Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: this has been one of the most obscene news cycles
Speaker 1: I have seen in quite some time. And I will
Speaker 1: say this, why is it obscene? Well, one, you know,
Speaker 1: I have been getting some pushback on social media after
Speaker 1: the announcement of New York Governor Cuomo resigning in two weeks.
Speaker 1: He will no longer be governor of New York. He
Speaker 1: had finally succumbed to the pressure placed on him by
Speaker 1: the Democrats in New York and across the board. I
Speaker 1: knew once Biden had waited in on the issue that
Speaker 1: he was going to their for resign And here's my
Speaker 1: issue with this. And I said this on social media
Speaker 1: and people are like, oh my god, like, clearly you're
Speaker 1: for a sexual harassment and assault of women. Know the
Speaker 1: fuck I am not. But what I did say is this,
Speaker 1: Democrats always resign. Always we go after our own harder
Speaker 1: than we do our opponents. We had a rapist as
Speaker 1: a President of the United States and another one on
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. Nothing ever, happens to Republicans. Nothing and
Speaker 1: the pushback that I'm getting is a lot where folks
Speaker 1: are just you know, well, we have higher standards and
Speaker 1: we have morals. I don't think that people fucking get
Speaker 1: the fact that you cannot have a democracy that is
Speaker 1: supposed to have a strong two party system and only
Speaker 1: have one party that goes after their own and eats
Speaker 1: their young as opposed to turning on the hoses right
Speaker 1: on the Republican fucking Party. Am I saying that Cuomo
Speaker 1: should not have resigned, Absolutely not, But I'm saying, where
Speaker 1: the fuck is the energy for Matt Gates? Where is
Speaker 1: the energy for the Trump investigation and indictments rolling down
Speaker 1: on him, on Clark On bar On Sessions, right, Like,
Speaker 1: where the fuck is that energy? You know? And it's
Speaker 1: just it's infuriating to me that we will go after
Speaker 1: people within our own party with a fury and an
Speaker 1: energy that we do not give people who frankly tried
Speaker 1: to have their fucking colleagues killed in the septem in
Speaker 1: the January insurrection. Here we are, and I guarantee you
Speaker 1: that we would probably see Cuomo behind bars right or
Speaker 1: criminally liable or civilly liable in some way for his
Speaker 1: harassment and what he did in his office. Then we
Speaker 1: were for the fact that Donald Trump endangered the entire country,
Speaker 1: is fucking sick, almost brought us into war, caused a coup,
Speaker 1: and this motherfucker is still walking around and we want
Speaker 1: to be patting ourselves on the back talking about fucking infrastructure.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. So the fact that people continue
Speaker 1: to say to me, well, you know this is wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the moral high ground. Let me
Speaker 1: just be fucking frank. I could care less about the
Speaker 1: moral high ground. The moral high ground does not put
Speaker 1: fucking food on the table. The moral high ground does
Speaker 1: not secure our democracy from white supremacist terrorists insurrectionists, right,
Speaker 1: that is not what it does. The fact that Democrats
Speaker 1: continue to sit around and scratch their heads and rub
Speaker 1: their chins like I can't believe there's no bottom for Republicans.
Speaker 1: But we're still going to give them a win in
Speaker 1: terms of having this bipartisan infrastructure deal that is now
Speaker 1: two and a half trillion dollars less than what was
Speaker 1: what was wanted in the first goddamn place. Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: signed on to this deal, and I'm going to have
Speaker 1: a conversation later in the show with our friend Kurt Bardella,
Speaker 1: who's like, anytime that Mitch McConnell signs onto something, everyone
Speaker 1: should ask themselves why and what is the strategy behind it?
Speaker 1: And here is the strategy. Because Democrats only want to
Speaker 1: do things in a bipartisan fucking manner, then they have
Speaker 1: just set themselves up with this obstructionist ass fucking Senate
Speaker 1: and this extremist radical right party cult that if they
Speaker 1: do not have bipartisan agreement on various issues like say, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know voting rights, then Republicans can just turn
Speaker 1: around and say, well, bipartisanship is possible, look at the
Speaker 1: infrastructure deal. Then you have the Mansions and the cinemas
Speaker 1: of the world still wanted to uphold some bullshit filibuster
Speaker 1: right instead of doing something about our crumbling democracy. My
Speaker 1: problem is consistently with the fact that Democrats don't have
Speaker 1: a fucking backbone, that they are spineless, fucking jellyfish, and
Speaker 1: that every thing that we do as a party is reactionary.
