WEBVTT - Democrats Theory of Powerlessness 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.079 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.120 there is so much breaking news that is happening this week, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:24.959 it is hard to keep things straight. So I'm going 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.680 to try and do something a little bit different, which 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.920 is run through a countdown of things that literally happened 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.680 in the last twenty four to forty eight hours. So 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.040 here we go. Let's start from the top with the 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.960 fact the biggest of the pieces of breaking news, which 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.640 is that seven hours, over seven hours, four hundred and 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:56.880 fifty seven minutes of White House phone logs are somehow missing, erased, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.160 lost on the day of the insurrection. I want you 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.480 to think about this because somebody had tweeted me and 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.120 I said, oh my god, what a wonderful way to 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.119 think about this. Imagine being on the job, whatever job 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.119 that is. Imagine that you are a blue collar as 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.960 the Republicans love to say, regular American worker, and you 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.800 happen to go dark, right, for over seven hours. That's 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.800 an entire workshift, right. Let's assume that we all work 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.200 for roughly eight to ten hours a day and you 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.920 go missing for over seven hours or people are trying 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.640 to call. There's just a gap in communication during this time. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.319 And oh, by the way, you're also the manager of 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.600 said building that is on fire and no one can 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:53.000 find you. That is essentially what the National Archives when 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.240 they gave over the records up from the White House 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.240 on the day of the insurrection, what the one six 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:04.000 Commission has recognized and is being reported by the Washington 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.920 Post and now ever every major news outlet Donald Trump. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.680 We know from the over five hundred interviews that the 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:19.399 White House that the one six Commission House Investigation has 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:25.120 done over five hundred interviews that during that time everyone 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.560 who was in the vicinity of Donald Trump said that 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.960 Donald Trump is on the phone. We know that he 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.640 talked to Kevin McCarthy. We've learned that he tried to 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.680 call Mitch McConnell. We know that he talked to Jim Jordan. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.200 We know that he talked to Steve Bannon. We know 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.320 that there are a list of people that were in conversation, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.600 whether for sixty seconds or ten minutes plus with Donald 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.720 Trump on the day of the insurrection. But there is 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.480 a huge fucking gap in the White House phone locks. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.200 Now a couple of things can also be true at 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.440 the same time. First of all, the only reason that 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.600 a president of the United States wouldn't be using said 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.920 white house phone logs is because you are trying to 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.400 cover something up. The only reason why you would be 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.400 using other people's phones, as I'm probably assured that Donald 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.160 Trump has more than one cell phone, is because you 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.520 are trying not to be traced. That you don't want 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:30.480 your you know, big moment, right, your big insurrection moment 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.600 to be interrupted, so you just stay off White House lines. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.760 That is not the action that is taken by somebody 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.120 who is innocent and somebody that doesn't know how to 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.560 operate as a criminal. Here's the things that we already 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.080 know to be true about Donald Trump. Donald Trump does 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.960 not use email, does not have email, doesn't use text messages, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.920 doesn't write shit down. We even know from Ama Rosa 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.960 herself that one day she walked into the Oval office 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.200 and Donald Trump literally put a piece of paper in 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:14.720 his mouth. Innocent people don't do dubious shit like what 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.599 has been uncovered in Trump's White House. So here's the 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.520 fucking question, the million dollar question, the billion dollar question 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.760 that I've been asking since the insurrection on January six, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:34.000 twenty twenty one, Where the fuck is Merrick Garland. Seriously, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.200 at this stage of the game, you can no longer 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.279 tell me that things take time. You can no longer 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.400 tell me that the Department of Justice is actually putting 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.599 every bit of muscle necessary behind this investigation. You can't 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.040 because it's been over four hundred fucking days and we 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.479 have no word, not even a murmuring from inside the 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.880 Department of Justice other than people who work there that 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:06.719 are saying that they are frustrated with the inaction of 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.960 this age. So here's the thing, folks. We have a 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.080 case that was in New York that was supposed to 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.920 be overseen right by the Manhattan District Attorney, the new 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.760 Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg. In the course of the 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.000 last few months, we have had two of the leading 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:31.960 prosecutors in that investigation quit, and they quit outright because 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.440 there has been no movement with regard to interviews in 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.840 front of the grand jury that his predecessor Sidance had 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.880 put in place, a special grand jury to sit for 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.039 longer than normal juries, because the mountain of evidence that 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.920 they need to fucking go through is just that deep 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.400 and that high Alvin Bragg, however, says, oh, there's nothing 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:03.080 to see here, folks, Merritt Garland mountains of evidence that 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.520 has been put together by a House commission that has 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.680 absolutely no teeth. All they can do is investigate, right, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.000 All they can do is investigate and then make recommendations. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.760 It is up to the Department of Justice to actually 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.119 offer up indictments, which, by the way, they have enough 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.920 fucking evidence to do, from Steve Bannon to Mark Meadows, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.680 to fucking John Eastman to Donald Trump and to all 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.720 of the minions in between, and yet we have seen 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.159 absolutely nothing. But do you know what the other story is, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:45.520 because there are many. Here's the other story. Thomas. Clarence 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.800 Clarence Thomas, who I always refer to because you know, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.880 you can never trust a person with two first names, right, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:59.440 you can't. So. Clarence Thomas's wife, Jinny Jinny was at 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:05.680 the insurrection. Genny funded buses for the insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:13.440 was the soul, the soul dissenter on the decision to 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.640 provide access to Donald Trump's phone records. Clarence Thomas, let 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:24.560 me say that again, was the soul dissenter, not wanting 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:32.480 to release Donald Trump's phone records. Then we find out why, Oh, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.880 because Genny Thomas had been in regular communication with Mark Meadows. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.480 And so why do I say this? Let me bring 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:44.960 it full circle. Seven hours of White House phone logs 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:51.480 are empty. Mark Meadows was in deep communication with everybody 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.320 who was at the insurrection right as a as a participant, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:02.080 or we're in the chamber hiding and fearing for their lives. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:08.520 Why wouldn't Clarence Thomas want that information release? Oh, because 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:13.720 it would show that his wife's phone number would come 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.400 up on Mark meadows phone more than a couple of times. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:26.520 And then you have yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:33.120 leader for the Senate, say just casually that Clarence Thomas 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.480 should recuse himself or should have recused himself, and maybe 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.360 there should be some type of ethics with the Supreme Court. Folks, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.680 let me tell you something. My ability to have patience 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:55.679 anymore for accountability, for responsibility for an attempted coup to 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:01.080 overthrow our democracy is done. I am going to call 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:07.240 out every single fucking person until I no longer have 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:13.800 breath in my body for their ineptitude. Folks will say 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.680 to me, well, Danielle, What do you want Chuck Schumer 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.280 to do. It's not like he can remove Clarence Thomas 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.280 from the bench, No he can't. But do you know 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.760 what Democrats can fucking do? Wage a full on media 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:32.000 onslought on Clarence Thomas, applying the fucking pressure so that 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.440 Republicans are forced every time that there is a camera 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.640 in their fucking faces to be able right to state 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:44.199 to the American people why there should be no trouble 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:49.319 with the fact that literally Clarence Thomas is literally in 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.640 bed with the fucking enemy, the enemy, the trees in 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.880 his enemy. Who was on the phone with Mark Meadows 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:02.960 saying this is how Donald Trump stays in office. You're 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.600 telling me that a woman who is the wife of 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.680 a sitting Supreme Court justice doesn't know how the fucking 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:15.040 constitution works, doesn't know electoral politics. Oh you want to 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.480 tell me that they're they're a Switzerland that is in 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.200 their house and she Clarence Thomas is completely neutral to 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.480 the fact that his wife was at the rally. Because 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.400 here's the thing, folks, they don't even give a fuck 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:36.360 about perception. You know why, because Democrats never lean into 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.840 how things look, and that all you need to do 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.960 is what Donald Trump did with his accusations of fraud 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.400 in the twenty twenty election, which is planned to fucking seed. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.720 Oh seems like there was fraud. Remember Donald Trump said, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.800 right on the phone with Secretary of State in Georgia, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.680 Brad rath Nsberger, find me eleven thousand, seven hundred and 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:09.120 thirty some odd votes. I'll handle the rest. I got 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.400 my folks in place, I got this covered. What the 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.760 fuck do you think that Donald Trump was doing for 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.920 four hundred and fifty seven minutes, right, Donald Trump was 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.200 sitting in the White House orchestrating the coup that was 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:28.160 playing out on national television. But Republicans want to turn 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.560 around and even a sitting here's my other story, sitting 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:38.320 federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, Judge McFadden, said this 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.400 about insurrectionist that, oh, if they were a non violent 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.120 they shouldn't see any fucking jail time. And equating what 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.120 we saw on January six, twenty twenty one, to the 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:57.080 protest against the killing of George Floyd and consistent and 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:02.959 unrelenting police brutality, how can you look at these two 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.319 fucking situations and say these two things are the same bitch, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.080 what are you looking at? But this is who Mitch 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:17.000 McConnell and Donald Trump put on over three hundred federal 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:22.120 courts around the country. But again, no media pushed by 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.640 Democrats to bring the world's attention to what the fuck 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.160 is happening in the United States Supreme Court, in the 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.319 United States Congress, and what was happening on the day 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.480 of January sixth. It's oh, nothing to see here, folks. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.880 And I gotta tell you this. You know, there is 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:47.280 just so much that is happening. There is just so 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.000 much that is at stake, and I want to say this. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:13:00.760 So in New York magazine, Alexandriocstio Cortez was interviewed, and 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.520 I want to read you what she said in this article, right, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:11.160 and the article is entitled AOC's warning for Democrats, We're 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:17.120 in trouble. My other big story. What she says here, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.440 I want it on a billboard, I want it on 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.760 every TikTok, I want it on every fucking reel. But 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.160 it won't happen because, you know what, it's not a 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.839 slap that took place at the Oscars that we can 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.640 all talk about for two and three and four days 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.160 but not the fact that we literally have active sitting 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.079 justices and active members of Congress that are bitch slapping 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.280 our democracy up and down, and no one gives a shit. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.960 This is what Alexandrio Cassio Cortez said about Democrats and 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.840 said about the midterms that are coming up in a 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:02.360 few months. Quote a younger member of Congress, the first 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.000 vote I ever cast was for Barack Obama, who was 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.880 called a socialist, and all of this stuff, all of 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.360 this rhetoric that we see today, has been the political 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.840 reality my entire life, and so I never felt a 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.760 nostalgia for something that never existed in my lifetime. I 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.880 feel like our politics has fundamentally changed, whether it's for 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.080 the better or for the worst. It's for people's determination. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.960 But I was never under the illusion that we can 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.640 bring mansion along. And this is what she is referring to, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:45.760 because Ocasio Cortez, according to this article and facts, was 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.800 one of only six Democrats that voted against Biden's one 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.600 point two trillion dollar infrastructure bill last November, and the 0:14:54.680 --> 0:15:00.400 reason was because the larger bill, right, the bill back 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:05.400 better the people's the human infrastructure component was going to 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.480 be split off right and they said, oh, let us 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.080 pass the actual infrastructure that then we can tout as 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:18.040 bipartisan as if people give a fuck, and then we'll 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:23.080 come back for the BBB portion later on. And then 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:29.000 what happened. Joe Mansion and Kursten Cinema right renamed as 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.880 they always do, they smile to your face and stab 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.320 you in your back, and oh, Cassio Cortez is just like, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.520 do we not understand the same person? And what she 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:48.720 says in this article so very plainly is that she's like, 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.560 I want to trust that the President of the United 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:58.280 States knew what he was doing, but this doesn't feel right, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:03.320 and it didn't feel right. Here's her quote quote. I 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.040 have the utmost respect and confidence in the president, but 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.400 I just felt like we called two different plays on 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.960 this one. I think that there is a sense among 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.280 more senior members of Congress who have been around in 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.800 different political times that we can get back to this 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.680 time of buddy buddy and backslapping and we'll cut a 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.600 deal and go into a room with some bourbon and 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.240 some smoke, and you'll come out and work something out. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.200 I think there's a real nostalgia and believe that the 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.400 time this time still exists, or that we can get 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.880 back to it. Folks, how many times have you heard 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:47.880 me say the very same thing on woke af that 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:56.880 Joe Biden went into the presidency with this sense of nostalgia. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.040 He went into the presidency and clearly let go of 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.640 the eight years in which he was vice president and 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:11.760 watch the hostility right play out against Barack Obama then 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:16.320 President Barack Obama. And I believe that Joe Biden thought 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.320 to himself, well, you know, it really isn't about race, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.119 you know, and they're calling him a Muslim, but it 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:28.600 really isn't about xenophobia or or Islamophobia. It really is 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.960 the fact that you know, he was an outsider, right, 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.040 and I know these guys. I've you know, played games 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.040 with these guys and attended dinners and birthday parties, and 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.360 so I'm one of the good old boys. And so 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:47.560 when they see my old ass, white face, that they 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.000 will see some comfort and they'll come to the table 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.520 because we're cut from the same cloth. And you see, folks, 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:02.840 it's that kind of thinking that made Joe Biden my 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:09.600 fifth choice for president. My