WEBVTT - Report Card Day 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.200 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live ish from my 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:24.680 Brooklyn bunker. Folks, today is the day. Today is report 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.600 card Day. It has been three hundred and sixty five 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:36.840 long fucking days of the Biden administration. Before I get 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.720 into my grading, and if you joined my Woke Wednesday, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.760 you got a preview of what I think about the 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.520 past year under this Biden administration. But before I dive 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.559 into that, I want to take us back. I want 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.440 to go backwards a year. You know, twenty twenty one 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:02.440 started out on eb Ben in Note with the insurrection, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.720 and I want us to remember how we felt after 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.520 it was certified that Joe Biden was indeed elected by 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:21.120 eighty one million Americans to lead our nation. You know, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.040 coming off of the heels of four years under Donald Trump. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:32.360 I know that many of you felt battered, bruised, just deflated, right, 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.200 And for me, it was the first time. And I'm 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.480 going to be really, you know, really honest. There have 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:45.080 been very bad moments in America over my lifetime, as 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.160 I'm sure over yours. It was funny because you know, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.240 I have been mentioning to some of my friends who 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.760 are younger than me, you know, how are they feeling, Like, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.400 how are they managing, you know, during this time and 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.000 their life. You know, nine to eleven happened when I 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.559 was a child. Right then we had the bubble burst, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.240 my family lost their homes, you know, kind of going 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:21.720 through these categorically horrible times, tumultuous times in our short history. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.280 If you're a person or you have kids that are 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.080 in their twenties, what they know a lot of like 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.320 what their lifetime has kind of been wrapped around, has 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.120 been a lot of tragedy, right, has been a lot 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:42.400 of bad things, whether it be terrorist attacks, wars, you know, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.880 school shootings being the norm, particularly if you are in 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.040 your twenties or or or millennial. You don't know anything 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.640 other than that. And so I want to take us 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:02.680 back through our feeling. Joe Biden and is elected. I'm 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:10.280 feeling pretty fucking good. I'm thinking that we've toppled authoritarianism. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:16.200 We've toppled this misogynistic, racist piece of garbage, this thief, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:22.240 this crook, this liar. Right people stood out in line 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:30.400 for hours. They put up sixty six court cases, sixty 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.880 six court cases Giuliani would parade into the courts, each 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.520 and every one of them, whether they were Republican appointed 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.160 judges or Democratic judges, kick them out of the courtroom. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:48.160 And we're saying, yes, I'm feeling now the Republicans are 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.440 going to probably issue their autopsy and figure out how 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.000 to detach themselves from Donald Trump. And as we're heading 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:01.760 into inauguration showing the strength of our nation in the 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.720 face of those that would try and overthrow our government. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.960 The lasting impression that we have of the steps of 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:15.240 the Capital and the Capitol Building is Inauguration Day, which 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.880 had increased security. If you remember around Washington, DC, I 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.360 mean there were damn near walls. The wall that Trump 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.680 said China that was not China. Mexico was going to 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.120 pay for. We paid for and it wasn't. The wall 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.640 between the United States and Mexico was between the White 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:39.080 House and the people. So the feelings, right, there were 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:46.480 so many feels going into inauguration twenty twenty one. Joe 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.120 Biden gives a raucous speech where he says that we 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.080 saw dark days, but you know there is light ahead. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.200 He gives a raw ross speech. We get to see 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.680 Michelle Obama looking absolutely fabulous. That nothing to do with 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.039 my report card. I'm just just conjuring back an amazing 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.800 memory that plumb outfit my god, monochromatic, I mean the hair. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.719 So we felt a year ago that we were on 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.799 the ment, that it was going to take a lot 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:29.280 of work and trials, but that we were going to 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.800 get there, and we were going to do so together 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.760 because we would have realized as a country that what 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.200 we just experienced, what we all had just collectively witnessed, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.320 is not who we are. The funny thing though, about 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.640 saying that this is not who we are, or that 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.039 we believed that we still shared after four years under 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:57.440 Donald Trump, this shared value of democracy, the shared belief 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.640 right that we are governed by the rule of law, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.839 that is, we the people that get to decide who 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.360 represents us in our voice, that we believe all collectively 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:18.359 about the constitution, right that these laws we all have 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:24.880 decided and pledged allegiance to that guidance. So when Joe 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.599 Biden during inauguration is providing his speech, his vision, his 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:37.280 picture of America, coming off of this years of feeling