1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: it has been now two days since the State of 4 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: the Union and you no doubt heard my thoughts on 5 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: woke Wednesday yesterday. But I the level of rage that 6 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: I had while listening to the State of the Union 7 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: is almost on par No, I guess it's not really 8 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: on par, but it is almost like right below Trump levels. 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: And let me tell you why. And here's the thing. 10 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Here's the problem with the Biden administration, with Democrats in general. 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: And I know, you know, people ask me and they say, hey, 12 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: I started listening to your podcast, which hi all to 13 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: welcome to the new listeners. I'm really excited. Please share 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: with your friends. But people are asking me, They're like, well, 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: what's the solution, what's the solution, And I'm like, the 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: solution is actually really easy. You tell the fucking truth, right, 17 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: You tell the truth about what's happening in this country, 18 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: what needs to be done, and you do it. What 19 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: I'm finding really interesting are the acts that the Department 20 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: of Justice is taking. For instance, the Department of Justice 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: is deciding that they're going to put their full weight 22 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: and force behind going after Russian arligarchs who have been 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: buying up real estate and property and you know, boats 24 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: and yachts and just shit inside of the United States, 25 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: and they're going to freeze those assets and they're going 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: to go for They're gonna go for the gold and 27 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: the gusto. And when this was first reported by CNN, 28 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: my thought was like, Okay, so what the fuck are 29 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: you doing about the American oligarchs that funneled money into 30 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: the pockets of oh, I don't know, the fucking oath keepers, 31 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: the Proud Boys, those people that were tactically planning on 32 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: the ground the insurrection. Where is this kind of like 33 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: Biden standing up in front of Congress, in front of 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: the fucking free world, and I use quotations in saying that, 35 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: in front of the free fucking world, talking about like 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: how the United States is going after these oligarchs and 37 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: going after the wealthy, and I'm saying, where's the fucking smoke, Biden? 38 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: For the American oligarchs. You have fucking Donald Trump sitting 39 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: up real cozy at Marlago. You got people sitting in 40 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: that room right on the night of the State of 41 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: the Union, who themselves were on the phone with insurrectionists 42 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: who were using their money, their access right, their strategic 43 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: planning in order to help people overthrow the government in 44 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: the United States. And yet we're putting all this fucking 45 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: smoke and fire behind getting Putin. And I'm like, who 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: the fuck is getting McCarthy, Who the fuck is getting Gates, 47 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: Who the fuck is getting Donald Trump? Who the fuck 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: is getting Eastman? Right, Like, I am so confused about 49 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: how we had Democrats jumping up and down, screaming and 50 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: chanting USA. Also notably, why Republicans sat on their fucking 51 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: hands right, jumping up, chanting USA. And you're not doing 52 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: dick in this country in order to secure our democracy. 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: You're so busy going around wielding your big stick and 54 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: fucking yelling from the top of the rooftops. How Putin 55 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's up against. Well, apparently Republicans don't 56 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: know who they're up against because they ain't up against anybody. 57 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: They clearly have no opposition because they are doing the 58 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: same fucking things in the United States. They may not 59 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: be rolling out heavy artillery, but if you fucking remember 60 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: from the insurrection, they built a fucking guillotine. Those people 61 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: had tactical equipment. They were either active or retired military 62 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: and police officers and all types of law enforcements. Right 63 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: there were people that were put on chartered buses from 64 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: all around the country to head to Washington, DC. Where 65 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: the fuck is the follow up on who funded that? 66 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: I just you know, folks, I am losing what is 67 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: left of my fucking mind these days because I got 68 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: to hold multiple things at one time. On one hand, 69 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: I want to say, yes, the Ukrainian people need absolute 70 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: help and protection and they are fleeing devastation that we 71 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: cannot imagine. I wrote about it in media, putting myself 72 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: in their shoes, as if this would happen on our soil. 73 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: You saw it on Patreon, you see it on media. 