Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bunker. Why because COVID nineteen is raging out of
Speaker 1: control and no one seems to understand how to get
Speaker 1: a fucking hold of it. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I have talked to so many people over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, so many people, and every single
Speaker 1: time that I pick up the phone to ring a friend,
Speaker 1: to talk to a colleague, someone has contracted COVID so
Speaker 1: much so that the United States is seeing about six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand new cases a fucking day. But I want
Speaker 1: to tell you this. On Day eleven of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: which is this yesterday, I found myself, you know, on
Speaker 1: the twitters, right like doing what people do. And I
Speaker 1: go on Twitter and I see this from an er
Speaker 1: doctor named Sam Gale, right, gh A l I And
Speaker 1: he says, I cannot believe this is the tweet that
Speaker 1: this man puts out. I cannot believe that I have
Speaker 1: to say this, but do not consume your own urine
Speaker 1: in an attempt to treat COVID nineteen. Do not consume
Speaker 1: your own fucking urine as a way to combat COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: We are living in the stupidest fucking times ever. And
Speaker 1: every day I look at the news and I'm just like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's like the fuckery just took off in the twenties, right,
Speaker 1: Like we're living in the twenties. Remember the nineteen twenties
Speaker 1: were considered the Roaring twenties. It was you know, freedom
Speaker 1: and women accessing their like, their their femininity and their power.
Speaker 1: And you know, there was like gold rushes and there was,
Speaker 1: you know, all of this vibrance that was happening in
Speaker 1: you know, the nineteen twenties. In the twenty twenties, however,
Speaker 1: it is like the gold rush is now just bullshit, right,
Speaker 1: It's just a flow of crap coming at us every
Speaker 1: which way. Anti vaxers. Just wrap your mind around this
Speaker 1: for a moment. That anti vaxers will take worse medication.
Speaker 1: They will ingest bleach, They will purchase whatever the Joe Rogans,
Speaker 1: the Tucker Carlsons, whatever these people tell them to purchase
Speaker 1: in order to come back COVID nineteen. They will do
Speaker 1: a range of things. They will now drink their own
Speaker 1: fucking urine right as a way to remedy COVID. They
Speaker 1: will do everything except take the vaccine approved by humans
Speaker 1: for humans to take for free, So they will pay
Speaker 1: for bullshit. Right. They will consume disgusting bodily fluids, right,
Speaker 1: but they won't go to their local fucking pharmacy sit
Speaker 1: down for two point three seconds or a shot in
Speaker 1: the arm that is free. They will even go so
Speaker 1: far as to spend hundreds of dollars on fake vaccination
Speaker 1: cards rather than to take a vaccine that is free.
Speaker 1: How do you combat that? Right? Like, this is no
Speaker 1: longer a oh well, we just don't trust, you know,
Speaker 1: the vaccine, because now, folks, the vaccines have been out
Speaker 1: for months, and the number of people that have died
Speaker 1: from taking the vaccine probably around about a goose egg, right,
Speaker 1: like a zero. The people that have had extreme side
Speaker 1: effects right from the vaccine probably hunder you know, hint,
Speaker 1: hovering around zero, right percentage or zero point blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It's not significantly, right, significant, right, it's not significant in
Speaker 1: any way. The amount of people, however, that have died
Speaker 1: from COVID over eight hundred and forty thousand. The number
Speaker 1: of people who are experiencing long COVID, namely fatigue, irregular heartbeat,
Speaker 1: brain fog, major migraines that are uncontrollable. These are things
Speaker 1: that are lingering from the first, second, and now third
Speaker 1: rounds of COVID. You know, I was talking to my
Speaker 1: neighbor the other day and she was like, Danielle, you
Speaker 1: still didn't get COVID, And I was just like, no,
Speaker 1: And I feel like a pinball in a pinball machine,
Speaker 1: just fucking you know, moving through the obstacles, trying my
Speaker 1: best not to get something that is probably, at this point,
Speaker 1: fucking inevitable. If you have six hundred thousand people a
Speaker 1: day that are contracting a'micron, what is the likelihood that
Speaker 1: I'm going to remain positive? That is shrinking by the day. Right,
Speaker 1: But just like another friend of mine who also has
Speaker 1: remained negative, She's just like, look, I'm vaccinated boosted. I
Speaker 1: still don't want it, right, Like, I still am going
Speaker 1: to continue to do everything within my power to ensure
Speaker 1: that I don't get it. If I get it, I
Speaker 1: get it. But I'm not out here actively like hey,
Speaker 1: i'm acron, give me a call, Hey you want to
Speaker 1: hang out? No? Right, But you have these people, these
Speaker 1: anti vaxers twenty five percent of the population. I'm watching, folks,
Speaker 1: as the map of the United States is boot blood
Speaker 1: red right now, like, oh, where where is spiking? Where
Speaker 1: isn't spiking? It would be easier to color that portion
Speaker 1: in right, everywhere in this country is spiking. We have Virginia, Maryland,
Speaker 1: the District of Columbia right, the DMV right now, the
Speaker 1: governor right which is currently going to change hands from
Speaker 1: Democrat Northam to a Republican Trump light Yunken this coming weekend.
