WEBVTT - An Unwanted Pep Rally 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.360 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:19.840 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.439 it has been now two days since the State of 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.840 the Union and you no doubt heard my thoughts on 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:36.000 woke Wednesday yesterday. But I the level of rage that 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.960 I had while listening to the State of the Union 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.240 is almost on par No, I guess it's not really 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:49.839 on par, but it is almost like right below Trump levels. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.360 And let me tell you why. And here's the thing. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:58.880 Here's the problem with the Biden administration, with Democrats in general. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.720 And I know, you know, people ask me and they say, hey, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.640 I started listening to your podcast, which hi all to 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.959 welcome to the new listeners. I'm really excited. Please share 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.680 with your friends. But people are asking me, They're like, well, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.880 what's the solution, what's the solution, And I'm like, the 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:18.360 solution is actually really easy. You tell the fucking truth, right, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.759 You tell the truth about what's happening in this country, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.360 what needs to be done, and you do it. What 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.399 I'm finding really interesting are the acts that the Department 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.959 of Justice is taking. For instance, the Department of Justice 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.360 is deciding that they're going to put their full weight 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.440 and force behind going after Russian arligarchs who have been 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.640 buying up real estate and property and you know, boats 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.400 and yachts and just shit inside of the United States, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.320 and they're going to freeze those assets and they're going 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.360 to go for They're gonna go for the gold and 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.240 the gusto. And when this was first reported by CNN, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.200 my thought was like, Okay, so what the fuck are 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:06.040 you doing about the American oligarchs that funneled money into 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.480 the pockets of oh, I don't know, the fucking oath keepers, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.480 the Proud Boys, those people that were tactically planning on 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:19.239 the ground the insurrection. Where is this kind of like 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.480 Biden standing up in front of Congress, in front of 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.639 the fucking free world, and I use quotations in saying that, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.679 in front of the free fucking world, talking about like 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.600 how the United States is going after these oligarchs and 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.240 going after the wealthy, and I'm saying, where's the fucking smoke, Biden? 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.639 For the American oligarchs. You have fucking Donald Trump sitting 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.040 up real cozy at Marlago. You got people sitting in 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.000 that room right on the night of the State of 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.320 the Union, who themselves were on the phone with insurrectionists 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.600 who were using their money, their access right, their strategic 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.720 planning in order to help people overthrow the government in 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.640 the United States. And yet we're putting all this fucking 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.120 smoke and fire behind getting Putin. And I'm like, who 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.400 the fuck is getting McCarthy, Who the fuck is getting Gates, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.919 Who the fuck is getting Donald Trump? Who the fuck 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.280 is getting Eastman? Right, Like, I am so confused about 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.919 how we had Democrats jumping up and down, screaming and 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.320 chanting USA. Also notably, why Republicans sat on their fucking 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:35.280 hands right, jumping up, chanting USA. And you're not doing 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.800 dick in this country in order to secure our democracy. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.520 You're so busy going around wielding your big stick and 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.560 fucking yelling from the top of the rooftops. How Putin 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.160 doesn't know what he's up against. Well, apparently Republicans don't 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.960 know who they're up against because they ain't up against anybody. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.880 They clearly have no opposition because they are doing the 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.160 same fucking things in the United States. They may not 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.200 be rolling out heavy artillery, but if you fucking remember 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.600 from the insurrection, they built a fucking guillotine. Those people 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.640 had tactical equipment. They were either active or retired military 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.360 and police officers and all types of law enforcements. Right 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.440 there were people that were put on chartered buses from 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.360 all around the country to head to Washington, DC. Where 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.040 the fuck is the follow up on who funded that? 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.960 I just you know, folks, I am losing what is 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.800 left of my fucking mind these days because I got 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.080 to hold multiple things at one time. On one hand, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.800 I want to say, yes, the Ukrainian people need absolute 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.000 help and protection and they are fleeing devastation that we 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.840 cannot imagine. I wrote about it in media, putting myself 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.839 in their shoes, as if this would happen on our soil. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.200 You saw it on Patreon, you see it on media. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.640 But and at the same time, I'm like, if one 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.440 more person sends me more reports of how the Ukrainians 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.920 are treating the fucking black immigrants that are in their country, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.800 telling them that Ukrainians first, white people first black people. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.800 You gotta walk twelve fucking miles in order to get 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.960 to a border just to be turned away, and we 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.760 can't talk about that. At the same time, you want 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.120 to use it as a motherfucking footnote at the end 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.720 of news segments. I have watched CNN, MSNBC, BBC and 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.000 all of them will say, oh, well, you know the 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.120 Ukrainians and they will show you know, horrible, horrific images 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:43.000 and videos. Because let's all not forget right that media 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.720 is a money game. It is a ratings game, and 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.320 so what bleeds leads that is the fucking truth. And 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.960 it has always been in journalism, right. But at the 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.920 same time, it is not only right the blue wide 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:02.320 and the white that are fleeing war and violence and destruction. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.280 And so why is it why is it not being 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.400 called out by those people, particularly journalists of color, that 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.599 do have this space and place to do so calling 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.400 out how radically different the fucking coverage is when wanting 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.800 to invoke empathy in the world about these babies and 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.760 these women so long as they are white. But we're 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.640 not telling the fucking stories of black people, black Africans, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.200 immigrants of color being told to get off of buses 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.520 as if it is nineteen fifties fucking Jim Crow America 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.360 and the reality. I tweeted this yesterday and I said, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.320 you know what, do you know what gets me on many, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.440 many occasions, is that no one gives a fuck about 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.400 black people. Do you remember back before Kanye was still 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.320 kind of Kanye and it was the Awards season and 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.560 it was a it was a telethon or something to 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.960 that nature for Katrina. Right, So we're talking about the 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.560 twenty tents when Katrina hit and Kanye West stood up 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.119 in front of the world and said, George Bush doesn't 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.520 care about black people because black people were on their 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:20.080 rooftops as well, screaming for help, right they were being 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.400 picked off and shot at by police. Because when black 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.800 people in New Orleans, we're trying to get the basic 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.440 needs that they water, food from flooded out grocery stores. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.960 The media said, look at those looters, white people doing 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.920 the same fucking thing. Oh my god, look at these 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.440 victims of Hurricane Katrina. It is the same shit that 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.320 plays out on the micro level fucking here in the 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.200 United States, that plays out all over the world. And 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.120 do you know what it is called. It is called 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.200 anti blackness. And I am so fucking tired of the 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.560 laziness in journalism right now, the fucking lazy and the 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.880 neglect and the purposeful erasure of the trauma and the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.000 struggle that black immigrants and immigrants of color are facing 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.440 as they too are fleeing alongside their white compatriots to 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.280 try and get to fucking safety, and no one gives 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:23.000 a shit. Biden, in his State of the Union, which 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.200 opened up all about Ukraine, could have used that as 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.959 an opportunity to say to his colleagues, right those that 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.720 are in the European Union that says that discrimination should 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.559 have no place in your country. It should have no 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.000 place right now as all types of people, black people, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.680 immigrants of color are also fleeing. Yes, people in Ukraine, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.440 we understand and we see the torment that you are 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.480 going through. But that does not mean that you get 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.880 to kick people who are also fleeing and needs safe 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.640 down so that you can trample on them to get 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:08.200 what it is that you need. My God, but once 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.160 again this administration, when given the opportunity to do the 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.800 right thing, will make sure that they punt it way 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.040 down the fucking field. Let me go on with the 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.839 State of the fucking Union, which is trash right to 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:34.440 say this, Joe Biden. Joe Biden wanted to close out 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:40.239 his speech earlier this week, trying to rally the rally Congress, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.000 and while you're at it, post pass the Voting Rights Act, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.040 and pass this, and pass that, and pass this and 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.280 all there's all this applause. And do you know what 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.800 I realized as I was listening to Joe Biden as 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.959 a veteran in politics for the last I don't know, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.200 ten fifteen fucking years, is that it is the same 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.480 fucking things that you've been trying to pass for the 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.520 same amount of fucking time that have never gotten done 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.679 because you don't have any strategy, because you're not willing 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.319 to do whatever it takes in the same vein that 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.200 Republicans are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.760 and disrupt our democracy, to put women back chained into 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.559 the kitchen, to put black people back chain behind a 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.520 fucking car. They are willing to do what it takes. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.199 Democrats are not. And so Joe Biden can rattle off 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.959 all of the fucking things and then to put I 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.960 mean to make matters worse, We're not trying to defund 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.040 the police. We need to fund the police. Are you 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.439 fucking kidding me? Why don't you just spit in my 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.920 goddamn face and the faces of black people that had 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.800 you in the middle of a fucking pandemic, march for 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.080 our fucking lives, risk our lives through a virus, only 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.880 to march for our lives to beg police to stop 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.959 fucking killing us like dogs in the street. But you 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.439 want to talk about more funding, as if we have 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.959 enough money in the world to fund right to fund 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.480 out racism. Are you kidding me? The fucking police department 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.080 in New York City has a budget in the fucking billions, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.320 in the billions. You think that, oh, what, they're all 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.760 of a sudden not racist. Now you think, all of 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.240 a sudden, what they're not throwing black and brown men 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.520 and women up against walls, patting them down. Oh, because 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.240 crime is up so they get to do whatever the 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.440 fuck they want. Crime is up because the social safety 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.800 nets are broken. Crime is not up because we need 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.880 more police. Show me the wealthy white neighborhoods in this 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.319 country that are crawling around with police because that equal safety. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.599 Give me a fucking break. Joe Biden doesn't get it. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.040 Democrats don't fucking get it. And you know what, I 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.160 will vote right because it's all that I can fucking do. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.199 But I will absolutely understand the people that dead. I'd 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.040 not to because this country hasn't done dick for them. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.440 But we keep putting our self, our lives, our hopes 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.199 right on the line, only to be told much like 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.839 the Ukrainians are telling the fucking African immigrants get to 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.719 the back of the bus or get the fuck off. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.160 You know how many people said in Twitter right that, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.800 oh my god, the progressive shouldn't have been giving a 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.000 rebuttal and oh my god, now is not the time. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.840 Now is not the time. Now is not the time. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.960 Tell me when the time is right, because I agree, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.760 now is not the time. But tell me when the 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.520 time is right? Is it when the comment is hovering 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.880 over us right and our impending disaster is just minutes away? 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.240 Is then the time? We are running out of time? 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.680 I don't know how many times and how many different 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.680 ways that I need to say that, because I feel 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.560 I feel like I am screaming into a void. Because 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.600 when I looked around at the tweets, the hot takes 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.360 coming off right after Biden was done, you would have 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.199 thought that, like he gave the speech to end all speeches. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.439 And I'm thinking to myself as I was sitting on 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.839 the couch, were we all listening to the same thing. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.400 What was rousing about that? What was deserved of applause 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.640 for that? To say? What to spend half the time 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:33.880 talking about how you're going after authoritarianisms, after an authoritarian regime, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:39.640 after a dictator, right that is right now waging war, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.680 But you're not talking at all, not one fucking mention 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.240 of the war that is being fought at home right now. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.440 And I'm not saying not that it is an either 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.640 or proposition. I'm saying that it is a both end. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.880 That could have been a transitional point to talk about 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.000 what we are facing at home as our democracy is 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.800 being ripped away, one voter suppression law at a time. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.959 Right that, after he was painting the picture of how 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.079 evil Vladimir Putin is, that maybe he could have reminded 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.280 the American people who exactly the last president was chummy with, 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.760 who not only days before, had stood up in Marlago 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.160 or where the fuck he was, to talk about how 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.400 smart Putin was, to praise him, and that there were 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.920 members that were within this very chamber who were applauding 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.840 his moves and say, why can't we have a president 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.760 that is like this? Like this? He had an opportunity 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.800 to show the American people exactly who the Republican Party is. Instead, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.480 he referred to them once a fucking again as my 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:52.000 friends from across the aisle. Are we insane? I just 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:58.920 you know, folks, I have very little patience I do. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.760 I pop off very quickly because I am not the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.600 smartest person in the room, right. I am not the 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.440 one who has pedigree upon academic pedigree. But I am 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.400 not fucking dumb, and neither are you. So if all 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.400 of us can see the parallels between what is happening, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.240 all of us in woke f nation who consistently are like, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.720 wait a minute, am I crazy? We come together as 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.720 a collective here, right because it is the only place 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.320 that I find these days where I don't feel crazy. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.680 Because when I turn on cable news, when I open 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.200 up my computer to scrawl through and see who is 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.240 writing what and where, I'm like, are we all look? 