Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live ish from my
Speaker 1: Brooklyn bunker. Folks, today is the day. Today is report
Speaker 1: card Day. It has been three hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: long fucking days of the Biden administration. Before I get
Speaker 1: into my grading, and if you joined my Woke Wednesday,
Speaker 1: you got a preview of what I think about the
Speaker 1: past year under this Biden administration. But before I dive
Speaker 1: into that, I want to take us back. I want
Speaker 1: to go backwards a year. You know, twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: started out on eb Ben in Note with the insurrection,
Speaker 1: and I want us to remember how we felt after
Speaker 1: it was certified that Joe Biden was indeed elected by
Speaker 1: eighty one million Americans to lead our nation. You know,
Speaker 1: coming off of the heels of four years under Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I know that many of you felt battered, bruised, just deflated, right,
Speaker 1: And for me, it was the first time. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to be really, you know, really honest. There have
Speaker 1: been very bad moments in America over my lifetime, as
Speaker 1: I'm sure over yours. It was funny because you know,
Speaker 1: I have been mentioning to some of my friends who
Speaker 1: are younger than me, you know, how are they feeling, Like,
Speaker 1: how are they managing, you know, during this time and
Speaker 1: their life. You know, nine to eleven happened when I
Speaker 1: was a child. Right then we had the bubble burst,
Speaker 1: my family lost their homes, you know, kind of going
Speaker 1: through these categorically horrible times, tumultuous times in our short history.
Speaker 1: If you're a person or you have kids that are
Speaker 1: in their twenties, what they know a lot of like
Speaker 1: what their lifetime has kind of been wrapped around, has
Speaker 1: been a lot of tragedy, right, has been a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things, whether it be terrorist attacks, wars, you know,
Speaker 1: school shootings being the norm, particularly if you are in
Speaker 1: your twenties or or or millennial. You don't know anything
Speaker 1: other than that. And so I want to take us
Speaker 1: back through our feeling. Joe Biden and is elected. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling pretty fucking good. I'm thinking that we've toppled authoritarianism.
Speaker 1: We've toppled this misogynistic, racist piece of garbage, this thief,
Speaker 1: this crook, this liar. Right people stood out in line
Speaker 1: for hours. They put up sixty six court cases, sixty
Speaker 1: six court cases Giuliani would parade into the courts, each
Speaker 1: and every one of them, whether they were Republican appointed
Speaker 1: judges or Democratic judges, kick them out of the courtroom.
Speaker 1: And we're saying, yes, I'm feeling now the Republicans are
Speaker 1: going to probably issue their autopsy and figure out how
Speaker 1: to detach themselves from Donald Trump. And as we're heading
Speaker 1: into inauguration showing the strength of our nation in the
Speaker 1: face of those that would try and overthrow our government.
Speaker 1: The lasting impression that we have of the steps of
Speaker 1: the Capital and the Capitol Building is Inauguration Day, which
Speaker 1: had increased security. If you remember around Washington, DC, I
Speaker 1: mean there were damn near walls. The wall that Trump
Speaker 1: said China that was not China. Mexico was going to
Speaker 1: pay for. We paid for and it wasn't. The wall
Speaker 1: between the United States and Mexico was between the White
Speaker 1: House and the people. So the feelings, right, there were
Speaker 1: so many feels going into inauguration twenty twenty one. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden gives a raucous speech where he says that we
Speaker 1: saw dark days, but you know there is light ahead.
Speaker 1: He gives a raw ross speech. We get to see
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama looking absolutely fabulous. That nothing to do with
Speaker 1: my report card. I'm just just conjuring back an amazing
Speaker 1: memory that plumb outfit my god, monochromatic, I mean the hair.
