WEBVTT - Who's Fighting For Us? 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:21.119 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from my Eastern Shore bunker. Folks, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.120 I got to tell you that, you know, I turned 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.120 on the news after taking you know, a wonderful break 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:35.000 with friends over the weekend and coming back and turning 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.160 on the news. I just sometimes I want to I want, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:43.800 like my twenty tens version self to listen to fifteen 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.680 minutes of news in twenty twenty two and get that 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:56.320 version of myself's reaction, because twenty minutes into any newscast 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:03.040 and you are hearing everything from the World Health Organization 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.839 naming another health emergency as it pertains to monkey pox. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.959 You hear about BA four and BA five, the two 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.000 new variants that have taken over Amicron, which was the 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.839 old Big news variant of COVID nineteen. You hear about 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:29.000 multiple mass shootings that have taken place, you know, one 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:35.600 in a airport, love Field Airport in Dallas, where a 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.240 thirty seven year old woman we're assuming that she's white 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.240 because she's still alive, goes in, is dropped off around 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.720 eleven am, goes into the bathroom, puts on a hoodie 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.679 and then starts shooting the place up. There are no 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.640 casualties that are reported, and she was shot below the waist, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.320 so that leads you to believe that she was not 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.120 a black person because they would have been talking about 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:02.040 her in the past. Tense, you are about the triple 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.960 digit temperatures that are not just happening in notoriously hot 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:11.280 places in the United States, but everywhere. You hear about 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.200 multiple wildfires that are happening in this country as well 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:20.200 as in Greece as well as in France. You hear about, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.560 you know, declarations of public health emergencies as it pertains 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.519 to climate change now, because we didn't want to heed 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.000 the warnings from twenty and thirty years ago, and we 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.680 clearly don't want to do anything now, or I'm sorry, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.320 Joe Mansion doesn't want to do anything now, So we're 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.679 not going to take any major action on climate change ever, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.280 so that he can continue to get wealthy along with 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:47.720 the rest of his family. That was just twenty minutes 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:55.360 of watching the news. So when I tell you a 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.400 couple of weeks ago that the New York Times did 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.600 an entire or expose on distract depression, which is the 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:11.280 combination of anxiety, depression, distraction, and just overall hopelessness. I 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:17.240 get why so many Americans are on medication. I get 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.640 why there has been a steady rise in mental health 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:26.320 medication prescriptions since the beginning of this pandemic nearly two 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:34.520 and a half years ago. Functioning is really fucking hard, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.280 and I don't even know what we define as functioning. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.880 I guess the ability to make it through your work 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.640 day and not have just a nervous breakdown at your 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.520 computer at your desk. The fact that employers are forcing 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.040 people to go back into work and then making you 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.200 feel a type of way if you're a back in 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:03.000 the workplace and you're wearing a map. I don't know 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.000 what the fuck is going on, you know. I literally look. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.320 I wrote down in my handy dandy notebook a list 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.360 of topics that I wanted to tackle on today's show, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.360 and I got to tell you, what I really want 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.000 to tackle is just this feeling of overwhelm, just this 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.919 feeling of literally feeling beside myself because I know that 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.520 I'm not the only one. I know that millions of 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:35.920 Americans are really suffering right now on so many different levels. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.440 And I got to tell you, for the folks that 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.839 are listening to this show who also have kids or 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:49.120 our caregivers to children. My god, I don't know how 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.480 the fuck you all do it. And I'm not about 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.960 you know, calling people heroes or heroines or any of 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.360 those things, because I feel like you shouldn't be forced 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.120 into be a hero or a heroine that you know, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.680 this state and the federal government should be providing families 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.240 with aid in order to be able to you know, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.799 parents and caregive in a way that doesn't put your future, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:21.640 your you know, home income at risk, right because you 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.320 have to make decisions between do I put my child 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.920 in daycare or do I quit my job because I'm 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.480 only working to pay for daycare, Because that's the situations 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:35.800 that we force people in this country in. I just, folks, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:41.320 I mean, my fucking god, you know, I want to 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.880 