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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke a f daily.

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, April fourteenth, and we are in New York.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, is it officially we've been on

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Speaker 1: lockdown for a month. I'm pretty sure that it has been.

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Speaker 1: I believe that schools closed in New York officially on March. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on March thirteenth, that Friday, I think was the last

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Speaker 1: here we are one month later that we have been

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Speaker 1: in lockdown. There are no signs, folks, that schools are

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Speaker 1: going to be reopening. I know that there was a

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Speaker 1: conversation between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, but

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Speaker 1: let's just be clear. They hate each other. So anything

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Speaker 1: that they can do despite one another, they will. Schools

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Speaker 1: their minds around that. I feel for my friends who

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Speaker 1: not easy. It's not easy at all. And you know,

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Speaker 1: what I think is really troubling, right is that you're

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Speaker 1: hoping that your kids won't be damaged by this, that

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Speaker 1: they all be okay, that you can have social distance

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Speaker 1: play dates, that you can talk to them about this,

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Speaker 1: that in a way calms them. But in reality, none

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Speaker 1: of us are calm. All of our lives have been

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Speaker 1: on pause. As New York says, we've been on pause

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Speaker 1: for a month with no signs really of how we're

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Speaker 1: going to open. Oh, we except one sign. And this

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Speaker 1: is really fascinating to me. And by fascinating, I mean funny.

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Speaker 1: So it is because you know, every day I giggle,

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Speaker 1: but every day it becomes clearer and clearer to me

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is the president of no one. He's

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Speaker 1: the president of the one percent. He's the president of

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Speaker 1: the Red States, you know, but he is not, in fact,

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Speaker 1: And I think that what is really funny is that

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Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom in California on the West coast,

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Speaker 1: governors are finding their way to coordinate with one another

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Speaker 1: to build teams together to probably work together in a

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Speaker 1: way that they've really never had to because all of

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Speaker 1: the coordination comes from the top, comes from the president. Right.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the hierarchy, it is the president

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Speaker 1: of the United States, right, And then you know you

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Speaker 1: have these states that are led by different governors. And

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Speaker 1: from that vacuum, stars are born. We are watching that

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Speaker 1: the Tristate area in the northeast. I made a joke

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Speaker 1: you know where the New York numbers are, how many

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Speaker 1: unfortunate souls we have lost? Where, how we're flattening the curve,

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Speaker 1: and now the question about how and when we reopen, right,

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Speaker 1: because we believe that here in New York we have stabilized,

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Speaker 1: but at a very horrific rate. Right, we are flattening

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Speaker 1: a curve that reached an epic height. You're talking about

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Speaker 1: I guess it's called um, the Council to Reopen. Officials

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Speaker 1: their own legal issues and failures. People when they saw

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Speaker 1: from the Onion. All it is is a group of

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Speaker 1: people who are greedy, who are cutthroat, who are all

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Speaker 1: And so it's incredible to me that when you're looking

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump didn't close a fucking thing. Donald Trump did

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Speaker 1: not issue a national shutdown. He did not issue a

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Speaker 1: is not Donald Trump's fault. You are listening to this

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Speaker 1: Because this group right here, they only give a fuck

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Speaker 1: this global health pandemic that we are in through one

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Speaker 1: not the fact that every day governors across this country

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Speaker 1: way that you can get a flu shot, in the

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Speaker 1: way that you can get a malarias shot. If you're

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Speaker 1: but I'm talking about two years from now, and that's

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Speaker 1: send everyone back to work, but we're not opening up schools.