Speaker 1: And Northam just issued a limited thirty day state of
Speaker 1: emergency for the state of Virginia because of their hospitalization
Speaker 1: rates and to open up more funding to be able
Speaker 1: to support hospitals that are being crippled not only right
Speaker 1: by the influx. Because here's the funny thing. The number
Speaker 1: of hospitalizations right now in twenty twenty two in Virginia
Speaker 1: has surpassed the number of hospitalizations at the peak in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So while everybody wants to continue to say
Speaker 1: that the symptoms associated with amicron are quote unquote mild,
Speaker 1: they are mild for people that are vaccinated and boosted, right,
Speaker 1: But people's idea of what mild is fucking varies. But
Speaker 1: what we know to be true is that when these
Speaker 1: health care workers right and hospitals are saying to their
Speaker 1: states we need help, that's not actually signaling to me
Speaker 1: that what is happening right now can just be shrugged
Speaker 1: off and brushed off and say, ah, well, we'll reach
Speaker 1: the surgeons peak and then it will decline. Yes, obviously
Speaker 1: what goes up eventually does come down. But in this situation,
Speaker 1: the damage that is created on the up right and
Speaker 1: the damage that will be created on the decline is
Speaker 1: actually what we need to be focusing on. Because as
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this bloody red map of America where
Speaker 1: every fucking state is spiking or surging, right, because these
Speaker 1: are the only two alternatives right now. The vaccine number, however,
Speaker 1: hasn't fucking budged. It's still at sixty two point five percent.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? How is it that every other
Speaker 1: person you may be talking to, texting with has COVID
Speaker 1: and yet only sixty two point five percent of Americans
Speaker 1: are vaccinated? And of course, right I continue to say
Speaker 1: that when children are affected, people will do an about face. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not true because what we've learned, right, and what
Speaker 1: we've always known is Republicans don't give a fuck about kids, right,
Speaker 1: Stick those kids inside of a uterus, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll pay attention to that, but otherwise they could give
Speaker 1: a fuck. Well, pediatric hospitalizations are up for children under
Speaker 1: the age of twelve, because when you look at the
Speaker 1: vaccination rates for children right, which was approved recently, it's
Speaker 1: fucking paltry. But yet we're sending those same kids to
Speaker 1: school each and every day in some states that have
Speaker 1: mask mandates, some that don't, some townships that have mask mandates,
Speaker 1: others that don't, and we're watching the numbers tick tick
Speaker 1: tick all the way up. You know. I continue to
Speaker 1: say that it is going to be a incredibly long
Speaker 1: period of time until COVID is endemic. We are going
Speaker 1: to see a lot more variance, right, a lot more
Speaker 1: mutations before this thing ever goes away. I heard a
Speaker 1: doctor today say, well, you know, this will eventually turn
Speaker 1: into the Spanish flu. The Spanish flu right now is probably,
Speaker 1: you know, floating around like the common cold. The Spanish
Speaker 1: flu was over a hundred years ago. I won't be alive, right,
Speaker 1: none of us fucking will when this shit is actually endemic.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, that's the question that I have, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the timeline for this ship to be endemic? How
Speaker 1: many people need to be affected infected right by the virus?
