Speaker 1: Welcome to okay f Daily with Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody.
Speaker 1: I want to start off today with talking about President
Speaker 1: Zelenski's address to Congress. President Zelensky came in via zoom
Speaker 1: to address Congress yesterday about where things are with Putin's
Speaker 1: war of aggression that has killed thousands of his people,
Speaker 1: that has shelled entire cities that are now unrecognizable. And
Speaker 1: what he asked for in that call was a no
Speaker 1: fly zone. It's what he's been asking for since the
Speaker 1: beginning of the invasion. And what does this mean exactly, Well,
Speaker 1: a no fly zone would essentially mean that no aircraft
Speaker 1: right is permitted to be able to fly over the Ukraine.
Speaker 1: But what it also means is certain interfacing with Russia,
Speaker 1: another nuclear power, and basically saying that we got you.
Speaker 1: You need to stop, and if you continue to move
Speaker 1: forward in this aggressive manner, then we are going to
Speaker 1: answer your aggression with aggression. Now, for many people, and
Speaker 1: for many reasons that we all know, namely World War
Speaker 1: three and the fact that Russia has access to over
Speaker 1: a thousand nuclear bombs that could essentially wipe off parts
Speaker 1: of the planet, America does not want to get involved
Speaker 1: in this war. But America is involved in this war.
Speaker 1: We have provided one point four billion dollars worth of money, weaponry,
Speaker 1: everything outside of what is going to stop the bombs
Speaker 1: from dropping from the sky, destroying maternity wards killing innocent civilians.
Speaker 1: We are doing everything, but that The question that I
Speaker 1: have is, again, are we just slowing down the inevitable?
Speaker 1: If Putin is a maniac, as many have said, you
Speaker 1: get on you listen to cable news. He's a maniac,
Speaker 1: he's a sociopath, he's all of these things. But if
Speaker 1: you know that to be true, if the belief really
Speaker 1: is that Putin is going to stop at nothing, then
Speaker 1: don't we need to start considering measures that are much
Speaker 1: more aggressive than what it is that we have already done. Now.
Speaker 1: One of the steps that is being floated around is
Speaker 1: not only the sanctions on Russians right in Russian oligarchs
Speaker 1: that essentially fuel are fueling this war and will Putin,
Speaker 1: but to put sanctions on other nations, namely Wink, wink,
Speaker 1: without a mention, China, China who has been in bedwidth
Speaker 1: right and in relationship with Putin for quite some time. However,
Speaker 1: the isolation that Russia is feeling right now, from the sanctions,
Speaker 1: the crippling right of corporations pulling out of the out
Speaker 1: of Russia at a really fast clip. We couldn't afford
Speaker 1: to have that done with China. Like, this is the
Speaker 1: thing that happens when you start to realize that everything
Speaker 1: in our world is actually connected, that we are not
Speaker 1: you know, some isolated nation that know, a lot of
Speaker 1: our goods come from China, right, are developed in China,
Speaker 1: are made in factories in China, right, Because we don't
Speaker 1: want to pay US workers or US factories, so they
Speaker 1: all took their companies their factory is abroad. And so
Speaker 1: now what we saw right during COVID, at the beginning
Speaker 1: of COVID is oh shit, well, if everybody is shut down,
Speaker 1: that means that no one is making the quote unquote
Speaker 1: all the stuff that we need, right that we've become
Speaker 1: addicted to. So if we were to put sanctions on China,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that officially be like kind of putting sanctions on ourselves?
