WEBVTT - The Road to World War 3 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.960 Welcome to okay f Daily with Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:20.279 I want to start off today with talking about President 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:29.120 Zelenski's address to Congress. President Zelensky came in via zoom 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:34.479 to address Congress yesterday about where things are with Putin's 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.080 war of aggression that has killed thousands of his people, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.920 that has shelled entire cities that are now unrecognizable. And 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.199 what he asked for in that call was a no 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.559 fly zone. It's what he's been asking for since the 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:57.720 beginning of the invasion. And what does this mean exactly, Well, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.800 a no fly zone would essentially mean that no aircraft 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.560 right is permitted to be able to fly over the Ukraine. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:14.080 But what it also means is certain interfacing with Russia, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:20.280 another nuclear power, and basically saying that we got you. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.080 You need to stop, and if you continue to move 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.120 forward in this aggressive manner, then we are going to 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:32.360 answer your aggression with aggression. Now, for many people, and 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.320 for many reasons that we all know, namely World War 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.039 three and the fact that Russia has access to over 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:45.639 a thousand nuclear bombs that could essentially wipe off parts 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:51.400 of the planet, America does not want to get involved 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.559 in this war. But America is involved in this war. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:03.280 We have provided one point four billion dollars worth of money, weaponry, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.240 everything outside of what is going to stop the bombs 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:15.800 from dropping from the sky, destroying maternity wards killing innocent civilians. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.680 We are doing everything, but that The question that I 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:24.720 have is, again, are we just slowing down the inevitable? 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.960 If Putin is a maniac, as many have said, you 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.720 get on you listen to cable news. He's a maniac, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.480 he's a sociopath, he's all of these things. But if 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.760 you know that to be true, if the belief really 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.200 is that Putin is going to stop at nothing, then 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.919 don't we need to start considering measures that are much 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.320 more aggressive than what it is that we have already done. Now. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.440 One of the steps that is being floated around is 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:57.000 not only the sanctions on Russians right in Russian oligarchs 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.840 that essentially fuel are fueling this war and will Putin, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:07.160 but to put sanctions on other nations, namely Wink, wink, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.040 without a mention, China, China who has been in bedwidth 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:18.200 right and in relationship with Putin for quite some time. However, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:23.600 the isolation that Russia is feeling right now, from the sanctions, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.880 the crippling right of corporations pulling out of the out 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.280 of Russia at a really fast clip. We couldn't afford 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.400 to have that done with China. Like, this is the 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.720 thing that happens when you start to realize that everything 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.480 in our world is actually connected, that we are not 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.840 you know, some isolated nation that know, a lot of 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.680 our goods come from China, right, are developed in China, 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.080 are made in factories in China, right, Because we don't 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.040 want to pay US workers or US factories, so they 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:07.600 all took their companies their factory is abroad. And so 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.200 now what we saw right during COVID, at the beginning 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.560 of COVID is oh shit, well, if everybody is shut down, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.120 that means that no one is making the quote unquote 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.400 all the stuff that we need, right that we've become 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:26.360 addicted to. So if we were to put sanctions on China, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.920 wouldn't that officially be like kind of putting sanctions on ourselves? 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:36.479 Do we think that this nation of billions, right is 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.560 not resilient enough to be able to self sustain? Now 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.479 we know everyone there is no country right that is 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.120 self sustaining that isn't somehow participating in the global marketplace. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.839 But I don't think that there is a country that 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:57.440 is as necessary right to the global marketplace as China 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.280 is and as the United States is. So if we 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.040 have gone as far as we can go in terms 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:11.760 of an economic squeeze on Russia, and President Zelinsky is 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:17.640 sitting before the American Congress and saying, look, yes, I 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.160 need more money. Yes I am grateful for the ways 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.960 in which you have shown up. But the reality is 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.159 is that Ukraine is not going to exist for much 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:32.640 longer if Putin is able to continue dropping bombs on 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:37.680 our cities. So, like, my question is how many lives 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.800 is enough for there to be lost for action to 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.040 be taken. And I've said this before, and I just 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.919 keep thinking about it, right, I keep thinking about the 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:54.799 millions of souls that were stolen in World War Two, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.320 millions before there was any type of intervention. And now 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:05.200 I wonder, by virtue of us having social media right 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.360 of this war literally unfolding before our eyes, whether it 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.640 is on your phone, on your computer, or on your television, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.279 that is America going to be able to quote unquote 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.160 stay out of it for much longer? When the American 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.560 people themselves are witnessing these atrocities and saying, how are 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.240 we sitting by on the sidelines? How do we say 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.600 that we are about preserving democracy around the world and 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:38.000 we are seeing an real life attack and we're doing 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.880 nothing to stop it. Now on the other side, right 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.039 of that is, should American lives be lost in order 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.960 to defend the Ukraine? Well, the reality here that I 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.120 think that we all need to start wrapping our minds 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:59.880 around is that Putin is not stopping at the Ukraine. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:07.640 Ukraine falls right absorbed by Putin and then they are 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.640 going to keep going. It's like, do you remember pac 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.560 Man and all the little things that pac Man would 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.200 eat up? That is fucking Putin right now. Putin pac Man. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.680 He wants to gobble up Eastern Europe to put a 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.840 threat and real pressure on the United States and on 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:33.960 the Western world. He wants world dominance, He wants the 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.880 world to fear him. So does he care whether or 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.240 not Joe Biden is calling him a war criminal? No, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.200 he doesn't give a fuck. So what do you do? 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.200 What can be done with a madman who is actually 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.040 quite bright, who doesn't give a fuck, who literally has 0:07:53.120 --> 0:08:00.280 run out of fucks to give. I. You know, I 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:07.120 think that Biden is in a really precarious position for 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.880 a variety of reasons. But I'm not giving slack to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.840 this White House because I have a lot of my 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.040 own fucking grievances with the ways that a lot of 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.400 things have been handled, from voting rights, to abortion rights, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:26.320 to their silence and inaction around the assault on LGBTQ youth. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:35.480 Right that being said, if we go to war, right, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.560 this isn't going to end well. And by end well, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.319 we mean like the world ending, meaning that everyone releases 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:52.400 their nukes and then we're gone. But if you have 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:57.480 a bully that is standing in the middle of the schoollyard, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:04.400 beating their chest and literally pummeling one of the less 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.040 strong kids in front of you, and there is a 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.640 line of other kids that are going to be pummeled 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:18.000 to death if you do not intervene, when is the 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:23.720 right time to make the decision? What does that look like? 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.760 This is the thing that I'm trying to understand is 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.080 is there a moment. Is there a number that is 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.160 in the head of this president and the other leaders 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.720 that are in NATO that they say if he crosses 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:44.760 this line, we gotta jump in because if not, folks, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.360 then how long are we willing to let this go? 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:53.520 Because you know, today, yesterday, excuse me, in the press 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.840 conference that Biden gave, he keeps giving warnings that this 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:04.400 is going to be a long, painful, terrible war. But 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:09.800 how long, how terrible? Right? And how are we going 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.560 to say that we are a country that believes in 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:17.440 democracy and yet we are literally not willing to put 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.640 anything in jeopardy or at stake in order to move forward. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.760 Because here's the thing, one of the other things that 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.800 Zelinsky said while he was invoking Martin Luther King and 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.800 invoking the fact that we should care more about peace 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.040 than we do money. And I was confused because I'm like, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.360 I don't know who you think you're talking to, because 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.679 all politicians in America care about his money, right, Like 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.800 they are you know, political prostitutes right there turning tricks 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:50.400 for their favorite donors, right, so long as that money 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.600 keeps flowing, they'll keep they'll keep tricking, Like that's how 0:10:53.679 --> 0:11:01.240 politics works. So I don't know how long we watch 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.120 these images and these pictures play out. I don't know 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.480 how many more millions of people need to flee the 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:13.040 Ukraine to these bordering nations that are not going to 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.480 be able to take on an entire million population of 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:24.040 people without buckling under that pressure. What's the endgame here? 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.520 That I mean, this is the question that I'm asking 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.160 myself and I know that many are asking right now, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:38.959 is what is the endgame? What is Putin's endgame? His 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:43.280 end game is a United Russia, right, it is a 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:49.000 USSR two point zero. That's his endgame. What is he 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.160 willing to do in order to make that happen? Because 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.120 if he pulls back now, right, he will look weak 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.880 in front of the world. He won't look like he 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.360 pulls back now. Are we welcoming him back into the 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.920 G seven? Are we welcoming him back into the political 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.120 fold as if he didn't just commit war crimes on 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:15.720 national television? So if Putin and Russia are not coming 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.040 back into the fold, if they are now and forever 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.840 will be our adversaries and they are an active threat, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.559 then what do we see, folks, as the endgame? How 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.800 do we move through this? This? I do not know. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:38.280 But here's another thing that has me really in my feelings, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:44.760 and I talked about this on Woke Wednesday, every time 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:51.520 America puts up its budget and Congress has to pass 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.040 a budget so that you know, government doesn't shut down 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.000 and all of these things. We're often told that all 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.040 of our social services and safety nets, oh we don't 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.160 have enough money for them. Right. You bring in the 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.600 same amount, if not more, of our tax dollars every 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:13.200 single year, and it is Congress who gets to decide 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.880 where those tax dollars are allocated to. Now, we know 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.560 that there are also people that are in Congress who 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.000 make a lot of money when we are at war, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:30.280 right because they have investments right in military technologies, right 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.319 into war technologies. It's the same way that you had 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.960 members of Congress that we're making money investing before anybody 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.280 even knew about COVID, right that they were like, oh shit, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.120 this is about to be hot, so let me go 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.480 put some money in on masks, and put some money 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.120 in on ventilators, and put some money in on these things. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:52.200 I mean, this happens. There's a bill right now and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.400 that is circulating around Congress that is in fact about 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.160 stopping members of Congress from being able to make money 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:06.600 off of the ship that they learn. Funny enough, I 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.320 think that this is something that Democrats and Republicans will 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.679 agree on that they don't want to hinder their ability 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.000 to be rich off of our backs and off of 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:21.000 our misery. So we'll see how far that legislation goes. Nonetheless, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.800 you know, you have one point four billion dollars that 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.000 you're able to just hand over to the Ukrainian people, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.720 to Zelenski. But when we turn around and we say 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.280 where are the resources for education, for a healthcare system, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.200 for infrastructure, for all these things, everything is a fight. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:46.120 But the money to provide endless resources for war. We're good, right, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.120 And the American people will stand up and they'll applaud 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.280 and say, yes, we need to help the Ukrainians. But 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:57.320 I ask at whose expense? Right, Because if the federal 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.280 government this week says, oh, well, we're no longer going 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.560 to provide COVID care to the uninsured because we can't 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.120 afford it, and we're no longer going to provide states 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.200 with all the resources that they need, we have to 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.120 bring that number down thirty percent because we can't afford it. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.520 But then you turn around and in less than a 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.640 month provide one point four billion dollars to the Ukraine. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.720 I just again, how do you rationalize saying this shit 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.440 out loud? And people will say to me, oh, well, Danielle, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.400 Republicans are no longer going to vote for COVID release. Well, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.760 they didn't vote for it in the beginning, right it 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:43.280 was there is never a part of their plans. But 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.240 Biden is the President of the United States, So what 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.360 kind of emergency release funds do you have access to? 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.560 Because here's the thing that I continue to believe is 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.600 that there are more maneuvers and strategies that can be 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.520 made if, in fact, we had leaders that had backbones. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.720 But because we don't, because they would rather capitulate to 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.560 the needs and the desires and the accusations of Republicans, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.200 we don't ever get anything done right. And then we 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.560 want to turn around in campaign season and say, oh, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.560 don't vote for the other guy. And I'm thinking to myself, well, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.760 why I know why I don't vote Republican? Because they're racist, 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.600 they're misogynists, they're pigs. You know, they're terrible human beings. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.520 Right Like I didn't always believe that. I believe that 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.040 we had a difference of ideology, But when they decided 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:38.040 to vote in a white supremist right, when they decided 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.760 that like misogyny and hatred and all of these things, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.480 and homophobia and transphobia were a part of their mission statement. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.520 Then they showed me who there were. So I have 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.640 no qualms in saying that if you are a Republican 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.720 in these United States in this time, that you are 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.200 a racist because you don't support racism or you are 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.240 quiet about it, and then you don't get that label. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:04.280 That's not how this works, and it's not how I work. Nonetheless, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.760 I believe that there are things that can be done 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.199 by Democrats and by this administration, but they refuse to. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.520 And it is because they are afraid. It is because 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.919 they are afraid about how Republicans will react. They are 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.159 afraid by what it is that they will say. And 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.880 I'm saying to you, they don't like you, know how, right, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.960 They don't give a fuck about shoe warrior feelings. Right. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.280 And the minute that they have the gavel, the minute 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.000 that they have power, they are going to impeach a 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.520 whole lot of people for no reason whatsoever. But they 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.000 will make up reasons, they will make up laws. Right. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.119 And so if you know that, and you know that 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.359 it is in our best interest in the best interests 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.840 of preserving our democracy to make sure that that does 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.560 not happen. Then why would you be moving in a 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.000 reactionary posture instead of doing what needs to get done 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.199 and worrying about the consequences later. Because here's what we 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.160 know to be true. The American people, their memory is real, small, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.000 real short, right, And why is that? It's not because 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.159 I believe Americans. It's not because I believe us to 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.679 be stupid or I believe us not to care. I 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.280 just believe that when your basic needs are not met, Right, 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.399 you do not have the luxury and the benefit of 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.200 being able to sit around at your kitchen table pontificating 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.720 on how Republicans are moving to screw you, right, because 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.119 you have to be concerned about what food or medicine 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.520 you're going to be able to put on that kitchen table. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.520 And so when you can't do that, your days and 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.600 your time are going to be spent trying to figure 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.520 that equation out. Right, you don't have the luxury of 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.480 them being able to them being able to say, how 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.520 come why don't I have the ability to do that 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.040 in this country? Oh, because we've all been force fed 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.640 the same lie about pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.720 and if you are facing hard and difficult times, that's 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.719 because that's because of you. You're a lack of grit, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.919 your a lack of wherewithal. It has nothing to do 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.280 with the fact that in other industrialized nations around the 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.480 world that call themselves a democracy, that they actually do 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.000 way more to take care of their citizens than the 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.960 United States does. And that's the truth. We're so busy 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.520 waving a flag and saying we are a number one 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.760 we don't even understand what we are number one in. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.240 It's not any of the good things. If you're wondering, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:39.440 it's you know, I just I think that I have 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:45.480 come to a place in my political career where I 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.560 am beginning to kind of grapple with the fact that 0:19:51.480 --> 0:20:01.360 this democracy government, my love and feeling that we can 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.760 create a government and a system that is for us 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.520 and by us, that the belief that you know, it's 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:16.040 each generation's duty to perfect our very imperfect union. I 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:22.679 no longer believe those things. I believe that America is 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.280 a sham. I think that it's kind of one of 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.880 the biggest griffs and one of the biggest setups. Right, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.480 we were able to say that we were number one, 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.359 and we were better than everybody else's. We were moving 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:43.480 at breaking pace right with industrialization and you know, and democracy, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.560 and we were building levit towns, and we were you know, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:52.679 constructing and creating products and cars and all of these things. 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:57.479 We were at the pinnacle right at the turn of 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:04.159 the twentieth century. But then somehow, at some point, we 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:10.280 just stopped investing in the American people. We instead decided 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:15.719 to start investing more in shareholders and CEOs and their needs. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:21.720 We decide that it wasn't about creating safe, safe working environments, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:26.000 right for corporations that are hauling in billions upon billions 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.720 of dollars off of the very little money that they 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:34.040 give some of their lowly workers. Right, we stopped providing pensions, 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.840 we stopped providing insurance, We stopped doing a whole host 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.399 of things. And the government that were supposed to be 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.919 our watchdogs looking out for the little guy, decided that 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.200 they were then going to team up with the CEOs 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:50.800 and the corporations so that if they got a little cut, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.080 then they didn't care what was happening to the collective, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.879 because it was really only about the needs of the 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:06.400 individual their needs, their families, their Maserati's and their yachts, 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:13.320 their vacation homes. So the belief that I had that 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.919 I fell in love with as a young person about 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:22.840 being a part of creating massive change, I mean, I 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.480 guess I've taken off my rose colored glasses. I guess 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:31.200 I've moved to a place of knowing where I actually 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.080 do see both sides, and both sides don't look good. 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:39.520 You have one party that is very clear about who 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.200 they are, who they embrace, and what they are aligned with. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:47.919 Then you have Democrats who are unclear about who they 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.879 are aligned with, and they speak out of both sides 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.840 of their mouth. I mean, this is what honestly, and 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.000 let me say this, and I don't say it lightly. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.520 This is a thing that black Republicans offer are often 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:04.440 Now I'm not joining your fucking party, right, but the 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:08.160 thing that they often offer is that well, Democrats lie 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.880 to you. They keep talking about equal pay, they keep 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.400 talking about, you know, fighting against climate change. They keep 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.560 talking about all these things, but all they are doing 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.440 is talking about it. They don't actually offer up any 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.080 real change to the American people. Now you can say, well, 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:27.639 they try and offer it, but then it's swat down, 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.800 but it's not just swat down by it's not done 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:35.520 on party lines. There are plenty of quote unquote, you 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:41.320 know centrist Democrats that use Joe Mansion and Kursten Cinema 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:45.400 as their shields because Kursen Cinema and Joe Mansion are 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:49.080 fame horse, right, they always want to have their name 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:52.600 in somebody's mouth, so they don't take it because it 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:55.320 gives it feeds their ego. But there are many of 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:59.800 other members right who vote against the interests of the 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.760 in service of the few, the few that are in 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:08.720 front of them. So when you learn all of these 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.840 things and you start to realize, well, you talk to 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.240 immigration folks and they tell you, do you know that 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:19.679 Obama deported more people than any Republican did. Do you 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:24.480 know that right now Joe Biden has deported twenty thousand Haitians, right, 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:31.320 twenty thousand Haitian refugees seeking refuge from certain death in 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:37.280 their country, political upheaval, COVID upheaval, natural disasters that have 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:40.720 flattened parts of the country right over the past couple 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:45.320 of years. They are coming here for aid and assistance, 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:48.840 and the Biden administration didn't say, oh, we don't take 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:51.840 people from Shiitthhold countries, but they shore as hell have 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:54.880 used their planes as a fucking boomerang to put those 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.040 people right back where they started. And then at the 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.320 same time want to say American people, we will open 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:07.280 up our doors to the Ukrainians. Well, I wonder why right, 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:10.080 because they have the right hue for our empathy, they 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:16.679 have the right complexion for compassion. It's you know, And 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:21.399 this is what I say has me troubled most days, 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:26.520 because I want to believe that we are a country 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.399 that wants to be better. But wanting to be better 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:36.600 and actually doing better are two very different things, two 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:41.320 very different things. And so we see that America wants 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:44.880 to be better, America wants to talk tough on Russian 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:50.520 oligarchs and war criminals. But when it comes right, when 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:56.000 it comes to talking tough and dealing with those who 0:25:56.200 --> 0:26:00.280 are putting our democracy at jeopardy, when it comes to 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:05.159 talking tough and actually doing something right to hold the 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:10.280 people that are trying to destroy our republic, there are 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:15.080 no words to say, there's nothing to offer up. And 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:21.960 so I'm confused about where we go eight months from now, 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:28.399 when it is election time. And we will most likely 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.400 in those eight months. It is it is very possible 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:34.959 that we are at war, right, that we're not just 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:37.760 aiding from the sidelines, that we are actually in a 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:43.000 full blown war. That's certainly possible. We know that by 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:46.840 the time that the election comes, we will no longer 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:51.600 have abortion certified across this country. We will have lost 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:56.239 that under a Democrat's watch, with no policy coming up 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.280 the rear to make sure that even if the courts 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:02.240 right make the decision which we know they are going 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:06.080 to make to gut Rovie Wade, that no federal protections 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:08.320 will still be in place. No, we don't have that, 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:13.760 we don't have voting rights, we don't have police reform. 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.400 And then you have newspapers like The Hill who are 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:21.880 stating that Democrats have moved too far to the left 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:23.520 and this is why they're going to lose. And I'm 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.679 saying to myself, and I said this on woke Wednesday, 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:32.720 how can we be considered too far left when Republicans 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.080 have gone so far to the right that they are 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.840 off a cliff and they have moved both political parties 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:45.240 to right of center. But yeah, going after and trying 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:51.680 to preserve our democracy our climate, right, Like that's seeming 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:55.240 too left leaning for people because they don't realize that 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:57.600 in a couple of months we are going to be 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:01.160 at the beginning of hurricane season. And what we know 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:04.560 is that every hurricane season over the last four or 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:10.280 five years have been quote unquote historic, right, historic, and 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:13.359 the damage that it has caused historic, and how long 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:16.000 it has lingered and why is that, Oh, I don't 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:20.159 know the warming of our fucking oceans. We can't afford 0:28:21.080 --> 0:28:26.479 to be ignorant, right, We can't afford to continue to 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:30.640