Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to Okay f Daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to open up today's show with a tweet
Speaker 1: that I saw right at the start of the weekend.
Speaker 1: And you know, once again, it was so jarring in
Speaker 1: its honesty and in its realness that I think that
Speaker 1: because we have become humans that are so busy doing
Speaker 1: and not being, and because there is so much that
Speaker 1: we are dealing with that are being put on our shoulders, um,
Speaker 1: we don't stop and think, fuck, how am I doing this?
Speaker 1: How am I managing? How am I getting through? So
Speaker 1: let me read you this tweet from New York Times
Speaker 1: best selling author of Patriarchy Blues better than we found it,
Speaker 1: Frederick Joseph, who, by the way, if you don't follow him,
Speaker 1: hashtag the Black Friend. He is fantastic. All of his
Speaker 1: writing is incredible, as well as his tweets, and so
Speaker 1: he tweeted this rent is too damn high, gas is
Speaker 1: too damn high. The amount of deaths from COVID is
Speaker 1: still too damn high. The police budget is too damn high.
Speaker 1: The amount of times World War three has trended is
Speaker 1: too damn high. The expectations being placed on us while
Speaker 1: this is happening are too damn high. I want to
Speaker 1: delve into that, because since the beginning of COVID, right,
Speaker 1: we have been told that we need to work right,
Speaker 1: that the economy can't shut down, and capitalism is necessary,
Speaker 1: and we must all do our part and find ways
Speaker 1: to manage through folks, in the time that COVID, just COVID.
Speaker 1: I will touch on the other points that Frederick mentions
Speaker 1: in his tweet, But Jess COVID, let's start there. There
Speaker 1: have been Let's just let's get the exact number. Let's
Speaker 1: get the exact number right now, because again with all
Speaker 1: of this rush to the norm, right, rush back to normal,
Speaker 1: let's open everything up. COVID's not at all a big thing. Which,
Speaker 1: by the way, New York Magazine has a entire article
Speaker 1: and cover that says this, that's said over the weekend,
Speaker 1: COVID is not over. And it was like a person
Speaker 1: on a stretcher in front of a hospital because guess what, folks,
Speaker 1: we still have about two thousand people dying a day
Speaker 1: from COVID, just because the media has decided to s
Speaker 1: talking about it, and the governors of said states have
Speaker 1: decided that they're rolling back you know, mandates and all
Speaker 1: of these things. And even doctor Fauci who came on
Speaker 1: the show, said that, you know, we're at a drizzle
Speaker 1: period and so we need to we're it's okay to
Speaker 1: take off our galoshes and our rain boots and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, work with the environment that we're in.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that those numbers, roughly eighteen hundred
Speaker 1: to two thousand deaths are not normal. We've only normalized them, right,
Speaker 1: We've only decided to shrug it off. Every one of
Speaker 1: us at this point, two plus years into this pandemic.
Speaker 1: No somebody who has died or is suffering from long COVID,
Speaker 1: which again is not actually being discussed on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: I talked to a friend recently who said that one
Speaker 1: of their family members was suffering from law COVID, and
Speaker 1: what did it look like for them? It looked like
Speaker 1: the inability to concentrate, right, so, the inability to really
Speaker 1: work for long periods of time, to be in front
Speaker 1: of a computer that the quote unquote brain fog, brain fog,
Speaker 1: not frog brain fog that people have talked about isn't
Speaker 1: just like a oh, I forgot what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I went into the kitchen and I forgot what I
Speaker 1: was getting. No, no, it is almost complete like disorientation.
Speaker 1: Right then, an onset of migrains, right, that are so
Speaker 1: debilitating that you need to close down everything, including all
Speaker 1: access to light because it is causing you pain, the
Speaker 1: inability to go far distances walking because it is now exhausting.
Speaker 1: These are symptoms that people are dealing with that are
Speaker 1: now being looked at as a disability. So when we say, oh,
Speaker 1: COVID is done or it's not that bad because the
Speaker 1: number of deaths have gone down, one, the number of
Speaker 1: deaths are still too fucking high. And number two, the
Speaker 1: after effects of COVID are still incredibly debilitating and vary
Speaker 1: from person to person. So while folks are like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if you catch COVID, it's no big deal.
