1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 3 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: So volks, interesting news, some interesting developments have happened, and 4 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder if Merritt Garland has seen them. 5 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what he sees these days, because I 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: don't know if he's actually on the job. But interestingly enough, 7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: the January sixth Commission actually is, and they're the ones 8 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: that are doing the heavy lifting with regard to figuring 9 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,319 Speaker 1: out exactly how the insurrection happened. Who is responsible by 10 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: doing Oh, I don't know. Over five hundred interviews, right. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: So this week, which was over shadowed by the State 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: of the Union this week, on Wednesday, the New York 13 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: Times had reported this and this I want to read 14 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: directly because folks, it feels like momentum. But I also 15 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: know America, so I don't want to get excited for 16 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: I get disappointed. Right, But here's what the New York 17 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: Times is reporting on the latest with the January sixth Committee. 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: And I'm sure you have seen it, right, and so 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: here it is the House Committee investigating the January sixth 20 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was 21 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: enough evidence listen, enough evidence to conclude that former President 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and some of his allies might have conspired 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: to commit fraud and obstruction by misleading Americans about the 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: outcome of the twenty twenty election and attempting to overturn 25 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: the results. Now, folks, we have known this, right like, 26 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: this is something that we were very well aware of. 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: But we needed this investigation. We needed this committee to 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: do this work. And frankly, folks, the fact is we're 29 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: running out a fucking time. I know that I say 30 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: this often, but let me remind everyone. We have eight 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: months eight months for this committee to finish their investigation 32 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: to refer right, because part of what is happening here 33 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: is that the committee has no authority right to charge anyone. 34 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: They really have no authority to do anything. Right. They 35 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: can file civil suits, they can do what have you. 36 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. The reality here is that what 37 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: this report is now outlining is very clear ways in 38 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: which No, it wasn't just an accident, It wasn't just 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump living in delusion around the fact that he 40 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: lost the twenty twenty election. No, he was defrauding the 41 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: American people. Him, along with the attorney John Eastman, who 42 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: wrote that power point for the insurrection, right, that they 43 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: frauded the American people. So this is what was in 44 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: the court filing in a civil case in California. This 45 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: is what they have laid out, they said, and I quote, 46 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: they had accumulated evidence demonstrating that mister Trump, the conservative 47 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: lawyer John Eastman, and other allies could potentially be charged 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: with criminal violations including obstructing an official proceeding of Congress 49 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: and conspiracy to defraud the American people. Because here's what's 50 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: being here's what's being discovered. And I thought that this 51 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: was really interesting. Later on in this article they talk 52 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: about Jason Miller, and Jason Miller is a senior campaign 53 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: advisor with Trump. Now, in order for us to be 54 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: able to prove fraud, right, you have to prove that 55 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump knew damn well that he had lost the election, right, 56 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: that he was going to pursue quote unquote pursue all 57 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: of these different avenues in order to overturn the election. 58 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: But his allegations around fraud, which he still is doing 59 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: to this day, that his allegations around fraud are bullshit, right, 60 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: and that he knew. He knew ahead before. Right before 61 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: election day, his own posters were telling him you are 62 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: going to lose. And so this is what else came 63 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: up in this New York Times article. Jason Miller, mister 64 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: Trump's senior campaign advisor, told the committee in a deposition 65 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: that mister Trump had been told soon after election day 66 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: by a campaign data expert, quote in pretty blunt terms, 67 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 1: that he was going to lose, suggesting that mister Trump 68 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: was well aware that his months of assertions about a 69 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: stolen election were false. Mister Trump subsequently said he disagreed 70 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: with the data experts analysis, mister Miller said, because he 71 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: thought he could win in court. Now, let me remind 72 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: all of you, Donald Trump thought that he could win 73 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: in court, and his sixty sixty lawsuits that were brought 74 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: by that you know, fucking die dripping Giuliani. Right, We're 75 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: laughed out of court. They had no fucking standing. Right. 76 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: You had Arizona doing forensics looking for Chinese bamboo in 77 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: the fucking like election ballots. Right. You had Georgia do 78 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: multiple recounts that cost the people of Georgia millions of dollars. 