1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording live once again from 3 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks, you know I come to you 4 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: on this Tuesday so completely and totally outdone by not 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: only this country, UM, but the world as we are 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: once again grappling with a new variant um Omnicron. Now. 7 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but after 8 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: some research and you know, thankfully uh tweets from from Kyle, 9 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending me um clips and 10 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: information about trips which I'm going to be talking to 11 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: you all about today. And no, I'm not talking about 12 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: trips that we would all like to take in terms 13 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: of vacation, but I'm talking about trade related aspects of 14 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: intellectual property rights trips and why that is important and 15 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: why we all need to be paying attention not to 16 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: the world's reaction to omnicron in terms of their bullshit 17 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: politically motivated bands that they are doing on several globally 18 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: South nations African nations in particular, even given the fact 19 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: that we know that travel bands don't fucking work. They 20 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: don't actually stop coronavirus from happening from spreading that. In fact, 21 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: what we know that actually does work is masks and 22 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: quarantine and oh yes, that thing called that nations, which 23 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: I will get to in a moment, But yesterday was 24 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: the day that the United States had said, had made 25 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: their announcement late last week that on Monday they were 26 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: going to be issuing their travel ban for seven African nations, 27 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: including South Africa, where the omnicron variant was discovered. And 28 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: many of these nations, if not all of them, are 29 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: absolutely taken aback by the economic punishment now that their 30 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: countries are going to be receiving for doing nothing other 31 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: than complying with the world and being transparent and having 32 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: this open level of sharing with the world's doctors and 33 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: scientists right to understand how these new variants come to be, 34 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: how they are working, and why and if they are 35 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: a threat. And then you have the World Health Organization 36 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: that comes out and decides is this a variant of concern? 37 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: Is it one of interest? And they have determined, right 38 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: with the little information that we've had since its discovery 39 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: on November twenty second, that omnicron is in fact a 40 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: variant of concern. Now why is that, well, because it 41 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: has over thirty different mutations. Right now, we will not 42 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: know for several weeks most like it probably more on 43 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: the lines of a month or a couple of months 44 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: exactly how people in the real world are reacting to omnicron. 45 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: From initial anecdotal studies that are being tested on some 46 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: that have contracted that variant, they are saying that symptoms 47 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: are mild, that it is tiredness, it is headaches, and 48 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: that hospitalizations to this point in South Africa has not skyrocketed. 49 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: It has stayed pretty level. However, around the United States 50 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: as well as around the globe, what we are seeing 51 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,839 Speaker 1: as we are approaching the holiday season is in fact 52 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: the opposite, that hospital rates are increasing, that the spread 53 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: is increasing, back to numbers that we hadn't seen since 54 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: before the summer. Now, I want to get to trips 55 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: now and why this is something that I realize once again, 56 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: all of the world's problems. This is what I am 57 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: beginning to understand and really, and when I say beginning 58 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: to understand, I'm not saying that I was at once 59 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: naive that decisions were made by nation states because of goodness, right, 60 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: because of morality, because of a shared sense of values, no, 61 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: that is actually never the reason whatsoever. However, I did 62 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: think and clearly wrongfully so that when we were faced 63 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: with a global health pandemic, which now we have been 64 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: in for roughly nineteen months, right, give or take, depends 65 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: on if you want to say two years from when 66 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump found out, which would be you know, mid December, 67 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: would give us two years because he was alerted to 68 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen in December of twenty nineteen. We the public 69 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: were not made aware of the coronavirus until roughly February 70 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, and then we had our first initial 71 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: shutdown right in March of twenty twenty. And so if 72 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: you look at around that time, it has been nineteen 73 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: months that the world has been grappling on a variety 74 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: of ways. Right. You have seen in intensive shutdowns, you 75 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: have seen now once again Austria is in a shutdown. 