Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willgate f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I start off today's show incredibly troubled about where we
Speaker 1: are in the world right now. UM. Yesterday when the
Speaker 1: news broke that Russia had indeed invaded Ukraine, UM, and
Speaker 1: that everything that Putin has said that he would do,
Speaker 1: as he was amassing one hundred and fifty thousand plush
Speaker 1: troops around the Ukraine for the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: as he was, you know, shoring up blood supplies, as
Speaker 1: he was stationing tanks um ships, readying to attack. The
Speaker 1: images that came out, that continue to come out and
Speaker 1: will continue to grace all of the screens that we
Speaker 1: look at day in and day out, are traumatizing. And
Speaker 1: I say that because I have a series of knots
Speaker 1: in my stomach and lump in my throat as I
Speaker 1: record this right now, because I do not believe that
Speaker 1: Americans understand the vast majority of Americans understand how serious
Speaker 1: this is right now. What is often true about America
Speaker 1: and Americans is that because we are so far away
Speaker 1: from the rest of the world that you know, we
Speaker 1: believe and eishly slow so that what happens in one
Speaker 1: part of the world isn't going to affect us. That
Speaker 1: you know, I tweeted, I've been tweeting since the news broke,
Speaker 1: since I woke up like many of you did yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you're like, holy shit, war has broken out in Europe.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen war at this escalated level, folks, as
Speaker 1: many foreign affairs experts are saying since World War Two.
Speaker 1: We understand because we've been following Putin's moves since he
Speaker 1: seized power in Russia, that he, much like Republicans in
Speaker 1: this country, plays the long game. The USSR was broken apart,
Speaker 1: fell apart many many years ago, right, and yet through
Speaker 1: the desires of one meglomaniac, he is and has been
Speaker 1: steadily moving towards his goal of a united Russia, right,
Speaker 1: a restored superpower. And you know when President Biden took
Speaker 1: to the Newswaves yesterday to essentially, you know, speak to
Speaker 1: the American people and speak to the world and say
Speaker 1: that the most severe sanctions are being placed against Russia
Speaker 1: and that it will cripple Russia's economy. And you already
Speaker 1: see where their stock market has gone even though we
Speaker 1: know even in this country that the stock market is
Speaker 1: not indicative necessarily of the steadiness right of the country,
Speaker 1: because not everybody has money in the market, and the
Speaker 1: damn shure don't in Russia. But I think that what's
Speaker 1: important to note here is that sanctions take months to
Speaker 1: have impact act, and we're talking about the Ukraine having
Speaker 1: ninety six hours until capitals start to fall to the
Speaker 1: weight of Russian aggression. We're talking about images of people
Speaker 1: who yesterday had used the subways to get to work,
Speaker 1: to go shopping, to see friends, to see family, just
Speaker 1: to go about their days, that the subways have now
Speaker 1: turned into bomb shelters because there aren't enough bomb shelters
Speaker 1: in parts of the Ukraine. You're talking about people who,
Speaker 1: for the last thirty forty years have been an independent nation,
Speaker 1: many of whom or our ages, who have never experienced war.
Speaker 1: It has only been something that has been a part
Speaker 1: of their history books. And so when they woke up
Speaker 1: to air raid sirens, when they woke up, no doubt
Speaker 1: to their phones pinging left and right about what has happened.
Speaker 1: Imagine the fear of looking around your apartment, your home,
Speaker 1: and out the window and seeing plumes of smoke, seeing
Speaker 1: and hearing sirens going off, getting texts and phone calls
Speaker 1: that are saying are you safe, get out, but not
Speaker 1: knowing where the fuck you were going to go when
Speaker 1: you went to bed last night, You, like everybody else
Speaker 1: in the world, is thinking about, Oh, what's on my
Speaker 1: to do list tomorrow? Not do I have a go bag?
