1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke f Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording once again from the 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, it is with such deep sadness that 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: as I make my return to woke f Daily after 5 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: taking a week off for vacation, that we are just 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: in the midst of another disaster. And sadly, you know, 7 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: following this horrific, horrific extreme climate event that took place 8 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: in Kentucky, Mississippi across so many states, we continue to 9 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: refer to these environmental disasters as natural disasters, when in fact, 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: there's nothing natural about what is transpiring to our climate. 11 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: I was really upset the other day while I was 12 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: watching cable news and listening to the FEMA director, Deanne 13 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: Griswell I believe is her name, yes, Deanne Griswell, and 14 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: when she was asked by a host of a cable 15 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: news show whether or not she felt that what transpired 16 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: across these Midwestern states was related to climate change, her 17 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: response was, I don't know, but what I do know 18 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: is that these events are becoming much more extreme and 19 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: much more frequent. I was really angered by the response 20 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 1: that she provided because we have allowed the radical right 21 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: to politicize every goddamn thing that makes sense, from the 22 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: truth to science, to healthcare to everything in between, so 23 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: much so that what is normal A normal response would 24 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: be yes, this is related to climate change. How else 25 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: could you understand and wrap your mind around again, a 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: once in a century storm? Right? How many times have 27 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: we heard that over the past couple of years. Oh, 28 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: it's a once in a century storm. It's a once 29 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: in a century hurricane. It's a once in a century tornado. 30 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: Except it's not once. It's happening every single season, and now, 31 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: outside of the normal tornado season in December, we're seeing 32 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: a catastrophe, a catastrophic environmental event that so far has 33 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: claimed the lives of sixty seven people in one state, 34 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: seventy four across the states that have been affected, and 35 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: over a hundred people still missing. Right, we can no 36 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: longer pretend that this is just God's will. Right, God's 37 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: will is not for us to be cloaked in ignorance 38 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: about how we are effectively rapidly changing our climate. You know, 39 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: I can remember I was having this conversation the other day. 40 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: Do you remember an inconvenient truth? Right? Well, Al Gore 41 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: put up the documentary video about how we were going 42 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: to be affecting our climate. That video. Let let's just 43 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: double check here, because I believe that an inconvenient truth 44 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: right came out dear friends in two thousand and six. 45 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: Two thousand and six, Al Gore was one of the 46 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: only people most famous, I would say, at that time 47 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: that transcended the climate field to be talking about what 48 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: we are doing to destroy our environment and the thing 49 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: that pisses me off, just like what we saw in 50 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: terms of the vaccine rollout and how wealthier high income 51 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: nations are not doing their fair share to contribute to 52 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: and to support the lower income nations that they have 53 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: had no problem over generations extracting from right, and so 54 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: we have omicron right, our latest variants because of vaccine 55 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: what hoarding, I don't even know what you call it, 56 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: vaccine greed right, where we didn't do what was necessary 57 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: in order to help lower income nations that were asking right, 58 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 1: asking for the trips waiver so that they could create 59 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: and manufacture their own and not weight on the supposed 60 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: benevolence of higher income nations. Well, here's the same thing 61 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: with climate change. We know that it is the higher income, 62 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:56,559 Speaker 1: more industrialized nations that have moved us into this place, right, 63 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: and yet it will be the lower income, small all 64 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: nations that are situated in the Caribbean that are situated 65 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: on coasts, right, that are situated in areas where they 66 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: were going to experience severe drought, severe flooding. Right. We 67 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: were seeing this happen in a high incombination in Germany, 68 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: right with their massive flooding that happened that wiped out 69 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: an entire fucking town. And so my question is how 70 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: much more do we need to see before this nation, 71 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: this world wakes the fuck up? Right? We keep convening 72 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: the G seven, we keep having these you know, Oh Biden, 73 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: one of his first announcements was we're re engaging with 74 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: the Paris Agreement. Well that's great, except what we have 75 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: seen since the initial signing of that agreement is even 76 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: more deadly climate events. Think to twenty twenty, we lost 77 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: a bill in animals on this planet. In the in Australia. 