1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to Okay f Daily 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: I want to open up today's show with a tweet 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: that I saw right at the start of the weekend. 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: And you know, once again, it was so jarring in 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: its honesty and in its realness that I think that 7 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: because we have become humans that are so busy doing 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: and not being, and because there is so much that 9 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,959 Speaker 1: we are dealing with that are being put on our shoulders, um, 10 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: we don't stop and think, fuck, how am I doing this? 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: How am I managing? How am I getting through? So 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: let me read you this tweet from New York Times 13 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: best selling author of Patriarchy Blues better than we found it, 14 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: Frederick Joseph, who, by the way, if you don't follow him, 15 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: hashtag the Black Friend. He is fantastic. All of his 16 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: writing is incredible, as well as his tweets, and so 17 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: he tweeted this rent is too damn high, gas is 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: too damn high. The amount of deaths from COVID is 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: still too damn high. The police budget is too damn high. 20 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: The amount of times World War three has trended is 21 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: too damn high. The expectations being placed on us while 22 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: this is happening are too damn high. I want to 23 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 1: delve into that, because since the beginning of COVID, right, 24 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: we have been told that we need to work right, 25 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: that the economy can't shut down, and capitalism is necessary, 26 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: and we must all do our part and find ways 27 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: to manage through folks, in the time that COVID, just COVID. 28 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: I will touch on the other points that Frederick mentions 29 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: in his tweet, But Jess COVID, let's start there. There 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: have been Let's just let's get the exact number. Let's 31 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: get the exact number right now, because again with all 32 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: of this rush to the norm, right, rush back to normal, 33 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: let's open everything up. COVID's not at all a big thing. Which, 34 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: by the way, New York Magazine has a entire article 35 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: and cover that says this, that's said over the weekend, 36 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: COVID is not over. And it was like a person 37 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: on a stretcher in front of a hospital because guess what, folks, 38 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 1: we still have about two thousand people dying a day 39 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: from COVID, just because the media has decided to s 40 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: talking about it, and the governors of said states have 41 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: decided that they're rolling back you know, mandates and all 42 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: of these things. And even doctor Fauci who came on 43 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: the show, said that, you know, we're at a drizzle 44 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: period and so we need to we're it's okay to 45 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: take off our galoshes and our rain boots and kind 46 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: of you know, work with the environment that we're in. 47 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: But the reality is that those numbers, roughly eighteen hundred 48 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: to two thousand deaths are not normal. We've only normalized them, right, 49 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: We've only decided to shrug it off. Every one of 50 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: us at this point, two plus years into this pandemic. 51 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: No somebody who has died or is suffering from long COVID, 52 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: which again is not actually being discussed on a regular basis. 53 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: I talked to a friend recently who said that one 54 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: of their family members was suffering from law COVID, and 55 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: what did it look like for them? It looked like 56 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: the inability to concentrate, right, so, the inability to really 57 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: work for long periods of time, to be in front 58 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: of a computer that the quote unquote brain fog, brain fog, 59 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: not frog brain fog that people have talked about isn't 60 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: just like a oh, I forgot what I was doing. 61 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: I went into the kitchen and I forgot what I 62 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: was getting. No, no, it is almost complete like disorientation. 63 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: Right then, an onset of migrains, right, that are so 64 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: debilitating that you need to close down everything, including all 65 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: access to light because it is causing you pain, the 66 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: inability to go far distances walking because it is now exhausting. 67 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: These are symptoms that people are dealing with that are 68 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: now being looked at as a disability. So when we say, oh, 69 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: COVID is done or it's not that bad because the 70 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: number of deaths have gone down, one, the number of 71 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: deaths are still too fucking high. And number two, the 72 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: after effects of COVID are still incredibly debilitating and vary 73 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: from person to person. So while folks are like, well, 74 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 1: you know, if you catch COVID, it's no big deal. 75 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: If you are vaxed and boosted and what have you, Well, 76 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: that depends on your very own bodily ecosystem, right, And 77 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. I still personally, while I am doing 78 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: more things than I was, let's say in December, January 79 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: and February, I'm still trying to be as vigilant as possible, 80 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: because I don't know right my own Bodi's makeup and 81 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: how it's going to fight off this virus and what 82 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: it's going to look like weeks after it's gone. Because 83 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: what Jonathan has told us on this show so many 84 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: times over the past two