1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay EFPI Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: Me your Girl. Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: I want to start off a Today's show on this Friday, 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: which will mark day sixteen, day sixteen into the war 5 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: in Ukraine, and I think that one of the things 6 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: that I find most troubling about what is unfolding, what 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: we're all watching, is we're watching real live footage right 8 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: war as it's unfolding for the first time on our phones, 9 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: on our computers, on our televisions. There is a initial 10 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: outrage and shock that comes with the kinds of footage 11 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: that we're seeing. This week, a maternity hospital, a hospital 12 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: for pregnant people and children in northern Ukraine was bombed. 13 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: I watched on MSNBC a woman, a pregnant woman, visibly pregnant, 14 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: being brought out on a structure, and you see old 15 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: people getting bandaged on their heads. You're seeing craters the 16 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: size of I don't know, multiple car lengths now in 17 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: front of apartment buildings where once there were trees and gardens. 18 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: And we're watching this. In my fear, as we're watching 19 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: all of this unfold is a desensitization, right, that we're 20 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: going to become desensitized because we can watch these things, 21 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: these atrocities unfold from the comforts of our homes here 22 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: in the United States, where we are watching war play 23 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: out like some type of video game or the latest 24 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: action movie out of Hollywood. Realizing that the people that 25 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: we are seeing crammed at train stations and bus stations, 26 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: people that are walking for half of a day, twelve 27 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: hours or more in order to make it to a 28 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: bordering country for safe haven. That now in week three, 29 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: as we head into week three of Putin's aggression, Putin's 30 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: war in the Ukraine, that two million people, two million people, 31 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: three weeks, in three weeks time, have fled their homes, 32 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: their lives, their country, their jobs, their family, and their friends, 33 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: many leaving their husbands, their brothers, their colleagues, their uncles 34 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: behind to hold down the country and fight right and 35 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: fight against this aggression. And folks, I am, just as 36 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: all of you are, find myself some days, so incredibly 37 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the images, so incredibly overwhelmed by the despair. 38 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: Even as our Vice President Kamala Harris is in Poland 39 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with the polls what they are going 40 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: to do to help the Ukraine Zelenski. President Zelenski has asked, 41 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: we need fighter jets. We need the same fighter jets 42 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: that our pilots in the Ukraine can fly, and we 43 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: need them and we need them now. And the polls 44 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: made a fucking I don't even know what kind of 45 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: move you would call it. If you were playing spades, 46 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: you would say that they were trying to run the 47 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: table but didn't really have a good hand. The polls 48 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: were like, so, we have the fighter jets that you need, 49 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: but we don't want to let Putin know that we're 50 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: the ones that are going to give it to you 51 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: and that we're authorizing. So instead, we're going to do 52 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: some underhanded shit, which is we're going to give the polls. 53 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: We're going to give our fighter jets to the United 54 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: States for the United States to decide however they want 55 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: to use. Right those fighter jets, the United States then 56 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: will give us they're used fighter jets to replace the 57 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: ones that we are giving to them. Who then they 58 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: will be the ones the United States will be the 59 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: ones that putencies as responsible for giving the Ukraine the 60 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: fighter jets that they need and then the United States 61 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: turned around. It was just like, ah, so not it. 62 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: We're not touching your ship, which is why the Vice 63 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: President was deployed to Poland to come to some type 64 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: of agreement as to how NATO allies continue to aid 65 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,679 Speaker 1: Zelenski in more than just upstanding ovation, right then, more 66 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: than just you know, aid at the border. But what 67 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: are we going to do? Because now reports are coming out, folks, 68 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: where based on United States intel, the intelligence community, reports 69 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: are coming out that Vladimir Putin is seeking to put 70 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: together some type of chemical attack. And we already know 71 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: right that at some point in time Putin is going 72 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: to be investigated for war crimes. But does that really 73 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: matter at this stage where we are? And one of 74 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: the questions that I thought I wanted to post to 75 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: all of you today that I heard was how long 76 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: is NATO? Is the United States going to allow this 77 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: war to continue? Knowing that if Putin releases chemical warfare, 78 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: that this is escalation bigger than we have ever seen 79 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: since World War Two? And so are we going to 80 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: sit around and wait for millions of people like we 81 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: did in World War Two, where we waited for millions 82 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: of Jewish people to be slaughtered or are we going 83 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: to preempt what we know could be possibly genocide and 84 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: take action now? Now folks will say, well, we can't 85 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: take action now right. If we do anything, we are 86 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: certainly headed into World War three. None of the choices 87 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: that are at hand right now are good ones. And 88 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if we all understand the gravity of 89 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: the situation that is at hand. Like again, we are 90 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: watching this safely from our living rooms, our cars, our homes, 91 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: on a walk or what have you, safely removed by 92 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: an ocean right of what is happening. But the fact 93 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: is is that if you are putin and you are 94 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: somebody with nothing to lose, right and all the things 95 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: to gain, that if I just go completely ham meaning 96 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: I put on the most egregious attack right on civilians, 97 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: and I continue to escalate that, and those people that 98 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: are supposed to hold me accountable are only cutting off 99 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: my financial resources. But because I've already strategized ahead, knowing 100 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: that yes, sanctions were going to come and they were 101 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: going to be bad, and I will frame in my media, 102 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: which only dispenses bullshit, how this is an attack on 103 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: the Russian people, and this is an attack you know 104 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: from the West on Russia and all of these things. 105 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: Then I've already planned for these sanctions, right and I 106 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: am playing a different three dimensional chess right like, I'm 107 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: in a different space. So if you know that the 108 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: person that you're dealing with is ready to leave it 109 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: all on the fucking table with nothing to lose, then 110 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: you need to figure out what your response is going 111 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: to be, because it's not going to be diplomatic. I 112 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: personally believe it. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I am wrong, 113 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: and that there is still an opportunity for a diplomatic 114 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: resolution to where we are right now with Ukraine and Putin. 115 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: And I want to be clear that I say Ukraine 116 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: and Putin because the Russian people have no idea what 117 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: the fuck he's doing. Right. Russia, in the way that 118 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: their television is set up and their government is set 119 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: up and social media is set up, is that you 120 00:09:55,679 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: are force fed alternative facts and lies, so much so 121 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: that even people Russian people who are in the Ukraine 122 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: calling home to their Russian families and are telling them, 123 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: do you hear that sound that is behind me? We 124 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: are under attack are being told no, you're not. Russia's 125 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: only going Our military would never do that. We're only 126 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: going after military places and barracks and all of these 127 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: things this way, would never attack civilians, And there's no 128 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: factual evidence to say. So they are saying that to 129 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: their family members who are on the phone in a 130 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: fucking burning building, and they're saying, you're lying to me, 131 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: because that's how brainwashed they have been by Russian television propaganda. 132 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: So much so, folks, that Tucker Carl's sin and Fox 133 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: News and Republican members of Congress are doing the fucking 134 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: heavy lifting for Vladimir Putin even as he is in 135 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: the midst of being investigated for war crimes. This week, 136 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson said the most egregious things about the United 137 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: States working in cahoots with the Ukrainians and like force 138 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: feeding them with weapons and just lying providing Russian talking 139 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: points to Americans. And I keep saying, and I've said 140 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: it on social media, and I'm saying it again here, 141 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: like where the fuck is the FCC? When is enough enough? 142 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: We have, of course, certainly right freedom of speech, but 143 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: I can tell you in point too many moments in 144 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: our time and in our history where that has been 145 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: curtailed because it has been deemed as a national threat, right. 