Speaker 1: So we felt a year ago that we were on
Speaker 1: the ment, that it was going to take a lot
Speaker 1: of work and trials, but that we were going to
Speaker 1: get there, and we were going to do so together
Speaker 1: because we would have realized as a country that what
Speaker 1: we just experienced, what we all had just collectively witnessed,
Speaker 1: is not who we are. The funny thing though, about
Speaker 1: saying that this is not who we are, or that
Speaker 1: we believed that we still shared after four years under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, this shared value of democracy, the shared belief
Speaker 1: right that we are governed by the rule of law,
Speaker 1: that is, we the people that get to decide who
Speaker 1: represents us in our voice, that we believe all collectively
Speaker 1: about the constitution, right that these laws we all have
Speaker 1: decided and pledged allegiance to that guidance. So when Joe
Speaker 1: Biden during inauguration is providing his speech, his vision, his
Speaker 1: picture of America, coming off of this years of feeling depleted, deflated,
Speaker 1: and this desperation for a grown up to be in
Speaker 1: the room, somebody to be at the helm that cared right,
Speaker 1: that cared about all of us. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: because I say that often the best thing that ever
Speaker 1: happened to Bush, right to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. Because there were times during the Trump
Speaker 1: adustration that I actually longed for there to be a
Speaker 1: Bush because there's one thing. The man was a liar,
Speaker 1: brought us into wars that cost people's lives and tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. But I never actually believed that
Speaker 1: he wasn't a patriot. I didn't believe that he wanted
Speaker 1: ill on the public, that he wished for it, that
Speaker 1: he applauded it, that he was excited by it. But
Speaker 1: that's exactly who Donald Trump showed himself to be. So
Speaker 1: when you see Joe Biden on those steps of the
Speaker 1: Capitol building that not days before had been covered with
Speaker 1: thousands of people in their Maga hats, with their angry faces,
Speaker 1: their rage, right the building of the guillotine, and now
Speaker 1: you see this man, you think to yourself, we've won.
Speaker 1: The people are victorious. Well, folks, I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but three hundred and sixty five days later, I don't
Speaker 1: have that same energy, I don't have that same belief.
Speaker 1: I don't feel victorious because if this, if this feeling,
Speaker 1: this sense of deep anxiety, this sense of fear about
Speaker 1: just watching in front of our eyes our country crumble,
Speaker 1: and thinking right foolishly that we believe that democracy was
Speaker 1: just the way things were, you know, kind of like breathing.
Speaker 1: You don't really concentrate on it or think about it
Speaker 1: unless you're in deep meditation or you're working out, or
Speaker 1: you're running for something and you lose breath. Right, It's
Speaker 1: just something that goes until it's gone on, right, And
Speaker 1: that's the same thing about our democracy is that we
Speaker 1: didn't think about it. We weren't educated to think about it,
Speaker 1: to think about democracy being something that you need to
Speaker 1: be vigilant of, something that is sacred, that needs protection, right,
Speaker 1: and that at times will need expansion. Because the idea
Speaker 1: that we had two hundred and seventy something years ago,
Speaker 1: that the Founding Fathers had about democracy while they were
Speaker 1: holding enslaved Africans, is different than the democracy that we
Speaker 1: understand now. But here's the thing. We didn't pay attention.
Speaker 1: And I thought that by the election of Biden I
Speaker 1: know that many people, kind of like myself, wanted to
Speaker 1: go go back to doing anything else. Now politics is
Speaker 1: my job, but there are a variety of things that
Speaker 1: I could talk about other than the federal government, other
Speaker 1: than right preserving our democracy. So my hope was that
Speaker 1: we'd have inauguration, we would have some grown ups in
Speaker 1: charge of COVID, so we would get this vaccine together,
Speaker 1: the rollout would go well, the communication would be out
Speaker 1: of the gate, because what we had learned right over
Speaker 1: the last four years is how fast misinformation spreads and
Speaker 1: that it is a cancer on our democracy. So the
Speaker 1: thing that has always been the achilles heel of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party would in fact be what guides us, which
Speaker 1: would be our messaging. Well, that's not exactly what happened, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm going to look at some standouts for me
Speaker 1: that will have me provide my overall grade for this
Speaker 1: administration in their first year. And it's difficult because I
Speaker 1: told all of you during the course of Trump's years
Speaker 1: and heading into the election, you need to vote. You
Speaker 1: got to register, you got to get your people, you
Speaker 1: got to talk to them, you got to drive them
Speaker 1: to the polls. You got to do whatever it is
Speaker 1: you got to donate, you know, do whatever it is
Speaker 1: that you can have control over. Do it. So when
Speaker 1: I say with a heavy heart that this administration to
Speaker 1: me is currently failing, I don't say it to be glib.
Speaker 1: I don't say it with joy because unlike Republicans, their failure,
Speaker 1: this administration's failure is the country's failure, is democracy's failure.
Speaker 1: We're not getting another shot, and I don't believe through
Speaker 1: the actions of this administration that they get that. I
Speaker 1: think that the way that both the Administration and the
Speaker 1: Senate is operating is as if they have all the
Speaker 1: time in the world. Is as if oh America, white
Speaker 1: America has just been under some type of radicalized extremist hypnotism.
