Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from my Eastern Shore bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that, you know, I turned
Speaker 1: on the news after taking you know, a wonderful break
Speaker 1: with friends over the weekend and coming back and turning
Speaker 1: on the news. I just sometimes I want to I want,
Speaker 1: like my twenty tens version self to listen to fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes of news in twenty twenty two and get that
Speaker 1: version of myself's reaction, because twenty minutes into any newscast
Speaker 1: and you are hearing everything from the World Health Organization
Speaker 1: naming another health emergency as it pertains to monkey pox.
Speaker 1: You hear about BA four and BA five, the two
Speaker 1: new variants that have taken over Amicron, which was the
Speaker 1: old Big news variant of COVID nineteen. You hear about
Speaker 1: multiple mass shootings that have taken place, you know, one
Speaker 1: in a airport, love Field Airport in Dallas, where a
Speaker 1: thirty seven year old woman we're assuming that she's white
Speaker 1: because she's still alive, goes in, is dropped off around
Speaker 1: eleven am, goes into the bathroom, puts on a hoodie
Speaker 1: and then starts shooting the place up. There are no
Speaker 1: casualties that are reported, and she was shot below the waist,
Speaker 1: so that leads you to believe that she was not
Speaker 1: a black person because they would have been talking about
Speaker 1: her in the past. Tense, you are about the triple
Speaker 1: digit temperatures that are not just happening in notoriously hot
Speaker 1: places in the United States, but everywhere. You hear about
Speaker 1: multiple wildfires that are happening in this country as well
Speaker 1: as in Greece as well as in France. You hear about,
Speaker 1: you know, declarations of public health emergencies as it pertains
Speaker 1: to climate change now, because we didn't want to heed
Speaker 1: the warnings from twenty and thirty years ago, and we
Speaker 1: clearly don't want to do anything now, or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion doesn't want to do anything now, So we're
Speaker 1: not going to take any major action on climate change ever,
Speaker 1: so that he can continue to get wealthy along with
Speaker 1: the rest of his family. That was just twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of watching the news. So when I tell you a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago that the New York Times did
Speaker 1: an entire or expose on distract depression, which is the
Speaker 1: combination of anxiety, depression, distraction, and just overall hopelessness. I
Speaker 1: get why so many Americans are on medication. I get
Speaker 1: why there has been a steady rise in mental health
Speaker 1: medication prescriptions since the beginning of this pandemic nearly two
Speaker 1: and a half years ago. Functioning is really fucking hard,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know what we define as functioning.
Speaker 1: I guess the ability to make it through your work
Speaker 1: day and not have just a nervous breakdown at your
Speaker 1: computer at your desk. The fact that employers are forcing
Speaker 1: people to go back into work and then making you
Speaker 1: feel a type of way if you're a back in
Speaker 1: the workplace and you're wearing a map. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on, you know. I literally look.
Speaker 1: I wrote down in my handy dandy notebook a list
Speaker 1: of topics that I wanted to tackle on today's show,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you, what I really want
Speaker 1: to tackle is just this feeling of overwhelm, just this
Speaker 1: feeling of literally feeling beside myself because I know that
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one. I know that millions of
Speaker 1: Americans are really suffering right now on so many different levels.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, for the folks that
Speaker 1: are listening to this show who also have kids or
Speaker 1: our caregivers to children. My god, I don't know how
Speaker 1: the fuck you all do it. And I'm not about
Speaker 1: you know, calling people heroes or heroines or any of
Speaker 1: those things, because I feel like you shouldn't be forced
Speaker 1: into be a hero or a heroine that you know,
Speaker 1: this state and the federal government should be providing families
Speaker 1: with aid in order to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: parents and caregive in a way that doesn't put your future,
Speaker 1: your you know, home income at risk, right because you
Speaker 1: have to make decisions between do I put my child
Speaker 1: in daycare or do I quit my job because I'm
Speaker 1: only working to pay for daycare, Because that's the situations
Speaker 1: that we force people in this country in. I just, folks,
Speaker 1: I mean, my fucking god, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: start out with in just the coverage of what's been
Speaker 1: happening with Indiana and this disgusting, egregious state. So we
Speaker 1: all by now know that the story, the heinous story
Speaker 1: of the ten year old girl that was raped who
Speaker 1: then was impregnated by her rapist, had to lead the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio where their trigger band took effect when
Speaker 1: Rovie Wade was overturned and had to travel to Indiana
Speaker 1: in order to get an abortion because she was raped. Well,
Speaker 1: the state of Indiana is holding a special session right
Speaker 1: now because when Republicans here that a ten year old
Speaker 1: girl is raped and needed to have an abortion so
Speaker 1: that a ten year old girl is not forced into
Speaker 1: motherhood before she even turns thirteen, they think about the
Speaker 1: need to overturn abortion. I just want you to like
Speaker 1: wrap your mind around that for a minute, that Republicans
Speaker 1: in Indiana. People in Indiana hear about the heinous crime
Speaker 1: of sexual violence that was forced upon a ten year
Speaker 1: old who then becomes pregnant by her rapist, is forced
Speaker 1: to cross state lines because abortion is banned in her state.