146 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: But this administration doesn't want to do that because we 147 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: don't want to seem quote unquote political, even as you 148 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: have an entire network that is feeding the American people 149 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: Russian propaganda. So we can't even be united as we 150 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: were in the past, united as a country against the 151 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: common enemy, because according to Fox News and Tucker Carlson, 152 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: Putin is their friend and it is Biden who is 153 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: the enemy. Tucker Carlson has one of the highest rated 154 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: shows in his fucking time slot and he's going unopposed. Also, 155 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: let me tell you something else that is and again, 156 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: we are paying so much attention to what is happening abroad, 157 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: whether it is with empathy or with sympathy, and we 158 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: are saying saying, oh my god, these poor people, and 159 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 1: again negating, ignoring, and I don't even know if now 160 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: I can just say that what we are ignoring the fascism, 161 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: the authoritarianism that right wing Republicans are spitting every single 162 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: place inside the halls of Congress, on Fox News and 163 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: in other places. And if we are not going to 164 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: actively curtail this and actively call it out and actively 165 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: frankly call it fucking treason, then what are we doing 166 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: we as I said two weeks ago, the Ukraine and 167 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: what Putin is doing there should be foreshadowing to what 168 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: Republicans and white evangelical Christians want to do in the 169 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: United States. They want to create this closed loop circuit 170 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: where the only information that you are given is what 171 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: it is that they want you to know, and that 172 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: all other avenues to actual facts right are going to 173 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: be negated. Republicans take control. It isn't just this boogeyman 174 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: of CRT that's going to come out of your kid's curriculum. 175 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: It's literally everything. Right. How are we teaching science these days? 176 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: If we're not talking about climate change? Right? How are 177 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: we talking about history and not putting not contextualizing it 178 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: with what is unfolding right now? What Republicans want is 179 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: what Russia has and what Putin has been able to do. 180 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: And our own members of Congress and our own media 181 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: are aiding him in his messaging war that he is 182 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: doing with his own people, and they are doing it 183 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: with our citizens here. So listen to this. This is 184 00:14:53,480 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: some wild fucking shit. So this is according to The 185 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: Daily Beast, Representative Madison Cawthorne, Republican from North Carolina has 186 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: diverged from his party's stance on Ukraine in ugly fashion 187 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: take a list in calling President Zelenski quote a thug 188 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: and the country quote incredibly evil in a bizarre rant 189 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: caught on camera. It's not clear when the clip obtained 190 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: by w r a L was filmed, but former Bush 191 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: Chief of staff Carl Rove, who first mentioned the comments 192 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: in a Wall Street Journal piece, said it was filmed 193 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: at a town hall in Asheville last Saturday. At the 194 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: start of the clip, Cawthorne mentioned sending Stinger missiles to 195 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: the Ukraine for self defense, providing further evidence that the 196 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: clip was filmed after Russia's invasion began. Quote Remember that 197 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: Zelensky is a thug, Cawthorne said in his rant. Quote 198 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, and it 199 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: is incredibly evil, and it has been pushing woke ideologies. Meanwhile, 200 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: Cawthorne is battling right on his own three court cases 201 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: for driving offenses and is in the process of divorcing 202 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: a woman he says he met at a fake CrossFit 203 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: competition staged by a man he met in a casino 204 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: in Russia, where casinos are banned. Let me tell you 205 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: something like, you may want to laugh off this news 206 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: story and say, oh my god, look at this crackpot, 207 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: because this is the same way that we wanted to 208 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: laugh off Donald Trump and not pay attention to how 209 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: he had stuck his talents right into the foundation of 210 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: our democracy, and we wanted to laugh it off and said, 211 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: oh no, he could never become president. And oh no, 212 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: these Marjorie Taylor Greens, these Laura Beaubert's, this Madison Cawthorne, 213 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: They're just crazy. No, they are are not. They are 214 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: the mainstream of the Republican Party, which is no longer 215 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: aligned with democracy, not in this country and certainly not 216 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: around the fucking world. So when you're getting up on television, 217 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: when you're getting up at a donor event, right, and 218 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: you're saying Russian talking points that Vladimir Zelinski, who is 219 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: parted from his children and his family, is staying in 220 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: his country that is literally on fire to fight, is 221 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: being applauded by other democratic world leaders and their governments 222 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: around the world. But a member of our Congress is 223 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: referring to him as a thug and celebrating Vladimir Putin 224 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: on network television in the United States, and we don't 225 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: do anything about that because we want to say, oh, 226 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: freedom of speech. It is not freedom of speech when 227 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: it threatens their national security. It is not freedom of 228 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: speech when it is talking points straight out of a 229 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: dictator that is committing war crimes across the pond. That 230 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: is not freedom of speech. That is dangerous. And the 231 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: fact that we as a party do not call this 232 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: out everywhere in anywhere that a mic is put in 233 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: front of your face, the fact that we cannot tie 234 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 1: how fragile the Ukraine is right now, how fragile democracy 235 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: is around the world, with the fragility that we are 236 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 1: experiencing here at home, goes to tell me and you 237 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: that folks are not making the connections, and if they are, 238 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: they're too afraid to say so out loud. And if 239 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: we're too afraid to tell the truth in the face 240 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: of alternative facts, lies and aggression, then when are we 241 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: going to tell the truth? If it's not going to 242 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: be now, then when is the right time? If we 243 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: are not going to say that not only is Fox 244 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: News evil, but that they are a threat and a 245 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 1: significant threat to our country, to our democracy At a 246 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: time when the world is on the brink of World 247 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: War three? When is the right time if you don't 248 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: have the backbone in the fortitude as a democrat that 249 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: is in power to say the buck is going to 250 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: fucking stop here. We as a country need to unite 251 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: because democracy around the world and in this country is 252 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: under threat, and we are not willing to do that, 253 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: then what are we willing to stand for? Because frankly, 254 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: it is not going to be enough to continue to 255 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: talk tough and not follow it up with any action 256 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: here at home. The same way that Merrick Garland would 257 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: find himself. Merrick Garland found himself this week on MPR, 258 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: and on MPR he wanted to offer up the fact 259 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: that you know, once again, nobody is above the law 260 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: and that those that were criminally responsible for the outcomes 261 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: of January sixth will be held accountable and get this 262 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: in due time. We are eight fucking months away from 263 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: midterm elections, and I'm going to continue to say that 264 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: as we count down on woke af daily, we are 265 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: eight months away from midterm elections. What the fuck does 266 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: due time look like for a Department of Justice that 267 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: has been in control and in power for over a 268 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: year in a matter of a couple of days, the 269 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: Department of Justice put together a task force to attack 270 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs and to seize finances of those that they 271 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: believe are financing Vladimir Putin. They did that in a 272 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: matter of days of war breaking out in the Ukraine. 273 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: Where is the energy for the American oligarchs? Where is 274 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: the task force that was put together on day one 275 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration and on day one of the 276 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: Garland Apartment of Justice to ensure that every single person 277 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: that was involved, whether they were the foot soldiers that 278 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: entered the Capitol Building on January sixth, or the ones 279 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: at the top that funded the insurrection or wrote the 280 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: memos for said insurrection, or then rally the troops on 281 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: the Ellipses and sent them to the Capitol Building on 282 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: January sixth. If you are not going after and creating 283 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: a task force to go after everyone from the foot 284 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: soldiers to the architects, and you haven't done so in 285 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: well over a year at this point, why should I 286 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: believe you? When you are going on NPR and other 287 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: channels and again wanting to talk tough, but then not 288 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: offering the American people any insight into your investigation into 289 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: the corrupt previous administration, all of their allies and I 290 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: don't know the fucking documents over five hundred and fifty 291 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: interviews that came out of the commission, all of the 292 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: documents that they have gathered, and then also the recommendation 293 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: that they've provided. What the fuck is Merrick Garland doing? 294 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: What is he doing? Because it is the same bullshit 295 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is doing, which is We're going to 296 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: pound our chest and puff it out right and direct 297 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: all of that hot energy towards putin But you don't 298 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: have the same fire in your belly to hold the 299 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: people in this country accountable for trying to undermine democracy. 