Speaker 1: And am I going to be able to ever see
Speaker 1: my city, my town, my home, my friends, my family
Speaker 1: again as you are now using your normal metro subway
Speaker 1: stop as a bombshelter. You know, sometimes I think that
Speaker 1: in America, we look and we watch things that are
Speaker 1: happening in other countries, and we have this sense of
Speaker 1: superiority that like, oh, look at them. Oh I'm so
Speaker 1: sad for them, But that could never happen here. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, if I had the ability to
Speaker 1: drive around with a truck with a big fucking speaker
Speaker 1: on top of it, up and down every street in
Speaker 1: America railing with an alarm that's saying wake the fuck up,
Speaker 1: everything that you think could never happen is happening. I
Speaker 1: never thought that a billion animals would perish in a
Speaker 1: fire that is caused by climate change and the world
Speaker 1: be outraged for two seconds and then go off to
Speaker 1: what they were doing. I never thought that we would
Speaker 1: be living in a global health pandemic where for a
Speaker 1: year and a half, our kids, our life, everything stopped,
Speaker 1: and our screens became the only way for us to
Speaker 1: stay in contact with the people that we love because
Speaker 1: there's a killer virus outside that we can't see, that
Speaker 1: we can't touch, but because of it, we can't see
Speaker 1: and touch each other. And that has happened. I never
Speaker 1: believe that America would elect a man who outwardly talked
Speaker 1: about grabbing women by the pussy. I never thought that
Speaker 1: a political party, an American political party, would be touting
Speaker 1: the talking points of our biggest foe. If there's nothing
Speaker 1: else that you've ever learned in history, if there's nothing
Speaker 1: else that you even remember, the thing that I've always
Speaker 1: known is that Russia is an aggressor and has always
Speaker 1: been our enemy. Right, they wanted authoritarianism to reign supreme
Speaker 1: around the world with that country at the helm. Right
Speaker 1: manifest destiny in the United States in the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 1: was about spreading democracy. But don't get it twisted. America
Speaker 1: has always had economic interest in the places that it
Speaker 1: had quote unquote spread to to secure democracy. But never
Speaker 1: in my wildest dreams would I have thought that the
Speaker 1: President of the United States, the former twice impeach president
Speaker 1: of the United States, would get on the phone and
Speaker 1: outwardly try and like muse his muscle to get what
Speaker 1: he needed from foreign nations. I never thought that the
Speaker 1: White House would turn into some type of Vegas fucking
Speaker 1: slot machine. But here we are. So I don't want
Speaker 1: any of us to be looking at what is going
Speaker 1: on in the Ukraine and think to ourselves, well, at
Speaker 1: least I'm not there, because a year ago we saw
Speaker 1: our capital building enveloped in a plume of smoke. We
Speaker 1: saw the Michigan State capital under siege. Right now, as
Speaker 1: I speak, there are caravans not filled with Mexican immigrants,
Speaker 1: as Republicans had told us and fearmongered would happen if
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton became president of the United States. No, those
Speaker 1: caravans right are headed from South Carolina. Is headed from
Speaker 1: South California to Washington, DC to mirror what has been
Speaker 1: going on in Ottawa, Canada. The caravan is filled with
Speaker 1: American citizens that are ready to lay siege to an
Speaker 1: American city. Our own Republican politicians have told us, we
Speaker 1: have more guns and bullets on our side than you do.
Speaker 1: They have been chomping at the bit for another civil war,
Speaker 1: another crack at the knot. They are so greedy for
Speaker 1: power and so entwined in white supremacy that they are
Speaker 1: emulating the actions of America's biggest enemy and upholding Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin as their true president, as a leader that they
Speaker 1: want to see in America. When I tell you that
Speaker 1: we are living in the most unstable times this world,
Speaker 1: I think has ever seen this confluence of crisis and
Speaker 1: fucking disaster. This is what I'm talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: yesterday I spent most of the day in tears because
Speaker 1: most people don't know. I'm an extreme EmPATH, right, meaning
Speaker 1: that I care deeply about what is going on, and
Speaker 1: I feel it in every cell in my body. Because
Speaker 1: I know that Ukraine is foreshadowing. I know that Ottawa,
Speaker 1: Canada is foreshadowing. I know that hungry is foreshadowing. And
Speaker 1: I know that Republicans have been saying the quiet part
Speaker 1: out loud on a speaker for the last five years,
Speaker 1: and America isn't paying attention. This week. We have seen
Speaker 1: so much Yesterday, earlier in the week, excuse me, I railed,
Speaker 1: railed against what the new Manhattan District Attorney is doing.