Speaker 1: We don't lead on a fucking thing because we're too
Speaker 1: fearful of what it is that Republicans will do instead
Speaker 1: of fucking taking action. But the only time that you
Speaker 1: ever see Democrats come out really fucking tough is when
Speaker 1: they are taking on a member of their own goddamn party. Now,
Speaker 1: am I saying that we should become the party of
Speaker 1: sexual predators, harassers, and what have you like? Republicans? Absolutely
Speaker 1: fucking not, and I should not have to clarify that
Speaker 1: statement if you know who I am. But at the
Speaker 1: same point, it would be great that we would circle
Speaker 1: the wagons right around members of our own party and
Speaker 1: go after Republicans with the type of venom that we
Speaker 1: do our own. We are in the midst of a
Speaker 1: four alarm fucking fire in this country, literally and figuratively.
Speaker 1: Everywhere you look there is motherfucking fire and smoke. Right
Speaker 1: we are looking at the skies over California, over the
Speaker 1: western part of this country that are orange. We are
Speaker 1: literally just got a climate report in talking about how
Speaker 1: things that we have done are irreparable to our Earth,
Speaker 1: And we have an opportunity, a slim window that I
Speaker 1: don't think that we will fucking meet to ensure that
Speaker 1: nothing worse happens than they already one and a half
Speaker 1: degree rise in the Earth's temperature. So you know, folks,
Speaker 1: it is troubling to me that we will continue is
Speaker 1: not have our eye on the ball, not recognize what
Speaker 1: is of most importance. And the only thing that is
Speaker 1: important right now is stopping this motherfucking pandemic, holding those
Speaker 1: responsible for the continuation of this pandemic, stopping climate change,
Speaker 1: and holding on to what is left of our fucking kleptocracy.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing that I am becoming more and
Speaker 1: more disillusioned with is the fact that if you are
Speaker 1: not a billionaire, you have no voice in this quote
Speaker 1: unquote democracy. I have this conversation yesterday with my mother,
Speaker 1: who is a staunch Democrat, and I posted this on
Speaker 1: social media as well. My mother stopped watching the news,
Speaker 1: which she used to watch on a regular basis, right
Speaker 1: because of how toxic and destructive it was coming to
Speaker 1: her emotional health and wellbeing. So she'll pay attention to
Speaker 1: clips and alerts, but she no longer sits around and
Speaker 1: ingests it in the way that she does. After Cuomo resigned,
Speaker 1: she said, you know what, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the fuck we're voting not. My mother doesn't curse, this
Speaker 1: is my language. She goes, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: we're voting for. Anymore. I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: purpose of it is. This is a woman who came
Speaker 1: to the United States as a young girl, right with
Speaker 1: high hopes and dreams that she was able to meet
Speaker 1: and achieve, who believes very much in democracy, right in
Speaker 1: the ability to build, right in the possibility of the
Speaker 1: dream that she was able to achieve and therefore pass
Speaker 1: down to her daughters. And this woman is telling me
Speaker 1: this week, I don't know why I am voting anymore.
Speaker 1: And if my mother feels like that, then I know
Speaker 1: a whole host of other people feel that way too.
