WEBVTT - From Russia Without Love 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.600 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willgate f Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:20.040 Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:26.319 I start off today's show incredibly troubled about where we 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.840 are in the world right now. UM. Yesterday when the 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:37.160 news broke that Russia had indeed invaded Ukraine, UM, and 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:43.279 that everything that Putin has said that he would do, 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.240 as he was amassing one hundred and fifty thousand plush 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.240 troops around the Ukraine for the last couple of weeks, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.640 as he was, you know, shoring up blood supplies, as 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:06.960 he was stationing tanks um ships, readying to attack. The 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.080 images that came out, that continue to come out and 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.759 will continue to grace all of the screens that we 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.920 look at day in and day out, are traumatizing. And 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:27.039 I say that because I have a series of knots 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.119 in my stomach and lump in my throat as I 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.199 record this right now, because I do not believe that 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:43.640 Americans understand the vast majority of Americans understand how serious 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:50.680 this is right now. What is often true about America 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.600 and Americans is that because we are so far away 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.360 from the rest of the world that you know, we 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:03.200 believe and eishly slow so that what happens in one 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.279 part of the world isn't going to affect us. That 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.840 you know, I tweeted, I've been tweeting since the news broke, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.800 since I woke up like many of you did yesterday, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.720 and you're like, holy shit, war has broken out in Europe. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.720 We haven't seen war at this escalated level, folks, as 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.919 many foreign affairs experts are saying since World War Two. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:36.800 We understand because we've been following Putin's moves since he 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:42.480 seized power in Russia, that he, much like Republicans in 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:48.120 this country, plays the long game. The USSR was broken apart, 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:56.000 fell apart many many years ago, right, and yet through 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:02.040 the desires of one meglomaniac, he is and has been 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:08.239 steadily moving towards his goal of a united Russia, right, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:16.160 a restored superpower. And you know when President Biden took 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:23.640 to the Newswaves yesterday to essentially, you know, speak to 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.080 the American people and speak to the world and say 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:31.000 that the most severe sanctions are being placed against Russia 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.520 and that it will cripple Russia's economy. And you already 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.480 see where their stock market has gone even though we 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.920 know even in this country that the stock market is 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:46.800 not indicative necessarily of the steadiness right of the country, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.240 because not everybody has money in the market, and the 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.040 damn shure don't in Russia. But I think that what's 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:59.160 important to note here is that sanctions take months to 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:05.000 have impact act, and we're talking about the Ukraine having 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:11.920 ninety six hours until capitals start to fall to the 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:17.400 weight of Russian aggression. We're talking about images of people 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.720 who yesterday had used the subways to get to work, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.560 to go shopping, to see friends, to see family, just 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.640 to go about their days, that the subways have now 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.880 turned into bomb shelters because there aren't enough bomb shelters 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:41.159 in parts of the Ukraine. You're talking about people who, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.120 for the last thirty forty years have been an independent nation, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.760 many of whom or our ages, who have never experienced war. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.840 It has only been something that has been a part 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.640 of their history books. And so when they woke up 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.000 to air raid sirens, when they woke up, no doubt 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.839 to their phones pinging left and right about what has happened. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:15.159 Imagine the fear of looking around your apartment, your home, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:22.320 and out the window and seeing plumes of smoke, seeing 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:27.440 and hearing sirens going off, getting texts and phone calls 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.359 that are saying are you safe, get out, but not 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.320 knowing where the fuck you were going to go when 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.039 you went to bed last night, You, like everybody else 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.960 in the world, is thinking about, Oh, what's on my 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:45.080 to do list tomorrow? Not do I have a go bag? 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.480 And am I going to be able to ever see 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.479 my city, my town, my home, my friends, my family 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:57.760 again as you are now using your normal metro subway 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:03.280 stop as a bombshelter. You know, sometimes I think that 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.760 in America, we look and we watch things that are 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:11.200 happening in other countries, and we have this sense of 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.840 superiority that like, oh, look at them. Oh I'm so 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.440 sad for them, But that could never happen here. And 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.680 I'm thinking to myself, if I had the ability to 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.839 drive around with a truck with a big fucking speaker 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.479 on top of it, up and down every street in 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:35.159 America railing with an alarm that's saying wake the fuck up, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:41.479 everything that you think could never happen is happening. I 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.120 never thought that a billion animals would perish