Speaker 1: Then I had some he tell me, oh, good job
Speaker 1: focusing on midterms when fascism is spreading around the world,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you fucking dumb? Do you not
Speaker 1: see the fucking connections between what Republicans are doing in
Speaker 1: the United States right now and how it is a
Speaker 1: part of the fascism that is spreading around the world,
Speaker 1: how they are apart and pawn in Putin's larger game.
Speaker 1: Do you not see the connection here? And if you don't,
Speaker 1: I am sorry, But my god, you're listening to Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson on Fox News. I mean it is as if
Speaker 1: Putin is actually speaking from his voice. He has his
Speaker 1: hand up Tucker Carlson's back like a fucking muppet, opening
Speaker 1: up his mouth and just coming out of it, singing
Speaker 1: the praises of Russia, saying to the millions of Americans
Speaker 1: that watch him and listen with bated breath to every
Speaker 1: fucking lie that comes out of that man's mouth, they
Speaker 1: are going against their own president. And what keeps me up,
Speaker 1: what woke me up actually last night, and I had
Speaker 1: to calm myself. The fuck down was Oh my god.
Speaker 1: In World War Two, it took the deaths of six
Speaker 1: million Jewish people in order to get the world to
Speaker 1: pay attention to what Hitler was doing. Six million people,
Speaker 1: what do you think? And that was That was when folks,
Speaker 1: we were united as a nation against a common evil,
Speaker 1: when the world democracies were united against a common threat.
Speaker 1: We are an divided nation. Putin began his ploy to
Speaker 1: divide America years ago. The twenty sixteen election was just
Speaker 1: his first act of war. Do we not see that now?
Speaker 1: We saw it then, Hillary Clinton warned us. Then there
Speaker 1: are clips going around right now of interviews that she
Speaker 1: gave to lay out the dangers that were ahead if
Speaker 1: you were to elect somebody who was so cozy and
Speaker 1: enamored with fucking dictators. The first step was to turn
Speaker 1: neighbor against neighbor and spread as much disinformation as possible.
Speaker 1: Because a weakened and divided America right is easily pushed
Speaker 1: over a weekend, and divided America does not have the
Speaker 1: fortitude to lead the charge against a blood thirsty Russia
Speaker 1: because we're too busy putting out fires in our literal
Speaker 1: and figurative fires in our own backyard, fighting against each other,
Speaker 1: that we don't have the capacity, we don't have the
Speaker 1: fucking bandwidth to then be paying attention to what is
Speaker 1: happening at seas you had Vladimir Putin get on Russian
Speaker 1: television and saying, bet so you all try and intervene
Speaker 1: with what I am doing in the Ukraine, and you
Speaker 1: will be sorry, because the fingerprints that that motherfucker had
Speaker 1: all over the twenty sixteen election, he has now dug
Speaker 1: his hands in and the Republican Party has welcomed him
Speaker 1: with open arms. There has never been a time, never
Speaker 1: been a time, I would ask any historian, at what
Speaker 1: point in time in America when we were faced with
Speaker 1: outside opposition, did you have internal power applauding the opposition.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump stood before a ball room of his fans
Speaker 1: where he said that Putin just recently, folks, I mean
Speaker 1: this week, that he's strong, he's a leader. And all
Speaker 1: I want is for Democrats to take the sound and
Speaker 1: the visuals of that and have a split screen of
Speaker 1: the bombs being dropped overhead in Keith right, being dropped
Speaker 1: overhead in all of these Ukrainian cities, as you have
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson saying, oh, we need to be concerned with
Speaker 1: woke culture because Putin's doing just fine. If folks don't
Speaker 1: see what is happening here, that the war that Republicans
Speaker 1: are waging is much bigger than the start of book
Speaker 1: banning and putting a target on the back of trans youth,
Speaker 1: which is what Governor Abbott just did. That all of
Speaker 1: these things that don't say a bill, they are ticking
Speaker 1: off for you who in the society is expendable in
Speaker 1: the same way that the Nazis were ticking off to
Speaker 1: the Germans. Why you shouldn't give a fuck about your
Speaker 1: Jewish neighbor down the street. And then when that person
Speaker 1: is gone, poof, at least my home is still around.