Speaker 1: And if you are endemic to omicron, does that like
Speaker 1: if armicron and the fast nature that it spreads turns
Speaker 1: COVID into being quote unquote endemic, is it just the
Speaker 1: Armicron variants that has become endemic, But that doesn't stop
Speaker 1: the virus from continuing to mutate into other variants that
Speaker 1: aren't Folks, It's like, it's so wild some days when
Speaker 1: you think about the situation that we are living in
Speaker 1: right now. I went to the post office for the
Speaker 1: first time, and god knows how long I didn't even
Speaker 1: know where the post office was in my neighborhood, right
Speaker 1: because you do so many things online that you know,
Speaker 1: I forget certain things, and I only moved to this
Speaker 1: area a couple like two years ago, a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago, so I wasn't quite sure I know
Speaker 1: where the fedexes are in the UPSs are anyway. So
Speaker 1: going to the post office, the workers are all wearing
Speaker 1: you know, K ninety five masks and gloves right as
Speaker 1: they're sorting through they have to touch papers, have to
Speaker 1: do this. They have dividers up, right, This man walks
Speaker 1: in packages mask under his chin, because that's where the
Speaker 1: fuck it goes, Right, You have a mask on walking
Speaker 1: around outside and you have it under your chin, but
Speaker 1: you walk into a building and it doesn't occur to
Speaker 1: you to put it up. The worker at the USPS
Speaker 1: was like yelling, put your mask on. It is not
Speaker 1: a chin guard. She said it twice before the gentleman
Speaker 1: realized that he was talking to him, that she was
Speaker 1: talking to him because he's just so used to right
Speaker 1: nonsense that like nobody's going to say anything. And here's
Speaker 1: the reality, folks, right, is this that it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: the burden on workers. Right, And this is this is
Speaker 1: going to get into my whole rant on capitalism again,
Speaker 1: because I'm just so overwhelmed with fuckery, right, Like I
Speaker 1: just feel like we are suffocating in it. So you
Speaker 1: have a pandemic that is ravaging through the workforce, and
Speaker 1: the response to that is not to create safer conditions
Speaker 1: so that people feel like they can show up, right,
Speaker 1: it's about just speeding through this whole entire new you know,
Speaker 1: quarantine time that the CDC decides to release, right, it's
Speaker 1: that it's no, we're not going to ensure smart thinking
Speaker 1: in this new normal of of of the world that
Speaker 1: we are living in. We're not going to say to ourselves, okay, hmm,
Speaker 1: it's been too years. The surges come in the winter,
Speaker 1: then things level off by the spring. So these are
Speaker 1: the mechanisms that we're going to put in place because
Speaker 1: we are starting to realize that normal and going back
Speaker 1: to normal doesn't actually exist. So we're going to work
Speaker 1: with the data and information that we have in front
Speaker 1: of us based on the last two years, and we're
Speaker 1: going to rock from there. That's not what we are doing,
Speaker 1: right Because I said this, I said it on social media.
Speaker 1: I said, so here's the thing. You know that our
Speaker 1: biggest to gathering holiday right Thanksgiving, Hanka and Christmas? Right,
Speaker 1: big family gathering times New Year's Eve. So you know,
Speaker 1: every year, right until COVID vanishes from the earth, that
Speaker 1: between November and fucking March, right, maybe February, but most
Speaker 1: likely March, you're going to be witnessing an increase of
Speaker 1: the positivity rate. So why wouldn't it occur to industry,
Speaker 1: to politicians to offer ways in which here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You work from home. If your job allows you to
Speaker 1: work from home, we're not going to require you to
Speaker 1: go in that We're going to a lot for there
Speaker 1: to be more money right into places like the USPS,
Speaker 1: which we know was gutted under the Trump administration, to
Speaker 1: be able to employ somebody that stands at the door
Speaker 1: right as a guard to ensure that everyone that is
Speaker 1: coming in and I say two people because that person
Speaker 1: needs to have backup. Right, that's the reality of the world.
Speaker 1: World that we're living in, the world is dangerous. People
Speaker 1: are assholes, right, And no hostess, no USPS worker, no
Speaker 1: delivery person, no anyone should have to deal with the
Speaker 1: trauma that patrons want to put out on other people, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be the case. So what investments are you
Speaker 1: making to ensure that the staff that is showing up
Speaker 1: for work are fucking safe? None? What are you doing
Speaker 1: from the months of November till March when you have
Speaker 1: large swaths of the twelve to eighteen year old population
Speaker 1: that isn't fucking vaccinated but they are school age, Maybe
Speaker 1: during the November until March, right, that you should institute
Speaker 1: remote learning and that maybe may just maybe we should
Speaker 1: get off of the agriculture fucking calendar that our schools
Speaker 1: have been operating under since the beginning of public schooling
Speaker 1: and move into reality, which is actually year round school
Speaker 1: where instead of much in the same way that many
Speaker 1: that follow education and follow the development childhood development right
Speaker 1: would say, there's no actual reason for kids to have
Speaker 1: off for two months over the summer, there really isn't.