79 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: They did at least two right to prove that there 80 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: was no fraud. Donald Trump knew this, but he knows 81 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: what we all should know by now is that a 82 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: lie will be around the corner before the truth gets 83 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: out the door. Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing. 84 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: He was waging a campaign against against the United States, 85 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: against the sanctity of our elections, against what is the 86 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: foundation of our democracy, which is free and fair elections. 87 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: Donald Trump just didn't want to lose. Donald Trump knew 88 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: that by not having the cover of the White House 89 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: that he was going to lose his get out of 90 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 1: jail free card. But here's the kicker, folks. So let 91 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: me say this before I give you the kicker of 92 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: my thoughts on Merrick Garland, which you know where my 93 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: thoughts are on Merrick Garland. But let me read this. 94 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: The evidence gathered by the committee provides at minimum a 95 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 1: good faith basis for concluding that President Trump has violated 96 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: the obstruction count. The filing, written by Douglas end Letter, 97 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: the General Counsel of the House, said, adding the Select 98 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: Committee also has a good faith basis for concluding that 99 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: the President and the members of his campaign engage in 100 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States. The filing 101 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: said that a review of the materials may reveal that 102 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: the president and the members of his campaign engaged in 103 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: common law fraud in connection with their efforts to overturn 104 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. And of course nobody responded from 105 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign. But here's the breaking news that I 106 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: just heard before I started recording. Guess who is up 107 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: next for the committee with their hails of subpoenas. Kimberly 108 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: Gilfoil that loud Mouth coped up x Fox anchor, fiancee 109 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: of Don Trump Junior. Right, so we know that she 110 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: knows a lot, right that this woman was on the ellipses, 111 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: she was on the stage, We saw her at every 112 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: campaign rally, but most importantly, we saw her on the 113 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: day of the insurrection. So now the committee wants to 114 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: know what do you know? And will you follow the 115 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: law right and appear before the committee. Now, my problem 116 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: with the committee has been that they are politely asking 117 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: these people to show up that they know we're not 118 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: going to show up. Coincidentally, though, maybe their tactics are 119 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: working because Pence's people have cooperated. Jason Miller cooperated right, 120 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: that when you start to put the threat of potentially 121 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: right going to jail, being held in content all of 122 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: these things. Because we've talked about this with our friend 123 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: Glenn Kershner. This committee actually has power. Congress has power, 124 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: they just don't use it. Right, So I'm very interested 125 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: to hear what it is that they think that Kimberly 126 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,839 Speaker 1: Gilfoyd know. Now. I joked on to it, and I said, 127 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm certain that bitch is gonna go and get herself 128 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: a speedy, speedy wedding in Vegas to Junior so that 129 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: when push comes to shove, she don't have to testify 130 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: against her lion ass man. Right, But it's not going 131 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: to help her with the information that she knew before 132 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: they were married. Right. And here's the thing, is much 133 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: in the same way, and I'm going to beat this horse, y'all, 134 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: much in the same way that the news and the 135 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: headlines are talking about all of the Russian oligarchs getting 136 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: their yacht seized and getting their second, third, fourth, fifth 137 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: homes seized and getting their assets frozen. Right again, I say, 138 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: where is that same fucking smoke for the American oligarchs? 139 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: Where is that same smoke for the Trump family? So 140 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: the question remains now as right as this panel is 141 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: putting together all of this inform I mean, over five 142 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: hundred interviews, I'm certain probably millions of sheets of paper, 143 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: testimony information. They need to decide whether or not they 144 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: are going to refer this to the Department of Justice 145 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: for them to take action. But here's the thing, much 146 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: like our Vice president, I need to put fucking Merrick 147 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: Garland's face on a milk carton. Now I know he's 148 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: alive because he was sitting in the audience at the 149 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: State of the Union gritting and smiling like he's been 150 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: doing a good job. And I'm like, no, sir, you 151 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: should actually have no smile across your face because you 152 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: haven't done dick right. You came out hot and heavy 153 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: talking about what the Department of Justice was going to 154 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: do with Russia and the Russian oligarchs, but you have 155 