Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording live once again from
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks, you know I come to you
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday so completely and totally outdone by not
Speaker 1: only this country, UM, but the world as we are
Speaker 1: once again grappling with a new variant um Omnicron. Now.
Speaker 1: I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but after
Speaker 1: some research and you know, thankfully uh tweets from from Kyle,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending me um clips and
Speaker 1: information about trips which I'm going to be talking to
Speaker 1: you all about today. And no, I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: trips that we would all like to take in terms
Speaker 1: of vacation, but I'm talking about trade related aspects of
Speaker 1: intellectual property rights trips and why that is important and
Speaker 1: why we all need to be paying attention not to
Speaker 1: the world's reaction to omnicron in terms of their bullshit
Speaker 1: politically motivated bands that they are doing on several globally
Speaker 1: South nations African nations in particular, even given the fact
Speaker 1: that we know that travel bands don't fucking work. They
Speaker 1: don't actually stop coronavirus from happening from spreading that. In fact,
Speaker 1: what we know that actually does work is masks and
Speaker 1: quarantine and oh yes, that thing called that nations, which
Speaker 1: I will get to in a moment, But yesterday was
Speaker 1: the day that the United States had said, had made
Speaker 1: their announcement late last week that on Monday they were
Speaker 1: going to be issuing their travel ban for seven African nations,
Speaker 1: including South Africa, where the omnicron variant was discovered. And
Speaker 1: many of these nations, if not all of them, are
Speaker 1: absolutely taken aback by the economic punishment now that their
Speaker 1: countries are going to be receiving for doing nothing other
Speaker 1: than complying with the world and being transparent and having
Speaker 1: this open level of sharing with the world's doctors and
Speaker 1: scientists right to understand how these new variants come to be,
Speaker 1: how they are working, and why and if they are
Speaker 1: a threat. And then you have the World Health Organization
Speaker 1: that comes out and decides is this a variant of concern?
Speaker 1: Is it one of interest? And they have determined, right
Speaker 1: with the little information that we've had since its discovery
Speaker 1: on November twenty second, that omnicron is in fact a
Speaker 1: variant of concern. Now why is that, well, because it
Speaker 1: has over thirty different mutations. Right now, we will not
Speaker 1: know for several weeks most like it probably more on
Speaker 1: the lines of a month or a couple of months
Speaker 1: exactly how people in the real world are reacting to omnicron.
Speaker 1: From initial anecdotal studies that are being tested on some
Speaker 1: that have contracted that variant, they are saying that symptoms
Speaker 1: are mild, that it is tiredness, it is headaches, and
Speaker 1: that hospitalizations to this point in South Africa has not skyrocketed.
Speaker 1: It has stayed pretty level. However, around the United States
Speaker 1: as well as around the globe, what we are seeing
Speaker 1: as we are approaching the holiday season is in fact
Speaker 1: the opposite, that hospital rates are increasing, that the spread
Speaker 1: is increasing, back to numbers that we hadn't seen since
Speaker 1: before the summer. Now, I want to get to trips
Speaker 1: now and why this is something that I realize once again,
Speaker 1: all of the world's problems. This is what I am
Speaker 1: beginning to understand and really, and when I say beginning
Speaker 1: to understand, I'm not saying that I was at once
Speaker 1: naive that decisions were made by nation states because of goodness, right,
Speaker 1: because of morality, because of a shared sense of values, no,
Speaker 1: that is actually never the reason whatsoever. However, I did
Speaker 1: think and clearly wrongfully so that when we were faced
Speaker 1: with a global health pandemic, which now we have been
Speaker 1: in for roughly nineteen months, right, give or take, depends
Speaker 1: on if you want to say two years from when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump found out, which would be you know, mid December,
Speaker 1: would give us two years because he was alerted to
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen in December of twenty nineteen. We the public
Speaker 1: were not made aware of the coronavirus until roughly February
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, and then we had our first initial
Speaker 1: shutdown right in March of twenty twenty. And so if
Speaker 1: you look at around that time, it has been nineteen
Speaker 1: months that the world has been grappling on a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. Right. You have seen in intensive shutdowns, you
Speaker 1: have seen now once again Austria is in a shutdown.