Speaker 1: And that instead, which creates a lot of lesson loss,
Speaker 1: a lot of memory loss during that time, particularly for
Speaker 1: low income children, right, because they don't have the benefits
Speaker 1: of having all the latest tablets and tools and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other. Thing. We know right by virtue
Speaker 1: of COVID that many kids didn't even have access to broadband, right,
Speaker 1: so remote learning was damn near impossible. But see they
Speaker 1: knew this ship before, right, But still there was no
Speaker 1: investment that was going to be made because we only
Speaker 1: react as a country. We are not proactive, right, we
Speaker 1: only react to shit. Right. But here's an idea. Maybe
Speaker 1: go into year round schooling where you just break up
Speaker 1: those two months into breaks throughout the year that at
Speaker 1: every month or every quarter you do, you have two
Speaker 1: weeks off. Right, Maybe that two week is a block,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's a week at the beginning and a
Speaker 1: week at the end, but that you continue, you have
Speaker 1: a continuity of learning. And so in this new normal
Speaker 1: where we know that the winter months are going to
Speaker 1: be dangerous months for this country, for the world right
Speaker 1: that experiences winter, that COVID will always be at an
Speaker 1: all time high, why don't we start to create a
Speaker 1: new normal. This is what I don't understand, this is
Speaker 1: what drives me fucking crazy, is that it's like we
Speaker 1: never learn anything. We don't retain any of the information
Speaker 1: that we've acquired since twenty twenty and apply it to
Speaker 1: now and into the future. We just keep wanting to
Speaker 1: go back to normal and lose everything that this virus
Speaker 1: has shown us. You know, I tell people, on a
Speaker 1: personal level, think about your life pre COVID and think
Speaker 1: about it now. For those people who did have the
Speaker 1: privilege and the opportunity to slow down, they will tell
Speaker 1: you that their lives are forever changed. I am one
Speaker 1: of those people. I think a lot more about my
Speaker 1: health and wellness. I think a lot more about rest
Speaker 1: and recharging than I ever did pre COVID days. I
Speaker 1: think a lot more about relationships. I think a lot
Speaker 1: more about how I spend my money and where I
Speaker 1: spend my money. Right, I'm applying what I have been
Speaker 1: able to learn over the last two years because I
Speaker 1: know that frankly, I don't want to go back to
Speaker 1: the way that I was thinking and doing and acting
Speaker 1: pre COVID. I want those lessons that I have learned
Speaker 1: about slowing down, about meditation, about taking care and loving
Speaker 1: my body, about shrinking my orbit so that only the
Speaker 1: people that are around me are people that I trust,
Speaker 1: that love me, and I love them, and that is
Speaker 1: my community and my village. Right, these are the things
Speaker 1: that I have learned that will forever be a part
Speaker 1: of my character, my life, my day to day. But
Speaker 1: why is it that when we're looking at the way
Speaker 1: in which our worlds have been like tremendously uprooted and
Speaker 1: are still just hanging up in the air above us,
Speaker 1: how is it that we don't use that information to
Speaker 1: build and think better. I don't get it, I really don't.
Speaker 1: It's like we're all still fumbling around in the dark.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, there is some information that is out
Speaker 1: here that is apparent. Right. It's mind blowing, it truly is.
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, we will talk to
Speaker 1: our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel this week, who will you know,
Speaker 1: give us the latest and go over you know, more
Speaker 1: about these new variants and more about what we're hearing,
Speaker 1: what we are learning. But the reality is that you know,
Speaker 1: as my mother has said, you don't need the CDC
Speaker 1: to tell you to wash your hands. You don't need
Speaker 1: the CDC to tell you that wearing a mask is
Speaker 1: going to prevent COVID at this at this point, at
Speaker 1: this stage of where we are in this pandemic that
Speaker 1: is never going anywhere, and so you have to do
Speaker 1: what is going to be right for you, for your families,
Speaker 1: for your loved ones in order to stay safe. Take
Speaker 1: the information that you have gathered anecdotally over the last
Speaker 1: two years and apply it. I just don't understand why
Speaker 1: our leaders won't do the same thing, shifting gears. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Kevin McCarthy, that spineless piece of
Speaker 1: shit who is the minority leader in the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives and as a Trump lackey, Trump lap dog, just
Speaker 1: a peon, an accolade, a hanger on, or he's disgusting, right,
Speaker 1: he's an embarrassment. But anyway, he gives an interview to
Speaker 1: Bright Bart where he has declared that when Republicans take
Speaker 1: back the House and take back the House with a
Speaker 1: historic margin, that he is going to ban certain leaders
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party from being able to hold committee seats.
