1 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke f Daily with 2 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody right here recording from my 3 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: bunker on Long Island all week long for the next 4 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: two weeks. Woke f Daily is free when you subscribe 5 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: to pm mood wherever you get your podcasts, Spotify, iTunes, 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: Google Play, all the places. When you subscribe to pm mood, 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: you will get woke a f showing up in your 8 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: feed on a daily basis. Share it with your friends. 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: It is my stay safe as fuck quarantine special and 10 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: gift to all of you. We will get through this together. 11 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: It is April twenty first, and evidently, in about approximately 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: three days, the governor of Georgia has decided that he 13 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: is going to open up the state. And what does 14 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: the thief of a governor say that he is going 15 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: to open up? Here is the latest. According to The 16 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Daily Beast, Georgia Governor Bryan Camp announced that he is 17 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: going to open Get this, folks. Jim's hair salons, nail salons, barbershops, 18 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: and bowling alleys will be allowed to reopen in the 19 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: state on Friday, even as the number of coronavirus cases 20 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: continues to rise during an afternoon press conference, Kemp said 21 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: that the statewide shelter in place order will expire on 22 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: April thirtieth. However, he urged the medically fragile to continue 23 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: to hunker down until May thirteenth. The governor, who cited 24 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: the pandemic's heavy toll on the state's economy, said that 25 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: some restaurants, so movie theaters, can reopen on Monday as 26 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: long as they adhere to social distancing guidelines. Yep. So 27 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: this is how this is going to play out. And 28 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about these Republican governors because I can't 29 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: believe that we are living through this global pandemic, Like 30 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: I still some days find it difficult to wrap my 31 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: mind around what is currently happening. Like we are literally 32 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: living in the midst of the black fucking plague right, 33 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: Like it's very bizarre when you zero in on it, 34 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: the idea that you would find yourself in a time 35 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: where people discount facts and truth and science. I remember 36 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: being in history class right in elementary school in middle school, 37 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 1: when you're learning about different time periods in history, and 38 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, how uneducated must those people have been, 39 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: How stupid could they be to think that you know, 40 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: the church was they all be it and all knowing, 41 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: and that was it, right, Like there was nothing else 42 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: to the universe except for what came out of the 43 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: mouths of five men. Right. And you think about, you know, 44 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: the Earth being flat, and you think about voyages, and 45 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: you just you think about all of these different time periods, massacres, 46 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: you know, the Christian wars, like all of these things. 47 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: And what has always been interesting to me is the 48 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: psychology that's unfolding in the moment. What are these people thinking? 49 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: Right as Rome is burning, right as like armies are 50 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: marching in Like, what are you thinking? That's was always 51 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: the question that I had when I was in class 52 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: and I was reading about these histories and the political 53 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: climate and the economic climate. I always wondered what was 54 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: going through people's minds. Well, now, living in the midst 55 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: of our very own pandemic, we now know what is 56 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: going through some of these people's minds. Like the Brian 57 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: Kemps of the world, like the Rhn Descantises of the world, 58 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: like the Trumps of the world. They don't care, right, 59 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: in order to really understand the gravity for you to 60 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: believe that this moment is grave, right, that it is 61 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: heavy would mean that you have and are connected to 62 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: some level of compassion and empathy for other people, even 63 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: if you yourself are not ill. Right, you have to 64 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: have the ability. Right, this moment is calling for to 65 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: have compassion empathy right for other people. Well, what I 66 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: have long said is I don't believe that Republicans, conservatives, 67 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: right wingers have that section. You know, there have been 68 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: studies that have been done on people on the right 69 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: and people on the left and the different you know, 70 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: brain compositions and layers. You have to understand connectivity. You 71 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: have to have a systemic, systematic, systemic way of thinking, right, 72 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: so you understand the layers and the navigations of different 73 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: systems and how they build on one another. Right, you 74 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: have to understand interconnectivity. If you're framing is solely isolationism, right, 75 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: if you if you don't value other people and you 76 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: believe in the concept that there isn't enough for everyone, 77 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: if you have a scarcity mindset, this virus and the 78 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: way that it maneuvers and acts is really hard to 79 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: comprehend because you're so incredibly narrow right in your understanding 80 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: of just the world you care about. What is happening 81 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: on your front step in your house. It's very small. 