Speaker 1: If you are vaxed and boosted and what have you, Well,
Speaker 1: that depends on your very own bodily ecosystem, right, And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still personally, while I am doing
Speaker 1: more things than I was, let's say in December, January
Speaker 1: and February, I'm still trying to be as vigilant as possible,
Speaker 1: because I don't know right my own Bodi's makeup and
Speaker 1: how it's going to fight off this virus and what
Speaker 1: it's going to look like weeks after it's gone. Because
Speaker 1: what Jonathan has told us on this show so many
Speaker 1: times over the past two years is that the virus
Speaker 1: continues to live in your body. Right, we have no
Speaker 1: idea what the long, long term affects of a virus
Speaker 1: living in your body. Is this particular virus that continues
Speaker 1: folks to mutate. So again, it's like, I don't want
Speaker 1: us in this Russian desire because we are emotionally fatigued
Speaker 1: to want to say that we need to just move on.
Speaker 1: That we don't recognize that there are people that are
Speaker 1: still suffering, and that there are millions of people who
Speaker 1: have in fact been infected that will still suffer. So
Speaker 1: what is our healthcare going to look like? Because I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you that one of the things that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden had said several months ago and this point,
Speaker 1: who even knows if it was last year, if it
Speaker 1: was months ago, I don't fucking know, but I will
Speaker 1: say that what he said, what he offered was that
Speaker 1: it was not going to be allowed under his tenure,
Speaker 1: that healthcare companies were going to be able to discriminate
Speaker 1: right pre existing conditions, to discriminate against people who had
Speaker 1: contracted COVID and were still suffering symptoms of it, meaning
Speaker 1: that they weren't going to be allowed to not cover
Speaker 1: those people or to exploit them in terms of the
Speaker 1: kind of coverage that they could get. But that is
Speaker 1: is that law. Has that been codified in law? Or
Speaker 1: is it that when a Republican becomes president of the
Speaker 1: United States, which will in fact be the last presidency
Speaker 1: that we see, because then it'll just become an authoritarian
Speaker 1: dictator and America will have a Trump light or a
Speaker 1: Trump more knowledgeable for the next twenty some odd years.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, I digress. The fact is that is not
Speaker 1: codified into law. That is an exception that Biden is
Speaker 1: making right now. So what does that look like after
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four? Right? What does it look like when
Speaker 1: we know that there will be other mutations? Because if
Speaker 1: you've been following the science, and we've been following the
Speaker 1: patterns of this virus, we know that another one is
Speaker 1: going to come. And so right now, folks, let me
Speaker 1: tell you what the startling number in the United States
Speaker 1: has been. Since twenty twenty, nine hundred and sixty four
Speaker 1: thousand Americans have died. As of today, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four thousand Americans have died. That is nearly a
Speaker 1: million people. And it will be by the time that
Speaker 1: we get to actual spring and summer, it will be
Speaker 1: over a million people will have died. But we have
Speaker 1: an entire political party that has told us that this
Speaker 1: was a hoax, that has told us that this is
Speaker 1: no big deal, that it's just the flu. I don't
Speaker 1: know when in our lifetime we had ever seen the
Speaker 1: flu cause a million deaths in two years, the aggressive
Speaker 1: nature of COVID and how it has upended our lives,
Speaker 1: and now with this rush, and I call it a
Speaker 1: rush because again, we're not following the science. We're following midterms,
Speaker 1: we're following capitalism. Because if we were truly following the science,
Speaker 1: there wouldn't be You wouldn't hear the President of the
Speaker 1: United States say, well, we need to put an end
Speaker 1: to remote work and people just need to get back
Speaker 1: into the office. It's now time. If you have had
Speaker 1: the privilege of working from home over the last two years,
Speaker 1: then you know that you don't need to be in
Speaker 1: an office in order to do your job. But what
Speaker 1: you do know, and what you've become very privy to,
Speaker 1: is the fact that your employers have put in for ten, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty year leases for office space right that is not
Speaker 1: being used currently to its fullest capacity, and that this
Speaker 1: once again is about real estate and money. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with whether or not you have the
Speaker 1: ability to do your job. Now. Sure, are there some
Speaker 1: things that are better done in person, absolutely, but are
Speaker 1: a majority of things able to be done over email,
Speaker 1: over zoom, over slack? Yeah, there are. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the things I think that has been most startling
Speaker 1: as I've been looking at the numbers of people that
Speaker 1: are still remote working versus not, is that here in
Speaker 1: New York where I am, only thirty five percent of
Speaker 1: people who work in offices have gone back to work.
