1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OK UP Daily with 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: You know, I've been thinking and as we're all watching 4 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: the devastating videos coming out once again out of Texas 5 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: of a yet another climate change environmental disaster. Folks, Within 6 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours, as the news is reporting 7 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: a summer meeting, two months worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas. 8 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: Let me say that again, within less than twenty four hours, 9 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: a summer's worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas, causing 10 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: immense flash floods. People. There are videos of people literally 11 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: swimming out of their cars too safety. And I'm thinking 12 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: to myself self, maybe it would be something if Greg 13 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: Abbot's dumbass would spend just maybe half the time that 14 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: he spends on persecuting drag queens and the LGBTQ community 15 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: and trans kids and their families for you know, seeking 16 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: medical treatment for them and maybe criminalizing you know, abortion, 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: that maybe if he took half the fucking effort that 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: he puts into discrimination right and creating a hellish environment 19 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: for marginalized communities in Texas and actually put it into 20 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: dealing with the issues that Texans are actually needing him 21 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: to focus on, like the fucking power grid that keeps 22 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: going out when it's too fucking hot there, or these 23 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: flash floods, and creating infrastructure that is going to be 24 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: compatible with the climate crisis that is increasing in this 25 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: country and around the globe. Maybe you know, he could 26 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: actually do something the thing that governors are supposed to do, 27 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: which is care for their citizens. But instead, no, he's 28 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: a Republican governor, which means that he's going to invent 29 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: crises as opposed to dealing with the ones that are 30 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: in front of him. But let me tell you, folks 31 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: that you know, the other day, I'm finally out of 32 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: the boot. So I'm slowly, literally very slowly getting back 33 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: into my regular cadence of walking. And I for the 34 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: first time I couldn't even remember I was saying to 35 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: my mother the last time that I was caught outside 36 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: in the rain, because you all know, I'm here in 37 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: New York and not in the same with the same 38 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: kind of devastation that California is being met with with 39 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: regard to their drought. But New York is in a 40 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: drought as well. Every day it says it's going to 41 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: rain forty percent chance of rain. It never rains. But 42 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 1: the other day I was actually caught in a rainstorm, 43 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, what's happening here is so 44 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: severe and so fast. But climate scientists have been warning 45 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: about what was going to happen for the last thirty years, 46 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: and no one paid attention because of why greed, because 47 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: of the desire to continue to make money, to fill 48 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: up the air with you know, co two emissions, for 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 1: celebrities to be able to take fifteen minute trips on 50 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: you know, their private jets that are akin to having 51 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, millions of cars on the road that they 52 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: just spew out in fifteen minutes. Maybe if we had 53 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: taken action, if we realize that true wealth isn't really 54 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: about how much you can consume, but about the way 55 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: that you live and about being able to, you know, 56 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: breathe fresh air and drink clean water and go out 57 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: in the summertime and not feel like the people did 58 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: in India when the temperatures this spring hit a hundred 59 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: and twenty two degrees and they said that being in 60 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: the sun, if you were in it too long, felt 61 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: like somebody was placing a laser over your skin. Right, 62 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: this is the climate crisis. It's not thirty years down 63 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: the road. It's fucking here. So you have parts of 64 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: the country that are either up in flames or dry 65 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: as dust, which means that what our food costs are 66 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 1: going up, not just because of inflation, because we can't 67 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: make the same type of produce, because we can no 68 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: longer predict the type of weather that we're going to have. 69 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: So you I have Texas saying, oh my god, we 70 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: need water, we need water, and then they have record 71 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: breaking floods. The earth is so fucking dry, like all 72 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: it does is bubble up. Everything has become so extreme 73 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: in this country, in this world, not just our politics, 74 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: but our environment and the way that we're living. And 75 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: what is it all about. It's about our treatment, our 76 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: treatment of one another, and our treatment of this one 77 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: earth that we are living on. We look around and 78 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, as I was walking home in 79 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: the rain the other day, there were reports that came 80 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: out that were saying that rainwater is no longer say, 81 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: I don't know when it was, because I didn't do 82 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: this as a kid, but maybe some of you all did. 83 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: It's no longer safe to drink right that rainwater is 84 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: actually so polluted, right that it is no longer safe 85 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: to drink. And there is a book, the book that 86 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: I talk about often poarable of the sower, Octavia Butler, 87 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: where it never rained right in her futuristic version of America, 88 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: which is basically the America that we're living in now, 89 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: it never rains. Water has become one of the hottest commodities. 