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: said nothing, nothing about what this Department of Justice is 156 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: going to be doing to ensure right as he's so 157 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: aggressively stated that no person is above the law, that 158 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: we're going to follow this where it takes us, well, 159 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: it's taken you to a pile of fucking evidence on 160 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: your desk, and the question is whether or not you're 161 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: going to do something about it, or you're going to 162 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: remain the chicken shit attorney general that is afraid of 163 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: his own fucking shadow. The article goes on to say this, 164 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: the Select Committee has responded to doctor Eastman's efforts to 165 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: discharge his responsibility by accusing him of criminal conduct. This 166 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: is what is being said by mister Burnham, who is 167 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: the attorney for Donald Trump's attorney, doctor Eastman. So Eastman, 168 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: if you know too interestingly enough, is being investigated by 169 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: the state of California for you know, going after his 170 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: legal license and whether or not that his misdoings, misgivings 171 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: with the Trump and men stration rights should have him 172 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: lose his law license this same way that Juliani has 173 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: lost his fucking law license. Right. Trump only surrounds himself 174 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: with the best fucking people who don't actually know the law, 175 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: they know it enough so that they break it. Right. 176 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: So Eastman's lawyer is like, oh, well, this is why 177 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: they're going to try and charge him with criminal conduct, 178 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: because you see that you can't use attorney client privilege 179 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: when there is thought that a crime has actually been committed. 180 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: And so what the committee is saying is that yes, indeed, 181 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: there was a crime that was committed. So your little 182 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: ruse of saying that everything that I said and did 183 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: with the president is between me and you. No, now 184 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: it's between all of us, right because there are there 185 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: is clear evidence that crimes were committed. But see, the 186 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: thing is, this is what is going to fuck Democrats up, 187 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: because Democrats like, I mean, you give them an opening 188 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: and they shut the door, like this is how they operate. 189 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: You say to them, here's how we move forward, and 190 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: they're like, no, i'd I'd rather move backwards, right, I'd 191 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: rather moon walk my way out of this. That's their 192 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: reality and their thinking. So if, if, and when, because 193 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: I believe that it is a when this committee delivers 194 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice this mountain of evidence against 195 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and he does not move right with haste, 196 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: because right now, this motherfucker been moving like he's a sloth, right, 197 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 1: like maybe an inch every couple of months. He has 198 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: not moved on this at all. And we know through 199 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: our friend Glenn Kushner, that they're like, oh, well, you know, 200 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: prosecutors don't like to bring cases that they could possibly 201 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: use lose. But I'm like, here's the thing. We're about 202 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: to lose our democracy. We're about to lose our power 203 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: and our authority to get to the bottom of what 204 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: happened leading up to the insurrection the day of and 205 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: then afterwards, because what will happen in the next eight 206 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: months is this, Let me paint the picture. Republicans will 207 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: win in midterms because I don't know what the fuck 208 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: Democrats are running on, because literally outside of the infrastructure 209 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: bill and some money that they gave for COVID relief 210 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: checks months and months and months ago, they have nothing 211 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: to run on, right nothing. If if Marrick Garland decides 212 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: to actually move in the next couple of months, what 213 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: they can run on is fucking law and order. What 214 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: they can run on is actually threading the needle between 215 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: going after a Russian dictator whose hell bent on authoritarianism 216 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: and bringing back the USSR and what is happening in 217 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: our own country right now. And then they can run 218 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: on the fact that no one is above the law, 219 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: that this past president was criminal, and we are going 220 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: to go after him with the fullest extent of everything 221 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: that we got. But what will happen, dear friends, is 222 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: that if those Republican lion asked treasonous ass motherfuckers are 223 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: able to get the gavel back in their hands. That 224 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: committee is dead in the water because they will no 225 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: longer control the House. And then if they're able to 226 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: take back the Senate as well, you're talking about being 227 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: able to gum up the works at the Department of Justice. 