Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording live ish from San Francisco. Folks,
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that every time that I
Speaker 1: see Ron death Santus's name in the news, I want
Speaker 1: to fucking scream. But his latest attempt at political performance
Speaker 1: and provocation on his quest to quell any conversation lessons
Speaker 1: anything that has to do with critical race theory, which,
Speaker 1: minds you, they already voted in Florida to disallow critical
Speaker 1: race theory, and then, let me remind you, remind you,
Speaker 1: it's not being taught anywhere, that isn't at the graduate
Speaker 1: and law school fucking level. So every single time that
Speaker 1: you see or hear of a right wing radical politician
Speaker 1: wanting to use wokeness right whatever it is that they
Speaker 1: believe that to be, which is essentially any mention of
Speaker 1: people of color, any mention of black people, of Latin
Speaker 1: X people of Asian Pacific Islanders, of Muslims, of anyone
Speaker 1: that is not white, that is not straight, that is
Speaker 1: that male. This is what they do not want and
Speaker 1: the question that we all should be asking instead of
Speaker 1: falling into this well of despair, this well of lies
Speaker 1: around critical race theory and his what what the fuck
Speaker 1: did he call it? Stop woke act? Yes, you're right,
Speaker 1: you should stop. You should stop being conscious, you should
Speaker 1: stop being aware. You should just continue to bury your
Speaker 1: head in the sand like a fucking Ostrich, right like,
Speaker 1: because that is what Republicans want you to do. They
Speaker 1: don't want you to question. They don't want you to
Speaker 1: be thoughtful. They don't want our kids to be strategic,
Speaker 1: they don't want them to have critical thought. And the
Speaker 1: reality is is that they're using this as a dog whistle, right.
Speaker 1: So that now with this bullshit stop woke act right
Speaker 1: that death Scantists is ushering in in Florida is coming
Speaker 1: off of the heels of what Greg Abbott's bitch ass
Speaker 1: did in Texas, which is turnaround and turn your neighbors
Speaker 1: right into some type of vigilantes, right that are on
Speaker 1: the pursuit of anyone and anything that they don't like.
Speaker 1: So with this bullshit stop woke act that death Scientists
Speaker 1: unveiled this week, right in some type of campaign rally
Speaker 1: where he's tossing out hats into the crowd, he says
Speaker 1: that he wants parents right as what this is the
Speaker 1: same fucking thing that Glenn Youngcan said in Virginia that
Speaker 1: got him the governorship. He wants parents to have free choice.
Speaker 1: He wants parents to have the liberty to decide what
Speaker 1: it is that their children should and should not be taught.
Speaker 1: And again, mind you that we are falling into the
Speaker 1: trap because instead of us turning it around and saying,
Speaker 1: what is it that the GOP is afraid of? What
Speaker 1: are you afraid of? Ronda Santis? What are you afraid of?
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott? What are you afraid of? Glenn Junkin, What
Speaker 1: are you afraid of? Why is whiteness so fucking fragile
Speaker 1: that it cannot stand any test right of anything that
Speaker 1: has been taught? Because here's the reality. They want us
Speaker 1: to go back, as my friend was jahat Ali has
Speaker 1: been saying on democracy ish to nineteen fifty three. This
Speaker 1: is before Brown versus the Board of Education. This is
Speaker 1: well before Rovie Wade, right, this is before there was
Speaker 1: any major push, major momentum around civil rights. That's where
Speaker 1: they want to go back to, right where they had
Speaker 1: their whites only restaurants and their whites only country clubs,
Speaker 1: and their whites only schools, and no one was pushing
Speaker 1: for anything else. Right, And when I say no one,
Speaker 1: I understand that the civil rights movement has been going
Speaker 1: on for decades and decades, but there was not the
Speaker 1: desire within the white community to want to band together
Speaker 1: and link arms in order to make these things happen.
