Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker.
Speaker 1: So volks, interesting news, some interesting developments have happened, and
Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder if Merritt Garland has seen them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he sees these days, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's actually on the job. But interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: the January sixth Commission actually is, and they're the ones
Speaker 1: that are doing the heavy lifting with regard to figuring
Speaker 1: out exactly how the insurrection happened. Who is responsible by
Speaker 1: doing Oh, I don't know. Over five hundred interviews, right.
Speaker 1: So this week, which was over shadowed by the State
Speaker 1: of the Union this week, on Wednesday, the New York
Speaker 1: Times had reported this and this I want to read
Speaker 1: directly because folks, it feels like momentum. But I also
Speaker 1: know America, so I don't want to get excited for
Speaker 1: I get disappointed. Right, But here's what the New York
Speaker 1: Times is reporting on the latest with the January sixth Committee.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you have seen it, right, and so
Speaker 1: here it is the House Committee investigating the January sixth
Speaker 1: attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was
Speaker 1: enough evidence listen, enough evidence to conclude that former President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and some of his allies might have conspired
Speaker 1: to commit fraud and obstruction by misleading Americans about the
Speaker 1: outcome of the twenty twenty election and attempting to overturn
Speaker 1: the results. Now, folks, we have known this, right like,
Speaker 1: this is something that we were very well aware of.
Speaker 1: But we needed this investigation. We needed this committee to
Speaker 1: do this work. And frankly, folks, the fact is we're
Speaker 1: running out a fucking time. I know that I say
Speaker 1: this often, but let me remind everyone. We have eight
Speaker 1: months eight months for this committee to finish their investigation
Speaker 1: to refer right, because part of what is happening here
Speaker 1: is that the committee has no authority right to charge anyone.
Speaker 1: They really have no authority to do anything. Right. They
Speaker 1: can file civil suits, they can do what have you.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. The reality here is that what
Speaker 1: this report is now outlining is very clear ways in
Speaker 1: which No, it wasn't just an accident, It wasn't just
Speaker 1: Donald Trump living in delusion around the fact that he
Speaker 1: lost the twenty twenty election. No, he was defrauding the
Speaker 1: American people. Him, along with the attorney John Eastman, who
Speaker 1: wrote that power point for the insurrection, right, that they
Speaker 1: frauded the American people. So this is what was in
Speaker 1: the court filing in a civil case in California. This
Speaker 1: is what they have laid out, they said, and I quote,
Speaker 1: they had accumulated evidence demonstrating that mister Trump, the conservative
Speaker 1: lawyer John Eastman, and other allies could potentially be charged
Speaker 1: with criminal violations including obstructing an official proceeding of Congress
Speaker 1: and conspiracy to defraud the American people. Because here's what's
Speaker 1: being here's what's being discovered. And I thought that this
Speaker 1: was really interesting. Later on in this article they talk
Speaker 1: about Jason Miller, and Jason Miller is a senior campaign
Speaker 1: advisor with Trump. Now, in order for us to be
Speaker 1: able to prove fraud, right, you have to prove that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump knew damn well that he had lost the election, right,
Speaker 1: that he was going to pursue quote unquote pursue all
Speaker 1: of these different avenues in order to overturn the election.
Speaker 1: But his allegations around fraud, which he still is doing
Speaker 1: to this day, that his allegations around fraud are bullshit, right,
Speaker 1: and that he knew. He knew ahead before. Right before
Speaker 1: election day, his own posters were telling him you are
Speaker 1: going to lose. And so this is what else came
Speaker 1: up in this New York Times article. Jason Miller, mister
Speaker 1: Trump's senior campaign advisor, told the committee in a deposition
Speaker 1: that mister Trump had been told soon after election day
Speaker 1: by a campaign data expert, quote in pretty blunt terms,
Speaker 1: that he was going to lose, suggesting that mister Trump
Speaker 1: was well aware that his months of assertions about a
Speaker 1: stolen election were false. Mister Trump subsequently said he disagreed
Speaker 1: with the data experts analysis, mister Miller said, because he
Speaker 1: thought he could win in court. Now, let me remind
Speaker 1: all of you, Donald Trump thought that he could win
Speaker 1: in court, and his sixty sixty lawsuits that were brought
Speaker 1: by that you know, fucking die dripping Giuliani. Right, We're
Speaker 1: laughed out of court. They had no fucking standing. Right.