Speaker 1: But the more, you know, we talk and say nothing
Speaker 1: and actually do nothing, the more they'll come around. Because
Speaker 1: you see, the assumption was that once Trump was voted
Speaker 1: out in his first term, that, like I said, Republicans
Speaker 1: would offer up their autopsy and they would go running
Speaker 1: from that man. But they didn't. They doubled and they
Speaker 1: tripled down on him. They anointed him as the leader
Speaker 1: of their party. They've turned Marlago into a de facto
Speaker 1: shadow White House, as far as their concerned, because seventy
Speaker 1: one percent of Republicans polled believe that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: actually the winner of the twenty twenty election. Now we
Speaker 1: can't all just say, well, they're dumb, Oh they all
Speaker 1: you know, they're all under educated, because no they're not.
Speaker 1: Because that's the lie. That's what we like to tell ourselves,
Speaker 1: because we like to believe right that education right or
Speaker 1: lack thereof. Then can part and parcel us away from
Speaker 1: the Trumper right versus the rest of us. But no,
Speaker 1: the Trumper is everyone from the multi billionaire right to
Speaker 1: the lone person on the totem pole right to the
Speaker 1: factory worker that's being denied healthcare but doesn't even want
Speaker 1: the healthcare because the Republicans told them that they shouldn't
Speaker 1: want it, so they vote against their own best interest.
Speaker 1: It is all of those people, right. But when we
Speaker 1: minimize it and we say, oh, it's just those you know,
Speaker 1: people in the rust belt, the flyover states, those that
Speaker 1: you know, the factory jobs are gone and so they're
Speaker 1: hanging on to their white rage. No it's not just them.
Speaker 1: It's the CEOs in the c suites. It's the you know,
Speaker 1: the very very wealthy owners of the NFL teams, nine
Speaker 1: I think or ten of which are major Trump owners. Right,
Speaker 1: So we don't. It doesn't assuage our fears or frustration
Speaker 1: or anger when we lie about who these people actually are.
Speaker 1: But the point being that the belief that I was
Speaker 1: holding onto the faith right, the hope, was that once
Speaker 1: we got over the hump, got people vaccinated after living
Speaker 1: in such distress that just a trip to the grocery
Speaker 1: store could send you to your deathbed, that we would
Speaker 1: see some relief, that we would see the country begin
Speaker 1: to make a turn for the better. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: as we all can see, that was just wishful thinking.
Speaker 1: These people have doubled down on a fucking virus like
Speaker 1: they are putting their own children and themselves in harm's
Speaker 1: way because Donald Trump told them to. And there is
Speaker 1: nothing right. There is nothing that you're going to do
Speaker 1: to change those people's minds. So what about the fifty
Speaker 1: million people that were eligible to vote but didn't. But
Speaker 1: here we are a year later, sixty two point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the population is vaccinated. Sixty two point nine
Speaker 1: We are the lowest vaccination country in the developed world.
Speaker 1: The only person that is worse than the United States
Speaker 1: is the Republican Party's country of origin at this point
Speaker 1: in time. Russia. Never in my lifetime, outside of fucking
Speaker 1: Olympic gymnastics, has Russia, right, has Russia being a little
Speaker 1: bit better than the United States. But here we are,
Speaker 1: and we can't just blame it on Trump. And this
Speaker 1: is where it's going to get really uncomfortable, folks, because
Speaker 1: I'm big on blaming a lot of things on Trump,
Speaker 1: because a lot of things are his fucking fault, right,
Speaker 1: But can we blame the inability of this administration to
Speaker 1: get their messaging together, to figure out how to use
Speaker 1: the Republican web of deceit to actually activate right those
Speaker 1: that are upheld in society, whether it be celebrity or
Speaker 1: thought leaders or people that we are endeared to to
Speaker 1: be spreading the message. Just how Steve Bannon has said,
Speaker 1: go state to state, We're going village to village. We're
Speaker 1: taken over this bitch, just as he has said that,
Speaker 1: why didn't Democrats take that same approach? Why was it
Speaker 1: months of delays in communities of color to get them
Speaker 1: access to vaccinations that are still COVID nineteen is still
Speaker 1: killing black and brown people at a faster rate than
Speaker 1: any other group. So you know, it isn't fair for
Speaker 1: us to say that, oh well, they inherited so much,
Speaker 1: so we need to give them more time. When folks,
Speaker 1: we don't have more time. We are running out of time.
Speaker 1: And if you ask me, they wasted a lot of
Speaker 1: their first year, right. You know, it was first we
Speaker 1: needed to stop the bleeding of COVID nineteen and get
Speaker 1: vaccines out, get shots and arms. They bungled that messaging.