76 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: Japan has just recently closed its borders to all international travelers, 77 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: and you're going to see what I believe will be 78 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: a domino effect of that happening around the world. But again, 79 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: you know what we have known and what we are 80 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: learning as we continue to learn this virus as it 81 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: continues to mutate is why is it mutating? Because there 82 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: is enough virus that is continuing to float around our air, 83 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: and because there is so much virus that there is 84 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: going to be mutations and it's going to figure out 85 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: its way around our tactics that where you're using to 86 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: keep people safe. But there's another reason why these variants 87 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: are popping up and why particularly they're popping up in 88 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: lower income countries, and it's because of trips trade related 89 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: aspects of intellectual property rights. Now, I want to read 90 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: this to you. In October of twenty twenty, India and 91 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: South Africa, with support at that time of sixty two 92 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: World Trade Organization members, proposed a TRIPS Agreement waiver that 93 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: would allow them to be able to develop right their 94 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: own vaccines. Because what has happened is that we are 95 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: developing vaccines to COVID nineteen based on new technology right, 96 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: innovative technology like the mRNA vaccine right and other technology 97 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: that was used with fisser and maderna, and then you 98 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: have other technology that was used with the J and 99 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: J one dose. The reality is is that the companies, 100 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical companies right, those that I just named that 101 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 1: created the initial round of vaccines, and now boosters have 102 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: made billions upon billions of dollars. Who are their biggest 103 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: clients right now, well, high wealth nations who have money 104 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: like the United States, like the UK, like Switzerland, like 105 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,679 Speaker 1: other folks, to be able to do what to buy 106 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: up a certain amount of vaccine because they have the 107 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: resources to do that. On top of which we also 108 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: remember in the initial rounds you needed to have special 109 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: refrigerators you needed to have which meant what access to 110 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: energy sources in order to be able to store the 111 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: medication for it to them be used. Well, a waiver 112 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: of trips would allow for these pharmaceutical companies or require 113 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: them rather to share their intellectual property right all of 114 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: the machinations around these vaccines with lower income countries, who 115 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: could then, with the tools and infrastructure that they have, 116 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: be able to manufacture their own vaccines. Because here's the thing. 117 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: In order to eradicate COVID, which we are now all understanding, 118 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: is never going to go away, right, It's never going 119 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: to happen. And here's the reason why. Because you would 120 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: need nine billion shots, nine billion shots right to happen 121 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: around the world in order for that to happen. So 122 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: none of these companies that I mentioned, the Madernas, the fisers, right, 123 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson have the ability to manufacture that much 124 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 1: right that many doses. And so you would think that 125 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: in the height of a global health pandemic when we 126 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: now have a second variant, one that is being said 127 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: to be a lot more contagious right than delta. And 128 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: remember it only took but a handful of weeks for 129 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: Delta to become the dominant strain the original og COVID nineteen. 130 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: So given all of what we have learned right the 131 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: hard way, with four million deaths or more I'm sorry, 132 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: there are more than four million deaths worldwide that have 133 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: happened through COVID nineteen, you would think that protecting the 134 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: intellectual property rights of said companies that have already made 135 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: fucking billions off of a pandemic would be in a 136 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: space where you would have their headquartered countries the UK, Switzerland, Germany, 137 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: Japan and others that would say we need to have 138 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: a waiver four trips so that these lower income nations 139 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: can actually be able to vaccinate their people. Put one 140 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: shot in the arms of the people that need to 141 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: get it. Because here's the thing. While the Biden administration 142 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: wants to come out and get patted on the back 143 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: for helping right and providing more vaccines internationally than any 144 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: other country. The other countries are not being admonished right 145 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: for dragging their fucking feet. Because here's the thing, and 146 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: this is what I tweeted yesterday in a series of 147 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,479 Speaker 1: tweets that I put out because I'm just so fucking disgusted. 