Speaker 1: You had Arizona doing forensics looking for Chinese bamboo in
Speaker 1: the fucking like election ballots. Right. You had Georgia do
Speaker 1: multiple recounts that cost the people of Georgia millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: They did at least two right to prove that there
Speaker 1: was no fraud. Donald Trump knew this, but he knows
Speaker 1: what we all should know by now is that a
Speaker 1: lie will be around the corner before the truth gets
Speaker 1: out the door. Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He was waging a campaign against against the United States,
Speaker 1: against the sanctity of our elections, against what is the
Speaker 1: foundation of our democracy, which is free and fair elections.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump just didn't want to lose. Donald Trump knew
Speaker 1: that by not having the cover of the White House
Speaker 1: that he was going to lose his get out of
Speaker 1: jail free card. But here's the kicker, folks. So let
Speaker 1: me say this before I give you the kicker of
Speaker 1: my thoughts on Merrick Garland, which you know where my
Speaker 1: thoughts are on Merrick Garland. But let me read this.
Speaker 1: The evidence gathered by the committee provides at minimum a
Speaker 1: good faith basis for concluding that President Trump has violated
Speaker 1: the obstruction count. The filing, written by Douglas end Letter,
Speaker 1: the General Counsel of the House, said, adding the Select
Speaker 1: Committee also has a good faith basis for concluding that
Speaker 1: the President and the members of his campaign engage in
Speaker 1: a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States. The filing
Speaker 1: said that a review of the materials may reveal that
Speaker 1: the president and the members of his campaign engaged in
Speaker 1: common law fraud in connection with their efforts to overturn
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. And of course nobody responded from
Speaker 1: the Trump campaign. But here's the breaking news that I
Speaker 1: just heard before I started recording. Guess who is up
Speaker 1: next for the committee with their hails of subpoenas. Kimberly
Speaker 1: Gilfoil that loud Mouth coped up x Fox anchor, fiancee
Speaker 1: of Don Trump Junior. Right, so we know that she
Speaker 1: knows a lot, right that this woman was on the ellipses,
Speaker 1: she was on the stage, We saw her at every
Speaker 1: campaign rally, but most importantly, we saw her on the
Speaker 1: day of the insurrection. So now the committee wants to
Speaker 1: know what do you know? And will you follow the
Speaker 1: law right and appear before the committee. Now, my problem
Speaker 1: with the committee has been that they are politely asking
Speaker 1: these people to show up that they know we're not
Speaker 1: going to show up. Coincidentally, though, maybe their tactics are
Speaker 1: working because Pence's people have cooperated. Jason Miller cooperated right,
Speaker 1: that when you start to put the threat of potentially
Speaker 1: right going to jail, being held in content all of
Speaker 1: these things. Because we've talked about this with our friend
Speaker 1: Glenn Kershner. This committee actually has power. Congress has power,
Speaker 1: they just don't use it. Right, So I'm very interested
Speaker 1: to hear what it is that they think that Kimberly
Speaker 1: Gilfoyd know. Now. I joked on to it, and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm certain that bitch is gonna go and get herself
Speaker 1: a speedy, speedy wedding in Vegas to Junior so that
Speaker 1: when push comes to shove, she don't have to testify
Speaker 1: against her lion ass man. Right, But it's not going
Speaker 1: to help her with the information that she knew before
Speaker 1: they were married. Right. And here's the thing, is much
Speaker 1: in the same way, and I'm going to beat this horse, y'all,
Speaker 1: much in the same way that the news and the
Speaker 1: headlines are talking about all of the Russian oligarchs getting
Speaker 1: their yacht seized and getting their second, third, fourth, fifth
Speaker 1: homes seized and getting their assets frozen. Right again, I say,
Speaker 1: where is that same fucking smoke for the American oligarchs?