Speaker 1: Japan has just recently closed its borders to all international travelers,
Speaker 1: and you're going to see what I believe will be
Speaker 1: a domino effect of that happening around the world. But again,
Speaker 1: you know what we have known and what we are
Speaker 1: learning as we continue to learn this virus as it
Speaker 1: continues to mutate is why is it mutating? Because there
Speaker 1: is enough virus that is continuing to float around our air,
Speaker 1: and because there is so much virus that there is
Speaker 1: going to be mutations and it's going to figure out
Speaker 1: its way around our tactics that where you're using to
Speaker 1: keep people safe. But there's another reason why these variants
Speaker 1: are popping up and why particularly they're popping up in
Speaker 1: lower income countries, and it's because of trips trade related
Speaker 1: aspects of intellectual property rights. Now, I want to read
Speaker 1: this to you. In October of twenty twenty, India and
Speaker 1: South Africa, with support at that time of sixty two
Speaker 1: World Trade Organization members, proposed a TRIPS Agreement waiver that
Speaker 1: would allow them to be able to develop right their
Speaker 1: own vaccines. Because what has happened is that we are
Speaker 1: developing vaccines to COVID nineteen based on new technology right,
Speaker 1: innovative technology like the mRNA vaccine right and other technology
Speaker 1: that was used with fisser and maderna, and then you
Speaker 1: have other technology that was used with the J and
Speaker 1: J one dose. The reality is is that the companies,
Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical companies right, those that I just named that
Speaker 1: created the initial round of vaccines, and now boosters have
Speaker 1: made billions upon billions of dollars. Who are their biggest
Speaker 1: clients right now, well, high wealth nations who have money
Speaker 1: like the United States, like the UK, like Switzerland, like
Speaker 1: other folks, to be able to do what to buy
Speaker 1: up a certain amount of vaccine because they have the
Speaker 1: resources to do that. On top of which we also
Speaker 1: remember in the initial rounds you needed to have special
Speaker 1: refrigerators you needed to have which meant what access to
Speaker 1: energy sources in order to be able to store the
Speaker 1: medication for it to them be used. Well, a waiver
Speaker 1: of trips would allow for these pharmaceutical companies or require
Speaker 1: them rather to share their intellectual property right all of
Speaker 1: the machinations around these vaccines with lower income countries, who
Speaker 1: could then, with the tools and infrastructure that they have,
Speaker 1: be able to manufacture their own vaccines. Because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: In order to eradicate COVID, which we are now all understanding,
Speaker 1: is never going to go away, right, It's never going
Speaker 1: to happen. And here's the reason why. Because you would
Speaker 1: need nine billion shots, nine billion shots right to happen
Speaker 1: around the world in order for that to happen. So
Speaker 1: none of these companies that I mentioned, the Madernas, the fisers, right,
Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson have the ability to manufacture that much
Speaker 1: right that many doses. And so you would think that
Speaker 1: in the height of a global health pandemic when we
Speaker 1: now have a second variant, one that is being said
Speaker 1: to be a lot more contagious right than delta. And
Speaker 1: remember it only took but a handful of weeks for
Speaker 1: Delta to become the dominant strain the original og COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: So given all of what we have learned right the
Speaker 1: hard way, with four million deaths or more I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: there are more than four million deaths worldwide that have
Speaker 1: happened through COVID nineteen, you would think that protecting the
Speaker 1: intellectual property rights of said companies that have already made
Speaker 1: fucking billions off of a pandemic would be in a
Speaker 1: space where you would have their headquartered countries the UK, Switzerland, Germany,
Speaker 1: Japan and others that would say we need to have
Speaker 1: a waiver four trips so that these lower income nations
Speaker 1: can actually be able to vaccinate their people. Put one
Speaker 1: shot in the arms of the people that need to
Speaker 1: get it. Because here's the thing. While the Biden administration
Speaker 1: wants to come out and get patted on the back
Speaker 1: for helping right and providing more vaccines internationally than any
Speaker 1: other country. The other countries are not being admonished right
Speaker 1: for dragging their fucking feet. Because here's the thing, and
Speaker 1: this is what I tweeted yesterday in a series of
Speaker 1: tweets that I put out because I'm just so fucking disgusted.