Speaker 1: Do we think that this nation of billions, right is
Speaker 1: not resilient enough to be able to self sustain? Now
Speaker 1: we know everyone there is no country right that is
Speaker 1: self sustaining that isn't somehow participating in the global marketplace.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that there is a country that
Speaker 1: is as necessary right to the global marketplace as China
Speaker 1: is and as the United States is. So if we
Speaker 1: have gone as far as we can go in terms
Speaker 1: of an economic squeeze on Russia, and President Zelinsky is
Speaker 1: sitting before the American Congress and saying, look, yes, I
Speaker 1: need more money. Yes I am grateful for the ways
Speaker 1: in which you have shown up. But the reality is
Speaker 1: is that Ukraine is not going to exist for much
Speaker 1: longer if Putin is able to continue dropping bombs on
Speaker 1: our cities. So, like, my question is how many lives
Speaker 1: is enough for there to be lost for action to
Speaker 1: be taken. And I've said this before, and I just
Speaker 1: keep thinking about it, right, I keep thinking about the
Speaker 1: millions of souls that were stolen in World War Two,
Speaker 1: millions before there was any type of intervention. And now
Speaker 1: I wonder, by virtue of us having social media right
Speaker 1: of this war literally unfolding before our eyes, whether it
Speaker 1: is on your phone, on your computer, or on your television,
Speaker 1: that is America going to be able to quote unquote
Speaker 1: stay out of it for much longer? When the American
Speaker 1: people themselves are witnessing these atrocities and saying, how are
Speaker 1: we sitting by on the sidelines? How do we say
Speaker 1: that we are about preserving democracy around the world and
Speaker 1: we are seeing an real life attack and we're doing
Speaker 1: nothing to stop it. Now on the other side, right
Speaker 1: of that is, should American lives be lost in order
Speaker 1: to defend the Ukraine? Well, the reality here that I
Speaker 1: think that we all need to start wrapping our minds
Speaker 1: around is that Putin is not stopping at the Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Ukraine falls right absorbed by Putin and then they are
Speaker 1: going to keep going. It's like, do you remember pac
Speaker 1: Man and all the little things that pac Man would
Speaker 1: eat up? That is fucking Putin right now. Putin pac Man.
Speaker 1: He wants to gobble up Eastern Europe to put a
Speaker 1: threat and real pressure on the United States and on
Speaker 1: the Western world. He wants world dominance, He wants the
Speaker 1: world to fear him. So does he care whether or
Speaker 1: not Joe Biden is calling him a war criminal? No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't give a fuck. So what do you do?
Speaker 1: What can be done with a madman who is actually
Speaker 1: quite bright, who doesn't give a fuck, who literally has
Speaker 1: run out of fucks to give. I. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that Biden is in a really precarious position for
Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. But I'm not giving slack to
Speaker 1: this White House because I have a lot of my
Speaker 1: own fucking grievances with the ways that a lot of
Speaker 1: things have been handled, from voting rights, to abortion rights,
Speaker 1: to their silence and inaction around the assault on LGBTQ youth.
Speaker 1: Right that being said, if we go to war, right,
Speaker 1: this isn't going to end well. And by end well,
Speaker 1: we mean like the world ending, meaning that everyone releases
Speaker 1: their nukes and then we're gone. But if you have
Speaker 1: a bully that is standing in the middle of the schoollyard,
Speaker 1: beating their chest and literally pummeling one of the less
Speaker 1: strong kids in front of you, and there is a
Speaker 1: line of other kids that are going to be pummeled
Speaker 1: to death if you do not intervene, when is the
Speaker 1: right time to make the decision? What does that look like?
Speaker 1: This is the thing that I'm trying to understand is
Speaker 1: is there a moment. Is there a number that is
Speaker 1: in the head of this president and the other leaders
Speaker 1: that are in NATO that they say if he crosses
Speaker 1: this line, we gotta jump in because if not, folks,
Speaker 1: then how long are we willing to let this go?
