1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live ish from my 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: Brooklyn bunker. Folks, today is the day. Today is report 4 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: card Day. It has been three hundred and sixty five 5 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: long fucking days of the Biden administration. Before I get 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: into my grading, and if you joined my Woke Wednesday, 7 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: you got a preview of what I think about the 8 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: past year under this Biden administration. But before I dive 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: into that, I want to take us back. I want 10 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: to go backwards a year. You know, twenty twenty one 11 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: started out on eb Ben in Note with the insurrection, 12 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: and I want us to remember how we felt after 13 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: it was certified that Joe Biden was indeed elected by 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: eighty one million Americans to lead our nation. You know, 15 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 1: coming off of the heels of four years under Donald Trump. 16 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: I know that many of you felt battered, bruised, just deflated, right, 17 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: And for me, it was the first time. And I'm 18 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: going to be really, you know, really honest. There have 19 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: been very bad moments in America over my lifetime, as 20 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure over yours. It was funny because you know, 21 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: I have been mentioning to some of my friends who 22 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: are younger than me, you know, how are they feeling, Like, 23 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: how are they managing, you know, during this time and 24 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: their life. You know, nine to eleven happened when I 25 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: was a child. Right then we had the bubble burst, 26 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: my family lost their homes, you know, kind of going 27 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: through these categorically horrible times, tumultuous times in our short history. 28 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: If you're a person or you have kids that are 29 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: in their twenties, what they know a lot of like 30 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: what their lifetime has kind of been wrapped around, has 31 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: been a lot of tragedy, right, has been a lot 32 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: of bad things, whether it be terrorist attacks, wars, you know, 33 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: school shootings being the norm, particularly if you are in 34 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: your twenties or or or millennial. You don't know anything 35 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: other than that. And so I want to take us 36 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: back through our feeling. Joe Biden and is elected. I'm 37 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: feeling pretty fucking good. I'm thinking that we've toppled authoritarianism. 38 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: We've toppled this misogynistic, racist piece of garbage, this thief, 39 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: this crook, this liar. Right people stood out in line 40 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: for hours. They put up sixty six court cases, sixty 41 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: six court cases Giuliani would parade into the courts, each 42 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: and every one of them, whether they were Republican appointed 43 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: judges or Democratic judges, kick them out of the courtroom. 44 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: And we're saying, yes, I'm feeling now the Republicans are 45 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: going to probably issue their autopsy and figure out how 46 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: to detach themselves from Donald Trump. And as we're heading 47 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: into inauguration showing the strength of our nation in the 48 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: face of those that would try and overthrow our government. 49 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: The lasting impression that we have of the steps of 50 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: the Capital and the Capitol Building is Inauguration Day, which 51 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: had increased security. If you remember around Washington, DC, I 52 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: mean there were damn near walls. The wall that Trump 53 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: said China that was not China. Mexico was going to 54 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: pay for. We paid for and it wasn't. The wall 55 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: between the United States and Mexico was between the White 56 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: House and the people. So the feelings, right, there were 57 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: so many feels going into inauguration twenty twenty one. Joe 58 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: Biden gives a raucous speech where he says that we 59 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: saw dark days, but you know there is light ahead. 60 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: He gives a raw ross speech. We get to see 61 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama looking absolutely fabulous. That nothing to do with 62 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: my report card. I'm just just conjuring back an amazing 63 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: memory that plumb outfit my god, monochromatic, I mean the hair. 64 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: So we felt a year ago that we were on 65 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: the ment, that it was going to take a lot 66 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: of work and trials, but that we were going to 67 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: get there, and we were going to do so together 68 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: because we would have realized as a country that what 69 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: we just experienced, what we all had just collectively witnessed, 70 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: is not who we are. The funny thing though, about 71 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: saying that this is not who we are, or that 72 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: we believed that we still shared after four years under 73 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, this shared value of democracy, the shared belief 74 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: right that we are governed by the rule of law, 75 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: that is, we the people that get to decide who 76 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: represents us in our voice, that we believe all collectively 77 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: about the constitution, right that these laws we all have 78 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: decided and pledged allegiance to that guidance. So when Joe 79 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: Biden during inauguration is providing his speech, his vision, his 80 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: picture of America, coming off of this years of feeling depleted, deflated, 81 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: and this desperation for a grown up to be in 82 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: the room, somebody to be at