Speaker 1: And when Republicans hear this, they think to themselves, we
Speaker 1: need to ban abortion so that more ten year old
Speaker 1: girls are forced into motherhood before they become fucking teenagers.
Speaker 1: How how is it that we have succumbed to minority
Speaker 1: rule in this country? When you do national polls on
Speaker 1: access to abortion, and over seventy percent of Americans believe
Speaker 1: that people with uteruses should be able to have access
Speaker 1: to an abortion and be able to have bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: That then you have all of these laws that are
Speaker 1: now in these red states, which are a majority of
Speaker 1: the states right now, our banning abortion are making absolutely
Speaker 1: no exceptions, not for rape, not for incests, and certainly
Speaker 1: not for the life endangerment of said pregnant person. What
Speaker 1: the fuck right? Because here is the thing. Friends. I
Speaker 1: was on MSNBC over the weekend and Simone Sanders asked me.
Speaker 1: She said, Danielle, what do you say when Democrats are
Speaker 1: out here telling people that they just need to vote more,
Speaker 1: that we need more senators, She said, which we do,
Speaker 1: and people need to vote, which they do. But that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that they're offering. Meanwhile, Republicans are out
Speaker 1: here telling people with uterus is that you are not
Speaker 1: fully fledged citizens of these United States, telling rape victims
Speaker 1: we don't give a fuck, right, like telling people who
Speaker 1: are potentially on their deathbed that women who are going
Speaker 1: into labor with complications are having to beg their doctors
Speaker 1: in saying please save me if something goes wrong, and
Speaker 1: not the life of this unborn fatus. How is it
Speaker 1: that Democrats are not using this as their fucking rallying cry.
Speaker 1: There are so many things that are happening right now.
Speaker 1: I just listed several in the first five minutes of
Speaker 1: this fucking show. Democrats aren't using any of it. Instead,
Speaker 1: they're talking about fucking jobs, right how many jobs Biden added?
Speaker 1: And you know, I listen to another report where they
Speaker 1: were like, you know, here's the reality. Biden only has
Speaker 1: but a handful of weeks to actually offer some type
Speaker 1: of policy initiatives that they've been able to do since
Speaker 1: coming into office in January twenty twenty one. And because
Speaker 1: of Joe Mansion and Kirsten Cinema, they really have nothing
Speaker 1: to offer the American people in terms of what they
Speaker 1: have accomplished. And so my fucking question is, then why
Speaker 1: don't you go and run on what it is that
Speaker 1: Republicans are doing to dismantle rights in this country for
Speaker 1: everyone who is not male, who is not white, and
Speaker 1: who is not quote unquote fucking Christian. They are handing
Speaker 1: you your campaign strategies, But do you know what fucking
Speaker 1: Democrats are doing in places like Pennsylvania, in places like Arizona.
