1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to okay f Daily with Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody. 2 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: I want to start off today with talking about President 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: Zelenski's address to Congress. President Zelensky came in via zoom 4 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: to address Congress yesterday about where things are with Putin's 5 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: war of aggression that has killed thousands of his people, 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: that has shelled entire cities that are now unrecognizable. And 7 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: what he asked for in that call was a no 8 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: fly zone. It's what he's been asking for since the 9 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: beginning of the invasion. And what does this mean exactly, Well, 10 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: a no fly zone would essentially mean that no aircraft 11 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: right is permitted to be able to fly over the Ukraine. 12 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: But what it also means is certain interfacing with Russia, 13 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: another nuclear power, and basically saying that we got you. 14 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: You need to stop, and if you continue to move 15 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: forward in this aggressive manner, then we are going to 16 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: answer your aggression with aggression. Now, for many people, and 17 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: for many reasons that we all know, namely World War 18 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: three and the fact that Russia has access to over 19 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:45,639 Speaker 1: a thousand nuclear bombs that could essentially wipe off parts 20 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: of the planet, America does not want to get involved 21 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: in this war. But America is involved in this war. 22 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: We have provided one point four billion dollars worth of money, weaponry, 23 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: everything outside of what is going to stop the bombs 24 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: from dropping from the sky, destroying maternity wards killing innocent civilians. 25 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: We are doing everything, but that The question that I 26 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: have is, again, are we just slowing down the inevitable? 27 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: If Putin is a maniac, as many have said, you 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: get on you listen to cable news. He's a maniac, 29 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: he's a sociopath, he's all of these things. But if 30 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: you know that to be true, if the belief really 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: is that Putin is going to stop at nothing, then 32 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: don't we need to start considering measures that are much 33 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: more aggressive than what it is that we have already done. Now. 34 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: One of the steps that is being floated around is 35 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: not only the sanctions on Russians right in Russian oligarchs 36 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: that essentially fuel are fueling this war and will Putin, 37 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: but to put sanctions on other nations, namely Wink, wink, 38 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: without a mention, China, China who has been in bedwidth 39 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: right and in relationship with Putin for quite some time. However, 40 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: the isolation that Russia is feeling right now, from the sanctions, 41 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: the crippling right of corporations pulling out of the out 42 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: of Russia at a really fast clip. We couldn't afford 43 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: to have that done with China. Like, this is the 44 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: thing that happens when you start to realize that everything 45 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: in our world is actually connected, that we are not 46 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: you know, some isolated nation that know, a lot of 47 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: our goods come from China, right, are developed in China, 48 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: are made in factories in China, right, Because we don't 49 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: want to pay US workers or US factories, so they 50 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: all took their companies their factory is abroad. And so 51 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: now what we saw right during COVID, at the beginning 52 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: of COVID is oh shit, well, if everybody is shut down, 53 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: that means that no one is making the quote unquote 54 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: all the stuff that we need, right that we've become 55 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: addicted to. So if we were to put sanctions on China, 56 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't that officially be like kind of putting sanctions on ourselves? 57 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: Do we think that this nation of billions, right is 58 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: not resilient enough to be able to self sustain? Now 59 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: we know everyone there is no country right that is 60 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: self sustaining that isn't somehow participating in the global marketplace. 61 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: But I don't think that there is a country that 62 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: is as necessary right to the global marketplace as China 63 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: is and as the United States is. So if we 64 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: have gone as far as we can go in terms 65 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: of an economic squeeze on Russia, and President Zelinsky is 66 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: sitting before the American Congress and saying, look, yes, I 67 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: need more money. Yes I am grateful for the ways 68 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: in which you have shown up. But the reality is 69 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: is that Ukraine is not going to exist for much 70 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: longer if Putin is able to continue dropping bombs on 71 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: our cities. So, like, my question is how many lives 72 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: is enough for there to be lost for action to 73 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: be taken. And I've said this before, and I just 74 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: keep thinking about it, right, I keep thinking about the 75 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 1: millions of souls that were stolen in World War Two, 76 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: millions before there was any type of intervention. And now 77 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: I wonder, by virtue of us having social media right 78 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: of this war literally