78 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: Do you even remember that every fire season now is 79 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: lasting longer and burning much more ground. Now we have 80 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: tornadoes that are spanning across multiple states. If you just 81 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: think about this from an economic perspective, right, if you 82 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: could care less about the loss of life, the fact 83 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: that in Kentucky, Governor Andy Bisheer damn near in tears, 84 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: said that we have lost people from as young as 85 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: five months old to as old as eighty six thus far, 86 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: and that they won't know the extent of the fatalities 87 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: for weeks. Because if you look at the fucking area 88 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: that was hit head on, it looks like a bunch 89 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: of matchsticks that were knocked over, right, that we're built 90 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: up and then just flattened. And I can't believe we 91 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: see these pictures that these were homes, these were schools, 92 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: these were libraries, right, Whole fucking towns wiped out. And 93 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: so when you're directly asked, right as the director of 94 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: the federal emergency response, do you think that these climate 95 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: events are being caused by our lack of urgency around 96 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: tackling climate change? And you say I don't know, Well, 97 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: then you are being intellectually fucking dishonest. And folks can 98 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: say to me, well, it's not her job, Well whose 99 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: fucking job is it? Because it seems not to be 100 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: the President of the United States's job, it seems not 101 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: to be Congress's job, right, because once again you've allowed 102 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: the loudest, most ignorant voices to be able to dictate 103 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: the narrative around what it is that we need to 104 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: do in order to prevent these disasters. This country is 105 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:07,559 Speaker 1: going to go fucking bankrupt every season, right hurricane season 106 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: to tornado season to fire season, and then at some point, folks, 107 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: they're just gonna all blur together right where they're just 108 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: going to be popping up, much like this tornado that 109 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: is outside of the regular season in December, when we're 110 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: not able to prepare. We know that this is happening. 111 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: We are seeing it right now. I came back from 112 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: my holiday and I'm looking at the weather in New York, 113 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, waiting, you know, assuming that you know, I 114 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: would be returning back to freezing temperatures because it's December. No, 115 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: this whole fucking upcoming week is going to be in 116 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: the high fifties and on Sundays sixty degrees. It's December, 117 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the month, we are days 118 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: away from the Christmas holiday, and it was sixty degrees 119 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now folks can say, well, you know, 120 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: you might as well enjoy it, but I want you 121 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: to think about the chain reaction that happens. Right. So 122 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: you have these warmer climates, right, this warmer weather, So 123 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 1: then you have insects right that would normally die off 124 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: for the winter months that are persisting, right, which then 125 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: produce infection, right, Carrie disease. You know West Nile was 126 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: back to being a big thing last summer, right, because 127 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: you have mosquito season lasting longer, you have the weather 128 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: being damper. Then you look at well, where do we 129 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: get our food from. Many of us think it's just 130 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: the grocery store. Well, the grocery store has to get 131 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: that food from somewhere farms. Well, how do you have 132 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: seasonal planting? And how are you able to get food 133 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: when you can't rely on the precipitation levels, You can't 134 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: rely on weather conditions, on soil conditions, on water conditions. 135 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: Aren't any of that. So then you talk about the 136 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: price of food rising, right, because the areas in which 137 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: we were able to grow that food are now ravaged 138 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: by regular climate disasters, whether it be fires, whether it 139 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: be floods, whether it be droughts. And that's how you 140 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: create climate refugees. And if we think that that is 141 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: not going to happen in the United States, it's already 142 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: happening around the world. And what happens when food becomes scarce, right, 143 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: is what violence becomes rampant. Because now we're no longer 144 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: operating from anybody's abundant standpoint. Now we're operating from a 145 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: scarcity model. And what happens when we all take on 146 