82 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: Maybe you care about what's happening on your black in 83 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: your community, just within your race or your religion. Right, 84 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: what I it's it's it goes to the core difference 85 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: in our chemical makeup. How this is all breaking down 86 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: along ideological lines. On the left, freedom is about equity, Right, 87 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: it's about a sense of justice. It's about the fundamental 88 00:07:54,280 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: way of being and allowed to realize your potential signs 89 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: obstacles right, purposeful ones that you're just able to exist 90 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: without harassment, without persecution. That is our understanding of freedom. 91 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: For these very right wing white evangelical racists, their understanding 92 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: of freedom is the ability to encroach on others. Their 93 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: idea of freedom is really about dominance. It isn't about liberty. 94 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: And it's funny to me when you see all of 95 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: these signs at these rallies that say, oh my god, 96 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: it was so ironic, my body, my choice, with a 97 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: picture of a mask and an X through it. What 98 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: And and then you see these signs about liberty, right, 99 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 1: justice prevails, And I understand, or I'm able to see 100 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: into their idiocy because fundamentally, their belief in freedom is 101 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: their ability to place their perspective, ideas, philosophies on other people. 102 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: That's what liberty means to them, right, that they are 103 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: dominant and they get to dominate others. And so when 104 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: you understand that that's where this comes from, you're like, oh, 105 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: I get at it. So anyone, even if it's for 106 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: your safety, the health of you and your family and 107 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: your loved ones, right, anyone telling you, dear white person, 108 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: what to do, encroaches on what you believe to be 109 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: the fundamental order of things. We don't tell each other 110 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: what to do. We tell those people over there what 111 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: to do. Right, There's always been this synchrony, what is 112 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: it synchronizing, right between what white people wanted and demanded 113 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: and what government was always going to provide them. And 114 00:10:49,240 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: right now government is misaligned. Right, and so now without 115 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: the guidance of government to just sweep in because Trump 116 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: doesn't fundamentally have that power. This is what he learned 117 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: just recently. Because the man never read the constitution when 118 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: he said that he's going to reopen the country. Well, 119 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: you don't have that right because the country is connected 120 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: with fifty states with fifty different governors, and states have 121 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: rights okay, and so in learning this, those white people 122 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: that follow him, now we're like, wait a minute, I 123 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: thought that we could do whatever we want it. That's 124 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: Trump's America, right, we get to dominate, we get to 125 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: own the Libs. What do you mean You're not going 126 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: to come in right and fix everything in our favor? 127 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: And it's so it's so mind boggling, right, Like when 128 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: you come to understand that we have been spending so 129 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: much time trying to communicate reality when we have a 130 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: very fundamental, fundamentally different view of the world, right Like, 131 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: it's it's you understand why compromise at this particular juncture 132 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: is just never going to work, right because compromise to 133 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: them means that they are losing something rather than gaining something. 134 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: So if they feel like they're losing something, then they're 135 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: going to ensure that you lose something as well. So 136 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: the American people just lose all together. The only way 137 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: that we're going to rebalance ourselves and let alone, rebalance 138 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: the earth at this moment, but first you must start 139 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: with yourself self being the country in this moment. You 140 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: democrats progressives need to take back both the White House 141 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: and the Senate. It's the only way we're rebalancing after Trump, 142 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: Republicans can have zero power. Zero. They have to be 143 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: brought down to their studs at this point, right, the 144 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: studs of a house. They need to be knocked down. 145 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: And the only way we are going to write this 146 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: system is if Democrats have complete and total control. And 147 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about in the next election. I'm 148 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: talking about in the next ten elections. It is going 149 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: to be the only way to fix anything. And try 150 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: our best not to erase the Trump administration, no, because 151 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: that needs to survive as a as a tale. Right, 152 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: we need to be reminded of what happens when you 153 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: become too bifurcated, when you create and so distrust and dishonesty, 154 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: when you allow criminality to run wild. We will need 155 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: to be reminded by that nightmare, that tale, which at 156 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: some point, you know, over the many many decades will 157 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: be like me in learning about the Black Plague and 158 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: being like, how could those people have been so dumb 159 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: and careless and reckless? And do you know what somebody 160 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: will say about this moment in our history, They just 161 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: didn't know any better, But in fact we did, we 162 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: did no better. We just chose not to do better right, 163 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: because fundamentally freedom means different things between entitled, right wing 164 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: conservative white people and everyone else, and because they have 165 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: been in positions to wield immense power in every industry 166 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: across this nation and around the globe. We arrive at 167 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: this point, at this point of questioning whether or not 168 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: we are living in the midst of the end and 169 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: we just don't know it. So how do we stop 170 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: the end from happening? Politically right, which means societally right. 