74 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: But and at the same time, I'm like, if one 75 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: more person sends me more reports of how the Ukrainians 76 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: are treating the fucking black immigrants that are in their country, 77 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: telling them that Ukrainians first, white people first black people. 78 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: You gotta walk twelve fucking miles in order to get 79 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: to a border just to be turned away, and we 80 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: can't talk about that. At the same time, you want 81 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: to use it as a motherfucking footnote at the end 82 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: of news segments. I have watched CNN, MSNBC, BBC and 83 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: all of them will say, oh, well, you know the 84 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: Ukrainians and they will show you know, horrible, horrific images 85 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: and videos. Because let's all not forget right that media 86 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: is a money game. It is a ratings game, and 87 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: so what bleeds leads that is the fucking truth. And 88 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: it has always been in journalism, right. But at the 89 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: same time, it is not only right the blue wide 90 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: and the white that are fleeing war and violence and destruction. 91 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: And so why is it why is it not being 92 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: called out by those people, particularly journalists of color, that 93 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: do have this space and place to do so calling 94 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: out how radically different the fucking coverage is when wanting 95 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: to invoke empathy in the world about these babies and 96 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: these women so long as they are white. But we're 97 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: not telling the fucking stories of black people, black Africans, 98 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: immigrants of color being told to get off of buses 99 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: as if it is nineteen fifties fucking Jim Crow America 100 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: and the reality. I tweeted this yesterday and I said, 101 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: you know what, do you know what gets me on many, 102 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: many occasions, is that no one gives a fuck about 103 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: black people. Do you remember back before Kanye was still 104 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: kind of Kanye and it was the Awards season and 105 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: it was a it was a telethon or something to 106 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: that nature for Katrina. Right, So we're talking about the 107 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: twenty tents when Katrina hit and Kanye West stood up 108 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,119 Speaker 1: in front of the world and said, George Bush doesn't 109 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: care about black people because black people were on their 110 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: rooftops as well, screaming for help, right they were being 111 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: picked off and shot at by police. Because when black 112 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: people in New Orleans, we're trying to get the basic 113 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: needs that they water, food from flooded out grocery stores. 114 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: The media said, look at those looters, white people doing 115 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: the same fucking thing. Oh my god, look at these 116 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: victims of Hurricane Katrina. It is the same shit that 117 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: plays out on the micro level fucking here in the 118 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: United States, that plays out all over the world. And 119 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: do you know what it is called. It is called 120 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: anti blackness. And I am so fucking tired of the 121 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: laziness in journalism right now, the fucking lazy and the 122 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: neglect and the purposeful erasure of the trauma and the 123 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: struggle that black immigrants and immigrants of color are facing 124 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: as they too are fleeing alongside their white compatriots to 125 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: try and get to fucking safety, and no one gives 126 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: a shit. Biden, in his State of the Union, which 127 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: opened up all about Ukraine, could have used that as 128 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: an opportunity to say to his colleagues, right those that 129 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: are in the European Union that says that discrimination should 130 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: have no place in your country. It should have no 131 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: place right now as all types of people, black people, 132 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: immigrants of color are also fleeing. Yes, people in Ukraine, 133 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: we understand and we see the torment that you are 134 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: going through. But that does not mean that you get 135 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: to kick people who are also fleeing and needs safe 136 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: down so that you can trample on them to get 137 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: what it is that you need. My God, but once 138 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: again this administration, when given the opportunity to do the 139 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: right thing, will make sure that they punt it way 140 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: down the fucking field. Let me go on with the 141 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 1: State of the fucking Union, which is trash right to 142 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: say this, Joe Biden. Joe Biden wanted to close out 143 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:40,239 Speaker 1: his speech earlier this week, trying to rally the rally Congress, 144 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: and while you're at it, post pass the Voting Rights Act, 145 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: and pass this, and pass that, and pass this and 146 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: all there's all this applause. And do you know what 147 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: I realized as I was listening to Joe Biden as 148 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: a veteran in politics for the last I don't know, 149 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: ten fifteen fucking years, is that it is the same 150 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: fucking things that you've been trying to pass for the 151 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: same amount of fucking time that have never gotten done 152 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: because you don't have any strategy, because you're not willing 153 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes in the same vein that 154 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: Republicans are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy 155 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: and disrupt our democracy, to put women back chained into 156 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: the kitchen, to put black people back chain behind a 157 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: fucking car. They are willing to do what it takes. 