the helm that cared right, 83 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: that cared about all of us. You know, it's funny 84 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: because I say that often the best thing that ever 85 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: happened to Bush, right to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 86 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. Because there were times during the Trump 87 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: adustration that I actually longed for there to be a 88 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: Bush because there's one thing. The man was a liar, 89 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: brought us into wars that cost people's lives and tens 90 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. But I never actually believed that 91 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: he wasn't a patriot. I didn't believe that he wanted 92 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: ill on the public, that he wished for it, that 93 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: he applauded it, that he was excited by it. But 94 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: that's exactly who Donald Trump showed himself to be. So 95 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: when you see Joe Biden on those steps of the 96 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: Capitol building that not days before had been covered with 97 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: thousands of people in their Maga hats, with their angry faces, 98 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: their rage, right the building of the guillotine, and now 99 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: you see this man, you think to yourself, we've won. 100 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: The people are victorious. Well, folks, I don't know about you, 101 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: but three hundred and sixty five days later, I don't 102 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,679 Speaker 1: have that same energy, I don't have that same belief. 103 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: I don't feel victorious because if this, if this feeling, 104 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: this sense of deep anxiety, this sense of fear about 105 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: just watching in front of our eyes our country crumble, 106 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: and thinking right foolishly that we believe that democracy was 107 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: just the way things were, you know, kind of like breathing. 108 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: You don't really concentrate on it or think about it 109 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: unless you're in deep meditation or you're working out, or 110 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: you're running for something and you lose breath. Right, It's 111 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: just something that goes until it's gone on, right, And 112 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: that's the same thing about our democracy is that we 113 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: didn't think about it. We weren't educated to think about it, 114 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: to think about democracy being something that you need to 115 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: be vigilant of, something that is sacred, that needs protection, right, 116 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: and that at times will need expansion. Because the idea 117 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: that we had two hundred and seventy something years ago, 118 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 1: that the Founding Fathers had about democracy while they were 119 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: holding enslaved Africans, is different than the democracy that we 120 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: understand now. But here's the thing. We didn't pay attention. 121 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: And I thought that by the election of Biden I 122 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: know that many people, kind of like myself, wanted to 123 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: go go back to doing anything else. Now politics is 124 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: my job, but there are a variety of things that 125 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: I could talk about other than the federal government, other 126 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: than right preserving our democracy. So my hope was that 127 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: we'd have inauguration, we would have some grown ups in 128 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: charge of COVID, so we would get this vaccine together, 129 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: the rollout would go well, the communication would be out 130 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: of the gate, because what we had learned right over 131 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: the last four years is how fast misinformation spreads and 132 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: that it is a cancer on our democracy. So the 133 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: thing that has always been the achilles heel of the 134 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: Democratic Party would in fact be what guides us, which 135 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: would be our messaging. Well, that's not exactly what happened, right, 136 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: And I'm going to look at some standouts for me 137 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: that will have me provide my overall grade for this 138 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: administration in their first year. And it's difficult because I 139 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: told all of you during the course of Trump's years 140 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: and heading into the election, you need to vote. You 141 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: got to register, you got to get your people, you 142 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: got to talk to them, you got to drive them 143 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: to the polls. You got to do whatever it is 144 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: you got to donate, you know, do whatever it is 145 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: that you can have control over. Do it. So when 146 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: I say with a heavy heart that this administration to 147 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: me is currently failing, I don't say it to be glib. 148 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: I don't say it with joy because unlike Republicans, their failure, 149 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: this administration's failure is the country's failure, is democracy's failure. 150 00:11:54,920 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: We're not getting another shot, and I don't believe through 151 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: the actions of this administration that they get that. I 152 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: think that the way that both the Administration and the 153 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: Senate is operating is as if they have all the 154 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: time in the world. Is as if oh America, white 155 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: America has just been under some type of radicalized extremist hypnotism. 