171 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: Struggling with my pronunciations today, but fundamentally, there needs to 172 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: be a new and introduction, a reintroduction of core values, 173 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: values that we hold dear after coming out of and 174 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: whenever it happens of a pandemic. What did we learn? Right? 175 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: Did we learn that we cannot abuse the planet? Right? 176 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: Did we learn that we are all connected so that 177 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: when one of us fails, we all fail. When one 178 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: of us falls sick, we're all going to get sick. 179 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: So what kind of healthcare system, economic system, health and 180 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: safety systems do we need to put in place so 181 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: that we stay safe? What did we learn we learned 182 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: about our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, and how systemic injustice plays 183 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: into all of this. Right, that's why black people are 184 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: dying in mass Right. What kinds of economic opportunities have 185 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: them in these very essential positions, right, but very low paying, 186 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: no real healthcare, and some of them janitors, right, nursing homeworkers. 187 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: We have to grow from this moment. We have to grow, 188 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: and the only way to do that is to identify 189 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: where the faults were, where the cracks were. And the 190 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: Republicans are never going to do that because what they 191 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: do when they see a crack, right, is they stick 192 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: their foot in it and try and turn it into 193 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: a chasm, because as long as they are on top, 194 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: they don't care what the bottom looks or feels like, 195 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: and they will always continue to write rules and break 196 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: those rules or amend those rules to serve themselves. And 197 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: so only when they are out of power completely for 198 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: a significant period of time are we going to be 199 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: able to rewrite the rules. You know. One of the 200 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: conversations that is going around, you know, keeps coming up 201 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: and every single one of Governor Cuomo's press conferences as 202 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: of a late is the new normal or wanting to 203 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: go back to normal? And the question that we need 204 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: to be asking ourselves. Is what is it about before 205 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: that you actually want to go back to, right, Because before, 206 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: we have a healthcare system that only works for the 207 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 1: wealthiest of people. We have a healthcare system at the 208 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: sign of trouble can actually just bust because it's a 209 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: for profit entity. Right, we have an environment that we've 210 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: been destroying, right, bringing wildlife and humans closer together, which 211 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: creates more disease. Scientists have been warning us about what 212 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: climate change will cause, and it will cause more disease. 213 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: So do we want to go back to that before 214 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: where we are so haphazard and careless and install elected 215 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: officials who don't believe in science. I don't know where 216 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: everyone thinks they're going. You fuck Earth up? Right, Where 217 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: are you going? What with the small crew of one 218 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: percenters that have nothing better to do than build rocket 219 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: ships and see if they can start, you know, another 220 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: land of inequity on Mars, on another planet. It'll be 221 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: literally a million years before then, So we may want 222 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: to pay attention to what we're doing down here. So 223 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: when we think about going back to normal, there are 224 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: so many things that we shouldn't want to go back 225 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: to the people that are dying on the front lines 226 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: are the ones that many folks have voted against to 227 00:21:53,840 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: have a fucking living wage. That story about the young 228 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: grocery store clerk twenty eight years old Leilani, who I 229 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: told you about a couple of weeks ago, died, died 230 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: of the coronavirus. Her mother received her check from Giant 231 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: Foods and it was for twenty dollars and sixty four cents. 232 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: She died for twenty dollars and sixty four cents. So 233 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: is that what we want to go back to, or 234 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: do we realize who is really essential and needs a 235 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: livable wage, needs healthcare? Why? Because they are existing right now. 236 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: They are doing the work right now so that we 237 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: can still eat and be well and stay the fuck 238 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: at home. They are going to work so that you 239 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 1: can stay home. So you think that next time around 240 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: you could vote for the fifteen dollars an hour, maybe 241 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: vote for their protection. I just feel like this is 242 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: the convergence of what happens when greed and ignorance and 243 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: blind stupidity meet. It's like we've all just been existing 244 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: and acting like everything was okay. That you can continue 245 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: to consume at the rate in which we've been consuming. 