228 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: So whatever it was that they were doing now doesn't 229 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: get done. We are running out of time. And the 230 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: question that I continue to have is does anybody else 231 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: realize this? Because in every single room in the fucking 232 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: White House and in all of these agencies should be 233 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: a fucking countdown clock to November twenty twenty two, because 234 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: everything that they are thinking about doing for their next 235 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: couple of years that they have the White House is done. 236 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: It's done now. They're not doing shit now. You know, 237 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: Biden has the authority to be rolling out executive orders 238 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: in the same way that Obama did. He's working within 239 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: inside of a party that doesn't want to do anything. 240 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: You got Joe Mansion on Tuesday sitting up with the 241 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: Republicans laughing it up. He's laughing at all of us. 242 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: They say, Oh, nobody else can win in Virginia, No 243 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: other Democrat can win. And I'm saying to you, a 244 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: Democrat hasn't won. Joe mansion one very different, very very different. 245 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: So you have no policies to run on. You continue 246 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: to say that you know we're going to be in 247 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: this together, and these insurrection is we will hold them accountable, 248 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: we will find them, and then nothing. Joe Biden on 249 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: Tuesday didn't even mention the insurrection. He didn't even mention 250 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: the threat to our democracy. He didn't even in his 251 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 1: whole fund fund the police. Who could have talked about 252 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: the heroism of the Capitol Police, right and how the honor, 253 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 1: the courage and the bravery that they showed that Republicans 254 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: wanted to block honoring them with the Congressional Medal of Freedom, right, 255 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: that they were mocked on Fox News. He had the 256 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: opportunity to bring America back to that day and then 257 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: to tell us that he is going to do everything 258 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: within his power to ensure that everyone at all levels 259 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: that were responsible for trying to bring down our capital, 260 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: build and hang the form of Vice President of the 261 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: United States will be taken care of, justice will be served. 262 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: I will see to it. But nothing, not a word. 263 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: And I keep thinking to myself, I'm like, do they 264 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: want to lose? Do they want to lose because I 265 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: don't know what You're going back to each and every 266 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: community that is represented in the Democrats a big tent. 267 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: What are you going back to them with? You're going 268 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: back to women and people with uterus is and saying, oh, 269 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: my goodness, we had the opportunity we passed a bill 270 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: that would precodify rov Wade. Nope, Joe Mansion tank that 271 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: are we going back to the black community and saying 272 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: that we're going to be certain with the passage of 273 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act, which we've passed to make sure 274 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: that your votes count. Nope, that wasn't done. Are we 275 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: going to the black community and other communities that are 276 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: abused by law enforcement? Are we saying that we have 277 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: police reform? Nope, that wasn't done. Oh the new climate 278 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: report that came out that basically said that the world 279 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: is actually fucked. We're going to pass the Green New Deal. 280 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: Did we do that? Nope. So all of these things 281 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: that they were cheering for while Democrats were chainting USA USA, 282 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: USA and jumping up and down and imploding at their 283 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 1: fucking pepper Alley, none of those things have passed, and 284 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: none of them have any future of passing. So again, 285 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: when people sit back and they think to themselves, when 286 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: they rushed to the polls to sure that Donald Trump 287 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't get a second term, what did these people get 288 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: in return? What is the return on our investment? Right now, 289 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: a year into this administrator, a year plus into this administration, 290 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: what did we get? We've gotten a goose egg. Nothing. 291 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: So if I'm this administration and this committee comes out 292 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: with this heavy hit and shit that the former president 293 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: of the United States is complicit in criminal activity, then 294 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to use that and it's going to be 295 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: my campaign message. It's going to be on every radio station, 296 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: every team V network, every ad that you see on 297 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: social media. But do you think that Democrats are going 298 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: to do that? No? And for the life of me, folks, 299 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there are days, there have been days, 300 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: many days in a row, when I'm thinking to myself, 301 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: what the fuck am I doing in this party? Honestly, 302 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: I don't like being a loser, right like, I like sense, 303 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: I like logic, I like strength, I like strategy. None 304 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: of that is present in the current formation of the 305 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. It's not present in the Biden Harris administration 306 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: or Biden and we only use Harris when there are 307 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: black faces around. Otherwise we hide her someplace in a 308 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: tower less White people recognize that there's a black woman 309 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: that is a one heart beat away from the presidency 310 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: and flip out and burn everything fucking down to the ground. 