unfolding before our eyes, whether it 79 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: is on your phone, on your computer, or on your television, 80 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: that is America going to be able to quote unquote 81 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: stay out of it for much longer? When the American 82 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: people themselves are witnessing these atrocities and saying, how are 83 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: we sitting by on the sidelines? How do we say 84 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: that we are about preserving democracy around the world and 85 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: we are seeing an real life attack and we're doing 86 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: nothing to stop it. Now on the other side, right 87 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: of that is, should American lives be lost in order 88 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: to defend the Ukraine? Well, the reality here that I 89 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: think that we all need to start wrapping our minds 90 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: around is that Putin is not stopping at the Ukraine. 91 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: Ukraine falls right absorbed by Putin and then they are 92 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: going to keep going. It's like, do you remember pac 93 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: Man and all the little things that pac Man would 94 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: eat up? That is fucking Putin right now. Putin pac Man. 95 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: He wants to gobble up Eastern Europe to put a 96 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: threat and real pressure on the United States and on 97 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: the Western world. He wants world dominance, He wants the 98 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: world to fear him. So does he care whether or 99 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: not Joe Biden is calling him a war criminal? No, 100 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't give a fuck. So what do you do? 101 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: What can be done with a madman who is actually 102 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: quite bright, who doesn't give a fuck, who literally has 103 00:07:53,120 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: run out of fucks to give. I. You know, I 104 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: think that Biden is in a really precarious position for 105 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. But I'm not giving slack to 106 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: this White House because I have a lot of my 107 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: own fucking grievances with the ways that a lot of 108 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: things have been handled, from voting rights, to abortion rights, 109 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: to their silence and inaction around the assault on LGBTQ youth. 110 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Right that being said, if we go to war, right, 111 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: this isn't going to end well. And by end well, 112 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 1: we mean like the world ending, meaning that everyone releases 113 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: their nukes and then we're gone. But if you have 114 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: a bully that is standing in the middle of the schoollyard, 115 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: beating their chest and literally pummeling one of the less 116 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: strong kids in front of you, and there is a 117 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: line of other kids that are going to be pummeled 118 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: to death if you do not intervene, when is the 119 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: right time to make the decision? What does that look like? 120 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: This is the thing that I'm trying to understand is 121 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: is there a moment. Is there a number that is 122 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: in the head of this president and the other leaders 123 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: that are in NATO that they say if he crosses 124 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: this line, we gotta jump in because if not, folks, 125 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: then how long are we willing to let this go? 126 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: Because you know, today, yesterday, excuse me, in the press 127 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: conference that Biden gave, he keeps giving warnings that this 128 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: is going to be a long, painful, terrible war. But 129 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: how long, how terrible? Right? And how are we going 130 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: to say that we are a country that believes in 131 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: democracy and yet we are literally not willing to put 132 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: anything in jeopardy or at stake in order to move forward. 133 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, one of the other things that 134 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: Zelinsky said while he was invoking Martin Luther King and 135 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: invoking the fact that we should care more about peace 136 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: than we do money. And I was confused because I'm like, 137 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: I don't know who you think you're talking to, because 138 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: all politicians in America care about his money, right, Like 139 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: they are you know, political prostitutes right there turning tricks 140 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: for their favorite donors, right, so long as that money 141 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: keeps flowing, they'll keep they'll keep tricking, Like that's how 142 00:10:53,679 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: politics works. So I don't know how long we watch 143 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: these images and these pictures play out. I don't know 144 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: how many more millions of people need to flee the 145 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: Ukraine to these bordering nations that are not going to 146 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: be able to take on an entire million population of 147 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: people without buckling under that pressure. What's the endgame here? 148 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: That I mean, this is the question that I'm asking 149 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: myself and I know that many are asking right now, 150 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 1: is what is the endgame? What is Putin's endgame? His 151 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: end game is a United Russia, right, it is a 152 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: USSR two point zero. That's his endgame. What is he 153 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: willing to do in order to make that happen? Because 154 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: if he pulls back now, right, he will look weak 155 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: in front of the world. He won't look like he 156 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: pulls back now. Are we welcoming him back into the 157 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: G seven? Are we welcoming him back into the political 158 