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: this scarcity, right, this scarcity ideology, which is what has 147 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 1: taken over and consumed the Republican Party, is that we 148 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: start fighting amongst each other, We start ravaging every person 149 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: for themselves. Right. This is how war crime, all of 150 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: these things become elevated and increased. So when we're talking 151 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: about the climate crisis, it isn't just a crisis of 152 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: changing whether or oh it's warmer in December and shouldn't 153 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: we just enjoy it? It is what the ramifications of 154 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: that warming will do across all of our needs. You know, 155 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: when I listen and I see these families that are 156 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: being interviewed right now on the news, and you know, 157 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: I think to myself, how devastated I am for them, honestly, right, 158 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: because I cannot imagine. I cannot imagine that everything that 159 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: you've known just being wiped out within minutes. Like, folks, 160 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: just think about this. The destruction that occurred across these 161 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: states happened in minutes minutes, right, your whole life turned 162 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: upside down. You don't know where you're getting food, you 163 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: don't know where you're getting water, there's no electricity, you 164 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: can't send your kids to school. And oh, by the way, 165 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: we're still in a global health pandemic. So what do 166 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: you think is going to be happening in these areas 167 00:12:52,800 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: now following this outbreak of deadly tornadoes? A right is 168 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: probably in hospitalizations due to COVID on top of the 169 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: hospitalizations of those that were already harmed in the tornadoes. Folks, 170 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: we are living in the midst of a perfect fucking 171 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: nightmare right now. We're everywhere that you look, there is 172 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: something that is going dramatically wrong, and we still don't 173 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: seem to have the political will to do what is necessary. 174 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden, the Biden administration right now is 175 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: still going around selling back, build, back better, which a 176 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: part of it is about infrastructure and bracing infrastructure for 177 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: our changing climate. Now, mind you remember Joe Mansion did 178 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: not want to include that in the infrastructure bill. Right, 179 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: you're talking about his state, which has also been ravaged 180 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: by quote unquote natural disasters. But what kills me about 181 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: these people that are being interviewed is that I bet 182 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: if you were to do a poll to figure out 183 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: where they fall on the political spectrum, that a majority 184 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: of them are fucking Republicans, voting once again against their 185 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: own interests, wanting to chuck this up to saying, oh, 186 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: you know, this is God, this is God's will. It 187 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: is not, you know. I tweeted the other day too 188 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: that I am so fucking tired of hearing thoughts and 189 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: prayers every fucking disaster, whether it is the mass shooting 190 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: and Oxford, Michigan, whether it is this you know, spat 191 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: of deadly tornadoes across the country, everything turns back to 192 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers from politicians. And what I tweeted and 193 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: said was this, I don't need your thoughts and prayers. 194 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: If I wanted thoughts and prayers, I would go to 195 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: a religious institution. As a politician, thoughts and prayers are 196 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: not your fucking job. Policy is. But yet we allow 197 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: them to get away with the idea that they can't 198 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: change anything, that somehow their hands are tied and I'm 199 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: confused because I'm like, your hands are not tied. You 200 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: actually have all of the power, but none of the will. 201 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: Joe Biden this week is once again sitting down with 202 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: Joe Manchin, who doesn't want to include dental into the 203 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: Human Infrastructure bill. Meanwhile, people in West Virginia I have 204 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: no fucking teeth. And I don't say that as a joke. 205 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: I mean they have serious dental issues. How is it 206 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: a man that is sailing around on a seven hundred 207 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollars yacht has the audacity to tell people, oh, no, 208 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: we're not going to cover these basic fucking needs. And 209 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: when the government right is not actually acting as your 210 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: safety net, that's when desperation begins at all. That's the difference, folks, 211 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: between democracies, which we are not democracies, right, and autocracies cuctocracies. 