years is that the virus 85 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: continues to live in your body. Right, we have no 86 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: idea what the long, long term affects of a virus 87 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: living in your body. Is this particular virus that continues 88 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: folks to mutate. So again, it's like, I don't want 89 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: us in this Russian desire because we are emotionally fatigued 90 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: to want to say that we need to just move on. 91 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: That we don't recognize that there are people that are 92 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: still suffering, and that there are millions of people who 93 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: have in fact been infected that will still suffer. So 94 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: what is our healthcare going to look like? Because I'm 95 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: going to tell you that one of the things that 96 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: Joe Biden had said several months ago and this point, 97 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: who even knows if it was last year, if it 98 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: was months ago, I don't fucking know, but I will 99 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,559 Speaker 1: say that what he said, what he offered was that 100 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: it was not going to be allowed under his tenure, 101 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: that healthcare companies were going to be able to discriminate 102 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: right pre existing conditions, to discriminate against people who had 103 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: contracted COVID and were still suffering symptoms of it, meaning 104 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: that they weren't going to be allowed to not cover 105 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: those people or to exploit them in terms of the 106 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: kind of coverage that they could get. But that is 107 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: is that law. Has that been codified in law? Or 108 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: is it that when a Republican becomes president of the 109 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: United States, which will in fact be the last presidency 110 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: that we see, because then it'll just become an authoritarian 111 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: dictator and America will have a Trump light or a 112 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,559 Speaker 1: Trump more knowledgeable for the next twenty some odd years. 113 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: But nonetheless, I digress. The fact is that is not 114 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: codified into law. That is an exception that Biden is 115 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: making right now. So what does that look like after 116 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four? Right? What does it look like when 117 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: we know that there will be other mutations? Because if 118 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: you've been following the science, and we've been following the 119 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: patterns of this virus, we know that another one is 120 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: going to come. And so right now, folks, let me 121 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: tell you what the startling number in the United States 122 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: has been. Since twenty twenty, nine hundred and sixty four 123 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: thousand Americans have died. As of today, nine hundred and 124 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: sixty four thousand Americans have died. That is nearly a 125 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: million people. And it will be by the time that 126 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 1: we get to actual spring and summer, it will be 127 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: over a million people will have died. But we have 128 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: an entire political party that has told us that this 129 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 1: was a hoax, that has told us that this is 130 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: no big deal, that it's just the flu. I don't 131 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: know when in our lifetime we had ever seen the 132 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: flu cause a million deaths in two years, the aggressive 133 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: nature of COVID and how it has upended our lives, 134 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: and now with this rush, and I call it a 135 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: rush because again, we're not following the science. We're following midterms, 136 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: we're following capitalism. Because if we were truly following the science, 137 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: there wouldn't be You wouldn't hear the President of the 138 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: United States say, well, we need to put an end 139 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: to remote work and people just need to get back 140 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: into the office. It's now time. If you have had 141 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: the privilege of working from home over the last two years, 142 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: then you know that you don't need to be in 143 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: an office in order to do your job. But what 144 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: you do know, and what you've become very privy to, 145 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: is the fact that your employers have put in for ten, fifteen, 146 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: twenty year leases for office space right that is not 147 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: being used currently to its fullest capacity, and that this 148 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: once again is about real estate and money. It has 149 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: nothing to do with whether or not you have the 150 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: ability to do your job. Now. Sure, are there some 151 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: things that are better done in person, absolutely, but are 152 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: a majority of things able to be done over email, 153 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: over zoom, over slack? Yeah, there are. You know. One 154 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: of the things I think that has been most startling 155 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: as I've been looking at the numbers of people that 156 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: are still remote working versus not, is that here in 157 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: New York where I am, only thirty five percent of 158 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: people who work in offices have gone back to work. 159 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: So when you are riding around midday or what would 160 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: normally be considered rush hour for New York City for 161 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: the subways, what have you not packed? Because for those 162 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: companies who weren't locked into decades long leases, gave up 163 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: their buildings, gave up their office space, decided instead to 164 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: have a remote work or to get smaller huddling offices 165 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: that when folks need to be together, you can be. 166 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 1: But the expectation is not going to be that you're 167 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: going to be in this office five days a week, 168 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, eight to ten hours a day. So once 169 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 1: again you're listening to leaders from the president on down 170 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: tell us that like now is the time to go 171 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: back to normal. And I'm telling you close to a 172 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: million people are dead because of COVID and that those 173 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: that have gotten it and did not succumb it wasn't 174 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: fatalistic are still living with severe, severe conditions that are 175 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: not allowing them to quote unquote go back to normal. 