Speaker 1: At least I'm still here. Republicans are following the playbook
Speaker 1: of going after the most vulnerable among us, seeing how
Speaker 1: far they can go, how much they can push without
Speaker 1: receiving intense pushback from all sides. They just passed in
Speaker 1: the Florida House. Don't say gay bill soon, folks, phil
Speaker 1: pass they don't be gay bill. If you can recall
Speaker 1: from history McCarthy right, Joseph McCarthy, the architect of McCarthyism,
Speaker 1: had a list a list of people whom he blacklisted,
Speaker 1: whom he said were gay or intellectuals, or Communist sympathizers
Speaker 1: or blah blah blah blah blah. So how soon do
Speaker 1: you think it will be before Republicans begin the other
Speaker 1: phase of their campaign? As soon as they get power back,
Speaker 1: which is in a handful of months, America will become
Speaker 1: unrecord noticeable. And so as we watch what is taking
Speaker 1: place in in the Ukraine with shock and with horror,
Speaker 1: understand that it is possible, more than possible, that soon
Speaker 1: the rest of the world will be watching America with
Speaker 1: the same terror, watching as our streets fill with terrified
Speaker 1: citizens who have never had to have a plan of
Speaker 1: where to go and how to get out of harm's
Speaker 1: way before, outside of preparing for national disasters. What do
Speaker 1: you think happens if Republicans part of their master plan
Speaker 1: is to get all of the truckers, all of the
Speaker 1: ex military, all of the x and active military and
Speaker 1: law enforcement in this country to gather and to start
Speaker 1: to take siege of cities that are controlled right by
Speaker 1: blue state governors. That they start little by little to
Speaker 1: occupy certain areas, that being the first step. And we say, oh,
Speaker 1: but they have a freedom to protest. But we don't understand.
Speaker 1: We're not really paying attention to the bigger picture. You see,
Speaker 1: these people have been activated. Donald Trump activated them in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. The insurrection in twenty twenty one emboldened them.
Speaker 1: Almost a year and a half later, we're looking around
Speaker 1: for accountability and I see none, which emboldens them even
Speaker 1: further because now they know where to tighten up, in
Speaker 1: how to tighten up. These people are ready for war?
Speaker 1: Are you? Because I know that I'm not. As I
Speaker 1: lay in bed last night and I think to myself,
Speaker 1: holy shit, what if I were to wake up tomorrow
Speaker 1: and there were air sirens going off? Do we even
Speaker 1: have air sirens in New York? Was followed by my
Speaker 1: second thought, where would I be going? My family lives
Speaker 1: on Long Island, in actual fucking island, right, That doesn't
Speaker 1: help us navigate and move out of anywhere. Where would
Speaker 1: you go if in the middle of the night, at
Speaker 1: three to four in the morning sirens were going off
Speaker 1: and you knew, well, it's not a tornado and it's
Speaker 1: I see the stars and it's not a hurricane coming.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is that? You turn on the news,
Speaker 1: you look at your phone, and alert after alert after
Speaker 1: alert is coming in that there's been a takeover, that
Speaker 1: there's been a siege. What are you packing? Is your
Speaker 1: car if you have one, as it filled with gas?
Speaker 1: Do you have cash stored away in your home? In
Speaker 1: the event that Russia has waged a cyber attack like
Speaker 1: the one we saw with the pipelines, which a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, I said to myself, Holy shit, pipelines
Speaker 1: can be hacked. Everything can be hacked. So you think
Speaker 1: that we're here and we're secure and all of us.
Speaker 1: Now you're going out to the corner store to your
Speaker 1: local bank and there are a legions of people thinking
Speaker 1: and trying to do the same goddamn thing. And now
Speaker 1: the bank has run out of money and they're turning
Speaker 1: people away. So you hop in your car and you
Speaker 1: go and you start going, but you don't know what
Speaker 1: direction to go in, Where is safe? What does safety
Speaker 1: look like? This is what is happening right now all
Speaker 1: over Ukraine. This is what has been happening in countries
Speaker 1: we don't even care about. There's been a war waging
Speaker 1: in Ethiopia for the last several months, tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of people have died. We hear nothing. I sit here
Speaker 1: and I'm following the news, and I am thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: is this the beginning of the actual end? When it
Speaker 1: was World War Two? In the beginning, did people know?