Speaker 1: Where is that same smoke for the Trump family? So
Speaker 1: the question remains now as right as this panel is
Speaker 1: putting together all of this inform I mean, over five
Speaker 1: hundred interviews, I'm certain probably millions of sheets of paper,
Speaker 1: testimony information. They need to decide whether or not they
Speaker 1: are going to refer this to the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: for them to take action. But here's the thing, much
Speaker 1: like our Vice president, I need to put fucking Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland's face on a milk carton. Now I know he's
Speaker 1: alive because he was sitting in the audience at the
Speaker 1: State of the Union gritting and smiling like he's been
Speaker 1: doing a good job. And I'm like, no, sir, you
Speaker 1: should actually have no smile across your face because you
Speaker 1: haven't done dick right. You came out hot and heavy
Speaker 1: talking about what the Department of Justice was going to
Speaker 1: do with Russia and the Russian oligarchs, but you have
Speaker 1: said nothing, nothing about what this Department of Justice is
Speaker 1: going to be doing to ensure right as he's so
Speaker 1: aggressively stated that no person is above the law, that
Speaker 1: we're going to follow this where it takes us, well,
Speaker 1: it's taken you to a pile of fucking evidence on
Speaker 1: your desk, and the question is whether or not you're
Speaker 1: going to do something about it, or you're going to
Speaker 1: remain the chicken shit attorney general that is afraid of
Speaker 1: his own fucking shadow. The article goes on to say this,
Speaker 1: the Select Committee has responded to doctor Eastman's efforts to
Speaker 1: discharge his responsibility by accusing him of criminal conduct. This
Speaker 1: is what is being said by mister Burnham, who is
Speaker 1: the attorney for Donald Trump's attorney, doctor Eastman. So Eastman,
Speaker 1: if you know too interestingly enough, is being investigated by
Speaker 1: the state of California for you know, going after his
Speaker 1: legal license and whether or not that his misdoings, misgivings
Speaker 1: with the Trump and men stration rights should have him
Speaker 1: lose his law license this same way that Juliani has
Speaker 1: lost his fucking law license. Right. Trump only surrounds himself
Speaker 1: with the best fucking people who don't actually know the law,
Speaker 1: they know it enough so that they break it. Right.
Speaker 1: So Eastman's lawyer is like, oh, well, this is why
Speaker 1: they're going to try and charge him with criminal conduct,
Speaker 1: because you see that you can't use attorney client privilege
Speaker 1: when there is thought that a crime has actually been committed.
Speaker 1: And so what the committee is saying is that yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: there was a crime that was committed. So your little
Speaker 1: ruse of saying that everything that I said and did
Speaker 1: with the president is between me and you. No, now
Speaker 1: it's between all of us, right because there are there
Speaker 1: is clear evidence that crimes were committed. But see, the
Speaker 1: thing is, this is what is going to fuck Democrats up,
Speaker 1: because Democrats like, I mean, you give them an opening
Speaker 1: and they shut the door, like this is how they operate.
Speaker 1: You say to them, here's how we move forward, and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, i'd I'd rather move backwards, right, I'd
Speaker 1: rather moon walk my way out of this. That's their
Speaker 1: reality and their thinking. So if, if, and when, because
Speaker 1: I believe that it is a when this committee delivers
Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice this mountain of evidence against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and he does not move right with haste,
Speaker 1: because right now, this motherfucker been moving like he's a sloth, right,
Speaker 1: like maybe an inch every couple of months. He has
Speaker 1: not moved on this at all. And we know through
Speaker 1: our friend Glenn Kushner, that they're like, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 1: prosecutors don't like to bring cases that they could possibly
Speaker 1: use lose. But I'm like, here's the thing. We're about
Speaker 1: to lose our democracy. We're about to lose our power
Speaker 1: and our authority to get to the bottom of what
Speaker 1: happened leading up to the insurrection the day of and
Speaker 1: then afterwards, because what will happen in the next eight
Speaker 1: months is this, Let me paint the picture. Republicans will
Speaker 1: win in midterms because I don't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: Democrats are running on, because literally outside of the infrastructure
Speaker 1: bill and some money that they gave for COVID relief
Speaker 1: checks months and months and months ago, they have nothing
Speaker 1: to run on, right nothing. If if Marrick Garland decides
Speaker 1: to actually move in the next couple of months, what
Speaker 1: they can run on is fucking law and order. What
Speaker 1: they can run on is actually threading the needle between
Speaker 1: going after a Russian dictator whose hell bent on authoritarianism
Speaker 1: and bringing back the USSR and what is happening in
Speaker 1: our own country right now. And then they can run
Speaker 1: on the fact that no one is above the law,
Speaker 1: that this past president was criminal, and we are going
Speaker 1: to go after him with the fullest extent of everything
Speaker 1: that we got. But what will happen, dear friends, is
Speaker 1: that if those Republican lion asked treasonous ass motherfuckers are
Speaker 1: able to get the gavel back in their hands. That
Speaker 1: committee is dead in the water because they will no
Speaker 1: longer control the House. And then if they're able to
Speaker 1: take back the Senate as well, you're talking about being
Speaker 1: able to gum up the works at the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1: So whatever it was that they were doing now doesn't
Speaker 1: get done. We are running out of time. And the
Speaker 1: question that I continue to have is does anybody else
Speaker 1: realize this? Because in every single room in the fucking
Speaker 1: White House and in all of these agencies should be
Speaker 1: a fucking countdown clock to November twenty twenty two, because
Speaker 1: everything that they are thinking about doing for their next
Speaker 1: couple of years that they have the White House is done.