158 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: Democrats are not. And so Joe Biden can rattle off 159 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: all of the fucking things and then to put I 160 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: mean to make matters worse, We're not trying to defund 161 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: the police. We need to fund the police. Are you 162 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,439 Speaker 1: fucking kidding me? Why don't you just spit in my 163 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: goddamn face and the faces of black people that had 164 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: you in the middle of a fucking pandemic, march for 165 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: our fucking lives, risk our lives through a virus, only 166 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: to march for our lives to beg police to stop 167 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 1: fucking killing us like dogs in the street. But you 168 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: want to talk about more funding, as if we have 169 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: enough money in the world to fund right to fund 170 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: out racism. Are you kidding me? The fucking police department 171 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: in New York City has a budget in the fucking billions, 172 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: in the billions. You think that, oh, what, they're all 173 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: of a sudden not racist. Now you think, all of 174 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: a sudden, what they're not throwing black and brown men 175 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: and women up against walls, patting them down. Oh, because 176 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: crime is up so they get to do whatever the 177 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: fuck they want. Crime is up because the social safety 178 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: nets are broken. Crime is not up because we need 179 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: more police. Show me the wealthy white neighborhoods in this 180 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: country that are crawling around with police because that equal safety. 181 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,599 Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. Joe Biden doesn't get it. 182 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: Democrats don't fucking get it. And you know what, I 183 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: will vote right because it's all that I can fucking do. 184 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: But I will absolutely understand the people that dead. I'd 185 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: not to because this country hasn't done dick for them. 186 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: But we keep putting our self, our lives, our hopes 187 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: right on the line, only to be told much like 188 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians are telling the fucking African immigrants get to 189 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: the back of the bus or get the fuck off. 190 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: You know how many people said in Twitter right that, 191 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: oh my god, the progressive shouldn't have been giving a 192 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: rebuttal and oh my god, now is not the time. 193 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: Now is not the time. Now is not the time. 194 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: Tell me when the time is right, because I agree, 195 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: now is not the time. But tell me when the 196 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: time is right? Is it when the comment is hovering 197 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: over us right and our impending disaster is just minutes away? 198 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: Is then the time? We are running out of time? 199 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: I don't know how many times and how many different 200 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: ways that I need to say that, because I feel 201 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: I feel like I am screaming into a void. Because 202 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: when I looked around at the tweets, the hot takes 203 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: coming off right after Biden was done, you would have 204 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: thought that, like he gave the speech to end all speeches. 205 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself as I was sitting on 206 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: the couch, were we all listening to the same thing. 207 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: What was rousing about that? What was deserved of applause 208 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: for that? To say? What to spend half the time 209 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: talking about how you're going after authoritarianisms, after an authoritarian regime, 210 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: after a dictator, right that is right now waging war, 211 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: But you're not talking at all, not one fucking mention 212 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: of the war that is being fought at home right now. 213 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying not that it is an either 214 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: or proposition. I'm saying that it is a both end. 215 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: That could have been a transitional point to talk about 216 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: what we are facing at home as our democracy is 217 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: being ripped away, one voter suppression law at a time. 218 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 1: Right that, after he was painting the picture of how 219 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: evil Vladimir Putin is, that maybe he could have reminded 220 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: the American people who exactly the last president was chummy with, 221 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: who not only days before, had stood up in Marlago 222 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: or where the fuck he was, to talk about how 223 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: smart Putin was, to praise him, and that