148 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm disgusted with capitalism, I'm fucking disgusted with inequality, because 149 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: it is going to be the death of us all right, 150 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: so that a few can buy their jets and can 151 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: take their fucking vacation trips to outer space, right, it 152 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: will be the death of us all because it is 153 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: greed and the desire for shareholders and CEOs to be 154 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: able to make an obscene amount of fucking money that 155 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: they will never be able to spend in their goddamn lifetimes, 156 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: to protect, to protect the intellectual property of these vaccines 157 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: at whose expense the expense of millions of people around 158 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: the globe who do not have access, who are waiting 159 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: for the benevolence of these wealthier nations to do the 160 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: right thing when they're not being coerced into doing the 161 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: right thing. And what do we know to be true 162 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: is that no one does anything because they actually want 163 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: to or because it's morally just. They only do so 164 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 1: when they are compelled to or when they are shamed 165 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: into doing so. So here we have, right now, as 166 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: the G seven sat down and decided what it was 167 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: that they were going to do as an international community 168 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: in order to eradicate COVID nineteen, and they have done 169 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: none of those things except give us a bunch of 170 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: bullshit lip service and do a bunch of photo ops. Right, 171 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: the omnoicron variant happened because high wealth nations who were 172 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: too busy colonizing and fucking extracting from the global south, right, 173 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: they rush to do that shit right and leave them 174 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: politically stranded, economically stranded after they get what's good for them, 175 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: and then don't turn around and actually, for the betterment 176 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: of the fucking globe, make sure that we have vaccine equity. 177 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: Make sure that all of these nations, every single one 178 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: of them that needs access to vaccines, can begin to 179 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: develop their own with their own manufacturers, their own scientists, 180 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: because they have all of the credible information right that 181 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: they need in order to move forward on their own. 182 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: But you see that would take billions and billions of 183 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: dollars away from the Madernas and the visors. Right, So 184 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: this is what I want to read to you. That 185 00:13:54,520 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: was stated by the global the Council of Global Union. Right, 186 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: this was reported on the pr Newswire yesterday and this 187 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: is what it's said. The Council of the Council of 188 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: Global Union CGU, representing over two hundred million workers, has 189 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: urged the UK, Switzerland, Germany and the EU Commission to 190 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: stop blocking efforts to waive vaccine patents. The largest council 191 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: of global Unions believe action must and can be taken 192 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: this week to urgently enable vaccine production in the Global South. 193 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: I'll go on the demand from unions for a World 194 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: Trade Organization waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines 195 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: comes as the new omnicron variant emerges from countries which 196 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: have been denied the right to produce their own vaccines. 197 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: So again we are banning economically crippling nations in the 198 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: Global South as punishment, as if they have created this 199 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: new variant and are just spreading it around the world, 200 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: when it is fact In fact, the high wealth nations 201 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: who allowed this to fucking happen because of their fucking 202 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: greed right and the fact that they do not want 203 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: to provide the intellectual property and the patents necessary right 204 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: for these countries to be able to have a fighting 205 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: fucking chance. They would rather wipe out millions more so 206 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: long as they can continue making money, So let me 207 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: go on. It also comes amidst renewed momentum and urgency 208 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: from world leaders, with President Biden and European Parliament the 209 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: only EU institution elected by citizens reiterating their calls for 210 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: intellect actually property waivers of vaccines. But I want to 211 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: tell you this that while President Biden has come out 212 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: in support of this waiver, he has not put the 213 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: full force of the United States behind it. He has 214 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: not offered any type of fucking threats. He has not 215 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: offered any type of oh, you know what we're going 216 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: to start doing. We're going to impose more tariffs, We're 217 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: going to do X, Y and Z. Because until the 218 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: rest of the world fucking stands up and recognizes that 219 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: until we are all safe, none of us is safe 220 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: from multiple variants variant mutating on top of themselves, that 221 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: we need to get this fucking done. But he hasn't 222 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: done that right because much in the same way that 223 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: the United States always wants to do. They want to 224 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: be able to fucking have their cake and eat it too. 225 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: Look at us, Oh, we're for equality, We're for a justice, 226 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: but only in fucking name only, because we will put 227 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: no action and no teeth behind anything. Sound fucking familiar, 228 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: because that's the same way that this administration is going 229 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: about dealing with the insurrection, dealing with protecting our voting rights, 230 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: dealing with protecting women's rights, right, the same fucking tepid bullshit, 231 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: except in this case. In this case, it isn't just 232 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: the United States and Americans that are going to suffer. 233 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: It is the entire fucking globe. We love to believe 234 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 1: that what happens right across the pond, what happens in 235 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: the Global South, isn't going to come to the United States. 