Speaker 1: So when you are riding around midday or what would
Speaker 1: normally be considered rush hour for New York City for
Speaker 1: the subways, what have you not packed? Because for those
Speaker 1: companies who weren't locked into decades long leases, gave up
Speaker 1: their buildings, gave up their office space, decided instead to
Speaker 1: have a remote work or to get smaller huddling offices
Speaker 1: that when folks need to be together, you can be.
Speaker 1: But the expectation is not going to be that you're
Speaker 1: going to be in this office five days a week,
Speaker 1: you know, eight to ten hours a day. So once
Speaker 1: again you're listening to leaders from the president on down
Speaker 1: tell us that like now is the time to go
Speaker 1: back to normal. And I'm telling you close to a
Speaker 1: million people are dead because of COVID and that those
Speaker 1: that have gotten it and did not succumb it wasn't
Speaker 1: fatalistic are still living with severe, severe conditions that are
Speaker 1: not allowing them to quote unquote go back to normal.
Speaker 1: So the question that I have is why isn't the
Speaker 1: administration talking about this? Why aren't people in media talking
Speaker 1: about this? Because once again there has been a collective
Speaker 1: decision that we are going to gas light the country
Speaker 1: and just move on. And so you know, I say this,
Speaker 1: and I say the collective gaslight because also we're talking
Speaker 1: about rights as I'm going to make the pivot to
Speaker 1: now move into our crisis that is happening in Europe
Speaker 1: and move to Putin and the Ukraine and NATO and America.
Speaker 1: Is that We're having all of these conversations about how
Speaker 1: the Russian people know nothing about the true nature of
Speaker 1: what is happening right in their country, what what Russians right,
Speaker 1: what the Russian military led by Putin is doing in
Speaker 1: the Ukraine. If you were to go around Russia and
Speaker 1: ask the people what they think is the cause or
Speaker 1: what they think is happening in the Ukraine, they're going
Speaker 1: to give you the talking points that are out of
Speaker 1: the Kremlin. They're going to tell you that their brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters are out there fighting to liberate the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: from Nazi influence. They're going to tell you that, like
Speaker 1: you know, they have been killing civilians, killing their own.
Speaker 1: They're going to feed you what it is the Kremlin
Speaker 1: wants them to know in order to keep them in
Speaker 1: line and keep them in support of this invasion. Now,
Speaker 1: the thousands of people that have risked their life, their safety,
Speaker 1: and their well being in Russia to protest what is
Speaker 1: happening and what has happened right, those brave folks have
Speaker 1: somehow gotten around the gaslight looping system and figured out that, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can't actually trust anything that is coming across State TV,
Speaker 1: anything that is coming across our radio, our social media,
Speaker 1: right is being monitored and we're not allowed to access
Speaker 1: you know, X, Y and Z. But again, by virtue
Speaker 1: of proximity, we know that there are tons of Russians
Speaker 1: in Ukraine and tons of Ukrainians in Russia. That's why
Speaker 1: they say like this is this is like a brother's war,
Speaker 1: a sister's war, right, We're fighting our own family. But
Speaker 1: then I have told you that there are reports that
Speaker 1: have come out where people are literally in the Ukraine
Speaker 1: with sirens and bombs going off behind them, and their
Speaker 1: family members in Russia are telling them that they are
Speaker 1: making it up, that they are the ones that have
Speaker 1: been brainwashed. Right, So this is how disinformation and misinformation works.