212 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: We're only the rich right are able to have dental 213 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: and vision and healthcare and all of these things that 214 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: everybody else, be damned. And so if we again continue 215 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: to erode our faith and integrity of these institutions that 216 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: are supposed to be our social safety nets, then where 217 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: do we end up? It is terrifying to think that 218 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: we are a couple of weeks away from the end 219 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: of this year, and I want to ask you guys 220 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: right now and tell me in the comments section, what 221 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: would you call twenty one when we're referring back to 222 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: this year? You know, the year of this, you know, 223 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: the Golden Age, the Age of Enlightenment, blah blah blah, 224 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: the year of blah blah, the selfie this saying anything, 225 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: What is what characterizes? What are the themes that would 226 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: characterize the year of twenty twenty one? I mean everywhere 227 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: that you look, from the beginning, the insurrection six days 228 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: into the new year, two deadly aggressive climate change, provoked 229 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: tornadoes at the end of the year, and that all 230 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: of the shit that happened in the middle. I mean, 231 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: I will be doing a reflection show, so I'm but 232 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: I'm reflecting in this moment on all that has transpired. 233 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: And frankly, you know, I know that this administration is 234 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: up against a lot of attacks in the media. Politico, 235 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: which was you know, bought out I believe by the 236 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: fucking murdocks, has gone after the Vice President with such savagery. 237 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: It is disgusting. I see that CNN has decided to 238 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: lift up former Trump administration officials and bring them on 239 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: their network. I just, folks, you know, it's like you 240 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: don't face any consequences for doing bad. There's no responsibility 241 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: to be had. You just these people just continue to succeed, 242 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: right while the rest of us are left to scrape around. 243 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: You know, there is a there is a piece that 244 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: Charles Burlough wrote in the New York Times, and I 245 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: gotta tell you it's really good. It's entitled We're Edging 246 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: Closer to Civil War and it begins like this. The 247 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: Supreme Court last Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers 248 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans 249 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. 250 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: But while the conservative majority didn't close the door on 251 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: abortion in Texas completely, the degree to which it's cracked 252 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: open allows in only a sliver of light. For now, 253 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: the law in question SP eight remains on the books. 254 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: Anyone who assists in providing an illegal abortion, from the 255 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: provider down to the person who gives a woman a 256 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: ride to the clinic, can still be sued. Roe v. 257 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: Wade has essentially been overturned in the state and soon 258 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: that astonishing reality may not only become permanent there, but 259 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: may also spread to other states. A key component of 260 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: women's rights and body autonomy is being snatched away as 261 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: we watch in a descent. Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor 262 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: wrote this, this is a brazen challenge to our federal structure. 263 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: It echoes the philosophy of John C. Calhoun, a virulent, 264 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: virulent defender of the slaveholding South, who insisted that states 265 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: had the right to veto or nullify any federal law 266 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: which they disagreed. I found the invocation of South Carolina's 267 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: Calhoun striking. Charles blow Rights for The Times. Yes, he 268 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: was a strong believer in nullification, the idea that states 269 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: could nullify federal laws. But he was also a raging 270 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: racist who went further than the slave owners who saw 271 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: slavery as a necessary evil, seeing it instead as a 272 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: positive good. This is what Calhoun wrote in eighteen thirty seven. 273 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: He gave a speech. I'm sorry, he gave a speech 274 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: on the Senate floor that slavery quote quote had grown 275 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: up with our society and institutions and is so interwoven 276 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: with them that to destroy it, to destroy slavery would 277 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: be to destroy us as a people. This is what 278 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,719 Speaker 1: he said, and I want you folks to listen to this, 279 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: because again the attack on facts, history, truth, the truth 280 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: of our founding, the purpose of which is to have 281 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: us continue to repeat the same cycles of white supremacy 282 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: and terror over and over and over again. It is 283 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: to have us believe that this has always been the 284 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: way right, and that how dare any of us challenge 285 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: an institution that would have some one like a Calhoun 286 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: say there is no way for us to give up 287 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: holding slaves, torturing, beating, raping, murdering, lynching these enslaved Africans, 288 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: because it's just too part of who we are, and 289 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: it's for the greater good, the greater white good. What 290 