246 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: You can continue to, you know, do as much harm 247 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: and pollute as much as you can and just game game, 248 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: game game gain, and that nothing was ever going to give, 249 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: so you have to the next time around. Right isn't 250 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: shouldn't be about going backwards. It shouldn't be about the 251 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: nostalgia of what was. It should be about what we 252 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: have the opportunity to create, to redo. And again, this 253 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: is a fundamental difference between the left and the right. 254 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: They want to expose vulnerabilities, they want to profit off 255 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: of pain, that's what they want to do. On the right, 256 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: they want to deregulate. Who the fuck cares if while 257 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: they're fracking all of a sudden gas is entering your 258 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 1: water systems and your homes thens and what have you. 259 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: Who cares? As long as they're making money, Right, they'll 260 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: write you a check maybe maybe, and maybe it'll cover 261 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: your healthcare, but probably not. Maybe it'll color your funeral though, 262 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: But they don't care right about the ramifications of their actions. 263 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: So after, whenever there is an after the global pandemic, 264 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: do you want to give them the keys back? Should 265 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: they even still be holding the keys to anything? How 266 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: many people do you think will have died? Hm? How 267 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: many names, How many lives will they have on their 268 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: heads that they're inaction caused. So no, I don't want 269 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: to go back to normal. I want to be a 270 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: part of creating a new normal. I want to be 271 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: a part of building something that is different, that is expansive. 272 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: I want to build something for the most vulnerable among us, 273 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: knowing that if they do well, then we all do well. 274 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: Because there really is right. Like trees life, it grows 275 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: from the ground up, not the top down. The same 276 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: is true with society. So if we have the ability 277 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: to create something anew, this is what we should be 278 00:26:48,920 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: looking towards, because it would be insane not to. We 279 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: would just be putting ourselves back in the hamsters wheel 280 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: and spinning it again and waiting for the next time 281 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: it stops or it breaks or falls off the tracks, 282 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: instead of creating something bigger and better where everyone and 283 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: everything can thrive and actually get somewhere. That's what I 284 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: wish that Democrats would sell to the American people. And 285 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 1: I always wonder about why does it take so much 286 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: to get the message out? Why can't you just say 287 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: we care? They don't look what they have done, and 288 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: everyone who says now is not the time. Now is 289 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: the exact fucking time when you're in the middle of disaster. Yeah, 290 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: it's helpful to fucking recognize that you're in the middle 291 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: of a disaster so that you can figure out how 292 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: to get the fuck out of it. But if you 293 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: don't acknowledge what you're in, how do you build a 294 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: bridge out of it? I'm always so confused by that notion. 295 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 1: You should be looking at it how it began, so 296 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: that you can try and figure out how to stop it. 297 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: This wasn't an accident, and it wasn't an act of 298 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: fucking god. It was malpractice on behalf of the Trump 299 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: administration and a dereliction of duty and responsibility to the 300 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: American people to keep them safe. That's what this was. 301 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: And if you don't say so right and differentiate yourself 302 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: from the other guy, then what you're doing is condoning 303 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: the both sidesism because you think that their behavior is 304 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: absolutely normal, so you're not going to comment on it. 305 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: It's not fucking normal. We're in the middle of a 306 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: global pandemic that was exasperated by an aptitude we literally 307 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: right now over this past fucking weekend. Yesterday, people were 308 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: marching on their state capital against a fucking virus. Folks, 309 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: we gotta work. You can't force us to stay home, 310 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: then don't come to the hospital when you're fucking ill. 311 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: We'll leave that for somebody who doesn't believe in some 312 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: backwards idea of freedom. You don't get the freedom to 313 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: harm other people. If your actions right negatively impact those 314 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: around you, it is not okay. That is not what 315 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: liberty looks like. And what I have been saying is 316 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: that these motherfuckers should be arrested. Why aren't they being arrested? 