WEBVTT - Kitchen Table Issues 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.319 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OK UP Daily with 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:19.640 Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:26.480 You know, I've been thinking and as we're all watching 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.920 the devastating videos coming out once again out of Texas 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:38.720 of a yet another climate change environmental disaster. Folks, Within 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.360 less than twenty four hours, as the news is reporting 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:50.760 a summer meeting, two months worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.680 Let me say that again, within less than twenty four hours, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:02.080 a summer's worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas, causing 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:07.440 immense flash floods. People. There are videos of people literally 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.479 swimming out of their cars too safety. And I'm thinking 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:19.400 to myself self, maybe it would be something if Greg 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.760 Abbot's dumbass would spend just maybe half the time that 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.640 he spends on persecuting drag queens and the LGBTQ community 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.240 and trans kids and their families for you know, seeking 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.920 medical treatment for them and maybe criminalizing you know, abortion, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.920 that maybe if he took half the fucking effort that 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:47.280 he puts into discrimination right and creating a hellish environment 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.680 for marginalized communities in Texas and actually put it into 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.680 dealing with the issues that Texans are actually needing him 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.800 to focus on, like the fucking power grid that keeps 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.640 going out when it's too fucking hot there, or these 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.520 flash floods, and creating infrastructure that is going to be 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.680 compatible with the climate crisis that is increasing in this 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.720 country and around the globe. Maybe you know, he could 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.200 actually do something the thing that governors are supposed to do, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.720 which is care for their citizens. But instead, no, he's 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.000 a Republican governor, which means that he's going to invent 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.919 crises as opposed to dealing with the ones that are 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.320 in front of him. But let me tell you, folks 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.160 that you know, the other day, I'm finally out of 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:40.600 the boot. So I'm slowly, literally very slowly getting back 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.160 into my regular cadence of walking. And I for the 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.280 first time I couldn't even remember I was saying to 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.160 my mother the last time that I was caught outside 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.720 in the rain, because you all know, I'm here in 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.160 New York and not in the same with the same 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.040 kind of devastation that California is being met with with 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.120 regard to their drought. But New York is in a 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.959 drought as well. Every day it says it's going to 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.040 rain forty percent chance of rain. It never rains. But 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.239 the other day I was actually caught in a rainstorm, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.920 and I'm thinking to myself, what's happening here is so 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:25.600 severe and so fast. But climate scientists have been warning 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.240 about what was going to happen for the last thirty years, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:35.160 and no one paid attention because of why greed, because 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.240 of the desire to continue to make money, to fill 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.760 up the air with you know, co two emissions, for 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.119 celebrities to be able to take fifteen minute trips on 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:52.040 you know, their private jets that are akin to having 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.560 you know, millions of cars on the road that they 0:03:54.680 --> 0:04:00.160 just spew out in fifteen minutes. Maybe if we had 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.480 taken action, if we realize that true wealth isn't really 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.560 about how much you can consume, but about the way 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.600 that you live and about being able to, you know, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.120 breathe fresh air and drink clean water and go out 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.400 in the summertime and not feel like the people did 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.120 in India when the temperatures this spring hit a hundred 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.320 and twenty two degrees and they said that being in 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.479 the sun, if you were in it too long, felt 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.760 like somebody was placing a laser over your skin. Right, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.120 this is the climate crisis. It's not thirty years down 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.880 the road. It's fucking here. So you have parts of 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.839 the country that are either up in flames or dry 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.800 as dust, which means that what our food costs are 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.799 going up, not just because of inflation, because we can't 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.839 make the same type of produce, because we can no 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.040 longer predict the type of weather that we're going to have. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.599 So you I have Texas saying, oh my god, we 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.080 need water, we need water, and then they have record 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.920 breaking floods. The earth is so fucking dry, like all 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.960 it does is bubble up. Everything has become so extreme 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.320 in this country, in this world, not just our politics, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.800 but our environment and the way that we're living. And 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:26.000 what is it all about. It's about our treatment, our 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.760 treatment of one another, and our treatment of this one 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.320 earth that we are living on. We look around and 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.359 I'm saying to myself, as I was walking home in 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.760 the rain the other day, there were reports that came 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.920 out that were saying that rainwater is no longer say, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.039 I don't know when it was, because I didn't do 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.960 this as a kid, but maybe some of you all did. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:54.080 It's no longer safe to drink right that rainwater is 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.000 actually so polluted, right that it is no longer safe 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.120 to drink. And there is a book, the book that 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.480 I talk about often poarable of the sower, Octavia Butler, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:10.680 where it never rained right in her futuristic version of America, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.080 which is basically the America that we're living in now, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.400 it never rains. Water has become one of the hottest commodities. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.400 And as I was walking home in the rain, I said, well, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.360 either one of two things are going to happen. Rain 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 is just going to turn into acid and we will 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.920 never be outdoors when it rains in future, in future years, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.640 or it's just going to stop raining all together. You 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.760 had reports coming out that I saw that people are 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:43.240 getting violations in California, a lot of celebrities, including the 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:49.160 Kardashian Clan, for not adhering to the water restriction laws, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.760 right like, oh, fountains and pools and this, that and 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.560 the other thing, and not really giving a fuck and 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.880 thinking that, oh, well, it comes from a host, so 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.280 it's going to be plentiful. It's not right. I can 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:08.320 actually remember the rapper Most Deaf formerly known as most 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:14.200 deaf who created a song. When was it? I want 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.640 to say that it was early two thousands that was 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:23.080 called Worldwide Water and it was about how water, which 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:28.520 was abundant, was going to become the more expensive than gold. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:34.040 And as I'm watching these crises unfold, one city after 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.640 the other, I'm thinking to myself, oh my god, he, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.640 much like all of the climate scientists, were completely right. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.480 And I keep thinking with each and every headline that 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:51.360 just gets worse and worse about our climate conditions. You 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.680 know how long we actually really have before there is 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.280 no point of that we've gone past the point of 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.280 no return. I think that we're here because while I 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:10.120 applaud tremendously the Biden administration for passing significant climate legislation, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.600 it still doesn't go far enough not to deal with 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.080 these fucking type of crises that we have right now. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.760 And so you wonder, is incrementation, incremental change really what 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.880 it is that we need right now, not facing the 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:30.400 kind of consistent tragedies that we are seeing. So I 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.840 just don't know, like when the masses are going to 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.920 make the connection between what is happening. The other thing 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.160 that I want to talk about today as well, is, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.040 you know, a conversation that I've had on here many times, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.400 and a conversation that continues to come up when I 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.719 go and make cable news appearances, and it's this, Danielle, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.760 what do you think is going to be most important 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.679 at the polls and during midterms? Is it going to 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.520 be abortion or is it going to be kitchen table issues? 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.880 And I literally listened to a pundant the other day 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.280 say that, you know, it's going to be really exciting 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.120 to see what the biggest issue is for mid terms, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.320 And I'm like, can we stop siloing these issues out 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.720 or compartmentalizing them as if somehow they're not all interconnected? 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.600 How do you still not see abortion in this day 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.320 and age as a kitchen table issue when you can't 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.240 actually feed all of the fucking mouths that are at 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:41.080 your kitchen table, and then you now have a pregnancy 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.040 that you're being forced to carry. And by the way, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.240 there was a report that came out and Google this 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.080 because I don't remember where it came from, but I 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.880 saw it on CNN that said, do you know how 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.800 much it costs to raise a child in these United States? 