1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bokay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: you know, I want to start with this. We are 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: about a couple of days removed from the second anniversary 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: of the insurrection, the attempt to overthrow our government by Trump, 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: insurrectionist driven you know, orchestrated, driven and strategized directed by 7 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: the President of the United States. And as you guys know, 8 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: you know, much like COVID, I like to keep a 9 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 1: lot of things in the news that other people don't. 10 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 1: They want to just you know, move on as if 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: all is well. We don't need to be concerned with 12 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: this growing threat. And what we witnessed last week on 13 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: the floor of the House was as my friend Charles Ellison, 14 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: who hosts a show on WRD in Philadelphia, he called 15 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: it the bloodless insurreption, and I said, Charles, you're absolutely right, 16 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: because we have one hundred and forty seven members. I 17 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: believe that after the attack on the Capitol in January six, 18 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one voted to overturn the election. One hundred 19 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: and forty seven and somehow right now the media wants 20 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: to use the term rebels for the Lauren Bouberts and 21 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: the Matt Gates and the Paul Ghosers of the world. 22 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: And then somehow, in their mindset, Marjorie Taylor Green and 23 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan have become moderates? Are we all dumb? Or 24 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: is the memory that's short? Right? That because you're deciding 25 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: that you're going to, oh, I don't know, vote along 26 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:16,279 Speaker 1: party lines for your speaker, who is an absolute spineless 27 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: amiba of a human being, that somehow that makes you 28 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 1: a moderate. Let me news flash, okay, to every media outlet, 29 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: there were no fucking moderate Republicans. They don't exist anymore. 30 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: When you are given everything from the fucking Mulla Report, 31 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: to all of the information that the January sixth Committee 32 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: put together, to all of the impeachment the two impeachments 33 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: that happened right that we're put together. When you are 34 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: given all of that, and then you decide, because of power, 35 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: that you would rather keep this criminal enterprise crackpot as 36 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: the leader of your party than do right by this country, 37 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: you cease being able to utilize the title fucking moderate. 38 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: And I swear to God, you know, I keep going 39 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: back in my mind about when I was in middle school, 40 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: in high school whenever it is, and who knows now 41 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: because in Florida apparently you don't learn anything, as is 42 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 1: with Texas too. But I remember learning about the Holocaust, 43 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: and I've said this before on WOKEA learning before about 44 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: the Holocaust, and we it was in middle school and 45 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: we had a half day at my school where we 46 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: were watching Schindler's List. Now it's so amazing to me, 47 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: you know, I can only imagine that if you in 48 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: today's age we're trying to organize a showing of Schindler's 49 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: a List, the cans of bomb threats that my school 50 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: in this day and age would have received. Isn't that 51 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: fucking crazy that I can only imagine the bomb threats, 52 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: the protests on the outside of school. Because where I 53 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: grew up is now quote unquote Trump country. All of 54 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: Eastern Long Island was in the bag for Donald Trump. 55 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: You see Trump flags all over the neighborhoods that I 56 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: grew up. And what's crazy is that when I'm visiting 57 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: my family, it's almost as if like there is this 58 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: layer that I never either. It was always there, and 59 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: as a young kid, I just didn't realize it. But 60 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: I was a black kid growing up in a predominantly 61 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: white community. I of course faced like racism, but very 62 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: sparse in comparison to the atrocious stories that you hear 63 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: to day and atrocious stories through our history. Mine was 64 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: marginal at best. It doesn't mean that it didn't have 65 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: any impact, and I'm not trying to mitigate it. I'm 66 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: just saying that, in comparison, was marginal at best. So 67 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: it's not as if I grew up with a sense 68 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: of fear or I grew up with a sense of 69 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: shame about my blackness or anything like that. I didn't, right, 70 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: which is great because I'm the person I am, because 71 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: I'm able to navigate spaces where I'm not the majority 72 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: that is in the room right where I'm able to 73 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: not wait for permission to be seen, because if I 74 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: did that, then I would still be the kid in 75 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: the back of the classroom with their hand held up, 76 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: waiting to be fucking called on. Nonetheless, I think about 77 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: these experiences that I had, and you know, watching Schindler's 78 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: List with my classmates in tears and being like, how 79 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: could a society let this happen? Right? Like, how do 80 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: you just go about your day as your neighbors are 81 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: being carted off to concentration camps, but you're like still 82 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: going to the movies and still going to dinner, and 83 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: just like going about as if life is normal, when 84 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: people just are disappearing right, and the reality is is 85 