317 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: You know what, folks, I tell you that you know, 318 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: during one of the heights you know of the Black 319 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement, there were laws that state officials were 320 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: putting on the books to damn near make it a 321 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: federal crime to protest right that it was gonna if 322 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: you shut down a highway or shut down a street, 323 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: right to protest your right to fucking exist as a 324 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: human being and not be undown in your own car, 325 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: in your own fucking home, walking down the street, no weapon, 326 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: no nothing, just minding your own black ass business. And 327 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: you are protesting that that it's turned into a criminal 328 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: act by state and local officials. But these angry white folks. Boy, 329 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: they get up on the state capitols with their fucking 330 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: signs talking about freedom having somebody have the audacity to 331 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: liken it to Rosa Parks, Are you kidding me? And 332 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: nothing happens to them? Why white people rage against the 333 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: machine right on a regular basis with their fucking ar 334 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: fifteens and their fatigue were right and their tiki torches 335 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: because they got a dressed apart and nothing happens to them, 336 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: police just arms folded, watch their friends go by. And 337 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: you want to tell me that times have changed, You 338 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: want to tell me that we are in living in 339 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: better times? And I said, really, what's the difference the 340 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: outfits right, the haircuts, because it's the same ideology, their 341 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: idea during the height of Jim Crow, during slavery, right 342 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: from when the quote unquote Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. 343 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: The idea has always been about oppression, right, never about sharing, 344 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: never about community, never about others, always us and them, 345 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: And so understanding that recognizing those hard truths would be 346 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: to understand that they can't be in power, they can't 347 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: be in charge because their understanding of the world is 348 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: actually dangerous, and we don't talk about it like that. 349 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: Democrats don't talk about the threat and the danger. You 350 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: only hear that those terms ever used on the right, 351 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: But literally their actions are costing American lives. So when 352 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: are we going to start to have conversations about that 353 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: hard truth? When will we own it? I don't think 354 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: that pretending anybody pretending any more excuse me helps anybody, 355 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: you know, Like, think about all of the facets of 356 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: life that need to be re imagined. School needs to 357 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: be reimagined. How we teach, how kids connect with their 358 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 1: with their teachers and their classmates, How what we utilize 359 00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: school buildings for, how we educate in a way that 360 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: can be self guided. So what are the core values 361 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: that we need to put in place in order for 362 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,839 Speaker 1: those to happen, in order for that to happen, in 363 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: order for kids to still thrive when not locked inside 364 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: of a building. How do we redo education? How do 365 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: we reimagine our country, our world? In order to create 366 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: a new normal. We have to examine what went haywire 367 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: and what no longer serves us. And so it is 368 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: goes against moves against our ability to evolve as people. 369 00:35:53,400 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 1: If there is no self examination, if we thought about 370 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: things deeply, Right, we would as a country, not just 371 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: the one percent, but as a country, we would think 372 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,800 Speaker 1: about China more. We would think about the tax breaks 373 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: that are given to companies to go and build their 374 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 1: products in China. Why. Oh, I don't know, because we 375 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: don't know how to build anything here anymore. And in 376 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: the midst of a panic, right, all of our factories 377 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: now happened to be in the place that was ground 378 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: zero for the virus, which then shut down production and 379 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: limited the influx of product. Right, How what do you 380 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: think is happening on our grocery store shelves? Everything comes 381 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: from someplace else, but you mindlessly walk through the grocery 382 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: aisles and any time of fucking year can get an 383 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: avocado or an orange, or a strawberry or an asparagus, right, 384 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,759 Speaker 1: or a cum quad or a papaya, coconuts any time 385 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:27,879 Speaker 1: of year and you don't have to think about where 386 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 1: it's coming from, who has to pick it, what processes it, 387 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: what processes it goes through? Nothing, It just arrives. Now 388 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,479 Speaker 1: we think about the chain of operation, we think about 389 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: the system. Why, because now it's all been halted and 390 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: you're a life and my life and our lives are 391 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:58,799 Speaker 1: all disrupted. And what this disruption has allowed us to 392 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 1: see is just how connected everything is, and also the 393 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: vulnerabilities of not having factories here in an aggressive way 394 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:18,399 Speaker 1: that can turn out the needs of the people. Right 395 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:25,319 Speaker 1: of having having been subsidizing farms to grow a bunch 396 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: of like one kind of thring corn, right, grow these 397 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: certain things for certain places that are now all shut down, 398 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 1: and now there's not enough people to pick them, and 399 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:44,279 Speaker 1: not enough people even know how, because that was one 400 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:53,319 Speaker 1: vulnerable population that is largely in detention centers and are 401 00:38:53,360 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 1: also in many ways incarcerated in this country. So that 402 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:08,879 Speaker 1: line of production we need to rethink and reimagine America. 