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Speaker 1: Where the fuck are the kids gonna go. Who's going

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Speaker 1: those that are non essential. You can begin operating your

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Speaker 1: MSNBC going to like get at our level and stop

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Speaker 1: airing him live? All well they're doing at this point

431
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: is airing a live Trump Trump rally. Yep, that's spreading

432
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: disinformation about the virus and now about the therapeutics, like

433
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: there's no actual reason to air this lying idiot con

434
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: Man live. You can do it on tape delay. You

435
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: can do it on tape delay with fact checkers. You

436
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: can bleeze out when he is being racist or bigoted

437
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: or orchestra up flying Like why are they why do

438
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: they inssist on airing Trump rallies live under the guise

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00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: of medical advice. I mean, well, because we can be

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00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: very clear about the fact that you know, there are

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00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: interesting powers that be at networks, and we can understand

442
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: that their political ideology does not align and that they

443
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: still believe that Trump is good for their ratings, and

444
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: so they'll continue to do it even if that means

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00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: that now they are helping to spread lives that put

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00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: the public's health at risk. So until there is somebody

447
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: that is successfully sued, like which is what is happening

448
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: by organization in Washington State suing Fox News for their

449
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: coronavirus coverage, until that actually lands and some network is

450
00:33:54,320 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: find I don't see them stopping. Yeah, right, It's just

451
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: there was there was a better way to handle the cover.

452
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: And this goes back to the general like Trump administration

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00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: problems um throughout the media, Like there was a different

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00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: way to cover President Trump than all the networks decided

455
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: to cover him and their their decision on how to

456
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: cover him since he came down that stupid escalator in

457
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, their decisions have been complicit in his reign

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Speaker 1: and reign of terror over this country, and there's been

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00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: no accounting for it. There's been You know, there are

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00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: people in the media, you and I, Jeff Jarvis. I mean,

461
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: there are people who John Marshall at TP like, there

462
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: are people who care. There're people who understand what they're

463
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: doing and what they're doing is wrong. But those people

464
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: are not writing the checks right, They're not They're they're

465
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: not in they're not seeing um in the room, in

466
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: the in the corner suite making the decisions. Those people

467
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: who make those decisions, they're making their ratings, they're making

468
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: their ad dollars, and they're not they're not focusing on

469
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: how they should be doing things different to help the

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Speaker 1: country stop this dangerous person. You know, And I think that,

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Speaker 1: and I honestly I think that you would have to

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00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: really believe that Trump is a dangerous person, do you no, Like,

473
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: because before we've been saying that Trump has been dangerous

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00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: for how long, Ellie, Like, I don't know the past

475
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: three and a half years. And you know, we were

476
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: told that our our what was sensible, right, Like you

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00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: show me who you are. I believe you, Maya Angelou

478
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: that we're being partisan. We're partisan hacks for saying that

479
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: Trump is dangerous. But now that twenty two thousand Americans

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00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: have died, that doctor Fauci said over the weekend that

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Speaker 1: had the United States acted sooner shut things down, maybe

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Speaker 1: less people would have died. That's facts, right, that's not partisan,

483
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: that's truth, that's science, right, which we've also allowed for

484
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and for Trump to politicize. So we

485
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: find ourselves in this space because media came out of

486
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: this idea that there were two sides to every story.

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00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: This both sides is um these alternative facts. Oh, they're

488
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 1: my facts and then there's your facts. No, there isn't.

489
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: But we see the breakdown of who believes the coronavirus

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00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: to be an actual problem, right, that something that needs

491
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: to be stopped and addressed on ideological lines. There were

492
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: people hanging out in Pensacola, Florida, you know, at black

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00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: parties and at the beach as if we're not in

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Speaker 1: the midst of a global pandemic. The Republicans have managed

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00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: to politicize hiding. Yes, they've managed to politicize you know,

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Speaker 1: they've managed to put seeking your hands as part of

497
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Speaker 1: the culture wars. It's disgusting, and it's and it's why,

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00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: and it's and it's and it's contributing to deaths. You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I've said for a while

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Speaker 1: now is that the operative difference between Donald Trump and

501
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: the Roman Emperor Caligula is that Caligula had the body count.