there were 224 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: members that were within this very chamber who were applauding 225 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: his moves and say, why can't we have a president 226 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: that is like this? Like this? He had an opportunity 227 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: to show the American people exactly who the Republican Party is. Instead, 228 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: he referred to them once a fucking again as my 229 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: friends from across the aisle. Are we insane? I just 230 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: you know, folks, I have very little patience I do. 231 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: I pop off very quickly because I am not the 232 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: smartest person in the room, right. I am not the 233 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: one who has pedigree upon academic pedigree. But I am 234 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: not fucking dumb, and neither are you. So if all 235 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: of us can see the parallels between what is happening, 236 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: all of us in woke f nation who consistently are like, 237 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: wait a minute, am I crazy? We come together as 238 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: a collective here, right because it is the only place 239 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: that I find these days where I don't feel crazy. 240 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: Because when I turn on cable news, when I open 241 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: up my computer to scrawl through and see who is 242 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: writing what and where, I'm like, are we all look? 243 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: Are we all in the same country right now? Are 244 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: we all paying attention to the same things? Because I 245 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: don't think so. You know. It is it's as if, 246 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: like our we don't have the capacity to hold big 247 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: things right, We don't have the capacity to be able 248 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: to see more than through a pinhole. And that is 249 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: exactly what Joe Biden showed us as we I mean 250 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: when I heard fund the police, and fund the police, 251 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: and fund the police. You fund the police with fucking tanks. 252 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: Do you not remember the tanks that were rolled out 253 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: in Ferguson. That was before the protests that happened in 254 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: Oregon and the protests that happened in New York in 255 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. It was in Ferguson that we saw the 256 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: militarized gear that you were so busy funding, funding, funding 257 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: the fucking police with so that they can then turn 258 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: around and use it against us. But then you want 259 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: to come shuck and jive over to black and brown 260 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: communities talking about give me your vote. Fuck you. That's 261 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: how I feel right now. Fuck you. I'm so tired 262 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: of being used as a pawn in a game that 263 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: I did not make up, in a game that I 264 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: didn't volunteer for. I didn't ask to be fucking tribute. 265 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: And here we are being used and abused because what 266 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: they told us that we have no choice, we have choices, 267 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: And I keep saying that's over and over again, and 268 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: people will say, well, what is the choice not to vote. 269 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: The choice is to burn the ship down. That's the 270 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: fucking choice. How do you do that? Opt out? That's 271 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: how you do it. You begin to opt out, You 272 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: begin to opt out of this pageantry and shit show. Right, 273 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: do you know what the state of the Union was 274 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: to me? It was like a pep rally for a 275 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: losing fucking team. That's what it was. Them all up 276 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: and down at being oh at the same talking points. 277 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: Let me tell the same stale stories with new faces 278 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: attached to them. If I heard one more story about 279 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: my dad and Scranton, Joe Biden is almost a hundred 280 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: and six. I don't care about your dad and Scranton. 281 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: Scranton is not the only place in America we're fucking 282 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: working class where what you really want to say is 283 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: white working class people are the working class does not 284 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: look like the white man and the hard at with 285 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: the hard lunchbox headed out while his wife kisses him 286 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: goodbye while she's holding a baby and a pie at 287 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: the same fucking time. Where are we right now? We're 288 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: trapped in some weird dystopian present where it's like the 289 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: rest of us, see exactly what's happening, see exactly the 290 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: plans and the direction that we're moving in. And then 291 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: you have the powers that be that are so desperate 292 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: to hold on to what was that they are losing? 