Speaker 1: I'm disgusted with capitalism, I'm fucking disgusted with inequality, because
Speaker 1: it is going to be the death of us all right,
Speaker 1: so that a few can buy their jets and can
Speaker 1: take their fucking vacation trips to outer space, right, it
Speaker 1: will be the death of us all because it is
Speaker 1: greed and the desire for shareholders and CEOs to be
Speaker 1: able to make an obscene amount of fucking money that
Speaker 1: they will never be able to spend in their goddamn lifetimes,
Speaker 1: to protect, to protect the intellectual property of these vaccines
Speaker 1: at whose expense the expense of millions of people around
Speaker 1: the globe who do not have access, who are waiting
Speaker 1: for the benevolence of these wealthier nations to do the
Speaker 1: right thing when they're not being coerced into doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. And what do we know to be true
Speaker 1: is that no one does anything because they actually want
Speaker 1: to or because it's morally just. They only do so
Speaker 1: when they are compelled to or when they are shamed
Speaker 1: into doing so. So here we have, right now, as
Speaker 1: the G seven sat down and decided what it was
Speaker 1: that they were going to do as an international community
Speaker 1: in order to eradicate COVID nineteen, and they have done
Speaker 1: none of those things except give us a bunch of
Speaker 1: bullshit lip service and do a bunch of photo ops. Right,
Speaker 1: the omnoicron variant happened because high wealth nations who were
Speaker 1: too busy colonizing and fucking extracting from the global south, right,
Speaker 1: they rush to do that shit right and leave them
Speaker 1: politically stranded, economically stranded after they get what's good for them,
Speaker 1: and then don't turn around and actually, for the betterment
Speaker 1: of the fucking globe, make sure that we have vaccine equity.
Speaker 1: Make sure that all of these nations, every single one
Speaker 1: of them that needs access to vaccines, can begin to
Speaker 1: develop their own with their own manufacturers, their own scientists,
Speaker 1: because they have all of the credible information right that
Speaker 1: they need in order to move forward on their own.
Speaker 1: But you see that would take billions and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars away from the Madernas and the visors. Right, So
Speaker 1: this is what I want to read to you. That
Speaker 1: was stated by the global the Council of Global Union. Right,
Speaker 1: this was reported on the pr Newswire yesterday and this
Speaker 1: is what it's said. The Council of the Council of
Speaker 1: Global Union CGU, representing over two hundred million workers, has
Speaker 1: urged the UK, Switzerland, Germany and the EU Commission to
Speaker 1: stop blocking efforts to waive vaccine patents. The largest council
Speaker 1: of global Unions believe action must and can be taken
Speaker 1: this week to urgently enable vaccine production in the Global South.
Speaker 1: I'll go on the demand from unions for a World
Speaker 1: Trade Organization waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines
Speaker 1: comes as the new omnicron variant emerges from countries which
Speaker 1: have been denied the right to produce their own vaccines.
Speaker 1: So again we are banning economically crippling nations in the
Speaker 1: Global South as punishment, as if they have created this
Speaker 1: new variant and are just spreading it around the world,
Speaker 1: when it is fact In fact, the high wealth nations
Speaker 1: who allowed this to fucking happen because of their fucking
Speaker 1: greed right and the fact that they do not want
Speaker 1: to provide the intellectual property and the patents necessary right
Speaker 1: for these countries to be able to have a fighting
Speaker 1: fucking chance. They would rather wipe out millions more so
Speaker 1: long as they can continue making money, So let me
Speaker 1: go on. It also comes amidst renewed momentum and urgency
Speaker 1: from world leaders, with President Biden and European Parliament the
Speaker 1: only EU institution elected by citizens reiterating their calls for
Speaker 1: intellect actually property waivers of vaccines. But I want to
Speaker 1: tell you this that while President Biden has come out
Speaker 1: in support of this waiver, he has not put the
Speaker 1: full force of the United States behind it. He has
Speaker 1: not offered any type of fucking threats. He has not
Speaker 1: offered any type of oh, you know what we're going
Speaker 1: to start doing. We're going to impose more tariffs, We're
Speaker 1: going to do X, Y and Z. Because until the
Speaker 1: rest of the world fucking stands up and recognizes that
Speaker 1: until we are all safe, none of us is safe
Speaker 1: from multiple variants variant mutating on top of themselves, that
Speaker 1: we need to get this fucking done. But he hasn't
Speaker 1: done that right because much in the same way that
Speaker 1: the United States always wants to do. They want to
Speaker 1: be able to fucking have their cake and eat it too.
Speaker 1: Look at us, Oh, we're for equality, We're for a justice,
Speaker 1: but only in fucking name only, because we will put
Speaker 1: no action and no teeth behind anything. Sound fucking familiar,
Speaker 1: because that's the same way that this administration is going
Speaker 1: about dealing with the insurrection, dealing with protecting our voting rights,
Speaker 1: dealing with protecting women's rights, right, the same fucking tepid bullshit,
Speaker 1: except in this case. In this case, it isn't just
Speaker 1: the United States and Americans that are going to suffer.
Speaker 1: It is the entire fucking globe. We love to believe
Speaker 1: that what happens right across the pond, what happens in
Speaker 1: the Global South, isn't going to come to the United States.