depleted, deflated, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.279 and this desperation for a grown up to be in 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.479 the room, somebody to be at the helm that cared right, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.400 that cared about all of us. You know, it's funny 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.159 because I say that often the best thing that ever 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.480 happened to Bush, right to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.640 is Donald Trump. Because there were times during the Trump 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.560 adustration that I actually longed for there to be a 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.720 Bush because there's one thing. The man was a liar, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.200 brought us into wars that cost people's lives and tens 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:16.640 of millions of dollars. But I never actually believed that 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:22.120 he wasn't a patriot. I didn't believe that he wanted 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.040 ill on the public, that he wished for it, that 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.720 he applauded it, that he was excited by it. But 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.160 that's exactly who Donald Trump showed himself to be. So 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.160 when you see Joe Biden on those steps of the 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:43.720 Capitol building that not days before had been covered with 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.800 thousands of people in their Maga hats, with their angry faces, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.480 their rage, right the building of the guillotine, and now 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.120 you see this man, you think to yourself, we've won. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:02.240 The people are victorious. Well, folks, I don't know about you, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.440 but three hundred and sixty five days later, I don't 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.679 have that same energy, I don't have that same belief. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.360 I don't feel victorious because if this, if this feeling, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:25.640 this sense of deep anxiety, this sense of fear about 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:31.160 just watching in front of our eyes our country crumble, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:40.080 and thinking right foolishly that we believe that democracy was 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:46.280 just the way things were, you know, kind of like breathing. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.960 You don't really concentrate on it or think about it 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.520 unless you're in deep meditation or you're working out, or 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.720 you're running for something and you lose breath. Right, It's 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:03.520 just something that goes until it's gone on, right, And 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.040 that's the same thing about our democracy is that we 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.520 didn't think about it. We weren't educated to think about it, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.600 to think about democracy being something that you need to 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:22.040 be vigilant of, something that is sacred, that needs protection, right, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.360 and that at times will need expansion. Because the idea 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.880 that we had two hundred and seventy something years ago, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.679 that the Founding Fathers had about democracy while they were 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:37.640 holding enslaved Africans, is different than the democracy that we 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:46.680 understand now. But here's the thing. We didn't pay attention. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:56.360 And I thought that by the election of Biden I 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.840 know that many people, kind of like myself, wanted to 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.200 go go back to doing anything else. Now politics is 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.240 my job, but there are a variety of things that 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.559 I could talk about other than the federal government, other 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:14.640 than right preserving our democracy. So my hope was that 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.080 we'd have inauguration, we would have some grown ups in 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.640 charge of COVID, so we would get this vaccine together, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.120 the rollout would go well, the communication would be out 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.559 of the gate, because what we had learned right over 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.880 the last four years is how fast misinformation spreads and 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.079 that it is a cancer on our democracy. So the 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.960 thing that has always been the achilles heel of the 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.600 Democratic Party would in fact be what guides us, which 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:55.680 would be our messaging. Well, that's not exactly what happened, right, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.319 And I'm going to look at some standouts for me 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.360 that will have me provide my overall grade for this 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:12.360 administration in their first year. And it's difficult because I 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.840 told all of you during the course of Trump's years 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.840 and heading into the election, you need to vote. You 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.280 got to register, you got to get your people, you 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.360 got to talk to them, you got to drive them 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.160 to the polls. You got to do whatever it is 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.960 you got to donate, you know, do whatever it is 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:35.000 that you can have control over. Do it. So when 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.320 I say with a heavy heart that this administration to 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.679 me is currently failing, I don't say it to be glib. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.680 I don't say it with joy because unlike Republicans, their failure, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:54.679 this administration's failure is the country's failure, is democracy's failure. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:12:01.640 We're not getting another shot, and I don't believe through 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:06.840 the actions of this administration that they get that. I 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.959 think that the way that both the Administration and the 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.080 Senate is operating is as if they have all the 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.240 time in the world. Is as if oh America, white 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:22.720 America has just been under some type of radicalized extremist hypnotism. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.480 But the more, you know, we talk and say nothing 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.880 and actually do nothing, the more they'll come around. Because 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.160 you see, the assumption was that once Trump was voted 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.240 out in his first term, that, like I said, Republicans 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.880 would offer up their autopsy and they would go running 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.959 from that man. But they didn't. They doubled and they 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.840 tripled down on him. They anointed him as the leader 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.040 of their party. They've turned Marlago into a de facto 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.640 shadow White House, as far as their concerned, because seventy 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.200 one percent of Republicans polled believe that Donald Trump is 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.400 actually the winner of the twenty twenty election. Now we 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.440 can't all just say, well, they're dumb, Oh they all 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.920 you know, they're all under educated, because no they're not. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.040 Because that's the lie. That's what we like to tell ourselves, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:17.880 because we like to believe right that education right or 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:23.760 lack thereof. Then can part and parcel us away from 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.439 the Trumper right versus the rest of us. But no, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:33.080 the Trumper is everyone from the multi billionaire right to 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.080 the lone person on the totem pole right to the 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.400 factory worker that's being denied healthcare but doesn't even want 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.040 the healthcare because the Republicans told them that they shouldn't 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.480 want it, so they vote against their own best interest. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.640 It is all of those people, right. But when we 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.079 minimize it and we say, oh, it's just those you know, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.280 people in the rust belt, the flyover states, those that 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.000 you know, the factory jobs are gone and so they're 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.000 hanging on to their white rage. No it's not just them. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.880 It's the CEOs in the c suites. It's the you know, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.920 the very very wealthy owners of the NFL teams, nine 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:18.680 I think or ten of which are major Trump owners. Right, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:24.479 So we don't. It doesn't assuage our fears or frustration 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.840 or anger when we lie about who these people actually are. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:37.760 But the point being that the belief that I was 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:42.360 holding onto the faith right, the hope, was that once 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:47.880 we got over the hump, got people vaccinated after living 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.560 in such distress that just a trip to the grocery 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:55.840 store could send you to your deathbed, that we would 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.560 see some relief, that we would see the country begin 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.040 to make a turn for the better. Well, I mean, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.520 as we all can see, that was just wishful thinking. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:13.360 These people have doubled down on a fucking virus like 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.120 they are putting their own children and themselves in harm's 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:22.320 way because Donald Trump told them to. And there is 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.560 nothing right. There is nothing that you're going to do 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.200 to change those people's minds. So what about the fifty 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:38.600 million people that were eligible to vote but didn't. But 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:45.000 here we are a year later, sixty two point nine 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:50.240 percent of the population is vaccinated. Sixty two point nine 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:55.080 We are the lowest vaccination country in the developed world. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.600 The only person that is worse than the United States 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.400 is the Republican Party's country of origin at this point 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:10.640 in time. Russia. Never in my lifetime, outside of fucking 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:19.080 Olympic gymnastics, has Russia, right, has Russia being a little 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:24.560 bit better than the United States. But here we are, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.880 and we can't just blame it on Trump. And this 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.640 is where it's going to get really uncomfortable, folks, because 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.960 I'm big on blaming a lot of things on Trump, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.680 because a lot of things are his fucking fault, right, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:47.680 But can we blame the inability of this administration to 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.000 get their messaging together, to figure out how to use 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:59.880 the Republican web of deceit to actually activate right those 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:05.640 that are upheld in society, whether it be celebrity or 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.399 thought leaders or people that we are endeared to to 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.920 be spreading the message. Just how Steve Bannon has said, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.480 go state to state, We're going village to village. We're 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.920 taken over this bitch, just as he has said that, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.959 why didn't Democrats take that same approach? Why was it 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.120 months of delays in communities of color to get them 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:37.760 access to vaccinations that are still COVID nineteen is still 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.360 killing black and brown people at a faster rate than 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:50.600 any other group. So you know, it isn't fair for 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.400 us to say that, oh well, they inherited so much, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.160 so we need to give them more time. When folks, 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.200 we don't have more time. We are running out of time. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:07.199 And if you ask me, they wasted a lot of 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:13.359 their first year, right. You know, it was first we 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.840 needed to stop the bleeding of COVID nineteen and get 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.400 vaccines out, get shots and arms. They bungled that messaging. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:27.159 They bungled getting it out. Okay, by summertime they had 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.280 may had a course correction, and you know, by the 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.320 time that we got to the fall, it was supposed 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.160 to be going better. Sixty two point nine has been 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:43.720 the number stuck on my television screen, not budging. We 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:51.720 now the United States has had peaked surpassed twenty twenty 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:59.840 hospitalization numbers. How is that possible when in twenty twenty one, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.280 thank god for science, we were gifted with not one, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:08.120 not two, but three four different vaccines from four different companies. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.040 But we have reached a peak in terms of our 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:18.120 hospitalization That makes twenty twenty look like it was child's play. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.639 If that is not a wake up call, because here's 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.360 the thing, Republicans are able to use that because they 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.479 will use anything and everything, the truth, a lie, it 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.960 doesn't matter. But how is it that the Biden administration 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.680 comes in and says that they're going to be the 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.960 grown ups in the room, They're going to follow the science. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.600 And I've lost more faith of the CDC during the 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.760 first year and the Biden administration than I had during 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:54.200 Trump's last year in office. The fumbled messages, the take 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.040 off the mask, put the mask on, social distance, don't 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.560 social distance, get vaccinated? Everything is okay? Oop, it's not. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.800 And like I say every week, there needs to be 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.080 a level of nimbleness in terms of what it is 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.679 that we take in from this administration and from the 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.639 CDC and the World Health Organization because they are learning 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.280 in real time. But it is the rush, right. It 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.480 is the rush to dangle the carrot in front of 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.960 the people that are literally slapping it out of your 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.720 out of their face, right, and the messaging to those 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.840 people instead of those that are actually open to listening 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.200 to you. It was the rush to say, oh yeah, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.280 rip your mask off, because you thought that that was 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.680 going to be an incentive to get these people who 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.600 never were wearing a mask in the first fucking place 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:49.720 to get vaccinated. How did that make sense? Because those 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.600 of us that were doing the quote unquote ripe thing 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.840 that we were following all of the guidelines, you made 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.720 the rest of us look fucking dumb, only backtrack a 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.320 couple of months later and say, oh shit, now we 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:12.600 got Delta. Oh shit, now we got omicron. Look. I 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.920 know that everybody is sick of COVID. I'm fucking sick 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.840 of COVID. I'm sick of being in the house, But 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:18.920 I know that many people are still out there living 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.159 their lives, which is why our hospital systems are on 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.640 the fucking brink. The least I can do is stay 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.520 my ass at home, right. But the least that this 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:32.800 administration could have done was put together their fucking binders 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:41.080 of plans that were that were about right communication and 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.040 who we're talking to and why and every single day. 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.800 You know, my co host on Democracy is brought up 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:50.240 a really good point. He said, you know, maybe it's corny, 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.399 maybe it's not, but I really wish that Biden would 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.520 be out doing these fireside chats every week. I wish 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.480 that they would utilize the Vice president to be out 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:05.560 there talking to people every single day, Instagram Live, Facebook Live, TikTok, 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.320 whatever the fuck it is that you're doing, but doing 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:12.800 it on a regular You know, you can say a lot, 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.520 and there is a lot to be said about Governor Cuomo, right, 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:21.840 former governor of New York. But I tell you what 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.000 I didn't miss during twenty twenty was one of his 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:30.120 press conferences, because every day he was giving vital information 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.679 and every day he was out there communicating to the people, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.240 so much so that every news station was stopping what 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.600 they were covering any time that he walked in to 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.600 sit down to do a pressor. You tell me why 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.800 the President of the United States is not doing that 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:50.480 on a weekly basis, right, and then designating his vice 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.600 president other cabinet members to be doing the same thing 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.560 so that they are covering all of their bases every 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:01.880 single fucking day of the week. The Governor of New York, right, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.640 was handling being at the epicenter of something we'd never 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.639 seen before. So of course there were other things that 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.440 he could have been doing, but he recognized the importance 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:22.000 of comforting people but also messaging every single day. If 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:27.520 you know that you are working up against a misinformation machine, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.880 then tell me, Explain to me why you wouldn't prioritize 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.320 being in people's fucking living rooms, in their pockets, on 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.280 the train with them doing podcasts every day. Tell me 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:44.200 why messaging and communication wouldn't be at the top of 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:48.960 every single thing it is that you're doing. So when 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.720 it comes to the vaccine roll out and the messaging 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:58.080 and communication around that, I give this administration for their 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:06.239 year one a D plus. Let's move on now to 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:15.920 climate change. The climate crisis. Twenty twenty one on par 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:22.400 with twenty twenty saw once again, once in a lifetime 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:29.359 using air quotes, once in a lifetime, fire season, hurricane season, 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:35.560 tornado season that wiped out tens of millions of dollars 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:40.880 worth of poems, thousands and thousands and thousands of acres 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:48.320 of forestry. The tornadoes which we saw just a couple 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.760 of weeks ago, ravage entire towns. I mean, you saw 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:57.720 tornado after tornado after tornado touched down, right, where are 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:02.560 those people getting the money to rebuild? You think? Do 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:07.320 we think in America that FEMA is what like like 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:11.840 a bottomless mimosa brunch, right, Like you just keep pouring in, 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:13.800 You just keep pouring it pouring, it pouring in, and 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:19.840 it's always going to flow. No, that's not how it works. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.400 And so when we think about all of these crises, 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:29.280 if you have no shared value for humanity or the 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:31.600 planet and you just don't give a fuck, right, which 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:35.720 is the Republican Party, then you're just going to keep extracting. 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.439 You're gonna keep burning, You're gonna keep doing what it 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:41.680 is that you're doing until there's nothing left. Right. I mean, 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:47.639 this again reminds me of that brilliant scene. God and 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:50.760 I sat there watching don't look up that brilliant scene 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:55.159 and don't look up where they're about to blow up 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:58.480 the comment that is headed towards Earth, and they got 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.640 all the torpedoes, and you know, they're like, oh my god, 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.600 we're gonna save humanity, We're gonna save the planet. And 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.439 then the billionaire walks in and pulls Meryl Streep to 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:12.480 the side the president in the film and says, oh, 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:17.200 but there is money to be made, right, So this 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.919 is a really refined piece of rocks. So we gotta 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:23.199 we can't just blow it up, you know, we we 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:25.080 gotta we gotta take it. You know, we could we 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:32.480 could be trillionaires and literally capitalism kills us right abort 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:36.919 the mission to save the planet in the hope that 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:41.000 this billionaire is not only going to save us but 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:48.800 also get rich doing it. And you know, I think 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:54.160 about that when we look at climate change, it's like, 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.960 if it's not a moral imperative for you, then it 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:02.399 should be an economic one. Because we do not have 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:06.840 a bottomless pit, a fucking money tree growing at the 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:10.080 center of America that we can dish out billions to 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:16.679 back to back historic storms and historic fires like. We 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:20.360 don't have it. So what's going to end up happening 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:24.000 is that these communities that get ravaged and the more 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:26.840 and more that the temperatures change, and then all of 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:30.199 a sudden, we're farmers and not you know, little farmers, 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:34.760 because we don't have that anymore. But big agriculture is 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:38.320 not going to be able to guestimate when they are harvesting, 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:42.120 when they are planting because the fucking climate will have changed. 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:44.159 So then what is going to happen. We're going to 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:48.600 have food shortage, right we already have supply chain issues 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.800 that we're dealing with right now. For the first time 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:54.240 in America, you're walking into grocery stores or pharmacies, and 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:56.679 guess what the items that you're looking for, they on 0:27:56.760 --> 0:27:59.240 on at the shelf. And it's not just because oh 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:02.320 they in the back and nobody put them on shelves. 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:06.119 Yet they're no I are in fucking sight, and you 0:28:06.160 --> 0:28:11.800 don't know when they're coming. Well, imagine that now happening. 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:16.920 But with your food, right, with your milk, with your 0:28:17.920 --> 0:28:21.240 you know, nourishment. Imagine now, because this is what happened 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:24.960 to me the other day. I love grapes. I'm a 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.439 big fan. Love. Every time I go into the kitchen, 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:32.200 I pop at least two three in the mouth. Well, 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:38.720 I am one of those people who, pre pandemic would 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.200 just roll into the grocery store. I don't really look 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:45.000 at prices. I recognize my privilege in that way. I 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:46.760 go in and I get what I want. I decide 0:28:46.760 --> 0:28:49.000 when I'm going to cook at home, and then I 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:51.080 go into the grocery store. Boom boom boom, put all 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:53.560 the stuff in my cart, go to the checkout. They 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:55.440 tell me what the bill is, I pay it, keep 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:59.280 it moving. Very fortunate in that way. That is not 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:03.400 the light of a majority of Americans. The other day, however, 0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:09.200 I went to my local veggie market and I got 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:11.960 to the checkout and I only had but a couple 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.400 of things. I had, like a bushel of kale. I 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:22.000 had some Brussels sprouts, some broccoli, and grapes forty five dollars. 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:28.560 I look at the cashier, I said, why is this 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:34.400 forty five dollars? I have literally four items, and she's like, oh, 0:29:34.560 --> 0:29:43.800 so sorry, but the grapes they're fifteen dollars. Fifteen fucking dollars. 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:46.440 I was on the phone with my sister as I 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:49.040 was shopping, and I said, do we still grows shit 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:53.840 in America? Why the fuck would I pay fifteen dollars 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:59.760 four thing of grapes? And so we end up getting 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:03.280