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: Blow will go on to say in this piece are 291 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: the parallels between Calhoun's sensibility, which is what son Justice 292 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: Sonia Sotomayor had said in her descent, and to this 293 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: new wave of the white supremacist domestic terror party that 294 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: we see morphing bigger and bigger in front of us, 295 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: much in the same way as the tornadoes did across 296 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: the Midwest, destroying everything and anything in its path. Calhoun 297 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: said this in this floor speech. But let me not 298 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: be misunderstood as admitting, even by implication, that the existing 299 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: relations between the two races in the slaveholding states is 300 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: an evil. Far otherwise, I hold it to be a good, 301 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: as it has thus far proved itself to be both 302 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: and will continue to prove so if not disturbed by 303 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: the fell spirit of abolition. I appeal to facts. Never 304 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: before has the Black race of Central Africa, from the 305 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: dawn of history to the present day, attained a conditioned, 306 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: so civilized, and so improved, not only physically, but morally 307 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: and intellectually. You ripped poets, engineers, farmers, caregivers, tribe leaders, 308 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 1: people from their homes. You had the audacity of the 309 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: place your Eurocentric white supremacist lens to look at their 310 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: experience their lives as what savagery. But you don't think 311 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: the beating, the brutalization, the rape, and the bondage and 312 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: captivity that you would place enslaved Africans in for hundreds 313 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: of years. You deem that as a necessary good and 314 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: not an evil. It is with that lens. It is 315 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: with that lens that white supremacs have been able to 316 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: justify everything that they do. And it is with that 317 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: lens right, that we continue to allow the media to 318 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: create a narrative around communities of color, around the black 319 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: community in particular. That all comes from this way of thinking, oh, 320 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: you see, they're better off in bondage because left to 321 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: their own devices, what would they do? This paternalistic, white 322 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: patriarchal mess that America is and has always been. And 323 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: we don't just feel right the sentiments the residue of 324 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: this now it's still in deeply in practice. But to 325 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: not understand that history, to not understand the Calhoun sensibility 326 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: that is now occupying the Republican Party and their belief 327 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: they're taking their belief of states rights to supersede that 328 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: of the federal government. So the Supreme Court is now 329 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: in cahoots with these Republican state governors right, who are 330 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:47,959 Speaker 1: in cahoots with Republicans at the national level to create 331 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: a patchwork. It is no longer the United States, right, 332 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: it is the disheveled states of America where you can 333 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: get an abortion in California and New York and that's it, right, 334 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: So what else do you think that they're going to 335 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: be able to institute allow states to decide what it 336 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: is that they choose to cherry pick from the Constitution 337 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: what they choose to cherry pick right from federal statutes 338 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: in law that no longer sit well with them. Charles 339 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: Blow goes on to write this, In Calhoun's view, the 340 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: states had the right to control and oppress black bodies 341 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: as they saw fit, regardless of any actions to the 342 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: contrary on the federal level. States, he felt, should be 343 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: able to choose whether or not they wanted slavery. I 344 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: see too many uneasy parallels between what is happening nearly 345 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: two hundred years ago and what is happening now. I 346 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: see this country on the verge of another civil war 347 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: as the Calhounian impulse is reborn. There are enormous obvious differences. 348 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: Of course, the civil war I see is not the 349 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: kind that would leave hundreds of thousands of young men 350 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,719 Speaker 1: dead in combat. That is not to say that we weren't, 351 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: that we aren't seeing spats of violence, but rather that 352 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: this new war will be fought in courts, state houses, 353 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: and ballot boxes rather than in the fields. And this 354 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: war won't be only about the subjugation of black people, 355 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: but also about the subjugation of all who challenge the 356 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: white racist patriarchy. It will seek to push back against 357 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: all others, he writes, black people, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ people, 358 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: and yes, women, particularly liberal ones. You see, I disagree 359 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: with Charles Blow on one account. I do think that 360 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: we are going to see thousandstead Do you