Speaker 1: Because you know, today, yesterday, excuse me, in the press
Speaker 1: conference that Biden gave, he keeps giving warnings that this
Speaker 1: is going to be a long, painful, terrible war. But
Speaker 1: how long, how terrible? Right? And how are we going
Speaker 1: to say that we are a country that believes in
Speaker 1: democracy and yet we are literally not willing to put
Speaker 1: anything in jeopardy or at stake in order to move forward.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, one of the other things that
Speaker 1: Zelinsky said while he was invoking Martin Luther King and
Speaker 1: invoking the fact that we should care more about peace
Speaker 1: than we do money. And I was confused because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who you think you're talking to, because
Speaker 1: all politicians in America care about his money, right, Like
Speaker 1: they are you know, political prostitutes right there turning tricks
Speaker 1: for their favorite donors, right, so long as that money
Speaker 1: keeps flowing, they'll keep they'll keep tricking, Like that's how
Speaker 1: politics works. So I don't know how long we watch
Speaker 1: these images and these pictures play out. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many more millions of people need to flee the
Speaker 1: Ukraine to these bordering nations that are not going to
Speaker 1: be able to take on an entire million population of
Speaker 1: people without buckling under that pressure. What's the endgame here?
Speaker 1: That I mean, this is the question that I'm asking
Speaker 1: myself and I know that many are asking right now,
Speaker 1: is what is the endgame? What is Putin's endgame? His
Speaker 1: end game is a United Russia, right, it is a
Speaker 1: USSR two point zero. That's his endgame. What is he
Speaker 1: willing to do in order to make that happen? Because
Speaker 1: if he pulls back now, right, he will look weak
Speaker 1: in front of the world. He won't look like he
Speaker 1: pulls back now. Are we welcoming him back into the
Speaker 1: G seven? Are we welcoming him back into the political
Speaker 1: fold as if he didn't just commit war crimes on
Speaker 1: national television? So if Putin and Russia are not coming
Speaker 1: back into the fold, if they are now and forever
Speaker 1: will be our adversaries and they are an active threat,
Speaker 1: then what do we see, folks, as the endgame? How
Speaker 1: do we move through this? This? I do not know.
Speaker 1: But here's another thing that has me really in my feelings,
Speaker 1: and I talked about this on Woke Wednesday, every time
Speaker 1: America puts up its budget and Congress has to pass
Speaker 1: a budget so that you know, government doesn't shut down
Speaker 1: and all of these things. We're often told that all
Speaker 1: of our social services and safety nets, oh we don't
Speaker 1: have enough money for them. Right. You bring in the
Speaker 1: same amount, if not more, of our tax dollars every
Speaker 1: single year, and it is Congress who gets to decide
Speaker 1: where those tax dollars are allocated to. Now, we know
Speaker 1: that there are also people that are in Congress who
Speaker 1: make a lot of money when we are at war,
Speaker 1: right because they have investments right in military technologies, right
Speaker 1: into war technologies. It's the same way that you had
Speaker 1: members of Congress that we're making money investing before anybody
Speaker 1: even knew about COVID, right that they were like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: this is about to be hot, so let me go
Speaker 1: put some money in on masks, and put some money
Speaker 1: in on ventilators, and put some money in on these things.
Speaker 1: I mean, this happens. There's a bill right now and
Speaker 1: that is circulating around Congress that is in fact about
Speaker 1: stopping members of Congress from being able to make money
Speaker 1: off of the ship that they learn. Funny enough, I
Speaker 1: think that this is something that Democrats and Republicans will
Speaker 1: agree on that they don't want to hinder their ability
Speaker 1: to be rich off of our backs and off of
Speaker 1: our misery. So we'll see how far that legislation goes. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you know, you have one point four billion dollars that
Speaker 1: you're able to just hand over to the Ukrainian people,
Speaker 1: to Zelenski. But when we turn around and we say
Speaker 1: where are the resources for education, for a healthcare system,
Speaker 1: for infrastructure, for all these things, everything is a fight.
Speaker 1: But the money to provide endless resources for war. We're good, right,
Speaker 1: And the American people will stand up and they'll applaud
Speaker 1: and say, yes, we need to help the Ukrainians. But
Speaker 1: I ask at whose expense? Right, Because if the federal
Speaker 1: government this week says, oh, well, we're no longer going
Speaker 1: to provide COVID care to the uninsured because we can't
Speaker 1: afford it, and we're no longer going to provide states
Speaker 1: with all the resources that they need, we have to
Speaker 1: bring that number down thirty percent because we can't afford it.