293 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: What is that State of the Union was a pep 294 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: rally that I did not need. It didn't offer a 295 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: fucking thing. And on top of that, you want to 296 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: talk about, oh, well, we'd take our masks off, isn't 297 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: isn't this what we all wanted? No? I didn't want 298 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: it in time for mid terms. I wanted masks and 299 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: mitigations to be rolled back when the scientists and the 300 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: doctors said so, not when they were being dictated by 301 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: the political fucking calendar. And if you think for a 302 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: fucking minute that the people that had never been wearing 303 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: their masks all along are gonna all of a sudden 304 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: be like, oh, well, look Biden is with us now, 305 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: US anti vaxers, anti maskers, so now we're going to 306 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: vote Democrat? Are you dumb? They haven't voted with you 307 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty? How many times do we need to 308 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: say that? But the base who you decided to throw 309 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: under the bus yesterday with your oh fun fund fund 310 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: the police, Yeah, you're gonna find fine, fine, Your asshole 311 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: by yourself, because I went. I went, and I pulled 312 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: up various sights where I know that black and brown 313 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: people are always active in the comments sections. And I looked, 314 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: and let me tell you something that folks are like, Oh, 315 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: so I hope he's not looking for a second term. 316 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: I hope he's not coming to my community for a vote. 317 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: Oh he can go take that fun fund down there 318 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: to the white neighborhood, because that is not me. Imagine 319 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: if this is how I feel, as somebody who is 320 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: actually a staunch Democrat who has committed their life's work 321 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: to strengthening and securing and expanding our democracy, that if 322 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: I feel like this, what do you think that lukewarm 323 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: people felt like they are ice cold? Now they are 324 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: fucking done and they're going to decide that you know what, No, 325 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to pay attention to what is happening 326 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: at the national and federal level because nothing is happening 327 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: for my benefit. Right, you want to throw out these 328 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,479 Speaker 1: little COVID checks and blah blah blah blah, as if 329 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: people are going to remember that come November, no, they 330 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: would actually remember being able to vote. They would actually 331 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: be they would remember being able to get an abortion. 332 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: They would actually remember having investments in their public schools. 333 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: They would actually remember and understand a real push to 334 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: deal with our climate crisis, none of which is happening. 335 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: They would even right take all of that that I 336 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: just listed, put that on the back burner. If you 337 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: would have put the people that were responsible for COVID 338 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: s writing, that were responsible for the insurrection in jail, 339 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: because at least then you would have a fucking talking 340 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: point as to why I need to go with you. 341 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: But you tell me what is the why? Why are 342 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: we Democrats? Why are we voting for them in November? 343 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: And it can't just be because the other guy is 344 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 1: a white supremaist, but that's what they're banking on. Somebody 345 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: tweeted out and said, oh my god, who's doing the 346 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: emails for the Democrats? I just got an email and 347 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: it was horrible. It was all about Trump instead of 348 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: all about Oh, I don't know the entire Republican Party 349 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 1: that rolled out four hundred voters depression laws, that is 350 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: trying to strip away your ability to have an abortion, 351 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: that is putting a target on LGBTQ kids back. Did 352 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: you hear any of that last night. Did you hear 353 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: any of that in the State of the Union. I didn't, 354 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: and I was waiting, you know, I had thoughts and 355 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: i'd put it up, and I said to folks, you know, 356 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go live after. I'm gonna go live after, right, 357 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: And then I said, I'm not giving this country anymore 358 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: of my time. I'm gonna go rest because it's not 359 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: worth it. It's not worth it for me to stay 360 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: up to scream. I can do that the next day, 361 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: the day after. We are insignificant fucking trouble in this country, 362 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: significant trouble. And that one thing was mentioned in that 363 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: State of the Union that would send off any alarms, 364 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: not one thing, folks. Coming up next, I'm very excited 365 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: is my conversation for the very first time with doctor Fauci. 366 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: I mean, you know him, he doesn't need any introduction. 