WEBVTT - WokeAF Daily 4.22.20 - Protesting A Virus 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.840 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody right here live from my 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:27.600 bunker on Long Island. As a reminder, folks, we are 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:33.280 running a two for one special. When you download PM mood, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.000 you get woke f Daily free for the next two weeks. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.800 Join our stay Safe as Fuck Quarantine special and subscribe 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.280 to PM mood and get woke f Daily for the 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:54.360 next two weeks. You know this whole. I'm gonna strap 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.400 myself up with a bunch of guns of best a 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.760 maga hat and go and protest of virus on the 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.560 steps of the Capitol Building while police looks safely down 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.280 at you from a balcony. Is on some America, And 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:14.640 that's what the KKK in their spelling of like bullshit. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:24.280 I'm watching this unfold and I'm watching now reports of 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:30.080 a one named Attorney General William Barr, who is saying 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.240 that he is going to use the power of the 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:39.280 Department of Justice to require governors to sentence their residence 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.440 to death. How that work? So? On one hand, when 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:48.640 Black Lives Matter protesters were protesting against police brutality, right 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.560 wanting the law and the justice system to work for 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:57.240 everyone in the same way. William Barr came out and said, well, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.400 if you don't like the police, then maybe they won't 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.920 be in your neighborhoods anymore. You remember that this is 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:08.680 the same now, the same motherfucker who thinks that it's 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:15.000 totally totally okay for armed white people to storm capital buildings. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.919 These people are not protesters, That's what I want to 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.280 get clear. They're fucking terrorists and they should be treated 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:27.160 like that. Everyone's idea of liberty is clearly not the 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:32.720 same because racist white folks idea of liberty is being 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.760 able to oppress and force their will on other people. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.720 So because they don't give a fuck about their lives 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.160 and their health, then no one else can, right Because 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.160 they don't give a fuck about following science and data 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.600 and facts and actual doctors, They're gonna go with their 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.320 gut right like on a hunch, like this fucking president, Well, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.280 you know what I say, why not give them them 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.280 the state of Alaska go fucking there, right, Like, round 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.680 up these forty percent of people who don't give a 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.880 shit about this country or anything that it has to 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.640 stand for. All they care about is white supremacy and dominance, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.400 Give them their own fucking state, and make sure that 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.680 it's separate off, floating in the ocean, away from the 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:25.200 rest of us. That's what I recommend. I'm done. I'm 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.359 done trying to convince these people of sane ideas and facts. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.799 I'm done with Democrats trying to open up their arms 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.800 and welcoming these people back to the party because guess what, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.840 news flash, I don't fucking want them, and neither should you. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.640 What do they have to offer us, what their wayward votes? 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.800 The fuck out of here. Keep it with Trump, go 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.760 all in the bag for him. Do that, and then 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.720 when you turn up sick and coughing and need a ventilator, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:04:00.640 go elsewhere. Go elsewhere. Because I don't see why our 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.360 health infrastructure, which is already fucked to begin with, needs 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.880 to be crumbling on added weight by stupid, fucking people. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:17.000 I really don't. And frankly, there were several countries and 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:22.160 places right around this country that we're instituting fines for 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.200 people who were not practiced in social distancing laws. So 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.680 I just want to sit back and wait for the 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:32.600 explosions to take place in Texas, in Tennessee, in Ohio, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:41.320 in Michigan because you're not legislating in a way that 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:46.360 is clearly effective, because these folks don't fear you, right, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.240 they don't fear any type of repercussions. What should be 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.400 the fine, and I don't even mean monetarily throw them 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:59.800 in fucking jail? Right, you're talking about a virus that 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:06.480 has a one two sixty or plus ratio, meaning that 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:11.440 one person can effectively, in fact, sixty some odd people, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.000 and you're having two hundred plus people at a rally, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.040 are you kidding me? And nothing is happening to them. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.920 They are armed with R fifteen. What kind of fucking 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:29.400 country is this? Where gun shops are labeled essential but 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.200 abortion is not. You know what this virus has done 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.200 is it has opened up the Pandora's box that apparently 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.200 our idealism has been sitting on for all of this time, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.359 making us believe that this country and the people that 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.359 inhabit it are better than they actually are. You know 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:55.760 what I see in those screaming, white angry faces, just 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:02.640 pure ignorance, pure rage. Right, they want to rage against 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:09.320 the machine. They don't care about civil liberties. As long 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.800 as white folks have it, they're fine, right, because Oh 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.880 my god, being forced to stay inside and watch Netflix 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.400 in order to make sure that tens of thousands of 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:26.280 Americans don't die. Oh that's fascism. Are you fucking nuts? 