236 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: That's the way that we've always dealt with the world, 237 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 1: except COVID changed everything. Right. Except during COVID and since 238 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: right the discovery of it, what we've realized is that 239 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: the world's borders are bullshit. They were made on paper, 240 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: and they exist only on paper. Because you cannot ban 241 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: a fucking virus. You can't bullshit your way out of 242 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: dealing with it. Either you either face it head on 243 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: and follow the goddamn science to do so, or you 244 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: continue to fuck the world. And in this particular instance, 245 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: this week, what we are seeing is a choice to 246 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: continue to fuck the world and tell us, tell us 247 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 1: with a straight face that you're doing the best that 248 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: you can, when you know, good goddamn well you are 249 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: doing anything. But I am so tired of coddling this administration. 250 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,719 Speaker 1: I'm so tired of hearing how hard their job is. 251 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: Then don't fucking sign up for it if you can't 252 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: hack it. The reality is we are doing the bare 253 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: fucking minimum and have been doing the bare fucking minimum 254 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: because we would rather write in one in one respect 255 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: right in the United States, but around the world, every 256 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: wealthy nation is basically in no small words, And I'm 257 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: not a person to mince them. Just a bunch of 258 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: hookers for corporations. Right, they throw you some money, you 259 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: pretend to kurt tail how much they make, or to 260 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: give them little slaps on the risks. It's all a 261 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: performative show for the public, so that the public doesn't 262 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: get outraged realizing that they're the ones that are truly 263 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: the pawns. Right, But it's corporations that are really running 264 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: the globe, not just this country, that it's capitalism that 265 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: is the absolute driver. We want to point fingers at 266 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: other nations and say, oh, well, they're authoritarian or they're dictators, 267 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: right when it's really corporations that are running the shots. 268 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: Biden this week, right yesterday, having a meeting with all 269 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: of the top CEOs to do what exactly another fucking 270 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: photo op, another way for them to tell us that, oh, 271 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: we have supply chain issues, when there isn't a supply 272 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: chain issue. There's actually a fucking you know, good job issue, 273 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: which is that people would rather sit the fuck home 274 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: than continue continue to receive indentured servitude wages and no 275 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: fucking health benefits and no security. But they want to 276 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: talk to us about the hundreds of thousands of people 277 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: that they hired for this holiday season. But they're not 278 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: going to talk to you about the fact that those 279 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: people will be out of a job by the end 280 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: of the second quarter, by the end of the first quarter. Right. 281 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: They don't want to talk to you about that. Everything, 282 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: everything that is being done is just a bunch of 283 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: smoke and mirrors, and it is exhausting to follow because 284 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what does it come 285 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: back to? Fucking greed. Let me continue with this statement 286 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: that was made by the Chair of the Council of 287 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: Global Unions and the General Secretary of Public Services International, 288 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: Stephen Cotton, said this, I speak directly to the heads 289 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: of the state for the UK, Germany and Switzerland when 290 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: I say this, your decisions are putting millions of lives 291 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: and livelihoods at risk. The world is watching you as 292 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: panic and anxiety spread at the rise of a new 293 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: variant that may have been prevented if you had acted sooner. 294 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: The waiver can be agreed this week. You must act 295 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: now or forever, hold the preventable deaths of millions more 296 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: on your conscience. But once again we are appealing assuming 297 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: that these people have a conscience. They don't. They don't. 298 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: It's why I continually bring up the Wu Tang song. 299 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: Cash rules everything around me because they don't. And I'm 300 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: going to get into a conversation that we could have 301 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: seen this coming, not necessarily a global health pandemic, but 302 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: exactly where greed was gonna lead us right with my 303 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: dad's favorite movie nineteen eighty seven, Classic Wall Street, which 304 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: I will get into next. But let me give you 305 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: this final quote from Rosa Pavanelli, the General Secretary of 306 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: Public Services International. She said this, a handful of leaders 307 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: are putting the interests of the pharma lobby ahead of 308 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: the frontline workers they once applauded. This is an insult 309 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: to their sacrifice. If the leaders of the UK, Switzerland 310 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: and EU nations want to break the cycle of lockdowns 311 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: and travel blocks, then they must immediately stop blocking the 312 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: trips waiver proposal so no barriers stand in the way 313 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: of expanding vaccine production and quashing new variants. And I 314 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: want to say this that the initial waiver right once 315 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: again was asked for, was proposed by India and South 316 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: Africa in October of twenty twenty. That was before the 317 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: delta variant. That was but right, if we think about it, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, 318 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: eight months into this pandemic, when we were all wondering 319 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: if and when we were going to get a vaccine, 320 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: they were asking that for those that were currently working 321 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 1: the big pharma companies that were currently working rushing to 322 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: get a vaccine that they would be included and wouldn't 323 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: be left behind, Because I don't know, right, in a 324 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: global economy, in a world again where borders and boundaries 325 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: are made up on paper and based on politics and 326 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 1: racism and capitalism alone, that you think that just vaccinating 327 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: the high wealth whiter nations was going to somehow prevent 328 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 1: you your nation from getting another variant, from being forced 329 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: into another lockdown, from having to reinstitute COVID nineteen protocols 330 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: when you decided to do away with them, because in 331 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: everybody's rushed back to normal, they didn't think about, you know, 332 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: what the repercussions could be, because the economy, because money, 333 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: you know. I almost wish that we had a time 334 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: machine just so we could see where we would be 335 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: right now if every political official had been put to 336 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: the side, and instead of seeing them on the televisions, 337 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: instead of following their steps, that it had been the 338 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: world's doctors and the world's scientists that we had all 339 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: decided to follow and listen to where COVID nineteen would 340 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: be now, because we will have COVID and we will 341 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: for as long as the rest of us are fucking 342 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: living because we decided to follow politicians and bullshit politics 343 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: rather than science. This was also written on the news wire. 344 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: Since the initial proposal in October of twenty twenty, over 345 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: four million people have died from COVID nineteen worldwide. Those 346 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 1: are four million deaths that may have been prevented if 347 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: when the waiver was proposed in October of twenty twenty, 348 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: that the UK, Switzerland and other EU nations didn't decide 349 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: to block it for their own economic well being. Four 350 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: million fucking people and guess what, no one's going to jail, 351 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: not in this fucking country, not anywhere around the world. 352 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: And it's their greed that has those bodies in the 353 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: fucking ground. This sickness that I feel these days. The 354 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: more that you continue to pay attention, the more that 355 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: I turn and listen to various news stories and reports, 356 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: because I tell you that when I take vacation, I 357 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: really do tap all the way the fuck out. And 358 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: it's because I have to exist and marinate in this space, 359 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: because I don't have the ability to turn off. Because 360 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: you know, twenty seminey years ago, when I decided to 361 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,719 Speaker 1: go into politics and policy was because I wanted to 362 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: feel like I could be a part of change. I 363 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of feeling like I had 364 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: a voice in making this country better. And now I 365 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: want to do anything. But which brings me to the 366 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: movie Wall Street. So for those of you unfamiliar with 367 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: Wall Street, it is a nineteen eighty seven film that 368 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: was directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas as the 369 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: famed villain Gordon Gecko, Martin Sheen, among others, Charlie Sheen, 370 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah. I mean, it was the who's 371 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: who of white celebrities in the eighties that were in 372 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: this film. And there are so many quotes that I 373 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: pulled out when I started to think about how every 374 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: single problem that we are facing in this country and 375 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: facing around the world stems from greed and racism. It's 376 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: those two things coupled together that when you look at 377 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 1: our problem, whether it be climate change, whether it be COVID, 378 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: whether it be the insurrection and the rise of fascism, 379 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: not just in this country but around the globe, it 380 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: all comes back to money and racism and cruelty. So 381 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighty seven film, one of the most 382 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: famed lines by Gordon Gecko is greed is good. But 383 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: here is the entire quote and not just the piece 384 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: of it, and then I want to dig into it. 385 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, says this. The point is, 386 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for a lack of a 387 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: better word, is good. Greed is right, Greed works, Greed clarifies, 388 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. 389 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: Greed in all of its forms, Greed for life, for money, 390 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: for love, knowledge is marked upward and is the surge 391 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: for mankind. Greed, ladies and gentlemen, is good. That is 392 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: out of the mouth of Gordon Gecko. But frankly, it 393 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: could have come out of the mouth of Donald Trump, right, 394 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: It could have come out of the mouth of Jack 395 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: Dorsey who just left Twitter, could have come out of 396 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: the mouth of you know, Zuckerberg. Because at the core 397 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: of this nineteen eighty seven's film, and you have to 398 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: think about out in nineteen eighty seven, right, you have 399 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: to think about, you know, the rise of the white yuppies. 