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00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: Trump having racked up the body count. Yet he's racking

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Speaker 1: it up now. Yeah, he's racking it up now. But

504
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: also remember um placing the blame on everybody else, on

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Speaker 1: the World Health Organization, a Barack Obama, on doctor fact She,

506
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Speaker 1: on whomever other than him. He wants to take all

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00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: of the applause when the when the curve flattens and

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00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: things start to go our way, but none of the blame. Remember,

509
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: from from from the beginning of March, end of February,

510
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: he said, I take zero responsibility, so then you can

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Speaker 1: take zero praise. The man actually said it right. He

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00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: literally said, I take no responsibility at all. That is

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Speaker 1: that is a shocking That should be that should be

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00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: his his biography, right, Like, I take no responsibility at all.

515
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: Like that is a shocking statement for an American president.

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00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: In two generations, we have gone from Harry Truman. The

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00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: buck stops here too, I take no responsibility at all.

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Speaker 1: Great job, Republicans. Congratulations on all your fricking success, on

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00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: all of your success. So let's talk about what else

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00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: they're doing that's horrifically fucked up and wrong and drives

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00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: all of us to drink. So last week you published

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00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 1: a piece at the Nation scotus just set the stage

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Speaker 1: for Republicans to steal the election. In a five to

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Speaker 1: four decision, the Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin from extending the

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Speaker 1: absentee voting deadline, disenfranchising thousands and creating a terrible precedent.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about this, Ellie. Yeah, So let's let's let's

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00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: start here. The whole way that the Republicans are going

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Speaker 1: to try to steal this election is not going to

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Speaker 1: be it's not going to come with like horns and Trump.

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00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: It's right, it's not going to be Donald Trump moving

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Speaker 1: the election or you know, some kind of cancelation of

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00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: the November third general, Like, he doesn't have to be

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00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: that bold and quite because he will have Republican governors

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00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: in red states doing all of the dirty work for him.

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Speaker 1: The foundational way that Republicans can use coronavirus to steal

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Speaker 1: the election is by suppressing the vote, right, That's what

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Speaker 1: Republicans do. Anyway, as much as I am trying to

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00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: publicize what Republicans are doing, I'm trying not to columbus

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Speaker 1: the issue because it's been what they do for a

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Speaker 1: generation now. They cannot win national elections without suppressing the vote.

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Speaker 1: They've always tried to do this. The way they're doing

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Speaker 1: it with coronavirus is going to be with selective quarantines. Right, Like,

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00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: as we know, because we're the people can follow the science,

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00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: we understand that people in dense population areas are more

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Speaker 1: at risk. We understand that cities and urban centers are

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Speaker 1: or at risk because that's where people gather and mingle

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Speaker 1: and shake hands and cough on each other. Right, So

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00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: that means that it scientifically makes sense for there to

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Speaker 1: be kind of stricter shelter and place type rules in

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Speaker 1: New York City, in you know, Cleveland, in big major

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Speaker 1: urban centers, whereas things. You know, where I am in

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Speaker 1: Westchester was actually the first ground zero of this thing,

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00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: So it's not a great example, but you know Rochester

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Speaker 1: or or you know Batchloglog Island, like you know, these

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00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: are places where you don't have to not don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry, but like your restrictions don't have to be

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Speaker 1: as tight. Well, that's all well and good for science time,

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00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, when I'm sure Bill Nye would would you know,

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Speaker 1: supports that. But when it comes to voting time, that's

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00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: a huge problem because that means that people in low

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Speaker 1: population areas, it's going to be a lot easier for them,

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Speaker 1: a lot safer for them to go que and vote

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Speaker 1: in person where it's gonna be significant. It could be

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Speaker 1: really dangerous for people in urban areas to go and

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00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: line up and pack together to vote. If this thing

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00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: is still with us through November, well, you know, you

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00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: don't have to have a political science doctorate to know

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Speaker 1: that people in rural, sparsely spread out areas tend to

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00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: vote Republican and people in dense urban areas tend to

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Speaker 1: vote Democrat. So when you quarantine a city in your state,

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Speaker 1: what you are doing purposefully, even if that's not your

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Speaker 1: true intention is suppressing or making it difficult for Democrats

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Speaker 1: to vote while making it easier for Republicans to vote.