367 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: And I asked doctor Fauci a couple of things. We 368 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: talk about COVID obviously, but I asked him about the 369 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: coincidence in the fact that we are moving towards these 370 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: quote unquote mitigation efforts or turn them completely backrolling them 371 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: completely back coincidentally close to midterms, and you know, is 372 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: that something that is a coincidence. Are we really still 373 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: following the science? Those are just some of the questions 374 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: that will come up in my interview with doctor Faucci. Folks, 375 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: I don't need to do any type of introduction for 376 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: the man that we have all seen and heard from 377 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: over the last two plus years. I don't even know 378 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: what time zone we are in right now or what 379 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: wormhold that we are in with COVID. Doctor Fauci, thank 380 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: you so much for making the time to join Woke 381 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: a f Over the past couple of days, the past 382 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, we have seen a number of mitigation 383 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: efforts being changed and a bunch of different guidelines being 384 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: offered up by the CDC. Can you offer us some 385 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: clarification as to why we are seeing these moves being 386 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: made now by our governors with rolling back, mass wearing indoors, 387 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: rolling back. They need to show vaccination cards, things that 388 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: were actually used in order to kind of relieve our anxiety, 389 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: find ways to kind of normalize this very abnormal situation. 390 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: Why are we making these shifts now? Well, there's good 391 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: scientific reason to do that. You know, there are different 392 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: phases of what we've gone through over the last couple 393 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: of years the like rather fulminent pandemic phase, which just 394 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: you know, a few months ago we were dealing with 395 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: almost a million cases a day, nine hundred thousand cases 396 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 1: a day. The hospitals were threatened in their capacity, the 397 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: deaths were very high. We've turned the corner at least 398 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: now with this Armicron variant. The Armicron variant was very challenging, 399 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: much more transmissible than DELGA, a little bit less virulent 400 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: in that many people had already been vaccinated and or 401 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: had gotten infected. But what we've seen over the last 402 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 1: several weeks is a peak and then a very sharp, 403 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: steady decline in cases, particularly in hospitalizations. And right now 404 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: it's felt that given the direction of where this is going, 405 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: which is in the right direction, and given the fact 406 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: that the metrics for guidelines about things like masking requirements 407 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: in indoor spaces including schools, according to the new metric, 408 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: which is driven much more by how much severe disease 409 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: there is rather than how many infections there are, because 410 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,959 Speaker 1: many of the infections are without symptoms, any of them 411 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: have mild symptoms. So that the CDC has made I 412 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: think the appropriate decision of saying, if you look at 413 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: the map of the country on a county by county basis, 414 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 1: if you count us cases, then ninety plus percent of 415 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: the country would fall under the umbrella of the guideline 416 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: to continue restrictions like masking and indoor places, masking in schools. However, 417 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: with the new metrics going in the right direction, and 418 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: given the fact that we now are prepared. We have vaccines, 419 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,719 Speaker 1: we have boosters, we have anti virals, we have hundreds 420 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: of millions of testing available easily for people, and we 421 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: have hundreds of millions of masks for those who need it, 422 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: it is felt that we can begin to take those 423 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: gentle steps, as it were, towards normality, which we all 424 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: want to be at. So really it's a turning of 425 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: the corner. Having said that, Danielle, we still must always 426 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: be prepared to recognize and respond to any new variant 427 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: or to come along. We're going in the right directions, 428 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: can pull back, we can say it's over, there's no 429 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: chance of getting another variant. We've got to be prepared 430 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: to respond to another variant. So this is the question 431 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: that I really want to ask, and obviously you're going 432 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: to be asked by everyone, which is if we lull 433 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: ourselves back into this place of quote unquote normalcy, and 434 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: people get comfortable with not having the mass, not showing vaccinations, 435 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: not needing to social distance, and all of these things. 436 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: If a new variant which is more likely than not 437 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: to rear its head, how likely is it that we're 438 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: going to be able to pull people back from the 439 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: normalcy that we're allowing them or saying that is available 440 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: to them right now. Well, that's part of the strategy. 441 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: If one looks at it and examine it carefully, is 442 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: that it is what we call like a sliding scale. 