90 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: And as I was walking home in the rain, I said, well, 91 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: either one of two things are going to happen. Rain 92 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: is just going to turn into acid and we will 93 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: never be outdoors when it rains in future, in future years, 94 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: or it's just going to stop raining all together. You 95 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: had reports coming out that I saw that people are 96 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: getting violations in California, a lot of celebrities, including the 97 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: Kardashian Clan, for not adhering to the water restriction laws, 98 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: right like, oh, fountains and pools and this, that and 99 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: the other thing, and not really giving a fuck and 100 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: thinking that, oh, well, it comes from a host, so 101 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: it's going to be plentiful. It's not right. I can 102 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: actually remember the rapper Most Deaf formerly known as most 103 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: deaf who created a song. When was it? I want 104 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: to say that it was early two thousands that was 105 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: called Worldwide Water and it was about how water, which 106 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: was abundant, was going to become the more expensive than gold. 107 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: And as I'm watching these crises unfold, one city after 108 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: the other, I'm thinking to myself, oh my god, he, 109 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: much like all of the climate scientists, were completely right. 110 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: And I keep thinking with each and every headline that 111 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: just gets worse and worse about our climate conditions. You 112 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: know how long we actually really have before there is 113 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: no point of that we've gone past the point of 114 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: no return. I think that we're here because while I 115 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: applaud tremendously the Biden administration for passing significant climate legislation, 116 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: it still doesn't go far enough not to deal with 117 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: these fucking type of crises that we have right now. 118 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: And so you wonder, is incrementation, incremental change really what 119 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: it is that we need right now, not facing the 120 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: kind of consistent tragedies that we are seeing. So I 121 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: just don't know, like when the masses are going to 122 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: make the connection between what is happening. The other thing 123 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: that I want to talk about today as well, is, 124 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: you know, a conversation that I've had on here many times, 125 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: and a conversation that continues to come up when I 126 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: go and make cable news appearances, and it's this, Danielle, 127 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: what do you think is going to be most important 128 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: at the polls and during midterms? Is it going to 129 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: be abortion or is it going to be kitchen table issues? 130 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: And I literally listened to a pundant the other day 131 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: say that, you know, it's going to be really exciting 132 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: to see what the biggest issue is for mid terms, 133 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: And I'm like, can we stop siloing these issues out 134 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: or compartmentalizing them as if somehow they're not all interconnected? 135 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: How do you still not see abortion in this day 136 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: and age as a kitchen table issue when you can't 137 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: actually feed all of the fucking mouths that are at 138 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: your kitchen table, and then you now have a pregnancy 139 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: that you're being forced to carry. And by the way, 140 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: there was a report that came out and Google this 141 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: because I don't remember where it came from, but I 142 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: saw it on CNN that said, do you know how 143 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: much it costs to raise a child in these United States? 144 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: Right now? And I don't know what they mean by 145 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: raise a child is the cut off eighteen because frankly, 146 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: you have people that are living at home with their 147 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: parents well into their late twenties because things have become 148 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: just that unaffordable. Three hundred thousand dollars. And I looked 149 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: at my sister was here visiting with me, and I 150 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: looked at her, and I was like, it costs three 151 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to raise a child. And I was like, Nicole, 152 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: look up and tell me what the average salary in 153 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: the United States is. Do you guys know what the 154 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: average salary is in the United States? And it depends 155 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,479 Speaker 1: on what you you know. Most recent numbers are from 156 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. Folks, the average salary in 157 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: these United States is less than sixty thousand dollars a year. 158 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: And I actually think that it was really about fifty seven. 159 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: How are you making fifty seven thousand dollars a year 160 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: and are able to afford the cost of a child 161 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: that we just learned was three hundred thousand dollars. And 162 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: now you're being forced into a situation where you don't 163 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: get to choose if, when, and how you create a family. 