Speaker 1: It's done now. They're not doing shit now. You know,
Speaker 1: Biden has the authority to be rolling out executive orders
Speaker 1: in the same way that Obama did. He's working within
Speaker 1: inside of a party that doesn't want to do anything.
Speaker 1: You got Joe Mansion on Tuesday sitting up with the
Speaker 1: Republicans laughing it up. He's laughing at all of us.
Speaker 1: They say, Oh, nobody else can win in Virginia, No
Speaker 1: other Democrat can win. And I'm saying to you, a
Speaker 1: Democrat hasn't won. Joe mansion one very different, very very different.
Speaker 1: So you have no policies to run on. You continue
Speaker 1: to say that you know we're going to be in
Speaker 1: this together, and these insurrection is we will hold them accountable,
Speaker 1: we will find them, and then nothing. Joe Biden on
Speaker 1: Tuesday didn't even mention the insurrection. He didn't even mention
Speaker 1: the threat to our democracy. He didn't even in his
Speaker 1: whole fund fund the police. Who could have talked about
Speaker 1: the heroism of the Capitol Police, right and how the honor,
Speaker 1: the courage and the bravery that they showed that Republicans
Speaker 1: wanted to block honoring them with the Congressional Medal of Freedom, right,
Speaker 1: that they were mocked on Fox News. He had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring America back to that day and then
Speaker 1: to tell us that he is going to do everything
Speaker 1: within his power to ensure that everyone at all levels
Speaker 1: that were responsible for trying to bring down our capital,
Speaker 1: build and hang the form of Vice President of the
Speaker 1: United States will be taken care of, justice will be served.
Speaker 1: I will see to it. But nothing, not a word.
Speaker 1: And I keep thinking to myself, I'm like, do they
Speaker 1: want to lose? Do they want to lose because I
Speaker 1: don't know what You're going back to each and every
Speaker 1: community that is represented in the Democrats a big tent.
Speaker 1: What are you going back to them with? You're going
Speaker 1: back to women and people with uterus is and saying, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, we had the opportunity we passed a bill
Speaker 1: that would precodify rov Wade. Nope, Joe Mansion tank that
Speaker 1: are we going back to the black community and saying
Speaker 1: that we're going to be certain with the passage of
Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act, which we've passed to make sure
Speaker 1: that your votes count. Nope, that wasn't done. Are we
Speaker 1: going to the black community and other communities that are
Speaker 1: abused by law enforcement? Are we saying that we have
Speaker 1: police reform? Nope, that wasn't done. Oh the new climate
Speaker 1: report that came out that basically said that the world
Speaker 1: is actually fucked. We're going to pass the Green New Deal.
Speaker 1: Did we do that? Nope. So all of these things
Speaker 1: that they were cheering for while Democrats were chainting USA USA,
Speaker 1: USA and jumping up and down and imploding at their
Speaker 1: fucking pepper Alley, none of those things have passed, and
Speaker 1: none of them have any future of passing. So again,
Speaker 1: when people sit back and they think to themselves, when
Speaker 1: they rushed to the polls to sure that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: wouldn't get a second term, what did these people get
Speaker 1: in return? What is the return on our investment? Right now,
Speaker 1: a year into this administrator, a year plus into this administration,
Speaker 1: what did we get? We've gotten a goose egg. Nothing.