think that 361 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: we are going to see an escalation of violence in 362 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: our streets? I think that the decision in the Written 363 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:12,479 Speaker 1: House case made that all but certain that white vigilanteism 364 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: will become the norm. That you will be allowed to 365 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: roam around with your AAR fifteen slung over your shoulder 366 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: or your nine millimeter guns stuck into your genes and 367 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: be able to stand your ground so long as you 368 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: are white and male and straight wherever the fuck you want. 369 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: So what does that say for the safety of the 370 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: rest of us? Because remind you, and we've talked about 371 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: this with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel, there is a 372 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: court case that has the ability to throw out a 373 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: hundred year old law in New York that makes it 374 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: illegal for you to carry weapons, and it is going 375 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: and is being heard at the Supreme Court. This comes 376 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: on the heels, folks, of a fifteen year old being 377 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: able to just pull out a draw in his parents' house, 378 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: take a nine millimeter gun and go shoot off twenty rounds, 379 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: killing four of his classmates. This will be the first 380 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: case where parents are actually charged for their fucking reckless 381 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: negligence for four counts of manslaughter each. And I think, 382 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: in all honesty, if convicted, that that may in fact 383 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: be the turning point in the gun rights argument in 384 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: this country, because if parents much in the same way 385 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: that we have been locking up black and brown parents 386 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: for their children's truancy, because that's who gets locked up, 387 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: by the way, it is black and brown parents, because 388 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: we love to pathologize them right for their ill parenting, 389 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: But not all of these white motherfuckers like Lauren Bobert 390 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: who posed with her four boys with assault rifles in 391 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: front of a fucking Christmas tree. You have got to 392 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: be kidding me. But shit like that, we think it's normal, right, 393 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: that's not endangering the welfare of a child, that doesn't 394 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: that doesn't require child protective services. We think that that 395 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: shit is okay. But we will throw black and brown 396 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: parents in jail for the bare minimum, you know, having 397 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,719 Speaker 1: to work multiple jobs, and it's just so that they 398 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: can put food on the table, and then their kids 399 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: skip school for a number of reasons, right, and we're 400 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: finding them and throwing them in jail. But you can 401 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: pose with your kids or amp them up and tell 402 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: them ha haha, don't get caught next time when you're 403 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: scrolling for ammunition in your fucking high school class. But 404 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: those white quote unquote conservative parents are able to seem 405 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: normal when they are anything but. So I disagree with 406 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: Charles in terms of we won't see hundreds of thousands 407 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: of bodies, because let me tell you something, I didn't 408 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: think i'd see a global health pandemic in my lifetime. 409 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: I didn't think I would witness a police officer squeeze 410 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: the fucking life out of a man in broad daylight, 411 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: captured on a myriad of recorded phones. I didn't think 412 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: that in the twenty first century that a black man 413 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: couldn't go jogging down the street without being lynched. I 414 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: didn't think that we would see the rollback of Rovie Wade. 415 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: But yet here the fuck we are. So let us 416 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: not presume that this next iteration of a civil war 417 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: is going to be one that it's going to be 418 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: quote unquote civilized and fought within the ballot boxes and 419 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: within the courts, that it's going to be a paper 420 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: battle and a verbal battle. These people are ripe and 421 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: ready for fucking war, and they tell us every day, 422 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: and we still don't believe them. I didn't think that 423 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: I would see smoke billowing out of the Capitol Building 424 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: with thousands of enraged white people building a fucking guillotine 425 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: in the twenty first century calling for the hanging of 426 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: the vice President of the United States. And we are 427 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: coming up, folks, on the year anniversary of that national nightmare, 428 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: and yet but a handful of motherfuckers are in jail. 429 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: And not the donors, not the Trumps, not the Jiuliani's, 430 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: not the masterminds that orchestrated it. We're still filing paperwork 431 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: around that a year later. Everyone needs to have their 432 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: eyes wide open to every battle that we are facing 433 