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: fold as if he didn't just commit war crimes on 159 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: national television? So if Putin and Russia are not coming 160 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: back into the fold, if they are now and forever 161 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: will be our adversaries and they are an active threat, 162 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: then what do we see, folks, as the endgame? How 163 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: do we move through this? This? I do not know. 164 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: But here's another thing that has me really in my feelings, 165 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: and I talked about this on Woke Wednesday, every time 166 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: America puts up its budget and Congress has to pass 167 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: a budget so that you know, government doesn't shut down 168 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: and all of these things. We're often told that all 169 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: of our social services and safety nets, oh we don't 170 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: have enough money for them. Right. You bring in the 171 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: same amount, if not more, of our tax dollars every 172 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: single year, and it is Congress who gets to decide 173 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: where those tax dollars are allocated to. Now, we know 174 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: that there are also people that are in Congress who 175 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: make a lot of money when we are at war, 176 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: right because they have investments right in military technologies, right 177 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: into war technologies. It's the same way that you had 178 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: members of Congress that we're making money investing before anybody 179 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: even knew about COVID, right that they were like, oh shit, 180 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: this is about to be hot, so let me go 181 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: put some money in on masks, and put some money 182 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: in on ventilators, and put some money in on these things. 183 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this happens. There's a bill right now and 184 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: that is circulating around Congress that is in fact about 185 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: stopping members of Congress from being able to make money 186 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: off of the ship that they learn. Funny enough, I 187 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: think that this is something that Democrats and Republicans will 188 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: agree on that they don't want to hinder their ability 189 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: to be rich off of our backs and off of 190 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: our misery. So we'll see how far that legislation goes. Nonetheless, 191 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: you know, you have one point four billion dollars that 192 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: you're able to just hand over to the Ukrainian people, 193 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: to Zelenski. But when we turn around and we say 194 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: where are the resources for education, for a healthcare system, 195 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: for infrastructure, for all these things, everything is a fight. 196 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: But the money to provide endless resources for war. We're good, right, 197 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: And the American people will stand up and they'll applaud 198 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: and say, yes, we need to help the Ukrainians. But 199 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: I ask at whose expense? Right, Because if the federal 200 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: government this week says, oh, well, we're no longer going 201 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: to provide COVID care to the uninsured because we can't 202 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: afford it, and we're no longer going to provide states 203 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: with all the resources that they need, we have to 204 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: bring that number down thirty percent because we can't afford it. 205 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: But then you turn around and in less than a 206 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: month provide one point four billion dollars to the Ukraine. 207 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: I just again, how do you rationalize saying this shit 208 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: out loud? And people will say to me, oh, well, Danielle, 209 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: Republicans are no longer going to vote for COVID release. Well, 210 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: they didn't vote for it in the beginning, right it 211 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: was there is never a part of their plans. But 212 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: Biden is the President of the United States, So what 213 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: kind of emergency release funds do you have access to? 214 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: Because here's the thing that I continue to believe is 215 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: that there are more maneuvers and strategies that can be 216 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: made if, in fact, we had leaders that had backbones. 217 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: But because we don't, because they would rather capitulate to 218 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: the needs and the desires and the accusations of Republicans, 219 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: we don't ever get anything done right. And then we 220 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: want to turn around in campaign season and say, oh, 221 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: don't vote for the other guy. And I'm thinking to myself, well, 222 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: why I know why I don't vote Republican? Because they're racist, 223 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: they're misogynists, they're pigs. You know, they're terrible human beings. 224 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: Right Like I didn't always believe that. I believe that 225 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: we had a difference of ideology, But when they decided 226 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: to vote in a white supremist right, when they decided 227 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: that like misogyny and hatred and all of these things, 228 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: and homophobia and transphobia were a part of their mission statement. 229 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: Then they showed me who there were. So I have 230 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: no qualms in saying that if you are a Republican 231 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: in these United States in this time, that you are 232 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: a racist because you don't support racism or you are 233 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: quiet about it, and then you don't get that label. 