Speaker 1: Were there folks that had a sinking feeling? Because those
Speaker 1: were the people that fled early, that began to see
Speaker 1: the writing on the wall and started to see the
Speaker 1: closing in. And then there were the others that couldn't
Speaker 1: possibly imagine picking up and going where to do? What?
Speaker 1: We are about to have yet another refugee crisis in
Speaker 1: this world. Every several months we have another refugee crisis.
Speaker 1: We just just we're on the news where the ticker
Speaker 1: switch out fucking Ukraine and put in Afghanistan. Twenty years
Speaker 1: of quote unquote democracy in Afghanistan and it fell in
Speaker 1: twenty two fucking hours. Do we think that sanctions alone
Speaker 1: as severe as we think that they are. Do we
Speaker 1: think that that is going to stop a madman that
Speaker 1: has had a vision in his mind for the last
Speaker 1: three decades. Do we think that Putin hasn't anticipated what
Speaker 1: cut off from the world's resources would do. This. Motherfucker
Speaker 1: is sitting on multiple oligarchs right with a combination of
Speaker 1: hundreds a collective of hundreds of billions of dollars, not
Speaker 1: to mention whatever other backdoor deals this motherfucker has been
Speaker 1: making and planning. President Biden was asked yesterday in the
Speaker 1: press conference, do you think there are more countries that
Speaker 1: Putin has in mind? Do you think that he's going
Speaker 1: after more than the Ukraine? Biden didn't stutter, He didn't
Speaker 1: even blink. He said, yes, he is coming for it all.
Speaker 1: And there are forces within each of the places that
Speaker 1: he is going to pick off where he has reinforcements,
Speaker 1: hundreds of billions at your disposal with probably talk to
Speaker 1: the oligarchs that you can return to greatness. I will
Speaker 1: restore your legacy and your power. He is their great
Speaker 1: white hope. Because this isn't just about a power grab,
Speaker 1: It is about what kind of power grab this is.
Speaker 1: It is a white domination power grab. It is about
Speaker 1: a cleansing of who he deems to be a little
Speaker 1: in his way, not up to his ideals of just
Speaker 1: the right type of person. Now, it may not be
Speaker 1: akin to Hitler's Aryan Dreams and Vision but it's sure
Speaker 1: as fuck is white, and it's sure as fuck is
Speaker 1: about the right kind of white. He's spreading the lies about, oh,
Speaker 1: we need to go into the Ukraine because we need
Speaker 1: to scrub out the Nazis. What they're doing genocide. Point
Speaker 1: to it. Where's it happening? Show us the evidence. You
Speaker 1: have these brave people in Russia yesterday, hundreds of them,
Speaker 1: thousands of them flooding into the streets to protest because
Speaker 1: they see the Ukrainians as their brother. Why why are
Speaker 1: we fighting our brother? We are family. Millions of Ukrainians
Speaker 1: live in Russia. Thousands were arrested. Do you know what
Speaker 1: they do to protesters in Russia? It ain't great, It
Speaker 1: ain't you know, the plastic on the risk like we
Speaker 1: see here. It isn't even like mild tear gas. Not
Speaker 1: to say that tear gas is mild. But you know,
Speaker 1: we have laws, or at least some people have laws
Speaker 1: in this country. We know that definitely. Other people don't
Speaker 1: fucking abide by them. But they are laws to how,
Speaker 1: at least right now, how we treat people that protest.
Speaker 1: But you know that those red state governors like Desantists
Speaker 1: said welcome, drive over them. We'll make sure you're not prosecuted.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said, beat the hell out of reporters. I'll
Speaker 1: pay your legal fees. They are careening towards authoritarianism with right.
Speaker 1: They don't want any dissent because then they're going to
Speaker 1: start to label those that have dissent as what enemies
Speaker 1: of the state. And when they have the gavel back,
Speaker 1: all the gavels back, what do you think they're going
Speaker 1: to do with them. They're going to beat our democracy
Speaker 1: to death and ensure that anyone that pops up as
Speaker 1: a revolutionary, as an activist, as a leader is scrubbed out.