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.880 Right now? And I don't know what they mean by 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.400 raise a child is the cut off eighteen because frankly, 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.439 you have people that are living at home with their 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.520 parents well into their late twenties because things have become 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:13.680 just that unaffordable. Three hundred thousand dollars. And I looked 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.560 at my sister was here visiting with me, and I 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.760 looked at her, and I was like, it costs three 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:24.360 hundred thousand dollars to raise a child. And I was like, Nicole, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:30.480 look up and tell me what the average salary in 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.640 the United States is. Do you guys know what the 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.520 average salary is in the United States? And it depends 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.479 on what you you know. Most recent numbers are from 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:48.640 twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. Folks, the average salary in 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.400 these United States is less than sixty thousand dollars a year. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.760 And I actually think that it was really about fifty seven. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.160 How are you making fifty seven thousand dollars a year 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.600 and are able to afford the cost of a child 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.640 that we just learned was three hundred thousand dollars. And 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.160 now you're being forced into a situation where you don't 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.640 get to choose if, when, and how you create a family. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.120 And so now not only are you being forced to 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.319 birth a child. But ain't nobody come into your aid 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.640 to actually help you. Right, You're not getting child tax credits, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:32.360 You're not getting a universal pre K paid for by 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.520 the state or by the federal government. None of those 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.040 things are happening. We don't even give fucking paternity and 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.800 maternity leave right in a way that makes sense. Most 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.280 people have to go back to work after three to 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.600 six weeks of having a child, not because they want to, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.920 but because they can't afford to stay home any longer, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.679 or the policies at their jobs say that a either 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.160 you take disability and take half, maybe maybe half of 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.480 your salary home, or you get back to work. So 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.600 how is it then that you have pundits and you 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.599 have hosts that are still framing the conversation around abortion 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.320 as if it doesn't have anything to do with fucking money, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.760 Because that, to me, is just a really intellectually dishonest 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.480 conversation to be having. 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Speaking of which horrific video that I refuse 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.320 to watch And I just want to let you all 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.040 know that if you choose not to watch it, it 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.840 is okay. That does not make you a bad person, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.920 It does not make you not in solidarity. Horrific video 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:55.920 has come out three police officers in Arkansas beating the 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:02.600 shit out of a suspect at three officers are on 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.400 top of kicking the suspect in the head, in the 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.840 body as they are putting on handcuffs, and we have 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:20.640 the governor talking about bad apples once again, because this 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:27.720 is the favorite, favorite fucking thing to say after every 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:33.120 single police video of violence comes out. It doesn't matter 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.560 what state you're in, doesn't matter what city or township 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.680 that you're in, It is the same police chief and 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.040 the same fucking governor and the same district attorneys saying 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.080 the same fucking things. We love law enforcement. Most of 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.200 our cops are out there brave and doing the right thing. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.520 But there are a few quotes say it with me, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.160 bad apples, And this is what I say to that 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.520 how many bad apples does it take to create a 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.520 poisoned orchard? Right? Because it seems to me that from 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.840 New York City to Ferguson right to Arkansas, to all 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:17.080 of these places, to Louisville right to Atlanta, it seems 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.680 to me to be a lot of motherfucking bad apples. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:21.880 And one of the other things that I heard in 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.440 the press conference that was done was talking about the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.920 fact that this is not what police officers are trained 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.840 to do. Well, what are they trained to do? Because 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.160 I also alerted you all to the story that came 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.840 out of Detroit where that little Boy Scout group was 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.000 on a field trip and then what they saw in 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.600 the shooting range were all black men in hoodies. So 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.320 you don't actually know what is happening in quote unquote 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.160 police training. But what I do know is that it 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.760 is the perpetuation of white supremacy which is steeped in 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.920 fucking violence, and that there really is no different between 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.880 the proud boys and the oath keepers and the motherfucking 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 police that you see on the street. Because one of 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.040 these Arkansas officers, by the way, had been written up before. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.600 But guess what, just like Derek Chauvin, he stayed on 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:20.080 the motherfucking job because we always protect the blue So 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:25.240 bad apples or a fucking gang, you tell me what 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.560 the difference is. But I know that we have a 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.080 continuation of police violence in this country because the police 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.640 are never held accountable or responsible. Do you think that 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.000 if we finally were to ever create Oh, I don't know, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.520 that magical George Floyd bill that you know, Corey Booker 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.119 and you know, and others threw up their hands on 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:54.440 because they couldn't come into agreement right with Republicans because 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.919 what Republicans are not going to agree to get rid 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.800 of qualified immunity because they want as many Bipop people 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.640 to be beat shot, and killed by police as possible. Right, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.000 because that's why the police force was created in the 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.080 first place. You all know this, well, maybe you don't, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.000 because we don't teach history in America, do we. But 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:16.400 those slave catcher patrols are what eventually grew into the 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.080 modern day police force. So there, you know, you put 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:25.000 together slave catcher patrol in order to catch enslaved African 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.080 people who were running for freedom, running for their lives, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.479 and bring them back to be tortured and abused by 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.880 their masters so that you can make a buck. Tell 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:39.960 me the difference between that and what most municipalities have 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.200 would share quotas for their police officers to make by 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.119 ticketing people and then throwing them in jail when they 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.040 rack up too many tickets. That's how the Ferguson Police 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.640 department where Mike Brown was murdered back in twenty fourteen, 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.000 that's what they were doing, right, They were just making 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.360 money off of poor people that weren't able to pay 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.439 tickets and just throwing them in jail. Tell me the 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:09.879 difference there right, because you're still using people who are 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:14.280 part of vulnerable populations and using them as your little 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.920 cat nip so that you can get a kickback, just 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.719 like the slave patrol catchers did. Here's your, you know, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:26.160 hundred dollar reward. I'm just so sick to death of 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.440 these conversations and the same people coming across my screens 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.159 talking about we need accountability and justice, knowing that we 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.040 ain't ever gonna get it. It doesn't matter whether or 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.120 not it's on video, It doesn't matter whether or not 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.359 you know, because all people want to say, and I 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.359 listen to the reporting is as we can see from 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.639 this angle, And I'm like, how many fucking angles do 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.440 you need to see in order to realize that three 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:56.040 men are taken down what looks like one slight man 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.760 of color and he is already hand and cuffed and 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.680 you're beating the shit out of him. What other vantage 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.919 point do I need? What do I need to have 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.800 seen right to proceed that to justify those acts of 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.920 brutality and violence at the hands of police who ride 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.400 around in cars that say protect and serve, It makes 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:22.119 no goddamn sense to me. But here we are, once again, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:29.400 another person thankfully this one is alive. Right, But we 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.560 only have, you know, probably just a couple of days 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.919 until yet another story of an unarmed black person or 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.440 person of color being killed by police, and then we'll 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.840 have this conversation recycled all over again. I don't even 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.399 think that people do any research anymore. I think they 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.840 just regurgitate the same talking points, right, because nothing actually 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.400 ever changes. We all watch George Floyd be murdered, had 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.320 the life sucked out of him right by Derek Schaubn. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.760 We think, oh my god, here we have justice because 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.399 Eric Chauvin is in jail. But that didn't set up 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.920 any precedent to make sure that kind of heinous police 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:12.080 behavior never happens again. Right you. Now, finally, after a 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.880 couple of years of Brianna Taylor being murdered in her sleep, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:23.000 that you have those police officers facing federal crime charges. 