443 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: It's you know, people have made metaphors and saying that. 444 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: You know, when you're in a really severe rainstorm, you 445 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: go out and you put your gloshes on, your raincoat, 446 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: a hat, an umbrella. Then when the rain slows down, 447 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: you know, you may not have to have the galoshes 448 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: in the raincoat, just an umbrella, and when it stops raining, 449 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: you can put the umbrella down. However, when it starts 450 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: to rain again, you take the umbrella out again, you 451 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: put your raincoat on again, you put your galoshes on again. 452 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: That's what we're saying, we want to go and we 453 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: are going in the right direction, but we need to 454 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: be prepared to be able to recognize and quickly respond 455 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: to the fact that there may be another variant. We 456 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: can't be frightened and waiting for a variant and freeze 457 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: ourselves where we are. We can approach normality as long 458 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: as we keep in mind that we need to be 459 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: able to recognize and respond to a variant if and 460 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: when it occurs. You know, and I love that analogy, 461 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: I think to myself, though, funny enough, people don't protest 462 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: the rain, and so they're more unluckily to put on 463 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: galoshes when they need to because they don't see it 464 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: as a political exercise. What do you say to the 465 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: parents right now of young children that are under the 466 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: age of five, that aren't able to get vaccinated at 467 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: this time, who still feel like they are in a 468 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,719 Speaker 1: vulnerable state because their children are not covered. That's an 469 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: excellent question that so many parents are asking who have 470 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: children in that age group, And the answer to that 471 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: is to do what you can to surround your children 472 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: with people who are vaccinated and boosted, and when you're 473 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: in a vulnerable situation to wear a mask. We are 474 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: trying now to get to the point where we don't 475 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: need to have masks on children, but we want to 476 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: make sure that the schools are safe. And this is 477 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: what I refer to as communal responsibility. There are many 478 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: people for a variety of reasons. Many of them are 479 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: politically I wouldn't say motivated, I don't mean motivated, but 480 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: have a political tinge to it about not wanting to 481 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: get vaccinated, saying I'll worry about myself and I'll take 482 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,719 Speaker 1: care of myself and I'll take the risk. But when 483 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: you're dealing with a transmissible virus, you have a personal 484 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: responsibility to yourself and to your family, but you also 485 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: have a responsibility to society because if you really want 486 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: to make sure we put this virus, this outbreak in 487 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: the rearview mirror, we can make a contribution by not 488 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: giving the virus the opportunity to circulate among us, and 489 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: you do that by getting vaccinated. Nobody likes to mandate 490 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: or require things. We call upon the spirit of the 491 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: American people to be part of a society and communal 492 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: effort to crush this virus. And that's the reason why 493 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: we practically plead with people to get vaccinated and to 494 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: get boosted to protect themselves, their family, and their community. 495 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: You know, the other part of this pandemic too, isn't 496 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: just obviously the loss of life, but it is also 497 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: the emotional health and the erosion of emotional health and 498 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: mental health and wellbeing that we've seen across the country 499 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: since the beginning of the pandemic. What are your thoughts 500 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: about how, as a race to get to this normal, 501 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: that we deal with the collective trauma that we've experienced 502 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: in this country and around the world, and that that 503 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: getting back to normal will erase kind of the experience 504 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: and the trauma that people are still holding and will 505 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: be holding. That's such a good point, Danielle. In fact, 506 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 1: that's an important part of our comprehensive approach to dealing 507 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: with this outbreak. You're absolutely correct. There have been scars, 508 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: emotional scars, economic scars, mental health scars that people have had. 509 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: We have got to and we will put resources into 510 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: addressing mental health, developmental and other issues with regard to COVID. 511 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: It is a very important issue that we can't neglect. 