164 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: And so now not only are you being forced to 165 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: birth a child. But ain't nobody come into your aid 166 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: to actually help you. Right, You're not getting child tax credits, 167 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: You're not getting a universal pre K paid for by 168 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: the state or by the federal government. None of those 169 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: things are happening. We don't even give fucking paternity and 170 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: maternity leave right in a way that makes sense. Most 171 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: people have to go back to work after three to 172 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: six weeks of having a child, not because they want to, 173 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: but because they can't afford to stay home any longer, 174 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: or the policies at their jobs say that a either 175 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: you take disability and take half, maybe maybe half of 176 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: your salary home, or you get back to work. So 177 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: how is it then that you have pundits and you 178 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,599 Speaker 1: have hosts that are still framing the conversation around abortion 179 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: as if it doesn't have anything to do with fucking money, 180 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: Because that, to me, is just a really intellectually dishonest 181 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: conversation to be having. 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Speaking of which horrific video that I refuse 219 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: to watch And I just want to let you all 220 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: know that if you choose not to watch it, it 221 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: is okay. That does not make you a bad person, 222 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: It does not make you not in solidarity. Horrific video 223 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: has come out three police officers in Arkansas beating the 224 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: shit out of a suspect at three officers are on 225 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: top of kicking the suspect in the head, in the 226 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: body as they are putting on handcuffs, and we have 227 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: the governor talking about bad apples once again, because this 228 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: is the favorite, favorite fucking thing to say after every 229 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: single police video of violence comes out. It doesn't matter 230 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: what state you're in, doesn't matter what city or township 231 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: that you're in, It is the same police chief and 232 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: the same fucking governor and the same district attorneys saying 233 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: the same fucking things. We love law enforcement. Most of 234 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: our cops are out there brave and doing the right thing. 235 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: But there are a few quotes say it with me, 236 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: bad apples, And this is what I say to that 237 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: how many bad apples does it take to create a 238 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: poisoned orchard? Right? Because it seems to me that from 239 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: New York City to Ferguson right to Arkansas, to all 240 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: of these places, to Louisville right to Atlanta, it seems 241 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: to me to be a lot of motherfucking bad apples. 242 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: And one of the other things that I heard in 243 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: the press conference that was done was talking about the 244 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: fact that this is not what police officers are trained 245 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: to do. Well, what are they trained to do? Because 246 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: I also alerted you all to the story that came 247 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: out of Detroit where that little Boy Scout group was 248 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: on a field trip and then what they saw in 249 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: the shooting range were all black men in hoodies. So 250 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: you don't actually know what is happening in quote unquote 251 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: police training. But what I do know is that it 252 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: is the perpetuation of white supremacy which is steeped in 253 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: fucking violence, and that there really is no different between 254 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: the proud boys and the oath keepers and the motherfucking 255 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: police that you see on the street. Because one of 256 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: these Arkansas officers, by the way, had been written up before. 257 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: But guess what, just like Derek Chauvin, he stayed on 258 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: the motherfucking job because we always protect the blue So 259 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: bad apples or a fucking gang, you tell me what 260 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: the difference is. But I know that we have a 261 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: continuation of police violence in this country because the police 262 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: are never held accountable or responsible. Do you think that 263 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: if we finally were to ever create Oh, I don't know, 264 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: that magical George Floyd bill that you know, Corey Booker 265 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: and you know, and others threw up their hands on 266 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: because they couldn't come into agreement right with Republicans because 267 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: what Republicans are not going to agree to get rid 268 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: of qualified immunity because they want as many Bipop people 269 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: to be beat shot, and killed by police as possible. Right, 270 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: because that's why the police force was created in the 271 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: first place. You all know this, well, maybe you don't, 272 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: because we don't teach history in America, do we. But 273 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: those slave catcher patrols are what eventually grew into the 274 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: modern day police force. So there, you know, you put 275 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: together slave catcher patrol in order to catch enslaved African 276 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: people who were running for freedom, running for their lives, 277 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,479 Speaker 1: and bring them back to be tortured and abused by 278 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: their masters so that you can make a buck. Tell 279 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: me the difference between that and what most municipalities have 280 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: would share quotas for their police officers to make by 281 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: ticketing people and then throwing them in jail when they 282 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: rack up too many tickets. That's how the Ferguson Police 283 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 1: department where Mike Brown was murdered back in twenty fourteen, 284 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: that's what they were doing, right, They were just making 285 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: money off of poor people that weren't able to pay 286 