1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Long 3 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: Island bunker. Democrats are acting like people give a fuck 4 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: about the policies that they put out. Democrats are acting 5 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: as if you know, free and fair elections are just 6 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: assumed and not necessarily things that need to be safeguarded 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: and are for you know, I tweeted over the weekend 8 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: because I woke up in the morning to my sister 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: sending me the Bill Mahr clip, and then I tweeted 10 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: over the weekend and I said, you know, here's the thing. 11 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: This is a thing that is incredibly troubling to me. 12 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:13,559 Speaker 1: Is this Joe Biden has been so focused on being 13 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: the comforter in chief, on showing that he is a 14 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: statesman and can deal with the toughness on the right 15 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: as well as the infighting within his own party. Joe 16 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: Biden is a president for a different time. Joe Biden 17 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: is a great presidential choice for a time when we 18 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: had two political parties that adhered two laws and a constitution, 19 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: that believed in the oaths that they took, that came 20 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: together in order to create or perfect our most imperfect union, 21 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: and that we believed that the Senate was the deliberative body, 22 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: not a pollssy graveyard that Mitch McConnell has turned it into. 23 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: You see, Joe Biden would be a great president for 24 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: the early aughts. He would have been a really great 25 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: president for the late nineties. But now after four years 26 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, after a successful coup, one that is 27 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: gaining more momentum and force as the days and weeks 28 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: go on, where we are still waiting on multiple hearings 29 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: by the Insurrection Committee, where we are not seeing the 30 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: full force of Congress's power to be able to enforce 31 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: subpoenas that Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Cashpital and others have 32 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: just shrugged at and are looking at it as if 33 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: they have the choice whether to RSVP for the party 34 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: or not. You have Democrats talking about the cost of 35 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: a three point five trillion dollar plan to actually build 36 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: America back, but not having any of the messaging available 37 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: or understanding how to message the contents of said plan. 38 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: You have two Democrats who are really just Republicans in 39 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: DEM's clothing that are more concerned with their own greed, 40 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,839 Speaker 1: their own pockets, and their own names and lights than 41 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: they are about preserving our democracy. So this is the 42 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: thing that I tweeted over the weekend. What do you 43 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: think would happen if at Potus began to ring the 44 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: alarm on our democracy instead of telling us we can 45 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: build back better? What would happen if Democrats began to 46 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: talk about the constitutional crisis we are in rather than 47 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with traders. You see, as I'm here 48 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: on Long Island this weekend, I've been in conversation with 49 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: both of my parents about the current state of affairs. 50 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: And you know, my mother said to me something that 51 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: I say on air often. She goes, you know, Danielle, 52 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: I'm listening to the news as we're sitting here, and 53 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: this is one thing that I know to be true. 54 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: And I said what, And she says, Democrats have no 55 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: idea how to message. She's like, they are literally failing 56 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: at something that should be very easy. Why can't they 57 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: coalesce around one message in the way that Republicans do? 58 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: And I said, well, because Democrats love to be full 59 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: of excuses, and one of those excuses are the fact 60 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: that we have such a big tent with so many 61 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: diverse views and opinions that it's very difficult to coalesce 62 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: around one particular issue when each faction has its own priorities. 63 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: That's the lie that is told. There is only one 64 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: priority that this administration and this Congress should have had 65 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: from jump, and the insurrection days before the inauguration should 66 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: have solidified what the fuck that priority was, But here 67 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: we are nine months in and it isn't. The one 68 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: priority should have been to preserve and strengthen our democracy 69 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: by any fucking means necessary. It should have been to 70 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: paint Republicans not as their friends from across the aisle, 71 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: not as in a actual political party, but as in 72 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: a group of elected insurrectionists that are interested in only 73 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: one thing, power for powers sake, and the ushering in 74 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: of authoritarianism, and that every strategic move that was going 75 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: to be made between inauguration day and the twenty twenty 76 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: two midterms should have been about getting one fucking thing done, 77 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: a comprehensive and thorough piece of voting rights legislation that 78 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: would not only safeguard our ability to elect our officials 79 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: and have them beholden to we the people, but to 80 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: also expand and make those quote unquote political norms, actual 81 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: laws on the books. Everything else comes after that. Because 82 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: you cannot fight climate change, you cannot build infrastructure. You 83 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: can and not strengthen our public school systems, our healthcare system. 