1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: this has been one of the most obscene news cycles 4 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: I have seen in quite some time. And I will 5 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: say this, why is it obscene? Well, one, you know, 6 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: I have been getting some pushback on social media after 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: the announcement of New York Governor Cuomo resigning in two weeks. 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: He will no longer be governor of New York. He 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: had finally succumbed to the pressure placed on him by 10 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: the Democrats in New York and across the board. I 11 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: knew once Biden had waited in on the issue that 12 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: he was going to their for resign And here's my 13 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: issue with this. And I said this on social media 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: and people are like, oh my god, like, clearly you're 15 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: for a sexual harassment and assault of women. Know the 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: fuck I am not. But what I did say is this, 17 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: Democrats always resign. Always we go after our own harder 18 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: than we do our opponents. We had a rapist as 19 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: a President of the United States and another one on 20 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. Nothing ever, happens to Republicans. Nothing and 21 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: the pushback that I'm getting is a lot where folks 22 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: are just you know, well, we have higher standards and 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: we have morals. I don't think that people fucking get 24 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: the fact that you cannot have a democracy that is 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: supposed to have a strong two party system and only 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: have one party that goes after their own and eats 27 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: their young as opposed to turning on the hoses right 28 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: on the Republican fucking Party. Am I saying that Cuomo 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: should not have resigned, Absolutely not, But I'm saying, where 30 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: the fuck is the energy for Matt Gates? Where is 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: the energy for the Trump investigation and indictments rolling down 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: on him, on Clark On bar On Sessions, right, Like, 33 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: where the fuck is that energy? You know? And it's 34 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: just it's infuriating to me that we will go after 35 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: people within our own party with a fury and an 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: energy that we do not give people who frankly tried 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: to have their fucking colleagues killed in the septem in 38 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: the January insurrection. Here we are, and I guarantee you 39 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: that we would probably see Cuomo behind bars right or 40 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: criminally liable or civilly liable in some way for his 41 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 1: harassment and what he did in his office. Then we 42 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: were for the fact that Donald Trump endangered the entire country, 43 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: is fucking sick, almost brought us into war, caused a coup, 44 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: and this motherfucker is still walking around and we want 45 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: to be patting ourselves on the back talking about fucking infrastructure. 46 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: Get out of here. So the fact that people continue 47 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: to say to me, well, you know this is wrong. 48 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't care about the moral high ground. Let me 49 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: just be fucking frank. I could care less about the 50 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: moral high ground. The moral high ground does not put 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: fucking food on the table. The moral high ground does 52 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: not secure our democracy from white supremacist terrorists insurrectionists, right, 53 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: that is not what it does. The fact that Democrats 54 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: continue to sit around and scratch their heads and rub 55 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: their chins like I can't believe there's no bottom for Republicans. 56 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: But we're still going to give them a win in 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: terms of having this bipartisan infrastructure deal that is now 58 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: two and a half trillion dollars less than what was 59 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: what was wanted in the first goddamn place. Mitch McConnell 60 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: signed on to this deal, and I'm going to have 61 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: a conversation later in the show with our friend Kurt Bardella, 62 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: who's like, anytime that Mitch McConnell signs onto something, everyone 63 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: should ask themselves why and what is the strategy behind it? 64 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: And here is the strategy. Because Democrats only want to 65 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: do things in a bipartisan fucking manner, then they have 66 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: just set themselves up with this obstructionist ass fucking Senate 67 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: and this extremist radical right party cult that if they 68 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: do not have bipartisan agreement on various issues like say, oh, 69 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: I don't know voting rights, then Republicans can just turn 70 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: around and say, well, bipartisanship is possible, look at the 71 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: infrastructure deal. Then you have the Mansions and the cinemas 72 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: of the world still wanted to uphold some bullshit filibuster 73 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: right instead of doing something about our crumbling democracy. My 74 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: problem is consistently with the fact that Democrats don't have 75 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: a fucking backbone, that they are spineless, fucking jellyfish, and 76 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: that every thing that we do as a party is reactionary. 