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Speaker 1: That is a binary situation, right, that's step one, Step two.

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Speaker 1: The way to ameliorate that those selective quarantines and shelters

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Speaker 1: in place is vote by mail, right, Like, that's our

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Speaker 1: escape hatch. If you can't go in person, if it's

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00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: going to be hard for you to go in person,

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Speaker 1: you should mail in the ballot, either mail in or absentee. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: now all the Republicans focus, all of their suppression focus

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Speaker 1: is is hell bent on making it more difficult for

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Speaker 1: people to vote by mail. Whether it's putting restrictions on

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Speaker 1: absentee voting, whether it's refusing to mail ballots to everybody,

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Speaker 1: whatever it's going to take. That's how Republicans are suppressing

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Speaker 1: the vote. It is not it is not beyond the

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Speaker 1: realm of possibility that these states will be can will

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Speaker 1: claim that they are overwhelmed with the number of mail

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00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: end vote requests and they don't have enough ballots for everybody.

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00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: The people and sparsely populated rural counties, oh they'll get

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Speaker 1: their ballots. But people in large urban centers, they won't

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00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: even get their ballots. They won't even have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to vote through the mail. And that is what happened

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, they usually get two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand requests for absentee ballots. This election, they got

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Speaker 1: over one point one million. The system was overwhelmed. The

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00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: people in red counties got their absentee ballots on time,

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00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: but the people in blue county like Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: there were people who did not get their absentee ballots

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Speaker 1: even though they requested them, because this is I mean,

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Speaker 1: they hadn't Prince just freaking enough of them, right. So

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Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee sued and they asked very simply

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Speaker 1: for the state to extend the deadline by which people

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Speaker 1: could either request absentee ballots or more importantly, mail those

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Speaker 1: ballots back in the district court said yes. The Circuit

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00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: Court of Appeal said yes. And then five Republicans and

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Speaker 1: robes pan picked by Republicans, two of them picked by

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, one who was accused of attempt at rape,

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Speaker 1: another who says illegitimately in a seat that should have

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Speaker 1: been marek Arlands. Those five men, I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: white men. But Clarence Thomas always you know, is there

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00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: those five men of various races decided to put a

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Speaker 1: stop to all of it. They did not allow with

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Speaker 1: the content to extend the deadline for absentee ballots. When

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Speaker 1: they did that, they gave a signal to every Republican

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Speaker 1: state governor or state legislature around the country that says,

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Speaker 1: go steal the election. Go steal it any way, you

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00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: damn well please, because we will not stop you. The court,

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court said that there was no reason six

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Speaker 1: then the deadline because everybody had their ballots. Well that's

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Speaker 1: factually not true. Actually, on the ground, we know that

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Speaker 1: people didn't have their ballots. There were stories about it,

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Speaker 1: there were tweets about it. People did not have ballots

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Speaker 1: by election day. So when the court says you have

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Speaker 1: to postmark your ballot by April seventh, that's when the

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Speaker 1: election was. Well, what if you don't get your ballots

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Speaker 1: to life for life? Are you supposed to travel through time?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way, right, But the Court said

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Speaker 1: that everybody should have their ballots for April seventh, and

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Speaker 1: they just know your balloting and it's fine. Is that

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Speaker 1: is a signal from the court to all the other Republicans.

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Speaker 1: So Rick de Sandison Florida can set up a situation

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Speaker 1: where you have the mail in your ballots by November

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Speaker 1: three and just not send ballots to Miami Dade or

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Speaker 1: not send enough to Miami Dade or Brower County, and

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00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 1: then guess who wins. Varia Mike the Wine in Ohio,

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Speaker 1: who has been as for a Republican pretty good unless

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Speaker 1: you're a woman who might you want control over her body.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, he's been pretty good for a

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Speaker 1: Republican in terms of fighting voter suppression in his state.