156 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: But the more, you know, we talk and say nothing 157 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: and actually do nothing, the more they'll come around. Because 158 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: you see, the assumption was that once Trump was voted 159 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: out in his first term, that, like I said, Republicans 160 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: would offer up their autopsy and they would go running 161 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 1: from that man. But they didn't. They doubled and they 162 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: tripled down on him. They anointed him as the leader 163 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: of their party. They've turned Marlago into a de facto 164 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: shadow White House, as far as their concerned, because seventy 165 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: one percent of Republicans polled believe that Donald Trump is 166 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: actually the winner of the twenty twenty election. Now we 167 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: can't all just say, well, they're dumb, Oh they all 168 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: you know, they're all under educated, because no they're not. 169 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: Because that's the lie. That's what we like to tell ourselves, 170 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: because we like to believe right that education right or 171 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: lack thereof. Then can part and parcel us away from 172 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: the Trumper right versus the rest of us. But no, 173 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: the Trumper is everyone from the multi billionaire right to 174 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: the lone person on the totem pole right to the 175 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: factory worker that's being denied healthcare but doesn't even want 176 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: the healthcare because the Republicans told them that they shouldn't 177 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: want it, so they vote against their own best interest. 178 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: It is all of those people, right. But when we 179 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: minimize it and we say, oh, it's just those you know, 180 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: people in the rust belt, the flyover states, those that 181 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: you know, the factory jobs are gone and so they're 182 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: hanging on to their white rage. No it's not just them. 183 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: It's the CEOs in the c suites. It's the you know, 184 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: the very very wealthy owners of the NFL teams, nine 185 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: I think or ten of which are major Trump owners. Right, 186 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:24,479 Speaker 1: So we don't. It doesn't assuage our fears or frustration 187 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: or anger when we lie about who these people actually are. 188 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: But the point being that the belief that I was 189 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: holding onto the faith right, the hope, was that once 190 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: we got over the hump, got people vaccinated after living 191 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: in such distress that just a trip to the grocery 192 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: store could send you to your deathbed, that we would 193 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: see some relief, that we would see the country begin 194 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: to make a turn for the better. Well, I mean, 195 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: as we all can see, that was just wishful thinking. 196 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: These people have doubled down on a fucking virus like 197 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: they are putting their own children and themselves in harm's 198 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: way because Donald Trump told them to. And there is 199 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: nothing right. There is nothing that you're going to do 200 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: to change those people's minds. So what about the fifty 201 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: million people that were eligible to vote but didn't. But 202 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: here we are a year later, sixty two point nine 203 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: percent of the population is vaccinated. Sixty two point nine 204 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: We are the lowest vaccination country in the developed world. 205 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: The only person that is worse than the United States 206 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: is the Republican Party's country of origin at this point 207 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: in time. Russia. Never in my lifetime, outside of fucking 208 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: Olympic gymnastics, has Russia, right, has Russia being a little 209 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: bit better than the United States. But here we are, 210 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: and we can't just blame it on Trump. And this 211 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: is where it's going to get really uncomfortable, folks, because 212 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm big on blaming a lot of things on Trump, 213 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: because a lot of things are his fucking fault, right, 214 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: But can we blame the inability of this administration to 215 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: get their messaging together, to figure out how to use 216 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: the Republican web of deceit to actually activate right those 217 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: that are upheld in society, whether it be celebrity or 218 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: thought leaders or people that we are endeared to to 219 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: be spreading the message. Just how Steve Bannon has said, 220 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: go state to state, We're going village to village. We're 221 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: taken over this bitch, just as he has said that, 222 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,959 Speaker 1: why didn't Democrats take that same approach? Why was it 223 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: months of delays in communities of color to get them 224 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: access to vaccinations that are still COVID nineteen is still 225 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: killing black and brown people at a faster rate than 226 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: any other group. So you know, it isn't fair for 227 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: us to say that, oh well, they inherited so much, 228 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: so we need to give them more time. When folks, 229 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: we don't have more time. We are running out of time. 230 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: And if you ask me, they wasted a lot of 231 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: their first year, right. You know, it was first we 232 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: needed to stop the bleeding of COVID nineteen and get 233 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 1: vaccines out, get shots and arms. They bungled that messaging. 234 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: They bungled getting it out. Okay, by summertime they had 235 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: may had a course correction, and you know, by the 236 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: time that we got to the fall, it was supposed 237 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: to be going better. Sixty two point nine has been 238 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: the number stuck on my television screen, not budging. We 239 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: now the United States has had peaked surpassed twenty twenty 240 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: hospitalization numbers. How is that possible when in twenty twenty one, 241 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: thank god for science, we were gifted with not one, 242 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: not two, but three four different vaccines from four different companies. 