Speaker 1: They want that back, and so by giving parents the
Speaker 1: ability to now sue teachers, to bankrupt school districts, right,
Speaker 1: that is their way of silencing what they know is
Speaker 1: going to be the new American majority. I am telling
Speaker 1: you that when it was announced probably at this point
Speaker 1: ten years ago, that the United States was setting up
Speaker 1: for a major demographic shift, and some people debate on
Speaker 1: the decade that that's going to happen. Is it twenty thirty,
Speaker 1: is it twenty forty, is it twenty fifty. But the
Speaker 1: fact is it is happening right now, and their way
Speaker 1: to preserve white supremacy, to preserve white centric everything, is
Speaker 1: to stamp it out before it even blossoms, before it
Speaker 1: even grows. You know, just this week too, you had
Speaker 1: debate on the House floor, and you know, I laugh,
Speaker 1: because if I don't, I will scream, and if I
Speaker 1: don't scream, then I will cry. But you look at
Speaker 1: the debate that was on the floor about islamophobic legislation
Speaker 1: right much in the same way that at the height
Speaker 1: of a COVID, which, by the way, I will get
Speaker 1: to in a bit, because it seems as if guess
Speaker 1: who's in the midst of a fourth wave the United States?
Speaker 1: Legislation was put together to stop Asian hate, which was
Speaker 1: once again promoted created by the GOP. But do you
Speaker 1: see Democrats holding them accountable for that? Do you see
Speaker 1: them naming it? Because you see the way that we
Speaker 1: change things, the way that we get accountability and responsibility
Speaker 1: is by naming what is right and who is to blame.
Speaker 1: So we get this stop Asian hate legislation. And now
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, because she is being fucking harassed and
Speaker 1: terrorized by her own goddamn colleagues in Congress, puts together
Speaker 1: and act to recognize that there is a rise in Islamophobia.
Speaker 1: But when you listen to these Republicans on the floor,
Speaker 1: they're like, well, if we're gonna, you know, stop zamophobia,
Speaker 1: then I guess we have to stop our homophobia and
Speaker 1: our transphobia and all these things. Because you see to
Speaker 1: these people, to these people, their idea of liberty and
Speaker 1: freedom is the freedom to be able to discriminate against
Speaker 1: whoever they want, whenever they want, without any responsibility or accountability,
Speaker 1: just to be able right to say I don't like you.
Speaker 1: Not only do I not like you, I hate you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hire you. I don't have to
Speaker 1: respect you, and face absolutely no consequences whatsoever. That's what
Speaker 1: they want, and that is what this country looked like
Speaker 1: prior to the Civil Rights Act. That you see that
Speaker 1: white people could gather right in their racist fueled, rage
Speaker 1: fueled mobs, lynch black folks, beat black folks, terrorize black folks, right,
Speaker 1: And who are you, as a black person, who are
Speaker 1: you going to report to the fucking sheriff? Right, You're
Speaker 1: going to law enforcement that was already marching down your
Speaker 1: street with their hoods on. You're gonna sue somebody, right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna laugh you out of the police department. They're
Speaker 1: gonna laugh you out of the court. And now we
Speaker 1: have just the appearance right of equity. But we know
Speaker 1: that that is nothing more than a facade. We know
Speaker 1: that you don't even really have to get close to
Speaker 1: peel back the layer of bullshit right to know who
Speaker 1: is bought and sold and why a Mitch McConnell and
Speaker 1: a Donald Trump were able to push forward over three
Speaker 1: hundred federal judges. You know, the other day I mentioned
Speaker 1: on the show, I see a tweet that says, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Joe Biden appointed ten federal judges this year.
Speaker 1: Ten federal judges this year. That's less than one a month.
Speaker 1: This is what the fuck you're celebrating. Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: appointing federal judges like seven a week in order to
Speaker 1: keep pace right with what Mitch McConnell wants to do.
Speaker 1: Was Mitch McConnell putting up policy for the American people. Know,
Speaker 1: he was changing the judicial landscape because he knows that
Speaker 1: that is the only place in this country where people
Speaker 1: get their rights. It doesn't come through Congress. It comes
Speaker 1: through the courts. And so if you can own the courts,
Speaker 1: then you can own the country and you can rewrite
Speaker 1: the constitution. You know, right now, everybody wants to, you know,
Speaker 1: laugh off what Ron death Santis is doing in Florida,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it is not a laughing matter.