84 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: You cannot target programs to end poverty, you cannot strengthen 85 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: our nation's HBCUs. You cannot do any of these things 86 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: if we the people are unable to fucking vote. But 87 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: the one thing, the one thing that should have been 88 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: what all Democrats, progressives and these quote unquote fucking moderates 89 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: to coalesce around, was to ensure that a figure like 90 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump A could never run for president again because 91 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: he would be in an orange fucking jumpsuit, because we 92 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: would have a Department of Justice that actually had a 93 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: backbone and teeth that would be going after those that 94 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: were responsible and accountable for the insurrection that took place, 95 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: that were responsible for the over one hundred and sixty 96 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: police officers who were attacked, harmed, a few of which 97 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: committed suicide, and those of which we have resigned their 98 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: positions because of trauma. They would have made it their 99 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: number one mission to make sure that America would never 100 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: forget this day. They would have made it the rallying 101 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: cry not for just Democrats, but for Republicans and independents 102 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: who believed in upholding our democracy, whether or not you 103 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: liked the current occupant of the White House or not. 104 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: When you look at the pieces of this memo that 105 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: John Eastman put together, and I'm telling you it is 106 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: actually quite significant, right, And again, we're really not having 107 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: these conversations right now. This came out why because of 108 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: the book peril, because of Bob Woodward, right, and the 109 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,359 Speaker 1: fact that he was very privy to the inside conversations 110 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: that were happening to the memos that we're going out, 111 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: And the only reason why we're talking about it is 112 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: because of that motherfucker's book tour, right, and the promotion 113 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: of his book tour. But as soon as that has 114 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: faded into the distance, we seem not to be continuing 115 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: this conversation in mainstream media. Our friend who was on 116 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: the show last week, washahat Ali, tweeted over the weekend 117 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: and said, it is evident that many people in mainstream 118 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: media want Donald Trump to become president again, want him 119 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: to actively begin running for reelection in twenty twenty four 120 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: because it's good for ratings and ratings equal money, And 121 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: I said, in a response to that very clear and 122 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: very correct statement, that capitalism is going to be our downfall. 123 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: That it isn't going to be aliens coming in from 124 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: out of space, that it isn't going to be quote 125 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: unquote foreign terrorists. No, it is going to be greed 126 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: coupled with racism, coupled with apathy. That will be our downfall. 127 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: Because you see, folks, when you look around right now, 128 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: when you look around at all of the things, all 129 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:49,239 Speaker 1: of the ills that America is dealing with, with an 130 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: unstable economy, jobless numbers that are quite high, the lie 131 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: that employers got to bread within this administration that we 132 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: needed to, you know, end jobless benefits because you know, 133 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: people were just collecting checks at home, which was bullshit. Right. 134 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: They wanted to tell you that, oh, twelve hundred dollars, 135 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: you've had an extraordinarily difficult nineteen plus months living in 136 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: this global health pandemic that is never going to go away. 137 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: So here's twelve hundred dollars that should do you, right? 138 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: What is that giving me two three dollars a day? 139 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: What are jobless benefits doing, unemployment benefits doing making sure 140 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: that you don't lose the roof over your head. But 141 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: the purpose here was to force people back into the 142 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: grind of a capitalist structure that would have them just 143 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: be grateful for less than minimum wage. Just be grateful 144 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: that they can put some food on their table. Who 145 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: cares if they have healthcare benefits? Who cares if they 146 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: are unable to organize and sue their employer for better 147 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: working conditions. Workers should just be grateful for having a job. 148 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: That is the attitude of employers, That is the attitude 149 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: of the one percent. There's a reason why, in particular 150 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: in this country, we don't teach financial literacy, right, we 151 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: don't teach young people in school that's not a mandatory class. 