403 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: And you can only really do that by doing a hard, 404 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: long autopsy and examining the results. But you can't do 405 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:33,720 Speaker 1: that with a party that doesn't think right, that doesn't question, 406 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,720 Speaker 1: And that's what I mean by thinking that doesn't question. 407 00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: They're only why is connected to money, not people? And 408 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: so in order not to walk down this same path 409 00:39:54,320 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: in another ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty hundred years from now, 410 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: there needs to be a serious autopsy. You know, there's 411 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: a picture that's going around on social media. I don't 412 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 1: know if it's real or not or what have you, 413 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: but it's a picture apparently of an account of nineteen 414 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:30,960 Speaker 1: eighteen influenza, and it was a picture of when it 415 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: was announced that like the pandemic was over, and all 416 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: of these people rushed into the streets and celebrated with 417 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:54,359 Speaker 1: a parade, you know, a whole activity. And then it 418 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 1: was said in this meme that goes around, when the 419 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 1: Great War finally ended in late November, people took to 420 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: the streets to celebrate their good fortune. In the coming weeks, however, 421 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,759 Speaker 1: the second wave of the pandemic killed more people than 422 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: the war. It's not a game. That's what I fear 423 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: is going to happen in Georgia. That's what I fear 424 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:37,120 Speaker 1: is going to happen in these Republican run states, is 425 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: that to serve their master, which is greed embodied by Trump, 426 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 1: which is power embodied by Trump. To serve their master 427 00:41:51,800 --> 00:42:01,719 Speaker 1: of greed and power, they are going to run this 428 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: country head first into a second wave before the first 429 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: has even completed. And I think in the coming weeks 430 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 1: we will see the states around those problematic states like Georgia, Florida, Texas, 431 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,280 Speaker 1: you will see the neighboring states shut down, shut their borders. 432 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,560 Speaker 1: Who was having this conversation at dinner with my family, 433 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: and I said, there's no way that it can really happen, right, 434 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,440 Speaker 1: because people work across the borders, this, then, and the 435 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:56,360 Speaker 1: other thing. But in order to keep other residents safe, 436 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:02,759 Speaker 1: I feel like governors, democratic governors whose states happen to 437 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:08,080 Speaker 1: border right with others, and those that can come in. 438 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 1: Obviously we can all we're all free to fly around, 439 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 1: but that there will be some serious restrictions coming down 440 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,320 Speaker 1: like nothing we've ever seen. And again, we've made jokes 441 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,320 Speaker 1: about the undivided States of America. That was the joke 442 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: following Trump's inauguration. But in a moment where we no 443 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 1: longer have uniformed decision making and we're not functioning as 444 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 1: one country, we're going to create fifty different sets of 445 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:50,920 Speaker 1: rules where you will have freedom of travel Blue states 446 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:57,160 Speaker 1: within Blue states, Red states within red states, and otherwise 447 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,720 Speaker 1: creating this breakdown and it won't just be the North 448 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:09,680 Speaker 1: and the South this time around. Right. That is scary 449 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 1: to me. That is scary, and I am fearful for 450 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,279 Speaker 1: the people in Georgia. I have friends that live there 451 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 1: what happens when all business is open is that then 452 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,440 Speaker 1: they expect all of their people to come back to work. 453 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: And if you've been desperate over these past several weeks, 454 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: you're going to do what you have to do in 455 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,920 Speaker 1: order to get back your job or hold onto your 456 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: job when your offices say we're open, so you got 457 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,480 Speaker 1: to come in and no, we're not going to provide 458 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,279 Speaker 1: you with masts and gloves and sanitizers, and we're not 459 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:56,200 Speaker 1: going to operate by any policy social distancing guidelines. That 460 00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,160 Speaker 1: doesn't become a choice. You're asking people to choose between 461 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:08,440 Speaker 1: their right and their economic wellbeing. You won't have an 462 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,719 Speaker 1: economic wellbeing if you do not have your health right. 463 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: But that's the situation that is unfolding right now, Georgia 464 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:30,200 Speaker 1: being the first test dummy of this Republican notion of invincibility. 