Speaker 1: And everybody needs to pay a fucking attention because my opinion,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to keep his grift going about
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and whether or not he's going to run,
Speaker 1: he's going to keep that going because the idea of
Speaker 1: him potentially running is filling up his coffers. Right. He's
Speaker 1: able to fundraise right and make money off of the
Speaker 1: idea the perception that he may run in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: But what is going to turn out, right is that
Speaker 1: he is not going to be on the ballot. That
Speaker 1: is going to be a wide open field of who
Speaker 1: can be more right wing, who can be the most
Speaker 1: radical right that we are going to see a presidential
Speaker 1: election like we have never seen. And frankly, if this
Speaker 1: democratically controlled Congress does not get their shit together around
Speaker 1: voting rights, which I have ye of little hope that
Speaker 1: that is actually going to happen because we are coming
Speaker 1: up on a year of the Biden administration and there
Speaker 1: has been no serious push to voting rights. Oh now
Speaker 1: they want to do it because guess what, Joe Mansion
Speaker 1: once again blew up back better. They had set their
Speaker 1: deadline for Christmas, and guess what, it ain't happening. So
Speaker 1: they're pulling the plug on it and saying, oh no,
Speaker 1: we're going to make a pivot. Now, you should have
Speaker 1: never pivoted off of voting rights, because frankly, if you're
Speaker 1: not securing our democracy, then nothing else that you're doing
Speaker 1: fucking matters. So here we are where. I believe that
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two midterm elections are going to be
Speaker 1: the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and I believe
Speaker 1: that they are going to set forth America into some
Speaker 1: of the darkest ages that we have ever seen. I've
Speaker 1: been in conversation with friends and colleagues right that I
Speaker 1: really respect, in the political space, in the law space,
Speaker 1: in the social justice space, and everybody is terrified about
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Everyone believes that twenty twenty two is
Speaker 1: going to be that year that when we look back
Speaker 1: on it, if we even have an opportunity to look
Speaker 1: back on it, the questions that young people will be
Speaker 1: asking is why didn't anyone do anything? How was it
Speaker 1: so obvious that America was moving head first into fascism,
Speaker 1: head first into the recreation, the reclamation project right of
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and you all were digging around with the
Speaker 1: legislation that doesn't actually matter. And I believe that that
Speaker 1: is going to be the epitaph of our democracy. And
Speaker 1: I gotta say that when I look at these politicians
Speaker 1: right now in the Republican Party that are vying to
Speaker 1: be the biggest villain. Right, you look at death Santis,
Speaker 1: you look at Abbot, you look at Junkin, right, Yunkin
Speaker 1: is the more laid back. Hey, you know, I'm wearing
Speaker 1: a vest and so I'm the softer Trump. But Trump
Speaker 1: no less. Death Santis is going hard balls to the wall. Right,
Speaker 1: He's like, no, we are. I'm going to put forth
Speaker 1: every type of legislation that is possible to make it
Speaker 1: so black and brown people in my state have no voice,
Speaker 1: that black and brown people in my state should fear
Speaker 1: leaving their homes. Right, think about this for a minute.
Speaker 1: A couple of things that Rhonda Santist has been doing.
Speaker 1: So First, you have his desire to open up Florida. Right,
Speaker 1: there's no COVID here. Florida is a COVID playground. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people have died at this point
Speaker 1: in Florida, but it's a fucking lot from COVID. So
Speaker 1: he was reckless as fuck with that, and why I
Speaker 1: call him death death Santist is for that reason why,
Speaker 1: once again there is no class action lawsuit against these criminal,
Speaker 1: ass negligent, homicidal governors in this country. I do not know.
Speaker 1: I am not a lawyer, but my god, I believe
Speaker 1: that there is a case to be made, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why it's not happening. Were are the most
Speaker 1: litigious fucking country in the world, and yet there are
Speaker 1: no cases here for COVID depth. I honestly, I do
Speaker 1: not understand it. So he starts off with open up Florida.
Speaker 1: There's no COVID here, Tens of thousands of people in
Speaker 1: Florida are dying. Then he turns around right and he
Speaker 1: has his attack on critical brace theory. But the most
Speaker 1: important thing that everyone kind of shrugged off, and it
Speaker 1: really was not major, major news, and it should be,
Speaker 1: is when Rhonda santiss but a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: said that he wanted to have his own community armed
Speaker 1: forces that only reported to him and were not subject
Speaker 1: to the enforcement or oversight of the federal government, namely
Speaker 1: the president of the United States. I want everybody to
Speaker 1: think about this, because every time that we want to shrug, that,
Speaker 1: we want to laugh off, that we want to ignore
Speaker 1: the things that the radical right is saying out loud,
Speaker 1: right much in the same way that they planned that
Speaker 1: entire insurrection, the entire fucking coup out loud on podcasts,
Speaker 1: on radio, on Fox News, on social media platforms, and
Speaker 1: the world shrugged. Donald Trump said one six was going
Speaker 1: to be wild. Was there any investigation those motherfuckers were
Speaker 1: organizing in plane sight? On Facebook, on Twitter, on TikTok
Speaker 1: FBI did nothing, CIA did nothing, Pentagon did nothing because
Speaker 1: it was white folks, and all white people don't do
Speaker 1: any harm. Right, We're not going to police our own right.