311 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: I realized that this administration is so scared of everything right. 312 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: The only agenda should have been voting rights. The only 313 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: thing that they should have been working on. Wasn't fucking structure. 314 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: Wasn't this fucking kumbaya look at us wherebipartisan bullshit after 315 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: the ship that we had lived through with Trump for 316 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: four years. No, it should have been to strengthen our democracy. 317 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: It should have been to ensure that our elections remain 318 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: free and fair and that people can vote right. It 319 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: should have been rolling out a bill that would disallow 320 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: the states that used to be under preclearance for changing 321 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: of their voting rights laws that the fucking Supreme Court gutted. 322 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: We should have fixed those things, But instead they wanted 323 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: to do what do you think that Republicans want to do? 324 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: That's there, that's how they act. What do we think 325 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: Republicans will like? Oh, let's move with an attorney general 326 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: that Republicans can get behind. Let's move with a policy 327 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: that Republicans will like that their base may agree on. 328 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 1: What about our base? Why are they never concerned with 329 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 1: disappointing us? This is the real question. Why are they 330 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: never concerned with disappointing black people? Why are they never 331 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: concerned with disappointing women? They take more care and time 332 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: trying to pussy foot around and get Republicans on their 333 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: side than they do with hammering down and giving their 334 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: base everything that they want. I wish that Democrats treated 335 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: their base the way that fucking Republicans do. Give them 336 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: everything that they want. But there's no fear there because 337 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: their assumption is that we don't have any place else 338 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: to go. And I'm telling you it's a miscalculation that 339 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 1: they're making because you know where people have to go home, 340 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: not to the polls. And you will say, oh, well, 341 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: that's shooting yourself in the foot. Well, my foot is 342 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: already blown off at this fucking point. So what's the 343 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: difference what we're up against? Right? As you see what 344 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: is playing out in Texas, what is playing out in Iowa, now, 345 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: what is playing out in Florida. These governors are making 346 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: their moves right for twenty twenty four. This is why 347 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: they are going after trans kids. Iowa just pass legislation 348 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: to ban transgender kids right from participating in sports, not 349 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: only at the K through twelve level, but also at 350 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: the collegiate level as well. They make up a fraction, right, 351 00:24:54,440 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: a fraction. People have said, of no threat right within 352 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: the sports world in all of the things that are 353 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: being said, Oh it's unfair, it's this, it's that they're 354 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: a fraction of the population. But you see, Republicans are 355 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: making them their target because they want to keep the 356 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: embers of the culture war hot, and the best way 357 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: for them to do that is to pick the most 358 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: marginalized group that they think nobody gives a shit about 359 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: and go after them with everything that they have, so 360 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: that they can showcase to their base, to the Republican 361 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: Party that they're with the shits, that they're with it, 362 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: They're with all of the Trump is and except guess what, 363 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: they're more strategic. They actually no policy. So what we 364 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: are up against. We shouldn't be thinking, oh, my god, 365 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump may run in twenty twenty four. No, you 366 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: should be scared shitless of a discantist running, of an 367 00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:00,360 Speaker 1: abbot running because those motherfuckers win, They win, they win. 368 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it will make the Handmaid's Tail look 369 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: like a fucking Christmas Carol. Do you know what I'm saying? 370 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: Like it will make everything that we think is terrible 371 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: look like child's play. You see, the thing about the 372 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: Trump administration, while they were so disgusting, right, they were 373 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: also sloppy and stupid. The thing about these other Republicans 374 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,199 Speaker 1: who are more dangerous than Donald Trump is that they 375 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: are smarter and they are sharper. They know what they're doing. 376 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:45,959 Speaker 1: Do you see how they passed that law, that vigilante 377 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: law in Texas that would allow people to put out 378 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: bounties on abortion providers, on anyone you're uber driver that 379 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: is driving you to a clinic that they can sue. Oh, 380 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: I think my neighbor down the street. I think she 381 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: said she was going to the supermarket, but I think 382 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: she went to the Planned Parenthood ten thousand dollars lawsuit. 