77 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: We don't lead on a fucking thing because we're too 78 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: fearful of what it is that Republicans will do instead 79 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: of fucking taking action. But the only time that you 80 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: ever see Democrats come out really fucking tough is when 81 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: they are taking on a member of their own goddamn party. Now, 82 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: am I saying that we should become the party of 83 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: sexual predators, harassers, and what have you like? Republicans? Absolutely 84 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: fucking not, and I should not have to clarify that 85 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: statement if you know who I am. But at the 86 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: same point, it would be great that we would circle 87 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: the wagons right around members of our own party and 88 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: go after Republicans with the type of venom that we 89 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: do our own. We are in the midst of a 90 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: four alarm fucking fire in this country, literally and figuratively. 91 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: Everywhere you look there is motherfucking fire and smoke. Right 92 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: we are looking at the skies over California, over the 93 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: western part of this country that are orange. We are 94 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: literally just got a climate report in talking about how 95 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: things that we have done are irreparable to our Earth, 96 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: And we have an opportunity, a slim window that I 97 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: don't think that we will fucking meet to ensure that 98 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: nothing worse happens than they already one and a half 99 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: degree rise in the Earth's temperature. So you know, folks, 100 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: it is troubling to me that we will continue is 101 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: not have our eye on the ball, not recognize what 102 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: is of most importance. And the only thing that is 103 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: important right now is stopping this motherfucking pandemic, holding those 104 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: responsible for the continuation of this pandemic, stopping climate change, 105 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: and holding on to what is left of our fucking kleptocracy. 106 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: Because here's the thing that I am becoming more and 107 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: more disillusioned with is the fact that if you are 108 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: not a billionaire, you have no voice in this quote 109 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: unquote democracy. I have this conversation yesterday with my mother, 110 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: who is a staunch Democrat, and I posted this on 111 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: social media as well. My mother stopped watching the news, 112 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: which she used to watch on a regular basis, right 113 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: because of how toxic and destructive it was coming to 114 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: her emotional health and wellbeing. So she'll pay attention to 115 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: clips and alerts, but she no longer sits around and 116 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: ingests it in the way that she does. After Cuomo resigned, 117 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: she said, you know what, I don't even know what 118 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: the fuck we're voting not. My mother doesn't curse, this 119 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: is my language. She goes, I don't even know what 120 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: we're voting for. Anymore. I don't even know what the 121 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: purpose of it is. This is a woman who came 122 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: to the United States as a young girl, right with 123 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: high hopes and dreams that she was able to meet 124 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: and achieve, who believes very much in democracy, right in 125 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: the ability to build, right in the possibility of the 126 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: dream that she was able to achieve and therefore pass 127 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: down to her daughters. And this woman is telling me 128 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: this week, I don't know why I am voting anymore. 129 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: And if my mother feels like that, then I know 130 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: a whole host of other people feel that way too. 131 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: And the only way to change that sense of hopelessness 132 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: is to take action and to go hard, not just 133 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: for those that do wrong within your own group, but 134 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: for every one who is doing wrong, and that wrong 135 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: is hurting the collection of us, the entire community. Right, 136 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: Look at what Donald Trump was able to do, Look 137 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: at what he's continued to do, because we take no 138 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: action against Donald Trump, we take no action against his sycophants, right, 139 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: We just want to pretend that it's not happening. We 140 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: want to move on, As everyone keeps saying, how the 141 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: fuck do you move forward when you have that type 142 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: of anvil attached to you, unless you set your eyes 143 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: on recognizing that this Republican Party is not a party, 144 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: it is a cult. Unless you recognize that their foundation 145 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: is in white supremacy, patriarchy, and misogyny. Unless you recognize 146 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: that as soon as they get power, America is turning 147 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: into an autocracy, and that you have no time to 148 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: waste and the clock is fucking running dow down, then 149 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: we are going to have more and more people across 150 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: this country like that are becoming disillusioned and feeling this 151 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: sense of hopelessness that my mother is and when you 152 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: have lost her, you