300 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: It is mind boggling to me. And again, and I'm like, 301 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: we are eight months away right by the time that 302 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 1: folks cast their ballot, right for those that still actually 303 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: have early voting, For those folks that are able to 304 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: cast their ballot either a couple of weeks before or 305 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: on the day of midterm elections, what are they going 306 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: into that booth thinking? Are they going to go into 307 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: that booth thinking that, Oh my god, thank god Democrats 308 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,959 Speaker 1: have been in charge for all of this time because 309 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: we got voting rights, we have a handle and have 310 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: some legislation moving around climate change, that we are holding 311 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 1: those responsible for undermining our democracy and we're going after them. 312 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: What are you going into the voting booth and thinking 313 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: in November, Because I'll tell you what I'm thinking. I'm 314 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: thinking that Democrats don't have anything to fucking run on. 315 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: I'm thinking that running on the fact that you are 316 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: not Donald Trump is not going to be enough. I'm 317 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: thinking about the fact that when Republicans do seize power 318 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: that Merritt Garland's whole fucking oh, I don't know backwards 319 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: momentum in terms of going after those responsible for our insurrection. Well, 320 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: his time is going to be up. But then he's 321 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: going to be able to get in front of the 322 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: cameras and give a bunch of lip service as to 323 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: how Republicans are coming up the works. And what I'm 324 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: going to remind everybody of when that happens, because it will, 325 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: is that you had well over a year of unobstructed 326 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: influence from Republicans because you had control over the Senate 327 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: and the House and the executive branch. So what were 328 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: you doing during that time? It is every day is 329 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: just another day that I'm like, this is not great. 330 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: We are not headed in the rest the best direction. 331 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: We are not doing the things that are necessary in 332 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: order to preserve what little democracy that we have here. 333 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: And as we are watching the Ukraine play out, and 334 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: we're watching two million people fleet, We're watching hospitals and 335 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: homes and fucking office buildings and everything be bombed, what 336 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: would happen you think if it was Donald Trump and 337 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: Republicans that were in charge of the presidency right now. 338 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: One of the questions that was asked to on cable 339 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: news this week was, you know, you have Putin. Many 340 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: believe he's a sociopath. I mean, they call the man 341 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: a whole host of things. What we do know to 342 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: be true is that he's not dumb, right, He's evil, 343 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: and there's nothing worse than evil but smart evil. Right. 344 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: So the question was asked, well, why do you think 345 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: that Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Donald Trump was president 346 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: of the United States, And the response of one of 347 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: the former diplomats from the Ukraine said this, Well, if 348 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: you're getting everything that you want from the current sitting 349 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: American president, then why would you want to upset the 350 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: apple cart? But Vladimir Putin was betting on the fact 351 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was going to win a second term, 352 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: and so he was going to get what it was 353 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: that he wanted from Donald Trump. Then once he saw 354 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: that Trump was no longer going to be in power, 355 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: Democrats were going to take over, and people who actually 356 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: understand foreign affairs who were going to be in charge, 357 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: he was like, well, then I don't have any other 358 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: fucking choice. And while I think it's absolutely crazy that 359 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: apparently we have laws around war and justifiable murder and 360 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: not right, what weapons can be used and what can't, 361 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: the fact remains that you have Republicans in this country 362 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: that are on the side of Putin, and folks, we 363 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: have never seen that before. We have never seen a 364 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: divided America in the face of a global war. And 365 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: I say global because everybody, whether they want to or not, 366 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: is slowly but surely going to be pulled into this 367 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: fucking invasion of Ukraine. We have power off at Chernobyl, right, 368 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: the quote unquote defunct nuclear power plant. We got another one, 369 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: the largest in Europe, which was seized by Putin. Right, 370 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm thinking to myself and I'm 371 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: just like everyone is trying to avoid escalation in the 372 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: face of Putin actually escalating daily if he stages a 373 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: fucking chemical attack against civilians, what options does the United 374 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 1: States and NATO have left if not to get involved. 