176 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: So the question that I have is why isn't the 177 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: administration talking about this? Why aren't people in media talking 178 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: about this? Because once again there has been a collective 179 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: decision that we are going to gas light the country 180 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: and just move on. And so you know, I say this, 181 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: and I say the collective gaslight because also we're talking 182 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: about rights as I'm going to make the pivot to 183 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: now move into our crisis that is happening in Europe 184 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: and move to Putin and the Ukraine and NATO and America. 185 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: Is that We're having all of these conversations about how 186 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: the Russian people know nothing about the true nature of 187 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 1: what is happening right in their country, what what Russians right, 188 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: what the Russian military led by Putin is doing in 189 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: the Ukraine. If you were to go around Russia and 190 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: ask the people what they think is the cause or 191 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: what they think is happening in the Ukraine, they're going 192 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: to give you the talking points that are out of 193 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: the Kremlin. They're going to tell you that their brothers 194 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: and sisters are out there fighting to liberate the Ukrainians 195 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 1: from Nazi influence. They're going to tell you that, like 196 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: you know, they have been killing civilians, killing their own. 197 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: They're going to feed you what it is the Kremlin 198 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: wants them to know in order to keep them in 199 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: line and keep them in support of this invasion. Now, 200 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: the thousands of people that have risked their life, their safety, 201 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: and their well being in Russia to protest what is 202 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: happening and what has happened right, those brave folks have 203 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: somehow gotten around the gaslight looping system and figured out that, yeah, 204 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: we can't actually trust anything that is coming across State TV, 205 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: anything that is coming across our radio, our social media, 206 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: right is being monitored and we're not allowed to access 207 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: you know, X, Y and Z. But again, by virtue 208 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: of proximity, we know that there are tons of Russians 209 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: in Ukraine and tons of Ukrainians in Russia. That's why 210 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: they say like this is this is like a brother's war, 211 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: a sister's war, right, We're fighting our own family. But 212 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: then I have told you that there are reports that 213 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: have come out where people are literally in the Ukraine 214 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: with sirens and bombs going off behind them, and their 215 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: family members in Russia are telling them that they are 216 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: making it up, that they are the ones that have 217 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: been brainwashed. Right, So this is how disinformation and misinformation works. 218 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: And when you have a coordinated effort between your government 219 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: and your media in order to gaslight you, that is 220 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: the ultimate, the ultimate in disinformation and misinformation. By virtue 221 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: right of oh, we're just not going to disclose. That 222 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: is what is happening in the United States right now 223 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: with COVID and wanting to turn the page and go 224 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: to go back to the normal of twenty nineteen, which folks, 225 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: even if you do rip off your mask, even if 226 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: you do go back to indoor and do all of 227 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: these things. I'm telling you, the fear and the trauma 228 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: that we have lived under for the past two years 229 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: is not going to go away. While it feels good 230 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: to sit down in a restaurant and it feels good 231 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: to re engage in these environments once you go out, 232 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I was out recently and I said 233 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: to myself, Wow, this feels great. And then I went 234 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: home and I took a test and I was just like, 235 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: still on pins and needles. We're never washing away the 236 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: trauma of what we've lived through, and the fact that 237 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: we are not even giving it the space and the 238 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: weight to be able to work through it collectively. That 239 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: the desire is just like out of sight, out of 240 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: mind is really terrifying to me because I believe that 241 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: this is exactly how you go about making the same 242 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result. 