Speaker 1: They bungled getting it out. Okay, by summertime they had
Speaker 1: may had a course correction, and you know, by the
Speaker 1: time that we got to the fall, it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be going better. Sixty two point nine has been
Speaker 1: the number stuck on my television screen, not budging. We
Speaker 1: now the United States has had peaked surpassed twenty twenty
Speaker 1: hospitalization numbers. How is that possible when in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: thank god for science, we were gifted with not one,
Speaker 1: not two, but three four different vaccines from four different companies.
Speaker 1: But we have reached a peak in terms of our
Speaker 1: hospitalization That makes twenty twenty look like it was child's play.
Speaker 1: If that is not a wake up call, because here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Republicans are able to use that because they
Speaker 1: will use anything and everything, the truth, a lie, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But how is it that the Biden administration
Speaker 1: comes in and says that they're going to be the
Speaker 1: grown ups in the room, They're going to follow the science.
Speaker 1: And I've lost more faith of the CDC during the
Speaker 1: first year and the Biden administration than I had during
Speaker 1: Trump's last year in office. The fumbled messages, the take
Speaker 1: off the mask, put the mask on, social distance, don't
Speaker 1: social distance, get vaccinated? Everything is okay? Oop, it's not.
Speaker 1: And like I say every week, there needs to be
Speaker 1: a level of nimbleness in terms of what it is
Speaker 1: that we take in from this administration and from the
Speaker 1: CDC and the World Health Organization because they are learning
Speaker 1: in real time. But it is the rush, right. It
Speaker 1: is the rush to dangle the carrot in front of
Speaker 1: the people that are literally slapping it out of your
Speaker 1: out of their face, right, and the messaging to those
Speaker 1: people instead of those that are actually open to listening
Speaker 1: to you. It was the rush to say, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: rip your mask off, because you thought that that was
Speaker 1: going to be an incentive to get these people who
Speaker 1: never were wearing a mask in the first fucking place
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. How did that make sense? Because those
Speaker 1: of us that were doing the quote unquote ripe thing
Speaker 1: that we were following all of the guidelines, you made
Speaker 1: the rest of us look fucking dumb, only backtrack a
Speaker 1: couple of months later and say, oh shit, now we
Speaker 1: got Delta. Oh shit, now we got omicron. Look. I
Speaker 1: know that everybody is sick of COVID. I'm fucking sick
Speaker 1: of COVID. I'm sick of being in the house, But
Speaker 1: I know that many people are still out there living
Speaker 1: their lives, which is why our hospital systems are on
Speaker 1: the fucking brink. The least I can do is stay
Speaker 1: my ass at home, right. But the least that this
Speaker 1: administration could have done was put together their fucking binders
Speaker 1: of plans that were that were about right communication and
Speaker 1: who we're talking to and why and every single day.
Speaker 1: You know, my co host on Democracy is brought up
Speaker 1: a really good point. He said, you know, maybe it's corny,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not, but I really wish that Biden would
Speaker 1: be out doing these fireside chats every week. I wish
Speaker 1: that they would utilize the Vice president to be out
Speaker 1: there talking to people every single day, Instagram Live, Facebook Live, TikTok,
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck it is that you're doing, but doing
Speaker 1: it on a regular You know, you can say a lot,
Speaker 1: and there is a lot to be said about Governor Cuomo, right,
Speaker 1: former governor of New York. But I tell you what
Speaker 1: I didn't miss during twenty twenty was one of his
Speaker 1: press conferences, because every day he was giving vital information
Speaker 1: and every day he was out there communicating to the people,
Speaker 1: so much so that every news station was stopping what
Speaker 1: they were covering any time that he walked in to
Speaker 1: sit down to do a pressor. You tell me why
Speaker 1: the President of the United States is not doing that
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, right, and then designating his vice
Speaker 1: president other cabinet members to be doing the same thing
Speaker 1: so that they are covering all of their bases every
Speaker 1: single fucking day of the week. The Governor of New York, right,
Speaker 1: was handling being at the epicenter of something we'd never
Speaker 1: seen before. So of course there were other things that
Speaker 1: he could have been doing, but he recognized the importance
Speaker 1: of comforting people but also messaging every single day. If
Speaker 1: you know that you are working up against a misinformation machine,
Speaker 1: then tell me, Explain to me why you wouldn't prioritize
Speaker 1: being in people's fucking living rooms, in their pockets, on
Speaker 1: the train with them doing podcasts every day. Tell me
Speaker 1: why messaging and communication wouldn't be at the top of
Speaker 1: every single thing it is that you're doing. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to the vaccine roll out and the messaging
Speaker 1: and communication around that, I give this administration for their
Speaker 1: year one a D plus. Let's move on now to
Speaker 1: climate change. The climate crisis. Twenty twenty one on par
Speaker 1: with twenty twenty saw once again, once in a lifetime
Speaker 1: using air quotes, once in a lifetime, fire season, hurricane season,
Speaker 1: tornado season that wiped out tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: worth of poems, thousands and thousands and thousands of acres
Speaker 1: of forestry. The tornadoes which we saw just a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, ravage entire towns. I mean, you saw
Speaker 1: tornado after tornado after tornado touched down, right, where are
Speaker 1: those people getting the money to rebuild? You think? Do
Speaker 1: we think in America that FEMA is what like like
Speaker 1: a bottomless mimosa brunch, right, Like you just keep pouring in,
Speaker 1: You just keep pouring it pouring, it pouring in, and
Speaker 1: it's always going to flow. No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 1: And so when we think about all of these crises,
Speaker 1: if you have no shared value for humanity or the
Speaker 1: planet and you just don't give a fuck, right, which
Speaker 1: is the Republican Party, then you're just going to keep extracting.