383 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: But you see, they did it in a way that 384 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: you really can't suit. You can't do anything until it 385 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: actually happens. Right. But what they are realizing, what Republicans 386 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: are so fucking savvy around, is that the threat is 387 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: good enough right, because what they're doing this is a 388 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: messaging campaign. Right. Texas and Florida are the Republican Party's 389 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: playground right now. They are gaming out everything that they 390 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: will do at the federal level if they get power again. 391 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 1: They are gaming it out in Texas and in Florida. 392 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: And that should scare the shit out of everybody. And 393 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: you know, I have friends sometimes who say to me, oh, Danielle, like, 394 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: we don't have to worry. We're in New York. New 395 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: York is not a fortress. The Blue States are not 396 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: a fortress. You saw what Donald Trump tried to do 397 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: around COVID, not giving Blue States the resources that they 398 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: needed because he didn't want to. You can decide, okay, 399 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: so we're no longer going to provide federal funding for X, 400 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: Y and Z based on blah blah blah and begin 401 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: to squeeze those states. I'm telling you what we do 402 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: not want is a savvy or Trump, because that is 403 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: our end. And so I'm sitting here and I'm thinking 404 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: to myself, what is Biden thinking? What are they thinking 405 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: down there in Washington? Do they think that this is 406 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: a joke? Do they do they think that what Republicans 407 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: are going to go back to sharing a scotch and 408 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: like yucking up about the old days. These people are 409 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: out for fucking blood. And I would love it if 410 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: this administration would show half the fire that they are 411 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: showing Putin right now, that they would show Republicans stop 412 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: pretending these people are your friends, Stop pretending that they 413 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: are out here and they are patriots. Joe Biden was 414 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: talking about his dead son and those two fucking cuckoo 415 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: birds Bobert and fucking Taylor Green heckling the president of 416 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: the United States. They're disgusting, They're a disgrace. But you 417 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: know what that isn't the GOP's future. It's there present. 418 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: They are in it. Folks. They want they want what 419 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: Putin has. They want to run rough shot over the 420 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: United States. They want a theocracy laid out with their 421 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: white evangelical Christian values where white people never have to 422 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: feel discomfort, where we go back to the days where 423 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: people who look like me are moving off the sidewalk. Yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, yes, sir, no, sir. 424 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: Less I get thrown in jail for God knows what 425 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: or worse. This is where we are headed. And unless 426 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: we take up with the January sixth Commission. Unless this 427 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: Department of Justice wakes the fuck up and acts like 428 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: they have some goddamn power, Oh my god, the next insurrection, 429 00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god, folks. This is why when I wrote 430 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: my piece for media with regard to what is happening 431 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: in Ukraine, which I'll transition to in a moment, I 432 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: wrote it living out what would happen if this happened, 433 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: if what is happening in the Ukraine happened in the 434 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: United States. And people said to me, no foreign entity 435 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: is coming here, right, They're not bringing war to our soil. 436 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: And I'm I'm like, are you not paying attention. I'm 437 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: not talking about Russia. I'm not talking about China. I'm 438 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: talking about your fucking neighbor down the street. I'm talking 439 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: about multiplying those three thousand insurrectionists that broke into the 440 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,719 Speaker 1: Capitol building. I'm talking about that multiplying by the tens 441 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: of thousands. Right, We've only arrested a handful of people. 442 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: Only a handful of people are serving sentences right now. 443 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: Not any of the masterminds, not any of the big 444 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: fucking deep pocket donors. They're still busy planning, folks, they're 445 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: not done. And unless we have a show of force 446 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: by our White House and our Department of Justice, we're cooked. 447 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: Our days are literally numbered. And I don't think folks 448 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: get that. I know that the January sixth Commission does, 449 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody else does. We are in 450 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: a really serious moment. And I say that because we've 451 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: never seen anything like this any at all, So it's 452 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: really easy for us to just shrug it off, say 453 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: that that was a once in a lifetime thing, like 454 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: it's it's not a big deal, just like we're all 455 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: trying to pretend that COVID is over right. COVID is 456 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: in a lull right now, right, it's in a lull 457 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: after a major surge that took more Americans lives, we're 458 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: almost at a million deaths from COVID. It's in a lull. 459 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: When we talk to doctor Fauci yesterday, he said, Oh, 460 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: he equated it to you know, a downpour. You put 461 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: on the right protective gear in a rainstorm, and then 462 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: when it moves to a drizzle or it's a sunny day, 463 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: you can take that gear off, but you don't throw 464 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: it out right because you assume it's gone right. Again. 