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna have enough ballots ready for Cleveland? Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna have enough ballots ready for Cincinnati? Because if

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Speaker 1: he doesn't, guess what Republicans went Ohio? And that can

643
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: happen in state after Stata, after states that's either controlled

644
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: by a Republican governor or has a sufficiently powerful Republican legislator.

645
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: In Wisconsin, there's actually a democratic governor. And he wanted

646
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: to just mail ballots to everybody, right, Like, if you're

647
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: a registered voter, you get you don't have to request

648
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: your actions people, You just get it in the mail

649
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: and you're set and the Republican legislator legislature shot him

650
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: down on that the mail balls to everybody is just

651
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: the last the point I want to finish with. And

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00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: I've been talking for a while. I'm sorry, but it's

653
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: it's the show. It's it's super important to me because

654
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: I don't think people understand how critical this issue is.

655
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: Um people like me, are you know, paying attention and

656
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: care and whatever? And I will, you know, request my

657
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: AS and T ballot for the November election in plenty

658
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: enough time for me and everybody in my house to

659
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: receive it, right Like I will, you know, I'll get

660
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: through the primary this now in June and then buy

661
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, July fourth, I'll have requested AS and T

662
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be able to vote in November

663
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: regardless because I'm paying attention. Not everybody is paying attention.

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Speaker 1: And that's not really I'm not. I'm not. I'm not

665
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 1: so in shade at that. It is traditional in this country,

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00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: especially when there's a global pandemic going on, until it's

667
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: in front of your faith, like that is just human nature.

668
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: We pay attention because it's our job. There's a reason

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00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: why October surprises work in election because people don't don't

670
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: tune in until after Labor Day, right, Like they don't care.

671
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: They're busy, they got other things. I look up this

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00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: morning with damn Luke in my roof, and trust me,

673
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: if this wasn't my job, that's my whole day. Now,

674
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: that's my whole issue. So it's it's traditional to not

675
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: pay attention until the last minute. If you are in

676
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: a red state and you don't pay attention to the

677
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 1: election until October and it doesn't occur to you until

678
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: around you know, Native American Day, that hey, maybe I'm

679
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: gonna have to vote absentee. And so you don't request

680
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: your absentee ballot until the middle of October, then guess what,

681
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too late. It's gonna like the because

682
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: of how Republicans operate, it will likely be too late.

683
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: Republicans will say, and I mean, what's what's one of

684
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,959
Speaker 1: Trump's favorite lines? Who could have known that things would

685
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: have been so complicated? Everybody an idiot? But these governors,

686
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: like you know, Brian Kemp in Georgia is going to

687
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: sit there in October and say, like, who could have

688
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: known we needed so many absentee ballots? Oh my goodness,

689
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: and there won't be enough ballots for people when they

690
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: when they start paying attention on oct Mailing ballots to

691
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: everybody would be the better idea, but Republicans won't let

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00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: us do that. Is there any recourse, ellie? Because this

693
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: has already gone to the Supreme Court, they've already made

694
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: their truth known, right that they don't actually give a shit.

695
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: So the Kemps of the world, the descantuses of the world,

696
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: all of these folks, they're going to do what they

697
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: need to do in order to keep Donald Trump in power.

698
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: So what is our recourse? Is there any I mean?

699
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: I can't unfortunately know right, the Supreme Court is the

700
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: highest court in the land. If they if they don't,

701
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: what they say is law, whether they're right or not.

702
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: The president is the president of the entire United States.

703
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: He if he refuses to make the federal government work

704
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: towards protecting the elections, then it doesn't were elections are

705
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: run at the state level. If you have a Republican

706
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: governor or a Republican control state legislature and they don't

707
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: want you to vote who there's no higher power, right.