Speaker 1: You're gonna keep burning, You're gonna keep doing what it
Speaker 1: is that you're doing until there's nothing left. Right. I mean,
Speaker 1: this again reminds me of that brilliant scene. God and
Speaker 1: I sat there watching don't look up that brilliant scene
Speaker 1: and don't look up where they're about to blow up
Speaker 1: the comment that is headed towards Earth, and they got
Speaker 1: all the torpedoes, and you know, they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna save humanity, We're gonna save the planet. And
Speaker 1: then the billionaire walks in and pulls Meryl Streep to
Speaker 1: the side the president in the film and says, oh,
Speaker 1: but there is money to be made, right, So this
Speaker 1: is a really refined piece of rocks. So we gotta
Speaker 1: we can't just blow it up, you know, we we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta take it. You know, we could we
Speaker 1: could be trillionaires and literally capitalism kills us right abort
Speaker 1: the mission to save the planet in the hope that
Speaker 1: this billionaire is not only going to save us but
Speaker 1: also get rich doing it. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: about that when we look at climate change, it's like,
Speaker 1: if it's not a moral imperative for you, then it
Speaker 1: should be an economic one. Because we do not have
Speaker 1: a bottomless pit, a fucking money tree growing at the
Speaker 1: center of America that we can dish out billions to
Speaker 1: back to back historic storms and historic fires like. We
Speaker 1: don't have it. So what's going to end up happening
Speaker 1: is that these communities that get ravaged and the more
Speaker 1: and more that the temperatures change, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we're farmers and not you know, little farmers,
Speaker 1: because we don't have that anymore. But big agriculture is
Speaker 1: not going to be able to guestimate when they are harvesting,
Speaker 1: when they are planting because the fucking climate will have changed.
Speaker 1: So then what is going to happen. We're going to
Speaker 1: have food shortage, right we already have supply chain issues
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with right now. For the first time
Speaker 1: in America, you're walking into grocery stores or pharmacies, and
Speaker 1: guess what the items that you're looking for, they on
Speaker 1: on at the shelf. And it's not just because oh
Speaker 1: they in the back and nobody put them on shelves.
Speaker 1: Yet they're no I are in fucking sight, and you
Speaker 1: don't know when they're coming. Well, imagine that now happening.
Speaker 1: But with your food, right, with your milk, with your
Speaker 1: you know, nourishment. Imagine now, because this is what happened
Speaker 1: to me the other day. I love grapes. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan. Love. Every time I go into the kitchen,
Speaker 1: I pop at least two three in the mouth. Well,
Speaker 1: I am one of those people who, pre pandemic would
Speaker 1: just roll into the grocery store. I don't really look
Speaker 1: at prices. I recognize my privilege in that way. I
Speaker 1: go in and I get what I want. I decide
Speaker 1: when I'm going to cook at home, and then I
Speaker 1: go into the grocery store. Boom boom boom, put all
Speaker 1: the stuff in my cart, go to the checkout. They
Speaker 1: tell me what the bill is, I pay it, keep
Speaker 1: it moving. Very fortunate in that way. That is not
Speaker 1: the light of a majority of Americans. The other day, however,
Speaker 1: I went to my local veggie market and I got
Speaker 1: to the checkout and I only had but a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I had, like a bushel of kale. I
Speaker 1: had some Brussels sprouts, some broccoli, and grapes forty five dollars.