Speaker 1: And when you have a coordinated effort between your government
Speaker 1: and your media in order to gaslight you, that is
Speaker 1: the ultimate, the ultimate in disinformation and misinformation. By virtue
Speaker 1: right of oh, we're just not going to disclose. That
Speaker 1: is what is happening in the United States right now
Speaker 1: with COVID and wanting to turn the page and go
Speaker 1: to go back to the normal of twenty nineteen, which folks,
Speaker 1: even if you do rip off your mask, even if
Speaker 1: you do go back to indoor and do all of
Speaker 1: these things. I'm telling you, the fear and the trauma
Speaker 1: that we have lived under for the past two years
Speaker 1: is not going to go away. While it feels good
Speaker 1: to sit down in a restaurant and it feels good
Speaker 1: to re engage in these environments once you go out,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I was out recently and I said
Speaker 1: to myself, Wow, this feels great. And then I went
Speaker 1: home and I took a test and I was just like,
Speaker 1: still on pins and needles. We're never washing away the
Speaker 1: trauma of what we've lived through, and the fact that
Speaker 1: we are not even giving it the space and the
Speaker 1: weight to be able to work through it collectively. That
Speaker 1: the desire is just like out of sight, out of
Speaker 1: mind is really terrifying to me because I believe that
Speaker 1: this is exactly how you go about making the same
Speaker 1: mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result.
Speaker 1: That we haven't learned anything over the past two years, right,
Speaker 1: What we have learned right about America and Americans is
Speaker 1: that we are a selfish society. We are a country
Speaker 1: that does not believe in helping other people or doing
Speaker 1: things that may cause discomfort for us if it means
Speaker 1: comfort for the majority, that we are not going to
Speaker 1: challenge ourselves in any which way to actually be better,
Speaker 1: That we can't project onto other people any empathy or
Speaker 1: sympathy if it is somehow upsets our current status and
Speaker 1: our current state of ease. Right, There's a reason why
Speaker 1: other countries have been able to tackle COVID in the
Speaker 1: way that they have or fight back against misinformation, and
Speaker 1: it's because their culture has always been based in community
Speaker 1: and the success of the whole, not individual. But in America,
Speaker 1: all we care about, all we pride ourselves on is
Speaker 1: our individual nature and desire, the pulling up from the bootstraps.
Speaker 1: I did it all alone, knowing that nobody has which
Speaker 1: side note as let me make a pop culture reference
Speaker 1: as well in here, because this is how my mind
Speaker 1: is working today. I'm very overwhelmed no one has done
Speaker 1: it all on their own, and that there are people
Speaker 1: that work so hard in this country, well over the
Speaker 1: forty hours a week, fifty hours a week, that hold
Speaker 1: down multiple jobs and are still not able to make
Speaker 1: ends meet. But in our country, where do we go
Speaker 1: to get our advice from those that were born wealthy
Speaker 1: to dictate to us how it is that we are
Speaker 1: going to be able to live the life that they
Speaker 1: were born into. And I say the pop culture reference
Speaker 1: because at the end of last week, Kim kardash received
Speaker 1: a lot of backlash from comments that she made in
Speaker 1: an interview with Variety magazine as the Kardashians are getting
Speaker 1: ready to make their premiere on streaming platform Hulu, as
Speaker 1: they've moved from regular television to streaming, and Kim Kardashian,
Speaker 1: you know, is being asked, you know, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the key to your success? And instead of saying, what
Speaker 1: is actually the key to your success? Being born wealthy, right,
Speaker 1: being born with a name, being born with wealth, and
Speaker 1: then being able to use that wealth that you were
Speaker 1: born into in the name that you were born into,
Speaker 1: and being able to turn that into a billion dollar brand.
Speaker 1: You're able to make billions because you were born into
Speaker 1: fucking millions, right. But the answer that she gave was
Speaker 1: so insulting to people that are working so hard and
Speaker 1: still not able to make ends meet. What's he said
Speaker 1: was people just need to work hard. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: work hard anymore. And I'm saying, bitch, who is nobody?