Speaker 1: That's the way that we've always dealt with the world,
Speaker 1: except COVID changed everything. Right. Except during COVID and since
Speaker 1: right the discovery of it, what we've realized is that
Speaker 1: the world's borders are bullshit. They were made on paper,
Speaker 1: and they exist only on paper. Because you cannot ban
Speaker 1: a fucking virus. You can't bullshit your way out of
Speaker 1: dealing with it. Either you either face it head on
Speaker 1: and follow the goddamn science to do so, or you
Speaker 1: continue to fuck the world. And in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: this week, what we are seeing is a choice to
Speaker 1: continue to fuck the world and tell us, tell us
Speaker 1: with a straight face that you're doing the best that
Speaker 1: you can, when you know, good goddamn well you are
Speaker 1: doing anything. But I am so tired of coddling this administration.
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of hearing how hard their job is.
Speaker 1: Then don't fucking sign up for it if you can't
Speaker 1: hack it. The reality is we are doing the bare
Speaker 1: fucking minimum and have been doing the bare fucking minimum
Speaker 1: because we would rather write in one in one respect
Speaker 1: right in the United States, but around the world, every
Speaker 1: wealthy nation is basically in no small words, And I'm
Speaker 1: not a person to mince them. Just a bunch of
Speaker 1: hookers for corporations. Right, they throw you some money, you
Speaker 1: pretend to kurt tail how much they make, or to
Speaker 1: give them little slaps on the risks. It's all a
Speaker 1: performative show for the public, so that the public doesn't
Speaker 1: get outraged realizing that they're the ones that are truly
Speaker 1: the pawns. Right, But it's corporations that are really running
Speaker 1: the globe, not just this country, that it's capitalism that
Speaker 1: is the absolute driver. We want to point fingers at
Speaker 1: other nations and say, oh, well, they're authoritarian or they're dictators,
Speaker 1: right when it's really corporations that are running the shots.
Speaker 1: Biden this week, right yesterday, having a meeting with all
Speaker 1: of the top CEOs to do what exactly another fucking
Speaker 1: photo op, another way for them to tell us that, oh,
Speaker 1: we have supply chain issues, when there isn't a supply
Speaker 1: chain issue. There's actually a fucking you know, good job issue,
Speaker 1: which is that people would rather sit the fuck home
Speaker 1: than continue continue to receive indentured servitude wages and no
Speaker 1: fucking health benefits and no security. But they want to
Speaker 1: talk to us about the hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: that they hired for this holiday season. But they're not
Speaker 1: going to talk to you about the fact that those
Speaker 1: people will be out of a job by the end
Speaker 1: of the second quarter, by the end of the first quarter. Right.
Speaker 1: They don't want to talk to you about that. Everything,
Speaker 1: everything that is being done is just a bunch of
Speaker 1: smoke and mirrors, and it is exhausting to follow because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what does it come
Speaker 1: back to? Fucking greed. Let me continue with this statement
Speaker 1: that was made by the Chair of the Council of
Speaker 1: Global Unions and the General Secretary of Public Services International,
Speaker 1: Stephen Cotton, said this, I speak directly to the heads
Speaker 1: of the state for the UK, Germany and Switzerland when
Speaker 1: I say this, your decisions are putting millions of lives
Speaker 1: and livelihoods at risk. The world is watching you as
Speaker 1: panic and anxiety spread at the rise of a new
Speaker 1: variant that may have been prevented if you had acted sooner.
Speaker 1: The waiver can be agreed this week. You must act
Speaker 1: now or forever, hold the preventable deaths of millions more
Speaker 1: on your conscience. But once again we are appealing assuming
Speaker 1: that these people have a conscience. They don't. They don't.
Speaker 1: It's why I continually bring up the Wu Tang song.