Speaker 1: I look at the cashier, I said, why is this
Speaker 1: forty five dollars? I have literally four items, and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: so sorry, but the grapes they're fifteen dollars. Fifteen fucking dollars.
Speaker 1: I was on the phone with my sister as I
Speaker 1: was shopping, and I said, do we still grows shit
Speaker 1: in America? Why the fuck would I pay fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: four thing of grapes? And so we end up getting
Speaker 1: into a whole conversation about how wild this is, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I know, look at the prices of other
Speaker 1: things too. Go to the meat section, look at the
Speaker 1: price of meat. Go to this section, look at the
Speaker 1: price of this. So all of a sudden, now I'm
Speaker 1: like coupon Clara walking around a grocery store in shock
Speaker 1: at the prices of some of the ship that is
Speaker 1: on the shelves, Like, whoa, I haven't seen those kind
Speaker 1: of prices except for when I'm traveling outside of the
Speaker 1: United States and people are trying to import the things
Speaker 1: that we make in the US to their country. And
Speaker 1: then you're seeing You're like, why is this can of
Speaker 1: coke seven dollars? Right? That's where we are, and we're
Speaker 1: headed in that direction, and it's going to get worse.
Speaker 1: People are bitching about gas prices right from this time
Speaker 1: to last year. From right now to last year, you're
Speaker 1: looking at a little over a dollar increase. Well, when
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the produce, right, I'm looking at meats,
Speaker 1: and you're not just looking at a dollar increase. You're
Speaker 1: looking at like three four, five, six and up increase.
Speaker 1: That is only going to get worse because our ability
Speaker 1: to be able to grow things right is going to
Speaker 1: lesson the season's right for food production are going to
Speaker 1: begin to shrink, which means that the prices are going
Speaker 1: to go up. But here we had within the infrastructure bill,
Speaker 1: the one that actually did get pass climate change policies
Speaker 1: in there, and guess who gutted it, King Cole Joe
Speaker 1: Mansion because you see, his son owns a multimillion dollar
Speaker 1: energy company which is really just a coal company in
Speaker 1: coal country. And if we put any regulations that would
Speaker 1: have us, the rest of us breathe clearer air and
Speaker 1: you know, slow the pace of our climate crisis. Well,
Speaker 1: then Joe Mansion wouldn't be able to live on a yacht, right,
Speaker 1: His wife wouldn't be bringing in over six hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year, right, his son and his daughter like,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be making millions. So who cares if the
Speaker 1: country half the country is either underwater or in flames
Speaker 1: for a majority of the year. So long as he
Speaker 1: continues to make bank right, we let him do that,
Speaker 1: all in the sake of the Biden administration having a
Speaker 1: by Hartisan win. And then we blamed it on the progressives. Oh,
Speaker 1: they don't want to get anything done, except for the
Speaker 1: fact that progressive is the only thing that they have
Speaker 1: wanted to get done is actually Joe Biden's agenda. What
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion wants to get done is Joe Mansion's agenda.
Speaker 1: The two are not the same. So when I'm offering
Speaker 1: now my grade for the Biden administration on climate change
Speaker 1: D plus barely passing, I mean, they did go visit
Speaker 1: these devastated areas, and they do talk tough about climate change.
Speaker 1: They just don't do shit. I mean, Joe Biden did
Speaker 1: go to you know, the g Summit, right, and we'll
Speaker 1: go to the Paris Accord, and we'll go to these
Speaker 1: places and take those wonderful pictures with leaders of the
Speaker 1: quote unquote free world. But they won't actually do anything
Speaker 1: because it's not going to allow them to make money, right,
Speaker 1: They're not going to disrupt their bottom line just to
Speaker 1: what have clean air, have clean water? Not so much
Speaker 1: so this administration. You know, they get a D plus
Speaker 1: in climate change because they talk tough, but they don't
Speaker 1: do shit around it. And they keep telling us the
Speaker 1: problem is so big, right, but their solutions are so
Speaker 1: fucking small. Next up, immigration reform. So during the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: we know that cruelty indeed was the point, right that
Speaker 1: the last administration didn't even see undocumented people as actually people. Right.
Speaker 1: We ripped children away from their mothers while they were breastfeeding.