Speaker 1: Oh well, they're deciding to run a different type of
Speaker 1: campaign where they spend millions of dollars backing the trumpiest
Speaker 1: of people in the hopes that then Democrats who win
Speaker 1: their primary are able to beat that person in the
Speaker 1: general election. Yes, you just heard me right. Let me
Speaker 1: say that again. Democrats are running campaign ads for the
Speaker 1: trumpiest of people in some of the most critical battleground
Speaker 1: states in this country because they are playing a game,
Speaker 1: rolling the dice and gambling that the trumpier the better
Speaker 1: for the general election and then the Democrat will be
Speaker 1: able to beat them. What the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: Why in God's name, in this current political climate, would
Speaker 1: you be playing Russian Roulette with Trumpism, which we already
Speaker 1: know is akin to fascism, which we already know is
Speaker 1: the biggest threat to our democracy. And what you are
Speaker 1: gambling on is that their message is not resonating with
Speaker 1: the majority of people in said battleground states. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter because we know that these motherfuckers cheat
Speaker 1: and lie. So you tell me why you would spend
Speaker 1: the hard earned money that people donate, right, individual donors
Speaker 1: and these big ass motherfucking packs, and these big fucking
Speaker 1: millionaires and billionaires of the Democratic Party, that you would
Speaker 1: pay to boister up a Doug Mastriano, for example, in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: who wants to ban abortion all out, who wants to
Speaker 1: change voting in Pennsylvania altogether, who was at the insurrection
Speaker 1: and is in a fairly tight race right now in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Why do we think that this is a risk that
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party should be taking, as opposed to using
Speaker 1: every single bit of fucking money that they have to
Speaker 1: be running ads on television, on every single app, on
Speaker 1: every single streaming service that would then show you exactly
Speaker 1: who the Republican Party is and what it is that
Speaker 1: they are doing to America in broad fucking daylight. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you be using the opportunity and the money that
Speaker 1: is presented in front of you to blanket every single
Speaker 1: fucking streaming airwave everything in order to convince the American
Speaker 1: people that the Republican Party is actually no longer a
Speaker 1: viable political party, but a threat to our national security,
Speaker 1: a domestic terrorist organization that we should all be terrified of.
Speaker 1: Because they are starting with abortion, they are starting with
Speaker 1: these fucking don't say gay bills. But this is not
Speaker 1: where this shit is going to end. Right. I am
Speaker 1: so beside myself these days with trying to understand the
Speaker 1: rationale that Democrats have right now, or the strategy that
Speaker 1: they have in place. And look, folks, I'm no stranger
Speaker 1: to getting called out on Al Gore's fucking Internet about
Speaker 1: why am I not going hard against Republicans. I go
Speaker 1: hard against Republicans every fucking day of the week. But
Speaker 1: I need to wake up Democrats to the fact that
Speaker 1: you literally have been given a pooh pooh platter of
Speaker 1: what to choose from of what it is is that
Speaker 1: Republicans are fucking doing, and you're choosing not to. You're
Speaker 1: choosing to say that, oh, the American people want to
Speaker 1: discuss and vote on kitchen table issues. Well, when your
Speaker 1: house is on fire because a climate change, when you
Speaker 1: don't have a job, when you have no right to
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, when the police you're using us target practice.
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Speaker 1: The other thing that I will say with regard to
Speaker 1: Democrats and their messaging, because I keep getting asked the
Speaker 1: same question all the time, is this, it is not
Speaker 1: hard to just tell people or to share, to share
Speaker 1: in their rage. This is the thing that I believe
Speaker 1: that Republicans have been doing since the beginning of time. Right.