in a 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.719 fire that is caused by climate change and the world 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.039 be outraged for two seconds and then go off to 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.760 what they were doing. I never thought that we would 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.520 be living in a global health pandemic where for a 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:02.080 year and a half, our kids, our life, everything stopped, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.240 and our screens became the only way for us to 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.520 stay in contact with the people that we love because 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.400 there's a killer virus outside that we can't see, that 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.040 we can't touch, but because of it, we can't see 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.600 and touch each other. And that has happened. I never 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:25.040 believe that America would elect a man who outwardly talked 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:30.040 about grabbing women by the pussy. I never thought that 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:35.160 a political party, an American political party, would be touting 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.920 the talking points of our biggest foe. If there's nothing 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.480 else that you've ever learned in history, if there's nothing 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.480 else that you even remember, the thing that I've always 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.679 known is that Russia is an aggressor and has always 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:57.160 been our enemy. Right, they wanted authoritarianism to reign supreme 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:02.880 around the world with that country at the helm. Right 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.080 manifest destiny in the United States in the eighteen hundreds 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.720 was about spreading democracy. But don't get it twisted. America 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:16.040 has always had economic interest in the places that it 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:22.800 had quote unquote spread to to secure democracy. But never 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.000 in my wildest dreams would I have thought that the 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.880 President of the United States, the former twice impeach president 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.600 of the United States, would get on the phone and 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:40.720 outwardly try and like muse his muscle to get what 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.920 he needed from foreign nations. I never thought that the 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.439 White House would turn into some type of Vegas fucking 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:53.240 slot machine. But here we are. So I don't want 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.559 any of us to be looking at what is going 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.080 on in the Ukraine and think to ourselves, well, at 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:05.199 least I'm not there, because a year ago we saw 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:11.200 our capital building enveloped in a plume of smoke. We 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:17.760 saw the Michigan State capital under siege. Right now, as 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:23.560 I speak, there are caravans not filled with Mexican immigrants, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.880 as Republicans had told us and fearmongered would happen if 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.120 Hillary Clinton became president of the United States. No, those 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:37.480 caravans right are headed from South Carolina. Is headed from 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:43.720 South California to Washington, DC to mirror what has been 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.920 going on in Ottawa, Canada. The caravan is filled with 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.640 American citizens that are ready to lay siege to an 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:59.240 American city. Our own Republican politicians have told us, we 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.600 have more guns and bullets on our side than you do. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:10.240 They have been chomping at the bit for another civil war, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:15.800 another crack at the knot. They are so greedy for 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:22.640 power and so entwined in white supremacy that they are 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:30.160 emulating the actions of America's biggest enemy and upholding Vladimir 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:35.120 Putin as their true president, as a leader that they 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:40.480 want to see in America. When I tell you that 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:45.079 we are living in the most unstable times this world, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.320 I think has ever seen this confluence of crisis and 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:56.960 fucking disaster. This is what I'm talking about. You know, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.560 yesterday I spent most of the day in tears because 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:06.840 most people don't know. I'm an extreme EmPATH, right, meaning 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.080 that I care deeply about what is going on, and 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:17.400 I feel it in every cell in my body. Because 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:23.440 I know that Ukraine is foreshadowing. I know that Ottawa, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:30.240 Canada is foreshadowing. I know that hungry is foreshadowing. And 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.400 I know that Republicans have been saying the quiet part 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.400 out loud on a speaker for the last five years, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:47.120 and America isn't paying attention. This week. We have seen 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:53.040 so much Yesterday, earlier in the week, excuse me, I railed, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:58.319 railed against what the new Manhattan District Attorney is doing. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.839 Then I had some he tell me, oh, good job 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.200 focusing on midterms when fascism is spreading around the world, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.360 And I'm like, are you fucking dumb? Do you not 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:15.520 see the fucking connections between what Republicans are doing in 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.199 the United States right now and how it is a 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.560 part of the fascism that is spreading around the world, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.360 how they are apart and pawn in Putin's larger game. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.959 Do you not see the connection here? And if you don't, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:40.840 I am sorry, But my god, you're listening to Tucker 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:46.080 Carlson on Fox News. I mean it is as if 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.320 Putin is actually speaking from his voice. He has his 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.360 hand up Tucker Carlson's back like a fucking muppet, opening 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.640 up his mouth and just coming out of it, singing 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:04.520 the praises of Russia, saying to the millions of Americans 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.800 that watch him and listen with bated breath to every 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:13.360 fucking lie that comes out of that man's mouth, they 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.240 are going against their own president. And what keeps me up, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.920 what woke me up actually last night, and I had 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:25.600 to calm myself. The fuck down was Oh my god. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.560 In World War Two, it took the deaths of six 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.760 million Jewish people in order to get the world to 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:43.480 pay attention to what Hitler was doing. Six million people, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.760 what do you think? And that was That was when folks, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.640 we were united as a nation against a common evil, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:03.760 when the world democracies were united against a common threat. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:12.280 We are an divided nation. Putin began his ploy to 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:20.560 divide America years ago. The twenty sixteen election was just 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.760 his first act of war. Do we not see that now? 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.000 We saw it then, Hillary Clinton warned us. Then there 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 are clips going around right now of interviews that she 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.760 gave to lay out the dangers that were ahead if 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.800 you were to elect somebody who was so cozy and 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:50.240 enamored with fucking dictators. The first step was to turn 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.280 neighbor against neighbor and spread as much disinformation as possible. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:05.040 Because a weakened and divided America right is easily pushed 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.960 over a weekend, and divided America does not have the 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:18.320 fortitude to lead the charge against a blood thirsty Russia 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.840 because we're too busy putting out fires in our literal 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:28.480 and figurative fires in our own backyard, fighting against each other, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.600 that we don't have the capacity, we don't have the 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:38.480 fucking bandwidth to then be paying attention to what is 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.800 happening at seas you had Vladimir Putin get on Russian 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:49.360 television and saying, bet so you all try and intervene 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.800 with what I am doing in the Ukraine, and you 0:15:52.840 --> 0:16:01.240 will be sorry, because the fingerprints that that motherfucker had 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.080 all over the twenty sixteen election, he has now dug 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:11.440 his hands in and the Republican Party has welcomed him 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:18.320 with open arms. There has never been a time, never 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.480 been a time, I would ask any historian, at what 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:27.920 point in time in America when we were faced with 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:35.320 outside opposition, did you have internal power applauding the opposition. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:42.880 Donald Trump stood before a ball room of his fans 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.360 where he said that Putin just recently, folks, I mean 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:58.760 this week, that he's strong, he's a leader. And all 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:04.840 I want is for Democrats to take the sound and 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.560 the visuals of that and have a split screen of 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:15.640 the bombs being dropped overhead in Keith right, being dropped 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:22.719 overhead in all of these Ukrainian cities, as you have 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.800 Tucker Carlson saying, oh, we need to be concerned with 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:36.439 woke culture because Putin's doing just fine. If folks don't 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:42.840 see what is happening here, that the war that Republicans 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:48.720 are waging is much bigger than the start of book 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:53.320 banning and putting a target on the back of trans youth, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.719 which is what Governor Abbott just did. That all of 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.200 these things that don't say a bill, they are ticking 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:07.560 off for you who in the society is expendable in 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.040 the same way that the Nazis were ticking off to 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.800 the Germans. Why you shouldn't give a fuck about your 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.679 Jewish neighbor down the street. And then when that person 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.320 is gone, poof, at least my home is still around. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:33.919 At least I'm still here. Republicans are following the playbook 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:41.160 of going after the most vulnerable among us, seeing how 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:47.120 far they can go, how much they can push without 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:58.240 receiving intense pushback from all sides. They just passed in 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:05.800 the Florida House. Don't say gay bill soon, folks, phil 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:11.120 pass they don't be gay bill. If you can recall 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:20.440 from history McCarthy right, Joseph McCarthy, the architect of McCarthyism, 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:28.040 had a list a list of people whom he blacklisted, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:34.800 whom he said were gay or intellectuals, or Communist sympathizers 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:39.080 or blah blah blah blah blah. So how soon do 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:44.840 you think it will be before Republicans begin the other 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:53.600 phase of their campaign? As soon as they get power back, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:59.080 which is in a handful of months, America will become 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:07.399 unrecord noticeable. And so as we watch what is taking 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.480 place in in the Ukraine with shock and with horror, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:21.800 understand that it is possible, more than possible, that soon 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.960 the rest of the world will be watching America with 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:36.439 the same terror, watching as our streets fill with terrified 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:41.199 citizens who have never had to have a plan of 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.119 where to go and how to get out of harm's 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:52.439 way before, outside of preparing for national disasters. What do 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:57.440 you think happens if Republicans part of their master plan 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.080 is to get all of the truckers, all of the 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.520 ex military, all of the x and active military and 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:08.000 law enforcement in this country to gather and to start 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:18.479 to take siege of cities that are controlled right by 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:25.639 blue state governors. That they start little by little to 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:33.200 occupy certain areas, that being the first step. And we say, oh, 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.040 but they have a freedom to protest. But we don't understand. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.159 We're not really paying attention to the bigger picture. You see, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:46.800 these people have been activated. Donald Trump activated them in 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:53.240 twenty sixteen. The insurrection in twenty twenty one emboldened them. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:00.200 Almost a year and a half later, we're looking around 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:05.200 for accountability and I see none, which emboldens them even 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.800 further because now they know where to tighten up, in 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.040 how to tighten up. These people are ready for war? 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:18.679 Are you? Because I know that I'm not. As I 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.280 lay in bed last night and I think to myself, 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:26.520 holy shit, what if I were to wake up tomorrow 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.080 and there were air sirens going off? Do we even 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.879 have air sirens in New York? Was followed by my 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:40.560 second thought, where would I be going? My family lives 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:46.280 on Long Island, in actual fucking island, right, That doesn't 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:52.840 help us navigate and move out of anywhere. Where would 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.840 you go if in the middle of the night, at 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.800 three to four in the morning sirens were going off 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.240 and you knew, well, it's not a tornado and it's 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:10.159 I see the stars and it's not a hurricane coming. 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.320 What the fuck is that? You turn on the news, 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.880 you look at your phone, and alert after alert after 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.320 alert is coming in that there's been a takeover, that 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:28.880 there's been a siege. What are you packing? Is your 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.160 car if you have one, as it filled with gas? 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:38.600 Do you have cash stored away in your home? In 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:44.760 the event that Russia has waged a cyber attack like 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:47.400 the one we saw with the pipelines, which a couple 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.800 of months ago, I said to myself, Holy shit, pipelines 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:57.080 can be hacked. Everything can be hacked. So you think 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.840 that we're here and we're secure and all of us. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:04.000 Now you're going out to the corner store to your 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:07.280 local bank and there are a legions of people thinking 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.400 and trying to do the same goddamn thing. And now 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:15.160 the bank has run out of money and they're turning 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:20.679 people away. So you hop in your car and you 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.280 go and you start going, but you don't know what 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:29.120 direction to go in, Where is safe? What does safety 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:35.680 look like? This is what is happening right now all 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:43.520 over Ukraine. This is what has been happening in countries 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:45.760 we don't even care about. There's been a war waging 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:50.879 in Ethiopia for the last several months, tens of thousands 0:24:50.920 --> 0:25:03.520 of people have died. We hear nothing. I sit here 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:09.639 and I'm following the news, and I am thinking to myself, 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:17.600 is this the beginning of the actual end? When it 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:22.840 was World War Two? In the beginning, did people know? 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:29.680 Were there folks that had a sinking feeling? Because those 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:34.440 were the people that fled early, that began to see 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:36.840 the writing on the wall and started to see the 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:41.840 closing in. And then there were the others that couldn't 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:49.720 possibly imagine picking up and going where to do? What? 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:58.280 We are about to have yet another refugee crisis in 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:05.480 this world. Every several months we have another refugee crisis. 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:11.080 We just just we're on the news where the ticker 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:20.600 switch out fucking Ukraine and put in Afghanistan. Twenty years 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:24.800 of quote unquote democracy in Afghanistan and it fell in 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:34.360 twenty two fucking hours. Do we think that sanctions alone 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.399 as severe as we think that they are. Do we 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.639 think that that is going to stop a madman that 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:44.840 has had a vision in his mind for the last 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:54.080 three decades. Do we think that Putin hasn't anticipated what 0:26:54.520 --> 0:27:00.600 cut off from the world's resources would do. This. Motherfucker 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:09.439 is sitting on multiple oligarchs right with a combination of 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:16.960 hundreds a collective of hundreds of billions of dollars, not 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:21.640 to mention whatever other backdoor deals this motherfucker has been 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:30.280 making and planning. President Biden was asked yesterday in the 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:36.919 press conference, do you think there are more countries that 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:41.400 Putin has in mind? Do you think that he's going 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:47.000 after more than the Ukraine? Biden didn't stutter, He didn't 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:57.160 even blink. He said, yes, he is coming for it all. 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:04.960 And there are forces within each of the places that 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:15.520 he is going to pick off where he has reinforcements, 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:20.600 hundreds of billions at your disposal with probably talk to 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:25.920 the oligarchs that you can return to greatness. I will 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:33.200 restore your legacy and your power. He is their great 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:40.959 white hope. Because this isn't just about a power grab, 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:44.280 It is about what kind of power grab this is. 