708
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: If your governor says no, and your president says no,

709
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court says, though, that's it, that those

710
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: are all of the normal powers and the escape hatch

711
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: that I used to like to talk about we can't

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Speaker 1: do because of social distancing. I can't say we need

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Speaker 1: a million man march. Really no, everyone gets sick. That'd

714
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: be stupid. Like you can't like you can't even get

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00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: the kind of collective action public protests you know seeing

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00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: going on because of the virus. The only thing you

717
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: can really do. And I've said this on a couple

718
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: of a couple of times, I don't look, I'm I

719
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: am working from home, but I am working full health

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Speaker 1: because now I have two children that I have to

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Speaker 1: home school. My wife is home, my mom's home, Like

722
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: we're all we're all working at like maximum capacity. So

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Speaker 1: I am not saying that just because you're working from home,

724
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: you have more time on your hand, but you are

725
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Speaker 1: closer to your phone. And let me tell you, calling

726
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: your representatives not just don't call Trump, he doesn't care. Right,

727
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: calling your governor, calling your state, knowing who your state

728
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: senator is, and giving him or her a phone call.

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00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: That can be so effective during this particular crisis. Because

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Speaker 1: one of the things my father was a local politician

731
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Speaker 1: out on the island actually, um, you know, with the

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00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: county legislature legislator for a number of years, so I

733
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: know a little bit about like the mindset of a politician.

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Speaker 1: And when I tell you that that right now, the

735
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: hardest thing for them is that they can't do their rallies.

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Speaker 1: They can't do they they have no ideas what voters

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Speaker 1: are thinking of them. And if you're a politician, what

738
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: voters are thinking of you is like the thing that

739
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: you wake up thinking about. And I think that you

740
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 1: go to bed worrying about right and so without being

741
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: able to kind of get out and gets the cheers

742
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: and applause. That's why you run. You like, you can't

743
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: do that, getting you know, one hundred fifty phone calls

744
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: to your state you know rep office like that will

745
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:13,399
Speaker 1: do something because that's the only interaction about their job

746
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: performance that they're getting right now. You know, if you're

747
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: a state senator, you're you're not doing like weekly polls

748
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: on your approval rating. That doesn't happen. What you get

749
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: are your phones, and so calling these people, especially if

750
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: you live in a red state and demanding that they

751
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: protect your right to vote is actually something that would

752
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: be effective and something that you can do with your

753
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: time while you're socially distance, while you're working from home.

754
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't know where we go from, but that's but

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00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: that's like, that's all I got, right, because that's because

756
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: all the other all the normal ways of political of

757
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: of legal action are barred from us because Republicans control

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00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 1: the government. And the Republicans control the government because they've

759
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: suppressed the vote. They know that if they want to

760
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: continue control over the government, they got to suppressed the

761
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: vote even more. And so that's what they're going to do.

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00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: This is always the Republican game. That's why I said earlier,

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00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: like I don't want to columbus of this thing, like

764
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: this is all I am not surprised. This is what

765
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: they always do. I wrote about how they would do

766
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: this a month ago, a month before they started doing it, right,

767
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: Like it's it's their game plan is not subtle or hitting.

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00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: It's just devastatingly in the people's ability to rise up

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00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: when quarantined. I mean, the fact is is that you

770
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 1: like what you had said. Most people don't pay attention

771
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: to the election until right around October, and now you're

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00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: paying attention to the fact that you don't know if

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00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to continue to have food

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00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: on your table, pay your mortgage, pay your rent because

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00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: you are out of work. Right, is that going to

776
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: be something that is going to drive people to pay

777
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: attention more or are they so consumed with what is

778
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: happening with their day to day that once again Paula

779
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: is going to fall to fall to the back burner.

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00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I think for most people in November sounds

781
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: so far away. I mean, anyway, it even does for

782
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: me at some level, you know, like I'm not making

783
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: plans for like except for this election, saying because I

784
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: care about it, I'm not making plans for like I

785
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 1: wonder where we're spending Thanksgiving this year. Man, I'm trying

786
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,439
Speaker 1: to get through the week. I was trying to get

787
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: through Easter and my wife's birthday. Those both happened last week.