Speaker 1: This is where this is heading. So we can't look
Speaker 1: and watch what is happening in the Ukraine as if
Speaker 1: it's a movie, right, something that couldn't possibly happen here.
Speaker 1: It's like World War Z. No, it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: a video game. It's not a movie. It's the real
Speaker 1: life consequences of what happens when we don't stop the enemies,
Speaker 1: when we have a chance, when we don't actually know
Speaker 1: who our enemies are, we are in danger. There is
Speaker 1: no other way to relay that. We all, the collective, we,
Speaker 1: the global we who believe in democracy are in danger
Speaker 1: because I'm starting to feel like a global minority in
Speaker 1: terms of my feeling about government foreign by the people.
Speaker 1: If America falls, every other smaller democratic nation falls with it.
Speaker 1: And when I hear reporters and analysts say that with
Speaker 1: next week's State of the Union that the president has
Speaker 1: to find a way to tell the American people why
Speaker 1: democracy is important, all I can think about is how
Speaker 1: our public school system has been a complete and total failure.
Speaker 1: If you don't understand why this is so important, we
Speaker 1: haven't told you why. We haven't taught you about why
Speaker 1: we've only beat into you rugged individualism. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: about the collective we. You don't learn about the collective we.
Speaker 1: You get told tales and stories about America's exceptionalism and greatness,
Speaker 1: but you don't get taught about what would happen if
Speaker 1: America's story wasn't actually true, and if we were more
Speaker 1: susceptible to fascism then was led on that over the
Speaker 1: past several decades, that there has been an erosion of
Speaker 1: our civil liberties and rights, and that that erosion then
Speaker 1: has been manipulated and used by our enemies. You know,
Speaker 1: the other news that broke that's not getting play. Eight
Speaker 1: Chinese aircrafts in Taiwanese airspace. Now, eight doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a big number, but it was a big enough number
Speaker 1: for Taiwan to go on high alert and wonder if
Speaker 1: this was the beginning of a move that China was
Speaker 1: going to try and make to you know, grab power back.
Speaker 1: And I said to myself as I saw that tweet
Speaker 1: come across my timeline, I said, oh shit, what if
Speaker 1: this really is a coordinated effort? What if the thoughts
Speaker 1: of some foreign affairs experts are what happens? If there
Speaker 1: is actually a coordinated effort between Russia and China. You
Speaker 1: help me over here, I help you over there. We
Speaker 1: can split the world in half. It's not a movie, folks.
Speaker 1: This is not clear in present danger. I mean, we
Speaker 1: are in clear and present danger. But I think that
Speaker 1: we have gotten so caught up with watching things play
Speaker 1: out across the world while we go about our daily
Speaker 1: lives that we don't see how interconnected we all are.
Speaker 1: The only way that we ever get up in arms
Speaker 1: about how we are interconnected is when we actually feel
Speaker 1: the economic right downfall of what is happening in another country.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Russia is the biggest producer of
Speaker 1: oil next to the Middle East. If there is some
Speaker 1: type of death nail that happens to Russia's oil production,
Speaker 1: that beyond our barrels being at one hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: barrel for oil right now, that they could skyrocket out
Speaker 1: of control. That they are all ready as reported by CNN,
Speaker 1: four states right now that are seeing oil prices at
Speaker 1: four dollars a fucking gallon. This is one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why the Green New Deal was popular because you see,
Speaker 1: if you eliminate, if you eliminate our need for crude
Speaker 1: oil and dependency on these authoritarian regimes, and we find
Speaker 1: other sources of power like solar and wind, then then
Speaker 1: we eliminate their ability to be able to manipulate us
Speaker 1: and we don't fall into economics bare when they fall,
Speaker 1: and that they can't use right that power source as
Speaker 1: a way to push us off of their escalation and aggression.