Speaker 1: But then you turn around and in less than a
Speaker 1: month provide one point four billion dollars to the Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I just again, how do you rationalize saying this shit
Speaker 1: out loud? And people will say to me, oh, well, Danielle,
Speaker 1: Republicans are no longer going to vote for COVID release. Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't vote for it in the beginning, right it
Speaker 1: was there is never a part of their plans. But
Speaker 1: Biden is the President of the United States, So what
Speaker 1: kind of emergency release funds do you have access to?
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing that I continue to believe is
Speaker 1: that there are more maneuvers and strategies that can be
Speaker 1: made if, in fact, we had leaders that had backbones.
Speaker 1: But because we don't, because they would rather capitulate to
Speaker 1: the needs and the desires and the accusations of Republicans,
Speaker 1: we don't ever get anything done right. And then we
Speaker 1: want to turn around in campaign season and say, oh,
Speaker 1: don't vote for the other guy. And I'm thinking to myself, well,
Speaker 1: why I know why I don't vote Republican? Because they're racist,
Speaker 1: they're misogynists, they're pigs. You know, they're terrible human beings.
Speaker 1: Right Like I didn't always believe that. I believe that
Speaker 1: we had a difference of ideology, But when they decided
Speaker 1: to vote in a white supremist right, when they decided
Speaker 1: that like misogyny and hatred and all of these things,
Speaker 1: and homophobia and transphobia were a part of their mission statement.
Speaker 1: Then they showed me who there were. So I have
Speaker 1: no qualms in saying that if you are a Republican
Speaker 1: in these United States in this time, that you are
Speaker 1: a racist because you don't support racism or you are
Speaker 1: quiet about it, and then you don't get that label.
Speaker 1: That's not how this works, and it's not how I work. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I believe that there are things that can be done
Speaker 1: by Democrats and by this administration, but they refuse to.
Speaker 1: And it is because they are afraid. It is because
Speaker 1: they are afraid about how Republicans will react. They are
Speaker 1: afraid by what it is that they will say. And
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you, they don't like you, know how, right,
Speaker 1: They don't give a fuck about shoe warrior feelings. Right.
Speaker 1: And the minute that they have the gavel, the minute
Speaker 1: that they have power, they are going to impeach a
Speaker 1: whole lot of people for no reason whatsoever. But they
Speaker 1: will make up reasons, they will make up laws. Right.
Speaker 1: And so if you know that, and you know that
Speaker 1: it is in our best interest in the best interests
Speaker 1: of preserving our democracy to make sure that that does
Speaker 1: not happen. Then why would you be moving in a
Speaker 1: reactionary posture instead of doing what needs to get done
Speaker 1: and worrying about the consequences later. Because here's what we
Speaker 1: know to be true. The American people, their memory is real, small,
Speaker 1: real short, right, And why is that? It's not because
Speaker 1: I believe Americans. It's not because I believe us to
Speaker 1: be stupid or I believe us not to care. I
Speaker 1: just believe that when your basic needs are not met, Right,
Speaker 1: you do not have the luxury and the benefit of
Speaker 1: being able to sit around at your kitchen table pontificating
Speaker 1: on how Republicans are moving to screw you, right, because
Speaker 1: you have to be concerned about what food or medicine
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to put on that kitchen table.
Speaker 1: And so when you can't do that, your days and
Speaker 1: your time are going to be spent trying to figure
Speaker 1: that equation out. Right, you don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: them being able to them being able to say, how
Speaker 1: come why don't I have the ability to do that
Speaker 1: in this country? Oh, because we've all been force fed
Speaker 1: the same lie about pulling yourself up from your bootstraps,
Speaker 1: and if you are facing hard and difficult times, that's
Speaker 1: because that's because of you. You're a lack of grit,
Speaker 1: your a lack of wherewithal. It has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that in other industrialized nations around the
Speaker 1: world that call themselves a democracy, that they actually do
Speaker 1: way more to take care of their citizens than the
Speaker 1: United States does. And that's the truth. We're so busy
Speaker 1: waving a flag and saying we are a number one
Speaker 1: we don't even understand what we are number one in.