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: that what do we know now? It happens bit by bit. 86 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: It happens with being propped up by the media. It 87 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: happens with those who dare to tell the truth and say, 88 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: see these patterns, look at these characteristics. This is Mussolini 89 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: and the making. This is a mini Hitler. And people 90 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: are like, oh no, you're being hyperbolic. Oh no, that'll 91 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: never happen here, because the idea of American exceptionalism is 92 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: so embedded into the value set of this country that 93 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't allow us to see the forest through the 94 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: trees because you think that, oh no, I'm much better 95 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: than the Italians and the Germans and the Brazilians. And 96 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: you know, every fucking place else that has been taken 97 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: over by a dictator or an authoritarian, Oh, that could 98 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,679 Speaker 1: never happen in America. Americans would never let that happen. 99 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: You have motherfuckers that are out cheering the hanging of 100 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: their Republican Vice President milktoast motherfucker, a man who couldn't 101 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: be more Republican if he tried, and they were willing 102 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: to hang him on the steps of the Capitol Building. 103 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: You have people like Donald Trump spawn egging on the 104 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: terrorists that invaded Nancy Pelosi's home, Ambassador husband sculling with 105 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: a hammer. Oh, that's funny to them. Right now. You 106 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: have former Capitol Police Office Sir Michael Phenone, whose quest 107 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: is just to get the Republican Party and members to 108 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: admit that political violence is a problem and to denounce 109 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: it when they see it, and they refuse. So when 110 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: I turn on the television and got all the alerts 111 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: earlier this week about what the fuck was happening in Brazil, 112 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: about the insurrection that happened there that looked eerily split screen, 113 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: exactly like what happened on January six, twenty twenty one, 114 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: and we're watching it now. Our far right extremism be exported. 115 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: Far right extremism, magaism, and Trumpism is now our greatest export. 116 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: Those motherfuckers in Brazil take over their capital, trash every place, 117 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: they took on the courts, they take on the Capitol Building. 118 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: But Funny enough, unlike the fucking United States guests who 119 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: was arrested on the same day the very people that 120 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: ransacked the Capitol building, they were actually hauled off in handcuffs. 121 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: Imagine that that it didn't take six months to go 122 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: searching through somebody's fucking Facebook page in order to find 123 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: them to then give them a slap on the risk. Oh, 124 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: Susy didn't know what she was doing. She just got 125 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: caught up, right, because white people stay getting caught up 126 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: in some shit. They can't possibly ever take responsibility for 127 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: their actions. And no, because they actually don't know their history, 128 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: have no idea what they're capable of, or matter of fact, 129 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: just like to turn, you know, a blind eye to it. 130 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: Couldn't possibly be us. Oh, but it is, and the 131 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: world is learning by fact. Thank you very much to 132 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: Mary Garland for doing absolutely nothing. Two years and we're 133 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: still holding our breath, holding out hope and saying, well, 134 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: maybe this year will be the year, but probably not. 135 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: You know, news came out that the grand jury that 136 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: was called in Georgia to look into the insurrection in 137 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: terms of the ballot but you know, Donald Trump's go 138 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: find me eleven seven hundred and some odd votes. That 139 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: this grand jury has now completed their work January twenty fourth, 140 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: a judge will now hear from that report, which the 141 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: grand jury has voted to be made public. Now the 142 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: decision is in the Attorney General in Fannie Willis's hands. 143 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: Is there enough in the report to indict? And I 144 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: gotta tell you, just based on my own seeing ass 145 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: eyes alone, it seems that there's another fucking case. It's 146 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: whether or not anyone has the ovaries or the balls 147 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 1: to actually bring Donald Trump up on criminal charges, knowing 148 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: that the man has been on a crime spree in 149 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: these United States for at least thirty fucking years. Nonetheless, 150 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: it is incredibly frustrating that here we are, just a 151 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: couple of weeks into the new year. We want to 152 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: hold out hope, because that's what the new year is about, 153 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: is about turning a page and feeling like we can 154 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: learn the lessons from the past and bring them into 155 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: the future. But lo and behold, there doesn't feel like 156 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: there is going to be a lot of movement, at 157 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: least not in the direction of justice. But when we 158 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: look at what is playing out in places like Brazil, 159 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: we say, oh, there is movement there is movement on 160 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: the side of authoritarianism. There is movement on the side 161 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: of people who want a dictatorship to come back and 162 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: rule over Brazil, which is absolutely batshit crazy, but this 163 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: is what these people want. They are hopped up on 164 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: lies and disinformation and cult of personality, and come to 165 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: find out, oh, this