Speaker 1: We put children in cages. And once again you see
Speaker 1: white Americans saying, this is not who we are. And
Speaker 1: then I think to myself, slavery, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I think to myself, the Native Americans that were stolen
Speaker 1: from their homes and put in these residential schools where
Speaker 1: they were beaten, raped, and murdered. This country has has
Speaker 1: a very, very long history of taking children away from
Speaker 1: people of color, whether you are locking their parents up
Speaker 1: in jail on trumped up drug charges because you want
Speaker 1: to have a war on crime. Where a war on
Speaker 1: drugs when it is the crack epidemic affecting black and
Speaker 1: brown people, but then it's a crisis when it is
Speaker 1: affecting white people. Sure, in this area, I give the
Speaker 1: Biden administration a C plus. Now, my friends who work
Speaker 1: in immigration reform probably would not Why because Joe Biden
Speaker 1: said that he would stop deportations. Well, it wasn't so
Speaker 1: long ago that we saw thousands of Haitian refugees being
Speaker 1: scooped up and sent back to their devastated country that
Speaker 1: it had been hit by yet another natural disaster with
Speaker 1: COVID raging and an assassinated president. But we scooped him up,
Speaker 1: sent them right back. No ability to apply for asylum,
Speaker 1: no let us hold them, no, no nothing. But Joe
Speaker 1: Biden said that he was going to stop those deportations,
Speaker 1: right that America should be safe haven. Okay, I give
Speaker 1: him a C plus because we know and probably won't
Speaker 1: really really truly know for years how many children were
Speaker 1: stolen from their parents during the Trump administration with no documentation,
Speaker 1: meaning that the Trump administration actually took no documentation, like
Speaker 1: they couldn't even put together a Google Excel sprights sheet
Speaker 1: that would allow us to know who the child is,
Speaker 1: what area did they come into, who were they with? Right,
Speaker 1: so that there was going to be a reunification plan,
Speaker 1: but the Trump administration had no desire and was not
Speaker 1: going to attempt to reunify these people. Punishment was the
Speaker 1: point this administration. However, to date, I believe have reunited
Speaker 1: over five hundred children with their families and have made
Speaker 1: it a point to do so. Are looking to pay
Speaker 1: restitution to those parents. Now once again, as a black
Speaker 1: queer woman in America, I'm still looking for what restitution
Speaker 1: you are paying to Black Americans for ripping them away
Speaker 1: from their families over the courses of hundreds of years.
Speaker 1: But I digress. So in that area, the restitution, the
Speaker 1: acknowledgment of the cruelty trying to unite these kids, well,
Speaker 1: all right, I bring them down to a C minus
Speaker 1: because I'm adding in all of the other deportations, and
Speaker 1: you know, the fact that while I love Obama, if
Speaker 1: you talk to immigration activists, Obama deported more people than
Speaker 1: anybody else. And that's very real. Okay, So so far,
Speaker 1: we have a D plus for vaccination rollout and messaging,
Speaker 1: We have a D plus for climate change just because
Speaker 1: of the tough talk, and we have a C for immigration. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go to police reform. Now, if you remember Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's presidential campaign, his opening solved to the American people
Speaker 1: was that he was going to be fighting for the
Speaker 1: soul of America. You saw in his announcement video pictures
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty Uprising protests. You saw police, you
Speaker 1: saw Black Lives Matter signs, you saw all of these things.
Speaker 1: And he said that we are going to pass the
Speaker 1: George Floyd Police Reform Legislation. Well eight months into that
Speaker 1: failed experiment between that was supposed to be negotiated between
Speaker 1: Senator Corey Booker and Black Republican Tim scott Um, they
Speaker 1: announced their failure. Over the summer, came out in a
Speaker 1: press conference, said they're over here. I'm over here. We're
Speaker 1: not We're not getting to are They're there? Wait? What
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to battle for the soul
Speaker 1: of America. I thought that we were going to do
Speaker 1: something about the quote unquote bad apples. It's not enough
Speaker 1: to just get a conviction for Derek Chauvin, right, or
Speaker 1: the McMichaels that killed Ahmad Aubrey. Like we're talking about
Speaker 1: institutional change. We're talking about qualified immunity and the fact
Speaker 1: that you should have the ability to fucking sue a
Speaker 1: police officer for wrong, for death, right for murder. No.
Speaker 1: Eight months that tossed up their hands. That legislation is dead.