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: tickets and just throwing them in jail. Tell me the 287 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: difference there right, because you're still using people who are 288 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: part of vulnerable populations and using them as your little 289 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: cat nip so that you can get a kickback, just 290 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,719 Speaker 1: like the slave patrol catchers did. Here's your, you know, 291 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: hundred dollar reward. I'm just so sick to death of 292 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: these conversations and the same people coming across my screens 293 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: talking about we need accountability and justice, knowing that we 294 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: ain't ever gonna get it. It doesn't matter whether or 295 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: not it's on video, It doesn't matter whether or not 296 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: you know, because all people want to say, and I 297 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: listen to the reporting is as we can see from 298 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: this angle, And I'm like, how many fucking angles do 299 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: you need to see in order to realize that three 300 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: men are taken down what looks like one slight man 301 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: of color and he is already hand and cuffed and 302 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: you're beating the shit out of him. What other vantage 303 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: point do I need? What do I need to have 304 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: seen right to proceed that to justify those acts of 305 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: brutality and violence at the hands of police who ride 306 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: around in cars that say protect and serve, It makes 307 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: no goddamn sense to me. But here we are, once again, 308 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: another person thankfully this one is alive. Right, But we 309 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: only have, you know, probably just a couple of days 310 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: until yet another story of an unarmed black person or 311 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: person of color being killed by police, and then we'll 312 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: have this conversation recycled all over again. I don't even 313 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: think that people do any research anymore. I think they 314 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: just regurgitate the same talking points, right, because nothing actually 315 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: ever changes. We all watch George Floyd be murdered, had 316 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: the life sucked out of him right by Derek Schaubn. 317 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: We think, oh my god, here we have justice because 318 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: Eric Chauvin is in jail. But that didn't set up 319 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: any precedent to make sure that kind of heinous police 320 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: behavior never happens again. Right you. Now, finally, after a 321 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: couple of years of Brianna Taylor being murdered in her sleep, 322 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: that you have those police officers facing federal crime charges. 323 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: But again, justice delayed because it doesn't go any further 324 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: in creating policy that blankets and says that not even 325 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: police officers are above the law. Do you think that 326 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: we would have so many goddamn shootings at the hands 327 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: of police if they knew that they could be held 328 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: criminally liable. I think that they would think twice before 329 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: they shot. I just, you know, I get exhausted. And 330 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: the reason why I don't watch these videos anymore because 331 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: they tear out your soul. And I don't think that 332 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: you need to watch the video in order to empathize 333 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: or to feel sickened by what you're seeing. But what happens, 334 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: I think too often, is that these videos circulate and 335 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: we all just become desensitized to what it is that 336 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: we're seeing. Oh, it's just another you know, person being beaten. 337 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: It's just another person being shot. And do we just 338 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: they lose the sense of humanity, and police lose the 339 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: sense of responsibility that they are supposed to have. I'm 340 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: just so sick to I'm just I become continually, continually exhausted. 341 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: Let's switch gears to where we are with Donald Trump 342 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: and the search at mar Lago. So right now there 343 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: is all this bullshit happening with the federal judge over 344 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: the case because folks want the Affidavid's released. The judge 345 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: said that the Department of Justice can redact whatever they 346 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 1: believe is going to put the criminal case that they 347 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: are putting together, which we know that they are putting 348 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: together against potentially, let me say that, against Donald Trump. 349 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: They do not want this to be hindered by releasing 350 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: too much information into the public. The judge has come 351 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: back and said, by what he has already seen that, yeah, 352 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,239 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice should not really like, we're not 353 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: going to see an unredacted version of that Affidavid most 354 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: likely ever, and we won't really learn more until there 355 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: are indictments that come out. But what the judge has 356 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: said is that he believes that not one, not two, 357 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: but multiple federal crimes we're happening at Mara Lago, and 358 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: therefore the search and seizure that was was necessary for 359 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: the preservation of you know, our democracy, because as the 360 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: Department of Justice has come out and said, oh, we 361 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: have concerns around the Espionage Act. Now if you're only 362 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: watching Fox News, which I know none of you do, 363 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: or maybe you do just for you know, to see 364 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: what the other side is doing. But basically where we 365 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: are is that you have Republicans calling on the defunding 366 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: of the FBI, which is law enforcement, which you know 367 