788
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: Success next next, I'm trying to get through the end

789
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: of the month, right, Like, so I'm in a very

790
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: like day to day mode. Even myself, I can only

791
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: and I'm so privileged and so lucky. I've got a house,

792
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: and my job is sure, my wife's job is Like,

793
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:49,919
Speaker 1: I'm so privileged um, and I'm like hyper concerned about like, well,

794
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: the kids have to just because they're going to school

795
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: from home, they still have to bathe, right, we can't

796
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: just leave them in the jamas all day. Like those

797
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: are my thoughts, and so I can only imagine how

798
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: people are processing this who have like real problems, who

799
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: who who are who are really struggling to make the

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00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: rent or have or have been furloughed or any of

801
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, any of these real or you know. I'm

802
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: also lucky we haven't even mentioned this. Nobody in my

803
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: house is sick. Yeah, nobody in my immediate family is sick.

804
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 1: There are people out here who who are dying um

805
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: um and trying to process you know, dying um it's sick,

806
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: and they can't even go see them in the hospital.

807
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: Like there is real slama and grief going on. And

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00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell anybody dealing with those things to like

809
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: give a shit about November, Like I can't unlike shump,

810
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: I am human. I can't do that. I can't say

811
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: that in good conscience. Um. It is for the rest

812
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: of us who maybe don't have those concerns weighing on

813
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: us as heavily to be to fight for those people's

814
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: right to vote when they are preoccupied with other things

815
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: they can't fight for themselves. Because let's never forget voting

816
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: is supposed to be easy. It's a fundamental tenet of democracy.

817
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be hard. You should be able to not

818
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: pay attention until two weeks before the election and then

819
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: show up to vote like that. That's how it should work,

820
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: actually in an advanced democracy. And so I feel like

821
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: my job right now is to raise my voice because

822
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: I know that the people who will be disenfranchised are

823
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: a little bit too busy right now, legitimately so to

824
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: protect their own franchise. Well, Ellie, I can't thank you

825
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: enough for your focus, for your attention, and for your

826
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: continued vigilance over this administration and the Supreme Court. And

827
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Speaker 1: you know where we're going from here, Because while it

828
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,959
Speaker 1: is incredibly important and life saving obviously to be paying

829
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: attention to what is happening right in front of you

830
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: and keeping your family safe and fed, you know, and

831
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: money coming in and all of these things, where we

832
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: are going and even though November feels very far away,

833
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 1: matters just as much because we would be in less

834
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: of a dystopian president if Trump had acted, if we

835
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Speaker 1: had had different leadership, if it had been Madam President

836
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Speaker 1: instead of mister president, like, we would be in a

837
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: different place. And I don't think that people are thinking

838
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: about that enough, because you can't when your immediate needs

839
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: aren't being met. But for this disaster for falls squarely

840
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's shoulders, and the Democrats need to make

841
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: sure that that's how they're painting it. Like. This isn't

842
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: an oh, it wouldn't have mattered who was in charge.

843
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: This is actually one of those times where it did

844
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Speaker 1: fucking matter who was in charge. If it comes down

845
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: to it, and if if I have to tell people

846
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 1: in Florida to go risk their lives to stop Trump

847
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: from risking their life, I will say that, I will

848
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: write that article. I will do that, but damn it,

849
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm gonna hold that you know in the

850
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: Google doc file until the last possible minute. I'm going

851
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: to spend every you know second that I can trying

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00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 1: to make it so that isn't the choice, so we're

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Speaker 1: he is willing to risk your life to make sure

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Speaker 1: that Avanka can sell more scarfs. Yeah, that's where we are.

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Speaker 1: Elliem is still Thank you so much as always for

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Speaker 1: for joining us today. Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 1: me this current president who in the midst of his

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Speaker 1: press conferences has full and complete meltdowns as people are dying.

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Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of Americans are dying, and this president

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Speaker 1: is claiming total authority over governors and total authority over everything.

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Speaker 1: is something actually called states's rights. Republicans should know all

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