start out with in just the coverage of what's been 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:56.719 happening with Indiana and this disgusting, egregious state. So we 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:01.120 all by now know that the story, the heinous story 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:05.320 of the ten year old girl that was raped who 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.120 then was impregnated by her rapist, had to lead the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.680 state of Ohio where their trigger band took effect when 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:20.440 Rovie Wade was overturned and had to travel to Indiana 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:26.800 in order to get an abortion because she was raped. Well, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.960 the state of Indiana is holding a special session right 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.719 now because when Republicans here that a ten year old 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.599 girl is raped and needed to have an abortion so 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.120 that a ten year old girl is not forced into 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:50.680 motherhood before she even turns thirteen, they think about the 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.080 need to overturn abortion. I just want you to like 0:06:55.320 --> 0:07:01.320 wrap your mind around that for a minute, that Republicans 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:09.840 in Indiana. People in Indiana hear about the heinous crime 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:16.400 of sexual violence that was forced upon a ten year 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:22.880 old who then becomes pregnant by her rapist, is forced 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.160 to cross state lines because abortion is banned in her state. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.440 And when Republicans hear this, they think to themselves, we 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.360 need to ban abortion so that more ten year old 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.560 girls are forced into motherhood before they become fucking teenagers. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:51.800 How how is it that we have succumbed to minority 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:57.600 rule in this country? When you do national polls on 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:03.280 access to abortion, and over seventy percent of Americans believe 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.080 that people with uteruses should be able to have access 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.800 to an abortion and be able to have bodily autonomy. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.080 That then you have all of these laws that are 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.920 now in these red states, which are a majority of 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:23.520 the states right now, our banning abortion are making absolutely 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.520 no exceptions, not for rape, not for incests, and certainly 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:33.040 not for the life endangerment of said pregnant person. What 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.720 the fuck right? Because here is the thing. Friends. I 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.480 was on MSNBC over the weekend and Simone Sanders asked me. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.079 She said, Danielle, what do you say when Democrats are 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.839 out here telling people that they just need to vote more, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.559 that we need more senators, She said, which we do, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.520 and people need to vote, which they do. But that's 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.120 the only thing that they're offering. Meanwhile, Republicans are out 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.800 here telling people with uterus is that you are not 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.199 fully fledged citizens of these United States, telling rape victims 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:17.040 we don't give a fuck, right, like telling people who 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.560 are potentially on their deathbed that women who are going 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.439 into labor with complications are having to beg their doctors 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:32.160 in saying please save me if something goes wrong, and 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:39.360 not the life of this unborn fatus. How is it 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:44.920 that Democrats are not using this as their fucking rallying cry. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.200 There are so many things that are happening right now. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.640 I just listed several in the first five minutes of 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:57.559 this fucking show. Democrats aren't using any of it. Instead, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:02.560 they're talking about fucking jobs, right how many jobs Biden added? 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.319 And you know, I listen to another report where they 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:11.240 were like, you know, here's the reality. Biden only has 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.000 but a handful of weeks to actually offer some type 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.480 of policy initiatives that they've been able to do since 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.560 coming into office in January twenty twenty one. And because 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.120 of Joe Mansion and Kirsten Cinema, they really have nothing 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.880 to offer the American people in terms of what they 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.439 have accomplished. And so my fucking question is, then why 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.679 don't you go and run on what it is that 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.480 Republicans are doing to dismantle rights in this country for 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.480 everyone who is not male, who is not white, and 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:50.520 who is not quote unquote fucking Christian. They are handing 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.240 you your campaign strategies, But do you know what fucking 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:59.280 Democrats are doing in places like Pennsylvania, in places like Arizona. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.000 Oh well, they're deciding to run a different type of 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.839 campaign where they spend millions of dollars backing the trumpiest 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.040 of people in the hopes that then Democrats who win 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.960 their primary are able to beat that person in the 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.320 general election. Yes, you just heard me right. Let me 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:26.200 say that again. Democrats are running campaign ads for the 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.559 trumpiest of people in some of the most critical battleground 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:36.520 states in this country because they are playing a game, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:42.360 rolling the dice and gambling that the trumpier the better 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.200 for the general election and then the Democrat will be 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:54.880 able to beat them. What the fuck are you doing? 