Speaker 1: It's not any of the good things. If you're wondering,
Speaker 1: it's you know, I just I think that I have
Speaker 1: come to a place in my political career where I
Speaker 1: am beginning to kind of grapple with the fact that
Speaker 1: this democracy government, my love and feeling that we can
Speaker 1: create a government and a system that is for us
Speaker 1: and by us, that the belief that you know, it's
Speaker 1: each generation's duty to perfect our very imperfect union. I
Speaker 1: no longer believe those things. I believe that America is
Speaker 1: a sham. I think that it's kind of one of
Speaker 1: the biggest griffs and one of the biggest setups. Right,
Speaker 1: we were able to say that we were number one,
Speaker 1: and we were better than everybody else's. We were moving
Speaker 1: at breaking pace right with industrialization and you know, and democracy,
Speaker 1: and we were building levit towns, and we were you know,
Speaker 1: constructing and creating products and cars and all of these things.
Speaker 1: We were at the pinnacle right at the turn of
Speaker 1: the twentieth century. But then somehow, at some point, we
Speaker 1: just stopped investing in the American people. We instead decided
Speaker 1: to start investing more in shareholders and CEOs and their needs.
Speaker 1: We decide that it wasn't about creating safe, safe working environments,
Speaker 1: right for corporations that are hauling in billions upon billions
Speaker 1: of dollars off of the very little money that they
Speaker 1: give some of their lowly workers. Right, we stopped providing pensions,
Speaker 1: we stopped providing insurance, We stopped doing a whole host
Speaker 1: of things. And the government that were supposed to be
Speaker 1: our watchdogs looking out for the little guy, decided that
Speaker 1: they were then going to team up with the CEOs
Speaker 1: and the corporations so that if they got a little cut,
Speaker 1: then they didn't care what was happening to the collective,
Speaker 1: because it was really only about the needs of the
Speaker 1: individual their needs, their families, their Maserati's and their yachts,
Speaker 1: their vacation homes. So the belief that I had that
Speaker 1: I fell in love with as a young person about
Speaker 1: being a part of creating massive change, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I've taken off my rose colored glasses. I guess
Speaker 1: I've moved to a place of knowing where I actually
Speaker 1: do see both sides, and both sides don't look good.
Speaker 1: You have one party that is very clear about who
Speaker 1: they are, who they embrace, and what they are aligned with.
Speaker 1: Then you have Democrats who are unclear about who they
Speaker 1: are aligned with, and they speak out of both sides
Speaker 1: of their mouth. I mean, this is what honestly, and
Speaker 1: let me say this, and I don't say it lightly.