Speaker 1: Cash rules everything around me because they don't. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to get into a conversation that we could have
Speaker 1: seen this coming, not necessarily a global health pandemic, but
Speaker 1: exactly where greed was gonna lead us right with my
Speaker 1: dad's favorite movie nineteen eighty seven, Classic Wall Street, which
Speaker 1: I will get into next. But let me give you
Speaker 1: this final quote from Rosa Pavanelli, the General Secretary of
Speaker 1: Public Services International. She said this, a handful of leaders
Speaker 1: are putting the interests of the pharma lobby ahead of
Speaker 1: the frontline workers they once applauded. This is an insult
Speaker 1: to their sacrifice. If the leaders of the UK, Switzerland
Speaker 1: and EU nations want to break the cycle of lockdowns
Speaker 1: and travel blocks, then they must immediately stop blocking the
Speaker 1: trips waiver proposal so no barriers stand in the way
Speaker 1: of expanding vaccine production and quashing new variants. And I
Speaker 1: want to say this that the initial waiver right once
Speaker 1: again was asked for, was proposed by India and South
Speaker 1: Africa in October of twenty twenty. That was before the
Speaker 1: delta variant. That was but right, if we think about it, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
Speaker 1: eight months into this pandemic, when we were all wondering
Speaker 1: if and when we were going to get a vaccine,
Speaker 1: they were asking that for those that were currently working
Speaker 1: the big pharma companies that were currently working rushing to
Speaker 1: get a vaccine that they would be included and wouldn't
Speaker 1: be left behind, Because I don't know, right, in a
Speaker 1: global economy, in a world again where borders and boundaries
Speaker 1: are made up on paper and based on politics and
Speaker 1: racism and capitalism alone, that you think that just vaccinating
Speaker 1: the high wealth whiter nations was going to somehow prevent
Speaker 1: you your nation from getting another variant, from being forced
Speaker 1: into another lockdown, from having to reinstitute COVID nineteen protocols
Speaker 1: when you decided to do away with them, because in
Speaker 1: everybody's rushed back to normal, they didn't think about, you know,
Speaker 1: what the repercussions could be, because the economy, because money,
Speaker 1: you know. I almost wish that we had a time
Speaker 1: machine just so we could see where we would be
Speaker 1: right now if every political official had been put to
Speaker 1: the side, and instead of seeing them on the televisions,
Speaker 1: instead of following their steps, that it had been the
Speaker 1: world's doctors and the world's scientists that we had all
Speaker 1: decided to follow and listen to where COVID nineteen would
Speaker 1: be now, because we will have COVID and we will
Speaker 1: for as long as the rest of us are fucking
Speaker 1: living because we decided to follow politicians and bullshit politics
Speaker 1: rather than science. This was also written on the news wire.
Speaker 1: Since the initial proposal in October of twenty twenty, over
Speaker 1: four million people have died from COVID nineteen worldwide. Those
Speaker 1: are four million deaths that may have been prevented if
Speaker 1: when the waiver was proposed in October of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: that the UK, Switzerland and other EU nations didn't decide
Speaker 1: to block it for their own economic well being. Four
Speaker 1: million fucking people and guess what, no one's going to jail,
Speaker 1: not in this fucking country, not anywhere around the world.
Speaker 1: And it's their greed that has those bodies in the
Speaker 1: fucking ground. This sickness that I feel these days. The
Speaker 1: more that you continue to pay attention, the more that
Speaker 1: I turn and listen to various news stories and reports,
Speaker 1: because I tell you that when I take vacation, I
Speaker 1: really do tap all the way the fuck out. And
Speaker 1: it's because I have to exist and marinate in this space,
Speaker 1: because I don't have the ability to turn off. Because
Speaker 1: you know, twenty seminey years ago, when I decided to
Speaker 1: go into politics and policy was because I wanted to
Speaker 1: feel like I could be a part of change. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of feeling like I had
Speaker 1: a voice in making this country better. And now I
Speaker 1: want to do anything. But which brings me to the
Speaker 1: movie Wall Street. So for those of you unfamiliar with
Speaker 1: Wall Street, it is a nineteen eighty seven film that
Speaker 1: was directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas as the
Speaker 1: famed villain Gordon Gecko, Martin Sheen, among others, Charlie Sheen,
Speaker 1: Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah. I mean, it was the who's
Speaker 1: who of white celebrities in the eighties that were in
Speaker 1: this film. And there are so many quotes that I
Speaker 1: pulled out when I started to think about how every
Speaker 1: single problem that we are facing in this country and
Speaker 1: facing around the world stems from greed and racism. It's
Speaker 1: those two things coupled together that when you look at
Speaker 1: our problem, whether it be climate change, whether it be COVID,
Speaker 1: whether it be the insurrection and the rise of fascism,
Speaker 1: not just in this country but around the globe, it
Speaker 1: all comes back to money and racism and cruelty. So
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighty seven film, one of the most
Speaker 1: famed lines by Gordon Gecko is greed is good. But
Speaker 1: here is the entire quote and not just the piece
Speaker 1: of it, and then I want to dig into it.