Speaker 1: Who are you talking to? Because I know many people
Speaker 1: who are busting their asses, right, who are either busting
Speaker 1: their asses as entrepreneurs, busting their asses for other people, right.
Speaker 1: And in the age of inflation and how much more
Speaker 1: expensive things have gotten, nobody's fucking income has gone up
Speaker 1: to match that. We're just all trying to do more
Speaker 1: with less. And so for somebody that was born into
Speaker 1: wealth and whiteness and a name, right and fame to
Speaker 1: then look at the rest of us who haven't had
Speaker 1: the same advantages or opportunities and then totally have a
Speaker 1: disassociation from that reality that you were born into. Then
Speaker 1: to offer advice to other people, get the fuck out
Speaker 1: of here, honestly, you know, I recently I have started
Speaker 1: to think about, even in my own professional life, the
Speaker 1: people who I have turned into deities, the people who
Speaker 1: I have said, Oh, I want to emulate so and
Speaker 1: so's career in so and so's steps. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that folks can't offer advice, but offer advice off
Speaker 1: the reel, right, offer advice off the reel, like I'll
Speaker 1: take advice from fucking Oprah right, who was born broke
Speaker 1: into poverty, into a set into the segregated South, and
Speaker 1: was able to make the most out of the opportunities
Speaker 1: that were presented. Right. I will take advice from a ditty, Right,
Speaker 1: a Sean Diddy Colmes who was taken the amtrack back
Speaker 1: and forth, you know, at the beginning stages of hustling
Speaker 1: into creating bad boy records. Right, I will take advice
Speaker 1: from people who literally came from nothing or came from
Speaker 1: something and we're able to turn it into something extraordinary.
Speaker 1: But don't come off right. Don't come off as if
Speaker 1: you are offering something to people. And essentially, because it's
Speaker 1: essentially Kim Kardashian echoed and offered essentially what Republicans have
Speaker 1: been saying, which is why they didn't want to offer
Speaker 1: or vote for COVID relief. They didn't want to give
Speaker 1: people any types of checks. They don't want to give
Speaker 1: the American people back their own tax dollars to support
Speaker 1: them in their times of need. No, because the assumption
Speaker 1: is what Joe Mansion said, Oh well, if I give
Speaker 1: the child tax credit, if I vote for this, then
Speaker 1: people are going to use this money to go on vacation.
Speaker 1: They're going to use this money, as he said, to
Speaker 1: go hunting or whatever. You know, So we need to
Speaker 1: make people live in an austerity type of situation because
Speaker 1: they are undeserving of their own own money and resources back.
Speaker 1: That is what politicians say. Kim Kardashian echoed that because
Speaker 1: the assumption has always been at one at both at times,
Speaker 1: they want to hold both things to be true. On
Speaker 1: one hand, Americans are lazy. They don't deserve any child
Speaker 1: tax credit, they don't deserve any support, they don't deserve
Speaker 1: their own tax dollars. Put back into social security and
Speaker 1: safety nets, into social safety nets that will help them
Speaker 1: meet ends meet and not And as Joe Biden loves
Speaker 1: to say, oh my dad used to say, provide some
Speaker 1: breathing room. They don't give a fuck about your breathing room.
Speaker 1: They want you to be broke, under educated, and desperate,
Speaker 1: right because then you will do anything and everything in
Speaker 1: order to get that little bit of breathing room through
Speaker 1: a fucking straw, right, Like, that's what they want. And
Speaker 1: when you start, when you sit back and you take
Speaker 1: this all in and you look around, and you're just like, wow,
Speaker 1: all of us, all of us are falling for the
Speaker 1: rope padot. All of us are in love and indoctrinated
Speaker 1: by wealth and fame and privilege. It's the reason why
Speaker 1: you have people voting consistently against their best interest. Oh well,
Speaker 1: if I were rich, or when I am rich, I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to pay taxes, blah blah blah blah. Well,
Speaker 1: the likelihood of you getting to that one percent having
Speaker 1: come from the ninety nine percent is as likely as
Speaker 1: you getting hit by lightning. But the lie of capitalism
Speaker 1: is in its possibility, is in pulling out those few
Speaker 1: examples of those that were able to somehow make it
Speaker 1: in their version of squid game, right, and then we
Speaker 1: use those people to say, oh, you two can do that,
Speaker 1: not realizing that everyone's situation is one hundred percent different.