Speaker 1: This is a thing that black Republicans offer are often
Speaker 1: Now I'm not joining your fucking party, right, but the
Speaker 1: thing that they often offer is that well, Democrats lie
Speaker 1: to you. They keep talking about equal pay, they keep
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, fighting against climate change. They keep
Speaker 1: talking about all these things, but all they are doing
Speaker 1: is talking about it. They don't actually offer up any
Speaker 1: real change to the American people. Now you can say, well,
Speaker 1: they try and offer it, but then it's swat down,
Speaker 1: but it's not just swat down by it's not done
Speaker 1: on party lines. There are plenty of quote unquote, you
Speaker 1: know centrist Democrats that use Joe Mansion and Kursten Cinema
Speaker 1: as their shields because Kursen Cinema and Joe Mansion are
Speaker 1: fame horse, right, they always want to have their name
Speaker 1: in somebody's mouth, so they don't take it because it
Speaker 1: gives it feeds their ego. But there are many of
Speaker 1: other members right who vote against the interests of the
Speaker 1: in service of the few, the few that are in
Speaker 1: front of them. So when you learn all of these
Speaker 1: things and you start to realize, well, you talk to
Speaker 1: immigration folks and they tell you, do you know that
Speaker 1: Obama deported more people than any Republican did. Do you
Speaker 1: know that right now Joe Biden has deported twenty thousand Haitians, right,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand Haitian refugees seeking refuge from certain death in
Speaker 1: their country, political upheaval, COVID upheaval, natural disasters that have
Speaker 1: flattened parts of the country right over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. They are coming here for aid and assistance,
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration didn't say, oh, we don't take
Speaker 1: people from Shiitthhold countries, but they shore as hell have
Speaker 1: used their planes as a fucking boomerang to put those
Speaker 1: people right back where they started. And then at the
Speaker 1: same time want to say American people, we will open
Speaker 1: up our doors to the Ukrainians. Well, I wonder why right,
Speaker 1: because they have the right hue for our empathy, they
Speaker 1: have the right complexion for compassion. It's you know, And
Speaker 1: this is what I say has me troubled most days,
Speaker 1: because I want to believe that we are a country
Speaker 1: that wants to be better. But wanting to be better
Speaker 1: and actually doing better are two very different things, two
Speaker 1: very different things. And so we see that America wants
Speaker 1: to be better, America wants to talk tough on Russian
Speaker 1: oligarchs and war criminals. But when it comes right, when
Speaker 1: it comes to talking tough and dealing with those who
Speaker 1: are putting our democracy at jeopardy, when it comes to
Speaker 1: talking tough and actually doing something right to hold the
Speaker 1: people that are trying to destroy our republic, there are
Speaker 1: no words to say, there's nothing to offer up. And
Speaker 1: so I'm confused about where we go eight months from now,
Speaker 1: when it is election time. And we will most likely
Speaker 1: in those eight months. It is it is very possible
Speaker 1: that we are at war, right, that we're not just
Speaker 1: aiding from the sidelines, that we are actually in a
Speaker 1: full blown war. That's certainly possible. We know that by
Speaker 1: the time that the election comes, we will no longer
Speaker 1: have abortion certified across this country. We will have lost
Speaker 1: that under a Democrat's watch, with no policy coming up
Speaker 1: the rear to make sure that even if the courts
Speaker 1: right make the decision which we know they are going
Speaker 1: to make to gut Rovie Wade, that no federal protections
Speaker 1: will still be in place. No, we don't have that,
Speaker 1: we don't have voting rights, we don't have police reform.
Speaker 1: And then you have newspapers like The Hill who are
Speaker 1: stating that Democrats have moved too far to the left
Speaker 1: and this is why they're going to lose. And I'm
Speaker 1: saying to myself, and I said this on woke Wednesday,
Speaker 1: how can we be considered too far left when Republicans
Speaker 1: have gone so far to the right that they are
Speaker 1: off a cliff and they have moved both political parties
Speaker 1: to right of center. But yeah, going after and trying
Speaker 1: to preserve our democracy our climate, right, Like that's seeming
Speaker 1: too left leaning for people because they don't realize that
Speaker 1: in a couple of months we are going to be
Speaker 1: at the beginning of hurricane season. And what we know
Speaker 1: is that every hurricane season over the last four or
Speaker 1: five years have been quote unquote historic, right, historic, and
Speaker 1: the damage that it has caused historic, and how long
Speaker 1: it has lingered and why is that, Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know the warming of our fucking oceans. We can't afford
Speaker 1: to be ignorant, right, We can't afford to continue to
Speaker 1: go to like these Paris Climate Agreement, these summits, to
Speaker 1: talk a really good game, to go home and then
Speaker 1: not pressure the CEO's to do the right thing. Right now, folks,
Speaker 1: we are experiencing gas prices that we have never seen
Speaker 1: in this country. Right. Gas is somewhere like four thirty
Speaker 1: nine a gallon, at least that's what I saw when
Speaker 1: I was out east Onmlong Island. The oil companies have
Speaker 1: the ability to absorb that cost and not place that
Speaker 1: cost on the American people. Also, the price of gas,
Speaker 1: the price of oil has dropped right by thirty dollars
Speaker 1: in recent days, and yet right and yet the price
Speaker 1: of gas hasn't actually gone down, And I want folks
Speaker 1: to think about that. This is kind of akin to
Speaker 1: what the airlines did in my mind. Right, So you
Speaker 1: have airlines right who are like, oh my god, we're
Speaker 1: losing so much money, nobody's traveling. Oh my god, government
Speaker 1: bails them out. They decide to charge you for everything.