Speaker 1: And this is his response to Democrats and Democrats alone
Speaker 1: stripping dangerous terrorists that are in the Republican House leadership
Speaker 1: from having committee seats. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, among
Speaker 1: others that have lost right or that should lose their
Speaker 1: seats for the bile shit that they have said. Right,
Speaker 1: and it is amazing to me. It's like Republicans just
Speaker 1: operate on a tit for fucking tat and context doesn't
Speaker 1: fucking matter. Right, We're gonna impeach Joe Biden for what exactly?
Speaker 1: Trying to keep the American people safe? What are you
Speaker 1: going to search around for hunter Biden's laptop again, so
Speaker 1: we can come up with a whole other fucking goose egg, Like,
Speaker 1: what is it that you're going to look for? Oh,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, he adopted a dog, but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: right dog, so he should be impeached. Like, just think
Speaker 1: about the circus, the circuits that we left with the
Speaker 1: election of Joe Biden and what is going to happen
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, because you know, here's the reality.
Speaker 1: We're gonna lose midterms, right like, unless something extraordinary happens
Speaker 1: in the next ten months, right before the November elections,
Speaker 1: we will lose. And the reason why is that the
Speaker 1: party that is in power in the White House, in
Speaker 1: the executive always right, traditionally loses in the midterms. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If we continue to talk about and
Speaker 1: treat these mid terms as if they are fucking normal
Speaker 1: and that we are not working against the fucking Antichrist here,
Speaker 1: then yeah, we are going to lose. But by Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy saying the fucking quiet part out loud, which is
Speaker 1: that we're just looking for retribution, right like, we're just
Speaker 1: looking to cause harm. We're not getting into office and
Speaker 1: you can rely on us to do anything right for
Speaker 1: the American people. Remember, these are people that were in
Speaker 1: power right and didn't offer not a fucking thing during
Speaker 1: their last year in office, not nothing right, nothing to
Speaker 1: help the American people. So tell me, right, other than
Speaker 1: low voter turnout because everyone is just exhausted and outdone
Speaker 1: by the current state of the world, right, and not
Speaker 1: seeing the advantage of what it means to vote for
Speaker 1: the quote unquote good guy or dare I say the
Speaker 1: less bad one, how it's affecting their day to day lives.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, that child tax credit, the stimulus
Speaker 1: money that you got, that shit is going to be
Speaker 1: long gone from people's memories. Right. What they will remember
Speaker 1: now is that COVID is still around, right, that they
Speaker 1: have lost more friends and family, that the country is
Speaker 1: more divided than ever, and because we have a media
Speaker 1: that both sides the fuck out of everything, they'll blame
Speaker 1: Democrats just the same way that they blame Republicans, not
Speaker 1: understanding because the Democrats do a shit job at messaging
Speaker 1: just how dangerous at times are that we are living in.
Speaker 1: So now you have Joe Biden finally recognizing, almost a
Speaker 1: year later after his administration takes office, that maybe we
Speaker 1: should do something about voting rights, because you know, democracy,
Speaker 1: Maybe we should actually figure out what it is that
Speaker 1: we are going to do to make sure that we
Speaker 1: don't have a full blown authoritarian fascist takeover the way
Speaker 1: that we've seen transpire around the globe in places like
Speaker 1: Turkey and Hungry and Russia, right, that maybe we would
Speaker 1: do something about it, and that you would find a
Speaker 1: way to get those two pieces of fucking shit Joe
Speaker 1: Mansion and Kursen Cinema on board with, you know, saving
Speaker 1: the country. I gotta tell you that I sat on
Speaker 1: Twitter yesterday for like a good amount of time, and
Speaker 1: you know, like I tell you all, I try and
Speaker 1: take my own advice. I try only to dip in,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of survey the situation, read some news,
Speaker 1: you know, take some notes, you know, and then pull back.
