1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peet's and welcome to okay EP Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: studios in Times Square. Folks, I just want us to 4 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: remember that it has been nine months, nine months since 5 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: the insurrection, and not one fucking indictment has come down 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: from the Department of Justice. Nine months, and we are 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: still looking for people who have posted that they were 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: at the insurrection on social media. I just you know, 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: coming up in my interview with our friend was Jahat Alive. 10 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast columnist Wash says this, you know what 11 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: we just want. We want that the Justice Department and 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: the criminal justice system would treat Trump and all his 13 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: accolades as badly as they treat black and brown innocent 14 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: people right like, for low level infractions. They throw the 15 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: book at these people. You just saw just recently that 16 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, governor of California, decided that he was going 17 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: to do away with mandatory minimum sentencing because of how 18 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: it outside, how it harms right black and brown people 19 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: the most. So again, why is it that we will 20 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: throw the book at low level black and brown people, 21 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: low level drug offenders, but we won't do the same 22 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: for white collar quote unquote white collar crimes that threaten 23 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: our fucking democracy and the future stake that we have 24 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: on the global stage. I'm just I'm so outdone by this. 25 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: I'm tired of the reports, I'm tired of the talking 26 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: heads in the commentary around this, and I want to 27 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: know where the fucking action is. You know, every week 28 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: we have Glenn Kirshner join us I MSNBC legal analysts 29 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: and host of Justice Matters talk about the fact that, yes, 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: you know, the Justice Department does not work as fast 31 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: as we would like them to, and oftentimes we don't 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: know exactly what it is that they are working on. 33 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: But I would tell you that to ensure that people 34 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: do not lose faith in our democracy and do not 35 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: lose faith and hope in our agencies, namely the Department 36 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: of Justice, they may want to issue some fucking statements 37 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: that allow us to see that they are working on 38 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: behalf of securing our democracy and not just holding up 39 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: institutional ideals. I you know, I think that at some 40 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: point in time, at some point in time, you know, 41 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: in the not too distant future, in the shambles right 42 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: of our democracy, somebody will be listening to this podcast, 43 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: and they'll say to themselves, you know, it was all 44 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: so clear of the steps that needed to be taken 45 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: and the action in order to secure our democracy and 46 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: make sure that a fascist, authoritarian, white supremaist, misogynist, islamophobic, transphobic, 47 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: homophobic piece of shit wouldn't become president of the United 48 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: States again. But you know, they just decided not to 49 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: not to end the filibuster, not to actually work on 50 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: behalf of the American people, and just roll the dice. 51 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 1: You know, we talk often on this show about the 52 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: fact that essentially we're all just playing Russian roulette, right 53 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: The anti vaxers and the anti maskers and all of 54 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: these people are just friends paying just Russian roulette with 55 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: their lives. But you see, our Congress right now, which 56 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: is controlled by the Democrats, is playing Russian Roulette with 57 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: our democracy by not securing vote rights, by not going 58 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: after those that actually break the law in broad fucking daylight. 59 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: Because what you don't want to set what you believe 60 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: to be a partisan president of investigating a former president 61 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: even though he was twice fucking impeached. This man, dear friends, 62 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: he is running for office again in twenty twenty four. 63 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: If he is not placed in goddamn fucking handcuffs in 64 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: the next two years, this man is going to run 65 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: and most likely win again. Not win because I believe 66 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: that that many Americans are going to vote for him, 67 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: but win because our vote will no longer fucking matter. 68 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what state Republican officials are hoping and 69 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: banking on. We are getting ready to aform an American 70 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: apartheid system where the minority is going to have rule 71 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: over the majority, not just in Congress, but in the 72 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: courts as well. And then they'll get the executive branch, 73 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: and you know what, Republicans will hold power for the 74 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: next twenty thirty, forty fifty years. Because the only way, 75 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: the only direction that I see this going in, if 76 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: we continue to see in action from our Department of Justice, 77 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: is revolution. That's the only way that this is going 78 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: to end. We are headed directly towards a civil war. 79 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: And I don't say that as hyperbole. I say that 80 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: as reality. You have Facebook and other social media entities 81 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,559 Speaker 1: that are doing nothing about misinformation. They are doing nothing 82 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: about their platforms being used as organizing tools for hate 83 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: groups right and militias. So you have that on one hand, 84 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: then you have a Democratic controlled Congress that can't get 85 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: their ship together to pass any type of legislation that 86 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: is going to affect the daily lives of the American 87 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: people and make sure that they secure our democracy on 88 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: the other hand, and then you have a president that 89 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: sits in the middle that believe that we're still operating 90 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: the twentieth century, where he's going to solve these problems 91 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: with a sit down summit over some fucking Scotch Wake 92 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: the fuck up. I can think of nothing more urgent 93 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 1: than securing our right to vote, because if we don't 94 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: have that, then we're not going to have climate change legislation, 95 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: We're not going to have infrastructure bills, we're not going 96 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: to have a change right to ensure that all people 97 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: that are able to birth can have an abortion if 98 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: they need one. Everything that has come up over the 99 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: past nine months has pointed to one thing only that 100 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: our democracy is on life support. And frankly, the question 101 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: that I'll ask Wag later is whether or not America 102 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: is already dead and we're living in some type of 103 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: dystopian fucking sixth cents where we're all walking around talking 104 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: to each other and not realizing that we're just a 105 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: bunch of apparitions, just a bunch of ghosts of democracy's past. 106 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: Fiona Hill outlined very clearly, very starkly, very stoically in 107 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: our testimony in Donald Trump's first impeachment that you need 108 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: look no further than modern day Russia to see the 109 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: direction that the United States is headed in. You need 110 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: look no further into the fact that the upcoming CEPAC 111 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,559 Speaker 1: Conservative Conference is going to be held in Hungary because 112 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: they believe that hungry, right, a country that doesn't have 113 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: real elections, right, they perform democracy, but it's a theater trick. 114 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: It is not something that actually has power driven for 115 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: and by the people. But that's where they're having their 116 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: next convention. So they are telling you all that they 117 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: are doing. They are telling you the dictators that they 118 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: believe in and want to hold up as a model 119 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: for the future of America. And we're all just sitting 120 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: around pretending that Biden can do all things when he 121 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: can barely get his agenda fucking past because he put 122 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: too much faith in the fact that everyone else was 123 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: going to want to do the quote unquote right thing. 124 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: No one does because at the end of the day. 125 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: What rules us is greed. What rules us is the 126 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: desire or the proximity to power. And like I said 127 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, right on election night, that this was 128 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: going to be white supremacy's last stand. But white supremacy 129 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: is not going down without a motherfucking fight. They have 130 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: the courts, which is where all of us have received 131 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: any of the rights that we have. Now, it didn't 132 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: happen through policy. It happened through laws. It happened through 133 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: the court system. It happened through hard battles. And now 134 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: they own the courts because Democrats decided not to talk 135 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: about that. They don't even want to have conversations about 136 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: the expansion of the Supreme Court because they think somehow 137 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: it's set in stone, the number nine. It's not. When 138 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 1: you think see that things are radically shifting in this 139 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: country at a pace that is neck break, then you 140 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: have to make radical choices. You have to be willing 141 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: to risk losing position, to being risk losing popularity in 142 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: order to get the right things done. But we are 143 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: living in a system where people are more concerned with 144 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: adding money to their pockets, more concerned with their little 145 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: fiefdoms than they are about collective and that's what began 146 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: right with the Tea Party that we all again wanted 147 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: to laugh off. That's what begat the tribalism right was 148 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: this idea that we are going to coalesce around a lie, 149 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: a lie that Barack Obama wasn't an American, a lie 150 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: that he didn't have claim to the presidency because he 151 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: was black, and because we refuse to face the truth 152 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: of white supremacy in this country and how it is 153 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: a part of every fucking agency and institution. We are 154 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: at this place. You know, Wash will say later that 155 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: he believes at this moment was inevitable right that we 156 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: were going to get to a point where our democracy 157 