Speaker 1: So if I'm this administration and this committee comes out
Speaker 1: with this heavy hit and shit that the former president
Speaker 1: of the United States is complicit in criminal activity, then
Speaker 1: I'm going to use that and it's going to be
Speaker 1: my campaign message. It's going to be on every radio station,
Speaker 1: every team V network, every ad that you see on
Speaker 1: social media. But do you think that Democrats are going
Speaker 1: to do that? No? And for the life of me, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there are days, there have been days,
Speaker 1: many days in a row, when I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: what the fuck am I doing in this party? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't like being a loser, right like, I like sense,
Speaker 1: I like logic, I like strength, I like strategy. None
Speaker 1: of that is present in the current formation of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. It's not present in the Biden Harris administration
Speaker 1: or Biden and we only use Harris when there are
Speaker 1: black faces around. Otherwise we hide her someplace in a
Speaker 1: tower less White people recognize that there's a black woman
Speaker 1: that is a one heart beat away from the presidency
Speaker 1: and flip out and burn everything fucking down to the ground.
Speaker 1: I realized that this administration is so scared of everything right.
Speaker 1: The only agenda should have been voting rights. The only
Speaker 1: thing that they should have been working on. Wasn't fucking structure.
Speaker 1: Wasn't this fucking kumbaya look at us wherebipartisan bullshit after
Speaker 1: the ship that we had lived through with Trump for
Speaker 1: four years. No, it should have been to strengthen our democracy.
Speaker 1: It should have been to ensure that our elections remain
Speaker 1: free and fair and that people can vote right. It
Speaker 1: should have been rolling out a bill that would disallow
Speaker 1: the states that used to be under preclearance for changing
Speaker 1: of their voting rights laws that the fucking Supreme Court gutted.
Speaker 1: We should have fixed those things, But instead they wanted
Speaker 1: to do what do you think that Republicans want to do?
Speaker 1: That's there, that's how they act. What do we think
Speaker 1: Republicans will like? Oh, let's move with an attorney general
Speaker 1: that Republicans can get behind. Let's move with a policy
Speaker 1: that Republicans will like that their base may agree on.
Speaker 1: What about our base? Why are they never concerned with
Speaker 1: disappointing us? This is the real question. Why are they
Speaker 1: never concerned with disappointing black people? Why are they never
Speaker 1: concerned with disappointing women? They take more care and time
Speaker 1: trying to pussy foot around and get Republicans on their
Speaker 1: side than they do with hammering down and giving their
Speaker 1: base everything that they want. I wish that Democrats treated
Speaker 1: their base the way that fucking Republicans do. Give them
Speaker 1: everything that they want. But there's no fear there because
Speaker 1: their assumption is that we don't have any place else
Speaker 1: to go. And I'm telling you it's a miscalculation that
Speaker 1: they're making because you know where people have to go home,
Speaker 1: not to the polls. And you will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's shooting yourself in the foot. Well, my foot is
Speaker 1: already blown off at this fucking point. So what's the
Speaker 1: difference what we're up against? Right? As you see what
Speaker 1: is playing out in Texas, what is playing out in Iowa, now,
Speaker 1: what is playing out in Florida. These governors are making
Speaker 1: their moves right for twenty twenty four. This is why
Speaker 1: they are going after trans kids. Iowa just pass legislation
Speaker 1: to ban transgender kids right from participating in sports, not
Speaker 1: only at the K through twelve level, but also at
Speaker 1: the collegiate level as well. They make up a fraction, right,
Speaker 1: a fraction. People have said, of no threat right within
Speaker 1: the sports world in all of the things that are
Speaker 1: being said, Oh it's unfair, it's this, it's that they're
Speaker 1: a fraction of the population. But you see, Republicans are
Speaker 1: making them their target because they want to keep the
Speaker 1: embers of the culture war hot, and the best way
Speaker 1: for them to do that is to pick the most
Speaker 1: marginalized group that they think nobody gives a shit about
Speaker 1: and go after them with everything that they have, so
Speaker 1: that they can showcase to their base, to the Republican
Speaker 1: Party that they're with the shits, that they're with it,
Speaker 1: They're with all of the Trump is and except guess what,
Speaker 1: they're more strategic. They actually no policy. So what we
Speaker 1: are up against. We shouldn't be thinking, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump may run in twenty twenty four. No, you
Speaker 1: should be scared shitless of a discantist running, of an
Speaker 1: abbot running because those motherfuckers win, They win, they win.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it will make the Handmaid's Tail look
Speaker 1: like a fucking Christmas Carol. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like it will make everything that we think is terrible
Speaker 1: look like child's play. You see, the thing about the
Speaker 1: Trump administration, while they were so disgusting, right, they were
Speaker 1: also sloppy and stupid. The thing about these other Republicans
Speaker 1: who are more dangerous than Donald Trump is that they
Speaker 1: are smarter and they are sharper. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Do you see how they passed that law, that vigilante
Speaker 1: law in Texas that would allow people to put out
Speaker 1: bounties on abortion providers, on anyone you're uber driver that
Speaker 1: is driving you to a clinic that they can sue. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think my neighbor down the street. I think she
Speaker 1: said she was going to the supermarket, but I think
Speaker 1: she went to the Planned Parenthood ten thousand dollars lawsuit.