465 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: But the way that Americans are set up these days, 466 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, no, we can just have mind over matter. 467 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 1: If I think that it doesn't exist, it doesn't. This 468 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: is the same thing that is happening with the threat 469 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: of American fascism. It's like, oh, if we just pretend 470 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: that Republicans are our friends and that they believe in 471 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: a functioning government and the constitution, then they're not a 472 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: real threat. If we just pretend that the one six 473 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: insurrection was just a blip on our radar, not in 474 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: the two hundred and forty some hid years of this 475 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: country has something like that fucking happened. I remember, not 476 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 1: even during the Civil War did the Confederate flag make 477 00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: it inside of the Capitol building. But on January six, 478 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:12,879 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, there were a multiple This is not hyperbole. 479 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: They are in a lull, just like COVID right now, 480 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: and without vigilance, without tactics, without accountability, they will spike again. 481 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: They will rise again, and this time will be better 482 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: than the first time because they have had all the 483 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: time in the world to concoct better plans. You know, 484 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: it has been announced by the UN that a million people, 485 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 1: a million people have fled Ukraine. There are a million 486 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: refugees right now fleeing war. Putin is not going to stop. 487 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,240 Speaker 1: He is going to and as according to his own 488 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: his own foreign ministry, what did they say, we will 489 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 1: see this through until the end. What does that end 490 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: look like? It looks like a gutted Ukraine. Putin is 491 00:36:54,320 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: out there talking about we are one people, not at 492 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: all recognizing the sovereignty of this country. President Zelinski is 493 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: pleading with NATO to put in a no fly zone, 494 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:23,720 Speaker 1: pleading take Russia off of Interpol. We're seizing yachts, He's 495 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: seizing ground. And I tell you I said this yesterday, 496 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: I said it on Woke Wednesday. There is a bigger 497 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: plan that is at play. And much in the same 498 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 1: way that I don't think that the Biden administration is 499 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: paying attention to what the fascist in America are doing. 500 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that they are paying attention to 501 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: what the long game is here, what Russia is really after. 502 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: And again let me not say Russia, what Putin is 503 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 1: really after? What kind of side deals has he cut 504 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: with the Chinese, because apparently the other thing that came 505 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: out was that the Chinese said to him, don't do 506 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 1: this shit during the Winter Olympics, Like, if you're going 507 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: to invade them, you don't just wait until after the 508 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: Winter Olympics are done. What other deals are they making? 509 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 1: I talked about right the report about lithium, right about 510 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: how Ukraine has five hundred thousand tons. This is what 511 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: is going to be the new right race for clean energy. 512 00:38:53,640 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: Russia is a crude oil country. With Ukraine right in 513 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: their pocket, they seize more economic power. There is a 514 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:13,400 Speaker 1: bigger play that is happening here. And the question is 515 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: who is paying attention? Because I do not believe it's 516 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:32,320 Speaker 1: our government, you know it is. This week has been aggressive. 517 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:40,439 Speaker 1: This week has been super aggressive. We are a week 518 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:50,080 Speaker 1: into the war in Ukraine. We are seeing nations unite 519 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,680 Speaker 1: to try and squeeze Putin. But I think that they 520 00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: are miscalculating him. Right. People refer to him as a madman. 521 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: I'm not so sure he's crazy. I think he's a 522 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: manipulative sociopath. But I don't think that he's like miscalculating. 523 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: I think he has different calculus. We need to understand 524 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:31,839 Speaker 1: what that is, what he's willing to lose. We have 525 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 1: more anti trans bills just heating up all across the country. 526 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:51,319 Speaker 1: We got climate news, and it's like this administration just 527 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: seems asleep at the wheel. They seem asleep at the wheel. 