465 00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:37,120 Speaker 1: I guess invincibleness is what these right wing white evangelicals have. 466 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 1: Somehow Trumpism has provided them with some type of cloak 467 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,919 Speaker 1: that makes them believe that they are immune to this. 468 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:58,600 Speaker 1: And so I am fearful to see what happens in 469 00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:07,719 Speaker 1: Florida and george Ja and these other states. You know, 470 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,760 Speaker 1: it's the tweets have been crazy, and every single doctor 471 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 1: except for doctor Oz, has said that this is a 472 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:34,480 Speaker 1: terrible idea. But it looks like we're gonna look and 473 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:39,040 Speaker 1: see and I just can't imagine. And I tell you 474 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,239 Speaker 1: and I say this all the time for New York 475 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,840 Speaker 1: being a hot spot, right, and it is. It is 476 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:52,120 Speaker 1: the epicenter of the coronavirus in the country. But we 477 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:58,320 Speaker 1: are doing more testing than any other state and most nations. 478 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,120 Speaker 1: We have a competent leader who is put together a 479 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:10,640 Speaker 1: nimble plan of operation and is working in cooperation with 480 00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:21,440 Speaker 1: others researchers, statisticians, scientists, doctors, politicians, business leaders to figure 481 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:26,360 Speaker 1: out how to continue to flatten the curve and begin 482 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:33,080 Speaker 1: to slowly reopen because he doesn't want to have to 483 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:37,040 Speaker 1: sit back down at that briefing table after saying, hey, folks, 484 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 1: everything's okay, go back out into the open, and then 485 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:49,160 Speaker 1: half the population falls dead. I don't know why that's 486 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 1: considered fascism on the right. It just doesn't make any sense. 487 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,480 Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. But that's where 488 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:07,759 Speaker 1: we are. We are at war with the truth and 489 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:14,800 Speaker 1: this is what it looks like, and it's it's scary 490 00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:28,479 Speaker 1: it's scary that people are protesting against the truth. And 491 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,720 Speaker 1: doctor Fauci so once again said, right, the top government 492 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 1: official on infectious diseases warned that protest that the President 493 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:47,120 Speaker 1: himself is encouraging. When he tweets out Liberate Michigan, Liberate Ohio, 494 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:54,680 Speaker 1: Liberate New York, Fauci says it'll backfire and further delay 495 00:48:54,719 --> 00:49:02,000 Speaker 1: the reopening of the economy. He said on Good Morning America. 496 00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,200 Speaker 1: Clearly this is something that is hurting from the standpoint 497 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:09,600 Speaker 1: of economics and the standpoint of things that have nothing 498 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,080 Speaker 1: to do with the virus. But unless we get the 499 00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 1: virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going 500 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:26,839 Speaker 1: to happen. So what do what do you do? If 501 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,280 Speaker 1: you jump the gun and go into a situation where 502 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,800 Speaker 1: you have a big spike, you're going to set yourself back, 503 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: he said. So, as painful as it is to go 504 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,120 Speaker 1: by the careful guidelines of gradually phasing into a reopening, 505 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:49,600 Speaker 1: it's going to backfire. That's the problem. And he says 506 00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:54,680 Speaker 1: that on Good Morning America and then his boss tweets 507 00:49:54,680 --> 00:50:01,319 Speaker 1: out damn near the fucking opposite. Right, Donald Trump did 508 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:06,680 Speaker 1: not create this moment, but he did make it incredibly 509 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:11,839 Speaker 1: fucking worse when it didn't have to be. He did 510 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:17,920 Speaker 1: fuel his base into protesting the government, which he is 511 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,279 Speaker 1: fucking leading. But that's the bananas world of America that 512 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:27,000 Speaker 1: we are living in right now, the Banana Republic of America. 513 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:32,719 Speaker 1: That's where we are, and it's wild, wildly unsettling on 514 00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:42,600 Speaker 1: a regular basis. But that's why I say they can't 515 00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:51,239 Speaker 1: lead and Democrats need to tell the truth. Right. I 516 00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:57,320 Speaker 1: believe that the actions that the governor Newsome's and Cuomos 517 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,760 Speaker 1: of the world are going to work to our betterment. 518 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:05,160 Speaker 1: That's why I feel safe in New York. I wouldn't 519 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,520 Speaker 1: want to go to any place else other than California 520 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,960 Speaker 1: right now, because I don't think that the rest of 521 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,359 Speaker 1: the governors that are operating that our Republican governors are 522 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:23,360 Speaker 1: caring about the state of public health. I think that 523 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:29,360 Speaker 1: they care about pleasing the president. I think they care 524 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 1: about putting money in their pockets, and I think that 525 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,200 Speaker 1: they will do anything to quote unquote own the Libs, 526 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,200 Speaker 1: even if it means cutting off their nose to spite 527 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:52,480 Speaker 1: their face, even though it means that thousands of them 528 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,040 Speaker 1: may die. That's the risk that they're willing to take. 529 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,960 Speaker 1: There was a man that was on camera and he said, 530 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,120 Speaker 1: you know, I just don't believe things are as in 531 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,840 Speaker 1: my opinion, in my you know opinion, I don't believe 532 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,200 Speaker 1: things are as bad as they as they say they are. 533 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,120 Speaker 1: What I wanted the reporter to then say after the 534 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:21,880 Speaker 1: man's declaration, was so, are you a doctor? Are you 535 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:27,840 Speaker 1: an epedemologist? Do you study viruses? Do you know anything 536 00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:32,520 Speaker 1: about science? Are you a scientist? Are you a researcher? 537 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,960 Speaker 1: Oh no, you're none of those things. So why the 538 00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:42,440 Speaker 1: fuck do I care about your opinion? Hmm? This is 539 00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:49,080 Speaker 1: what I don't get with the media in this moment. 