Speaker 1: But you see, they did it in a way that
Speaker 1: you really can't suit. You can't do anything until it
Speaker 1: actually happens. Right. But what they are realizing, what Republicans
Speaker 1: are so fucking savvy around, is that the threat is
Speaker 1: good enough right, because what they're doing this is a
Speaker 1: messaging campaign. Right. Texas and Florida are the Republican Party's
Speaker 1: playground right now. They are gaming out everything that they
Speaker 1: will do at the federal level if they get power again.
Speaker 1: They are gaming it out in Texas and in Florida.
Speaker 1: And that should scare the shit out of everybody. And
Speaker 1: you know, I have friends sometimes who say to me, oh, Danielle, like,
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry. We're in New York. New
Speaker 1: York is not a fortress. The Blue States are not
Speaker 1: a fortress. You saw what Donald Trump tried to do
Speaker 1: around COVID, not giving Blue States the resources that they
Speaker 1: needed because he didn't want to. You can decide, okay,
Speaker 1: so we're no longer going to provide federal funding for X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z based on blah blah blah and begin
Speaker 1: to squeeze those states. I'm telling you what we do
Speaker 1: not want is a savvy or Trump, because that is
Speaker 1: our end. And so I'm sitting here and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, what is Biden thinking? What are they thinking
Speaker 1: down there in Washington? Do they think that this is
Speaker 1: a joke? Do they do they think that what Republicans
Speaker 1: are going to go back to sharing a scotch and
Speaker 1: like yucking up about the old days. These people are
Speaker 1: out for fucking blood. And I would love it if
Speaker 1: this administration would show half the fire that they are
Speaker 1: showing Putin right now, that they would show Republicans stop
Speaker 1: pretending these people are your friends, Stop pretending that they
Speaker 1: are out here and they are patriots. Joe Biden was
Speaker 1: talking about his dead son and those two fucking cuckoo
Speaker 1: birds Bobert and fucking Taylor Green heckling the president of
Speaker 1: the United States. They're disgusting, They're a disgrace. But you
Speaker 1: know what that isn't the GOP's future. It's there present.
Speaker 1: They are in it. Folks. They want they want what
Speaker 1: Putin has. They want to run rough shot over the
Speaker 1: United States. They want a theocracy laid out with their
Speaker 1: white evangelical Christian values where white people never have to
Speaker 1: feel discomfort, where we go back to the days where
Speaker 1: people who look like me are moving off the sidewalk. Yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, yes, sir, no, sir.
Speaker 1: Less I get thrown in jail for God knows what
Speaker 1: or worse. This is where we are headed. And unless
Speaker 1: we take up with the January sixth Commission. Unless this
Speaker 1: Department of Justice wakes the fuck up and acts like
Speaker 1: they have some goddamn power, Oh my god, the next insurrection,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, folks. This is why when I wrote
Speaker 1: my piece for media with regard to what is happening
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, which I'll transition to in a moment, I
Speaker 1: wrote it living out what would happen if this happened,
Speaker 1: if what is happening in the Ukraine happened in the
Speaker 1: United States. And people said to me, no foreign entity
Speaker 1: is coming here, right, They're not bringing war to our soil.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm like, are you not paying attention. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about Russia. I'm not talking about China. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about your fucking neighbor down the street. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about multiplying those three thousand insurrectionists that broke into the
Speaker 1: Capitol building. I'm talking about that multiplying by the tens
Speaker 1: of thousands. Right, We've only arrested a handful of people.
Speaker 1: Only a handful of people are serving sentences right now.
Speaker 1: Not any of the masterminds, not any of the big
Speaker 1: fucking deep pocket donors. They're still busy planning, folks, they're
Speaker 1: not done. And unless we have a show of force
Speaker 1: by our White House and our Department of Justice, we're cooked.