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.440 Are we all in the same country right now? Are 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.760 we all paying attention to the same things? Because I 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:56.400 don't think so. You know. It is it's as if, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:02.520 like our we don't have the capacity to hold big 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.800 things right, We don't have the capacity to be able 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:13.120 to see more than through a pinhole. And that is 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.960 exactly what Joe Biden showed us as we I mean 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.360 when I heard fund the police, and fund the police, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:24.600 and fund the police. You fund the police with fucking tanks. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.720 Do you not remember the tanks that were rolled out 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.600 in Ferguson. That was before the protests that happened in 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.640 Oregon and the protests that happened in New York in 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.560 twenty twenty. It was in Ferguson that we saw the 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:46.400 militarized gear that you were so busy funding, funding, funding 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.240 the fucking police with so that they can then turn 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:55.600 around and use it against us. But then you want 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.880 to come shuck and jive over to black and brown 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.120 communities talking about give me your vote. Fuck you. That's 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:08.760 how I feel right now. Fuck you. I'm so tired 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.359 of being used as a pawn in a game that 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.720 I did not make up, in a game that I 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.760 didn't volunteer for. I didn't ask to be fucking tribute. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:28.240 And here we are being used and abused because what 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.800 they told us that we have no choice, we have choices, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.280 And I keep saying that's over and over again, and 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.480 people will say, well, what is the choice not to vote. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.720 The choice is to burn the ship down. That's the 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.680 fucking choice. How do you do that? Opt out? That's 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.920 how you do it. You begin to opt out, You 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.840 begin to opt out of this pageantry and shit show. Right, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.359 do you know what the state of the Union was 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.920 to me? It was like a pep rally for a 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.160 losing fucking team. That's what it was. Them all up 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.080 and down at being oh at the same talking points. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.280 Let me tell the same stale stories with new faces 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.840 attached to them. If I heard one more story about 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.359 my dad and Scranton, Joe Biden is almost a hundred 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.160 and six. I don't care about your dad and Scranton. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.160 Scranton is not the only place in America we're fucking 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.720 working class where what you really want to say is 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.920 white working class people are the working class does not 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.159 look like the white man and the hard at with 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.879 the hard lunchbox headed out while his wife kisses him 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.320 goodbye while she's holding a baby and a pie at 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:39.120 the same fucking time. Where are we right now? We're 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:44.920 trapped in some weird dystopian present where it's like the 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.480 rest of us, see exactly what's happening, see exactly the 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.080 plans and the direction that we're moving in. And then 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.840 you have the powers that be that are so desperate 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.399 to hold on to what was that they are losing? 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:04.960 What is that State of the Union was a pep 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.680 rally that I did not need. It didn't offer a 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:14.359 fucking thing. And on top of that, you want to 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.040 talk about, oh, well, we'd take our masks off, isn't 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.240 isn't this what we all wanted? No? I didn't want 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.720 it in time for mid terms. I wanted masks and 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.920 mitigations to be rolled back when the scientists and the 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.639 doctors said so, not when they were being dictated by 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.560 the political fucking calendar. And if you think for a 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.560 fucking minute that the people that had never been wearing 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.159 their masks all along are gonna all of a sudden 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.280 be like, oh, well, look Biden is with us now, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.560 US anti vaxers, anti maskers, so now we're going to 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:54.520 vote Democrat? Are you dumb? They haven't voted with you 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:00.560 since nineteen fifty? How many times do we need to 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.560 say that? But the base who you decided to throw 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:09.000 under the bus yesterday with your oh fun fund fund 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:15.080 the police, Yeah, you're gonna find fine, fine, Your asshole 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.920 by yourself, because I went. I went, and I pulled 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:22.160 up various sights where I know that black and brown 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.680 people are always active in the comments sections. And I looked, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.800 and let me tell you something that folks are like, Oh, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.000 so I hope he's not looking for a second term. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.280 I hope he's not coming to my community for a vote. 