Speaker 1: There may be consistent themes, but how we attack those themes,
Speaker 1: how they show up in our lives are completely and
Speaker 1: totally different. But you see, the lie of capitalism is
Speaker 1: about the possibility of the thing. Oh, if you just
Speaker 1: put your head down and work hard, then you'll get there.
Speaker 1: And for those of us that have not arrived at
Speaker 1: that place, it is not by virtue of the system
Speaker 1: that we've been working in. It's by virtue of your laziness. Right,
Speaker 1: So we've regurgitate the same shit to everyone around us
Speaker 1: that has been told to us. The reason why folks
Speaker 1: squid Game was so fucking popular wasn't just because it
Speaker 1: was so obscene and it's over the top violence, but
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you can literally see the
Speaker 1: parallels in our own lives and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we would never get into a competition where people would
Speaker 1: literally be killing themselves or getting the risk of being
Speaker 1: killed just to wipe out their debt, wouldn't we haven't
Speaker 1: you seen all of those I mean, from the birth
Speaker 1: of reality TV, from the birth of Fear Factor, from
Speaker 1: the birth of these shows where it's just like humiliate yourself,
Speaker 1: humiliate yourself, or the possibility of getting a hundred grand
Speaker 1: and people do it right, and they do it and
Speaker 1: we call it entertainment as opposed to a flawed economic system.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I honestly wish that I wouldn't make the connections.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I wish that I could just go along for
Speaker 1: the get along, because I think that life would be
Speaker 1: a lot easier, right, I would have a lot less anxiety.
Speaker 1: But I can't turn my eyes away from the truth.
Speaker 1: I can't turn my eyes away from the fact that
Speaker 1: I honestly believe that both sides of the political party,
Speaker 1: both factions of the wealthy and the non wealthy, the
Speaker 1: haves and the have nots, are all in cahoots for
Speaker 1: the same thing, which is to gaslight the public into
Speaker 1: doing their bidding so that they can continue to live on,
Speaker 1: to live on the mountaintop and then dictate to the
Speaker 1: rest of us as they are cutting the bridges and
Speaker 1: cutting the water and cutting the access and saying to us, well,
Speaker 1: if you just worked hard enough, you two could climb everest,
Speaker 1: you two could get wealth. And it's just you know,
Speaker 1: you're in your situation, You're in your lot in life
Speaker 1: because you're just not strategic enough, you're just not working
Speaker 1: hard enough. Well, if you told me that if I
Speaker 1: could if I worked double the amount that I work, Right,
Speaker 1: if I could work eighty hours a week, ninety hours
Speaker 1: a week, and I too could be a billionaire, right
Speaker 1: that that it was it was going to be correct,
Speaker 1: that the amount of work that I put in was
Speaker 1: going to be an actual return on the investment, and
Speaker 1: then I too could be a billionaire. Then I would
Speaker 1: do that. Everybody would do that. Maybe there would be
Speaker 1: some people that wouldn't, but that's not true. But it's
Speaker 1: the lie that we continue to spread and tell ourselves right,
Speaker 1: because we are in a love affair, a dangerous love
Speaker 1: affair with wealth and privilege. You know, it's so easy,
Speaker 1: It has been so easy for us to look around
Speaker 1: at other countries and nations to either wag our finger
Speaker 1: at them for their wrongdoing in the ways in which
Speaker 1: they hurt their own citizens, right, how they enter into war,
Speaker 1: the misinformation that talent television, how they are controlling, right,
Speaker 1: whether you're talking about Russia or China or wherever has
Speaker 1: a dictatorship in communism, and you don't realize the ways
Speaker 1: in which we're controlled, the ways in which we have
Speaker 1: the illusion of freedom in the United States. It is
Speaker 1: the illusion of liberty, but we are allied to We
Speaker 1: are gas lit, right, except we say that it's just
Speaker 1: about hard work, right, you get out what you put in,
Speaker 1: But we don't talk about what it is that you
Speaker 1: are giving up in order to buy into this lie.