fifth choice for president because 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:15.639 I knew, I knew and felt exactly what Ocasio Cortez 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:21.119 stated in this article, It was the belief that I'm 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.760 one of the good old white boys, and all we 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.280 need is a couple of bourbons and a cigar, and 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.080 we'll get this country back on track like we always have, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:37.600 not at all recognizing that our body politic had been 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.919 forever changed, that it was already changing when he was 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:48.040 vice president, and that Donald Trump and the Trump administration 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.800 wiped out any ever possibility, any little strand of hope 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:59.440 that the Republicans of yesteryear were gonna fucking return. So 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.000 when he saw the very same people that he used 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.520 to sit bourbon with decide that they were going to 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:13.120 vote against the certification of his election win, and then 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:20.479 he saw the same onslaught of lies right, and then 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.760 he saw the Capitol Building in a plum of smoke, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.359 you would think that Joe Biden would have shook off 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.560 his desire for yesteryear and had his ass blasted into 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:40.520 the present fucking moment. But alas, here we are. Here, 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:47.080 we are with nada, nothing, zilch, zero to offer the 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.399 American people as to why Democrats need to remain in power. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.560 Because here's the thing, Democrats are not making any type 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.879 of push to hold Donald Trump accountable. They want to 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.760 move on to issues that quote unquote the American people 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.680 care about. Do you know what the fuck the American 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:09.800 people care about having a government that isn't corrupt Because 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.639 the questions that I keep asking about Marrick Garland, about 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:18.040 the Alvin Braggs of the world right, is that they 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.120 all take money from the same fucking people, both Republican 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:28.240 and Democratic donors. And I'm saying to myself, self, why 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:35.240 isn't their rigorous investigation because I believe that these motherfuckers 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:40.320 are bought and sold. But instead of anybody doing any 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.680 deep dive investigation into whether or not, oh, I don't 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.359 know that a sitting Supreme Court justice members partner decided 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.920 to fund insurrectionists instead of going into see like who 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.640 exactly was funding Alvin Bragg's campaign and what decisions did 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.720 he make about slow walking the Trump investigation. And after 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.679 literally years of work that has been done to build 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.600 a criminal case, an airtight criminal case against the man 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.600 who has been on a thirty plus year fucking crime 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.399 spree in this state, let alone the four year crime 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:25.120 spree that he did nationally. So you look at this, folks, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:29.600 you look at this and I think to myself, like, 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.959 where is the energy? Why is there such a lack 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:43.160 of focus? Why is there such a lack of grit 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.600 and pursuit of justice above all else right now? And 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.200 the only thing that I can think of, the only 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:56.560 thing that makes sense is that money is entangled in 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:02.840 this because there's no other and you can't you shit like, Oh, 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.360 the country's been through enough, right because this is the 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.080 type of talking points that both sides want to offer up. 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.840 Oh the country has been through enough. The American people 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.159 want to turn the page, turn the page on to 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:19.920 what authoritarianism? American fascism? What are we turning the page too, 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.800 We're turning the page to the focus on preserving democracy 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:33.320 overseas while ours is under attack. Why would people decide 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:36.159 to vote for Democrats when Joe Biden stands up and 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.560 refers to the people that want that believe that he's 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:44.680 an illegitimate president as his friend. So if you're not 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.399 making it very clear who the fuck the enemy is, 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.120 then how are you getting people to vote for you? 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:59.920 And why would they show up? Here's what else Okasi 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:07.000 or Cortez offers in this interview in New York magazine quote. 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:14.639 If the president does pursue and start to govern decisively 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:19.400 using executive action and other tools at his disposal, at 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:24.920 his disposal, I think we're in the game. But she says, 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.359 if we decide to just kind of sit back for 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:34.400 the rest of the year and not change people's lives, yeah, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.439 I do think we're in trouble. So I don't think 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.760 that it's set in stone. I think that we can 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:47.920 determine our destiny. Here. Here's the thing I do disagree 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:52.040 with Ocasio Cortez here, I do believe that it's set 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:56.960 in stone. I don't think that Democrats in charge, in 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:02.000 power in this administration are going to do or offer 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.240 a fucking thing. They're not going to offer a rebuke 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:09.120 of the Republican Party turned into white nationalist party. They're 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.800 not going to offer right to the use of executive 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.240 action because they have this fifty fifty split that ain't 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.000 shit can get done. So they're not going to cancel 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:21.000 student loan debt. They're not going to do shit on 