400 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: You got to think about, you know, the rise on 401 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: Wall Street and Reaganomics, and you know, essentially embodying this 402 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: greed and trickle down economics and all of these things 403 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: that were happening in this country that related to our economy. 404 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: You had the War on drugs, which was going to 405 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: lock up black and brown families for decades. Right then 406 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: you had, you know, all of the pillaging that was 407 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: happening on Wall Street, but it was being characterized by 408 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: the rich and famous, right, and shows of that nature. 409 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: We have always in the United States had an attraction, 410 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: a deep addiction to wealth, to glamour, right to celebrity. 411 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: And what he was articulating here the character played by 412 00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: Michael Douglas Gordon Gecko, is that the belief structure that 413 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: if we were not greedy, we wouldn't evolve, right, And that, 414 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: dear friends, is kind of the basis. I'm not an economist, 415 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: but in understanding capitalism that you see the rebuff to capitalism, right, 416 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: has always been socialism, as if there aren't all these 417 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: other different types of economic structures, and as if the 418 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: United States has a clear economic structure, which it does not. 419 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: It is both a theocracy and an oligarchy. It is 420 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: a kleptocracy, and it is capitalistic. It is all of 421 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: these different things. Right, Our politics and our democracy and 422 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: our economy are all intertwined, right, and at the core 423 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: of it, it all works for one class and group 424 00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: of people. And so when you think about why many people, 425 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: and I'm not just talking about like the white domestic 426 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: terrorist Party, I'm talking about people in general, when they say, oh, well, 427 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: we need capitalism. Capitalism is a driving force socialism. You 428 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: would have a bunch of lazy people sitting around and 429 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: only some of us would be working really hard while 430 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: everyone else is reaping the benefits. And I'm saying to myself, 431 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: how the fuck is that explanation any different than what 432 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: is happening right now? You have the one percent that 433 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: owns more than fifty percent of the wealth in this nation, 434 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: that is owned by a handful of fucking families, right, oligarchy, kleptocracy, 435 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: who are benefiting off of the backbreaking labor of the 436 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: bottom right of the ninety nine percent. They see them 437 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: as just pawns, pawns on a chessboard, or cogs in 438 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: a machine that can easily be replaced. We don't need 439 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: to look at these people as actual people, right. They 440 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: are a means to an end. The more cogs that 441 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: we can get working, the more productivity, the more that 442 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: they churn out, and the wealthier the wealthier one percent get. 443 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, now, the trick is in making those in 444 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: the ninety nine percent believe that what got folks to 445 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: the one percent was just hard work and gusto you 446 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: believe it's so much that we take fucking life lessons 447 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: and success tips for them in magazines like Fast Company, Wired, 448 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, where we look 449 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: for the uber wealthy to give tips to the rest 450 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: of us on how they are so successful, which leads 451 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: us all to believe this fictionalized dream that we're all 452 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: just one good idea or just one more hard effort 453 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:23,280 Speaker 1: at having and sitting on their yachts. That's the biggest 454 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,760 Speaker 1: fucking laugh of it all. None of those people got 455 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: there because of their great ideas. They got there because 456 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: of generational wealth. They got there because they already came 457 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: from a place of privilege, and their ideas were readily welcomed. 458 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: Because they were white, because they were male, because they 459 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 1: were cisgendered, because they were hanging out and going to 460 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: the right boarding schools that put them at the right colleges, 461 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: that put them at the right fucking country clubs, right, 462 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: that put them on the right golf courses. That's set 463 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: up their futures. So you tell me how a fucking 464 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: kid in Newark, right was going to have the same 465 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: opportunity and fucking access as the kid in Greenwich, Connecticut. 466 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: And I just give you the area that I'm living in. 467 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: You tell me how if we continue to divest from 468 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: our public education system, and we're giving the kid that 469 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: is in Newark, New Jersey, right issued books or old 470 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: laptops or no laptops, no computers at all, And you 471 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: tell me, by just having grit, they're going to be 472 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: successful against the fucking Greenwich, Connecticut kid who is being 473 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: put in the right expensive, fucking sixty thousand dollars a 474 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: year preschool to set them up for their fucking trajectory. 