Speaker 1: Every year around this time, everybody that is adult age
Speaker 1: of taxpaying age is being squeezed by their government and
Speaker 1: then told that in times of prices, when we need
Speaker 1: these resources back, we don't get them. Then we look
Speaker 1: around at our schools, at our healthcare, at the water
Speaker 1: we're drinking, at the food that we're being delivered, and
Speaker 1: recognizing that like I don't get to say where my
Speaker 1: tax dollars go, if I were, if I were in
Speaker 1: charge of where my taxes went, you better believe that
Speaker 1: I would want one hundred percent of my tax dollars
Speaker 1: to be going into education and rehabbing our public education system,
Speaker 1: not only in the wealthy suburban areas, but everywhere, particularly
Speaker 1: the places that are the most underserved. If our capitalism
Speaker 1: system really worked right, then that's what would be happening.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon wouldn't be receiving hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: more than they asked for, and schools wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: be begging teachers that they barely pay in order to
Speaker 1: put school supplies together because the federal government isn't doing that.
Speaker 1: That we wouldn't have turned our teachers into villains, right
Speaker 1: because our kids weren't passing certain tests that we're discriminatory
Speaker 1: and racists to begin with, just so that we can
Speaker 1: continue to have a working class, because you see, without
Speaker 1: a working class, there is no upper class. But we
Speaker 1: love again to pretend that these people who have more
Speaker 1: have just gotten it either by luck or by hard work,
Speaker 1: and neither of those things are true. So as we're
Speaker 1: all being told that we need to push harder and
Speaker 1: do more, and not be a human being, but be
Speaker 1: a human that is constantly doing and producing because our
Speaker 1: value and our worth is associated with our production. Understand
Speaker 1: that you are falling prey. We all are falling prey
Speaker 1: to the extraction system of capitalism. That's where we are.
Speaker 1: So when Frederick Joseph says the rent is too damn high,
Speaker 1: gas is too damn high. Gas right now on average,
Speaker 1: as I'm as I'm recording, this is at four twenty
Speaker 1: three a gallon four dollars and twenty three cents. At
Speaker 1: the same time that Joe Biden had the audacity to
Speaker 1: tell people that they need to stop remote work and
Speaker 1: go back into the office every day, who the fuck
Speaker 1: is paying that gas bill? Are they setting us a check?
Speaker 1: Are they sending you a check to pay now for
Speaker 1: the gas that it's going to cost in order for
Speaker 1: you to go into work each and every day. No,
Speaker 1: they are not. And so I'm saying, folks like, let
Speaker 1: us not continue to fall for the ropadope. Let us
Speaker 1: ask the really hard questions not just of the Republicans
Speaker 1: who we know are evil, but the Democrats who tell
Speaker 1: us that they have our best interests at heart, knowing
Speaker 1: good god damn well, they don't. And this is a
Speaker 1: thing that I am starting to grapple with. And I
Speaker 1: haven't even gotten into the other part of his tweet
Speaker 1: about World War three and the consistent right provocation of
Speaker 1: that all of these things are real and on the
Speaker 1: table right now, and we're being told to just like
Speaker 1: pretend and act like all is norm And I want
Speaker 1: to fucking open up my window and let out the
Speaker 1: most primal screen that I can and then fall back
Speaker 1: into bed. The things that we are being told that
Speaker 1: we have to deal with, have to swallow, have to stomach,
Speaker 1: and then if we don't, we're the ones that are
Speaker 1: looked at like there is something wrong with us, as
Speaker 1: opposed to the fucking systems that are created to keep
Speaker 1: us in prison. We are at this place in the world,
Speaker 1: in our society, in our country because of the failed
Speaker 1: fucking decisions of those that we put in power, who
Speaker 1: only want more power. They're not there to do change,
Speaker 1: They're there to make more change for their pockets. I'm
Speaker 1: sick with where we are. I'm sick with who we
Speaker 1: have become, and I'm wondering, in all honesty, do things
Speaker 1: need to get to a place of being so very bad,
Speaker 1: so very bad, that then we begin to see the
Speaker 1: upturn because finally we have reached our breaking point and
Speaker 1: everyone has had enough. I was hoping to avoid that,
Speaker 1: but at this point in the game it seems unavoidable.