have just lost. So I am 153 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: beyond concerned about where our democracy is headed when this 154 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: is what we want to be paying attention to. I'm 155 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: glad that Cuomo resigned. He should because he should care 156 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: enough about the state that he helped save, and I 157 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: will not rob that from him. He helped save New York, 158 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: which was the epicenter of the coronavirus for the world 159 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: last year, and when I think about where we are 160 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: now from where we were last year at this time, 161 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: I am grateful, but that does not excuse what he 162 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: has done. But I'm not going to dismiss it and 163 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna instead say that it's time for us to 164 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: focus right on our true, real enemies, enemies of the 165 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: fucking state. And the question is when are we going 166 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: to do that? Coming up next, dear friends, in my 167 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: conversation with our Woke Wednesday panel doctor Jonathan Metzel and 168 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that I'm always so happy 169 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: when we have our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, 170 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: join us to talk about why this country is so 171 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: hell bent on dying of whiteness and stupidity. Jonathan, you know, 172 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know now, and I feel like we 173 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: should start marking these shows where you told us about 174 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: the delta variant. You told us about the delta variant, 175 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: I want to say about a month ago, and in 176 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: that month's time, maybe it's you know, five weeks so 177 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: or a little bit less, but in that time we 178 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: are now at delta plus and also a lambda variant 179 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 1: we are seeing across this country surges in pretty much 180 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: every state, but in those hot spots of Texas and 181 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: Florida where we have executioners aka the governors of that 182 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: state that are not at all interested in keeping their 183 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: constituents safe and now just Recently, this week, Governor Abbott 184 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: of Texas had the audacity to put out an SOS 185 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: for healthcare providers and healthcare workers from outside of Texas 186 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: to come in and help them with a surge that 187 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: he caused. I don't even know where to begin, Jonathan, 188 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: But like we've been talking about the fact that there 189 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,319 Speaker 1: was going that when we hit mid October, that we 190 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: were going to see extraordinary numbers. But I feel like 191 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: we're ahead of the curve right now. What do you 192 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: feel how do you feel I should say about what 193 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: is going on, what is transpiring and the strategy or 194 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can call what Abbott 195 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: and the Satan are doing a strategy, But like, what 196 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: do you think about where we are right now? Well, 197 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: remember last week when we spoke, when we ended the conversation, 198 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: we said, these governors can do whatever they want, and 199 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: they do have a political strategy, right make you know, 200 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: make make this false binary between the economy on one 201 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: side and public health on the other, which is a 202 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: totally false construct. But their idea was if we can 203 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: just be like all in on the economy, we can 204 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: weather the surge and we can weather really what's becoming 205 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: a pretty catastrophic human cost. And what you and I 206 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: said last week is this isn't going to work. So 207 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: last week I said, let's give it two weeks. But 208 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: it's really it's like it's about one week later. There 209 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: are no hospital beds ICUs or full ic use are 210 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 1: full of young people. Help you people. And so really, 211 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: again we've been saying this for a and a half. 212 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: Now that the virus sets the narrative, we can impose 213 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: our politics on it, we can do all of our stuff, 214 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: but ultimately, this delta variant, in particular, you can catch 215 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: it in ten seconds. It gives you a much higher 216 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: viral load, so you get sicker. The only thing you 217 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: can do to protect yourself is to get vaccinated and 218 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: wear a mask inside. And people are kind of waking 219 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: up to that, and so if you try to put 220 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: a frame over that, that is basically telling parents to 221 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: sacrifice their kids, which is in part what's happening here. 222 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: You know, people aren't going to stand for it. And 223 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: I think you know what we're going to see over 224 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: the next week or so, is you know, some kind 225 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: of face saving way to change these horrible positions and 226 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: support potentially could could crumble for Democratic for Republican governors 227 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: like Abbott and De Santis, who seemed unassailable even a 228 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Folks, I'm always so excited when we 229 