243 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: But we have reached a peak in terms of our 244 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 1: hospitalization That makes twenty twenty look like it was child's play. 245 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: If that is not a wake up call, because here's 246 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: the thing, Republicans are able to use that because they 247 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: will use anything and everything, the truth, a lie, it 248 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But how is it that the Biden administration 249 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: comes in and says that they're going to be the 250 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: grown ups in the room, They're going to follow the science. 251 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: And I've lost more faith of the CDC during the 252 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: first year and the Biden administration than I had during 253 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: Trump's last year in office. The fumbled messages, the take 254 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: off the mask, put the mask on, social distance, don't 255 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: social distance, get vaccinated? Everything is okay? Oop, it's not. 256 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: And like I say every week, there needs to be 257 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: a level of nimbleness in terms of what it is 258 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: that we take in from this administration and from the 259 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: CDC and the World Health Organization because they are learning 260 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: in real time. But it is the rush, right. It 261 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: is the rush to dangle the carrot in front of 262 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: the people that are literally slapping it out of your 263 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: out of their face, right, and the messaging to those 264 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: people instead of those that are actually open to listening 265 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: to you. It was the rush to say, oh yeah, 266 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: rip your mask off, because you thought that that was 267 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: going to be an incentive to get these people who 268 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: never were wearing a mask in the first fucking place 269 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. How did that make sense? Because those 270 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: of us that were doing the quote unquote ripe thing 271 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: that we were following all of the guidelines, you made 272 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: the rest of us look fucking dumb, only backtrack a 273 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: couple of months later and say, oh shit, now we 274 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: got Delta. Oh shit, now we got omicron. Look. I 275 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: know that everybody is sick of COVID. I'm fucking sick 276 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: of COVID. I'm sick of being in the house, But 277 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: I know that many people are still out there living 278 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: their lives, which is why our hospital systems are on 279 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: the fucking brink. The least I can do is stay 280 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: my ass at home, right. But the least that this 281 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: administration could have done was put together their fucking binders 282 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: of plans that were that were about right communication and 283 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: who we're talking to and why and every single day. 284 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: You know, my co host on Democracy is brought up 285 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: a really good point. He said, you know, maybe it's corny, 286 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: maybe it's not, but I really wish that Biden would 287 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: be out doing these fireside chats every week. I wish 288 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: that they would utilize the Vice president to be out 289 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: there talking to people every single day, Instagram Live, Facebook Live, TikTok, 290 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: whatever the fuck it is that you're doing, but doing 291 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: it on a regular You know, you can say a lot, 292 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: and there is a lot to be said about Governor Cuomo, right, 293 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: former governor of New York. But I tell you what 294 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: I didn't miss during twenty twenty was one of his 295 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: press conferences, because every day he was giving vital information 296 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: and every day he was out there communicating to the people, 297 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: so much so that every news station was stopping what 298 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: they were covering any time that he walked in to 299 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: sit down to do a pressor. You tell me why 300 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: the President of the United States is not doing that 301 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, right, and then designating his vice 302 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: president other cabinet members to be doing the same thing 303 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: so that they are covering all of their bases every 304 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: single fucking day of the week. The Governor of New York, right, 305 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: was handling being at the epicenter of something we'd never 306 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: seen before. So of course there were other things that 307 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: he could have been doing, but he recognized the importance 308 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: of comforting people but also messaging every single day. If 309 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: you know that you are working up against a misinformation machine, 310 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 1: then tell me, Explain to me why you wouldn't prioritize 311 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: being in people's fucking living rooms, in their pockets, on 312 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: the train with them doing podcasts every day. Tell me 313 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: why messaging and communication wouldn't be at the top of 314 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: every single thing it is that you're doing. So when 315 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: it comes to the vaccine roll out and the messaging 316 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: and communication around that, I give this administration for their 317 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:06,239 Speaker 1: year one a D plus. Let's move on now to 318 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: climate change. The climate crisis. Twenty twenty one on par 319 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: with twenty twenty saw once again, once in a lifetime 320 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: using air quotes, once in a lifetime, fire season, hurricane season, 321 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: tornado season that wiped out tens of millions of dollars 322 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: worth of poems, thousands and thousands and thousands of acres 323 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: of forestry. The tornadoes which we saw just a couple 324 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: of weeks ago, ravage entire towns. I mean, you saw 325 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: tornado after tornado after tornado touched down, right, where are 326 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: those people getting the money to rebuild? You think? Do 327 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: we think in America that FEMA is what like like 328 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: a bottomless mimosa brunch, right, Like you just keep pouring in, 329 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: You just keep pouring it pouring, it pouring in, and 330 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: it's always going to flow. No, that's not how it works. 