Speaker 1: Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, says this. The point is,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for a lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, is good. Greed is right, Greed works, Greed clarifies,
Speaker 1: cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Speaker 1: Greed in all of its forms, Greed for life, for money,
Speaker 1: for love, knowledge is marked upward and is the surge
Speaker 1: for mankind. Greed, ladies and gentlemen, is good. That is
Speaker 1: out of the mouth of Gordon Gecko. But frankly, it
Speaker 1: could have come out of the mouth of Donald Trump, right,
Speaker 1: It could have come out of the mouth of Jack
Speaker 1: Dorsey who just left Twitter, could have come out of
Speaker 1: the mouth of you know, Zuckerberg. Because at the core
Speaker 1: of this nineteen eighty seven's film, and you have to
Speaker 1: think about out in nineteen eighty seven, right, you have
Speaker 1: to think about, you know, the rise of the white yuppies.
Speaker 1: You got to think about, you know, the rise on
Speaker 1: Wall Street and Reaganomics, and you know, essentially embodying this
Speaker 1: greed and trickle down economics and all of these things
Speaker 1: that were happening in this country that related to our economy.
Speaker 1: You had the War on drugs, which was going to
Speaker 1: lock up black and brown families for decades. Right then
Speaker 1: you had, you know, all of the pillaging that was
Speaker 1: happening on Wall Street, but it was being characterized by
Speaker 1: the rich and famous, right, and shows of that nature.
Speaker 1: We have always in the United States had an attraction,
Speaker 1: a deep addiction to wealth, to glamour, right to celebrity.
Speaker 1: And what he was articulating here the character played by
Speaker 1: Michael Douglas Gordon Gecko, is that the belief structure that
Speaker 1: if we were not greedy, we wouldn't evolve, right, And that,
Speaker 1: dear friends, is kind of the basis. I'm not an economist,
Speaker 1: but in understanding capitalism that you see the rebuff to capitalism, right,
Speaker 1: has always been socialism, as if there aren't all these
Speaker 1: other different types of economic structures, and as if the
Speaker 1: United States has a clear economic structure, which it does not.
Speaker 1: It is both a theocracy and an oligarchy. It is
Speaker 1: a kleptocracy, and it is capitalistic. It is all of
Speaker 1: these different things. Right, Our politics and our democracy and
Speaker 1: our economy are all intertwined, right, and at the core
Speaker 1: of it, it all works for one class and group
Speaker 1: of people. And so when you think about why many people,
Speaker 1: and I'm not just talking about like the white domestic
Speaker 1: terrorist Party, I'm talking about people in general, when they say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we need capitalism. Capitalism is a driving force socialism. You
Speaker 1: would have a bunch of lazy people sitting around and
Speaker 1: only some of us would be working really hard while
Speaker 1: everyone else is reaping the benefits. And I'm saying to myself,
Speaker 1: how the fuck is that explanation any different than what
Speaker 1: is happening right now? You have the one percent that
Speaker 1: owns more than fifty percent of the wealth in this nation,
Speaker 1: that is owned by a handful of fucking families, right, oligarchy, kleptocracy,
Speaker 1: who are benefiting off of the backbreaking labor of the
Speaker 1: bottom right of the ninety nine percent. They see them
Speaker 1: as just pawns, pawns on a chessboard, or cogs in
Speaker 1: a machine that can easily be replaced. We don't need
Speaker 1: to look at these people as actual people, right. They
Speaker 1: are a means to an end. The more cogs that
Speaker 1: we can get working, the more productivity, the more that
Speaker 1: they churn out, and the wealthier the wealthier one percent get.
Speaker 1: You know, now, the trick is in making those in
Speaker 1: the ninety nine percent believe that what got folks to
Speaker 1: the one percent was just hard work and gusto you
Speaker 1: believe it's so much that we take fucking life lessons
Speaker 1: and success tips for them in magazines like Fast Company, Wired,
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, where we look
Speaker 1: for the uber wealthy to give tips to the rest
Speaker 1: of us on how they are so successful, which leads
Speaker 1: us all to believe this fictionalized dream that we're all
Speaker 1: just one good idea or just one more hard effort
Speaker 1: at having and sitting on their yachts. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: fucking laugh of it all. None of those people got
Speaker 1: there because of their great ideas. They got there because
Speaker 1: of generational wealth. They got there because they already came
Speaker 1: from a place of privilege, and their ideas were readily welcomed.
Speaker 1: Because they were white, because they were male, because they
Speaker 1: were cisgendered, because they were hanging out and going to
Speaker 1: the right boarding schools that put them at the right colleges,
Speaker 1: that put them at the right fucking country clubs, right,
Speaker 1: that put them on the right golf courses. That's set
Speaker 1: up their futures. So you tell me how a fucking
Speaker 1: kid in Newark, right was going to have the same
Speaker 1: opportunity and fucking access as the kid in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: And I just give you the area that I'm living in.