512 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: We know, we've seen the detrimental effect of when kids 513 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: are not allowed to be in school in person number one, 514 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: number two, we've seen the stress on families who've lost 515 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 1: their jobs because of the effect on the economy. Those 516 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: are things we have to address. They're all part of 517 00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: the broad problem. And finally, last question, what do you 518 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: say to the critics, doctor Fauci, that are saying that 519 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: the expedient nature that we are withdrawing the mitigation efforts 520 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: are in time for midterms that are in a couple 521 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: of months. What do you say to those people are 522 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: that are saying, isn't this interesting timing? Well, I just 523 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: think that's just absolutely not the case. We're guided by 524 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: public health issues, by the science, by the data, by 525 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: the evidence. That has always been the case. One of 526 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: the important and unfortunate aspects of all of this is 527 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: that the divisiveness in this country is so contraindicated when 528 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: you're trying to deal as a nation together to fight 529 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: one of the greatest challenges that we've had in well 530 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: over a hundred years. It's really unfortunate that there has 531 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: been politicization of that that does nothing but impede an 532 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: effective response. That's too bad, unfortunately. I want to thank 533 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: you so much for your time and all of the 534 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: work that you have done in trying to provide clear guidelines, 535 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: facts and steps to keep us all safe over the 536 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: last couple of years, and we appreciate it. Thank you 537 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: very much, Dannyell. It's good to have been with you. 538 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, folks. And now for your woke 539 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 1: moment of wellness. The State of the Union really got me. 540 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: It put me back in a place of anger and 541 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,399 Speaker 1: rage that I don't want to be in. And while 542 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: it is my work right, my job to follow the 543 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: news and report on it and analyze it and be 544 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 1: able to figure out a way to deliver it to 545 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 1: all of you, it was an important moment that I 546 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,879 Speaker 1: want to offer that I believe each and every one 547 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: of us need to recognize in our own lives. I, 548 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: like I said, I was going to go live right 549 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 1: after the State of the Union. I was going to 550 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: go and do an Instagram live, and I realized that 551 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: I had no more energy left in me. And like 552 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 1: I said, this country doesn't deserve it. I needed rest. 553 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: And I think too often we are told to keep going, 554 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 1: keep grinding, keep pushing, and ignore what our bodies right 555 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,520 Speaker 1: and our minds are telling us. I am done. That's 556 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,240 Speaker 1: what happens when we reach exhaustion, right when we can't 557 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,319 Speaker 1: move from the couch when it's hard to get up, 558 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,240 Speaker 1: our body and our mind is telling us I am finished, 559 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 1: and instead of ignoring it, instead of pushing ourselves to 560 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: be as productive as we can. I think that a 561 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: part of self care is really listening to those signals 562 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 1: that are sometimes not so subtle, that our minds and 563 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: our bodies are sending to us. Right, that you need 564 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 1: to rest. Right, that it is okay not to follow 565 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: the blow by blow, That it is okay to turn 566 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: it off, That it is okay to not send that 567 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: email because I'm not in the right frame mind. Right, 568 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: that it is okay to tell your bosses right, I 569 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: need a break. Like a friend of mine just recently said, 570 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 1: I need a sabbatical. I've been doing this work, I've 571 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 1: been doing all these things. I'm going through a lot 572 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: of issues. I need a break. We have to be 573 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 1: able to recognize for ourselves before we have a breakdown, 574 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: when enough is enough. And I really hope, through active, 575 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 1: regular self care that we don't continue to push ourselves 576 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: to that break where we have a breakdown and then 577 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 1: realize that we need the rest. Rest is not something 578 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: that we should earn. Right, We don't need to earn it. 579 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: We're human beings, We're not machines, and I think that 580 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 1: it's important always for us to recognize that truth. So 581 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: allow yourself, give yourself the permission to take a break 582 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 1: before you push yourself too far and then your body 583 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 1: pushes back in ways that end to you in the hospital. 584 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 1: This self care, right and wellness is about prevention, right, 585 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: not just preventing like our rage from taking over our bodies, 586 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 1: but from preventing that rage to turn into sickness and 587 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: take over our bodies. So do pay attention not just 588 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:40,800 Speaker 1: to the news, but to yourself as always, dear friends, 589 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power. 590 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck, and stay well 591 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:51,399 Speaker 1: as fuck.