375 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: Because if every single person who is getting on cable news, 376 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: who has intimate knowledge of Russia, of Putin and of 377 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 1: the Ukraine, and they are telling you that this man 378 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: is not going to back down, that this is an 379 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: all in type of situation, you have diplomats in both 380 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,479 Speaker 1: the Ukraine and Russia that we're meeting in turn, and 381 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: guess what they came to. No fucking agreement, Because I'm 382 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: telling you, Putin is leaving it all on the fucking 383 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: field right now. He is not going This is a man, 384 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: right this, This is a man that embodies think about this, 385 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: that embodies toxic masculinity. Right. Everything that he does, from 386 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: riding bare chested on the back of a horse from 387 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: it is his machismo, right, it is his bravado. This 388 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: is what Trump and Republicans are attracted to because they 389 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: are so frail, right, so spineless, so feeble as men, 390 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: that they are attracted right to the presence, just the 391 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: sheer presence of toxic masculinity gets them going. Right, So, 392 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: if you are a man former KGB like Putin, who 393 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: believes that all of your power as a man comes 394 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: from force, do you think that given that psychology, right, 395 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: given this armchair psychology that I just get that I 396 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: just gave all of those things being true? Do you 397 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: think that this is the type of man that, when 398 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: met with all of the eyes of the world on him, 399 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: that he's going to back down and show any sign 400 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: of weakness, that like he couldn't handle it, even if, 401 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: even if things start to go in the wrong direction 402 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: for Russia. I believe that Vladimir Putin, at the stage 403 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: that he is in right now, will double and triple 404 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: the fuck down, and that should scare everyone. This is 405 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: not a man that is wanting to or able to flinch. 406 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: And so if we don't understand the psychology that is 407 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: at play here and how toxic masculinity is a part 408 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: of the play and is a part of what has 409 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: taken over the Republican Party and has spread like a cancer, 410 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: then how are we to get to the bottom with 411 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: how we're actually going to deal with this. Because here's 412 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I don't think that the world comes 413 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: out of this unscathed. So what does that mean when 414 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: you're talking about people, right, whether it's Russia, the United States, 415 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: it's China, you're talking about like over a thousand and 416 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: in the case of the United States, over five thousand 417 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: activated nuclear weapons. World War three has been said on movies, 418 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: in politics everywhere will be the end because everyone will 419 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: set off their fucking nukes. So right now we are 420 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: literally playing chicken as the world with a crazy man 421 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: that doesn't give a fuck about driving right off the cliff. 422 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: He's just not going to blink. And so given this 423 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: situation out hand, how are you moving? What is the 424 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: next move here? You're not going to give Ukraine a 425 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: no fly zone, right, which would be certain escalation. The 426 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 1: polls are not gonna do their fucking bait and switch, 427 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: which is, oh, we're gonna give these planes, but then 428 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: we're not going to really give these planes. We're gonna 429 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: give them to the United States, and the United States 430 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: is gonna give us our planes, and then the United 431 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: States is gonna do what they will with the Ukraine, 432 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: which is then going to signal a putin. Oh so 433 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: you chose a side side? Okay? Bet? Right? Like Oh, 434 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: when you think about all of the machination, the things 435 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: that are fucking play here, your head begins to spin. 436 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: And again, have no idea, have no idea where this heads. 437 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you it's not great. It's 438 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: not great for Ukraine. It's not great for Russia. Right 439 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: for the Russian people who have now literally been blacked 440 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: out and cut off of everything from their money to 441 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: their fucking entertainment. Right thousands have been arrested. God knows 442 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: what will happen to those people. To say that, I'm 443 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: worried to say that. I sometimes just lay in bed, 444 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: like just staring up at the ceiling, waiting for a 445 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,959 Speaker 1: blinking alarm to come on my phone to tell me 446 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: some other hotshit like this isn't great, and I don't 447 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: know how else to deliver it to you. Where we 448 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 1: are is not great. Right now, the Vice President is 449 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: in Poland trying to figure out how do we give 450 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,799 Speaker 1: fighter planes to Ukraine to give these people, to give 451 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: their military a fighting chance without that signaling that we're 452 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: ready for World War three. No idea, but I do 453 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: know there is only so much sitting on the sidelines 454 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: that can be done when the entire world is watching 455 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin kill Ukrainian citizens. There is only so much 456 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: that folks are going to be able to stomach before 457 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: they get on the phone. So they're elected officials before 458 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: marches are taking place, before people are like what the 459 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: fuck right, what are are you doing? Because we need 460 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: to do something switching gears now, folks. To round out 461 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: where we are with Russia is that, as I have 462 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: been reporting, w NBA player Britney Griner is in Russian 463 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: custody and has been for over a month. News of 464 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: that broke over the weekend last weekend, after she had 465 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: already been detained for weeks for possible marijuana cartridges for 466 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: vape in her luggage. Now, I saw a really interesting 467 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: story that I thought was worth diving into, and I 468 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 1: want to dive more into it next week. So you 469 00:35:54,520 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: guys all hold me to account. Interesting article about why 470 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,959 Speaker 1: Britney Griner was in Russia to begin with, and so 471 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: let me describe it like this. The w NBA players 472 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,439 Speaker 1: don't even make a quarter of what NBA players make. 473 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: Now we know, right because we reported here on woke 474 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: af that the women's soccer team won a multimillion dollar 475 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: lawsuit against the Soccer Association for failure to pay them 476 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: equally in comparison to the men's teams. And this has 477 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: been something that we have seen play out in tennis, 478 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: play out in soccer, play out in the w NBA, 479 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: in the NBA, and play out in the workforce. We 480 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: don't have an Equal Pay Act, right because we have 481 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: Republicans and some Democrats that refuse to vote that vote 482 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,840 Speaker 1: for it, that believe that, you know, women should not 483 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 1: be paid as much as men are, which is crazy 484 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: given the fact that we just came out a fucking 485 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: not just came out of because it's still existing, but 486 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,000 Speaker 1: that we just in twenty twenty watched over two million 487 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: women leave the workforce because they needed to be tending 488 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,840 Speaker 1: to their small children at home and turn themselves into 489 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:25,280 Speaker 1: homeschool teachers. Right, so we got to see in real 490 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: lifetime the balance that working parents, working mothers in particular, 491 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,879 Speaker 1: the burden that is on them, and they still are 492 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 1: not paid equally to men. So one story that I 493 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,320 Speaker 1: saw about the case with Britney Griner is that Britney 494 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: Griner is in Russia playing in the WNBA's offseason because 495 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: the WNBA doesn't fucking play pay right, they're paying these 496 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 1: players like the top players in the leagues are making 497 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,280 Speaker 1: like six figures and I mean like low six figures, 498 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: right that. I remember reading reports when the WNBA was 499 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: started where these players were making as much as teachers, 500 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: like fifty thousand dollars a year, sixty thousand dollars a 501 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,720 Speaker 1: year in comparison, just think about the worst and again 502 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: I'm not a huge sports person, but the worst player 503 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: on the NBA, the one that is just riding the bench, 504 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: is making five times more than the best player on 505 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 1: the WNBA. So why was Britney Griner in Russia? Because 506 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: she has to make a living for herself and her family, 507 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 1: and in order to do that, she plays on European 508 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,840 Speaker 1: teams in the fucking off season. Because if the w 509 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:51,879 Speaker 1: NBA played like the NBA, she wouldn't need it. So 510 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,959 Speaker 1: the argument that the article was making was the fact 511 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,800 Speaker 1: that this is a not There are so many different 512 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: things that are at play right now, which is a 513 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: Britney Grinder is one of the most talented and well 514 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:11,280 Speaker 1: known w NBA players. Right if this were Tom Brady again, 515 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: somebody had said there would be collective outrage, right, picket 516 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 1: signs and all of these things. But it is a 517 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: black woman in a skill and underrepresented and underpaid professional 518 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 1: athletic field, and nobody's really blinking an eye. We're not 519 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,760 Speaker 1: concerned about the fact that not only is she black 520 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,399 Speaker 1: in Russia, but she's also queer in a country right 521 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: that is still trying to beat the gay out of 522 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: people and or jail them for it. So there is 523 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,880 Speaker 1: so this story about Britney Grinder is so layered and 524 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: so dense and so troublesome at the sheer fact that 525 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: if she were a man, if she were a white 526 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: man at that on any other type of professional team, 527 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: she wouldn't have had to be in fucking Russia to 528 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: begin with. And even still if she had been there, 529 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,840 Speaker 1: the outrage that has taking place, that isn't taking place 530 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 1: only but Sheila Jackson Lee so far the sole member 531 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,240 Speaker 1: of Congress, not even members from her own fucking state 532 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 1: of Arizona have come out for her release. So I 533 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 1: remained worried and concerned about Brittany Griner and if she's 534 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,720 Speaker 1: ever going to see her family or the United States. 