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: right now, all of which are man made. From the 434 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: climate crisis to the rise and hate to the disintegration 435 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: of our democracy, all of it has been done at 436 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: the hands of greedy, white conservative cis gender men, helped 437 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: along by their handmaids. That's the fucking truth. That's the 438 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: truth that you're not going to get on cable news 439 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: because they want to pontificate about who is to cause, 440 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: who is to blend? Is it climate change that caused 441 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: the tornadoes? Is it white rage and the pushback against 442 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: the Obama administration and the fact that the demographics are 443 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: changing that caused the election of Donald Trump? Did Donald 444 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: Trump cause the insurrection? Did he knowingly spread the coronavirus? Right? 445 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,720 Speaker 1: And you weaponize it. Let's think about it, let's pontificate, 446 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 1: let's build ratings around it instead of telling the fucking truth. 447 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: If there's any group that needs to be pathologized right now, 448 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: it is white folks. And I say that very real. 449 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: We have no problem talking about every other group as 450 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: a community. What do lackdnext people think, what do black 451 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: people think? And what about the Muslims? Right? But we 452 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: don't dare talk about the legacy of violence, right and 453 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:01,280 Speaker 1: terrorism within the white community. We don't dare talk about 454 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,839 Speaker 1: why you are seeing this pushback and why we all 455 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 1: wait with bated breath for the return of guilty verdicts 456 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: that we know will never come because there's never been accounted. 457 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: What have you ever seen a wealthy white man hold 458 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: another wealthy white man accountable for shit? Give me a 459 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: fucking break, do you know, which was probably one of 460 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,800 Speaker 1: the most bipartisan, the most collegial spaces that you'd ever seen, 461 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: probably Jeffrey Epstein's fucking private island. Because they all have 462 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: that disgust, that greed, that cruelty, that viciousness in common. 463 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,319 Speaker 1: But we don't interrogate that truth. We say, oh no, 464 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: they're individuals. Oh no, it was a lone wolf. Oh no, 465 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: was a siloed event. Oh it was an act of nature. 466 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: Should have called that fucking tornado that tour through Kentucky. 467 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,879 Speaker 1: You might as well call it McConnell because he's been 468 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: devastating families across this country, in his own state and 469 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: across the country. We should call the tornadoes the Republicans right, 470 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: the GOP, the GOP's climate disaster. But of course we 471 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: won't do that because you know, we don't want to 472 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: play politics. But it's totally fine with the radical right 473 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 1: to do so. It is time, it is past time 474 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,280 Speaker 1: that we begin to find ways to fight fire with fire, 475 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: because if you think that what Charles Blow is writing 476 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: about isn't going to transpire, you're not paying attention. I 477 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: want us to suspend the reality that we've been living 478 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,400 Speaker 1: in because one we're never going back to that, and two, 479 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 1: right at this point, anything can fucking happen, literally anything. 480 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,720 Speaker 1: He ends with this in his piece, we're edging closer 481 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 1: to civil war in some ways. The abortion battle now 482 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,399 Speaker 1: being waged in the courts is a test case. Can 483 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: the States make an argument that a civil right can 484 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: be reversed on the state level? Can they make the 485 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: case that all that the Constitution has not explicitly spelled 486 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: out should be reversed for the States. The Constitution has 487 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: been silent on quite a bit since it was written 488 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,800 Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty seven, and the last time it was 489 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,879 Speaker 1: amended was nearly thirty years ago in nineteen ninety two, 490 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: when the States ratified the twenty seventh Amendment. When did 491 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: Congress first approve that amendment in seventeen eighty nine, having 492 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: not gotten enough states to ratify it. After passage, it's 493 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 1: simply languished for two hundred years. All of us should 494 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: be very worried about what we see happening with these 495 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: abortion cases. Not just women who might need abortions or 496 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: relatives and friends of women who might need them. We 497 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: should worry about whether or not we are at an 498 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: inflection point for an age of aggression. And that's right, folks, 499 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: the age of aggression, the age of aggression and darkness 500 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:56,360 Speaker 1: and hate. It's hard to think back to the election 501 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: of Barack Obama. It's hard to even think about the 502 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 1: term post racial and how America wanted to pat itself 503 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: on the back. Look at us giving this black men 504 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 1: an opportunity after you know, we murdered so many viciously, 505 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,800 Speaker 1: After we burned down their towns and cities and killed 506 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: their leaders and bishops and preachers, and bomb their schools 507 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 1: and their churches. We are headed toward an age of violence. 