243 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: That we haven't learned anything over the past two years, right, 244 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: What we have learned right about America and Americans is 245 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: that we are a selfish society. We are a country 246 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: that does not believe in helping other people or doing 247 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: things that may cause discomfort for us if it means 248 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: comfort for the majority, that we are not going to 249 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: challenge ourselves in any which way to actually be better, 250 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: That we can't project onto other people any empathy or 251 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: sympathy if it is somehow upsets our current status and 252 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: our current state of ease. Right, There's a reason why 253 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 1: other countries have been able to tackle COVID in the 254 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: way that they have or fight back against misinformation, and 255 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: it's because their culture has always been based in community 256 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: and the success of the whole, not individual. But in America, 257 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: all we care about, all we pride ourselves on is 258 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 1: our individual nature and desire, the pulling up from the bootstraps. 259 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: I did it all alone, knowing that nobody has which 260 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: side note as let me make a pop culture reference 261 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: as well in here, because this is how my mind 262 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: is working today. I'm very overwhelmed no one has done 263 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: it all on their own, and that there are people 264 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: that work so hard in this country, well over the 265 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: forty hours a week, fifty hours a week, that hold 266 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: down multiple jobs and are still not able to make 267 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: ends meet. But in our country, where do we go 268 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: to get our advice from those that were born wealthy 269 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: to dictate to us how it is that we are 270 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: going to be able to live the life that they 271 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: were born into. And I say the pop culture reference 272 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: because at the end of last week, Kim kardash received 273 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: a lot of backlash from comments that she made in 274 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: an interview with Variety magazine as the Kardashians are getting 275 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: ready to make their premiere on streaming platform Hulu, as 276 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: they've moved from regular television to streaming, and Kim Kardashian, 277 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: you know, is being asked, you know, what's the what's 278 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 1: the key to your success? And instead of saying, what 279 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: is actually the key to your success? Being born wealthy, right, 280 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: being born with a name, being born with wealth, and 281 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 1: then being able to use that wealth that you were 282 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: born into in the name that you were born into, 283 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: and being able to turn that into a billion dollar brand. 284 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: You're able to make billions because you were born into 285 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: fucking millions, right. But the answer that she gave was 286 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: so insulting to people that are working so hard and 287 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: still not able to make ends meet. What's he said 288 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: was people just need to work hard. Nobody wants to 289 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: work hard anymore. And I'm saying, bitch, who is nobody? 290 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: Who are you talking to? Because I know many people 291 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: who are busting their asses, right, who are either busting 292 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: their asses as entrepreneurs, busting their asses for other people, right. 293 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: And in the age of inflation and how much more 294 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: expensive things have gotten, nobody's fucking income has gone up 295 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: to match that. We're just all trying to do more 296 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: with less. And so for somebody that was born into 297 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: wealth and whiteness and a name, right and fame to 298 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: then look at the rest of us who haven't had 299 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: the same advantages or opportunities and then totally have a 300 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: disassociation from that reality that you were born into. Then 301 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: to offer advice to other people, get the fuck out 302 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: of here, honestly, you know, I recently I have started 303 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: to think about, even in my own professional life, the 304 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: people who I have turned into deities, the people who 305 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: I have said, Oh, I want to emulate so and 306 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: so's career in so and so's steps. And I'm not 307 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: saying that folks can't offer advice, but offer advice off 308 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: the reel, right, offer advice off the reel, like I'll 309 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: take advice from fucking Oprah right, who was born broke 310 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: into poverty, into a set into the segregated South, and 311 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: was able to make the most out of the opportunities 312 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: that were presented. Right. I will take advice from a ditty, Right, 313 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: a Sean Diddy Colmes who was taken the amtrack back 314 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: and forth, you know, at the beginning stages of hustling 315 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: into creating bad boy records. Right, I will take advice 316 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: from people who literally came from nothing or came from 317 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: something and we're able to turn it into something extraordinary. 318 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: But don't come off right. Don't come off as if 319 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: you are offering something to people. And essentially, because it's 320 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: essentially Kim Kardashian echoed and offered essentially what Republicans have 321 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: been saying, which is why they didn't want to offer 322 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: or vote for COVID relief. They didn't want to give 323 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: people any types of checks. They don't want to give 324 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: the American people back their own tax dollars to support 325 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: them in their times of need. No, because the assumption 326 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: is what Joe Mansion said, Oh well, if I give 327 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: the child tax credit, if I vote for this, then 328 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: people are going to use this money to go on vacation. 