1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay F Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: I want to start out today with talking about what 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: is happening in Tennessee. And early next week we will 5 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: hear from our friend, doctor Jonathan Metzel, who is on 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: the ground at Vanderbilt University, and him and I have 7 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: been exchanging texts, you know, on a regular basis, just 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: to give me, you know, the feels of what is happening. 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: And I want to start off by saying that what 10 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: the moves that the governor, Governor Lee has recently made 11 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: is really striking in terms of the moves to strengthen 12 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: gun laws. And you know, here's the thing which is 13 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: being reported that, sadly, right Governor Lee, Bill Lee's wife, 14 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: the First Lady of Tennessee, her best friend was killed 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: in the shooting a couple of weeks ago at Covenant 16 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: And now that that news has come to pass, Governor 17 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: Lee on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at strengthening 18 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for 19 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: lawmakers to pass an order of protection law to keep 20 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: guns away from people who presented danger to themselves or other. 21 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: This is coming from the tennesseean quote. I'm asking the 22 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: General Assembly to bring forward an order of protection law, 23 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: leeto reporters at a police precinct in Nashville. A new, strong, 24 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: order of protection law will provide the broader population cover 25 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: safety from those who are a danger to themselves and 26 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: the population. This is our moment to lead and to 27 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: give the people of Tennessee what they deserve. The executive 28 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: order sets a seventy two hour period for reporting new 29 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: criminal activity and court mental health information to the Tennessee 30 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: Instant Check System, the background check system operated by the 31 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The order also directs the TBI 32 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: to issue a report in two months to Lee's office 33 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: and the General Assembly on any barriers to complete accurate 34 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: and timely reporting of information that is accessible. Quote. The 35 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: existing background check process for purchasing a firearm only works 36 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: when there is accurate and timely information that is available. 37 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: Lee said, And this proposal comes days right after the shooting. 38 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: And what I will say is that whether or not 39 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: the reason for the moves that the Governor's making, and 40 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: now he's also calling, you know, for different quote unquote 41 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: red flag laws. This is also to go for a 42 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: school safety package that would strengthen or harden school security 43 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: but does not address right the ability for people to 44 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: be able to purchase in AAR fifteen or talk about 45 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: bumpstock right. And there are proposals that are moving, and honestly, 46 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: this is the governor's strongest comments since this shooting took place. Now, 47 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: we can't deny folks that while this is important, particularly 48 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: in a red state where Republicans were set to vote 49 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: on legislation that would allow for permitless concealing carry in 50 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: the state, that these moves are being made by Governor Lee. 51 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: But I want us to understand why this is really happening. 52 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: It is because of the young people right and their 53 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: supporters that have been descending on the state capitol since 54 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: the shooting took place. Right followed by the ousting of 55 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: the Justin's Justin Pearson and Justin Jones. Justin Jones on 56 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: Monday was reinstated on a quote unquote temporary interim basis 57 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: to fill his own vacant seat, and as of this recording, 58 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: Justin Pearson his seat will be voted on by the 59 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: Shelby county commissioners. And so while I hope you know 60 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: that all of them, the Tennessee three Gloria we know 61 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: representative was not ousted. The white woman was not ousted. 62 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: What this has done, what these legislators have done in Tennessee, 63 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: it's truly shed a light right on the heinous, underhanded, 64 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: fucking moves that Republicans are doing. Right. Like, they're not folks. 65 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: They're not like out here trying to hide their racism. Right, 66 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,799 Speaker 1: They're not out here trying to pretend that they don't 67 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: really want all people to be able to have access 68 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: to a bullhorn. Right. And what the ousting has done 69 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: of these two young, black, brilliant representatives is turn them 70 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: into household names, is to make them the symbol and 71 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: the caused their resistance to the authoritarian, fascist Republican regime. 72 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: This isn't just happening in Tennessee. This is happening in 73 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: every red state where they are voting to weaken right 74 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: if there is a Democrat that happens to be the governor, 75 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: where they are weakening the executive right in favor of 76 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: the state legislatures so that they can overturn whatever laws 77 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: that they want, and that they can legalize essentially the 78 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: wild wild West right, that they can punish women and 79 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: then proliferate the streets with guns. That's what this is 80 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: all about. And what the young people in Tennessee have 81 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: reminded me, and I tweeted this earlier in the week 82 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: as well, which is that you know, you have heard 83 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: me for so long on woke f rail against these 84 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: red states, rail against these people that vote and put 85 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: these motherfuckers in office. And what I realize is that 86 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: they have been able to jerrymander and suppress the vote 87 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: so much right that people don't have a voice that all. 88 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: There isn't a monolith of thinking in these red states. Sure, 89 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: and maybe in the deep rural areas where Republicans are 90 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: trying to now essentially flip how power works in these 91 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: places where you strip the urban dense areas the economic 92 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: engines of these states, and you displace power in these rural, 93 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: read racist areas while disenfranchising right and jerrymandering the power 94 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: of