Speaker 1: So once again, here is Rond Santis saying the quiet
Speaker 1: part out loud that he, as a governor of a
Speaker 1: very large state, wants to put together his own militia
Speaker 1: that he directs and that only reports to him. So
Speaker 1: imagine this site. Let's let's paint the picture right now,
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis decides that he wants to impart martial law
Speaker 1: before any election, before the upcoming twenty twenty two election,
Speaker 1: before the presidential election, if he wins re election for governor,
Speaker 1: right and doesn't run for president, which I think he
Speaker 1: absolutely is, that he decides to invoke martial law. He
Speaker 1: disseminates his own guards. Right, the President of the United States,
Speaker 1: who is Biden, says what is happening in Florida is
Speaker 1: on some hot shit, decides that he's going to bring
Speaker 1: in now the National Guard, the army, whomever. And so
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, ron de Santis has fashioned
Speaker 1: himself to be what Robert E. Lee and then going
Speaker 1: up against Biden. And this is how a civil war
Speaker 1: breaks out, because you have both sides believing that they
Speaker 1: are patriots doing the duty that they have been called
Speaker 1: to do. And while he was having these conversations, and
Speaker 1: we could have checked his hot shit years in advance,
Speaker 1: we don't because we think that it's a joke. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that Rhndes Santis creates this militia. What
Speaker 1: is to say that the rest of red state governors
Speaker 1: don't decide to do the same thing. What's to say, folks,
Speaker 1: if you really want me to scare the shit out
Speaker 1: of you on this good Friday, what's to say that
Speaker 1: they're not all organizing to do that very same thing?
Speaker 1: Right the fuck now that they are together collaborating, all
Speaker 1: of these red state governments right to create their own
Speaker 1: personal militias that only are directed by them for them
Speaker 1: at their will, and that in their fucking crazy world,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is still there president, and so he is
Speaker 1: the one overarching and calling the shots. This is the
Speaker 1: type of scenario that keeps me up at night because
Speaker 1: what I used to think was so far fetched and
Speaker 1: would never happen could never happen. Everything that I thought
Speaker 1: could would and never happen have all transpired over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Think about that for a minute.
Speaker 1: Before COVID nineteen hit our shores, did you ever think
Speaker 1: that you would be living through a global health pandemic?
Speaker 1: Before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States?
Speaker 1: Did you ever think that an outright racist, misogynous piece
Speaker 1: of shit who joked and was recorded about grabbing a
Speaker 1: woman by the pussy would become president of the United States.
Speaker 1: Did you ever think that you would see your Capitol
Speaker 1: building up in smoke and thousands of peace people charging
Speaker 1: at Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police that are trying
Speaker 1: to hold their ground and secure our Capitol building. Did
Speaker 1: you ever think that you would see that in your lifetime.
Speaker 1: So everything, folks, including the massive climate events that keep
Speaker 1: occurring every couple of fucking weeks now from the historic
Speaker 1: fires to the historic tornadoes, to the historic floods, to
Speaker 1: the historic droughts. Did you ever think that you would
Speaker 1: be seeing these events happen? This is shit that has
Speaker 1: happened in the last two years. So I want us
Speaker 1: to get out of the practice of saying, oh, that's impossible,
Speaker 1: Oh that could never happen, because what it does is
Speaker 1: that it blocks us from being able to create a
Speaker 1: strategy to combat what we know could potentially be coming
Speaker 1: down the pike because we think that it's so unbelievable
Speaker 1: that we don't create a plan around it, because we
Speaker 1: don't think that it's worth it. And see, that's where
Speaker 1: Democrats have themselves right now, is that they never imagined
Speaker 1: in their wildest dreams that one of the two political
Speaker 1: parties in these United States would turn into a right
Speaker 1: wing white supremacist cult. That they never could have foreseen
Speaker 1: that a Lauren Bobert or a Marjorie Taylor Green or
Speaker 1: a Matt Gates would be in Congress, and they are,
Speaker 1: and they won their elections outright. That we wanted to
Speaker 1: believe that those people that I just named, and there
Speaker 1: are so many more were the fringes of the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: but they would never become the mainstream. But because of
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy and his amba like physique with absolutely no
Speaker 1: spine and no brain, he has allowed these people that
Speaker 1: we thought were jokes and we thought were on the
Speaker 1: fringe to now be mainlined and mainstreamed into political culture. Oh.