331 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: And so when we think about all of these crises, 332 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: if you have no shared value for humanity or the 333 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: planet and you just don't give a fuck, right, which 334 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: is the Republican Party, then you're just going to keep extracting. 335 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: You're gonna keep burning, You're gonna keep doing what it 336 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: is that you're doing until there's nothing left. Right. I mean, 337 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: this again reminds me of that brilliant scene. God and 338 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: I sat there watching don't look up that brilliant scene 339 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: and don't look up where they're about to blow up 340 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: the comment that is headed towards Earth, and they got 341 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: all the torpedoes, and you know, they're like, oh my god, 342 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna save humanity, We're gonna save the planet. And 343 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: then the billionaire walks in and pulls Meryl Streep to 344 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: the side the president in the film and says, oh, 345 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: but there is money to be made, right, So this 346 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 1: is a really refined piece of rocks. So we gotta 347 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,199 Speaker 1: we can't just blow it up, you know, we we 348 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: gotta we gotta take it. You know, we could we 349 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: could be trillionaires and literally capitalism kills us right abort 350 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: the mission to save the planet in the hope that 351 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: this billionaire is not only going to save us but 352 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: also get rich doing it. And you know, I think 353 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: about that when we look at climate change, it's like, 354 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: if it's not a moral imperative for you, then it 355 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: should be an economic one. Because we do not have 356 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: a bottomless pit, a fucking money tree growing at the 357 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: center of America that we can dish out billions to 358 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: back to back historic storms and historic fires like. We 359 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: don't have it. So what's going to end up happening 360 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: is that these communities that get ravaged and the more 361 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: and more that the temperatures change, and then all of 362 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: a sudden, we're farmers and not you know, little farmers, 363 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: because we don't have that anymore. But big agriculture is 364 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: not going to be able to guestimate when they are harvesting, 365 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: when they are planting because the fucking climate will have changed. 366 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: So then what is going to happen. We're going to 367 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: have food shortage, right we already have supply chain issues 368 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: that we're dealing with right now. For the first time 369 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: in America, you're walking into grocery stores or pharmacies, and 370 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: guess what the items that you're looking for, they on 371 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: on at the shelf. And it's not just because oh 372 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: they in the back and nobody put them on shelves. 373 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: Yet they're no I are in fucking sight, and you 374 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: don't know when they're coming. Well, imagine that now happening. 375 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: But with your food, right, with your milk, with your 376 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, nourishment. Imagine now, because this is what happened 377 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: to me the other day. I love grapes. I'm a 378 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 1: big fan. Love. Every time I go into the kitchen, 379 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: I pop at least two three in the mouth. Well, 380 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: I am one of those people who, pre pandemic would 381 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: just roll into the grocery store. I don't really look 382 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: at prices. I recognize my privilege in that way. I 383 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: go in and I get what I want. I decide 384 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: when I'm going to cook at home, and then I 385 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: go into the grocery store. Boom boom boom, put all 386 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: the stuff in my cart, go to the checkout. They 387 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: tell me what the bill is, I pay it, keep 388 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: it moving. Very fortunate in that way. That is not 389 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: the light of a majority of Americans. The other day, however, 390 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: I went to my local veggie market and I got 391 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: to the checkout and I only had but a couple 392 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: of things. I had, like a bushel of kale. I 393 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: had some Brussels sprouts, some broccoli, and grapes forty five dollars. 394 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: I look at the cashier, I said, why is this 395 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: forty five dollars? I have literally four items, and she's like, oh, 396 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: so sorry, but the grapes they're fifteen dollars. Fifteen fucking dollars. 