475 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: How does that work? And then we turn around and 476 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 1: we take tips from those people when it should be 477 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: the other way around. How is it that some of 478 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: the most economically marginalized people in this country don't go 479 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: out and just shoot up a bunch of banks, don't 480 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: go out and just rob a bunch of shit. How 481 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 1: they're able on a regular basis to put food and 482 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: medicine and clothing on their kids and their family with 483 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: what fifteen cents, with just their seven dollars and fifty 484 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: cents an hour. We love to set up these fictional 485 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: tales about if you just work hard, right, if you 486 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: just go to college and waste a hundred two hundred 487 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on an education that is no longer guaranteeing 488 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,799 Speaker 1: you anything other than minimum wage, or anything other than 489 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,319 Speaker 1: being a cog and a slave in the machine of 490 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: a company that will chew you up and spit you 491 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: out as soon as you are burned out, and then 492 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: pay two people the cost of yours one salary because 493 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: they are young and dumb and hungry and also right 494 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: drowning in debt, so they have no choice. And I 495 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,439 Speaker 1: don't say dumb is in uneducated, No, No, I mean 496 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 1: dumb to how these systems are operating against you. You 497 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 1: don't actually realize that until you're like ten years into 498 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: the game, that it's all been a fucking setup. It's 499 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: all been a setup to continue to secure the wealth 500 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: and the well being of the one percent while everyone 501 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: else barely gets by, and then then in order right 502 00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: to keep you addicted right to the company to be 503 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: a good company man, woman in person. Right, we dangle 504 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: little things in front of you. Oh we'll give you 505 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: free beer. Oh, we'll give you a foosball table. Not 506 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,879 Speaker 1: we'll give you the best healthcare that you could possibly have. 507 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,759 Speaker 1: Not that we'll give you a living wage, Not that 508 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: we'll wipe out your student loan debt. No, no, no, no, 509 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,319 Speaker 1: We'll give you all of this low hanging fruit. Much 510 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: in the same way that black people in this country 511 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: are acting, asking for fighting for right, marching for protesting 512 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,560 Speaker 1: for equity. Right, not that white people are killed in 513 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: the street like fucking dogs, but that nobody is killed 514 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: in the street like a fucking dog, and that when 515 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: they are, there is accountability and responsibility for those actions. Right. 516 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: Not that we need handouts in our community. It's that 517 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: we need you to invest with the same rigor that 518 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 1: you extracted from our communities. We need you to give 519 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,359 Speaker 1: us back what you fucking took. But you see, that 520 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: is not the narrative that is ever offered. That's why 521 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: I say on wok F all the time that story 522 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,760 Speaker 1: is important, and that our public education system is the 523 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: biggest perpetuator of white supremacy and economic instability because if 524 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 1: we wanted people to be better off, we would teach 525 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,399 Speaker 1: them how, we would give them the tools to do that. 526 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 1: But you see, then they would start questioning those that 527 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 1: are in power. This goes back to the other great 528 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: quote from the movie Wall Street. Gordon Gecko says, this. 529 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: The most valuable commodity I know is information. The most 530 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: valuable commodity I know of, he says, is information. It 531 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: is the most valuable commodity because if you can control 532 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: what people know, what people consume, then you can control them. 533 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: If you can feed them a bunch of disinformation and lies, 534 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:36,280 Speaker 1: and then control the mechanisms for which you are feeding 535 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 1: them those lies, and then hold them right, you have 536 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:49,479 Speaker 1: the power. And so you need to ask yourself, why 537 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,840 Speaker 1: don't I know certain things? Why am I only finding 538 00:40:52,880 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 1: out about certain things? Decades into my life? I consistently 539 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: feel robbed when I learn about another black innovator, scientists, activist, 540 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:18,040 Speaker 1: abolitionist from past years and present, because it's purposeful. How 541 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: do you keep people down? You continue to tell them 542 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: that they ain't shit. That's how you continue to feed 543 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: them what you want them to know. This is not 544 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: me creating conspiracy, It's just like, look around you, and 545 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,719 Speaker 1: you look at all of these little pockets, and let 546 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,920 Speaker 1: me tell you, COVID ain't a little pocket to look in. 547 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: But it's so much easier to go with the narrative 548 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,719 Speaker 1: of oh, well, South Africa and the global South, they 549 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,919 Speaker 1: just don't care about their population. They don't care about 550 