528 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 1: You know, people often want to talk about, Oh, Joe Biden, 529 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 1: he seems tire blah blah blah. No, I don't mean 530 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: like literally, but I'm like, I don't know what they're 531 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: got cooking over there, but I know that our gooses 532 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 1: are going to be cooked soon enough. And I'm really worried, 533 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:24,640 Speaker 1: really worried about what this country looks like with white 534 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:30,400 Speaker 1: evangelical control. Doesn't feel like a place I sure as 535 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: how I want to stay in. How about you and now, 536 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:43,080 Speaker 1: dear friends, for your woke moment of wellness. I have 537 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: found friends that meditation, and I know I talk about 538 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:56,719 Speaker 1: this often. Meditation has really changed the way that I 539 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,280 Speaker 1: think and see the world. I'm still angry, I'm still 540 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: filled with rage, but there are times now where I 541 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: can literally let it go. And it's because I believe 542 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:15,240 Speaker 1: that whether it is a universe, whether you're a religious person, 543 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: but in times of great pain and strife, I think 544 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: that it is important to get outside of our own heads, 545 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 1: get outside of the pinhole that we may see the 546 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: world through and connect to higher purposes, can align ourselves 547 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:40,320 Speaker 1: with bigger things. Meditation from me and I use insight Timer. 548 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: There are so many other apps, but I love insight 549 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:48,440 Speaker 1: Timer because one it keeps track of all of my meditations. 550 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 1: The tricky part is that if you miss a day, 551 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: then it goes back down to zero. So it's kind 552 00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 1: of the encouragement of continuing a meditation practice because much 553 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 1: like yoga, like anything, you can't just do a one 554 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 1: and done. You can't just do, you know, a meditation 555 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,360 Speaker 1: when you're in a bad mood or you're you know, 556 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:15,600 Speaker 1: feeling anxiety. It is about how we train retrain ourselves 557 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:21,080 Speaker 1: to think, How we retrain ourselves to slow down right, 558 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,200 Speaker 1: how we learn how to breathe in a way that 559 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: we are filling our bodies with breath, right, that we 560 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: can learn to be still in a world that is 561 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:39,880 Speaker 1: moving at breakneck pace. And so I love insight Timer 562 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,319 Speaker 1: because it is a daily practice and it's kind of 563 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,399 Speaker 1: gamified as well. I think right now I'm at one 564 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:54,160 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight consecutive days of meditation, which is 565 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,279 Speaker 1: incredible because that's the most I've ever done since I 566 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,759 Speaker 1: started meditating in twenty twenty. It's the most consecutive days 567 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,640 Speaker 1: that I have done because, like I said, there have 568 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,160 Speaker 1: been times where I forget, or I don't do it, 569 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 1: or I get busy, and then I was at one 570 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,680 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty and then boom back down to zero 571 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,520 Speaker 1: and to start the process all over again. But I 572 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,160 Speaker 1: do think that that is a part of the mindfulness 573 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,879 Speaker 1: I encourage folks. You know, whether you think it's just 574 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: new age junk or not, meditation has helped me. It 575 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,360 Speaker 1: has helped me realize what's important. It's helped me really 576 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:40,279 Speaker 1: have gratitude each and every single day, whether it is 577 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,160 Speaker 1: about the ability to wake up, whether it is about 578 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,799 Speaker 1: the ability to go for a walk, to take in 579 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,839 Speaker 1: some sunshine, to spend time with friends. But I am 580 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: grateful daily and I use the time, whether it's one minute, 581 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: five minutes, or twenty or a half hour, whatever I 582 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,959 Speaker 1: can spare. I use it to sit with myself with 583 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 1: my breath and channel positivity. And I think that if 584 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 1: more of us did that on a regular basis, we 585 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,439 Speaker 1: would create a kind of force field around ourselves where 586 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,279 Speaker 1: the toxicity and the negativity doesn't penetrate, we don't absorb 587 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,000 Speaker 1: it in the same way, So think of it like armor, 588 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:35,200 Speaker 1: spiritual armor. So try this weekend. If you have not, 589 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,560 Speaker 1: try a one minute meditation. It could be guided, it 590 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,359 Speaker 1: could just be one minute on your phone. But try 591 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,640 Speaker 1: it out and let me know how you feel. Notice 592 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 1: how you feel before, notice how you feel after. Right, 593 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 1: And I can tell you that for these couple of 594 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,879 Speaker 1: years that I have been practicing and now really like intentional, 595 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:04,200 Speaker 1: really really intentional about a daily daily practice, I feel lighter. 596 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,440 Speaker 1: And that says a lot given how heavy shit is. 597 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:13,080 Speaker 1: So I encourage you. Maybe just try it once and 598 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: in the comment section let me know how it goes. 599 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:26,200 Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, stay well and stay woke. That 600 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:32,680 Speaker 1: is it for me today, dear friends, on this wonderful Friday. 601 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,800 Speaker 1: As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, 602 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,919 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.