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.080 You know? And it's starting to occur to me as well, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.080 that all of this right. And we're going to get 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:41.360 into this conversation with our regular Woke f Wednesday contributors 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.560 Jonathan Metzel and Kurt Bardella, and we will unpack the 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:52.720 rise in white supremacist organizations that are trying to weaponize 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.880 the coronavirus right, that they are calling for a second 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.000 civil war, that they are stocking up there our ammunition. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.400 And it isn't just as a trophy they are preparing. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.080 They are preparing to take down police, communities of color, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.760 Jewish folks, Muslims, anyone who is not white, Anglo and Christian. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:23.240 This is the same powder keg situation that brought about 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.920 the Nazi regime. You have the President of the United 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.400 States of America getting on Twitter and telling these states 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.000 to quote unquote liberate and that your Second Amendment is 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:41.160 under siege. Said, fucking who, You're the goddamn president. So 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.880 are you saying that you're stealing their weapons or are 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.400 all of a sudden, now it's the federal government that 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.760 is now at war with the States. What the fuck 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.280 kind of country is this? That's the question that you 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.000 all need to be asking yourselves as we make the 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.720 slow fucking march to November, if in fact we get there. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.160 And you know that I have been saying this for 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.920 what feels like years at this point, that I said 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.120 that Donald Trump would do anything, effectively anything in order 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.480 to hold onto power. We know that he has the 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.680 Department of Justice in his pocket, We know that he 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.040 has the Supreme Court of the United States in his pocket, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.520 and now we know through his tweets that he is 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:29.320 building his own MAGA militia. Wake the fuck up and 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.800 recognize what is going on before it is too late. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.720 They are not just crazy. They are crazy and armed, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.800 which is what makes them dangerous, which is what makes 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.040 them terrorists. And we should be discussing it as such. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.720 We will be doing that and much much more with 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.679 our guests today on wike F Daily, because I'm telling 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.600 you that the mainstream media is missing this. They are 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.640 missing this convers station and they are not opening your 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.760 eyes to what is happening. It is not enough to 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.840 just laugh at the memes and say, oh hah, they're dumb. No, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.400 these people are armed and they're coming to our doorsteps 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.680 and the federal government isn't going to do a fucking 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:23.360 thing to stop them, and that is terrifying on top 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.560 of everything else. Excited to welcome back to Woke a 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.760 F Daily, our Woke a F contributor Kurt Bardella, who 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.800 is also an NBC News Think and USA Today and 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:43.040 Morning Joe MSNBC contributor as well. Good morning, Kurt, A 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.280 man of many titles, A man of many titles. I 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.920 like it because you are a man with many insights 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:58.080 into Republican hypocrisy. And you know what I'm really enjoying 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.760 about the pieces that you were writing for both NBC 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.240 and for USA Today are the conversations that you're having 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:12.480 that we're not talking about. And it is how hell 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.600 bent the Republican Party was during the Obama years to 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.440 try and label Barack Obama as an emperor, to try 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.640 and have him looked at as a person that was 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:32.080 promoting propaganda, calling in governmental agencies to look into every 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:38.400 single thing, including the Reinvestment Act, which again helped this 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.240 country stave off a depression, A depression in the early aughts, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:49.880 and here we are where there is an actual emperor, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:56.120 an authoritarian in the White House who is tweeting about 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.960 the liberation of states and telling people that their Second 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:06.080 Amendment rights are under siege, which they are not, telling 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.400 people that he alone is the end all, be all 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.360 and the authority in the United States, essentially eliminating the 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:21.640 role of Congress. And they say nothing, Kurt, they say nothing. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.440 None of these people that you have written about in 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.360 your latest piece. Trump's liberate tweets were reckless and arrogant. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:34.800 Now imagine if Obama had sent them. They're saying nothing. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.000 Tell me how and why are Democrats not making a 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:45.920 bigger deal about the Republican silence. You know, it's been 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.840 both an observation and a frustration for me, again having 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.880 had a front row seat to how Republicans conducted themselves 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.280 during the Obama years, and I spent five years working 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.120 at the House Oversight Committee, and I remember people like 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.680 the then Judiciary Committee chairman's, you know, talking about the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.400 need to prevent the executive branch from overstepping the boundaries 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.839 of its constitutional authority and separation of powers and checks 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.040 and balances, and even going to the extreme of They 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:23.079 formed a special task force to examine the executive overreach 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:27.560 of Barack Obama, labeling him a lawless, emperor like figure. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.800 He had people like Ted Cruz raising alarm bell saying 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.719 that you know, there's troubling aspects of the Obama presidency 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.880 and direct quote, none is more dangerous than the president's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.800 persistent pattern of lawlessness. Mark Meadows, the same Mark Meadows, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.640 who was now Donald Trump's chief of staff, opine that 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.760 President Obama had declared war not just on Congress, beyond 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.640 the American people, on and on people from Paul Ryan 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.760 to Sief King to Jim Jordan, all of these characters 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.000 that we have seen take a front row seat and 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.600 being the public defender of Donald Trump, were the first 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.040 ones railing against President Obama's use of executive authority. And 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.160 let's just be clear, what President Obama did did not 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.800 in any way come close to the lawlessness we're seeing 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.640 from Donald Trump. They're not on the same playing field. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.000 Yet Republicans were so quick to yell and hold hearings 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:26.040 and issue subpoenas and launch investigations. And I constantly think 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.440 that for Democrats it is a missed opportuntunity to point 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.079 out the intolerable hypocrisy that we've seen from Republicans during 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.720 this time of Trump, and I wish that they would 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.920 be more blatant and more direct just repeat the words 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.400 of Republicans at the next time Donald Trump has a 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.880 temper tantrum or a Twitter tantrum. I don't know why 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.120 every single House Democrat doesn't put out a statement quoting 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.360 Ted Cruz when he wrote a presidential temper tantrum is 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.400 not an acceptable means of discourse. The words are right there, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.560 and they came from Republicans. And think that Democrats need 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:09.320 to be vigilant at reminding people of the context here, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.480 because as we've seen, Donald Trump loves to rewrite history 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.040 in real time, and Republicans seem to like to pretend 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.280 that the better part of this decade didn't exist. And 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:21.920 I think Democrats are letting them off the hook by 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.760 pointing it out every single day, every single day. You know, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.760 I don't know if it is democrats desire or they're 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.840 feeling that by not pointing out the obvious that they're 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.080 taking the high road. But at this point in time, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.800 don't you think that it is critical that it's critical 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.160 that Democrats highlight where we are and where Republicans have 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.960 taken us and how far they have how far they 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.240 have strayed from their own philosophies and ideologies about government. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.960 I think it is because in reality, the Republicans effectively 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:01.640 closed themselves in constitutional righteousness the Obama years, and they 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.040 use that as a means to advance their brand, their 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.000 politics obstruction, and now more than ever, they need to 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.360 be held accountable for that by the Democrats, by the press, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.760 so that the American people understand what's happening and how 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:19.920 far away Republicans frankly have strayed from their own orthodox scene. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.800 And again, the lack of oversight, the lack of check 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.160 and balance, the lack of a watchdog over our democracy 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.640 is having some real, real life impacts. People are wondering 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.840 right now why they haven't gotten their stimulus checks, why 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:40.280 they their small businesses didn't get loans, Why large corporate 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.000 conglomerates are getting bailouts while mom and pop shops are 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.120 going under and people are having to fire their employees. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:51.200 And part of that is because Republicans have abandoned their oversight. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.040 Post Trump is empowered to feel like he can do 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.600 whatever he wants, that he can give money away to 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.560 whoever he wants. The fact that this past week, somehow 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.960 in the state to Florida, the WWE was designated essential 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.840 and given special status just tells you how broken things 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.600 are right now. And I think Democrats, who again, I 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.640 feel like, oftentimes operate from a position of fear. They're 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.720 worried about things on their faces, They're worried about looking 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.440 to politically opportunistic, and yet the Republicans certainly don't hesitate 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.600 to do those things. Republicans aren't thinking twice about politicizing 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.320 this as they are encouraging lunatics to go out there 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.880 and protest the social distancing guidelines that we have in 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.440 place to trying to keep hold of this pandemic. Republicans 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.840 are doubling down on extreme and Democrats don't seem to 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.600 be saying or doing much of anything. And that's and 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.920 that's always my problem is that you're right, there is 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:52.600 this fear that is there, that is, you know, lingering 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.240 underneath the surface with Democrats, which is being painted in 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.520 a bad light, being seen as opportunistic, being seen as 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 a party that does not care about the people. Right So, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.080 any time there is any spin that is done from 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.560 Fox News that is done by the right, They cower, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:19.120 they apologize, and they let the situation go. We watch 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.639 it happen with gun rights, right. We watch it after 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.480 every mass shooting, right, we haven't had just so people know, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.040 we haven't had a school shooting. Do you know why 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.359 we haven't had a school shooting because school is not 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.480 in session. That's the only reason. So the way to 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.040 stop mass shootings in schools apparently is to shut down schools, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.240 not do anything about actual gun control legislation. But every 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.000 time there is a mass shooting, we're told now is 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.720 not the time to politicize. Well, when is it right? 