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: was not just going to bend, that it would in 158 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: fact break. He believes that there's still time, and I'm 159 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: saying to you, I don't know that there is. We 160 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: have a handful of months until we begin campaigning for 161 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two midterm cycle. We have at fifty 162 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: margin in the Senate, we have a razor thin edge 163 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: up in the House. But you see, Republicans don't have 164 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: to run on anything. That's what they showed us back 165 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty election. They didn't even bother running 166 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: on a platform. They said, Oh, we'll just you know, 167 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: rerun the same ship from twenty sixteen. Friends, We have 168 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: a deep problem here. We have a crisis. A constitutional 169 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: crisis was not averted because a couple of people in 170 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: the Justice Department did the right thing in the moment. 171 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: We're in the midst of a constitutional crisis. We're in 172 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: the midst of a moral crisis. We're in the midst 173 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: of a crisis of conscience in this country. And I 174 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: don't know who sees the urgency of now, because I 175 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: don't think that the current makeup of folks in Congress do. 176 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: I don't think that the current administration does, because nobody 177 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: is screaming from the rafters saying, look, folks, the comment 178 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: is coming. We are in armageddon. This is deep impact. 179 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: And it isn't aliens or comments that are going to 180 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: take us out. It is in action and apathy. Coming 181 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: up next, dear friends, is my conversation with wasajahat Ali, 182 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: the columnist at the Daily Beast. He is a friend 183 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: and he has so many thoughts. He makes me feel 184 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: less crazy. So I hope that you enjoy that conversation. Friends. 185 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: I am so happy to welcome back to woke. A 186 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: f daily friend and colleague and Daily Beast columnists was 187 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: Jahat Ali to discuss Guess what, folks, the nine month 188 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: anniversary of the attempted coup to overthrow the government by 189 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his fellow fascist was. You know, we 190 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: just learned this week as well, which I'm sure is 191 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: not an accident of timing, that the Senate Judiciary Committee 192 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: had a three hundred and ninety four page report outlining 193 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: all the ways in which Bill Barr, Mark Meadows, Donald 194 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: Trump and others worked to try and get the Department 195 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: of Justice to say that there was fraud in the 196 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: election in order to subvert our democracy and keep Donald 197 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: Trump in power. It's been nine months since the insurrection 198 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: right this week, and not one of those people have 199 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: been indicted. And also we have heard that the people 200 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: that have been called upon by the one six Commission 201 00:13:54,559 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: to be subpoenad and be under oath, Steve Bannon, Cashpital 202 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: and and others have decided, you know what, they think 203 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: that the subpoenas by Congress are a suggestion that they 204 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: would rather not RSVP four. What is going on? Yeah, So, 205 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: what we're witnessing is the rough draft of an insurrection, 206 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: a failed first copy that will be rinsedon, repeated, and 207 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: perfected in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four. And 208 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: people say, oh, you're you're just being hysterical. I was 209 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: just having a conversation with someone. They said, oh, you 210 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: were just being hysterical and reactionary. But all the stuff 211 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: that you and your colleagues, oftentimes people of color were 212 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: seeing for the past four or five years turn out 213 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: to be true, even the effort fa fascism that you use. 214 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: I was so happy to hear it. I wrote a 215 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: couple of articles and tweets about it, and people like, oh, 216 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: you've gone too far. I had to make the pitch 217 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: to use the word fascism even a year ago. This 218 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: is why you have to really make the case for it. 219 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, what's the case. This is what's going to happen. 220 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: This is when Trump was in office, right, and this 221 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: is the future we're going to see is minority rule 222 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: to establish white Christian suprem see. And it's gonna be 223 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: an authoritarian government with the veneer of democracy putin, for example, 224 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: wins elections. No one's gonna say it's a democracy but 225 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: he wins elections. You know, Pustinia Bobari, the dictator of 226 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: Egypt one elections, Victor orbon Is Quoe unquote president of Hungary, 227 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: a hungry of the country which they love. Right now 228 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: the model for Trucker Carlson where they're gonna have sepack 229 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: the Annual Consertive Action political conference is going to be 230 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: in Hungary right like there's there's like a Defcon three, 231 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: Defcon two probably happening right now. But Steve Bennett did 232 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: something I'm gonna give him credit. Flood the zone with shit. 233 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: That was his strategy. If you flood the zone with shit, 234 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: you leave people confused, you leave people overwhelmed, you're able 235 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: to move the Overton window of what's acceptable and not acceptable. 