Speaker 1: Our days are literally numbered. And I don't think folks
Speaker 1: get that. I know that the January sixth Commission does,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody else does. We are in
Speaker 1: a really serious moment. And I say that because we've
Speaker 1: never seen anything like this any at all, So it's
Speaker 1: really easy for us to just shrug it off, say
Speaker 1: that that was a once in a lifetime thing, like
Speaker 1: it's it's not a big deal, just like we're all
Speaker 1: trying to pretend that COVID is over right. COVID is
Speaker 1: in a lull right now, right, it's in a lull
Speaker 1: after a major surge that took more Americans lives, we're
Speaker 1: almost at a million deaths from COVID. It's in a lull.
Speaker 1: When we talk to doctor Fauci yesterday, he said, Oh,
Speaker 1: he equated it to you know, a downpour. You put
Speaker 1: on the right protective gear in a rainstorm, and then
Speaker 1: when it moves to a drizzle or it's a sunny day,
Speaker 1: you can take that gear off, but you don't throw
Speaker 1: it out right because you assume it's gone right. Again.
Speaker 1: But the way that Americans are set up these days,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, no, we can just have mind over matter.
Speaker 1: If I think that it doesn't exist, it doesn't. This
Speaker 1: is the same thing that is happening with the threat
Speaker 1: of American fascism. It's like, oh, if we just pretend
Speaker 1: that Republicans are our friends and that they believe in
Speaker 1: a functioning government and the constitution, then they're not a
Speaker 1: real threat. If we just pretend that the one six
Speaker 1: insurrection was just a blip on our radar, not in
Speaker 1: the two hundred and forty some hid years of this
Speaker 1: country has something like that fucking happened. I remember, not
Speaker 1: even during the Civil War did the Confederate flag make
Speaker 1: it inside of the Capitol building. But on January six,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, there were a multiple This is not hyperbole.
Speaker 1: They are in a lull, just like COVID right now,
Speaker 1: and without vigilance, without tactics, without accountability, they will spike again.
Speaker 1: They will rise again, and this time will be better
Speaker 1: than the first time because they have had all the
Speaker 1: time in the world to concoct better plans. You know,
Speaker 1: it has been announced by the UN that a million people,
Speaker 1: a million people have fled Ukraine. There are a million
Speaker 1: refugees right now fleeing war. Putin is not going to stop.
Speaker 1: He is going to and as according to his own
Speaker 1: his own foreign ministry, what did they say, we will
Speaker 1: see this through until the end. What does that end
Speaker 1: look like? It looks like a gutted Ukraine. Putin is
Speaker 1: out there talking about we are one people, not at
Speaker 1: all recognizing the sovereignty of this country. President Zelinski is
Speaker 1: pleading with NATO to put in a no fly zone,
Speaker 1: pleading take Russia off of Interpol. We're seizing yachts, He's
Speaker 1: seizing ground. And I tell you I said this yesterday,
Speaker 1: I said it on Woke Wednesday. There is a bigger
Speaker 1: plan that is at play. And much in the same
Speaker 1: way that I don't think that the Biden administration is
Speaker 1: paying attention to what the fascist in America are doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that they are paying attention to
Speaker 1: what the long game is here, what Russia is really after.
Speaker 1: And again let me not say Russia, what Putin is
Speaker 1: really after? What kind of side deals has he cut
Speaker 1: with the Chinese, because apparently the other thing that came
Speaker 1: out was that the Chinese said to him, don't do
Speaker 1: this shit during the Winter Olympics, Like, if you're going
Speaker 1: to invade them, you don't just wait until after the
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics are done. What other deals are they making?
Speaker 1: I talked about right the report about lithium, right about
Speaker 1: how Ukraine has five hundred thousand tons. This is what
Speaker 1: is going to be the new right race for clean energy.
Speaker 1: Russia is a crude oil country. With Ukraine right in
Speaker 1: their pocket, they seize more economic power. There is a
Speaker 1: bigger play that is happening here. And the question is
Speaker 1: who is paying attention? Because I do not believe it's
Speaker 1: our government, you know it is. This week has been aggressive.
Speaker 1: This week has been super aggressive. We are a week
Speaker 1: into the war in Ukraine. We are seeing nations unite
Speaker 1: to try and squeeze Putin. But I think that they
Speaker 1: are miscalculating him. Right. People refer to him as a madman.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure he's crazy. I think he's a
Speaker 1: manipulative sociopath. But I don't think that he's like miscalculating.
Speaker 1: I think he has different calculus. We need to understand
Speaker 1: what that is, what he's willing to lose. We have
Speaker 1: more anti trans bills just heating up all across the country.