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 1: they only give a shit about when they are again 368 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: squeezing the life out of or shooting the life out 369 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: of Black people and people of color. But when in 370 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: fact you're just you know, applying the law to everybody, 371 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: including the former twice impeached disgrace president of the United States, 372 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: you then somehow feel like, oh, well, he's above the 373 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: law and this was illegal and it was unprecedented. But 374 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: let's just be clear that Donald Trump's whole reign as 375 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,159 Speaker 1: fucking precedent of these United States was unprecedented. That a 376 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: man like him should have never had access to the 377 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: nuclear fucking codes, should have never had access to any 378 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: fucking classified documents that this motherfucker could turn around and 379 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: sell to the highest bidder to bring his broke ass 380 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: out of debt, because that's exactly what we know Donald 381 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: Trump would be doing. So there is an article in the 382 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: the New York Times that came out that talks about 383 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: the fact that you know who else is responsible for 384 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: these boxes, right, these two dozen boxes that ended up 385 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: in a fucking Marilago basement is Mark Meadows, right, because 386 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows. First of all, Trump had no confidence in 387 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows towards the end, and that Mark Meadows was 388 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: of staff, which means that he knew what was leaving 389 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: the White House when and how, and Mark Meadows, former 390 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: member of Congress. I'm pretty sure understood or knew the protocol. 391 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: But what they were saying was that because Donald Trump 392 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: was so delusional about him leaving the White House and 393 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: not being president anymore, that he felt that those boxes 394 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: were his folks. Let's be clear, No, he didn't. Donald 395 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: Trump knew exactly what the fuck he was doing. And 396 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: you know, this isn't about love letters to Kim John 397 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: un right or Mohammed bin salam right. This is about 398 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: the potential identification of intelligence agents that are actively in 399 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: the field and being able to sell that right to 400 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: our quote unquote enemies four billions of dollars, right. I 401 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: just the fact that you have Republicans acting as if 402 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: this is no big deal. I actually heard one of 403 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: them say on some show, maybe it was Meet the Press, that, oh, 404 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: there's no more information in there about nuclear or weapons 405 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: or codes than you can't get on your iPhone just 406 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: by googling. Do they listen to themselves? Do you think 407 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: that they listen back to themselves and think, my god, 408 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: how fucking stupid do I sound. It's wild, it's wild. 409 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: But you know, whenever you think that we've reached the 410 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: point of no return when oh my god, they can't possibly, 411 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: can't possibly defend this, this is indefensible. Oh no, they 412 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: find a way to defend Donald Trump until the ends 413 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: of the earth. Because I'm pretty sure what else was 414 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: in that safe right, are probably dossiers on every publican, governors, 415 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: members of Congress, you know, ags and everything, because that's 416 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: what mobsters do. But that doesn't absolve these people of 417 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: their oath that they took to the Constitution or to 418 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: the republic. Right. But clearly there is nothing that Donald 419 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: Trump can do. And like he said during the campaign, 420 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: he can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he would 421 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: watch his poll numbers arise. And I believe that to 422 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: be one hundred percent true. You know, folks, Mitch McConnell 423 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: was interviewed the other day. I hate that man so much. 424 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: I digress, but he said that our democracy is in 425 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: our stake, Our democracy is solid. Sir, Where are you 426 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: looking what exactly are you looking at and listening to? 427 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: You know, almost eighteen nineteen months after an attempt to 428 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: violently overthrow the government, when you are seeing and hearing 429 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: about reports of rise in political violence, when you have 430 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: people who are being shot in front of FBI buildings, 431 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: When you have bomb threats that are going into hospitals 432 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: because of the care that they are giving to transgender children, 433 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: what part of any of this means to you that 434 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: our democracy is strong? I mean that is like the 435 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: gaslight of all gaslights, because their own Republican base is 436 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: talking about the fact that they believe that a civil 437 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: war is coming, that a majority of them believe that 438 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: a civil war is coming, and I believe that a 439 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: majority of them are hoping and rooting for a civil 440 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: war to come so that they can utilize their stockpile 441 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: of ammunition and guns that they have. Let's not pretend, right, 442 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: Let's not just lie for the sake of fucking lying. 443 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: You know, we can actually tell the truth, and maybe 444 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: if we did, things would begin to change, just you know, 445 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: maybe here's hoping. That is it for me today, Dear 446 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: friends on woke f as always, Power to the people 447 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 448 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.