Speaker 1: You tell me how if we continue to divest from
Speaker 1: our public education system, and we're giving the kid that
Speaker 1: is in Newark, New Jersey, right issued books or old
Speaker 1: laptops or no laptops, no computers at all, And you
Speaker 1: tell me, by just having grit, they're going to be
Speaker 1: successful against the fucking Greenwich, Connecticut kid who is being
Speaker 1: put in the right expensive, fucking sixty thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: year preschool to set them up for their fucking trajectory.
Speaker 1: How does that work? And then we turn around and
Speaker 1: we take tips from those people when it should be
Speaker 1: the other way around. How is it that some of
Speaker 1: the most economically marginalized people in this country don't go
Speaker 1: out and just shoot up a bunch of banks, don't
Speaker 1: go out and just rob a bunch of shit. How
Speaker 1: they're able on a regular basis to put food and
Speaker 1: medicine and clothing on their kids and their family with
Speaker 1: what fifteen cents, with just their seven dollars and fifty
Speaker 1: cents an hour. We love to set up these fictional
Speaker 1: tales about if you just work hard, right, if you
Speaker 1: just go to college and waste a hundred two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on an education that is no longer guaranteeing
Speaker 1: you anything other than minimum wage, or anything other than
Speaker 1: being a cog and a slave in the machine of
Speaker 1: a company that will chew you up and spit you
Speaker 1: out as soon as you are burned out, and then
Speaker 1: pay two people the cost of yours one salary because
Speaker 1: they are young and dumb and hungry and also right
Speaker 1: drowning in debt, so they have no choice. And I
Speaker 1: don't say dumb is in uneducated, No, No, I mean
Speaker 1: dumb to how these systems are operating against you. You
Speaker 1: don't actually realize that until you're like ten years into
Speaker 1: the game, that it's all been a fucking setup. It's
Speaker 1: all been a setup to continue to secure the wealth
Speaker 1: and the well being of the one percent while everyone
Speaker 1: else barely gets by, and then then in order right
Speaker 1: to keep you addicted right to the company to be
Speaker 1: a good company man, woman in person. Right, we dangle
Speaker 1: little things in front of you. Oh we'll give you
Speaker 1: free beer. Oh, we'll give you a foosball table. Not
Speaker 1: we'll give you the best healthcare that you could possibly have.
Speaker 1: Not that we'll give you a living wage, Not that
Speaker 1: we'll wipe out your student loan debt. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: We'll give you all of this low hanging fruit. Much
Speaker 1: in the same way that black people in this country
Speaker 1: are acting, asking for fighting for right, marching for protesting
Speaker 1: for equity. Right, not that white people are killed in
Speaker 1: the street like fucking dogs, but that nobody is killed
Speaker 1: in the street like a fucking dog, and that when
Speaker 1: they are, there is accountability and responsibility for those actions. Right.
Speaker 1: Not that we need handouts in our community. It's that
Speaker 1: we need you to invest with the same rigor that
Speaker 1: you extracted from our communities. We need you to give
Speaker 1: us back what you fucking took. But you see, that
Speaker 1: is not the narrative that is ever offered. That's why
Speaker 1: I say on wok F all the time that story
Speaker 1: is important, and that our public education system is the
Speaker 1: biggest perpetuator of white supremacy and economic instability because if
Speaker 1: we wanted people to be better off, we would teach
Speaker 1: them how, we would give them the tools to do that.
Speaker 1: But you see, then they would start questioning those that
Speaker 1: are in power. This goes back to the other great
Speaker 1: quote from the movie Wall Street. Gordon Gecko says, this.
Speaker 1: The most valuable commodity I know is information. The most
Speaker 1: valuable commodity I know of, he says, is information. It
Speaker 1: is the most valuable commodity because if you can control
Speaker 1: what people know, what people consume, then you can control them.
Speaker 1: If you can feed them a bunch of disinformation and lies,
Speaker 1: and then control the mechanisms for which you are feeding
Speaker 1: them those lies, and then hold them right, you have
Speaker 1: the power. And so you need to ask yourself, why
Speaker 1: don't I know certain things? Why am I only finding
Speaker 1: out about certain things? Decades into my life? I consistently
Speaker 1: feel robbed when I learn about another black innovator, scientists, activist,
Speaker 1: abolitionist from past years and present, because it's purposeful. How
Speaker 1: do you keep people down? You continue to tell them
Speaker 1: that they ain't shit. That's how you continue to feed
Speaker 1: them what you want them to know. This is not
Speaker 1: me creating conspiracy, It's just like, look around you, and
Speaker 1: you look at all of these little pockets, and let
Speaker 1: me tell you, COVID ain't a little pocket to look in.