540 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,759 Speaker 1: It's like they have some flashes of like, you know, 541 00:52:54,040 --> 00:53:00,360 Speaker 1: common sense, like CNN not covering all of these presidential 542 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:05,560 Speaker 1: rallies right because they're sure it's fuck not briefings, but 543 00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,440 Speaker 1: other networks carrying it. It's like they go out and 544 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,239 Speaker 1: they interview these people, these dumb fucking people standing on 545 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,960 Speaker 1: the steps of the capitol right saying that they want 546 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,759 Speaker 1: they want the state to reopen, and they're rabid and screaming. 547 00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:28,279 Speaker 1: Ask them the logical questions, are you a doctor? What 548 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:35,360 Speaker 1: is your education level? M why does your opinion matter 549 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,960 Speaker 1: at all? And why is it better than those of 550 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,000 Speaker 1: people who have gone to school for decades to prepare 551 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:49,799 Speaker 1: for this very moment, Like, what are you going to 552 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:54,680 Speaker 1: do when you fall ill and your kids fall ill, 553 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,319 Speaker 1: and the teacher falls ill, and your house is on 554 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:05,560 Speaker 1: fire but you know the firefighters have fallen ill? What 555 00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,240 Speaker 1: are you going to do? What difference? Is your fucking 556 00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,360 Speaker 1: opinion matter? Then it doesn't? And so I wish that 557 00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:19,680 Speaker 1: instead of showcasing these quote unquote protests and these stupid 558 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,400 Speaker 1: fucking rallies that are just feeding in to the psychoses 559 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,359 Speaker 1: right of Trumpism, that we would just stop it. This 560 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,960 Speaker 1: is also part of the spread of the virus, and 561 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,640 Speaker 1: I wish that we would have some analysis about that. 562 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:45,680 Speaker 1: Don't put this shit, don't air that shit, don't continue 563 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:53,160 Speaker 1: to feed Trumpism, starve it, stop it dead in its tracks. 564 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,440 Speaker 1: Do you know how you do that? Turn the fucking 565 00:54:55,480 --> 00:55:00,600 Speaker 1: cameras off, because like a gremlin, it feeds it's on light. 566 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 1: I just get so absolutely frustrated that these people get 567 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:18,160 Speaker 1: to look like protesters when really they're anarchists. They're terrorists, right. 568 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,040 Speaker 1: They don't care about others, and they don't care about 569 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:27,560 Speaker 1: the rule of law. Real activists and protesters on the left, 570 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,480 Speaker 1: they want the law to be applicable to everyone and 571 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,480 Speaker 1: to work for everyone, not just for a select few. 572 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,040 Speaker 1: And it's this fundamental that I just will keep coming 573 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,680 Speaker 1: back to it, this fundamental difference which shows me that 574 00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,480 Speaker 1: they are unable to govern and should never control the 575 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,280 Speaker 1: levers of power, because when they do, all chaos breaks loose, 576 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:09,799 Speaker 1: dysfunction runs rampant. We can and must do better, and 577 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't begin with going back to normal, And that's 578 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,840 Speaker 1: the fundamental problem. It was the same as Trump's mantra, 579 00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:24,319 Speaker 1: make America great again. America has never been great. It's 580 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:28,160 Speaker 1: only been great for select people at select times in history, 581 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,799 Speaker 1: but not for everyone, and damn sure not all of 582 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:40,040 Speaker 1: the time. So there is no again, Right, there is 583 00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,040 Speaker 1: the actions that you take in the present to create 584 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:49,160 Speaker 1: a better future by the learnings from the past. That's it. 585 00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:59,919 Speaker 1: And when we understand that we can actually do better 586 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:08,080 Speaker 1: and be better and seek better, but not before that, 587 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:14,480 Speaker 1: and there will be no after. We have decisions to make, folks, 588 00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:21,600 Speaker 1: like real decisions on top of everything else. We have 589 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:26,040 Speaker 1: to understand that politics is connected to all of this. Right, 590 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,520 Speaker 1: it's the point, it's the weaving that I've been trying 591 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:35,760 Speaker 1: to do for this show. There's no escaping it, right, 592 00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,880 Speaker 1: there's no burying our heads in the sand, because this 593 00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,720 Speaker 1: is what happens when people bury their heads in the sand. 594 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:50,160 Speaker 1: Fucking disaster. The Trump administration was warned they had more 595 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:55,440 Speaker 1: than enough time to use the learnings from the Obama 596 00:57:55,480 --> 00:58:01,600 Speaker 1: administration to inform the present moment to create a better 597 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:07,000 Speaker 1: future for all of us, and they didn't. They didn't, 598 00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:17,360 Speaker 1: and they still aren't. And the willful ignorance of Trumpism 599 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:25,160 Speaker 1: is I believe, worse than the coronavirus because it's helping 600 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:34,320 Speaker 1: fuel it and doing nothing to stop it. Nothing, nothing 601 00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:41,160 Speaker 1: at all. And so we have a decision to make. 602 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:48,000 Speaker 1: We can learn from this time right, the time of solitude, 603 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,120 Speaker 1: that if you are privileged enough to be working right now, 604 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,680 Speaker 1: and that is a privilege, since twenty two million people 605 00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:58,880 Speaker 1: are not and that number is growing. So if you 606 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,360 Speaker 1: are privileged enough to be working from home right now, 607 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:11,200 Speaker 1: then use this time to also educate yourself and spread 608 00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:17,840 Speaker 1: the word with others. Right, we can choose to be 609 00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,040 Speaker 1: more connected now, We can choose to use this time 610 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:25,240 Speaker 1: to educate ourselves a bit more so that we don't 611 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:32,560 Speaker 1: repeat history. 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