Speaker 1: I never thought that we would have an entire news channel,
Speaker 1: an entire station, an entire network that was dedicated to
Speaker 1: upholding and spreading mass hysteria, hate, fear, and lies. Right,
Speaker 1: So everything that we think can't happen has happened and
Speaker 1: is happening. And where Democrats find themselves is still looking
Speaker 1: up in wonder and amazement that these things are transpiring.
Speaker 1: And so they are so caught off guard, so knocked
Speaker 1: off their game because they're still functioning as if we
Speaker 1: have a functional two party system, that these are people
Speaker 1: that are operating under the rule of law, and yet
Speaker 1: they are showing us every single day, in every single moment,
Speaker 1: that they could give a fuck about the constitution. Jamie Raskin,
Speaker 1: Congressman Jamie Raskin was on the floor of the House
Speaker 1: and he is showing, I mean, I laugh, folks, so
Speaker 1: that I don't cry. Jamie Raskin was on the floor
Speaker 1: this week showing a very clear tweet and not a tweet,
Speaker 1: excuse me, a text message one of the many treasure
Speaker 1: troves of Mark Meadows text messages leading up to one
Speaker 1: six on one six and then following we again. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they're not revealing to the public who
Speaker 1: these lawmakers were, because I'm certain that they know. But
Speaker 1: one of them said, why don't we just gather up
Speaker 1: our red state Republicans and send these electors and just
Speaker 1: decertified the election and replaced them all with Republicans and
Speaker 1: Trumpers and let this ship go to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: So what a sitting GOP lawmaker text to Mark Meadows.
Speaker 1: This was not thought up on a whim. No, because
Speaker 1: what are we seeing with the subpoena now of the
Speaker 1: mastermind behind the what was it thirty eight slides? Right?
Speaker 1: The coup document? The architect of the coup, Phil Waldron,
Speaker 1: is now being subpoena by the Ones six Commission. But
Speaker 1: I want to bring something else up. As I was
Speaker 1: watching MSNBC yesterday, our friend and friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Ellie Mistol, brought up a really good point on ari
Speaker 1: Melbourne Show. He said, why is it that it is
Speaker 1: the one six Commission, which only has oversight authority doing
Speaker 1: this deep dive in investigation on earthing all of this
Speaker 1: shit with regard to who was involved in the one
Speaker 1: sixth Direction insurrection, who was the mastermind behind it and
Speaker 1: getting to the bottom of it, And the FBI and
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice are asleep at the fucking wheel.
Speaker 1: I tell you, every single day, I want to put
Speaker 1: Merritt Garland on a fucking milk carton because I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. But the other thing that Ellie
Speaker 1: Mistill said is that Biden could have chosen anybody else
Speaker 1: to run the Department of Justice if he actually wanted
Speaker 1: to hold the prior administration accountable and safeguard our democracy.