234 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: That's not how this works, and it's not how I work. Nonetheless, 235 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: I believe that there are things that can be done 236 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: by Democrats and by this administration, but they refuse to. 237 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: And it is because they are afraid. It is because 238 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: they are afraid about how Republicans will react. They are 239 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: afraid by what it is that they will say. And 240 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: I'm saying to you, they don't like you, know how, right, 241 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: They don't give a fuck about shoe warrior feelings. Right. 242 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: And the minute that they have the gavel, the minute 243 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: that they have power, they are going to impeach a 244 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: whole lot of people for no reason whatsoever. But they 245 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: will make up reasons, they will make up laws. Right. 246 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: And so if you know that, and you know that 247 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: it is in our best interest in the best interests 248 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: of preserving our democracy to make sure that that does 249 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: not happen. Then why would you be moving in a 250 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: reactionary posture instead of doing what needs to get done 251 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: and worrying about the consequences later. Because here's what we 252 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: know to be true. The American people, their memory is real, small, 253 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: real short, right, And why is that? It's not because 254 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: I believe Americans. It's not because I believe us to 255 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: be stupid or I believe us not to care. I 256 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: just believe that when your basic needs are not met, Right, 257 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: you do not have the luxury and the benefit of 258 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: being able to sit around at your kitchen table pontificating 259 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: on how Republicans are moving to screw you, right, because 260 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: you have to be concerned about what food or medicine 261 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: you're going to be able to put on that kitchen table. 262 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: And so when you can't do that, your days and 263 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: your time are going to be spent trying to figure 264 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: that equation out. Right, you don't have the luxury of 265 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: them being able to them being able to say, how 266 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: come why don't I have the ability to do that 267 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: in this country? Oh, because we've all been force fed 268 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: the same lie about pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, 269 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: and if you are facing hard and difficult times, that's 270 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 1: because that's because of you. You're a lack of grit, 271 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: your a lack of wherewithal. It has nothing to do 272 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: with the fact that in other industrialized nations around the 273 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: world that call themselves a democracy, that they actually do 274 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: way more to take care of their citizens than the 275 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: United States does. And that's the truth. We're so busy 276 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: waving a flag and saying we are a number one 277 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: we don't even understand what we are number one in. 278 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: It's not any of the good things. If you're wondering, 279 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: it's you know, I just I think that I have 280 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: come to a place in my political career where I 281 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: am beginning to kind of grapple with the fact that 282 00:19:51,480 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: this democracy government, my love and feeling that we can 283 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: create a government and a system that is for us 284 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: and by us, that the belief that you know, it's 285 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: each generation's duty to perfect our very imperfect union. I 286 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: no longer believe those things. I believe that America is 287 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: a sham. I think that it's kind of one of 288 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: the biggest griffs and one of the biggest setups. Right, 289 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: we were able to say that we were number one, 290 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: and we were better than everybody else's. We were moving 291 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: at breaking pace right with industrialization and you know, and democracy, 292 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: and we were building levit towns, and we were you know, 293 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: constructing and creating products and cars and all of these things. 294 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,479 Speaker 1: We were at the pinnacle right at the turn of 295 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: the twentieth century. But then somehow, at some point, we 296 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: just stopped investing in the American people. We instead decided 297 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 1: to start investing more in shareholders and CEOs and their needs. 298 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: We decide that it wasn't about creating safe, safe working environments, 299 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: right for corporations that are hauling in billions upon billions 300 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: of dollars off of the very little money that they 301 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: give some of their lowly workers. Right, we stopped providing pensions, 302 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: we stopped providing insurance, We stopped doing a whole host 303 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: of things. And the government that were supposed to be 304 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: our watchdogs looking out for the little guy, decided that 305 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: they were then going to team up with the CEOs 306 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: and the corporations so that if they got a little cut, 307 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: then they didn't care what was happening to the collective, 308 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: because it was really only about the needs of the 309 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: individual their needs, their families, their Maserati's and their yachts, 310 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: their vacation homes. So the belief that I had that 311 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: I fell in love with as a young person about 312 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: being a part of creating massive change, I mean, I 313 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: guess I've taken off my rose colored glasses. I guess 314 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: I've moved to a place of knowing where I actually 315 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: do see both sides, and both sides don't look good. 316 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: You have one party that is very clear about who 317 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: they are, who they embrace, and what they are aligned with. 318 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: Then you have Democrats who are unclear about who they 319 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: are aligned with, and they speak out of both sides 320 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: of their mouth. I mean, this is what honestly, and 321 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: let me say this, and I don't say it lightly. 