236 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: You're supposed to you're you're supposed to numb the people. 237 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: There's just too many crisis what to believe, what not 238 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: to believe in our media establishment. Let's be honest in 239 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: this incestuous ecosystem where everyone's buddy buddy, and everyone has 240 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: to call balls and strikes, and everyone has the view 241 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: from nowhere. Oftentimes many white gate keepers, because it doesn't 242 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: affect them, they say no, no, no, we have to 243 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: do both sides. There's no both sides here. We have 244 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: one side that is aggressively trying to subvert democracy through 245 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: a coup another word that you use that I'm so 246 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: glad that you used, and the other side, which is, yes, flawed, 247 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: but at least it's trying to be adults and raise 248 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: the dead ceiling to keep the government function. And so 249 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: what do you do when the entire conservative ecosystem, not 250 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: just the elected officials, but Fox News, which is celebrating 251 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: his twenty fifth anniversary this week, and also the podcast, 252 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: and also the strategists and also the lawyers are hell 253 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: bent on minority rule. You're going to have a constitutional 254 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: crisis and you're going to have most likely a civil 255 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: war in this country. And the Justice Department, which should 256 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: be aggressive af right now, has not arrested anybody. So 257 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: to answer your question, I echo your frustration because that 258 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: was my first tweet when this report came out, and 259 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: I tweeted, I'm like, how come nobody's in jail? And 260 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: that tweet kind of went viral and everyone was like, 261 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: that's a very good question. I guess we should just 262 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: be black and brown, unarmed protesters protesting officers Chauvin, you know, 263 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: choking George Floyd to death. And then maybe then these 264 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: people will take it seriously. I mean, I could find 265 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: it absolutely shocking and disgusting that, first of all, the 266 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: longest sentence that we have seen come out of the 267 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: insurrectionists was it's four months. That's the longest goddamn sentence 268 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: that we have seen, right for two thousand people breaking 269 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: into the Capitol building, building a guilty and on the 270 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: steps of the Capitol saying and chanting that they wanted 271 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: to hang Mike Pence, defecating in the halls of our democracy. 272 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: We have it on every goddamn video, every goddamn angle 273 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: we have seen that. We heard testimony from four police 274 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: officers right from the Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police 275 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: talking about the trauma of that day. We've had police 276 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: officers commit suicide following right the insurrection, and yet to 277 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: your point, to your tweet, why isn't anybody in jail? 278 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about the people that were 279 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: on the steps that day. I'm talking about the people 280 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: that were on the dias at the stop, the Steel rally, 281 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: the Juliani's right, the Josh Hollies that wanted to give 282 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: a fist the Donald Trumps that talked about one six 283 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: being wild. How is it that Congress has the time 284 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 1: to put together three hundred and ninety some odd page report, 285 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: and yet I'm wondering whether or not they're going to 286 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: even support even enforce the subpoenas. Right, I'm just I'm 287 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: so outraged. I feel like, so I've said this before, 288 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: the Democrats bring a pencil to a knife fight, and 289 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell brings a bazooka, and who's gonna win ten 290 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: out of ten times? At the same time, you want to, 291 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: you know, go high, like Michelle said, but you need 292 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: some brawlers. The problem is is when you have structural 293 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: deficiencies where we have a fifty fifty Senate and the 294 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: fifty Democrats represent nearly forty million more Americans, and yet 295 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: it's still fifty fifty. You have the electoral College, you 296 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,239 Speaker 1: have massive voter suppression bier Republicans, you have jerrymandering, and 297 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: you literally have one entire gop ecosystem that has held 298 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: bent on obstructionism. Casement point. As we're recording this, we 299 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: just got a small reprief to December for the dead 300 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: ceiling but they're literally hijacking the nation because they have 301 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: admitted Centator till Us admitted it. We will run great 302 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: ads on this in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty 303 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 1: four that look at the Democrats, Look how much they 304 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: spend so much money. Yeah, because you're not raising the 305 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: dead ceiling for this country to pay off the debts 306 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: incurred under Donald Trump's administration. So you're dealing with nihilists, 307 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: this pro death nihilist movement that is attacking masks, attacking vaccines, 308 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: attacking science, all for their culture work. On the Democratic side, 