Speaker 1: And instead he chose some milktoast fucking institutionalist that has
Speaker 1: no grit, has no bite, and clearly has no sense
Speaker 1: of urgency. And I'm like, does he listen to any shows,
Speaker 1: does he watch anything, does he read anything? You have
Speaker 1: the power to make a significant mark, to signal to
Speaker 1: every Trumper, to every gooper that if you lay down
Speaker 1: with dogs, you're gonna get up with fleas and we're
Speaker 1: gonna wash you out. And he's not doing that, And
Speaker 1: everybody who is an attorney who has worked in or
Speaker 1: around the DOJ has been telling me for basically an
Speaker 1: entire year, Oh, don't worry, it's okay that we don't
Speaker 1: hear anything about what the Department of Justice is doing.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you now, TikTok, TikTok, your time has
Speaker 1: run the fuck out. It does matter that the public
Speaker 1: knows because the public has lost faith in the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice. The public is losing faith in all of
Speaker 1: our institutions. The public is losing faith in Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: And you can look at his poll numbers, and you
Speaker 1: know that I don't believe in polls, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that the numbers that are being reflected right now
Speaker 1: are exactly how I feel. I think that what they
Speaker 1: have been doing is fucking lackluster. I think that there
Speaker 1: their attention is way off course. And everybody wants to
Speaker 1: say to me, well, give them time. They're dealing with
Speaker 1: a lot. They knew exactly what the fuck they were
Speaker 1: getting into when they decided to run for office. They
Speaker 1: knew exactly the mess that Trump had created, So nobody
Speaker 1: should have been caught off guard. They should have just
Speaker 1: been receiving refined details and descriptions so that they knew
Speaker 1: how they were going to attack. Except this administration did
Speaker 1: not enter into the White House in attack mode. And
Speaker 1: I continue to say it. I didn't need a comforter
Speaker 1: in chief. I didn't need a fucking hug. I need
Speaker 1: a warrior. I need somebody that realizes that we are
Speaker 1: under attack, and whether or not actual guns are being
Speaker 1: used right now doesn't matter, because they created a goddamn
Speaker 1: war room around the insurrection. Where is our war room
Speaker 1: in order to get our democracy back? Who is in
Speaker 1: charge of that? This is where my anger and rage
Speaker 1: reaches a fever pitch, is that I see these subpoenas,
Speaker 1: I see the votes to hold Mark Meadows in criminal content.
Speaker 1: I see all of these things, and do you know
Speaker 1: what else I see? I see the fucking calendar, and
Speaker 1: I realize how much time we have allowed to transpire,
Speaker 1: and I cannot help but get even more angry because
Speaker 1: I know, good, god damn well that if the insurrection
Speaker 1: had been led by black people, been led by brown people,
Speaker 1: been led by any other group, those people and every
Speaker 1: single person that was even in remote communication sent a
Speaker 1: text emoji to the Chief of Staff would have been
Speaker 1: in jail by now. We would have been watching trials
Speaker 1: this entire year. And I'm so sick and tired of
Speaker 1: people saying, oh, well, it takes time, because it seems
Speaker 1: to me that justice only takes time when it is
Speaker 1: white people that are on trial. They always want to
Speaker 1: tell that we need to wait. I am watching criminality
Speaker 1: run a mock over this country and still being told,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, it's coming, justice is coming. When let
Speaker 1: me not hold my breath before I pass out. It's
Speaker 1: so troubling because when I think about how much faith
Speaker 1: I am losing, and I am a person that has
Speaker 1: dedicated my life and my work to this, I think
Speaker 1: about people that were snapped into action following the election
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, that they woke up right over the
Speaker 1: course of that four year hell administration that we were
Speaker 1: living in, that people woke up. People who had long
Speaker 1: time said, oh, politics is not my thing. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't like politics, it's ikey. They woke the fuck up
Speaker 1: because we were so used to our government and our
Speaker 1: democracy just running like a well oiled machine, something that
Speaker 1: we didn't really have to pay attention to. It's just
Speaker 1: something that's over there. But I'm really living my life
Speaker 1: over here, and now we are seeing the interconnectedness of
Speaker 1: those and just how government can affect your life for
Speaker 1: good or for worse. But now those very same people
Speaker 1: that woke up, those very same people that did their
Speaker 1: due diligence to get a new administration in so that
Speaker 1: they could rest, are looking around and they're saying, what
Speaker 1: the fuck is happening here? Who did we put in charge?
Speaker 1: Because all we're being told is I can't, right, that's
Speaker 1: all Congress continues to come back and say to us.
Speaker 1: That's all the Senate clearly is conveying to the American people,
Speaker 1: Oh I can't. We can't get it done because we
Speaker 1: have such a slim mark virgin that two people who
Speaker 1: were not voted in by the majority of Americans, that
Speaker 1: are in states that don't really fucking matter. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it because I'm pissed are the ones that
Speaker 1: get to dictate the terms of whether or not our
Speaker 1: democracy survives, whether or not we're going to keep pace
Speaker 1: with other industrialized nations by instituting policies that people have had.
Speaker 1: Nations have had for decades, like paid parental leave, universal PreK.