152 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: Why because everybody is in on the predatory loans. Because 153 00:12:54,160 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: schools receive kickbacks. These businesses receive kickbacks, and so much 154 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: in the same way of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies that 155 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: there is no money in a cure, There is no 156 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: money in prevention. That they need to keep you sick 157 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: so that you can remain a part of the machine 158 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: that is grinding you to a pulpe. So you look 159 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: at these things that are happening, folks, and you think 160 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: to yourself, oh, well, this is just entertainment. We are 161 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: the entertainment for the rich. Our struggles are the entertainment 162 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: for them. Everything that we see is essentially Maria Antoinette 163 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: telling us let them eat cake, the bottom of the band, 164 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: the crumbs, because we equate worth with wealth, and if 165 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: you don't have that, well, than you are not worthy 166 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: of anything. You shouldn't be supported, you shouldn't have social 167 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: safety nets. Your current economic state is measured by how 168 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 1: hard you're willing to work. We read bullshit success stories 169 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: from the ultrawealthy, from the CEOs and the shareholders, from 170 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: the philanthropists, who leave out of their stories of hard 171 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: work and just waking up and having passion and all 172 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: of those things about the loans that their families were 173 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: able to give them, about the hand up that they 174 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: were born into, about how they were able to build 175 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: wealth because they have teams of lawyers and accountants that 176 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: help them navigate the major loopholes that were created for 177 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: their success. The Pandora papers that were released that showed 178 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: the ways that legally from royalty to our own politicians 179 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: and celebrities are using tax shelters as a way not 180 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: to pay their fair share, but they're not really breaking 181 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: the law, they're using it to their advantage. And we 182 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: don't have politicians that are interested in fixing those laws 183 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: because those loopholes help fund their fucking packs. And then 184 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: they're not beholden to you, their constituents, they're beholden to 185 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: the donors. We've been having this conversation, friends, for decades, 186 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: except we're getting to the place, the moment in the 187 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: story where everyone is looking around and they're like, fuck, 188 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: this really is not working. We're out here campaigning for 189 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour thinking that that's going to solve 190 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: every fucking problem. How is that when gas right now 191 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: in many places is above three dollars an hour. When 192 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: I just read another report in the New York Times 193 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: that tells me that a majority of Americans are paying 194 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: more in childcare double what their mortgages are. But right now, 195 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: Republicans and Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion don't want a 196 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: human infrastructure bill that would help level out childcare payments 197 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: to be only seven percent of your income as opposed 198 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: to damn near fucking half, if not more. Those decisions 199 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: that then force women, not men, in heterosexual dynamics out 200 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: of the workforce. And on top of that, dear friends, 201 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: while they are making sure that they do everything in 202 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: their power to weaken what is left of our social 203 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: safety nets, then on the other hand, they're rolling out 204 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: anti choice, anti abortion policies that will all but drive 205 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: women out of the workforce, creating room in their minds 206 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: for the white aggrieved men who don't want women there 207 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: in the first place. And what this does it doesn't 208 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: harm wealthy white women or middle class, white suburban women. 209 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Know the punishment alone will fall on the backs of 210 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: the low income and the black and brown who aren't 211 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: able to afford the flights and the two hundred and 212 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: fifty some odd miles to drive in order to be 213 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: able to create an economic future for themselves by being 214 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: able to decide when and how and if they start 215 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: a family. Every single thing right now is at play 216 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: in our real world, real life squid game. The decisions 217 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: that are being made right now are in fact about 218 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: life or death. Except it's not schoolyard games that we 219 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: are playing. We are the pawns in the much bigger 220 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: game that has been at play for decades. These things 221 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: are not happening by accident or in silos. But you see, 222 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: that's the way that we cover them. We allow mainstream 223 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: media to create a false dichotomy, a false set of choices. 