Speaker 1: They know that their base is older, or actually not
Speaker 1: so old, white people who are racist, who are misogynists,
Speaker 1: who believe in patriarchy, and who fashion themselves as white
Speaker 1: evangelical Christians. And so what was Donald Trump able to
Speaker 1: do in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. He was able
Speaker 1: to lift up their fucking economic anxiety, their grievance about
Speaker 1: how vastly different America is becoming because of the demographic
Speaker 1: shift and the fact that no, you can't just get
Speaker 1: a fucking high school diploma, work in a factory for
Speaker 1: twenty five years, and then to have the ability to
Speaker 1: buy a home, own a car, send your kids to
Speaker 1: school and all will be well with only a high
Speaker 1: school diploma. So what has the Republican Party been able
Speaker 1: to do. They've been able to give a voice and
Speaker 1: a platform to that racist white grievance attitude. And so
Speaker 1: my question is, well, why the fuck can't Democrats get
Speaker 1: behind the base of their party who is outdone and
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed with the fact that their kids are going
Speaker 1: to have less rights than they do, that their kids
Speaker 1: will most likely be living with them if in fact
Speaker 1: they own a home, because the average prices of homes
Speaker 1: have gone through the roof, right, and that the average
Speaker 1: price of rent, like I'll tell you this, for living
Speaker 1: in New York's four thousand dollars a month. That is
Speaker 1: more than most people's fucking mortgages. Right, So how is
Speaker 1: it that Republicans are able to give voice to their
Speaker 1: racist white base, but Democrats can't share in the rage
Speaker 1: that we have in this moment where we are watching
Speaker 1: every single day one righte be ticked off at a time.
Speaker 1: If nothing else, get behind these people and the rage
Speaker 1: and the fear that we have. I say this all
Speaker 1: the time. Obama and Trump are two case studies of
Speaker 1: America at very different times. Obama, we are in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, where we think that you know anything
Speaker 1: is kind of possible. Technology is changing rapidly. You have
Speaker 1: this new fresh candidate that is like, yes, we can, right,
Speaker 1: we can come together as this multiracial coalition and we
Speaker 1: can change America. And for eight years they absolutely did, right,
Speaker 1: but also on the belief set that we all had
Speaker 1: this shared value right called the Constitution. But once the
Speaker 1: Obama team started to recognize that, look, these people are
Speaker 1: not trying to fuck with you solely because you are
Speaker 1: a black man who had the audacity to ascend to
Speaker 1: the highest office in the land. That should have been
Speaker 1: a signal point, right that they are going to try
Speaker 1: and drag this country backwards, that we are going to
Speaker 1: experience whitelash at any time any bit of progress it's
Speaker 1: made in this country. You have racist white people who
Speaker 1: are still in power at all local, federal, state, right
Speaker 1: on the bench, in the fucking police uniform all around
Speaker 1: this country. And so what preparation are you doing for
Speaker 1: that backlash? Fast forward to Donald Trump who says American carnage,
Speaker 1: there's drugs and murder in the streets. Well, now there
Speaker 1: are right. Following his fucking inability to get COVID under
Speaker 1: control and lie about it for several months, causing the
Speaker 1: deaths of half a million Americans right by the time
Speaker 1: that he was ready to fucking leave office. And let's
Speaker 1: let me not use the word leave office, because we
Speaker 1: know that that was not going to be the fucking
Speaker 1: case right that the January sixth Committee has laid out
Speaker 1: for us. Donald Trump was never leaving office voluntarily. He
Speaker 1: was needing to be pulled out, kicking and screaming. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump was selling to his constituency, to white
Speaker 1: America was fear and rage. These people are coming in
Speaker 1: caravans and they're gonna take your jobs and put up
Speaker 1: taco carts on every corner and sleep on your lawn.