Speaker 1: I mean, what the fuck you know? I continue to
Speaker 1: be so extremely frustrated, and I'm tired of being told
Speaker 1: to wait and that somewhere, somehow, some light is going
Speaker 1: to be flicked on and then everyone is going to
Speaker 1: spring into action. And what I'm saying is that these people,
Speaker 1: they never stopped planning post one six. That is why
Speaker 1: we have over four hundred voter suppression laws that are
Speaker 1: in place. That is why we are seeing the pretzeled
Speaker 1: gerrymandering happening across states. They never let their foot off
Speaker 1: the guests. The GOP is running shit, and yet they're
Speaker 1: not in control of the White House or in control
Speaker 1: of Congress, but somehow they're in control of the country.
Speaker 1: How does that make sense? And the only thing that
Speaker 1: we know to be true is that it's going to
Speaker 1: get progressively worse because our votes, our voices are not
Speaker 1: going to matter. How is it that we are continuing
Speaker 1: and we've been seeing this. When was the last time
Speaker 1: that a Republican who won the White House won the
Speaker 1: popular vote? Right, I can't tell you, but that should
Speaker 1: have been our first signal that the electoral College is
Speaker 1: a racist, bullshit tool that should have been dismantled a
Speaker 1: long time ago. One vote, one voice, the person with
Speaker 1: the most votes wins, period. But that's not what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And Republicans know that, and they are making it worse.
Speaker 1: And each and everything right that they are picking up
Speaker 1: right now to continue stoking the flames under their culture
Speaker 1: war is turning into a massive fucking bonfire. And Democrats
Speaker 1: are sitting with their hands in their laps, staring up
Speaker 1: at the sky. When are they going to wake the
Speaker 1: fuck up? And my fear, this is my honest fear,
Speaker 1: is that it is going to take losing our democracy
Speaker 1: and then having to fight tooth and nail over decades
Speaker 1: to even get some semblance of it back. If ever,
Speaker 1: they have been at war, the GOP, the New White
Speaker 1: Supremacist Party, they have been at war. They started slowly
Speaker 1: with this slow moving coup with the Tea Party, and
Speaker 1: then it moved and it grew and it got roots
Speaker 1: and it became Trumpism and now it is strangling the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. And we're still wondering whether or not. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's in people's hearts. Oh I can't
Speaker 1: really say this because I need to stay neutral. It's
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I just I don't know how
Speaker 1: much more evidence is needed. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: more information you need to have in front of you,
Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, Chris Ray, in order to do your fucking jobs.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe there needs to be a directive. Maybe
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should have an emergency press
Speaker 1: conference from the Oval Office. Our democracy is under attack.
Speaker 1: We took an oath to protect this country from threats
Speaker 1: that are foreign and domestic, and right now this country
Speaker 1: is under attack from the inside out. We are raising
Speaker 1: the alarm and we will do everything within our power
Speaker 1: to stop this threat. That's what I want to see,
Speaker 1: That's what I want to hear. Donald Trump was going
Speaker 1: after his enemies because he did not like them. Why
Speaker 1: aren't we going back? Why aren't we doing the same
Speaker 1: thing with our enemies that are literally threatening our lives?
Speaker 1: Are we waiting for there to be a successful assassination
Speaker 1: attempt on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Congresswoman Alexandrio Cassio Cortez.
Speaker 1: Are we waiting for there to be successful to then
Speaker 1: turn around and realize that the attack was coming from
Speaker 1: inside the fucking house. I sure as hell hope not.
Speaker 1: But that's the direction that all of this is headed.
Speaker 1: In I remember at the beginning of the Trump administration
Speaker 1: saying on this very show on a different network that
Speaker 1: things are going to get bloodier before they get better.