Speaker 1: And the only way to change that sense of hopelessness
Speaker 1: is to take action and to go hard, not just
Speaker 1: for those that do wrong within your own group, but
Speaker 1: for every one who is doing wrong, and that wrong
Speaker 1: is hurting the collection of us, the entire community. Right,
Speaker 1: Look at what Donald Trump was able to do, Look
Speaker 1: at what he's continued to do, because we take no
Speaker 1: action against Donald Trump, we take no action against his sycophants, right,
Speaker 1: We just want to pretend that it's not happening. We
Speaker 1: want to move on, As everyone keeps saying, how the
Speaker 1: fuck do you move forward when you have that type
Speaker 1: of anvil attached to you, unless you set your eyes
Speaker 1: on recognizing that this Republican Party is not a party,
Speaker 1: it is a cult. Unless you recognize that their foundation
Speaker 1: is in white supremacy, patriarchy, and misogyny. Unless you recognize
Speaker 1: that as soon as they get power, America is turning
Speaker 1: into an autocracy, and that you have no time to
Speaker 1: waste and the clock is fucking running dow down, then
Speaker 1: we are going to have more and more people across
Speaker 1: this country like that are becoming disillusioned and feeling this
Speaker 1: sense of hopelessness that my mother is and when you
Speaker 1: have lost her, you have just lost. So I am
Speaker 1: beyond concerned about where our democracy is headed when this
Speaker 1: is what we want to be paying attention to. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that Cuomo resigned. He should because he should care
Speaker 1: enough about the state that he helped save, and I
Speaker 1: will not rob that from him. He helped save New York,
Speaker 1: which was the epicenter of the coronavirus for the world
Speaker 1: last year, and when I think about where we are
Speaker 1: now from where we were last year at this time,
Speaker 1: I am grateful, but that does not excuse what he
Speaker 1: has done. But I'm not going to dismiss it and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna instead say that it's time for us to
Speaker 1: focus right on our true, real enemies, enemies of the
Speaker 1: fucking state. And the question is when are we going
Speaker 1: to do that? Coming up next, dear friends, in my
Speaker 1: conversation with our Woke Wednesday panel doctor Jonathan Metzel and
Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that I'm always so happy
Speaker 1: when we have our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel,
Speaker 1: join us to talk about why this country is so
Speaker 1: hell bent on dying of whiteness and stupidity. Jonathan, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know now, and I feel like we
Speaker 1: should start marking these shows where you told us about
Speaker 1: the delta variant. You told us about the delta variant,
Speaker 1: I want to say about a month ago, and in
Speaker 1: that month's time, maybe it's you know, five weeks so
Speaker 1: or a little bit less, but in that time we
Speaker 1: are now at delta plus and also a lambda variant
Speaker 1: we are seeing across this country surges in pretty much
Speaker 1: every state, but in those hot spots of Texas and
Speaker 1: Florida where we have executioners aka the governors of that
Speaker 1: state that are not at all interested in keeping their
Speaker 1: constituents safe and now just Recently, this week, Governor Abbott
Speaker 1: of Texas had the audacity to put out an SOS
Speaker 1: for healthcare providers and healthcare workers from outside of Texas
Speaker 1: to come in and help them with a surge that
Speaker 1: he caused. I don't even know where to begin, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: But like we've been talking about the fact that there
Speaker 1: was going that when we hit mid October, that we
Speaker 1: were going to see extraordinary numbers. But I feel like
Speaker 1: we're ahead of the curve right now. What do you
Speaker 1: feel how do you feel I should say about what
Speaker 1: is going on, what is transpiring and the strategy or
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can call what Abbott
Speaker 1: and the Satan are doing a strategy, But like, what
Speaker 1: do you think about where we are right now? Well,
Speaker 1: remember last week when we spoke, when we ended the conversation,
Speaker 1: we said, these governors can do whatever they want, and
Speaker 1: they do have a political strategy, right make you know,
Speaker 1: make make this false binary between the economy on one
Speaker 1: side and public health on the other, which is a
Speaker 1: totally false construct. But their idea was if we can
Speaker 1: just be like all in on the economy, we can
Speaker 1: weather the surge and we can weather really what's becoming
Speaker 1: a pretty catastrophic human cost. And what you and I
Speaker 1: said last week is this isn't going to work. So
Speaker 1: last week I said, let's give it two weeks. But
Speaker 1: it's really it's like it's about one week later. There
Speaker 1: are no hospital beds ICUs or full ic use are
Speaker 1: full of young people. Help you people. And so really,
Speaker 1: again we've been saying this for a and a half.
Speaker 1: Now that the virus sets the narrative, we can impose
Speaker 1: our politics on it, we can do all of our stuff,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, this delta variant, in particular, you can catch
Speaker 1: it in ten seconds. It gives you a much higher
Speaker 1: viral load, so you get sicker. The only thing you
Speaker 1: can do to protect yourself is to get vaccinated and
Speaker 1: wear a mask inside. And people are kind of waking
Speaker 1: up to that, and so if you try to put
Speaker 1: a frame over that, that is basically telling parents to
Speaker 1: sacrifice their kids, which is in part what's happening here.