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 1: their citizens, right, They're so underdeveloped they don't even know 551 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: which way is up. Meanwhile, the reason why on the 552 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:08,360 Speaker 1: kron was discovered is because of the acclaimed epidemiologists that 553 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:15,880 Speaker 1: are in South Africa working. It's much easier to blame 554 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: the victims, to blame the oppressed for their ills, than 555 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,239 Speaker 1: it is to look at who the fuck has their 556 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:28,839 Speaker 1: actual knee on their neck, because of course they're not 557 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: going to be blamed because guess what, they can control 558 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: the flow of fucking information. So you want to know 559 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,120 Speaker 1: why the BBCs and the MSNBC's and the CNNs and 560 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,800 Speaker 1: the CBCS and all of these fucking global international cable 561 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 1: networks don't call out the hypocrisy and the bullshit and 562 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,000 Speaker 1: ask the real questions, because who the fuck is controlling 563 00:42:54,160 --> 00:43:03,560 Speaker 1: the flow of information, who's advertising on their airwaves? You 564 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,120 Speaker 1: are only going to get the truth and get to 565 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,160 Speaker 1: the source of that truth if you dig for it, 566 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,919 Speaker 1: and you see if the majority of people in this 567 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,520 Speaker 1: country and around the globe are just struggling, just trying 568 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,239 Speaker 1: to make ends meet, where do you think that they 569 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,160 Speaker 1: have the time and the energy and the desire to 570 00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,320 Speaker 1: do the digging that is necessary. You know that most 571 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 1: people don't, So what do you do? You spread information, misinformation, 572 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,520 Speaker 1: much in the way that COVID has spread. That's how 573 00:43:43,520 --> 00:44:01,279 Speaker 1: this spreads. I am so utterly disheartened this week, and 574 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: it is the beginning of the week because I feel 575 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:11,759 Speaker 1: like a crazy person looking around and seeing what is 576 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:20,120 Speaker 1: so fucking obvious. How do we stop the pandemic? You 577 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: make the vaccine free. And that doesn't mean that you 578 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,640 Speaker 1: just give out a ton, No, it means that you 579 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,760 Speaker 1: give people the freedom and the flexibility to be able 580 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:43,240 Speaker 1: to create their own How do you break this cycle 581 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 1: of fucking greed of revolt? That's how. And people will 582 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,920 Speaker 1: say to me, Danielle, that seems crazy, blah blah blah. 583 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: I don't want that. It's already happening, except they're telling 584 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,759 Speaker 1: you that there are supply chain issues. They tell you 585 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,880 Speaker 1: go out and buy Bye Bye, because there is going 586 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,759 Speaker 1: to be a shortage on Turkey. There's going to be 587 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,000 Speaker 1: a shortage on Christmas. There's going to be a shortage 588 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,719 Speaker 1: on this, that and the other thing. Guess what you 589 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,840 Speaker 1: show up at the fucking stories. I didn't see a 590 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: shortage where I was. But they don't want to tell 591 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,439 Speaker 1: you where the shortage comes from. They want to tell 592 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,520 Speaker 1: you why there is a problem, because it would force 593 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,279 Speaker 1: them to have to change, and they don't want to 594 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,880 Speaker 1: do that. Just sing the same fucking song over and 595 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 1: over again to people that are too busy and too 596 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,959 Speaker 1: desperate to be paying attention to decipher what the real 597 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:38,880 Speaker 1: fucking message is. I called the show woke as fuck 598 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,799 Speaker 1: because I want people to be conscious. I want you 599 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,560 Speaker 1: to be filled with rage. I want you to see 600 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:53,760 Speaker 1: the truth and spread it far and wide. We are 601 00:45:54,200 --> 00:46:00,120 Speaker 1: living inside of Gordon Gecko's fantasy in nineteen eighty seven, 602 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:08,879 Speaker 1: where greed is good, greed is right, greed is everywhere. 603 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,480 Speaker 1: Look to your left, look to your right. Everything this 604 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,319 Speaker 1: past couple of days has been telling you to spend, spend, spend, 605 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:31,600 Speaker 1: bye bye bye, why for what? So that we can 606 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: continue to fill the coffers of those who continue to 607 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,080 Speaker 1: divest from our communities that instead of providing people with 608 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:46,319 Speaker 1: the skills right to fish for themselves, to do for themselves, 609 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 1: you want to hold them hostage and then sell them 610 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,480 Speaker 1: the water, sell them the fucking rod, sell them the 611 00:46:52,520 --> 00:47:04,360 Speaker 1: fucking fish. Greed is going to be the death of 612 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:11,240 Speaker 1: us all because there is no way to contain this virus. 613 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:16,480 Speaker 1: There is no way to contain climate change, there is 614 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:25,040 Speaker 1: no way to contain fascism and political and economic instability. 615 00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:30,040 Speaker 1: It is going to continue spreading until people that are 616 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,920 Speaker 1: in power decide that they're going to relinquish that power, 617 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:39,840 Speaker 1: or what is more likely, that those with little to 618 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:45,280 Speaker 1: no power decide to take it. Those are the choices 619 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 1: that we have When the decision will be made, only 620 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:57,759 Speaker 1: time will tell. That is it for me today, Dear 621 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:02,000 Speaker 1: friends on will gay f as always, Power to the 622 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and 623 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,560 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.