WEBVTT - Race to the Bottom 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.440 Good morning, keeps in. Welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.000 Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podcast 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.000 studios here in Times Square. Folks, interesting news has been 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.000 popping up once again out of the state of Texas 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.639 because it seems that Governor Greg Abbott is on his 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.920 campaign to be the worst fucking governor in America. So 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.160 in a late in his latest right scheme, and let's 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.839 just be clear that Abbott is facing not one, but 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.479 two Republican challengers for the governorship, and so he feels 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.400 the need to compete to be the worst person in 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.320 this country. Not only has he banned abortions for women 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.040 at six weeks, not only is he restricting schools from 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.440 being able to keep children safe. But now in his 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.080 latest move, he has decided to ban all vaccine mandates, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.679 not just for state and government, not just for government workers, state, local, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.800 and federal, but also for private businesses. The question that 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.720 I have is that I thought that Republicans were for 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.720 private business. I thought that they were for the privatization 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.880 of every fucking thing. So it's shocking to me that 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.959 now Abbott is coming in hot and heavy telling private 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.760 businesses what they can and cannot fucking do. Interestingly enough, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.679 as he decides to sign this executive order that would 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.320 essentially why doesn't he just go one step further and 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.920 just ban vaccinations altogether? Right at the same time that 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.720 Texas has now swooped in for the lead of COVID 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.800 cases in the fucking country, this man himself has been 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.880 vaccinated and then on top of the vaccination, also caught COVID. Right, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.680 so he understands, or should you think, understand the precarious 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.240 nature that we are in. But he doesn't. He doesn't 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.880 give a damn because the only thing that Greg Abbott 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.400 gives a fuck about is holding onto power, which is evident. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.440 Right and right now, you have the people in Texas. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.120 You have women in Texas and people in general in 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.480 Texas basically living in a developed nation. When you think 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.880 about the state of Texas right now, you think about 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.120 their voter suppression laws, Apparently democracy does not exist as 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.560 it's there. You think about their Roe v wade, their 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.680 attack on women's rights, apparently that doesn't exist there. So 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.960 you think to yourself, what the fuck is going on 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.880 in Texas? Because I'm waiting for the executive order when 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.160 they just decide to succeed, and I not succeed, but succeed. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.320 And here's the thing. I wouldn't miss Texas. I really wouldn't. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.600 I don't give a fuck at this point. I would 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:49.960 love it if Florida, Texas and whatever other fucking middle 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.040 of hell type of place that is run by these inefficient, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.400 ineffective executioners decide to do I'm like, fucking leave. I 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.800 don't understand at this stage in the game. I'm gonna 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.959 be honest with you, and I don't really give a 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 damn because at this point I feel like I have 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.720 moved past no fucks given what comes after zero fucks? 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.600 I don't know, but I believe that I am there 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.600 because I no longer want to waste time convincing these 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.640 motherfuckers to get vaccinated. You want to die, go for it, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.720 take yourself out. I don't care. I don't want to 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.680 convince you. I don't want mobile vaccine units into your 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.760 fucking neighborhoods. I don't want to help you. You don't 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.680 want to help yourself. I don't want to fucking help you. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.760 You know. Here's the other thing too, When I think 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.840 about what's going on, because everybody and you know, our 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.640 friend doctor Jonathan Metzil will come on later and he 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.480 will tell me, Oh, Danielle know it matters, and we 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.000 should have empathy and we should care. But here's the 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.360 thing I stopped caring. I think that I stopped caring 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.400 about six months ago. You know, when the vaccines were 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.320 available to all people, right when they were at every 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.800 single fucking pharmacy. That there is not a community that 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.760 doesn't have a vaccination site within five miles. Like I'm 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.880 kind of fucking over it. I don't care anymore. Like 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.120 I am vaccinated, and the only thing that I'm waiting 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.760 on right now is a fucking booster, right because I 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.880 would like for my vaccine not to weigh out while 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.800 we try and get more of these people who are 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.239 not going to get fucking vaccinated. Right, So I'm saying 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.120 to them, dye in mass Let Darwinism take its fucking 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.359 course at this point, right, Less of them means better 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.119 for us, And I swear to God, I don't feel 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.760 bad about saying that. Not at this stage in the game. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:48.200 We are, folks, nineteen months, nineteen god damn months into 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.200 this global health pandemic, and what we know to be 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.560 true is that pretty much COVID is going to be 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.200 here to stay. So all of these people that are 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.720 dying to go back to normal, I just want them 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.039 to I right, because the only reason why at this 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.919 point that we are never ever getting back to a 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.919 place of normal where mass are now just a part 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.320 of our everyday life is because of Donald Trump. Is 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.960 because of Republican governors like Greg Abbott and death Santis. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.200 Is because of all of these motherfuckers that care nothing 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:25.560 about nothing, not their constituents, not public health, not civility, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.640 not patriotism, not a fucking thing other than power. And 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.400 I'm sick of it. I'm sick of everybody sitting on 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.479 the fucking fence at this point. Right. So the other day, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.320 I'm on Long Island, right because I want to go 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.080 hang out with my parents for the long weekend. And 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.760 you know, there's a big difference if you are not 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.720 from New York. Let me lay it out for you. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.039 There's a big difference between what happens in New York 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.400 City and what the fuck is going on out on 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.760 Long Island, right, So let me paint this picture for you. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.480 I'm in the suburbs and I decide I want to 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.599 go to home, Goods, right, Like, I want to go, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.440 you know, shopping, because you know, those type of big 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.400 box stores in the city don't have the beds selection. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.200 Why is that? Because we got a lot of fucking 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.719 people and not a lot of inventory. So I love 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.440 to go to big box stores when I'm out in 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.720 the suburbs. So I roll up right mask on, because 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.240 you know, I care about public health, and I go 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:31.080 into home Goods. Not ne'er a fucking person in this 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.880 store was wearing a mask except for the workers that 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:40.000 were there. Everyone else walking around the store maskless. I'm saying, huh, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.360 this is fascinating. I go to the bagel store again. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.760 I walk in, I'm getting looked at by the way 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.960 because I'm wearing a mask, and I'm looking at these motherfuckers, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.960 and I'm like, Oh, is COVID done in Suffolk County? 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.560 Are we Is it finished? Did I not get the memo? Like? 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 I get that the rates in Suffolk County, which is 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.920 where my family is from. Long Island is made up 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.800 in two counties, Nassa and Suffolk, and my family is 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.160 from out East, and I understand that the COVID rate 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.880 has dropped, hovering around two percent, right which is fairly 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.240 good when we look at where things are nationally, and 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.560 when we look at places like Texas and Florida and 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.720 what have you. But at the end of the day, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.480 I also live in an area where Trump flags still 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:31.760 fly high in the sky, right where motherfuckers have up 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.760 Trump posters on their garage doors and like our hailing 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.160 to their fucking you know, fake ass, criminal ass twice 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:47.560 impeach misogynistic rapists, Islamophobic, transphobic, homophobic, piece of trash right. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.080 And when I look and I see my family's neighbors 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.320 right with their Trump flags, to me, what it looks 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 like is just why don't you just put up the 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.120 Confederate flag here in New York? Why don't you just 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.280 swing your hood from the KKK up in the air 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.160 as well? Because I don't understand what you are trying 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.440 to convey to your neighbors other than the fact that 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.960 you agree with everything that Donald Trump says and does, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.240 that you agree with racism, that you agree with prejudice. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.360 So you know, I say all this to say that 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.400 at this stage in the game, when I hear that, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.280 you know, the next conservative has gotten COVID and is 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.959 being hospitalized, and they are taking up resources from other 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.680 people that have done the right thing, or other people 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.480 that don't even have COVID but can't get into the 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.960 hospital because they're being told to sit in the fucking 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.800 lobby because you know the hospital is overloaded. I'm like, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.960 turn these people away. You don't give a fuck about 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.960 doctors and scientists until all of a sudden you're bedridden 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.800 and getting ready to go on a ventilator, and now 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.840 all of a sudden you're like, Oh, do what you 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.040 can to save me. Fuck you, Like literally, that's what 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.360 I want nurses and doctors to say. Fuck you, Like 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.840 I swore an oath to do no harm, but you 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.600 are the one doing harm. And I'm working twenty four 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.120 hours a day, seven days a week to save you 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.120 motherfucker's from yourself. And at some point in time, you 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.360 just got to throw up your hands and be like, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.400 go with God. Do you know what I'm saying? Like 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.800 I have reached a point where I know I don't 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.360 want to hear the Biden administration talk about the different 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.160 techniques and things that they are doing to roll out 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.280 to help people get vaccinated. Fuck them. There are entire 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:42.480 countries like Haiti, Jamaica, underdeveloped places in South America, on 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.920 the continent of Africa that don't even have vaccines right now, 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.760 and we are flush, right, and so I'm saying, take 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.400 them away, give them to people that are in need. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.120 Let's conquer the global problem, right, because the wealthy nations, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.520 much in the same way that the wealthy in the 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.520 United States don't give a fuck about the poor, right, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.920 the wealthiest nations in the world don't give a fuck 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.839 about the underdeveloped ones. Meanwhile, it's a global health pandemic. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.640 It doesn't stay where the fuck it is. So for 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.960 those countries that said, oh, I don't know, we would 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.120 provide two hundred million vaccines or two hundred million doses here, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.480 there and everywhere, and come to find out they have 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.720 done dick. Do you think that your borders are going 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.720 to what turn COVID away at the entry like we 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.480 do migrants and immigrants seeking asylum in this country. You 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.600 think that you can say to COVID nineteen and the 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.480 next iteration, the next fucking variation, oh no, thank you, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.320 go back to where you came from. Yeah, it doesn't 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.280 work like that, But I gotta tell you that I'm done. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.319 I'm done with the conversations about the unvaccinated. I don't 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.440 give a fuck, right like, I'm done with trying to 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.240 convince people go with God. I will wear my man ask, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.959 I will wash my hands, I will continue to do 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.200 what I have to do to keep myself safe. And 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.600 as soon as the boosters are available, I'm getting another 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.439 shot in the arm, maybe two, just for good measure. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.840 This week, the FDA is hearing from Maderna and Johnson 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.080 and Johnson to talk about whether or not they are 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.360 going to approve their booster shots, because right now, the 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.520 only shot that is approved is Fiser, and it is 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.240 only approved for those that are sixty five and older 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.959 or those with pre existing conditions that are more susceptible 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.000 to illness. But for those of us who did not 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.959 get Fiser because I did not, I got Maderna because 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.320 that was what was available. I don't want to mix 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.800 these two fucking things in my body. So I'm waiting 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.800 on the FDA to be able to approve Maderna so 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.720 that we can move forward. I don't know what the 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.840 fuck they are waiting for, but let's hope that at 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.240 the end of this week we have some good news 0:11:55.320 --> 0:12:02.080 on that front. Let me turn now to Columbus Day 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:07.360 for a moment, which folks earlier this week, I gotta 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.320 tell you, you know, I had half of my friends 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.400 were off right for Columbus Day slash Indigenous Day. And 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.839 here's the thing. How are we doing both things at 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.040 the same time. How are we deciding in this country 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.200 to celebrate and provide days off for a rapist, murderer 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:33.040 right who committed genocide and then also celebrating the people 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.080 that he killed. How the fuck does that work? Right? Like, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.200 how does that even make sense? So I bring this 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.760 up a couple of days later because I didn't recognize 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.439 until I was watching the local news in New York 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.319 that New York puts on one of the biggest fucking parades, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.800 an actual Columbus Day parade. I had no idea, but 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.960 tens of thousand sins of people came out, and I 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:08.520 heard this white lady on the news who said, we're 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:14.520 not giving up Columbus. That's our Italian hero. Wait what 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.160 Columbus who did not discover America, who did not discover anything, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.559 because you can't discover shit that where people already exist. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.200 He actually discovered, you know, Haiti slashed the Dominican Republic. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.400 And he didn't discover it. It he rolled up on 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.960 their shores drunk, right, and this is your hero, this 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.760 is your man. This is what I put up the 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:43.120 other day on Twitter because you know, folks, I just 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.160 I'm at a loss. I'm at a loss in these moments. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.480 But here's what I put up on Twitter and on Instagram. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:57.880 Only in America do we have holidays, highways, schools, and 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:04.080 monuments named for rape murderers, racists, and traders, while also 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.640 banning the perspectives of those raped and pillage by their 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:15.600 white American heroes. This place is so fucked up. I 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.280 you know, some days I gotta tell you that I 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:25.680 am becoming completely and totally just fucking outdone. I'm telling you, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.600 one of these days, I am going to walk out 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.040 of my apartment, just go into the middle of the 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.160 street and just scream, and do you know what, no 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.960 one will probably even look at me twice. They'll probably say, yeah, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.600 that's about right. You know, here's another thing, guests, who's 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:47.400 on vacation this week? Fucking Congress. You know, I want 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.080 to work like Congress does. I want to go into 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.520 my job. I want to do the bare fucking minimum 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.000 and then I want to go on vacation for a week. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.880 Somebody tweeted at me when I posted that comment because 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:07.400 I am just outdone how Congress is so fucking ineffective 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.320 right now and it doesn't matter that Democrats are in control. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.960 And yeah, I'm fucking saying it because I'm not holding 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:19.320 my tongue anymore, giving Democrats more room to just, you know, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.840 do nothing, to just create more and more disappointment. We 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.520 have midterms coming up but a handful of months, and 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.040 you tell me what it is that Democrats are offering 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.440 to the American people that they have done. Tell me, right, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.560 because I don't feel any different. I don't feel any better, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.040 and I can't point to any fucking money that showed 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.160 up in my bank account that I got a check 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.360 from Uncle Sam to help me do a goddamn thing, right. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.240 The only thing that we continue to find out, and 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.760 of course no one is being held responsible and nobody 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.280 is being held accountable. But the only thing that we 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.080 continue to find out is guess what The people that 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.760 actually needed the PPP loans didn't fucking get them. New 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.880 report came out that black businesses got their PPP from 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.520 online bankers as opposed to small banks right, brick and 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.040 mortar places, which are of course are racist. These are 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.160 the same lenders that decided to be predatory and cause 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.000 the fucking foreclosure crisis in America that was the largest 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.360 decimation of black wealth since Oh, I don't know, the 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.120 beginning of the nineteenth fucking century, folks, I gotta tell you, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:35.440 I you know, America is a shit whole country, right, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.280 Like America really is a shit whole country when you 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.200 look around. I want to tell you about another report 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.960 that I saw over the long holiday weekend. Oh oh, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.480 I don't know that twenty five percent of America's infrastructure 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.240 is basically going to be underwater given one more historic 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.640 storm that the infrastructure Bill which is no longer an 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:07.000 actual thing that would help us battle our climate crisis 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.760 that we are currently in. Like it's not a future thing, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:16.040 it's actually happening right the fuck now. That yeah, in 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.760 I don't know, maybe next year, maybe a couple of months, 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.680 maybe you know, one more historic, unprecedented hundred a year 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.000 storm that the country will be twenty five percent of 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.520 the country will be underwater. Six of those cities are 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.520 in Louisiana right now, and largely in guess what black 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.760 and brown communities, because you know, we don't give a 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:47.600 fuck about them at all. Ever, every single place that 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:54.120 you look, there's just more devastation, more disaster, more fuckery. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.800 I want to tell you this too. So while I 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.760 was home on Long Island, right I My mother is 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.040 a small business owner, as you guys know, and has 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:10.399 just celebrated which no small feat just celebrated her fifteenth 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.160 year of owning her yoga studio on Long Island. Now, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.520 I have said this before that where I grew up, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.240 I very rarely ever saw police, except if they were 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:27.280 like just going to and from on the major throwaway 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.040 or you know, posted up on the Long Island Expressway 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.639 to ticket people at the beginning and at the end 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.440 of the month when of course they need to make 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.879 their quotas. Right, that was the only time. What I 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:45.440 did have, however, were tree lined streets, sidewalks, gated communities, 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:52.000 country clubs, you know, schools with big, expansive playgrounds and 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:57.639 wide windows. You know, all of the symbols of middle 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:04.240 class America. Something has happened, though, it to my community. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.679 Over the past oh, I don't know, fifteen years, I 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.280 have watched as the community that I grew up in 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:17.199 slowly goes on the decline where I see more and 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.879 more for lease signs that are in front of stores. 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.280 And this was pre pandemic. Right. We were one of 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.160 the one of the hardest hit areas during the foreclosure 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.359 crisis in the early auts, when you know, Wall Street 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.399 bottomed down and millions of people across America lost their homes. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.800 And during that time, I remember seeing just for sale 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:46.280 for sale, foreclosed, foreclosed, as I was driving from my 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.439 parents house to the train station. It became more and 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:56.760 more prominent. This weekend there was a news story, local 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:03.000 news story that kept recycling through. Five businesses in my 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:10.360 small town were hit by burglar. Right, white man broken 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:16.119 mask on stealing cash registers. Now, the other thing that 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.840 has happened in my neighborhood that I grew up in 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.240 is the opioid crisis hit as well. And I only 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.400 call it a crisis because I'm just mimicking what mainstream 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.040 media says. I could give a fuck, and I'll be honest, right, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.040 And the reason why it is because whenever white people 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.960 become addicted to substances, it is a crisis. Whenever black 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.080 people are flooded their communities are flooded with drugs, right 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.199 and they're being set up by police and set up 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.359 by the federal government, then we need to have a 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.560 war on drugs. This is why I say that I 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.919 don't care. It's not because I don't know people that 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.040 have been hurt by it. It's not because I don't 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.280 know people that have lost loved ones because of it. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.600 It is because I am tired of the double fucking 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.600 stamp and dirt in this country as it pertains to 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:07.520 people that are in neat I digress Burglaries have been 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:12.160 happening all around my small town, like literally on the 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.800 street right where my mother's yoga studio is in the 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:22.800 same development, there were two break ins. My mother says 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.719 to me over the weekend, Danielle, I don't know what 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.760 is happening, Like it's starting to get really scary. And 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.560 I said, yeah, mom, it is starting to get really scary. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.120 And what I want to alert you to is that 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.720 things are actually going to get worse. You see, because 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:46.160 when people are popped up on drugs, right when people 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:52.679 are economically disadvantaged, they're working forty fifty sixty hours a 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.040 week and realizing that they still can't put food on 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.679 the table, that they can barely pay their mortgage, that 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:02.639 they're having to play three card monte right with their healthcare, 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.479 their home bills, their utilities, all of these things, because 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.120 they're just not making them enough to cover it. When 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:15.960 Congress is inactive, right inact, not doing anything to support 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:21.680 the actual economic disadvantaged people, right and just assuming that, oh, yeah, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.680 we're going to cut off unemployment because so many Americans 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.160 are just sitting at home, because the assumption that our 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.200 politicians have about us is that we are fucking lazy, right, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.040 that we are undeserving of our own tax dollars back 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.720 to support us when we are most in need. Then 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.119 instead they want to give that money to CEOs and 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.960 shareholders in the forms of tax breaks that you and 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.399 I will never get because we don't have the teams 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.160 of lawyers and CPAs that are going to help us 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.160 navigate these huge loopholes that are available only to the rich. 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:55.000 And as this gap continues to widen, right, as we 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.880 see the rich continue to get richer and do their 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.160 little vacation jaunts to the edge of space. And then 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.760 as we see on the other side, as people lose 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:09.159 their businesses, lose their homes and they are just downward 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:13.560 spiraling into economic peril. You are going to see more 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:18.200 and more increased crime. That isn't because of what the 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.680 media and fucking cops want to feed you, which is that, oh, 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.720 we just need more cops because more cops keep us safe. No, 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.920 we need economic fucking opportunity. And I am watching it 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:34.240 happen and ravage my hometown because people are at a loss. 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.840 They can't continue at the same pace that they've been 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:42.240 going and are bringing home less fucking money. So the 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.680 break ins are going to become the norm. And right 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.960 now they are happening at night when nobody is in 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:52.119 these small businesses. But as people become more and more desperate, 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.119 what the fuck do you think is going to happen? 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:03.040 We have an opportunity to pass major, major, robust legislation 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:05.800 in the form of the New New Deal for the 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.399 twenty first century, to deal with the economic devastation that 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:11.800 we are in, and we have a Congress that is 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:16.199 just phoning it the fuck inn I'm right now reading 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:18.479 Fiona Hill's book and I told you guys about this 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.960 last week. There's nothing for you. Here is the name 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:22.600 of the book, and I got to tell you, I'm 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.600 just a few pages in and it is riveting. And 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:30.119 it is riveting because she talks about her own country's 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:32.879 economic crisis and how she ended up in the United 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:38.040 States and how we formed these rust belts, how we've 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:44.080 created a new knowledge based economy but didn't actually think 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.400 about the communities that were built up solely on industry, 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.439 that were built up solely on manufacturing, and that we 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:54.359 created public school systems and curriculums that were only meant 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:57.840 to pipeline these people into those jobs that their parents 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:01.120 had and their grandparents had that were not about preparing 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.959 them for the future. We are doing the same shit now. 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:09.480 We are preparing no one for anything other than a 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:14.840 lifetime of indentured servitude and debt. And we have to 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:19.719 ask ourselves why and who is benefiting from this, because 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.200