Speaker 1: This the twenty twenty election, this changing of the guard
Speaker 1: was just a pause and I don't even think it
Speaker 1: was a pause on their attempts to cripple, destroy, decimate
Speaker 1: our democracy and our civil rights. They are coming for it,
Speaker 1: whether doing it inside of the law or outside of
Speaker 1: the law. They are signaling that they don't care. They
Speaker 1: just want to get it done. And then once they're
Speaker 1: back in power, once they have the gavels, everyone needs
Speaker 1: to be on high fucking alert because they told you
Speaker 1: what they were going to do. They have been saying
Speaker 1: who they are. You want to see Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: as the chairperson of the Oversight Committee. You want to
Speaker 1: see Lauren Bobert like running any type of committee. You
Speaker 1: want to see the life of Matt Gates or Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham or any of these people holding gavels. No, because
Speaker 1: if you thought that the stories around McCarthyism right back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, if you thought that the Red
Speaker 1: Scare in the United States was bad, you ain't seen
Speaker 1: nothing yet you ain't seen nothing yet, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: why we're the only ones that see it, and yet
Speaker 1: the people with the power to do anything about it
Speaker 1: are acting like everything is normal. Look. I get the
Speaker 1: idea of not wanting to alarm people when there is
Speaker 1: nothing to be alarmed about. But folks, we're at Defcon
Speaker 1: level fucking one, and in this bit, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what is the order. Is it one to five,
Speaker 1: is it five to one? I have no idea, But
Speaker 1: whatever the major threat is, whatever the major threat level is,
Speaker 1: we are at I had red red red red. Right now,
Speaker 1: with the last few minutes left, I want to turn
Speaker 1: your attention to omicron and to what has been coming
Speaker 1: out of places like New York. Folks, we are in
Speaker 1: for some major, major surges heading into this holiday season
Speaker 1: right now. I talked about this yesterday. More and more
Speaker 1: Broadway shows are being canceled New York. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you this, This blew my mind. New cases in New York,
Speaker 1: the state of New York, have hit over eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: in one day, over eighteen thousand new cases of COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: with omicron as the leading variant. In one day, there
Speaker 1: were eighty three hundred cases reported in New York City
Speaker 1: in one day. We are watching athletes and celebrities and
Speaker 1: shows and universities going back to virtual and going back
Speaker 1: into their pods. This is a warning shot. As we
Speaker 1: are headed into the holidays to gather. There are breakthrough
Speaker 1: cases that are happening left and right, and folks are
Speaker 1: telling you if you have not been boosted, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck you were waiting for. If you
Speaker 1: were choosing to gather with your family and friends during
Speaker 1: this upcoming holiday, please have your families get tested before
Speaker 1: you gather. It does not matter if everyone is vaccinated.
Speaker 1: If everyone is not vaccinated and boosted and is not
Speaker 1: getting tested to make sure that when you are gathering
Speaker 1: inside that all is safe, then we're not taking all
Speaker 1: of the proper precautions. The good thing that we have
Speaker 1: on our side right now is that we have vaccines
Speaker 1: and we have boosters. But each and every day that
Speaker 1: goes by, we are learning more and more about this
Speaker 1: new variant. We are learning that it is spreading faster
Speaker 1: and faster. As it is right now, hospitalizations are not
Speaker 1: high right now. People are not dying in the way
Speaker 1: that they did with Alpha and delta, but that was
Speaker 1: pre vaccine. It does not mean that if this takes
Speaker 1: over which it is taking over right now, this new
Speaker 1: variant is taking over delta. That means that what our
Speaker 1: friend doctor Jonathan Maxwell has been telling us that then
Speaker 1: more virus is in the air, which then means that
Speaker 1: when more virus is in the air, it is likely
Speaker 1: to mutate again and again and again, because what the
Speaker 1: virus is trying to do is find a way around
Speaker 1: the vaccines, find a way around the boosters, and if
Speaker 1: we get to a variant that spreads faster and then
Speaker 1: is more lethal, we are fucked. So all of the
Speaker 1: precautions that we had in place in twenty twenty need
Speaker 1: to be put back in place. Wearing masks, inside, social distancing,
Speaker 1: doing as much as possible outside, going back into your
Speaker 1: smaller pod groups. That is what needs to happen. But
Speaker 1: of course, instead of science leading, we are at a
Speaker 1: place We're still twenty five percent of the population is
Speaker 1: not vaccinated. We are still at a place where we
Speaker 1: are going to see more and more depths. I know
Speaker 1: that in twenty twenty two it is very likely that
Speaker 1: we will surpass a million deaths from COVID because we
Speaker 1: were already at over eight hundred thousand, which is more
Speaker 1: than any other country in the world. We cannot take
Speaker 1: what is happening, whether in our politics, in our health,
Speaker 1: in this country, on this planet lightly. As we get
Speaker 1: ready to change the calendar year, we need to raise
Speaker 1: our vigilance tenfold. It is the only thing that is
Speaker 1: going to keep us safe. Please, dear friends, do not
Speaker 1: let your guard down. It is more important than ever
Speaker 1: than ever for us to be paying attention. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today. Here folks on woke app as always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power.
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck, and stay safe
Speaker 1: as fuck. See you next week.