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.840 If now is not the time to politicize the fact 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.359 that you have a president and a party that is 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.720 held bent on creating some type of second Civil war, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.080 right where the President of the United States is urging 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.320 folks to buy up guns right and to protest their 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:13.399 rights to be liberated, when in fact that rhetoric is 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.359 putting them in harm's way and is creating an incredible 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.439 powder cag of an environment right where we have heightened emotions. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.159 Twenty two million people are out of work, We have 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.560 racial and ethnic animus, that this administration has been spreading 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.280 and then we're literally adding guns to that mix. Right, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.200 what do we think is going to happen? And so, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.879 what is it that you think that Democrats need to 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:44.480 do to reclaim this narrative. I think they need to 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.400 toughen up and really start being more aggressive in their rhetoric. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.080 I think that they need to hold this president accountable. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.040 I think after debating and discussing right now more legislation 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.320 to put more money into different programs to try to 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 keep the economy afloat, I think that they really need 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.399 to tie in that legislation with some real tough oversight mechanisms. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.400 I think that they need to not allow this president 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.320 to have a blank check to do whatever he wants, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.359 because I feel like giving Donald Trump trillions of taxpayer dollars, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.320 it's basically it's a bank heist and broad daylight. And 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.399 what we do know is to this point, the people 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.080 who need help aren't getting it. And what the president 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.000 is really spending his time doing is focusing on using 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:33.440 these resources to produce propaganda. I mean, before his ridiculous 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.119 campaign style of briefings, he's making the press corps watch 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.600 these ridiculous videos that he's studies that he's his team 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.440 is putting together on a tax payer time to try 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.920 to do everything he can to deflect away from them 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.600 stakes he has made and promote himself as some sort 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.320 of savior. And you know, the idea that he even 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.399 would delay for one second the sending of some of 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.439 these checks out because he wants his signature on the 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:06.199 checks is unthinkable propaganda. And it's something that Republicants, by 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.400 the way, we're obsessed about the idea of propaganda. During 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.880 the Obama years, they called for investigations about the legality 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.840 of the public relations efforts of the Obama administration. And 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.560 I can tell you firsthand that nothing that Barack Obama 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.920 did came remotely close to the blatan display of propaganda 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.200 that we've seen from Donald Trump in the last week alone. 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.280 And yet tom and again, as we've seen throughout this presidency, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.479 Republicans who are quick to investigate Obama there are nowhere 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.760 to be seen or heard there instead encouraging people to 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.120 go out there and violate social distancing guidelines. They're encouraging 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.880 people to put their health at risk and put all 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:44.200 of us at risk. They're encouraging people to arm up 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.280 and weaponize because we all know that the thing that 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.080 we need now is everyone having a gun is that 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.520 usually ends well in this country. And I just don't, 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:56.560 for the left of me know what the Democrats are 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.840 really doing. I don't see any of them really out 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.840 there talking about any of this in a strong and 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:08.280 profound and meaningful way. And again, I just I feel 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.480 like they're letting fear and they're letting the right control 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.960 their reactions to things. I mean, the reality is Donald 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.639 Trump and the bright parts of the world and the 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.320 Fox News is of the world, in the Russell La 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.200 Muzzle world, they're going to accuse the Democrats are playing politics. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.680 No matter what, they're going to attack the Democrats, they're 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.680 gonna say they're taking lea our rights and our freedoms. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.000 They've been doing that for a decade now. That's not 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.240 going to change. So Democrats might as well go out 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.840 there and be forceful. I think the American people will 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.159 respond if Democrats are out there being forceful. But if 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.560 they're just gonna let Donald Trump bloviate for hours and 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.840 hours a day without any forceful, organized response, Trump's gonna 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:51.320 win in November. I just you know, everything that you're 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:58.080 saying is right and absolutely dead on, and it's it's 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.960 like we're in the midst of a perfect story. Right, 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:06.879 Democrats have been cowtowing to Republicans for decades, right and 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.560 with this and leading by fear and instead of and 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.560 taking the high road and believing that the American people 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.920 are actually better than they are, because I really don't 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.800 think so. I gotta be honest, right when you have 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.760 forty percent of the population that can be swayed by 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.600 a used car salesman that is literally putting you in 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.920 harm's way, and you're saying, yes, I want to send 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.120 my kids back to work. Who cares of two point 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.280 three million of them die like doctor Oz did last 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.360 week and then had to apologize right like again, you're right, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.359 Where the hell are the Democrats? Where is anybody that 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.960 is punching back in any significant way? And they can't 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:46.720 tell me, right, because it is the governors right now 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.840 who have the responsibilities of trying to get their their 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:55.760 residents safe and tested and create a hospital structure that 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.520 doesn't explode. But where are the members of Congress? Right 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.640 In all the while, I want to point out that 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:06.240 as Republicans and lunatics like like Oz, and Phil I 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:08.320 won't even call them doctors anymore. In my opinion, they're 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.800 not now. But as they're saying, you know what, let's 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:14.159 let these people die, how in the world are we 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:16.560 going to ever let the Republican Party get away with 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:21.679 calling themselves the pro life party, they're not. They are 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.480 literally willing to let people die who as they cause 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.520 to say, well, they might die anyway, they're old, They 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.840 would they would be glad to sacrifice their lives for 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:35.199 the economy. This is, you know, all the talk of 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:39.399 death panels during Obamacare, repuls that are willing to administer 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:44.560 death because they want their corporate cronies to continue making 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.480 millions and billions of dollars. I mean more than anything too. 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.560 What we're seeing is effectively class warfare, because guess what, 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:52.879 it's not the billionaires going to be out there on 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.960 the supply chains, working in warehouses, working in restaurants. It's 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.920 not going to be the the the people who benefited 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:01.960 from Trump's tax cuts that are going to be on 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.880 the front lines of this thing. If if certain states reopen, 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.040 it's going to be the working class, it's going to 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.400 be the lower class. It's going to be people who 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:12.240 don't have a choice and are having to make the 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:16.399 impossible decision to choose between their own health and welfare 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:18.680 and being able to put food on the table and 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:23.200 keep their families afloat. It's going to be deleased among 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:27.359 us who suffer the consequences of this reactionary effort by 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:32.080 Republicans to get people out there again. And and you 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:34.800 know what I'll say is this is that you know, 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.440 I oftentimes believe that Democrats waste a lot of time 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:42.240 trying to convince the forty percent that Donald Trump is 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.480 bad for them, right, instead instead of focusing on the 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:49.959 sixty percent that need to be riled up and need 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.120 to be educated on what he's doing, so that this 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.600 time around in twenty twenty, another hundred and five million 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.359 people don't decide to sit on their assets, right like 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.560 this is this is about This isn't about trying to 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.560 get I could give a shit about folks across the aisle. 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:09.320 I really don't care. Right, you want to go out 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.359 and you want to have rallies with guns and do 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:13.680 all of these things and infect yourselves and your neighbors, 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.240 and one stay in your own goddamn state. That's that's 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:18.920 essentially where I am. I don't care. I'm not I'm 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:21.400 not trying to save people's lives out here who are 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:24.439 willingly putting themselves in harm's way. But I am talking 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:28.120 about the sixty percent of people who have some type 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:34.320 of practical understanding of how viruses work and spread and 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.320 health and wellness right, and those hundred and five million 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:42.880 people who were not moved into action, Why don't they 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:47.080 try and talk to those sixty percent instead of continuing 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.040 to concentrate on the forty that we're never getting back. 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:54.000 I mean, if you haven't come around to the idea yet, 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:57.960 then Donald Trump is back for your health. There's no 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:00.280 there's no change in your mind. Now you're gone. You're 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.920 you're so far gone, there's no get you back. And 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.840 it's not even worth at this point trying to save 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.600 those people from themselves. And I think that you're right. 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.080 The attention and our focus is got to be on 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:15.600 getting people to turn out to vote and getting people 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.439 and to build the coalition that And I believe that 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:22.640 that coalition, the bedrock of that, the foundation of that 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:27.560 are people of color, our minorities, are the working class, 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:31.280 are the people who are being subjected to this economic 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.760