322 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: This is a thing that black Republicans offer are often 323 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: Now I'm not joining your fucking party, right, but the 324 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: thing that they often offer is that well, Democrats lie 325 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: to you. They keep talking about equal pay, they keep 326 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: talking about, you know, fighting against climate change. They keep 327 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: talking about all these things, but all they are doing 328 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: is talking about it. They don't actually offer up any 329 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: real change to the American people. Now you can say, well, 330 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: they try and offer it, but then it's swat down, 331 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: but it's not just swat down by it's not done 332 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: on party lines. There are plenty of quote unquote, you 333 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: know centrist Democrats that use Joe Mansion and Kursten Cinema 334 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 1: as their shields because Kursen Cinema and Joe Mansion are 335 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: fame horse, right, they always want to have their name 336 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: in somebody's mouth, so they don't take it because it 337 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: gives it feeds their ego. But there are many of 338 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: other members right who vote against the interests of the 339 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: in service of the few, the few that are in 340 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: front of them. So when you learn all of these 341 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: things and you start to realize, well, you talk to 342 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: immigration folks and they tell you, do you know that 343 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: Obama deported more people than any Republican did. Do you 344 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: know that right now Joe Biden has deported twenty thousand Haitians, right, 345 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: twenty thousand Haitian refugees seeking refuge from certain death in 346 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: their country, political upheaval, COVID upheaval, natural disasters that have 347 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: flattened parts of the country right over the past couple 348 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: of years. They are coming here for aid and assistance, 349 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: and the Biden administration didn't say, oh, we don't take 350 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: people from Shiitthhold countries, but they shore as hell have 351 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: used their planes as a fucking boomerang to put those 352 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: people right back where they started. And then at the 353 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: same time want to say American people, we will open 354 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: up our doors to the Ukrainians. Well, I wonder why right, 355 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: because they have the right hue for our empathy, they 356 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: have the right complexion for compassion. It's you know, And 357 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: this is what I say has me troubled most days, 358 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: because I want to believe that we are a country 359 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: that wants to be better. But wanting to be better 360 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: and actually doing better are two very different things, two 361 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: very different things. And so we see that America wants 362 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: to be better, America wants to talk tough on Russian 363 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: oligarchs and war criminals. But when it comes right, when 364 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: it comes to talking tough and dealing with those who 365 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: are putting our democracy at jeopardy, when it comes to 366 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: talking tough and actually doing something right to hold the 367 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: people that are trying to destroy our republic, there are 368 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: no words to say, there's nothing to offer up. And 369 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: so I'm confused about where we go eight months from now, 370 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 1: when it is election time. And we will most likely 371 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: in those eight months. It is it is very possible 372 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,959 Speaker 1: that we are at war, right, that we're not just 373 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: aiding from the sidelines, that we are actually in a 374 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: full blown war. That's certainly possible. We know that by 375 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: the time that the election comes, we will no longer 376 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: have abortion certified across this country. We will have lost 377 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:56,239 Speaker 1: that under a Democrat's watch, with no policy coming up 378 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: the rear to make sure that even if the courts 379 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: right make the decision which we know they are going 380 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: to make to gut Rovie Wade, that no federal protections 381 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: will still be in place. No, we don't have that, 382 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: we don't have voting rights, we don't have police reform. 