Speaker 1: They charge you for the cushion in your seat, they
Speaker 1: charge you for overhead compartment. And then they say, oh,
Speaker 1: but once things go back to normal, you know, will
Speaker 1: roll back those costs. They ever did, They never did, right,
Speaker 1: So if oil companies are well aware of the fact
Speaker 1: that they are actually making bank right now in this crisis,
Speaker 1: and they know that they hold right the power over
Speaker 1: the American people because you don't have a choice. You
Speaker 1: got to get to work. So whether you're driving yourself,
Speaker 1: you're taking a train, you're taking a subway, all of
Speaker 1: that caught is gas, right, because we've made no investment
Speaker 1: into any other kind of power source, any other type
Speaker 1: of energy source, not in any real way. I just
Speaker 1: get so angry because I realized that things don't have
Speaker 1: to be this way, right, that this is not what
Speaker 1: people stood in line for for hours at a time,
Speaker 1: when we did not have a vaccine to vote for.
Speaker 1: And it is no longer enough to say that I'm
Speaker 1: not the other guy and think that that is going
Speaker 1: to be enough to get you into office. And so
Speaker 1: I don't know what democrats messaging is. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we talked tough about preserving democracy and the horrible
Speaker 1: things that Putin has done. And the only person that
Speaker 1: he didn't sanction, the only person Putin didn't sanction, was
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You know the relationship that Trump has with
Speaker 1: Putin and other enemies of America. But yet you're doing
Speaker 1: nothing about the literal sitting fascist threat that is standing
Speaker 1: on the buffet line at Mara Lago, that is continuing
Speaker 1: to spread live, continuing to chummy up to the nation's
Speaker 1: enemies right and being rewarded by it by not being sanctioned,
Speaker 1: and we do nothing. Merritt Garland has a stack, a
Speaker 1: stack of information and investigation that has been done by
Speaker 1: the January sixth Commission, no indictments. You know, next week
Speaker 1: you'll hear a conversation that I have with our friend
Speaker 1: Joyce White Vance, who will say that you know, Merritt
Speaker 1: Garland doesn't operate, is not operating on the timeline of
Speaker 1: midterm elections, and I'm saying he fucking should. He fucking should,
Speaker 1: because when Republicans take back power, he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do a damn thing. If in fact,
Speaker 1: he's doing anything right fucking now, which is really unlikely
Speaker 1: because the federal prosecutors are former federal prosecutors that I
Speaker 1: talk to say that you would have heard some rumblings
Speaker 1: by now. There would have been some fucking leaks in
Speaker 1: that sieve of the Department of Justice that would let
Speaker 1: us know that there is movement that is happening. There
Speaker 1: is nothing, So are they that good at hiding it
Speaker 1: or have they just decided, much the same way that
Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg did in New York, that we're just not
Speaker 1: going to do anything. We'll just quietly allow things to,
Speaker 1: you know, stay the way they are, will allow the
Speaker 1: status quo. We knew that Alvin Bragg wasn't going to
Speaker 1: do dick in New York when the two top prosecutors quit.