Speaker 1: And I do this because it's not safe, right, It
Speaker 1: is emotionally and mentally unsafe to be on social media
Speaker 1: for in my humble opinion, more than like ninety minutes. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like staring at the sun. You shouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: not even for a short period of time. But when
Speaker 1: I'm on there, writer author love the ij says, this
Speaker 1: was yesterday. It is day ten of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and this is like the longest year ever. And this
Speaker 1: is what I'm coming to just get. And I'm having
Speaker 1: conversations that I hope that you all too, are two
Speaker 1: with the people that you care about about their emotional
Speaker 1: and mental capacities at this time. And I talked about
Speaker 1: this yesterday and I'm going to continue to talk about
Speaker 1: it because I don't want us to just power through
Speaker 1: right We're not. We won't make it if we just
Speaker 1: put our heads down and just get the thing done,
Speaker 1: because we don't know when the end is. We don't
Speaker 1: know where it is. We don't even know at what
Speaker 1: portion of this pandemic we are in, right, Are we
Speaker 1: in the middle? Is at the beginning? Still? Right? Like?
Speaker 1: Are we close to the end? We have no fucking idea.
Speaker 1: And that's how we are losing days and weeks and
Speaker 1: hours and minutes of our lives racked with anxiety and stress.
Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of things that have happened already
Speaker 1: only ten days, eleven days into this new year is astronomical.
Speaker 1: And so when you think about that and the capacity
Speaker 1: that people have to hold, that we all have to hold,
Speaker 1: you have to let some things go. So what do
Speaker 1: you think folks are going to let go by the
Speaker 1: time that we show up in November of twenty twenty two?
Speaker 1: What do you even think this country is going to
Speaker 1: look like? Where in the pandemic will we be? Will
Speaker 1: we be riding high off of a really good summer, right,
Speaker 1: or will we be stopped dead in our tracks with
Speaker 1: a lethal fucking variant and then that just sends everything
Speaker 1: tanking once again. It is just, you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to figure out how to feel, let alone, where to
Speaker 1: go and what to do. And we have to be
Speaker 1: honest about that. We have to be honest about these feelings.
Speaker 1: We have to be honest about the exhaustion. We're not
Speaker 1: producing in the same ways that we were producing. But
Speaker 1: industry is beating us right all into submission. They don't
Speaker 1: care if you're sick five days. Well, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that a friend of mine, her kids tested again after
Speaker 1: five days. Guess what, They were still fucking positive, right,
Speaker 1: So they weren't going back to school. And you know,
Speaker 1: so it's just like we don't allow our bodies to
Speaker 1: even heal, right, because got to work. So what do
Speaker 1: you think the effect is on our minds with what
Speaker 1: we are dealing with and what we are taking in.
Speaker 1: I think that midterms are going to be devastating, and
Speaker 1: I don't even think that people understand how fucking devastating
Speaker 1: things are about to get. And this is why I say,
Speaker 1: if you are not grounding yourself in some type of
Speaker 1: self care, some type of wellness practices. If you are
Speaker 1: not figuring out what is going to keep you moving,
Speaker 1: keep you breathe, keep you in a place of positivity,
Speaker 1: of joy, being able to dip into frustration, rage and
Speaker 1: then pull yourself back out. If you are not figuring
Speaker 1: out how to maneuver, you will end up spiraling out
Speaker 1: of control. The things that we don't talk about that
Speaker 1: the news isn't covering on a regular basis, the rate
Speaker 1: of suicides right. Opioid use is on the rise. People
Speaker 1: are just looking for any fucking way to numb themselves,
Speaker 1: and we're not paying attention to it. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the long term, long haul COVID in terms of its
Speaker 1: physical effects, but what about the mental and emotional ones.
Speaker 1: These are things that we are not addressing. What is
Speaker 1: this doing to our kids, the ones that are young
Speaker 1: that will never remember anything before, right, and the ones
Speaker 1: that do remember before, but each and every day that
Speaker 1: feels like a distant memory. You know, in generations, you know,
Speaker 1: as generations pop up, you have you know, the silent generation,
Speaker 1: the baby boomers, you had Gen X, which everybody ignores.