397 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: I was on the phone with my sister as I 398 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: was shopping, and I said, do we still grows shit 399 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: in America? Why the fuck would I pay fifteen dollars 400 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: four thing of grapes? And so we end up getting 401 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: into a whole conversation about how wild this is, and 402 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: she's like, I know, look at the prices of other 403 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: things too. Go to the meat section, look at the 404 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: price of meat. Go to this section, look at the 405 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: price of this. So all of a sudden, now I'm 406 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: like coupon Clara walking around a grocery store in shock 407 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: at the prices of some of the ship that is 408 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: on the shelves, Like, whoa, I haven't seen those kind 409 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: of prices except for when I'm traveling outside of the 410 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: United States and people are trying to import the things 411 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: that we make in the US to their country. And 412 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: then you're seeing You're like, why is this can of 413 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: coke seven dollars? Right? That's where we are, and we're 414 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: headed in that direction, and it's going to get worse. 415 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: People are bitching about gas prices right from this time 416 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: to last year. From right now to last year, you're 417 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: looking at a little over a dollar increase. Well, when 418 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the produce, right, I'm looking at meats, 419 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: and you're not just looking at a dollar increase. You're 420 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: looking at like three four, five, six and up increase. 421 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: That is only going to get worse because our ability 422 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: to be able to grow things right is going to 423 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: lesson the season's right for food production are going to 424 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: begin to shrink, which means that the prices are going 425 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: to go up. But here we had within the infrastructure bill, 426 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: the one that actually did get pass climate change policies 427 00:31:53,400 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: in there, and guess who gutted it, King Cole Joe 428 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: Mansion because you see, his son owns a multimillion dollar 429 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: energy company which is really just a coal company in 430 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: coal country. And if we put any regulations that would 431 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: have us, the rest of us breathe clearer air and 432 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: you know, slow the pace of our climate crisis. Well, 433 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: then Joe Mansion wouldn't be able to live on a yacht, right, 434 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: His wife wouldn't be bringing in over six hundred thousand 435 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: dollars a year, right, his son and his daughter like, 436 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: they wouldn't be making millions. So who cares if the 437 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: country half the country is either underwater or in flames 438 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: for a majority of the year. So long as he 439 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: continues to make bank right, we let him do that, 440 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,239 Speaker 1: all in the sake of the Biden administration having a 441 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: by Hartisan win. And then we blamed it on the progressives. Oh, 442 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: they don't want to get anything done, except for the 443 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: fact that progressive is the only thing that they have 444 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: wanted to get done is actually Joe Biden's agenda. What 445 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: Joe Mansion wants to get done is Joe Mansion's agenda. 446 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: The two are not the same. So when I'm offering 447 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: now my grade for the Biden administration on climate change 448 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: D plus barely passing, I mean, they did go visit 449 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: these devastated areas, and they do talk tough about climate change. 450 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: They just don't do shit. I mean, Joe Biden did 451 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: go to you know, the g Summit, right, and we'll 452 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: go to the Paris Accord, and we'll go to these 453 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: places and take those wonderful pictures with leaders of the 454 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: quote unquote free world. But they won't actually do anything 455 00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: because it's not going to allow them to make money, right, 456 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: They're not going to disrupt their bottom line just to 457 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:12,720 Speaker 1: what have clean air, have clean water? Not so much 458 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 1: so this administration. You know, they get a D plus 459 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,959 Speaker 1: in climate change because they talk tough, but they don't 460 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: do shit around it. And they keep telling us the 461 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: problem is so big, right, but their solutions are so 462 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: fucking small. Next up, immigration reform. So during the Trump administration, 463 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: we know that cruelty indeed was the point, right that 464 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: the last administration didn't even see undocumented people as actually people. Right. 465 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: We ripped children away from their mothers while they were breastfeeding. 466 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 1: We put children in cages. And once again you see 467 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: white Americans saying, this is not who we are. And 468 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: then I think to myself, slavery, what are you talking about? 469 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: I think to myself, the Native Americans that were stolen 470 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: from their homes and put in these residential schools where 471 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: they were beaten, raped, and murdered. This country has has 472 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:35,879 Speaker 1: a very, very long history of taking children away from 473 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: people of color, whether you are locking their parents up 474 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: in jail on trumped up drug charges because you want 475 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: to have a war on crime. Where a war on 476 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: drugs when it is the crack epidemic affecting black and 477 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: brown people, but then it's a crisis when it is 478 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: affecting white people. Sure, in this area, I give the 479 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: Biden administration a C plus. Now, my friends who work 480 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:15,760 Speaker 1: in immigration reform probably would not Why