Speaker 1: Do we get that, No, because it's not spelled out
Speaker 1: in that way. It's like, oh, look at those lefties
Speaker 1: over there that want to hug trees and you know,
Speaker 1: drink fresh water and breathe clean air. It's not like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: you mean, if we're not attached to the tit of
Speaker 1: fucking Saudi Arabia and Russia and we're not all continuing
Speaker 1: to drive around these gas guzzlers, that then they can't
Speaker 1: manipulate and control us in the same way. This is
Speaker 1: what I say, This is what I mean when I
Speaker 1: say that things are all connected and that we need
Speaker 1: to stop looking at these issues in silos, because Putin
Speaker 1: shure as fuck isn't Republicans certainly are not. The thing
Speaker 1: that they both have in cotton in common Putin and
Speaker 1: Republicans is their long game. And the question that I
Speaker 1: have is what is the Democrats long game? What is
Speaker 1: their vision, what is their want and desire, and what
Speaker 1: are they willing to do to sacrifice in order to
Speaker 1: fucking get it? Right now, we're scrambling around about the
Speaker 1: next couple of months heading up to midterms, and the
Speaker 1: next couple of months after that heading up to the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential election. What about twenty thirty four
Speaker 1: right and beyond? Because we need somebody, a team of
Speaker 1: somebody's with the same type of fucking vision and focus
Speaker 1: that Putin has. That's on our side, the side of democracy,
Speaker 1: the side of the people, the side of equity, the
Speaker 1: side of freedom, But right now I don't see any
Speaker 1: and that is what is scaring the shit out of me. Now,
Speaker 1: dear friends, for your woke moment of wellness. It has
Speaker 1: been a heavy, heavy, heavy week. At every turn. The
Speaker 1: headlines have been wild as fuck. War doesn't stop over
Speaker 1: the weekend, neither do our anxieties abate themselves. I need
Speaker 1: us to start focusing on how what is our plan?
Speaker 1: Our plan to get through the dark times that we
Speaker 1: know are ahead of us, because there is no denying
Speaker 1: now the direction that things in this world, in this
Speaker 1: country are headed. I need us to start preparing for
Speaker 1: that emotionally, physically, spiritually. Right I laid out in the
Speaker 1: show things that have started to pop into my mind,
Speaker 1: like what are our plans if everything goes left? Do
Speaker 1: you have one? We should start to think about what
Speaker 1: those are meaning. If you were to wake up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the morning with air raid sirens going off,
Speaker 1: where are you going? What are you doing? How are
Speaker 1: you protecting your family? This is not me being hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: This is me wanting to ensure that we start thinking
Speaker 1: outside of our very narrow boxes about how we operate.
Speaker 1: I have had a huge knot in the back of
Speaker 1: my shoulder. As the week has progressed, I am taking
Speaker 1: some time this weekend to go see a massuse because
Speaker 1: I can. In the time being, what do you need?
Speaker 1: Those are the things that we need to start thinking about.
Speaker 1: What do you need? Who is on your wellness team
Speaker 1: to help keep you grounded, keep you sane but also practical.
Speaker 1: There will be people around you who will think that
Speaker 1: you're crazy because they want a need to live into nial.
Speaker 1: Denial is not safety, It is dangerous. So what do
Speaker 1: you need in order to strengthen your body to still
Speaker 1: your mind. For some people, it is preparing in any
Speaker 1: way that they can to just get control and a
Speaker 1: hold of things. Maybe it's just making sure that you
Speaker 1: have a little bit more cash in your home than
Speaker 1: you normally would, just in case. Maybe that is the
Speaker 1: first baby step. Maybe it is checking in on your
Speaker 1: friends and your family and maybe setting up a WhatsApp chain.
Speaker 1: Right what happens if how are you able to communicate?
Speaker 1: If systems go down? Little things that help squell our anxiety.
Speaker 1: We can't predict the future, but we sure as fuck
Speaker 1: can follow patterns. So, dear friends in this woke moment
Speaker 1: of wellness. I say, do what is going to be
Speaker 1: necessary for you to begin to think and action and
Speaker 1: put action behind your safety, your emotional safety, your physical safety.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Folks. If you have
Speaker 1: other ideas, tips, tricks and things that you are doing
Speaker 1: so that you can stay woke and well, please do
Speaker 1: drop them in the comment section. I will be right
Speaker 1: back here on Monday morning. You all stay woke and
Speaker 1: be well. That is it for me today, Folks, on
Speaker 1: woke f daily as always. Power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.