Speaker 1: And Black Lives Matter is in Tifun. They're gonna kill
Speaker 1: cops in all of this bullshit because fear sells so
Speaker 1: right now, you don't even have to think, if you're
Speaker 1: a Democrat, how were we selling fear? Because we wake
Speaker 1: up scared to death every fucking day. Every day there's
Speaker 1: another mass shooting right that is becoming more and more
Speaker 1: at the norm. Whether it's at an airport, it's in
Speaker 1: a church, it's at a fucking grocery store, or it's
Speaker 1: at a school, it is happening every day. So either
Speaker 1: you're gonna vote for politicians that are actually coast playing
Speaker 1: fucking the Civil War in their political ads, going rhino
Speaker 1: hunting and showing off their ar fifteens. You're gonna either
Speaker 1: vote for crazy, or you're gonna vote for saying you're
Speaker 1: gonna vote for a world where your kids are able
Speaker 1: to go to school and learn about the fullness of
Speaker 1: American history, or you're gonna vote for book burners. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not that fucking hard. And so when I get
Speaker 1: on Democrats, I'm like, how difficult is it to draw
Speaker 1: the fucking line right between sanity and insanity, between democracy
Speaker 1: and authoritarianism. It should not be that hard. And yet
Speaker 1: here we are with Democrats trying to run on policy initiatives. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, you have no policy that you have passed
Speaker 1: that anyone gives a shit about. They're talking about, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run on lowering prescription drug prices. Who gives
Speaker 1: a fuck not? When you have Republicans that are upending
Speaker 1: public education and gutting it, when you have no bodily autonomy,
Speaker 1: when police are literally using black people as target practice
Speaker 1: and putting sixty fucking rounds in a human body, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why it is so hard to point
Speaker 1: to the villain, the Republican, evil fucking villain, and say,
Speaker 1: if these people take control of the House or the Senate,
Speaker 1: this country is done. That is not a hyperbolic statement.
Speaker 1: You can't get fucking climate change pass right now. They're
Speaker 1: pulling up votes on same sex marriage. You have the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court signaling that not only are you not allowed
Speaker 1: to get an abortion, we're also not going to provide
Speaker 1: you with birth control. That is not your right either.
Speaker 1: And you have these red states that are getting ready
Speaker 1: to ban all of that as well. So what if
Speaker 1: you are a person with a uterus? Do you feel
Speaker 1: safe in this fucking country right now? Or do you
Speaker 1: feel like a target? It is not that difficult to
Speaker 1: lift up these truths that Republicans are laying out and
Speaker 1: say it is either you are with us, this imperfect
Speaker 1: political body but that still believes in the founders of
Speaker 1: this country, still believes in the constitution, or you're with
Speaker 1: these people who base is the proud voice, the oath keepers,
Speaker 1: the three percenters, and Nazis, because that's who they are, right,
Speaker 1: you know, Switching gears for a moment. Let me let
Speaker 1: me talk about Merrick Garland real quick. So last week,
Speaker 1: at the end of last week, I said on the
Speaker 1: show that Merrick Garland had you know, given an interview
Speaker 1: and had signaled once again, you know, his famous line
Speaker 1: that no one is above the law. And when pressed
Speaker 1: by a reporter and saying not even a former president
Speaker 1: of the United States, says not even a former he said,
Speaker 1: let me be clear, no one is above the law. Right. Well, yesterday,
Speaker 1: Andrew Weisman, former counsel for the FBI, is asked by
Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace on MSNBC whether or not he believes that
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice regardless of what Merritt Garland said
Speaker 1: about the fact that we don't do investigations in public, right,
Speaker 1: that we don't. That's not who we are, right that
Speaker 1: I'm about restoring the integrity of this fucking agency above
Speaker 1: all else. Nicole Wallace asked, well, you know, Andrew, do
Speaker 1: you think that this Department of Justice is moving on
Speaker 1: any type of investigation? And his response was sadly no,
Speaker 1: there is no indication whatsoever that this Department of Justice
Speaker 1: is moving And how do we know that, Well, we
Speaker 1: know that they were completely caught off guard by Cassidy Hutchinson.