Speaker 1: We haven't had that action taken yet by folks at
Speaker 1: the DOJ, but we know that they are really unhappy
Speaker 1: with the way that things are going and how they
Speaker 1: have been rolled out. I want to have faith. I
Speaker 1: so desperately want to have faith. I want to believe
Speaker 1: that our better angels are going to prevail. I want
Speaker 1: to believe that somehow we're in the midst of some
Speaker 1: sci fi dystopian, you know, Hollywood movie, and that the
Speaker 1: good guys are going to prevail. At the very end,
Speaker 1: just when you think that all is lost, they're gonna
Speaker 1: snatch defeat, right, snatch victory. Excuse me out of the
Speaker 1: mouth of defeat. But no, I think that Democrats instead
Speaker 1: are just laying down. I don't even think that they
Speaker 1: are actually fighting. So what does that mean for us?
Speaker 1: You know, as I watch the coverage of the people
Speaker 1: in the Ukraine and folks staying, staying and saying that
Speaker 1: they're going to defend their country, They're going to risk
Speaker 1: their lives to do that. I think about us in
Speaker 1: the United States. I don't think that we would come
Speaker 1: together in the face right now of certain terror. I
Speaker 1: think that you would have a group, and a not
Speaker 1: insignificant group that would say, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: all are up in arms about. Right, you have the
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's of the world, and the Candice Owens, these
Speaker 1: Russian puppets and the Tulsea Gabbards who are out there
Speaker 1: spewing Russian talking points for the first time folks in
Speaker 1: our nation's history. As there is war that is unfolding,
Speaker 1: you have members of one of the two political parties
Speaker 1: applauding dictator and still can somehow call themselves Americans. They're
Speaker 1: applauding the war criminal and questioning the one who is
Speaker 1: getting all of the applause, questioning the valiance right of Zalinski,
Speaker 1: but applauding putin. That's where we are. It's a scary place.
Speaker 1: We're in a really we're in a really scary place.
Speaker 1: So I will say this, let me end here and
Speaker 1: delve into a woke moment of wellness, which you know
Speaker 1: I can't offer every day because some days I'm just
Speaker 1: not in that headspace. Yesterday I was not. I was
Speaker 1: really distraught about what I was seeing and reading. But
Speaker 1: I will say this, as the weather has begun to change,
Speaker 1: I have, you know, really challenge myself to get back
Speaker 1: out and to walk, to get back out and to
Speaker 1: walk around my community and to see people playing with
Speaker 1: their babies, to see cute little dogs walking on the street,
Speaker 1: to listen to music blaring out from cars, just to
Speaker 1: realize that life does not stop, right, life will continue,
Speaker 1: and system that even in the face of all that
Speaker 1: is horrific and rage inducing, that there is still good
Speaker 1: to see. I was walking today and I saw, you know,
Speaker 1: the beginnings of leaves coming out of you know, of branches, right,
Speaker 1: that spring is on the horizon. That given everything that
Speaker 1: is happening, the cycle, right, the rebirth is still happening.
Speaker 1: It's important to get out of our rage, depression, grief
Speaker 1: bubbles and be able to see those things, to be
Speaker 1: able to take stock in what is still good, what
Speaker 1: is still happening, and not just shroud ourselves in the
Speaker 1: darkness and the sadness of the moment. So whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you do, do not stay in rage and
Speaker 1: in the news and in terror and in anxiety for
Speaker 1: too long. Take breaks, go outside, point out, journal, Begin
Speaker 1: to journal during this time. If you've never kept a journal,
Speaker 1: and I'm keeping one right now. It's not daily, but
Speaker 1: I at least try and write down once a week
Speaker 1: because we're living in extraordinary times. Right. This show for
Speaker 1: me is my political journal, right, it is exactly what
Speaker 1: is happening as it is happening, but emotionally for my
Speaker 1: well being and how I'm feeling in the moment. It's
Speaker 1: important for me to get those things out right, to
Speaker 1: be able to look back, you know, and hope that
Speaker 1: things will get better, that I will see a pattern
Speaker 1: of as the world crumbles, that I'm able to really
Speaker 1: relish in, you know, and marinate in moments of joy,
Speaker 1: even as fleeting as they are. It is important for
Speaker 1: us that is your woke moment of wellness as always,
Speaker 1: dear friends, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See you back tomorrow.