because Joe Biden 481 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 1: said that he would stop deportations. Well, it wasn't so 482 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: long ago that we saw thousands of Haitian refugees being 483 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 1: scooped up and sent back to their devastated country that 484 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 1: it had been hit by yet another natural disaster with 485 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 1: COVID raging and an assassinated president. But we scooped him up, 486 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: sent them right back. No ability to apply for asylum, 487 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: no let us hold them, no, no nothing. But Joe 488 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,000 Speaker 1: Biden said that he was going to stop those deportations, 489 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:03,839 Speaker 1: right that America should be safe haven. Okay, I give 490 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: him a C plus because we know and probably won't 491 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,879 Speaker 1: really really truly know for years how many children were 492 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 1: stolen from their parents during the Trump administration with no documentation, 493 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: meaning that the Trump administration actually took no documentation, like 494 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 1: they couldn't even put together a Google Excel sprights sheet 495 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,399 Speaker 1: that would allow us to know who the child is, 496 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: what area did they come into, who were they with? Right, 497 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: so that there was going to be a reunification plan, 498 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,319 Speaker 1: but the Trump administration had no desire and was not 499 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 1: going to attempt to reunify these people. Punishment was the 500 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 1: point this administration. However, to date, I believe have reunited 501 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: over five hundred children with their families and have made 502 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,319 Speaker 1: it a point to do so. Are looking to pay 503 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: restitution to those parents. Now once again, as a black 504 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,960 Speaker 1: queer woman in America, I'm still looking for what restitution 505 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: you are paying to Black Americans for ripping them away 506 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 1: from their families over the courses of hundreds of years. 507 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: But I digress. So in that area, the restitution, the 508 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: acknowledgment of the cruelty trying to unite these kids, well, 509 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,720 Speaker 1: all right, I bring them down to a C minus 510 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,840 Speaker 1: because I'm adding in all of the other deportations, and 511 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: you know, the fact that while I love Obama, if 512 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,760 Speaker 1: you talk to immigration activists, Obama deported more people than 513 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 1: anybody else. And that's very real. Okay, So so far, 514 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: we have a D plus for vaccination rollout and messaging, 515 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 1: We have a D plus for climate change just because 516 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: of the tough talk, and we have a C for immigration. Now, 517 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: let's go to police reform. Now, if you remember Joe 518 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: Biden's presidential campaign, his opening solved to the American people 519 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,719 Speaker 1: was that he was going to be fighting for the 520 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 1: soul of America. You saw in his announcement video pictures 521 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,719 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty Uprising protests. You saw police, you 522 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 1: saw Black Lives Matter signs, you saw all of these things. 523 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 1: And he said that we are going to pass the 524 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:48,439 Speaker 1: George Floyd Police Reform Legislation. Well eight months into that 525 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: failed experiment between that was supposed to be negotiated between 526 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 1: Senator Corey Booker and Black Republican Tim scott Um, they 527 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: announced their failure. Over the summer, came out in a 528 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:13,120 Speaker 1: press conference, said they're over here. I'm over here. We're 529 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: not We're not getting to are They're there? Wait? What 530 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: I thought he was going to battle for the soul 531 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: of America. I thought that we were going to do 532 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 1: something about the quote unquote bad apples. It's not enough 533 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 1: to just get a conviction for Derek Chauvin, right, or 534 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,840 Speaker 1: the McMichaels that killed Ahmad Aubrey. Like we're talking about 535 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,839 Speaker 1: institutional change. We're talking about qualified immunity and the fact 536 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,839 Speaker 1: that you should have the ability to fucking sue a 537 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:57,560 Speaker 1: police officer for wrong, for death, right for murder. No. 538 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: Eight months that tossed up their hands. That legislation is dead. 539 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 1: So what does this administration get for putting absolutely no 540 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,600 Speaker 1: weight behind it but just saying, ah, shucks, better luck 541 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:16,319 Speaker 1: next time another unarmed black person is killed slowly, painfully 542 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: for the world to watch for nearly nine minutes. Then 543 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: voting rights, well, that is playing out on your screens 544 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,800 Speaker 1: right now. And what do we know. Everything that is 545 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,839 Speaker 1: being done in the Senate, every little maneuver that Chuck 546 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,880 Speaker 1: Schumer is making, is nothing but symbolism. They aren't going 547 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 1: to do a rules change, They are not voting to 548 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: take down the filibuster, they are not going to pass 549 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: voting rights. And frankly, the Democrats as a whole have 550 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,880 Speaker 1: failed failed miserably in the messaging of that because they've 551 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,880 Speaker 1: made it a black and brown issue as opposed to 552 00:41:52,920 --> 00:42:00,840 Speaker 1: a democratic issue. Right, this administration was pretty much on 553 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,520 Speaker 1: voting rights, really loved to wield it around, talking about 554 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,120 Speaker 1: John Lewis, and particularly in South Carolina, in the state 555 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,880 Speaker 1: that got Joe Biden elected to be president, right because 556 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: without without South Carolina, without Jim Clyburne vouching for Joe Biden, 557 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,520 Speaker 1: he would have lost, He wouldn't have won the primary. 