Speaker 1: We got climate news, and it's like this administration just
Speaker 1: seems asleep at the wheel. They seem asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 1: You know, people often want to talk about, Oh, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: he seems tire blah blah blah. No, I don't mean
Speaker 1: like literally, but I'm like, I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: got cooking over there, but I know that our gooses
Speaker 1: are going to be cooked soon enough. And I'm really worried,
Speaker 1: really worried about what this country looks like with white
Speaker 1: evangelical control. Doesn't feel like a place I sure as
Speaker 1: how I want to stay in. How about you and now,
Speaker 1: dear friends, for your woke moment of wellness. I have
Speaker 1: found friends that meditation, and I know I talk about
Speaker 1: this often. Meditation has really changed the way that I
Speaker 1: think and see the world. I'm still angry, I'm still
Speaker 1: filled with rage, but there are times now where I
Speaker 1: can literally let it go. And it's because I believe
Speaker 1: that whether it is a universe, whether you're a religious person,
Speaker 1: but in times of great pain and strife, I think
Speaker 1: that it is important to get outside of our own heads,
Speaker 1: get outside of the pinhole that we may see the
Speaker 1: world through and connect to higher purposes, can align ourselves
Speaker 1: with bigger things. Meditation from me and I use insight Timer.
Speaker 1: There are so many other apps, but I love insight
Speaker 1: Timer because one it keeps track of all of my meditations.
Speaker 1: The tricky part is that if you miss a day,
Speaker 1: then it goes back down to zero. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of the encouragement of continuing a meditation practice because much
Speaker 1: like yoga, like anything, you can't just do a one
Speaker 1: and done. You can't just do, you know, a meditation
Speaker 1: when you're in a bad mood or you're you know,
Speaker 1: feeling anxiety. It is about how we train retrain ourselves
Speaker 1: to think, How we retrain ourselves to slow down right,
Speaker 1: how we learn how to breathe in a way that
Speaker 1: we are filling our bodies with breath, right, that we
Speaker 1: can learn to be still in a world that is
Speaker 1: moving at breakneck pace. And so I love insight Timer
Speaker 1: because it is a daily practice and it's kind of
Speaker 1: gamified as well. I think right now I'm at one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight consecutive days of meditation, which is
Speaker 1: incredible because that's the most I've ever done since I
Speaker 1: started meditating in twenty twenty. It's the most consecutive days
Speaker 1: that I have done because, like I said, there have
Speaker 1: been times where I forget, or I don't do it,
Speaker 1: or I get busy, and then I was at one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty and then boom back down to zero
Speaker 1: and to start the process all over again. But I
Speaker 1: do think that that is a part of the mindfulness
Speaker 1: I encourage folks. You know, whether you think it's just
Speaker 1: new age junk or not, meditation has helped me. It
Speaker 1: has helped me realize what's important. It's helped me really
Speaker 1: have gratitude each and every single day, whether it is
Speaker 1: about the ability to wake up, whether it is about
Speaker 1: the ability to go for a walk, to take in
Speaker 1: some sunshine, to spend time with friends. But I am
Speaker 1: grateful daily and I use the time, whether it's one minute,
Speaker 1: five minutes, or twenty or a half hour, whatever I
Speaker 1: can spare. I use it to sit with myself with
Speaker 1: my breath and channel positivity. And I think that if
Speaker 1: more of us did that on a regular basis, we
Speaker 1: would create a kind of force field around ourselves where
Speaker 1: the toxicity and the negativity doesn't penetrate, we don't absorb
Speaker 1: it in the same way, So think of it like armor,
Speaker 1: spiritual armor. So try this weekend. If you have not,
Speaker 1: try a one minute meditation. It could be guided, it
Speaker 1: could just be one minute on your phone. But try
Speaker 1: it out and let me know how you feel. Notice
Speaker 1: how you feel before, notice how you feel after. Right,
Speaker 1: And I can tell you that for these couple of
Speaker 1: years that I have been practicing and now really like intentional,
Speaker 1: really really intentional about a daily daily practice, I feel lighter.
Speaker 1: And that says a lot given how heavy shit is.
Speaker 1: So I encourage you. Maybe just try it once and
Speaker 1: in the comment section let me know how it goes.
Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, stay well and stay woke. That
Speaker 1: is it for me today, dear friends, on this wonderful Friday.
Speaker 1: As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.