329 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: They're going to use this money, as he said, to 330 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: go hunting or whatever. You know, So we need to 331 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: make people live in an austerity type of situation because 332 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: they are undeserving of their own own money and resources back. 333 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: That is what politicians say. Kim Kardashian echoed that because 334 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: the assumption has always been at one at both at times, 335 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: they want to hold both things to be true. On 336 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: one hand, Americans are lazy. They don't deserve any child 337 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: tax credit, they don't deserve any support, they don't deserve 338 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: their own tax dollars. Put back into social security and 339 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: safety nets, into social safety nets that will help them 340 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: meet ends meet and not And as Joe Biden loves 341 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: to say, oh my dad used to say, provide some 342 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: breathing room. They don't give a fuck about your breathing room. 343 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: They want you to be broke, under educated, and desperate, 344 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: right because then you will do anything and everything in 345 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: order to get that little bit of breathing room through 346 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: a fucking straw, right, Like, that's what they want. And 347 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: when you start, when you sit back and you take 348 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: this all in and you look around, and you're just like, wow, 349 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: all of us, all of us are falling for the 350 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: rope padot. All of us are in love and indoctrinated 351 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: by wealth and fame and privilege. It's the reason why 352 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: you have people voting consistently against their best interest. Oh well, 353 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: if I were rich, or when I am rich, I 354 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: don't want to have to pay taxes, blah blah blah blah. Well, 355 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: the likelihood of you getting to that one percent having 356 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: come from the ninety nine percent is as likely as 357 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: you getting hit by lightning. But the lie of capitalism 358 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: is in its possibility, is in pulling out those few 359 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: examples of those that were able to somehow make it 360 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: in their version of squid game, right, and then we 361 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: use those people to say, oh, you two can do that, 362 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: not realizing that everyone's situation is one hundred percent different. 363 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: There may be consistent themes, but how we attack those themes, 364 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: how they show up in our lives are completely and 365 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: totally different. But you see, the lie of capitalism is 366 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: about the possibility of the thing. Oh, if you just 367 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: put your head down and work hard, then you'll get there. 368 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: And for those of us that have not arrived at 369 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: that place, it is not by virtue of the system 370 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: that we've been working in. It's by virtue of your laziness. Right, 371 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: So we've regurgitate the same shit to everyone around us 372 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: that has been told to us. The reason why folks 373 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: squid Game was so fucking popular wasn't just because it 374 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: was so obscene and it's over the top violence, but 375 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: because of the fact that you can literally see the 376 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: parallels in our own lives and you're like, oh my god, 377 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: we would never get into a competition where people would 378 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: literally be killing themselves or getting the risk of being 379 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: killed just to wipe out their debt, wouldn't we haven't 380 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: you seen all of those I mean, from the birth 381 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: of reality TV, from the birth of Fear Factor, from 382 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: the birth of these shows where it's just like humiliate yourself, 383 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: humiliate yourself, or the possibility of getting a hundred grand 384 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: and people do it right, and they do it and 385 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: we call it entertainment as opposed to a flawed economic system. 386 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes I honestly wish that I wouldn't make the connections. 387 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes I wish that I could just go along for 388 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: the get along, because I think that life would be 389 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: a lot easier, right, I would have a lot less anxiety. 390 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,719 Speaker 1: But I can't turn my eyes away from the truth. 391 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: I can't turn my eyes away from the fact that 392 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: I honestly believe that both sides of the political party, 393 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: both factions of the wealthy and the non wealthy, the 394 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: haves and the have nots, are all in cahoots for 395 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: the same thing, which is to gaslight the public into 396 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: doing their bidding so that they can continue to live on, 397 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: to live on the mountaintop and then dictate to the 398 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: rest of us as they are cutting the bridges and 399 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: cutting the water and cutting the access and saying to us, well, 400 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: if you just worked hard enough, you two could climb everest, 401 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: you two could get wealth. And it's just you know, 402 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: you're in your situation, You're in your lot in life 403 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,439 Speaker 1: because you're just not strategic enough, you're just not working 404 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 1: hard enough. Well, if you told me that if I 405 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: could if I worked double the amount that I work, Right, 406 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: if I could work eighty hours a week, ninety hours 407 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: a week, and I too could be a billionaire, right 408 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: that that it was it was going to be correct, 409 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: that the amount of work that I put in was 410 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: going to be an actual return on the investment, and 411 