224 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: Oh well, it's too much money to invest in the 225 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: American people, but they have no problem investing in war. 226 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: Billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan for failed attempt at 227 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: the creation of a democracy in a land whose culture 228 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: you don't fucking understand and whose history you don't care about, 229 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: modeling after the false idea of what democracy is, in 230 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: a country where women don't make equal pay, where black 231 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: people are still being murdered in the street, where a 232 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: majority of Americans can't afford a four hundred dollar bill 233 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: that would come up, where inflation is not on pace 234 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: with income, where climate change is not oh, in our future, 235 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: but in our now. It's no wonder that when people 236 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 1: are pulled right now on what direction they think that 237 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: the country is headed in, that a majority of Americans, 238 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: regardless of party, are saying, yeah, we're not headed in 239 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: the right direction. We can't tackle any one of these 240 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: issues because we don't tell the fucking truth about the 241 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: plan that is in place to keep people in their place. 242 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: We don't have an actual cast system in these United States. No, 243 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: we love to uphold those that are able to break 244 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: out of the confines of the economic systems that they 245 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: have been born into, about the racist structures that they 246 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 1: have been forced to abide by. But we love to 247 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: hold up these people as if they've won the lottery 248 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: of life, recognizing that if we were to actually build 249 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 1: systems for the benefit of all people, there wouldn't just 250 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: be a handful To point too, we are living in 251 00:20:52,640 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 1: a zero sum reality right now. I spend time each 252 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: and every day of my career to try and ring 253 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: the alarm to wake people up, recognizing that many Americans 254 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: are forced into a predicament where they don't even have 255 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: the time or the space to worry about anything other 256 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: than their immediate needs. You see, that is also how 257 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: they keep you stuck. Because this country, the wealthiest, one 258 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: of the wealthiest nations in the world, has more than 259 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: enough to provide for people's basic needs so that they 260 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: can grow from there. But we don't want to because 261 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: how dare the working class, the low income class believe 262 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: that they can aspire to be anything else? Let them 263 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: blame each other, let them fight for the scrap apps, 264 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: because time is a privilege. I recognize that I have 265 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: time each and every day to read multiple news reports, 266 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: to watch and research and interview and talk to people 267 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: about the direction that we are headed in. Well, guess 268 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: what if I'm pushing out an eighty hour workweek on 269 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: multiple jobs because one is not enough for me to 270 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: pay for childcare as well as put food on the table, 271 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: as well as pay my mortgage and my rent and 272 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: my car note and my utilities and at the end 273 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: of the day put food on the table. If I'm 274 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: running from job to job to job, do you think 275 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: I have time to see or point the real fingers 276 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: at who is bamboozling me. No, I'm going to make 277 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: the assumption that they are smarter, they are better, they 278 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: know what they're doing. So when they tell me instead 279 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: to point the finger on my neighbor down the street 280 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: as to the reason why I'm living in such despair them, 281 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: I can touch and feel and hurt and put pressure 282 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 1: points on. Not the people that are up in their 283 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: ivory towers like in squid games, putting pawns on the 284 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: board and moving them around for their own fucking enjoyment 285 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: and wealth building. We should be scared. We should be 286 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: scared right now because those that are in power that 287 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: we elected in twenty twenty are not woke, They are 288 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: not conscious, they are anything. But they are trying to 289 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: sing song America to sleep with a bunch of fucking 290 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: nursery rhymes. But if you actually pay attention and understand 291 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: where nursery rhymes actually come from, right, there's songs about despair, 292 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: There's songs about the troubled times, but they lull us 293 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: because they have a soothing beat behind them. Don't worry. 