was funny as fuck. Balsonaro also 166 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: is not in Brazil right now. He is in Florida 167 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: receiving medical services because apparently we do that with dictators 168 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: in the United States. Not only do we export our bullshit, 169 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: but we import those people to use, you know, our 170 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: top notch medical facilities. Nonetheless, come to find out that 171 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: his children have tried to flee to the Italian embassy 172 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: inside of Brazil to get Italian passports so that they 173 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: can leave the country because guess who else is up 174 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: under investigation for criminal activity. The apple does not fall 175 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: far from the Trump endorsed tree, my friends, Balsonaro has 176 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: been labeled as the mini Trump, and this is exactly 177 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: what he's doing in Brazil, is what Donald Trump has 178 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: been doing. And yet somehow these men are looked at 179 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: as strong men. They're looked at as men to be 180 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: revered and they are nothing more than performance art. It's 181 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: unmistakable the place that we still find ourselves, which is this. 182 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,239 Speaker 1: Our democracy is still very much under attack. Our democracy 183 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: is still very much hanging on by a thread. We 184 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: now have insurrectionists that have been elected to government that 185 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: are going to do their best to finish what it 186 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: was that their foot soldiers couldn't do on the grounds 187 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: in the day on January six, twenty twenty one. What 188 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: they couldn't finish the job then while they just ran 189 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: for office a couple of years later. And guess why 190 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: they were able to run for office. Oh, I don't know. 191 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: Maybe it's because none of them were held accountable for 192 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: their part in the insurrection. It's just a page apparently 193 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: that Merritt Garland thinks that we can just turn and 194 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: move on. The thing is is that people don't learn 195 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: from bad behavior. They only learn if they're held accountable 196 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: for that bad behavior. If they're not, then guess what happens. 197 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: They get worse, The monster gets bigger because now they're like, 198 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: look at me, look what I was able to get 199 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: away with. And so then they keep going. So that's 200 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: what happened. We now have a whole Insurrectionist Caucus. You know, 201 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus has grown bigger because of why not 202 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: just because of the voters, folks, because Americans are not 203 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: that crazy. It's the fact that we have allowed Republicans 204 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: the ability to gerrymander house districts to look like some 205 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: type of string confetti is a district to ensure that 206 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: Republicans get sent back to the House of Representatives. But 207 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: I will tell you that if the last few days 208 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: or any indication of what we are up against in 209 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: the next two years, then we know for a fact 210 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: that not only are we bracing ourselves for the full 211 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: Republicans circ dis Ola bullshit, but that we're not getting 212 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: anything else done. In November, it was reported that over 213 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand people across the border, the most in 214 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: history to date. And you know, we know that both 215 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: and I will say this, this is actually a both 216 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: sides thing that I will say, neither Republicans or Democrats 217 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: have a very good idea what to do in terms 218 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: of creating paths to citizenship. Not only that, but America 219 00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: hasn't really taken any responsibility for their role in destroying 220 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: economies in other countries, bolstering up either drug lords or dictators, 221 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: and then not intervening when America has already extracted everything 222 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: that it can get, and then wondering why these people 223 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: end up on our borders because you've created absolute mayhem 224 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: in their countries and have done nothing to make amends. 225 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: So what are they supposed to do? Right? We only 226 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: ever see and are ever fed the picture that is 227 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: directly in front of us. No one is ever providing 228 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: any of the back history or intel as to how 229 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: these countries gotten to the situations where they are. At 230 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: this point where tens of thousands of their people need 231 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: to flee with nothing but a knapsack on their backs, 232 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: are willing literally to risk everything, including their lives, to 233 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: make it over the boarder. So, folks, this problem isn't 234 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 1: going to be solved one because we don't have serious 235 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: people on the side of the Republican Party. But we 236 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: also don't have brave people that are willing to tell 237 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: the American people the truth and say, you know all 238 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: that bullshit that you've been believing for decades upon decades, well, 239 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: it's lies that was force fed to you based on 240 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: what white supremacy and capitalism. If we weren't able to 241 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 1: make money off of that country anymore. Think that's what 242 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 1: we didn't really care. So we move prime ministers and 243 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: presidents around like chess pieces on a board because that's 244 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: what wealthier nations are able to do. But it's the 245 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: people on the ground. Those are the ones that make 246 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: the greatest sacrifices. But