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:02.760 Why in God's name, in this current political climate, would 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:08.640 you be playing Russian Roulette with Trumpism, which we already 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:14.360 know is akin to fascism, which we already know is 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.960 the biggest threat to our democracy. And what you are 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:23.959 gambling on is that their message is not resonating with 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.480 the majority of people in said battleground states. But it 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.800 doesn't really matter because we know that these motherfuckers cheat 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.800 and lie. So you tell me why you would spend 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:40.120 the hard earned money that people donate, right, individual donors 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.600 and these big ass motherfucking packs, and these big fucking 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.559 millionaires and billionaires of the Democratic Party, that you would 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:54.479 pay to boister up a Doug Mastriano, for example, in Pennsylvania, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.680 who wants to ban abortion all out, who wants to 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:04.320 change voting in Pennsylvania altogether, who was at the insurrection 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:13.040 and is in a fairly tight race right now in Pennsylvania. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.600 Why do we think that this is a risk that 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:20.000 the Democratic Party should be taking, as opposed to using 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.520 every single bit of fucking money that they have to 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:29.920 be running ads on television, on every single app, on 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.520 every single streaming service that would then show you exactly 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.200 who the Republican Party is and what it is that 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.840 they are doing to America in broad fucking daylight. Why 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.800 wouldn't you be using the opportunity and the money that 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.760 is presented in front of you to blanket every single 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:58.439 fucking streaming airwave everything in order to convince the American 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.320 people that the Republican Party is actually no longer a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.040 viable political party, but a threat to our national security, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.640 a domestic terrorist organization that we should all be terrified of. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.600 Because they are starting with abortion, they are starting with 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.360 these fucking don't say gay bills. But this is not 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.600 where this shit is going to end. Right. I am 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:27.960 so beside myself these days with trying to understand the 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:33.120 rationale that Democrats have right now, or the strategy that 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.640 they have in place. And look, folks, I'm no stranger 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.480 to getting called out on Al Gore's fucking Internet about 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.880 why am I not going hard against Republicans. I go 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.440 hard against Republicans every fucking day of the week. But 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.240 I need to wake up Democrats to the fact that 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.400 you literally have been given a pooh pooh platter of 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.440 what to choose from of what it is is that 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:06.440 Republicans are fucking doing, and you're choosing not to. You're 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.000 choosing to say that, oh, the American people want to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.600 discuss and vote on kitchen table issues. 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You know. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.159 The other thing that I will say with regard to 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.119 Democrats and their messaging, because I keep getting asked the 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.359 same question all the time, is this, it is not 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.720 hard to just tell people or to share, to share 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.920 in their rage. This is the thing that I believe 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:34.440 that Republicans have been doing since the beginning of time. Right. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:40.160 They know that their base is older, or actually not 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:45.760 so old, white people who are racist, who are misogynists, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.800 who believe in patriarchy, and who fashion themselves as white 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.359 evangelical Christians. And so what was Donald Trump able to 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.240 do in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. He was able 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:03.159 to lift up their fucking economic anxiety, their grievance about 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.400 how vastly different America is becoming because of the demographic 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.920 shift and the fact that no, you can't just get 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.159 a fucking high school diploma, work in a factory for 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.159 twenty five years, and then to have the ability to 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.439 buy a home, own a car, send your kids to 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.000 school and all will be well with only a high 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.840 school diploma. So what has the Republican Party been able 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.879 to do. They've been able to give a voice and 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:33.560 a platform to that racist white grievance attitude. And so 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.000 my question is, well, why the fuck can't Democrats get 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:43.320 behind the base of their party who is outdone and 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.640 so overwhelmed with the fact that their kids are going 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.440 to have less rights than they do, that their kids 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.760 will most likely be living with them if in fact 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.320 they own a home, because the average prices of homes 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.800 have gone through the roof, right, and that the average 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.480 price of rent, like I'll tell you this, for living 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.760 in New York's four thousand dollars a month. That is 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.280 more than most people's fucking mortgages. Right, So how is 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:17.040 it that Republicans are able to give voice to their 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.520 racist white base, but Democrats can't share in the rage 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.480 that we have in this moment where we are watching 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.800 every single day one righte be ticked off at a time. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:37.199 If nothing else, get behind these people and the rage 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.400 and the fear that we have. I say this all 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:44.720 the time. Obama and Trump are two case studies of 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:50.879 America at very different times. Obama, we are in the 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.280 early two thousands, where we think that you know anything 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.919 is kind of possible. Technology is changing rapidly. You have 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.800 this new fresh candidate that is like, yes, we can, right, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.280 we can come together as this multiracial coalition and we 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.760 can change America. And for eight years they absolutely did, right, 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.600 but also on the belief set that we all had 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:18.800 this shared value right called the Constitution. But once the 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.640 Obama team started to recognize that, look, these people are 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.480 not trying to fuck with you solely because you are 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.879 a black man who had the audacity to ascend to 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.359 the highest office in the land. That should have been 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.680 a signal point, right that they are going to try 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.000 and drag this country backwards, that we are going to 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.440 experience whitelash at any time any bit of progress it's 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.160 made in this country. You have racist white people who 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.560 are still in power at all local, federal, state, right 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.679 on the bench, in the fucking police uniform all around 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.800 this country. And so what preparation are you doing for 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:05.960 that backlash? Fast forward to Donald Trump who says American carnage, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.520 there's drugs and murder in the streets. Well, now there 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:14.440 are right. Following his fucking inability to get COVID under 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.159 control and lie about it for several months, causing the 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.200 deaths of half a million Americans right by the time 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.040 that he was ready to fucking leave office. And let's 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.040 let me not use the word leave office, because we 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.240 know that that was not going to be the fucking 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.480 case right that the January sixth Committee has laid out 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.240 for us. Donald Trump was never leaving office voluntarily. He 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.080 was needing to be pulled out, kicking and screaming. But nonetheless, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.000 what Donald Trump was selling to his constituency, to white 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.639 America was fear and rage. These people are coming in 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.560 caravans and they're gonna take your jobs and put up 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.879 taco carts on every corner and sleep on your lawn. 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.320 And Black Lives Matter is in Tifun. They're gonna kill 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:02.120 cops in all of this bullshit because fear sells so 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.240 right now, you don't even have to think, if you're 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.480 a Democrat, how were we selling fear? Because we wake 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:13.000 up scared to death every fucking day. Every day there's 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.000 another mass shooting right that is becoming more and more 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.600 at the norm. Whether it's at an airport, it's in 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.800 a church, it's at a fucking grocery store, or it's 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:26.200 at a school, it is happening every day. So either 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.680 you're gonna vote for politicians that are actually coast playing 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:33.200 fucking the Civil War in their political ads, going rhino 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.600 hunting and showing off their ar fifteens. You're gonna either 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.280 vote for crazy, or you're gonna vote for saying you're 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.119 gonna vote for a world where your kids are able 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.520 to go to school and learn about the fullness of 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.720 American history, or you're gonna vote for book burners. Like, 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:54.440 it's not that fucking hard. And so when I get 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.240 on Democrats, I'm like, how difficult is it to draw 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:04.760 the fucking line right between sanity and insanity, between democracy 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:10.320 and authoritarianism. It should not be that hard. And yet 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:14.920 here we are with Democrats trying to run on policy initiatives. Well, 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.399 guess what, you have no policy that you have passed 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:22.360 that anyone gives a shit about. They're talking about, Oh, well, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:26.359 we're gonna run on lowering prescription drug prices. Who gives 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:31.680 a fuck not? When you have Republicans that are upending 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.480 public education and gutting it, when you have no bodily autonomy, 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.280 when police are literally using black people as target practice 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:46.240 and putting sixty fucking rounds in a human body, right, Like, 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:52.320 I don't understand why it is so hard to point 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:57.280 to the villain, the Republican, evil fucking villain, and say, 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:01.719 if these people take control of the House or the Senate, 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.840 this country is done. That is not a hyperbolic statement. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:11.520 You can't get fucking climate change pass right now. They're 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:15.919 pulling up votes on same sex marriage. You have the 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.119 Supreme Court signaling that not only are you not allowed 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:21.359 to get an abortion, we're also not going to provide 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.720 you with birth control. That is not your right either. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:27.280 And you have these red states that are getting ready 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.480 to ban all of that as well. So what if 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.080 you are a person with a uterus? Do you feel 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.639 safe in this fucking country right now? Or do you 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:40.919 feel like a target? It is not that difficult to 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:46.440 lift up these truths that Republicans are laying out and 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:50.560 say it is either you are with us, this imperfect 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:54.960 political body but that still believes in the founders of 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:59.159 this country, still believes in the constitution, or you're with 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:05.040 these people who base is the proud voice, the oath keepers, 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:11.040 the three percenters, and Nazis, because that's who they are, right, 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:14.520 you know, Switching gears for a moment. Let me let 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:20.240 me talk about Merrick Garland real quick. So last week, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:21.919 at the end of last week, I said on the 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:27.080 show that Merrick Garland had you know, given an interview 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:30.480 and had signaled once again, you know, his famous line 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:33.000 that no one is above the law. And when pressed 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:35.760 by a reporter and saying not even a former president 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:39.280 of the United States, says not even a former he said, 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:46.919 let me be clear, no one is above the law. Right. Well, yesterday, 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:54.480 Andrew Weisman, former counsel for the FBI, is asked by 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.879 Nicole Wallace on MSNBC whether or not he believes that 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:02.120 the Department of Justice regardless of what Merritt Garland said 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:05.840 about the fact that we don't do investigations in public, right, 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:09.199 that we don't. That's not who we are, right that 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:13.439 I'm about restoring the integrity of this fucking agency above 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:18.359 all else. Nicole Wallace asked, well, you know, Andrew, do 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:23.680 you think that this Department of Justice is moving on 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:29.320 any type of investigation? And his response was sadly no, 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:36.280 there is no indication whatsoever that this Department of Justice 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.399 is moving And how do we know that, Well, we 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.639 know that they were completely caught off guard by Cassidy Hutchinson. 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:46.679 We know that the January sixth Committee recommended much in 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:49.560 the same way that they recommended Steve Bannon beheld in 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:55.520 criminal content for not complying with the congressional subpoena. They 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:58.159 recommended the same from Mark Meadows, but the Department of 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:02.440 Justice decided that they weren't going to go after Mark Meadows, right, 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:06.600 And maybe it's because he supplied some information but then 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.680 didn't supply all of it, so they were like, oh, okay, well, 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:16.040 at least he did the bare minimum. What I want 0:27:16.160 --> 0:27:23.960 folks to understand is that this country is not moving 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:28.600 on whether or not Merrick Garland has the backbone and 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:34.720 the fortitude to actually see a criminal indictment through of 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:39.000 Donald Trump and every single one of the architects behind 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:46.399 the insurrection. This country is not getting repaired. The bare 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.840 minimum of beginning that repair would be to signal to 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:53.080 the American people that, in fact, saying that nobody is 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.920 above the law isn't just a slogan of the Department 0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:00.280 of Justice, but it is actually a value of the 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:03.879 Department of Justice that they will hold up regardless of 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:07.120 who is in front of them. But that's not what 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:13.399 we're seeing, right, We're seeing ag Fanny Willis in Georgia 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:17.199 going to the fucking mats. We're seeing her begin to 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:21.840 subpoena the likes of Rudy Giuliani and others right and 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:27.200 bringing who were part of the fake electors scheme. How 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:29.560 do we know that Fanny Willis is working because she's 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:32.560 fucking telling us that she's working. But we're also seeing 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:39.000 the subpoenas come out. Fucking eighteen months after our government 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:44.600 was almost overthrown by thousands of Trump supporters who he 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:48.479 weaponized and turned on his vice president of the United 0:28:48.480 --> 0:28:52.240 States and on members of Congress, we have seen nothing 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:57.040 but their foot soldiers be taken up, and those people 0:28:57.440 --> 0:29:00.520 mostly got slaps on the rise. You have people serving 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:06.040 more time in jail right now for marijuana charges right then, 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:09.080 they are for attempting to overthrow the government and actually 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:15.560 beating and terrorizing police officers. The War on drugs, which 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:19.240