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:30.879 But again, justice delayed because it doesn't go any further 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:36.160 in creating policy that blankets and says that not even 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.199 police officers are above the law. Do you think that 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.000 we would have so many goddamn shootings at the hands 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.400 of police if they knew that they could be held 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.280 criminally liable. I think that they would think twice before 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:56.000 they shot. I just, you know, I get exhausted. And 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.600 the reason why I don't watch these videos anymore because 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.520 they tear out your soul. And I don't think that 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.600 you need to watch the video in order to empathize 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:10.639 or to feel sickened by what you're seeing. But what happens, 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.680 I think too often, is that these videos circulate and 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.840 we all just become desensitized to what it is that 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.560 we're seeing. Oh, it's just another you know, person being beaten. 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.560 It's just another person being shot. And do we just 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:29.840 they lose the sense of humanity, and police lose the 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.680 sense of responsibility that they are supposed to have. I'm 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:40.000 just so sick to I'm just I become continually, continually exhausted. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:45.560 Let's switch gears to where we are with Donald Trump 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:49.480 and the search at mar Lago. So right now there 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:55.120 is all this bullshit happening with the federal judge over 0:22:55.160 --> 0:23:02.240 the case because folks want the Affidavid's released. The judge 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.760 said that the Department of Justice can redact whatever they 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.880 believe is going to put the criminal case that they 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.960 are putting together, which we know that they are putting 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:17.200 together against potentially, let me say that, against Donald Trump. 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:21.320 They do not want this to be hindered by releasing 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.320 too much information into the public. The judge has come 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:28.600 back and said, by what he has already seen that, yeah, 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.239 the Department of Justice should not really like, we're not 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:37.000 going to see an unredacted version of that Affidavid most 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:41.560 likely ever, and we won't really learn more until there 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.200 are indictments that come out. But what the judge has 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:50.080 said is that he believes that not one, not two, 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:56.560 but multiple federal crimes we're happening at Mara Lago, and 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:02.359 therefore the search and seizure that was was necessary for 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:08.000 the preservation of you know, our democracy, because as the 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.040 Department of Justice has come out and said, oh, we 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.760 have concerns around the Espionage Act. Now if you're only 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:17.040 watching Fox News, which I know none of you do, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:19.520 or maybe you do just for you know, to see 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:26.600 what the other side is doing. But basically where we 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:31.639 are is that you have Republicans calling on the defunding 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:34.359 of the FBI, which is law enforcement, which you know 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:37.120 they only give a shit about when they are again 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:40.440 squeezing the life out of or shooting the life out 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:45.159 of Black people and people of color. But when in 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:50.000 fact you're just you know, applying the law to everybody, 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:54.480 including the former twice impeached disgrace president of the United States, 0:24:55.359 --> 0:25:00.760 you then somehow feel like, oh, well, he's above the 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:05.000 law and this was illegal and it was unprecedented. But 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:09.160 let's just be clear that Donald Trump's whole reign as 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:13.159 fucking precedent of these United States was unprecedented. That a 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:15.760 man like him should have never had access to the 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.080 nuclear fucking codes, should have never had access to any 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.439 fucking classified documents that this motherfucker could turn around and 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.800 sell to the highest bidder to bring his broke ass 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.560 out of debt, because that's exactly what we know Donald 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:33.639 Trump would be doing. So there is an article in the 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:39.520 the New York Times that came out that talks about 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:43.000 the fact that you know who else is responsible for 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:47.040 these boxes, right, these two dozen boxes that ended up 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:52.600 in a fucking Marilago basement is Mark Meadows, right, because 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.480 Mark Meadows. First of all, Trump had no confidence in 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:59.639 Mark Meadows towards the end, and that Mark Meadows was 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:03.879 of staff, which means that he knew what was leaving 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:09.560 the White House when and how, and Mark Meadows, former 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:13.960 member of Congress. I'm pretty sure understood or knew the protocol. 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.040 But what they were saying was that because Donald Trump 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:22.120 was so delusional about him leaving the White House and 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.680 not being president anymore, that he felt that those boxes 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:32.119 were his folks. Let's be clear, No, he didn't. Donald 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:35.560 Trump knew exactly what the fuck he was doing. And 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:38.640 you know, this isn't about love letters to Kim John 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:43.800 un right or Mohammed bin salam right. This is about 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:51.280 the potential identification of intelligence agents that are actively in 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:55.639 the field and being able to sell that right to 0:26:56.000 --> 0:27:02.280 our quote unquote enemies four billions of dollars, right. I 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:06.679