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: then I too could be a billionaire. Then I would 412 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: do that. Everybody would do that. Maybe there would be 413 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:21,360 Speaker 1: some people that wouldn't, but that's not true. But it's 414 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: the lie that we continue to spread and tell ourselves right, 415 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: because we are in a love affair, a dangerous love 416 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: affair with wealth and privilege. You know, it's so easy, 417 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: It has been so easy for us to look around 418 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: at other countries and nations to either wag our finger 419 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: at them for their wrongdoing in the ways in which 420 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: they hurt their own citizens, right, how they enter into war, 421 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: the misinformation that talent television, how they are controlling, right, 422 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: whether you're talking about Russia or China or wherever has 423 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: a dictatorship in communism, and you don't realize the ways 424 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: in which we're controlled, the ways in which we have 425 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: the illusion of freedom in the United States. It is 426 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: the illusion of liberty, but we are allied to We 427 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: are gas lit, right, except we say that it's just 428 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: about hard work, right, you get out what you put in, 429 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: But we don't talk about what it is that you 430 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: are giving up in order to buy into this lie. 431 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: Every year around this time, everybody that is adult age 432 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: of taxpaying age is being squeezed by their government and 433 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: then told that in times of prices, when we need 434 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: these resources back, we don't get them. Then we look 435 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: around at our schools, at our healthcare, at the water 436 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: we're drinking, at the food that we're being delivered, and 437 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: recognizing that like I don't get to say where my 438 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: tax dollars go, if I were, if I were in 439 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: charge of where my taxes went, you better believe that 440 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: I would want one hundred percent of my tax dollars 441 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: to be going into education and rehabbing our public education system, 442 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: not only in the wealthy suburban areas, but everywhere, particularly 443 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: the places that are the most underserved. If our capitalism 444 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: system really worked right, then that's what would be happening. 445 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: The Pentagon wouldn't be receiving hundreds of millions of dollars 446 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,239 Speaker 1: more than they asked for, and schools wouldn't have to 447 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: be begging teachers that they barely pay in order to 448 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: put school supplies together because the federal government isn't doing that. 449 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: That we wouldn't have turned our teachers into villains, right 450 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: because our kids weren't passing certain tests that we're discriminatory 451 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: and racists to begin with, just so that we can 452 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: continue to have a working class, because you see, without 453 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: a working class, there is no upper class. But we 454 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: love again to pretend that these people who have more 455 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: have just gotten it either by luck or by hard work, 456 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: and neither of those things are true. So as we're 457 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: all being told that we need to push harder and 458 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: do more, and not be a human being, but be 459 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: a human that is constantly doing and producing because our 460 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: value and our worth is associated with our production. Understand 461 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: that you are falling prey. We all are falling prey 462 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: to the extraction system of capitalism. That's where we are. 463 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: So when Frederick Joseph says the rent is too damn high, 464 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: gas is too damn high. Gas right now on average, 465 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: as I'm as I'm recording, this is at four twenty 466 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: three a gallon four dollars and twenty three cents. At 467 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: the same time that Joe Biden had the audacity to 468 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: tell people that they need to stop remote work and 469 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: go back into the office every day, who the fuck 470 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: is paying that gas bill? Are they setting us a check? 471 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: Are they sending you a check to pay now for 472 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: the gas that it's going to cost in order for 473 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: you to go into work each and every day. No, 474 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: they are not. And so I'm saying, folks like, let 475 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: us not continue to fall for the ropadope. Let us 476 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: ask the really hard questions not just of the Republicans 477 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: who we know are evil, but the Democrats who tell 478 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: us that they have our best interests at heart, knowing 479 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: good god damn well, they don't. And this is a 480 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: thing that I am starting to grapple with. And I 481 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: haven't even gotten into the other part of his tweet 482 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: about World War three and the consistent right provocation of 483 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: that all of these things are real and on the 484 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: table right now, and we're being told to just like 485 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: pretend and act like all is norm And I want 486 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,479 Speaker 1: to fucking open up my window and let out the 487 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: most primal screen that I can and then fall back 488 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: into bed. The things that we are being told that 489 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 1: we have to deal with, have to swallow, have to stomach, 490 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: and then if we don't, we're the ones that are 491 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: looked at like there is something wrong with us, as 492 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: opposed to the fucking systems that are created to keep 493 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:31,240 Speaker 1: us in prison. We are at this place in the world, 494 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 1: in our society, in our country because of the failed 495 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 1: fucking decisions of those that we put in power, who 496 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: only want more power. They're not there to do change, 497 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: They're there to make more change for their pockets. I'm 498 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: sick with where we are. I'm sick with who we 499 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: have become, and I'm wondering, in all honesty, do things 500 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: need to get to a place of being so very bad, 501 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: so very bad, that then we begin to see the 502 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: upturn because finally we have reached our breaking point and 503 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: everyone has had enough. I was hoping to avoid that, 504 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: but at this point in the game it seems unavoidable. 505 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: The last thing I will say is this. At the 506 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:52,399 Speaker 1: end of last week, actor Jesse Smollett was carted off 507 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: to jail. If you remember, I want to say that 508 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,040 Speaker 1: it was either twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, who knows it, 509 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: pre pandemic when Jesse Smollett, the actor from Empire and 510 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: other shows, ski trip other other things, A story was 511 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 1: made up about a hate crime right and saying that 512 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: there was a news sent all of these things and 513 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: he was beat up and blah blah blah. No one 514 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: really knows what transpired, what either made Jesse make those accusations, 515 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 1: whether or not he is emotionally unwell, whether or not 516 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: it actually happened, I have no idea. But I do 517 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: know this is that he was just sentenced to one 518 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,320 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty days in jail. Right, so six months 519 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 1: half a year, basically five six months in jail, one 520 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of fines I think 521 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: another fifty thousand dollars worth of fine. So all in 522 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,760 Speaker 1: all he's paying, you know, close to two hundred thousand 523 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: dollars worth of fines end, spending one hundred and fifty 524 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: days in jail, all for lying to the police. And 525 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: this is what I said. Trump and company lied to 526 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 1: the entire nation about voter fraud and COVID, which both 527 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: cost countless lives, and they all continued to walk around free. 528 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett made a statement that hurt only himself and 529 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 1: possibly his family. Right, Donald Trump and the Republican statements 530 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 1: hurt the entire country and the responsibility of over four 531 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: hundred thousand deaths that could have been avoided had we 532 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: been told just how dangerous COVID was. The deaths at 533 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: the Capitol could have been avoided had Donald Trump been 534 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: like any other fucking president and accepted the results of 535 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,760 Speaker 1: our free and fair election in a democracy. But he didn't. 536 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: How is it that these white, wealthy, fucking politicians and 537 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: lawyers are walking around free having costed this country so 538 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:22,600 Speaker 1: goddamn much. But you want to make an example out 539 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:27,160 Speaker 1: of Jesse Smollett, who did what lied to the cops. Meanwhile, 540 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,840 Speaker 1: the fucking cops be lying to us on a regular 541 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,319 Speaker 1: goddamn basis about the fucking unarmed black people that they kill. Right. 542 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:40,040 Speaker 1: I am so tired of this injustice system. Am I 543 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: saying that there should have been no reprimand for Jesse? 544 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But give him the same reprimand you would 545 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: have given any white, wealthy, fucking person in Hollywood, Given 546 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: the same reprimand that you would have given the people, 547 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: he would have done better storming the fucking Capitol building 548 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: then he got. Let that make sense. Make that make 549 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: fucking sense, because it does not. It is just, once 550 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: again a glaring example of how unjust our criminal system 551 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: is that the real criminals, they get to reinvent themselves, 552 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: regardless of the amount of damage that they have caused. 553 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: Those of us who only end up causing damage and 554 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: harm to ourselves. No, we get to pay the biggest, 555 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: the biggest price. That's what it's like to be in America. 556 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: It's disgusting, and folks are tweeting and they're like, oh 557 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,760 Speaker 1: my god, I didn't make the connection. Yeah, I wish 558 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: too that I wouldn't make these connections, but they are 559 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 1: real and they are glaring, and people can come up 560 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,799 Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of excuses as to why Jesse 561 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: needed to be made an example of. And I'm saying, 562 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 1: why aren't we making an example of the big eggest crimers, 563 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 1: the biggest fucking rifters, and the biggest liars. Why is 564 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: that only reserved for those that have caused themselves the 565 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:14,279 Speaker 1: most harm or maybe emotionally distraught. Why is it that 566 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: we can only look the other way so long as 567 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:24,319 Speaker 1: the skin is white and the pockets are fat. Make 568 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:32,839 Speaker 1: it make sense? That is it for me today? Here, 569 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 1: folks on woke f as always Power to the people 570 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay 571 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.