383 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: And then you have newspapers like The Hill who are 384 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: stating that Democrats have moved too far to the left 385 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: and this is why they're going to lose. And I'm 386 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: saying to myself, and I said this on woke Wednesday, 387 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: how can we be considered too far left when Republicans 388 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: have gone so far to the right that they are 389 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: off a cliff and they have moved both political parties 390 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: to right of center. But yeah, going after and trying 391 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: to preserve our democracy our climate, right, Like that's seeming 392 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: too left leaning for people because they don't realize that 393 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: in a couple of months we are going to be 394 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: at the beginning of hurricane season. And what we know 395 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: is that every hurricane season over the last four or 396 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: five years have been quote unquote historic, right, historic, and 397 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: the damage that it has caused historic, and how long 398 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: it has lingered and why is that, Oh, I don't 399 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: know the warming of our fucking oceans. We can't afford 400 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,479 Speaker 1: to be ignorant, right, We can't afford to continue to 401 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: go to like these Paris Climate Agreement, these summits, to 402 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 1: talk a really good game, to go home and then 403 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: not pressure the CEO's to do the right thing. Right now, folks, 404 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: we are experiencing gas prices that we have never seen 405 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: in this country. Right. Gas is somewhere like four thirty 406 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: nine a gallon, at least that's what I saw when 407 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: I was out east Onmlong Island. The oil companies have 408 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,239 Speaker 1: the ability to absorb that cost and not place that 409 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: cost on the American people. Also, the price of gas, 410 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: the price of oil has dropped right by thirty dollars 411 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: in recent days, and yet right and yet the price 412 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 1: of gas hasn't actually gone down, And I want folks 413 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: to think about that. This is kind of akin to 414 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: what the airlines did in my mind. Right, So you 415 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: have airlines right who are like, oh my god, we're 416 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: losing so much money, nobody's traveling. Oh my god, government 417 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: bails them out. They decide to charge you for everything. 418 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: They charge you for the cushion in your seat, they 419 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: charge you for overhead compartment. And then they say, oh, 420 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: but once things go back to normal, you know, will 421 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: roll back those costs. They ever did, They never did, right, 422 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: So if oil companies are well aware of the fact 423 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: that they are actually making bank right now in this crisis, 424 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: and they know that they hold right the power over 425 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: the American people because you don't have a choice. You 426 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: got to get to work. So whether you're driving yourself, 427 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,479 Speaker 1: you're taking a train, you're taking a subway, all of 428 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: that caught is gas, right, because we've made no investment 429 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: into any other kind of power source, any other type 430 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: of energy source, not in any real way. I just 431 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: get so angry because I realized that things don't have 432 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: to be this way, right, that this is not what 433 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: people stood in line for for hours at a time, 434 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: when we did not have a vaccine to vote for. 435 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: And it is no longer enough to say that I'm 436 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: not the other guy and think that that is going 437 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: to be enough to get you into office. And so 438 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what democrats messaging is. I don't know 439 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: how we talked tough about preserving democracy and the horrible 440 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: things that Putin has done. And the only person that 441 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: he didn't sanction, the only person Putin didn't sanction, was 442 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You know the relationship that Trump has with 443 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: Putin and other enemies of America. But yet you're doing 444 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: nothing about the literal sitting fascist threat that is standing 445 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: on the buffet line at Mara Lago, that is continuing 446 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: to spread live, continuing to chummy up to the nation's 447 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: enemies right and being rewarded by it by not being sanctioned, 448 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: and we do nothing. Merritt Garland has a stack, a 449 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: stack of information and investigation that has been done by 450 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: the January sixth Commission, no indictments. You know, next week 451 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: you'll hear a conversation that I have with our friend 452 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: Joyce White Vance, who will say that you know, Merritt 453 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: Garland doesn't operate, is not operating on the timeline of 454 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: midterm elections, and I'm saying he fucking should. He fucking should, 455 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: because when Republicans take back power, he's not going to 456 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: be able to do a damn thing. If in fact, 457 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: he's doing anything right fucking now, which is really unlikely 458 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: because the federal prosecutors are former federal prosecutors that I 459 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: talk to say that you would have heard some rumblings 460 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: by now. There would have been some fucking leaks in 461 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: that sieve of the Department of Justice that would let 462 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: us know that there is movement that is happening. There 463 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: is nothing, So are they that good at hiding it 464 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: or have they just decided, much the same way that 465 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg did in New York, that we're just not 466 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: going to do anything. We'll just quietly allow things to, 467 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: you know, stay the way they are, will