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.000 Oh he can go take that fun fund down there 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:44.119 to the white neighborhood, because that is not me. Imagine 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.920 if this is how I feel, as somebody who is 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.960 actually a staunch Democrat who has committed their life's work 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:56.320 to strengthening and securing and expanding our democracy, that if 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.320 I feel like this, what do you think that lukewarm 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:05.520 people felt like they are ice cold? Now they are 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.879 fucking done and they're going to decide that you know what, No, 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.560 I'm not going to pay attention to what is happening 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.199 at the national and federal level because nothing is happening 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:21.240 for my benefit. Right, you want to throw out these 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.479 little COVID checks and blah blah blah blah, as if 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.280 people are going to remember that come November, no, they 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:32.600 would actually remember being able to vote. They would actually 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.440 be they would remember being able to get an abortion. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.880 They would actually remember having investments in their public schools. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.440 They would actually remember and understand a real push to 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.560 deal with our climate crisis, none of which is happening. 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.399 They would even right take all of that that I 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.760 just listed, put that on the back burner. If you 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.639 would have put the people that were responsible for COVID 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.960 s writing, that were responsible for the insurrection in jail, 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.560 because at least then you would have a fucking talking 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.960 point as to why I need to go with you. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.119 But you tell me what is the why? Why are 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.920 we Democrats? Why are we voting for them in November? 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.119 And it can't just be because the other guy is 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:23.719 a white supremaist, but that's what they're banking on. Somebody 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.720 tweeted out and said, oh my god, who's doing the 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.639 emails for the Democrats? I just got an email and 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:34.760 it was horrible. It was all about Trump instead of 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.720 all about Oh, I don't know the entire Republican Party 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.399 that rolled out four hundred voters depression laws, that is 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:42.760 trying to strip away your ability to have an abortion, 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.800 that is putting a target on LGBTQ kids back. Did 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.320 you hear any of that last night. Did you hear 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.919 any of that in the State of the Union. I didn't, 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.960 and I was waiting, you know, I had thoughts and 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.440 i'd put it up, and I said to folks, you know, 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:00.960 I'm gonna go live after. I'm gonna go live after, right, 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.879 And then I said, I'm not giving this country anymore 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:09.080 of my time. I'm gonna go rest because it's not 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.800 worth it. It's not worth it for me to stay 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.240 up to scream. I can do that the next day, 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:24.480 the day after. We are insignificant fucking trouble in this country, 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:30.240 significant trouble. And that one thing was mentioned in that 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:33.320 State of the Union that would send off any alarms, 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:39.760 not one thing, folks. Coming up next, I'm very excited 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:44.120 is my conversation for the very first time with doctor Fauci. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:46.800 I mean, you know him, he doesn't need any introduction. 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.600 And I asked doctor Fauci a couple of things. We 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.520 talk about COVID obviously, but I asked him about the 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.520 coincidence in the fact that we are moving towards these 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:02.439 quote unquote mitigation efforts or turn them completely backrolling them 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:07.200 completely back coincidentally close to midterms, and you know, is 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.040 that something that is a coincidence. Are we really still 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.920 following the science? Those are just some of the questions 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:20.240 that will come up in my interview with doctor Faucci. Folks, 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.760 I don't need to do any type of introduction for 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.640 the man that we have all seen and heard from 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:29.879 over the last two plus years. I don't even know 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.280 what time zone we are in right now or what 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.600 wormhold that we are in with COVID. Doctor Fauci, thank 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:38.520 you so much for making the time to join Woke 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:43.080 a f Over the past couple of days, the past 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:46.000 couple of weeks, we have seen a number of mitigation 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:51.040 efforts being changed and a bunch of different guidelines being 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:55.320 offered up by the CDC. Can you offer us some 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:59.880 clarification as to why we are seeing these moves being 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:04.919 made now by our governors with rolling back, mass wearing indoors, 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.480 rolling back. They need to show vaccination cards, things that 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:14.399 were actually used in order to kind of relieve our anxiety, 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.200 find ways to kind of normalize this very abnormal situation. 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:21.800 Why are we making these shifts now? Well, there's good 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.560 scientific reason to do that. You know, there are different 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:28.080 phases of what we've gone through over the last couple 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:33.040 of years the like rather fulminent pandemic phase, which just 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:35.720 you know, a few months ago we were dealing with 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:38.960 almost a million cases a day, nine hundred thousand cases 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:43.399 a day. The hospitals were threatened in their capacity, the 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:47.480 deaths were very high. We've turned the corner at least 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:53.000 now with this Armicron variant. The Armicron variant was very challenging, 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:58.840 much more transmissible than DELGA, a little bit less virulent 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.280 in that many people had already been vaccinated and or 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.520