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: have our friends and MSNBC contributor Think columnist USA Today 230 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: contributor Kurt Bardella join us on Woke f to go 231 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: inside the Republican mind. Just this week, I'm kind of 232 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: looking at the news and I'm saying to myself, we're 233 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: in the midst of an existential climate crisis. Like literally 234 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: every part of the world is on fire, from Greece 235 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: to California and places in between. But you're watching the 236 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: news and you would think that this is relatively normal. Oh, 237 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: there are wildfires again in California, and I'm like, it's 238 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: burned almost half a million acres right, Like people have 239 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: lost their homes, thirty thousand people are displaced, and I 240 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: just wonder, like, are we losing the force through the 241 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: trees and are we going to find ourselves in December 242 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, after the midterm elections, standing around 243 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: scratching our heads because that's what we're doing right now. 244 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: We're not taking any definitive of action. We're going to 245 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: hail the Infrastructure Bill as this bipartisan flag that we 246 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: want to wave. But is it not just more fuel 247 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: to the fire for the Mansions and the cinemas of 248 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: the world to say, well, this is why we won't 249 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: get rid of the filibuster, because we can get things done. 250 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: There's a reason why Mitch McConnell voted for this, and 251 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: I think people should think about that for a second. 252 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: If Mitch McConnell's okay with something, that means he thinks 253 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: there's advantage, and the advantage for him in his mind is, well, 254 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: this pretty much ties the Democrats hands going forward anything 255 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: else because now they've set a benchmarking a standard for 256 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: quote unquote bipartisanship, and now anything short of that is 257 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: a no go. Yep. And you know, I just think 258 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: that Democrats need to understand Republicans do a great job 259 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: of weaponizing fear and using it to get elected and 260 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: to acquire power. And if I'm the Democratic Party right now, 261 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: I am bombarding the air waves we are with a 262 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: very simple message. Republicans are a death cult. Republicans want 263 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: you to die. Republicans not just with COVID. But what 264 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: if you like clean air, If you like clean water. 265 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 1: Guess what they're your end. If you want your kids 266 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 1: to get lung cancer, then go vote Republic because that's 267 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Like that's we are literally guest now 268 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: where all of these things are life and death situations now, 269 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: and it's almost at the point of no return, which 270 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: is depressing to think about, and I try not to 271 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: because it's like, what the fuck does it matter then? 272 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, like if you know, we have 273 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: seen through COVID the Republican Party and people like Iran 274 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: that's santists and Greg Abbott are willing to have their people, 275 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: their citizens die to advance a political goal. So I 276 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,719 Speaker 1: have no hope that the republic Party is gonna wake 277 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: up one day and decide that our planets worth saving. 278 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: They will continue being in the talk at a fossil 279 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: fuel in old companies till the minute that this planet 280 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: blows up, and they will sit there and say nothing 281 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: to worry about. They're just alarmist, extremist liberals that are 282 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: trying to scare you despite the fact that there's a 283 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 1: tidal wave or a fire burning in your backyard. They 284 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: don't care. And so we need to move past this 285 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: idea that we can change their mind, that they were 286 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: going to wake up and see the light, that things 287 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: are gonna be able to go back to the way 288 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: that they used to be when the Senate was truly 289 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: a bipartisan entity. That's dead like that, like infrastructure is 290 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: an aberition. It is a once in a two decade 291 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: like achieve and again all credits about it. It's great 292 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: that it's going to happen. Fantastic. I have no problem 293 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: with that. It is one of the most sweeping progressive 294 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: pieces of legislation that we'll probably ever see in our lifetime. 295 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: Kudos to you. That is not the standard, though, that 296 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: is the exception, not the rule. And if Democrats aren't careful, 297 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: they're going to find themselves trapped by their own achievement here. 298 00:18:53,280 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: And I think that's what McConnell's kind of doing. That's 299 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: it for Today's Woke, a f daily podcast. To hear 300 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: more from me, do subscribe and get five hour long 301 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: shows each and every week at patreon dot com. Slash 302 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: Woke af Power to the people and to all the people. 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