Speaker 1: So what does this administration get for putting absolutely no
Speaker 1: weight behind it but just saying, ah, shucks, better luck
Speaker 1: next time another unarmed black person is killed slowly, painfully
Speaker 1: for the world to watch for nearly nine minutes. Then
Speaker 1: voting rights, well, that is playing out on your screens
Speaker 1: right now. And what do we know. Everything that is
Speaker 1: being done in the Senate, every little maneuver that Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer is making, is nothing but symbolism. They aren't going
Speaker 1: to do a rules change, They are not voting to
Speaker 1: take down the filibuster, they are not going to pass
Speaker 1: voting rights. And frankly, the Democrats as a whole have
Speaker 1: failed failed miserably in the messaging of that because they've
Speaker 1: made it a black and brown issue as opposed to
Speaker 1: a democratic issue. Right, this administration was pretty much on
Speaker 1: voting rights, really loved to wield it around, talking about
Speaker 1: John Lewis, and particularly in South Carolina, in the state
Speaker 1: that got Joe Biden elected to be president, right because
Speaker 1: without without South Carolina, without Jim Clyburne vouching for Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: he would have lost, He wouldn't have won the primary.
Speaker 1: So he was fine. Joe Biden was fine to talk
Speaker 1: about voting rights, talking about securing democracy. Yeay, yay, yay
Speaker 1: blacks and some of you browns too, but then went silent.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear from Joe Biden and voting rights in
Speaker 1: the same fucking sentence, let alone coming out of his
Speaker 1: mouth until a couple of weeks ago. And it's failing miserably.
Speaker 1: So for that, you get a big fucking f for
Speaker 1: fucking our democracy. So what are we looking at, folks.
Speaker 1: We're looking at D plus D plus C minus D
Speaker 1: plus F. So you know, there are so many issues
Speaker 1: that I could go down part and parcel once again,
Speaker 1: I would say in judicial nominations, we are doing well
Speaker 1: according to polls that are taken that this president has
Speaker 1: appointed more people to the federal bench in their first
Speaker 1: year than any other president. So with that, I give
Speaker 1: you an A the one place that you will get
Speaker 1: an A. But taking all of these things together, this
Speaker 1: first year is basically a D plus. They are barely
Speaker 1: passing and the poll numbers, and you know how I
Speaker 1: feel about polls. But you know, when I look at
Speaker 1: them and I see all the other presidents and what
Speaker 1: their first term look like, what their first year look like.
Speaker 1: The only person that is lower than Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So when we're nine months away from midterm elections,
Speaker 1: what do you think that that says about the excitement
Speaker 1: of the base? What do you think that that says
Speaker 1: about our raw ra feeling that we had in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty in order to get rid of Donald Trump, or
Speaker 1: the feeling like we had overcome when we finally see
Speaker 1: Joe Biden being sworn in after an insurrection. What does
Speaker 1: it say that where his numbers are? What does it
Speaker 1: say that my mother, a staunch Democrat, is like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to watch the news anymore, nor do I
Speaker 1: even think that voting matters. Look at where we are
Speaker 1: she's not alone. So where do we go from here, folks? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I really don't know, but I got to tell you that,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that they need to put up
Speaker 1: on the television screens are a fucking countdown clock to
Speaker 1: midtim elections, because that's when our democracy is really up,
Speaker 1: when the buzzer is going to ring, when the alarm
Speaker 1: will go off and it'll be too late, because as
Speaker 1: soon as Republicans get back into power in Congress, you
Speaker 1: think that government was grinded to a halt. Now just wait,
Speaker 1: just wait for the parade of bullshit hearings that they're
Speaker 1: going to call and air them on television, and it
Speaker 1: just be back to nonsense. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the mainstream news is going to come out be like
Speaker 1: Republicans they don't seem to care about America so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're fucking dummy, they don't. So maybe instead of writing
Speaker 1: peace after peace slamming the Vice President of the United States,
Speaker 1: maybe you would go after Republicans with the same amount
Speaker 1: of vigor for ushering in fascism. But I digress, because
Speaker 1: you know ratings, So, folks, I want to hear from
Speaker 1: you today in the comments section or in the tweets,
Speaker 1: tell me what grade you are giving the administration for
Speaker 1: their first year? And why? Right? If it's a tweet,
Speaker 1: you know, make it succinct, but use the hashtag wook
Speaker 1: a f as I do on all of my posts,
Speaker 1: so that I can lay eyes on it. But I do.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from all of you what grade right?
Speaker 1: And you can use different categories, You don't have to
Speaker 1: use the same ones that I did. But overall, even
Speaker 1: if you didn't want to go mark by mark, what
Speaker 1: is the overall grade that you would give for this
Speaker 1: administration in their first year? And do you right? Do
Speaker 1: you believe that they can turn things around? That there
Speaker 1: is enough time. I want to hear from each and
Speaker 1: every one of you. That is it for me today.
Speaker 1: Folks on woke f as always, Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.