Speaker 1: You have you know, the millennials, now the millennials and
Speaker 1: all of these things. But you know, while we talk
Speaker 1: about the population size and we will often talk about
Speaker 1: those different pivotal moments that bind generation, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a major moment that not only shifts the
Speaker 1: way we work, how we work, how we engage, what
Speaker 1: community looks like, what that means, right, It's going to
Speaker 1: shift how we see and view the world as a
Speaker 1: place that is unsafe and unstable. And so what are
Speaker 1: the ramifications of that. What are future politicians if in fact,
Speaker 1: we keep some sembilance of government right living through this,
Speaker 1: how is that going to shift how they think about capitalism,
Speaker 1: about government, about democracy. It's wild, you know, it is
Speaker 1: just every day is wilder than the next. And it's frustrating.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating to feel like you're the only sane one.
Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of woka f Nation is that
Speaker 1: you're not alone in your sanity, like there are other
Speaker 1: people who think like you, who are feeling the same
Speaker 1: way that you are. And it's hard, right, It's it's
Speaker 1: hard to send people emails and say, oh, I hope
Speaker 1: this finds you well, I just you know what I
Speaker 1: say nowadays, send an email to somebody and I said,
Speaker 1: I hope that this email finds you in the best
Speaker 1: spirits you can possibly be in at this time. It
Speaker 1: is long and drawn out, but it's the fucking truth, right,
Speaker 1: because part of my understanding of this moment is to
Speaker 1: just be honest. I just want to be as authentic
Speaker 1: as possible. We're dealing with so much fraud, so many lies,
Speaker 1: that I want my word to be that of one
Speaker 1: that is matched with integrity. I wonder if more of
Speaker 1: us were to think that way about being impeccable with
Speaker 1: our word, about our word mattering, about being as authentic
Speaker 1: with ourselves and with others as we can possibly be,
Speaker 1: maybe that shift right would help us better navigate these
Speaker 1: very unstable and uncertain times. January sixth is now the
Speaker 1: remembrance of that is in our rear view mirror, but
Speaker 1: the reality of what we continue to face as a
Speaker 1: nation is still staring us directly in the face. Ri
Speaker 1: Melbourne and MSNBC had an interesting opening around his January
Speaker 1: sixth segment where he talked about the inequality that we
Speaker 1: are witnessing, the gross inequality, and how this Justice Department
Speaker 1: and Merrick Garland have the ability and the sovereign authority
Speaker 1: to deal with the fact that these sentences either or
Speaker 1: not happening for these insurrectionists because now we're referring to
Speaker 1: them as maga tourists, or that they are so light
Speaker 1: it means absolutely nothing. And that sure you want to say, oh, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we're just you know, doing these low level things so
Speaker 1: that we can get to the big fish. But again
Speaker 1: I state, if you do not send a stark and
Speaker 1: clear a message to white Americans that they are not
Speaker 1: able to defecate in the halls of democracy and trespass
Speaker 1: at will because they feel like this country fucking owes
Speaker 1: them something, then what are you doing exactly except setting
Speaker 1: up the mechanisms of another coup. I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: I really don't. You know. One bright spot so far
Speaker 1: of today is this that was reported so right now.
Speaker 1: There are multiple cases that are in the hands of
Speaker 1: US District Judge Amid Metta, and he was questioning both
Speaker 1: Trump lawyers and the lawyers for the House Democrats there.
Speaker 1: So this is multiple cases based around January six that
Speaker 1: are charging the former twice impeached disgrace president of the
Speaker 1: United States with conspiracy with far right wing groups, conspiracy
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government and Trump lawyers, of course, of course,
Speaker 1: just want the cases thrown out. Right. They have no
Speaker 1: merit because they argue that the president was acting in
Speaker 1: his official duty as the President of the United States,
Speaker 1: questioning Congress in the same way that he would question bills. Right,
Speaker 1: except the questioning of bills didn't end up with one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty officers injured and six people dead. Right,
Speaker 1: So let us not claim And if Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: in fact operating in his quote unquote official duties, if
Speaker 1: that is what the judge says, then Donald Trump, as
Speaker 1: president of the United States, was threatening a coup and
Speaker 1: leading one. Right from the ellipses, we know that Trump
Speaker 1: does not have the very best people around him, nor
Speaker 1: can he afford the very best lawyers because the ones
Speaker 1: with actual degrees from real universities don't want to fuck
Speaker 1: with him. So I want to say this to you
Speaker 1: because I thought that this was really interesting. So meta, judge,
Speaker 1: Meta the US district judge. He says to the Trump attorneys,
Speaker 1: and this is not verbatim, so you know, but it's
Speaker 1: my It's basically, he says, what do I do about
Speaker 1: the fact that the president didn't denounce the conduct he goes,
Speaker 1: what do I do with the fact that for nearly
Speaker 1: two hours, two plus hours, one hundred and eighty seven minutes,
Speaker 1: that the President of the United States, by various accounts,
Speaker 1: was sitting and watching TV watching the insurrection unfold with glee.