Speaker 1: We know that the January sixth Committee recommended much in
Speaker 1: the same way that they recommended Steve Bannon beheld in
Speaker 1: criminal content for not complying with the congressional subpoena. They
Speaker 1: recommended the same from Mark Meadows, but the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice decided that they weren't going to go after Mark Meadows, right,
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because he supplied some information but then
Speaker 1: didn't supply all of it, so they were like, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: at least he did the bare minimum. What I want
Speaker 1: folks to understand is that this country is not moving
Speaker 1: on whether or not Merrick Garland has the backbone and
Speaker 1: the fortitude to actually see a criminal indictment through of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and every single one of the architects behind
Speaker 1: the insurrection. This country is not getting repaired. The bare
Speaker 1: minimum of beginning that repair would be to signal to
Speaker 1: the American people that, in fact, saying that nobody is
Speaker 1: above the law isn't just a slogan of the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, but it is actually a value of the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice that they will hold up regardless of
Speaker 1: who is in front of them. But that's not what
Speaker 1: we're seeing, right, We're seeing ag Fanny Willis in Georgia
Speaker 1: going to the fucking mats. We're seeing her begin to
Speaker 1: subpoena the likes of Rudy Giuliani and others right and
Speaker 1: bringing who were part of the fake electors scheme. How
Speaker 1: do we know that Fanny Willis is working because she's
Speaker 1: fucking telling us that she's working. But we're also seeing
Speaker 1: the subpoenas come out. Fucking eighteen months after our government
Speaker 1: was almost overthrown by thousands of Trump supporters who he
Speaker 1: weaponized and turned on his vice president of the United
Speaker 1: States and on members of Congress, we have seen nothing
Speaker 1: but their foot soldiers be taken up, and those people
Speaker 1: mostly got slaps on the rise. You have people serving
Speaker 1: more time in jail right now for marijuana charges right then,
Speaker 1: they are for attempting to overthrow the government and actually
Speaker 1: beating and terrorizing police officers. The War on drugs, which
Speaker 1: incarcerated more black and brown people in this country right
Speaker 1: broke more homes and more communities. They are more successful
Speaker 1: doing that because the target was black and brown people
Speaker 1: than they are going after white people who are trying
Speaker 1: to overthrow this government and not doing anything to stop
Speaker 1: this not so slow moving coup from continuing to take hold.
Speaker 1: Why because the people that were at the fucking insurrection
Speaker 1: are now running for governor, they're running for secretary of state,
Speaker 1: they're running for the fucking school board. How are they
Speaker 1: able to do that? Oh, because federal charges were not
Speaker 1: fucking brought against them, and they weren't thrown in jail.
Speaker 1: One of the things that Andrew Weisman said following up
Speaker 1: on Wallace's question on Deadline White House was, you know,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If we fail as a country to
Speaker 1: hold a criminal president accountable for his crimes against this nation,
Speaker 1: what comes in his stead is going to be worse.
Speaker 1: And what you are doing, by virtue of not indicting,
Speaker 1: of not providing prosecution, is a de facto pardon. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has already signaled and said time and time again
Speaker 1: he is running in twenty twenty four, right, and this
Speaker 1: Department of Justice is so hell bent on not seeing
Speaker 1: meing political. So how is it going to look then,
Speaker 1: because you've dragged your feet this whole fucking time, if
Speaker 1: you finally start getting your ducks in a and now
Speaker 1: we have candidate Donald Trump once again, I just you know,
Speaker 1: it is always so amazing to me, And by amazing
Speaker 1: I mean incredibly disheartening to just be slapped in the
Speaker 1: face with America's injustice and imbalance. That the bar must
Speaker 1: be so high to be able to prove that a
Speaker 1: which white man is a criminal, but we assume criminality
Speaker 1: by virtue of birth of anyone with melanin that there
Speaker 1: is no real proof that is needed other than how
Speaker 1: you feel in your heart. I just, folks, I want
Speaker 1: to continue to have faith. I want to believe that
Speaker 1: good will prevail, but there is nothing that is indicating
Speaker 1: that whatsoever at this point. And that is what I
Speaker 1: find most troubling. You know, as we watch the world
Speaker 1: on fire, literally, people dying, tarmax melting train tracks, buckling
Speaker 1: flights not being able to take off, trains running slower
Speaker 1: because of too much heat, grids failing, books being burned,
Speaker 1: doctors being sued and investigating for helping rape victims. I
Speaker 1: don't know where to turn for air. I don't know
Speaker 1: where to turn for ease, for breath. But I gotta
Speaker 1: say that if we don't do something as a people,
Speaker 1: if we don't take direct action, we can understand and
Speaker 1: know to be true that the darkness that we are
Speaker 1: seeing take hold across this nation will only get worse.
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