folks, say in Nashville, in Memphis and so on 95 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: and so forth, because that's where the economic power is. 96 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: But then they have split up these districts in these 97 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: cities to dilute the vote. But what I have been seeing, 98 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: right is this incredibly diverse. You've led protests that are 99 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: coming from the centers, right, that are coming from these 100 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: urban centers, that are coming from universities, that are coming 101 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: from elementary schools and high schoolers that are saying that 102 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: they don't want to fucking live like this. You know that, 103 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: how is it that you can't place the needs of 104 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: children that you say is the most important. No, embryos 105 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: are the most important, because you could give a fuck 106 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: about kids. I mean, I don't know who the person was, y'all. 107 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 1: Late last week. I can't remember who it was at 108 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: this moment, but sat down and basically said that as 109 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: a Republican you know, they're okay, we're never gonna get 110 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: gun deaths to zero, never gonna get gun deaths to zero. 111 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: And every school year, you know there'll be something that happens. 112 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: And that is quote unquote the price of freedom. So 113 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is willing and happy to turn children 114 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: into target practice so long as they get to profess 115 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: their manhood through the purchases of multiple AAR fifteens. That's 116 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: what this is. And I'm still waiting, and I know 117 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: it would be gut wrenching and horrific to put families 118 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: through this, But I am still waiting for that family 119 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: that says, I want you to see what I had 120 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: to see when I want to go identify the body 121 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: of my child, their body that was ripped to shreds, 122 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: so that you can see exactly what the fuck it 123 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: is in AAR fifteen does. Right, It's not meant to 124 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: leave a little wound. It's meant to target and kill 125 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: because it was a weapon of war, right, not one 126 00:09:54,840 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: of recreation. No one should recreationally have an A fifteen. 127 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: So I feel like until we are actually able to 128 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: lay eyes on what these weapons of war do, action 129 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: really won't be taken. But I say again that the 130 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: reason why you have Governor Lee moving, maybe it is 131 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: because his wife's best friend was murdered at Covenant. Maybe 132 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: it's because you know, the protests don't seem to be 133 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:37,479 Speaker 1: lifting in Tennessee, and that the people are well motivated 134 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: by the fact that their legislatures don't actually give a 135 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: fuck about them, and not only that they're outrightly racist. 136 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: We are at a really interesting point, a really interesting 137 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,839 Speaker 1: inflection point, and I'm not gonna say like, oh, this 138 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: is it, this is the tipping point. What it does 139 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: remind us is that collective power is what they fear. 140 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: It's why the Republican Party is trying to pin groups 141 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: against each other, right, It's why you have the oh 142 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: what about the gun violence in Chicago? When let me 143 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,599 Speaker 1: tell you this joy reads show. The other day, the 144 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: readout put up a list of the ten states with 145 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: the highest rate of gun deaths number one Mississippi, two Louisiana, three, Wyoming, 146 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:41,599 Speaker 1: followed by Alaska, Alabama, New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, Montana, South Carolina. 147 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: You know what's not on the list Illinois, where Chicago 148 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: is where the racists like to point to to say, well, 149 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: there are people killed in Chicago every day, and that 150 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: state still doesn't have the highest fucking gun death rates. 151 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: So where's your argument. There isn't one. It is, you know, 152 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: and if you want to really understand the underhandedness, the 153 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: conniving right that the Republican Party is doing. And again 154 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: using Tennessee as an example, this was a tweet put 155 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 1: out by Keith Boykan because there was some local journalism 156 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: that was done by NC five Phil Williams that revealed 157 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: power rules in the Tennessee House and do you know 158 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: what they voted on recently? According to this news report, 159 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Republicans killed bills that would tell eligible high 160 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: school students how to register to vote and to end 161 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: to study the use of college IDs to vote and 162 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: to use the ability of college IDs to vote. Not 163 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: only did they kill those bills, but evidently they moved 164 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: it to secret voice votes, and then they moved the 165 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: TV cameras that were present so as not to be 166 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: seen the fuck. So, explain to me the logic by 167 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: not wanting to provide information on voting to young people 168 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: that are getting ready to graduate from high school in 169 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: turn eighteen and having the ability to use their college 170 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: IDs to vote, if in fact they don't have a 171 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: driver's license. Oh, because you don't want young people to vote, right, 172 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 1: because we heard from Republicans who are condemning the protests 173 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: that were happening in Tennessee and saying that, oh, this 174 00:13:53,559 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: is woke culture. They're indoctrinated, or or they don't want 175 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: to die in their fucking classrooms. Right. Indoctrination looks like 176 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: having your child pose with a gun in front of 177 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. That's bigger than them. That's what indoctrination 178 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: looks like. Indoctrination looks like banning books and curriculum that 179 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: don't center whiteness and maleness, and then criminalizing education because 180 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: you're afraid of critical thought and questioning and clearly afraid 181 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: of the power of youth, so you make it as 182 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: difficult as possible for them to register, or you pass 183 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: laws that ban get out the votes on college campuses, 184 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: the use of anything that would be deemed easier for 185 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: our democracy. And there's no reasoning behind that. Their reasoning 186 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: is fraud, which we know is bullshit, but they're very 187 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: rarely ever called out on it. So, folks, what I 188 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: say about Tennessee right now, as we continue to follow 189 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: what is unfolding there and the two superstars that the 190 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: GOP was able to create with their bullshit, Justin Pearson 191 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: and Justin Jones, that we cannot give up. We cannot 192 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: allow the regular inundation of bad news and targeted bills 193 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: at marginalized communities. Let us believe that we don't have 194 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: any power, because Tennessee is proving right now that ain't 195 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: the case. We just need to have the will, We 196 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: need to be organized and we need to get in 197 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: the fucking streets because that is where change comes from. 198 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: Another story that we are closely following is the battle 199 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: over mythopristone, the use of the abortion pill that the 200 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: FDA approved over twenty years ago that is safer than 201 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: most over the counter medications, safer than viagra, which, by 202 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: the way, no one is trying to ban. And it's 203 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: so interesting because friend of the show and former federal 204 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: prosecutor Joyce White Vance tweeted out and said, you know, 205 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: while I don't want things banned and pulled, why don't 206 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: we look into banning viagra? Because if this is all 207 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: about God's will, well, God clearly does not need for 208 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: your flatulence right to be resurrected. So I am your 209 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: flaccidness excuse me to be resurrected. And so if we 210 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: are working on Republican logic, which it doesn't actually exist, 211 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: it would take two people in order to have a 212 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: pregnancy occur, right, So maybe start pulling the thing viagra 213 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: that is used to make men viral pass their fucking prime. 214 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: I'm just like so sick and tired of all of 215 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: the attacks on women, and we don't turn it around, 216 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: right And I'm talking about again journalists and reporters turning 217 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: it around to ensure right that we're very clear of 218 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,360 Speaker 1: who they're criminalizing and attacking. So right now there are 219 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: two conflicting court orders, one in Washington one in Texas 220 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: on methopris stone and we will see where this goes. 221 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: But it should worry us all that the FDA approved medications, 222 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: you know, have nothing to do with science, have nothing 223 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: to do with pub like health, and have everything to 224 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: do with a politician's whims, right, And that's not a 225 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: place where we should be playing politics, should have nothing 226 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: to do with public health. But we that have allowed, 227 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: over the last three years of COVID for the public 228 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: health sector to be weaponized by the Republican Party to 229 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: where doctors are being forced to not make decisions that 230 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: are in the best medical interests of their patients, but 231 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: instead to cya cover their asses so that they don't 232 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: get fucking sued or thrown in jail. I mean, this 233 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: is it's just it's it's insane. And I've talked to 234 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: a couple of doctors recently and I said, what is 235 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: the you know, the mood in your industry right now? 236 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: And they're like, it is grim. People are, particularly nurses, 237 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: are fleeing the industry. They're exhausted and realizing that it's 238 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: just not worth it either going into smaller private practices 239 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: and leaving big hospitals so much in the same way, 240 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: just think about this much in the same way that 241 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is attacking the education sector and driving teachers, 242 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: good teachers out of the classroom, they're also turning around 243 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 1: and attacking the public health sector. What kind of society 244 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: does that set up? Not a fucking good one. And 245 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: those are the questions that should be posed at every 246 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: single Republican But they're not one of both sides the 247 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: funk out of this, And I'm just like, look to 248 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: authoritarian and fascist regimes and ask them how well the 249 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 1: people are actually cared for. They are not. It is 250 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 1: just so frustrating I think where we find ourselves. And 251 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: I still say, you know, over just one hundred and 252 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: one or two days into this year and well over 253 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty shootings. Abortion has been rolled back 254 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: pretty much in a majority of states. They're trying to 255 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: pass legislation that would give you the permission to execute 256 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: a woman who goes into another state to get an abortion. 257 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just wild, evil, cruelty. And just what 258 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: gets me, folks, is that the people who support this 259 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: version of the Republican Party are not even gaining anything. 260 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 1: They're just aligned on punishing the people that they don't like. 261 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: Like they're not gaining tax breaks, they're not gaining incentives, 262 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: they're not gaining better healthcare, they're not gaining better schools. 263 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: It's just all about making sure that you can punish 264 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: the people that you don't like. It's not a great 265 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: place and I wish that that would be pointed out 266 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: to more people. But like our friend wrote a whole 267 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: book on it, dying of whiteness, they are willing to 268 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: do it so long as the people down the street 269 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: die to or first. It's a really sick way to be. 270 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you that the thing that I'm holding 271 00:21:55,080 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: onto this week is the movement shaking of the ground 272 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: that we are seeing in Tennessee, and I hope that 273 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: it has reverberations across the country because it's the type 274 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: of action we need in order to hold Republicans accountable, 275 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: call out their bullshit, and get as many young people 276 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: invested in what the future of this country looks like 277 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: that is it for me today? Dear friends on Woke app. 278 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: As always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 279 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.