309 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: you have this unweeling group that is trying to get 310 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: together a diverse coalition, but we are fed because we 311 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: have these coone core moderates. I hate to call them moderates, 312 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: their obstruction. I was gonna say they are And you 313 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: know what, there is a doctor abdul l say ed um, 314 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: he refers to them. He said, no, they're not, They're 315 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: not even there were. They're regressionist, right yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, 316 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: I'm fine with the regressionist. I'll take it. So so 317 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: you have so this if we just like, let's give 318 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: Biden to put myself in Biden's shoes and democratsrihoes for 319 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: a second. This is what you're dealing with, a pandemic 320 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: that has killed more than seven hundred thousand people because 321 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump failed and lied to the American people. Let's 322 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: be honest, trying to reopen America. But you have this 323 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: right wing fringe nut now literally invoking violence upon school 324 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: teachers and physicians. You have a recession, you have this 325 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: debt ceiling. You have obstructionist Republicans. You got Republicans who 326 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: refuse to even take part in a bipartisan commission in 327 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: which this mob tried to kill them and the Vice 328 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: President Mike Pence, and you have massive voter suppression, and 329 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 1: you have corruption and by the way, you have a 330 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: propaganda network that refuses to be honest and is disinforming people. 331 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, you have one year to 332 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: pull it off, Danielle, because you have a razor thin 333 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: margin in the House, and according to all the data 334 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: and the stats and historical trends and voter suppression and jerrymandering, 335 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: Republicans isn't going to take the House and most likely 336 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: the Senate. And so just to like, you know, when 337 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: you get so frustrated and people get so frustrated, and 338 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: I get frustrated. You have the Democratic Party which is 339 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: barely hanging onto its majority because you have people like 340 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: Cinema and Mansion and other que quote regressionists in the House, 341 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: not unified. Meanwhile, McConnell and the right wing, they whip 342 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,919 Speaker 1: him into shape when it comes to the culture or 343 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: even Mitt Romney refuses to raise the dead selling you know, 344 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 1: he's allegedly the colone quote moderate. And so it's so 345 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: frustrating that the majority is hijacked by a minority. We're 346 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: running out of time, we don't have the resources. Multiple fires, 347 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: multiple crises, and this is where Steve benn and won 348 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: flood the zone with shit. Now deal with the shit, 349 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: Mit Daniel, what shit do you want to deal with? First? 350 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: Climate change, income inequality, build back better, the January sixth insurrection, 351 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: voter suppression. You tell me what's the number one on 352 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: your list? You know, see, And that is such a 353 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: good that is such a good question, because one you 354 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: just gave us, you know, a partridge in a pear 355 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: tree of all the things that are fucking wrong and 356 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: are right. If I am Biden, right, if I if 357 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: I am the President of the United States, and you're 358 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: saying to me after that litany of things that are wrong, 359 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: things that are broken. First of all, I don't even 360 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: know why the man ran for the job in the 361 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: first place, because I would run from it, not run 362 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: for it. Voting. Voting, to me, has got to be 363 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: number one because if to your point, if we don't 364 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: have the huge margins necessary in order to get things done, 365 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: because we have two regressionists, right that are marauding as 366 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: if they are Democrats, but we know, good god damn 367 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: well that they are not. They're bought and paid like 368 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: by the pharmaceutical companies, by goal by just name it right, 369 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: And I continue to say this on social media as well, 370 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: to follow the money right, like why isn't Christen Cinema 371 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: talking to anybody? Why is Joe Manchin the only one 372 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,479 Speaker 1: that is always in front of a microphone? Look at 373 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: their bank accounts, look and see where they're getting their 374 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: money from. But again, if I am dealing with all 375 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: of these problems, I'm going after voting because if I 376 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: don't have the large enough margins, if people are not 377 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: able to show up and express their frustrations at the polls, 378 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 1: and none of these members are going to be held 379 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: accountable for their in action and their obstructionism, then I 380 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: can't get anything else done. I'm not passing infrastructure, I'm 381 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: not passing a climate change bill. I'm not doing any 382 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: of the things that the American people say that they 383 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: desperately need. But for you, if you is what is 384 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: number one? For you? Yeah? So I wrote an article 385 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: about this with the Daily ABUSA couple months ago, and 386 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: I said, you have to nuke the filibuster, right, I said, 387 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: nuke could get rid of it. It's over, It's done 388 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 1: because of philibuster. Is this archaic relic of the Jim 389 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: Crow era that has been used predominantly by McConnell Republicans 390 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: to turn this sent into a graveyard. Just obstructionism. Nothing's 391 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: gonna get done. If you get rid of the filibuster, 392 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: you got the fifty fifty, you can get Kamala to 393 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: come in as a tiebreaker, and you can pass a 394 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Right, you can pass all 395 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: these bills that will strengthen voting, that will be a 396 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: buffer against these voter suppression bills across the nation, which 397 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: you buy it the way or even unpopular with Republican voters. 398 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: See that's where you have to gop flexes its muscle. 399 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: They're like, we don't even care if our voters don't 400 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: like this. Hell, we'll even kill our voters for the 401 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: culture war. And you're dealing with this nihilistic movement. But 402 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: unfortunately you said, we have mansion in Cinema were bought 403 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: and paid. I personally think Chris Cinema will tank it 404 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: all for christ and Cinema. People say, oh, eventually, if 405 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: she'll come around. I'm like, I don't buy it. People say, oh, 406 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: she has to run for reelection, maybe she doesn't, maybe 407 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: she's a one term a dollar she goes. I'm out, yeah, 408 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: but what what what? People say? No? No, And I 409 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: think this is the analysis which with why people see 410 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: rose colored glasses of an America that doesn't exist, and 411 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: white people of color have called it out consistently, especially 412 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: for the past five years, is because we have experienced 413 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: both the American dream and the American nightmare. We have 414 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: seen the unfairness of it all, the hypocracy of it all. 415 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 1: You know, my people experienced the war and terror black people, 416 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: I've been experiencing the war in terror since forever. Latinos 417 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: get it, and so we say Yeah, this country can 418 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: turn on you on a dime. The people who are 419 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: supposed to be the gatekeepers can be perverse and corrupted. 420 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: The guardrails won't be in place if they get bent 421 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: by the people who don't care about the guardrails, whill 422 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 1: remove it, right, And so we're saying, oh, you know 423 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will be regulated by the Republican Party. We said, no, 424 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,719 Speaker 1: he won't. Oh, the right wing movement will be moderated. Nope, 425 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: it's gonna get fascistic. That's what I said. And lo 426 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: and behold that's where we are, and we still haven't. 427 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: Really the fundamental problem is those folks in power, and 428 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: I really mean this, they still feel that they'll be protected. 429 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: They have sex with these people, they drink with these people, 430 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: they party with these people. Oh, they invite me to 431 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: the country club. Behind the scenes, they're moderate, they go 432 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: to my same church. You know, let's be honest. It's 433 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: a very incestuous ecosystem with big money media, and they 434 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: think we'll be fine. They won't come after me. Oh, 435 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: you don't know them the way I know them. Right. 436 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: It's this type of human, if you will, subjectivity that 437 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 1: blinds them to the reality that they're witnessing in front 438 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 1: of us. Meanwhile, the rest of us don't have that privilege. 439 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: We don't get invite to those cocktail parties. We're like, no, 440 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: these policies affect our communities. We know white supremacy, we 441 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: know what's coming down the pipeline. You're gonna take this seriously. 442 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: And I don't think they're gonna take it seriously. I 443 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: think imagine in cinema they're gonna get rich. They don't 444 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: do they won't do what's necessary. They won't do what's needed. 445 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: It's staring you right in the face. I agree with you. 446 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: If it was me, I would whip them up, you know, Pelosi, Biden, Schumer. 447 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: But they can't. They don't have the power kill the 448 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: fullibuster pass Voting Rights Act. We have one year left 449 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty two mid terms, and if you 450 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: can do that what you want, then what I would 451 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: do is say, Merrick Garland, you were appointed for a reason. 452 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: The Justice Apartment is here. You need to flex, and 453 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: you need to flex now. I want subpoenas, and if 454 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: they reject the subpoenas, I want you to flex, right. 455 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: I want you to punish them. I want you to 456 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: find them, jail them, do what you would do to 457 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: poor black and brown people. Come on, that is it 458 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: for Today's Woke, a f daily podcast. To hear more 459 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: from today's show, including my full interview with wajahat Ali. 460 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: Support me on Patreon at patreon dot com slash Woke AF. 461 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 462 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.