535 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 1: Again and again folks will say, oh, well, we have 536 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 1: bigger fish to fry, and I'm like, you know, with 537 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,760 Speaker 1: all of these compounded crises, we need to be able 538 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 1: to fry walk and shoot gum at the same time. 539 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:03,880 Speaker 1: Which leads me to the last story that once again, 540 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:12,960 Speaker 1: America's racism just out in the Open. Award winning director 541 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 1: Ryan Coogler is in Atlanta, Georgia. Ryan Coogler is a 542 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: director of Black Panther, Fruitvale Station, among others. He went 543 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: into a bank in Atlanta to take out his own 544 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:33,560 Speaker 1: money with his own pen at his own bank and 545 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,000 Speaker 1: had the police called on him believing that he was 546 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: a bank robber. Now reports have come out that the 547 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 1: teller at the bank was also black, and so people 548 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 1: wanted to say, well, it can't be racism because the 549 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: bank teller was black, so it must be something else. 550 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 1: And so let me provide this lesson white supremacy and 551 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:08,040 Speaker 1: the matrix that it lives in is breathed in and 552 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:12,279 Speaker 1: beaten into every single person that is a part of 553 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,360 Speaker 1: the white supremacy matrix, which is all of us. Black 554 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 1: people are not absolved from anti blackness because they have 555 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: melanin in their skin. They have been educated and indoctrinated 556 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,359 Speaker 1: into the same system of anti blackness and white supremacy 557 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,480 Speaker 1: as everyone else. Which is to see even themselves and 558 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: people who look like them as a threat and as 559 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,200 Speaker 1: criminals first and people second once they have been able 560 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:46,239 Speaker 1: to prove their humanity. So it does not shock me 561 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: that this took place, and sadly took place at the 562 00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:55,640 Speaker 1: hands of a black employee. It just goes to show 563 00:42:55,719 --> 00:43:03,520 Speaker 1: you once again that having money, having fame does not 564 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 1: make you immune from racism and white supremacy. There is 565 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: no way to buy your way out of it. We 566 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,919 Speaker 1: are living, folks, lord In, as Nicole Wallace always says 567 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,400 Speaker 1: an MSNBC when she closes out, we are living in 568 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,920 Speaker 1: extraordinary times, extraordinary times. Every day that we make it 569 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 1: to a Friday, I just thank God and the universe 570 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,319 Speaker 1: that we made it through the end of another week, 571 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: because by the time that we make it to Friday's 572 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 1: I feel like my body has been a battering ram. 573 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,919 Speaker 1: And this is why, you know, as I transition into 574 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,960 Speaker 1: the woke moment of wellness, that my mother says that 575 00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:00,720 Speaker 1: we take on fear, anger, anxiety, depression on a cellular level, 576 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: that if we do not find the right ways to 577 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: deal with our stress, our anxiety, our the toxins that 578 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 1: are building up in our own bodies, they will metastasize 579 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: and show up in other ways, and they will show 580 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:25,440 Speaker 1: up as dis ease right, because we are not at ease. 581 00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,440 Speaker 1: So when you are in dis ease, your body becomes 582 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:37,240 Speaker 1: more vulnerable because your immune system is down. And so, folks, 583 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,040 Speaker 1: I continue to say that health is actual wealth, that 584 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,520 Speaker 1: it is not just as saying right, because you know, 585 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,400 Speaker 1: if we are not taking care of this one vessel, 586 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: this one body that we get, if we're not doing 587 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,839 Speaker 1: and I have, and I will say this out loud 588 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,880 Speaker 1: to all of you, I haven't been to the doctors 589 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,480 Speaker 1: since before the pandemic, since twenty twenty. I need to 590 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,200 Speaker 1: go to the doctors. I need to make time for 591 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,080 Speaker 1: my regular check ins right, because it's not just enough 592 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: that I walk and I eat right, like I also 593 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: need to make time. We all need to make the 594 00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: time because our health is our wealth. I don't want 595 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: to age in a way that has me unable to move, 596 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:29,400 Speaker 1: that lacks immobility or cognition. So the things that we 597 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: can control, because so much is out of control, we 598 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,760 Speaker 1: need to take responsibility over, and that is our health 599 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,040 Speaker 1: and well being. So please, dear friends, let's make a 600 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:48,360 Speaker 1: pack together right to get our checkups as spring is approaching, 601 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:53,080 Speaker 1: to do our internal spring cleaning so that we are 602 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,480 Speaker 1: rested and able to continue the fight because it is 603 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:04,960 Speaker 1: unrelenting and so our vigilance must be over ourselves and 604 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:13,520 Speaker 1: our well being. That is it for me today. Friends 605 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:18,400 Speaker 1: on this woke af as always, Power to the people 606 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,560 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay 607 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: woke as fuck until next week. Be well and stay woke.