508 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:49,239 Speaker 1: And what scares me the most is that there were 509 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:59,120 Speaker 1: so many active and former military and police officers that 510 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:05,799 Speaker 1: were part of the insurrection that believe that it was 511 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: their duty to go out into the streets for Donald 512 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:16,719 Speaker 1: Trump to beat police officers their own, their own right. 513 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 1: And I think about this setup that is taking place 514 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 1: right now, over four hundred voter suppression bills, hundreds of 515 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: electioneering bills. They are gearing up to take over forever. 516 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two. The midterm elections will be their warm up. 517 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 1: Let us see what sticks and what doesn't. On top 518 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 1: of you know, the redistricting that is happening, that is 519 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:07,279 Speaker 1: forcing Democrats to lose seats and increasing the stronghold of 520 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 1: white neighborhoods and whiteness. But our refusal to call a 521 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,480 Speaker 1: spade a spade, our refusal to have conversations that are 522 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: rooted in truth about who is to blame and who 523 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,760 Speaker 1: is to have a finger pointed at them, and who 524 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 1: we should be building strategy and a plan around instead 525 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: of trying to, you know, go and get the Karen's 526 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: right to come and vote with us, to go and 527 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,640 Speaker 1: get these people that have been so aggrieved by the 528 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,319 Speaker 1: Democratic Party that they fled to Donald Trump. Like we 529 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: think that these motherfuckers are coming back. They're not. They 530 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,240 Speaker 1: haven't been back since the nineteen fifties. But the reality 531 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 1: is is that if we don't create strategies to protect 532 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:01,560 Speaker 1: ourselves against their resurgence, we are going to be caught 533 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:07,359 Speaker 1: completely off guard by what they are planning. And they 534 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: are doing it in broad fucking daylight. Can you think 535 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,040 Speaker 1: about the boldness to put together a PowerPoint presentation to 536 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 1: overthrow the fucking government and that motherfucker is not in jail. 537 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 1: Can you think about Lauren Bobert posing with her kids 538 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: and automatic rifles, and what that would look like if 539 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,080 Speaker 1: it was ilhan Omar in the same pose with her kids. 540 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:41,960 Speaker 1: We are so fucking unbalanced in this country. We have 541 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: teacher We have teachers right in a viral video from 542 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 1: South Dakota that we're competing on the ground scraping for 543 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,799 Speaker 1: dollar bills so that they can buy school supplies. They 544 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: turned it into essentially the Teachers Hunger Games and posted 545 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,359 Speaker 1: it on social media as if look at this fun 546 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:10,480 Speaker 1: activity and you don't think that there's anything wrong with 547 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 1: a country that would have teachers begging and scrounging for 548 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 1: dollar bills to support our nation's children, to support our 549 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:23,480 Speaker 1: fucking future. But we're out here putting billionaires like Elon Musk, 550 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 1: these fucking narcissists on the cover of magazines and applauding them. 551 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 1: But we think that teachers should have to beg You 552 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 1: think that the Hunger Games and these movies and Black 553 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 1: Mirror like these are just shows. We are living in it, 554 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 1: and it's happening so fast, it's so fucking unsettling. This week, 555 00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 1: America has hit a new record. Over eight hundred thousand 556 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:08,439 Speaker 1: Americans have died from COVID nineteen and still twenty five 557 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: percent of the population won't get vaccinated. Over eight hundred 558 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,400 Speaker 1: thousand is more than the population of Washington, DC and 559 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,759 Speaker 1: many fucking states like the North Dakotas and the South Dakotas. 560 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:28,879 Speaker 1: It is wild where we are, and yet we want 561 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: to talk about some in fighting within the administration and 562 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,680 Speaker 1: whether or not Joe Biden likes Kamala Harris or you know, 563 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,360 Speaker 1: lauding attacks when literally everything around us is crumbling. Where 564 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:48,880 Speaker 1: are our values? Where is our sense of urgency? And 565 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,719 Speaker 1: I'm afraid by the time that we find it and 566 00:44:51,880 --> 00:45:00,480 Speaker 1: answer those questions, it will be too late. That is 567 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: it for me today. Folks on woke app as always 568 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,520 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 569 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,680 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.