294 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden keeps saying we'll build back together as his 295 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: approval numbers fall into the basement. This is not who 296 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: we are, says Vice President Kamala Harris. We're better than this. 297 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: When she's given a plate of issues to deal with 298 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: that are not set up for her success, as is 299 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: the case with most black women that are placed in power, 300 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: no one is being set up for success. But so 301 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: long as you are given somebody else to point out 302 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: and blame and say, if we were to just get 303 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: rid of them, then everything would be okay. If we 304 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: just bury our heads in the sand and don't teach 305 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: our kids about America's past or America's present, then we 306 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: can continue living in this haze, living in this dreamscape, 307 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: pretending that there are just a few bad actors, as 308 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: opposed to the fact that this is actually who we are, 309 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: that America has been built on violence and lies and bloodshed, 310 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: that it is economic beneficial for a few that we 311 00:25:50,480 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: stay at each other's throats and create factions, breeding right 312 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: and harboring the energy of hate that just is bubbling up. 313 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: You think that we're not being set up right now 314 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: when you're seeing literal fights, fist fights break out at 315 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: school board meetings, where you're seeing Republican legislators sweep in 316 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: and assume control over your school boards, screaming on one 317 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: hand that any talk about race or racism is indoctrinating 318 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: their children to what hate themselves, when in reality, it 319 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: is setting them up to be critical thinkers about the 320 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: kind of world that they want to live in and 321 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: how they can be a force for change in it. 322 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: The same people that try to keep black and brown 323 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: people out of integrating their schools are the same people now. 324 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: The children are those people that were shouting down, spitting down, 325 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: and beating black people. Now they don't want you to 326 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: know what their parents and their grandparents did. I watched 327 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: as a Trumper said, our ware of our way of 328 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: life is slipping away. Gotald Trump is the only person 329 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 1: that can save us, save you from what the fact 330 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: that you have been under educated, the fact that you 331 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 1: have been told a lie your entire life that you 332 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: don't need an education, but somehow you'll be able to 333 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: afford a house, in a car, and vacations and do 334 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: all of these things on your fucking factory job, when 335 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: you yourself have decided to vote to disband labor unions 336 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: that would give you the protections, the healthcare benefits and 337 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: a living wage, just so you can feel really good 338 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: that you're in all white spaces where you're all broken, 339 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: miserable together. But you know what, at least, at least 340 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: I'm better than that negro down the street. To say 341 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: that America is in the danger zone would be a euphemism. 342 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 1: To say that the upcoming midterms are consequential would be 343 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: the understatement of the year. To believe even in the 344 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: fact that our election right now isn't already decided is 345 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: to live inside of a fairy tale. We are not 346 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: prepared for this moment. We don't have elected officials that 347 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: are prepared for this moment. Our forefathers, those slaveholding, rapist, misogynist, 348 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: racist pigs, could only see but so far into the future. 349 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: The assumption that they had is that in each decade 350 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: that we would get better, that we would get stronger. 351 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: They didn't think about the rollback, the pushback. We believed, 352 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: and we the people, we believed that that little grace 353 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: period called the Obama era was going to be our 354 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: future instead of a glimpse. We believe that democracies just exist, 355 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: that you don't actually have to work for them, or 356 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: fight for them, or reinforce them. We are, dear friend, 357 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: living in a dream world, and we like to stay 358 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: in this place and watch these shows and tune out 359 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: in lying to ourselves, well, at least we're not that 360 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: bad or that's so crazy that could never happen. It 361 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: is all a distraction from the fact that we are 362 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: already in that game. But whether or not we understand 363 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:49,479 Speaker 1: the rules know how to play is an entirely different story. 364 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: But it helps when you're put in these life or 365 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: death games to recognize that you haven't been set up 366 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: for success. You are a pawn, and recognizing that and 367 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: being able to plan from there is the first fucking step. 368 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: But friends, my fear is we've run at a time. 369 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: That is it for me today on Woke af AS 370 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people power, 371 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.