Speaker 1: You know, people aren't going to stand for it. And
Speaker 1: I think you know what we're going to see over
Speaker 1: the next week or so, is you know, some kind
Speaker 1: of face saving way to change these horrible positions and
Speaker 1: support potentially could could crumble for Democratic for Republican governors
Speaker 1: like Abbott and De Santis, who seemed unassailable even a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Folks, I'm always so excited when we
Speaker 1: have our friends and MSNBC contributor Think columnist USA Today
Speaker 1: contributor Kurt Bardella join us on Woke f to go
Speaker 1: inside the Republican mind. Just this week, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: looking at the news and I'm saying to myself, we're
Speaker 1: in the midst of an existential climate crisis. Like literally
Speaker 1: every part of the world is on fire, from Greece
Speaker 1: to California and places in between. But you're watching the
Speaker 1: news and you would think that this is relatively normal. Oh,
Speaker 1: there are wildfires again in California, and I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: burned almost half a million acres right, Like people have
Speaker 1: lost their homes, thirty thousand people are displaced, and I
Speaker 1: just wonder, like, are we losing the force through the
Speaker 1: trees and are we going to find ourselves in December
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, after the midterm elections, standing around
Speaker 1: scratching our heads because that's what we're doing right now.
Speaker 1: We're not taking any definitive of action. We're going to
Speaker 1: hail the Infrastructure Bill as this bipartisan flag that we
Speaker 1: want to wave. But is it not just more fuel
Speaker 1: to the fire for the Mansions and the cinemas of
Speaker 1: the world to say, well, this is why we won't
Speaker 1: get rid of the filibuster, because we can get things done.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why Mitch McConnell voted for this, and
Speaker 1: I think people should think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: If Mitch McConnell's okay with something, that means he thinks
Speaker 1: there's advantage, and the advantage for him in his mind is, well,
Speaker 1: this pretty much ties the Democrats hands going forward anything
Speaker 1: else because now they've set a benchmarking a standard for
Speaker 1: quote unquote bipartisanship, and now anything short of that is
Speaker 1: a no go. Yep. And you know, I just think
Speaker 1: that Democrats need to understand Republicans do a great job
Speaker 1: of weaponizing fear and using it to get elected and
Speaker 1: to acquire power. And if I'm the Democratic Party right now,
Speaker 1: I am bombarding the air waves we are with a
Speaker 1: very simple message. Republicans are a death cult. Republicans want
Speaker 1: you to die. Republicans not just with COVID. But what
Speaker 1: if you like clean air, If you like clean water.
Speaker 1: Guess what they're your end. If you want your kids
Speaker 1: to get lung cancer, then go vote Republic because that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Like that's we are literally guest now
Speaker 1: where all of these things are life and death situations now,
Speaker 1: and it's almost at the point of no return, which
Speaker 1: is depressing to think about, and I try not to
Speaker 1: because it's like, what the fuck does it matter then?
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, like if you know, we have
Speaker 1: seen through COVID the Republican Party and people like Iran
Speaker 1: that's santists and Greg Abbott are willing to have their people,
Speaker 1: their citizens die to advance a political goal. So I
Speaker 1: have no hope that the republic Party is gonna wake
Speaker 1: up one day and decide that our planets worth saving.
Speaker 1: They will continue being in the talk at a fossil
Speaker 1: fuel in old companies till the minute that this planet
Speaker 1: blows up, and they will sit there and say nothing
Speaker 1: to worry about. They're just alarmist, extremist liberals that are
Speaker 1: trying to scare you despite the fact that there's a
Speaker 1: tidal wave or a fire burning in your backyard. They
Speaker 1: don't care. And so we need to move past this
Speaker 1: idea that we can change their mind, that they were
Speaker 1: going to wake up and see the light, that things
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to go back to the way
Speaker 1: that they used to be when the Senate was truly
Speaker 1: a bipartisan entity. That's dead like that, like infrastructure is
Speaker 1: an aberition. It is a once in a two decade
Speaker 1: like achieve and again all credits about it. It's great
Speaker 1: that it's going to happen. Fantastic. I have no problem
Speaker 1: with that. It is one of the most sweeping progressive
Speaker 1: pieces of legislation that we'll probably ever see in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: Kudos to you. That is not the standard, though, that
Speaker 1: is the exception, not the rule. And if Democrats aren't careful,
Speaker 1: they're going to find themselves trapped by their own achievement here.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what McConnell's kind of doing. That's
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