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:23.800 climate change, they're not going to do anything on police 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:27.800 or form. But get this, even though we know that 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:32.639 executive orders can be rolled back, Joe Biden has until 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:39.600 twenty twenty four, so he could be providing clear relief 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:44.040 and leadership in this moment, even if it is just 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:49.119 to use as a campaign motivator to get people to 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.240 want to go to the polls in November and then 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:56.560 again in twenty twenty four. And this is why my 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:01.560 upcoming conversation with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel today is 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:06.600 so important because Jonathan and I get into a conversation 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:15.000 that really got me, and it is this, the Democratic 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:23.359 Party does not understand power. They don't understand how to 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:29.160 get power, they don't understand how to hold power. And 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:33.159 when Jonathan begins to unpack what he believes are the 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:36.639 reasons why, and I want to say this, we can't 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:40.440 just say and rest on our laurels that, oh well, 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:44.879 it's easier to sell hate, like, oh well, it's easier, 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:47.520 And Jonathan will say this to be united when you 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.879 were a monolith. Because here's the thing, and my pushback 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:58.119 is that if saving our democracy is not the unifying message, 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.760 then what the fuck are Democrats running on? That's really 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:07.760 the question, because you don't have to be focused on 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:10.040 all of these other issues because the reality is is 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:14.320 that if we don't preserve our democracy. Then it doesn't 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:17.560 matter what is happening with climate change, It doesn't matter 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:20.040 what is going on with police reform. It doesn't matter 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.040 that women and people with uterusis are about to lose 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.919 abortion access when the final decision is made in June 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:31.679 about Rovie Wade and the Mississippi case. None of that matters. 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:35.080 If we don't have free and fair elections, None of 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:38.920 that matters if we have lost faith and the integrity 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:45.000 within our governmental agencies. So we can talk about all 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.160 of these other issues until we're blue in the face, 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:51.879 But if the fundamental, the foundation of it all, which 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:56.120 is our democracy, government formed by the people, is not protected, 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:05.399 then nothing else matters. And what is sad but so 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:11.679 very evident, is that Democrats are looking up in the 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:17.040 sky hoping for a miracle and one ain't coming. Because 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:20.520 the miracle right now would be them developing a spine, 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:28.080 would be them developing some type of warrior spirit that 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:34.280 has been absent, which leaves me wondering why I'm still 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:41.800 a Democrat. Do you know why you are still a Democrat? 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:47.159 Tell me in the comments section today, why we continue 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:51.040 to be a part of an activated in this party 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:56.000 that clearly has no path forward. We have a handful 0:27:56.040 --> 0:28:00.840 of months, folks, a handful of months. We'll be here 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:05.800 in the blink of an eye, and so will American fascism. 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:10.399 And I'm wondering which gets here first. Coming up next 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:18.840 my conversation with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. Folks, I 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:22.560 am back from vak as you know, and super excited 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:28.080 to be rejoined by my favorite Wednesday guest, doctor Jonathan metzol. 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:30.600 You know him and you love him as the author 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:33.600 of Dying of Whiteness, which apparently we are in fact 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:37.000 going to all die of in the next several months. 0:28:37.080 --> 0:28:39.880 I mean, I don't know how much more information we 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.800 need to see in front of us, Jonathan about the 0:28:42.840 --> 0:28:46.480 direction that this country is headed in about its love 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:52.000 affair with white supremacy. So talk to us about what 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:56.120 you have been seeing and noticing, because I'm telling you again, 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.640 I don't know what your thoughts were when you wrote 0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:03.160 Dying of Whiteness, Where where your mind was in terms 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:06.200 of how you were going to see the evolution of 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:10.800 essentially your thesis, the evolution of your book over the 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:15.400 last couple of years. So hello everybody. I'm in Ithaca, 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:18.000 New York today. I'm obviously wearing a turtleneck because it's 0:29:18.040 --> 0:29:21.760 a blizzard out. It's literally snowing like crazy out my window, 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:25.480 and it's nineteen degrees and so it's end of days. 0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:28.200 And if it's if I'm realizing, if it's end of days, 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.800 you want a comfortable turtleneck. So that's that's kind of 0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:33.880 my strategy now. But I'm here actually giving I'm giving 0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:36.840 the Krieger lecture that later this afternoon on the topic 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.200 of dying of whiteness, and they asked me to talk about, 0:29:40.960 --> 0:29:43.560 you know, what's the lesson of my book you know 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:46.640 now a couple of years on. And it's pretty interesting, right, 0:29:46.680 --> 0:29:50.520 because I wrote that book as a as a warning. Right. Initially, 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:53.960 I was doing research in I was doing research in 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:58.040 Kentucky and Tennessee and Missouri and Kansas, and I was 0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:01.600 seeing people make decisions that were terrible for their own health, 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:06.360 like literally ending their own life, but they were leading 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:10.040 to a lot of power for the issue that they 0:30:10.080 --> 0:30:14.600