Speaker 1: I added the glee part with glee and said and
Speaker 1: did nothing. And Meta goes further to say, and then
Speaker 1: when he finally did issue a tweet, it makes more problems.
Speaker 1: It exacerbates the problems that were already happening and unfolding
Speaker 1: at the Capitol building. It doesn't make it lesson he goes,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do with that? And to
Speaker 1: the attorneys for the House Democrats and the Capitol Police
Speaker 1: and others, he says, you know, to what extent are
Speaker 1: we to police a president's speech? Right? Where do we
Speaker 1: draw the line? Well, to me, the line would easily
Speaker 1: be drawn at you know the fourteenth Amendment, which basically
Speaker 1: says that you cannot threaten to overthrow the fucking government, right,
Speaker 1: that that is an act of treason punishable to the
Speaker 1: fullest extent of the laws. So where do you draw
Speaker 1: the line on the president's speech? When the president is
Speaker 1: himself or herself if ever, we get to her inciting violence.
Speaker 1: Moe Brooks right, who's being sued by Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Speaker 1: He's being sued and now is under even more investigation
Speaker 1: for his speech where he told the rioters in January
Speaker 1: sixth to go fight, fight, fight, fight for your country.
Speaker 1: Go take your country back, folks. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: people are literally organizing, had organized in plain goddamn sight.
Speaker 1: They know what they said. You can pull up the
Speaker 1: fucking transcripts of what they said. So how is it
Speaker 1: that Trump's attorneys come in and they say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: the whole thing should be dismissed because he's president. You see.
Speaker 1: Because Donald Trump presumed and until now right and we
Speaker 1: will wait to continue to just wait and see, presumed
Speaker 1: that the office of the presidency was like Willy Wonka's
Speaker 1: Golden ticket. You can get to do whatever you want, right,
Speaker 1: you got the keys to the kingdom. And he took
Speaker 1: that as meaning that he was, in fact a king,
Speaker 1: a dictator. I can say and do whatever I want
Speaker 1: and it's protected. I can use whatever agency and department
Speaker 1: that I want to investigate people that I don't like,
Speaker 1: to lock them up and throw them in jail. Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy is saying the same thing right now. I don't
Speaker 1: like you. Not that you did anything illegal, not that
Speaker 1: you threatened to kill a member of Congress, not that
Speaker 1: you're lying and spreading false information about the election, about
Speaker 1: our government, or about a pandemic. No, it's just that
Speaker 1: I don't like you and I don't want you to
Speaker 1: have a voice, So I'm going to take it from you.
Speaker 1: That's how these people are operating. So what do you
Speaker 1: do with that? Right? Like, what do you do with
Speaker 1: the information that is in front of you. So Judge
Speaker 1: Metta hasn't signaled one way or another yet how he
Speaker 1: is going to rule, But based on his questions to
Speaker 1: the Trump attorneys, I would say that we're going to
Speaker 1: move to fucking trial because there is no if we
Speaker 1: are living in a country of laws, which I do
Speaker 1: not think that we are, at least the laws that
Speaker 1: apply to everybody, which they never have. But it's so blatant. Now,
Speaker 1: then how do you not hold the president of the
Speaker 1: United States accountable? Because essentially what Donald Trump did is
Speaker 1: just tell every piece of crap human being that if
Speaker 1: you want the best criminal in the world, if you
Speaker 1: want the protection, just run for president, because then you
Speaker 1: get to do whatever you want, whenever you want, and
Speaker 1: everybody and everything will cover up for you, because you
Speaker 1: know the stakes would be just too high to go
Speaker 1: after a sitting president. My god, my god, what have
Speaker 1: we come to? That is it for me today? Folks
Speaker 1: on woke a f as always Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.