allow the 468 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: status quo. We knew that Alvin Bragg wasn't going to 469 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: do dick in New York when the two top prosecutors quit. 470 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: We haven't had that action taken yet by folks at 471 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: the DOJ, but we know that they are really unhappy 472 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: with the way that things are going and how they 473 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: have been rolled out. I want to have faith. I 474 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: so desperately want to have faith. I want to believe 475 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: that our better angels are going to prevail. I want 476 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: to believe that somehow we're in the midst of some 477 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: sci fi dystopian, you know, Hollywood movie, and that the 478 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: good guys are going to prevail. At the very end, 479 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: just when you think that all is lost, they're gonna 480 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: snatch defeat, right, snatch victory. Excuse me out of the 481 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:31,240 Speaker 1: mouth of defeat. But no, I think that Democrats instead 482 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 1: are just laying down. I don't even think that they 483 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: are actually fighting. So what does that mean for us? 484 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: You know, as I watch the coverage of the people 485 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: in the Ukraine and folks staying, staying and saying that 486 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,479 Speaker 1: they're going to defend their country, They're going to risk 487 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 1: their lives to do that. I think about us in 488 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,879 Speaker 1: the United States. I don't think that we would come 489 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: together in the face right now of certain terror. I 490 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: think that you would have a group, and a not 491 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: insignificant group that would say, I don't know what you 492 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: all are up in arms about. Right, you have the 493 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's of the world, and the Candice Owens, these 494 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,439 Speaker 1: Russian puppets and the Tulsea Gabbards who are out there 495 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: spewing Russian talking points for the first time folks in 496 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: our nation's history. As there is war that is unfolding, 497 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 1: you have members of one of the two political parties 498 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: applauding dictator and still can somehow call themselves Americans. They're 499 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: applauding the war criminal and questioning the one who is 500 00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:00,799 Speaker 1: getting all of the applause, questioning the valiance right of Zalinski, 501 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: but applauding putin. That's where we are. It's a scary place. 502 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: We're in a really we're in a really scary place. 503 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: So I will say this, let me end here and 504 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,839 Speaker 1: delve into a woke moment of wellness, which you know 505 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 1: I can't offer every day because some days I'm just 506 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: not in that headspace. Yesterday I was not. I was 507 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 1: really distraught about what I was seeing and reading. But 508 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: I will say this, as the weather has begun to change, 509 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:40,399 Speaker 1: I have, you know, really challenge myself to get back 510 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: out and to walk, to get back out and to 511 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: walk around my community and to see people playing with 512 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: their babies, to see cute little dogs walking on the street, 513 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 1: to listen to music blaring out from cars, just to 514 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 1: realize that life does not stop, right, life will continue, 515 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: and system that even in the face of all that 516 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: is horrific and rage inducing, that there is still good 517 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: to see. I was walking today and I saw, you know, 518 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: the beginnings of leaves coming out of you know, of branches, right, 519 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: that spring is on the horizon. That given everything that 520 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 1: is happening, the cycle, right, the rebirth is still happening. 521 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: It's important to get out of our rage, depression, grief 522 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,319 Speaker 1: bubbles and be able to see those things, to be 523 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: able to take stock in what is still good, what 524 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: is still happening, and not just shroud ourselves in the 525 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: darkness and the sadness of the moment. So whatever it 526 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: is that you do, do not stay in rage and 527 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: in the news and in terror and in anxiety for 528 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: too long. Take breaks, go outside, point out, journal, Begin 529 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,280 Speaker 1: to journal during this time. If you've never kept a journal, 530 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: and I'm keeping one right now. It's not daily, but 531 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 1: I at least try and write down once a week 532 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: because we're living in extraordinary times. Right. This show for 533 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: me is my political journal, right, it is exactly what 534 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: is happening as it is happening, but emotionally for my 535 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,920 Speaker 1: well being and how I'm feeling in the moment. It's 536 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 1: important for me to get those things out right, to 537 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: be able to look back, you know, and hope that 538 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,400 Speaker 1: things will get better, that I will see a pattern 539 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,240 Speaker 1: of as the world crumbles, that I'm able to really 540 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 1: relish in, you know, and marinate in moments of joy, 541 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: even as fleeting as they are. It is important for 542 00:38:52,200 --> 00:39:01,840 Speaker 1: us that is your woke moment of wellness as always, 543 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 1: dear friends, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 544 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See you back tomorrow.