558 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,120 Speaker 1: So he was fine. Joe Biden was fine to talk 559 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: about voting rights, talking about securing democracy. Yeay, yay, yay 560 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:41,840 Speaker 1: blacks and some of you browns too, but then went silent. 561 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,759 Speaker 1: You didn't hear from Joe Biden and voting rights in 562 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 1: the same fucking sentence, let alone coming out of his 563 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:55,799 Speaker 1: mouth until a couple of weeks ago. And it's failing miserably. 564 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:04,759 Speaker 1: So for that, you get a big fucking f for 565 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: fucking our democracy. So what are we looking at, folks. 566 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,520 Speaker 1: We're looking at D plus D plus C minus D 567 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 1: plus F. So you know, there are so many issues 568 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,080 Speaker 1: that I could go down part and parcel once again, 569 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,680 Speaker 1: I would say in judicial nominations, we are doing well 570 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:44,399 Speaker 1: according to polls that are taken that this president has 571 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 1: appointed more people to the federal bench in their first 572 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: year than any other president. So with that, I give 573 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,640 Speaker 1: you an A the one place that you will get 574 00:43:53,680 --> 00:44:00,239 Speaker 1: an A. But taking all of these things together, this 575 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:08,920 Speaker 1: first year is basically a D plus. They are barely 576 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,840 Speaker 1: passing and the poll numbers, and you know how I 577 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 1: feel about polls. But you know, when I look at 578 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: them and I see all the other presidents and what 579 00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,680 Speaker 1: their first term look like, what their first year look like. 580 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,080 Speaker 1: The only person that is lower than Joe Biden is 581 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:36,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So when we're nine months away from midterm elections, 582 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,239 Speaker 1: what do you think that that says about the excitement 583 00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,800 Speaker 1: of the base? What do you think that that says 584 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,640 Speaker 1: about our raw ra feeling that we had in twenty 585 00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,319 Speaker 1: twenty in order to get rid of Donald Trump, or 586 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,399 Speaker 1: the feeling like we had overcome when we finally see 587 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:57,239 Speaker 1: Joe Biden being sworn in after an insurrection. What does 588 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,239 Speaker 1: it say that where his numbers are? What does it 589 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: say that my mother, a staunch Democrat, is like, I 590 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,000 Speaker 1: don't want to watch the news anymore, nor do I 591 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 1: even think that voting matters. Look at where we are 592 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: she's not alone. So where do we go from here, folks? Honestly, 593 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,399 Speaker 1: I really don't know, but I got to tell you that, 594 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: you know, the thing that they need to put up 595 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,400 Speaker 1: on the television screens are a fucking countdown clock to 596 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: midtim elections, because that's when our democracy is really up, 597 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,120 Speaker 1: when the buzzer is going to ring, when the alarm 598 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,600 Speaker 1: will go off and it'll be too late, because as 599 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,840 Speaker 1: soon as Republicans get back into power in Congress, you 600 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: think that government was grinded to a halt. Now just wait, 601 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,480 Speaker 1: just wait for the parade of bullshit hearings that they're 602 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,120 Speaker 1: going to call and air them on television, and it 603 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,520 Speaker 1: just be back to nonsense. And then all of a sudden, 604 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,359 Speaker 1: the mainstream news is going to come out be like 605 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,640 Speaker 1: Republicans they don't seem to care about America so much. Yeah, 606 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:11,560 Speaker 1: you're fucking dummy, they don't. So maybe instead of writing 607 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: peace after peace slamming the Vice President of the United States, 608 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,800 Speaker 1: maybe you would go after Republicans with the same amount 609 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:22,880 Speaker 1: of vigor for ushering in fascism. But I digress, because 610 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,319 Speaker 1: you know ratings, So, folks, I want to hear from 611 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: you today in the comments section or in the tweets, 612 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,120 Speaker 1: tell me what grade you are giving the administration for 613 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,240 Speaker 1: their first year? And why? Right? If it's a tweet, 614 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: you know, make it succinct, but use the hashtag wook 615 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,200 Speaker 1: a f as I do on all of my posts, 616 00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,640 Speaker 1: so that I can lay eyes on it. But I do. 617 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: I want to hear from all of you what grade right? 618 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,120 Speaker 1: And you can use different categories, You don't have to 619 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,879 Speaker 1: use the same ones that I did. But overall, even 620 00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,560 Speaker 1: if you didn't want to go mark by mark, what 621 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,960 Speaker 1: is the overall grade that you would give for this 622 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: administration in their first year? And do you right? Do 623 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,759 Speaker 1: you believe that they can turn things around? That there 624 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,920 Speaker 1: is enough time. I want to hear from each and 625 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:19,920 Speaker 1: every one of you. That is it for me today. 626 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000 Speaker 1: Folks on woke f as always, Power to the people 627 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,600 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay 628 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:29,719 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.