F, uh, that I took over the weekend, uh,

That I would like you to see. I might post it on one other social media platform. But I'm not going to post it everywhere. And I'm posting it on the Black-owned social media platforms like Fanbase. Which is the Isaac Hayes III social media platform that's going to be bigger and even better in 2025. With Twitter functionality on the way. It's called Spark. That is what Fanbase will feature. Spark.

Really, really good. I'm excited about this. And I really want you to follow me on Fanbase. I want you to get an account on Fanbase as well. And also, I would love for you to invest in Fanbase. Go to startengine.com forward slash Fanbase to do that. Invest today with Fanbase and get on that platform right now. Spoutable.com forward slash popcorn R-E-E-L as well. And of course, there is a Blue Sky, which is very popular these days.

popcorn r-e-e-l dot b sky dot social as well of course as threads.net forward slash popcorn r-e-e-l and you know of that other platform i'm not going to mention his name but i'm there as well this podcast is on spotify i almost said spartable there is on spotify that's what i was trying to say at the same time this podcast can be found on spotify and apple and numerous other podcasting platforms including an

Animals? Well, Amazon. That's a whole other thing I'll be talking about as well toward the end of this year, as well as Goodpods and Audible and Odyssey and Pandora and much more. Thank you very much for listening to this edition of The Politocrat. Merry Christmas. I'm Omar Moore. And an update to the American airline story.

American Airlines flights are now free to fly again. That is the latest news on that particular situation. The FAA has now cleared American Airlines flights to fly once again.