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:52.040 It is a white domination power grab. It is about 0:28:52.120 --> 0:29:02.480 a cleansing of who he deems to be a little 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:11.640 in his way, not up to his ideals of just 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.040 the right type of person. Now, it may not be 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:21.760 akin to Hitler's Aryan Dreams and Vision but it's sure 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:26.040 as fuck is white, and it's sure as fuck is 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:33.680 about the right kind of white. He's spreading the lies about, oh, 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:36.560 we need to go into the Ukraine because we need 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:45.680 to scrub out the Nazis. What they're doing genocide. Point 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:53.880 to it. Where's it happening? Show us the evidence. You 0:29:53.960 --> 0:30:01.360 have these brave people in Russia yesterday, hundreds of them, 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:06.800 thousands of them flooding into the streets to protest because 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:10.680 they see the Ukrainians as their brother. Why why are 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:14.959 we fighting our brother? We are family. Millions of Ukrainians 0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:24.400 live in Russia. Thousands were arrested. Do you know what 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:32.040 they do to protesters in Russia? It ain't great, It 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:35.680 ain't you know, the plastic on the risk like we 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:39.239 see here. It isn't even like mild tear gas. Not 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:41.840 to say that tear gas is mild. But you know, 0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:45.360 we have laws, or at least some people have laws 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:47.880 in this country. We know that definitely. Other people don't 0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:50.760 fucking abide by them. But they are laws to how, 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:54.960 at least right now, how we treat people that protest. 0:30:55.240 --> 0:30:59.560 But you know that those red state governors like Desantists 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:03.959 said welcome, drive over them. We'll make sure you're not prosecuted. 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:06.760 Donald Trump said, beat the hell out of reporters. I'll 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:20.800 pay your legal fees. They are careening towards authoritarianism with right. 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:26.239 They don't want any dissent because then they're going to 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:31.040 start to label those that have dissent as what enemies 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:36.200 of the state. And when they have the gavel back, 0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:41.920 all the gavels back, what do you think they're going 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:48.200 to do with them. They're going to beat our democracy 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:56.360 to death and ensure that anyone that pops up as 0:31:56.360 --> 0:32:04.160 a revolutionary, as an activist, as a leader is scrubbed out. 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:10.080 This is where this is heading. So we can't look 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.120 and watch what is happening in the Ukraine as if 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:19.200 it's a movie, right, something that couldn't possibly happen here. 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:28.520 It's like World War Z. No, it's not. It's not 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:35.160 a video game. It's not a movie. It's the real 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:41.800 life consequences of what happens when we don't stop the enemies, 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:45.360 when we have a chance, when we don't actually know 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:57.280 who our enemies are, we are in danger. There is 0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:05.160 no other way to relay that. We all, the collective, we, 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:10.240 the global we who believe in democracy are in danger 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:16.440 because I'm starting to feel like a global minority in 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:20.560 terms of my feeling about government foreign by the people. 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:30.120 If America falls, every other smaller democratic nation falls with it. 0:33:33.640 --> 0:33:39.480 And when I hear reporters and analysts say that with 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:44.960 next week's State of the Union that the president has 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:49.240 to find a way to tell the American people why 0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:53.600 democracy is important, all I can think about is how 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:57.080 our public school system has been a complete and total failure. 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:02.640 If you don't understand why this is so important, we 0:34:02.720 --> 0:34:06.680 haven't told you why. We haven't taught you about why 0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:11.839 we've only beat into you rugged individualism. We haven't talked 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:15.440 about the collective we. You don't learn about the collective we. 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:22.120 You get told tales and stories about America's exceptionalism and greatness, 0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:28.719 but you don't get taught about what would happen if 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:32.319 America's story wasn't actually true, and if we were more 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:37.480 susceptible to fascism then was led on that over the 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:40.839 past several decades, that there has been an erosion of 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:48.439 our civil liberties and rights, and that that erosion then 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:58.120 has been manipulated and used by our enemies. You know, 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:04.480 the other news that broke that's not getting play. Eight 0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:19.160 Chinese aircrafts in Taiwanese airspace. Now, eight doesn't seem like 0:35:19.200 --> 0:35:22.040 a big number, but it was a big enough number 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:26.919 for Taiwan to go on high alert and wonder if 0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:29.840 this was the beginning of a move that China was 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:34.520 going to try and make to you know, grab power back. 0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:38.880 And I said to myself as I saw that tweet 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:48.160 come across my timeline, I said, oh shit, what if 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:54.480 this really is a coordinated effort? What if the thoughts 0:35:54.480 --> 0:36:00.359 of some foreign affairs experts are what happens? If there 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:05.239 is actually a coordinated effort between Russia and China. You 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:09.960 help me over here, I help you over there. We 0:36:10.040 --> 0:36:18.160 can split the world in half. It's not a movie, folks. 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:21.560 This is not clear in present danger. I mean, we 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:25.799 are in clear and present danger. But I think that 0:36:25.840 --> 0:36:29.439 we have gotten so caught up with watching things play 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:34.160 out across the world while we go about our daily 0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:37.200 lives that we don't see how interconnected we all are. 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:40.719