Speaker 1: But it's so much easier to go with the narrative
Speaker 1: of oh, well, South Africa and the global South, they
Speaker 1: just don't care about their population. They don't care about
Speaker 1: their citizens, right, They're so underdeveloped they don't even know
Speaker 1: which way is up. Meanwhile, the reason why on the
Speaker 1: kron was discovered is because of the acclaimed epidemiologists that
Speaker 1: are in South Africa working. It's much easier to blame
Speaker 1: the victims, to blame the oppressed for their ills, than
Speaker 1: it is to look at who the fuck has their
Speaker 1: actual knee on their neck, because of course they're not
Speaker 1: going to be blamed because guess what, they can control
Speaker 1: the flow of fucking information. So you want to know
Speaker 1: why the BBCs and the MSNBC's and the CNNs and
Speaker 1: the CBCS and all of these fucking global international cable
Speaker 1: networks don't call out the hypocrisy and the bullshit and
Speaker 1: ask the real questions, because who the fuck is controlling
Speaker 1: the flow of information, who's advertising on their airwaves? You
Speaker 1: are only going to get the truth and get to
Speaker 1: the source of that truth if you dig for it,
Speaker 1: and you see if the majority of people in this
Speaker 1: country and around the globe are just struggling, just trying
Speaker 1: to make ends meet, where do you think that they
Speaker 1: have the time and the energy and the desire to
Speaker 1: do the digging that is necessary. You know that most
Speaker 1: people don't, So what do you do? You spread information, misinformation,
Speaker 1: much in the way that COVID has spread. That's how
Speaker 1: this spreads. I am so utterly disheartened this week, and
Speaker 1: it is the beginning of the week because I feel
Speaker 1: like a crazy person looking around and seeing what is
Speaker 1: so fucking obvious. How do we stop the pandemic? You
Speaker 1: make the vaccine free. And that doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: just give out a ton, No, it means that you
Speaker 1: give people the freedom and the flexibility to be able
Speaker 1: to create their own How do you break this cycle
Speaker 1: of fucking greed of revolt? That's how. And people will
Speaker 1: say to me, Danielle, that seems crazy, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I don't want that. It's already happening, except they're telling
Speaker 1: you that there are supply chain issues. They tell you
Speaker 1: go out and buy Bye Bye, because there is going
Speaker 1: to be a shortage on Turkey. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a shortage on Christmas. There's going to be a shortage
Speaker 1: on this, that and the other thing. Guess what you
Speaker 1: show up at the fucking stories. I didn't see a
Speaker 1: shortage where I was. But they don't want to tell
Speaker 1: you where the shortage comes from. They want to tell
Speaker 1: you why there is a problem, because it would force
Speaker 1: them to have to change, and they don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. Just sing the same fucking song over and
Speaker 1: over again to people that are too busy and too
Speaker 1: desperate to be paying attention to decipher what the real
Speaker 1: fucking message is. I called the show woke as fuck
Speaker 1: because I want people to be conscious. I want you
Speaker 1: to be filled with rage. I want you to see
Speaker 1: the truth and spread it far and wide. We are
Speaker 1: living inside of Gordon Gecko's fantasy in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: where greed is good, greed is right, greed is everywhere.
Speaker 1: Look to your left, look to your right. Everything this
Speaker 1: past couple of days has been telling you to spend, spend, spend,
Speaker 1: bye bye bye, why for what? So that we can
Speaker 1: continue to fill the coffers of those who continue to
Speaker 1: divest from our communities that instead of providing people with
Speaker 1: the skills right to fish for themselves, to do for themselves,
Speaker 1: you want to hold them hostage and then sell them
Speaker 1: the water, sell them the fucking rod, sell them the
Speaker 1: fucking fish. Greed is going to be the death of
Speaker 1: us all because there is no way to contain this virus.
Speaker 1: There is no way to contain climate change, there is
Speaker 1: no way to contain fascism and political and economic instability.
Speaker 1: It is going to continue spreading until people that are
Speaker 1: in power decide that they're going to relinquish that power,
Speaker 1: or what is more likely, that those with little to
Speaker 1: no power decide to take it. Those are the choices
Speaker 1: that we have When the decision will be made, only
Speaker 1: time will tell. That is it for me today, Dear
Speaker 1: friends on will gay f as always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.