Speaker 1: The last thing I will say is this. At the
Speaker 1: end of last week, actor Jesse Smollett was carted off
Speaker 1: to jail. If you remember, I want to say that
Speaker 1: it was either twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, who knows it,
Speaker 1: pre pandemic when Jesse Smollett, the actor from Empire and
Speaker 1: other shows, ski trip other other things, A story was
Speaker 1: made up about a hate crime right and saying that
Speaker 1: there was a news sent all of these things and
Speaker 1: he was beat up and blah blah blah. No one
Speaker 1: really knows what transpired, what either made Jesse make those accusations,
Speaker 1: whether or not he is emotionally unwell, whether or not
Speaker 1: it actually happened, I have no idea. But I do
Speaker 1: know this is that he was just sentenced to one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty days in jail. Right, so six months
Speaker 1: half a year, basically five six months in jail, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of fines I think
Speaker 1: another fifty thousand dollars worth of fine. So all in
Speaker 1: all he's paying, you know, close to two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars worth of fines end, spending one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: days in jail, all for lying to the police. And
Speaker 1: this is what I said. Trump and company lied to
Speaker 1: the entire nation about voter fraud and COVID, which both
Speaker 1: cost countless lives, and they all continued to walk around free.
Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett made a statement that hurt only himself and
Speaker 1: possibly his family. Right, Donald Trump and the Republican statements
Speaker 1: hurt the entire country and the responsibility of over four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand deaths that could have been avoided had we
Speaker 1: been told just how dangerous COVID was. The deaths at
Speaker 1: the Capitol could have been avoided had Donald Trump been
Speaker 1: like any other fucking president and accepted the results of
Speaker 1: our free and fair election in a democracy. But he didn't.
Speaker 1: How is it that these white, wealthy, fucking politicians and
Speaker 1: lawyers are walking around free having costed this country so
Speaker 1: goddamn much. But you want to make an example out
Speaker 1: of Jesse Smollett, who did what lied to the cops. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the fucking cops be lying to us on a regular
Speaker 1: goddamn basis about the fucking unarmed black people that they kill. Right.
Speaker 1: I am so tired of this injustice system. Am I
Speaker 1: saying that there should have been no reprimand for Jesse?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But give him the same reprimand you would
Speaker 1: have given any white, wealthy, fucking person in Hollywood, Given
Speaker 1: the same reprimand that you would have given the people,
Speaker 1: he would have done better storming the fucking Capitol building
Speaker 1: then he got. Let that make sense. Make that make
Speaker 1: fucking sense, because it does not. It is just, once
Speaker 1: again a glaring example of how unjust our criminal system
Speaker 1: is that the real criminals, they get to reinvent themselves,
Speaker 1: regardless of the amount of damage that they have caused.
Speaker 1: Those of us who only end up causing damage and
Speaker 1: harm to ourselves. No, we get to pay the biggest,
Speaker 1: the biggest price. That's what it's like to be in America.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting, and folks are tweeting and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I didn't make the connection. Yeah, I wish
Speaker 1: too that I wouldn't make these connections, but they are
Speaker 1: real and they are glaring, and people can come up
Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of excuses as to why Jesse
Speaker 1: needed to be made an example of. And I'm saying,
Speaker 1: why aren't we making an example of the big eggest crimers,
Speaker 1: the biggest fucking rifters, and the biggest liars. Why is
Speaker 1: that only reserved for those that have caused themselves the
Speaker 1: most harm or maybe emotionally distraught. Why is it that
Speaker 1: we can only look the other way so long as
Speaker 1: the skin is white and the pockets are fat. Make
Speaker 1: it make sense? That is it for me today? Here,
Speaker 1: folks on woke f as always Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.