we don't humanize them. No, you 247 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: have politicians, abbot and discantists that further to humanize these 248 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: people by making them a political stunt, turning them into 249 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: a butt of their right wing fascist jokes, not ever 250 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: asking themselves what would force families to literally walk four 251 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: months for months? So I'm not talking about hours, I'm 252 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: not even talking about a couple of days. I'm talking 253 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: about four months. What kind of fear would be inside 254 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: you to give what little money that you have to 255 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: these coyotes that put you in the back of trucks 256 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: that have no ventilation, no windows, there's no way for 257 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: you to get in and out other than under their 258 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: lock and key. But we don't have those conversations. We 259 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: always want to do fucking case studies on white people 260 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: and how they think, the way they think and why, oh, 261 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: let's understand the Trump voter. I don't need to understand 262 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: racism to any deep extent. But I would love to 263 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: understand what has happened in places like Venezuela and Guatemala 264 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: and in Mexico and what America's responsibility was and is. 265 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: But we don't want to have that conversation. That's not 266 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: good political fodder. So if we think that big topics 267 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: like this or how about this, folks, At the time 268 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: of this taping, California has issued a state of emergency. 269 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: There are multiple cyclones winter cyclones that are causing mudslides, 270 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: record breaking snow and more that is happening and at 271 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: to this point, over a dozen people have been killed. Well, 272 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: that sounds eerily familiar. But on the other side of 273 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: the country where we had forty plus people freeze in 274 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: their cars because of another historic storm that happened up 275 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: in Buffalo. But we don't have people that are willing 276 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: to have these conversations, no, because the Republican Party is 277 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: too busy denying science and truth to actually recognize that 278 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: we are way past Oh what will happen with the 279 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: impending climate crisis? We cross that bridge or I'm sorry, 280 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: we couldn't because it was washed away by a fucking 281 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: historic hurricane, but no one is there to meet Americans 282 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: where they are and say this is how we can 283 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: help you. That's not who the Republican Party is. It's 284 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: never been. They had a better mask during the Reagan 285 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: years if you weren't paying attention to the war on drugs, 286 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: or better the war on black people. So now we 287 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: are at the perfect storm or one of my favorite 288 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: horrible but good movies, The Day After Tomorrow, where it's 289 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: like all of these major storms converge on one and 290 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: we fast forward into another ice age. Because that's how 291 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: we fucked up the planet that much. You look at 292 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: what Republicans do to the earth here, gutting of the 293 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: EPA during the Trump administration, giving corporations anything and everything 294 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: that they want in order to destroy the environment because 295 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: you know, trickle down blah blah blah. Bulsonato in Brazil 296 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: basically wanted to turn the rainforest into you know, a 297 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: woodshed so that he could make any amount of money possible. 298 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,479 Speaker 1: And it's just like it's the same people. They just 299 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: have different names, but it's the same mentality. Extract and 300 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:33,479 Speaker 1: colonize and oppress for power and money. The goal of 301 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: Democrats and those who actually believe in community, who believe 302 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: in equity. It's up to us to figure out how 303 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: to message, how to show these people for who they are. 304 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: Because these folks know how to use the media, they 305 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: know how to tell a good lie, and they watch 306 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: it spread like a forest fire. And then all the 307 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 1: media does is what continue to give them oxygen because 308 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: it's clickbait, because it's ratings, because it's quote unquote good 309 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: for business. It seems to me these days that what 310 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: is good for business is no longer good for democracy. 311 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: The voters understood that at the midterms. The question is 312 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: is how much more damage will be done over the 313 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: next two years that Kevin McCarthy holds the hollowed out 314 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: gavel as the puppet of the House. How much more 315 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: damage will be done? Will Americans be ready in twenty 316 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: twenty four to be done with them once and for all, 317 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: or we will just continue to teeter until eventually the 318 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: Republican cult white supremacist party wears us all down. These 319 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 1: are the real questions that I gotta tell you keep 320 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: me up at night, and I know from many of 321 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 1: your exchanges on social media do the same to you. 322 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: It's like we continue to just win enough right, like 323 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: we just hold on enough. But my worry is is 324 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: it truly enough? Or are we kidding ourselves? Are we 325 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: just bracing for impact? That is it for me today. 326 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: Friends on wokey f as always power to the people 327 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 328 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.