1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from Yes Still my 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: COVID bunker, the Friends. I want to talk about a 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: couple of things today that are just absolutely frustrating, annoying, 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: but unsurprising, and I want to start out with the 6 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: oath Keeper's story. Here's what has happened. So you all 7 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: know who the Oathkeepers are, obviously because we've talked about 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: it on woke F and you all watch the news, 9 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: and we also remember when Donald Trump told them all 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: to stand back and stand by. They were also the 11 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: architects behind the siege on the Capitol Building and the 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,959 Speaker 1: Oathkeepers as well as the Proud Boys. I believe that 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: both of their leaders are under indictment right for their 14 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: attempt to overthrow the government violently. So as it turns out, 15 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: the list, the membership list, and I'm checking out BuzzFeed 16 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: News right now, their membership list of thirty eight thousand 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: names has been leaked right and unsurprisingly, if you are 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: a student of history and have ever paid attention to oh, 19 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: I don't know anything that has to do with law enforcement, 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: the military and the ideology thereof you know that it 21 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: is not surprising that on this list there would be 22 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy current law enforcement officers, including sheriffs 23 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: who lead actual police departments that are members. There would 24 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: be one hundred active military personnel. There are eighty either 25 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: serving currently in public office or are running for office 26 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: that are on this list. And what is unsurprising is 27 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: any of those things, because if you understand the history 28 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: of white supremacy in this country, and you understand the 29 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: history of police and law enforcement and military in this country, 30 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: it is not surprising that it would be filled with 31 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: a bunch of fucking white supremacis why else do we 32 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: have so many unarmed black people that are murdered? Right? 33 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: Why else do we have news stories that came out 34 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: of Detroit with the boy Scouts who were on a 35 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: field trip, and then it's reported that all of the 36 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: targets that they see that the police officers used to 37 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: quote unquote train are of black men. Right, it is 38 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: unsurprising that when there was a big news story and 39 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: it wasn't even that big, it kind of fluttered out 40 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: that there were private chat rooms right with law enforcement, 41 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: both current and retired, that we're using just the most 42 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: disgusting racial slurs, misogyny, all of these things. We know 43 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: this because every single time that there is an incident 44 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: of police violence, of police brutality, of police overreach, that 45 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: we're told that that individual is just a bad apple. 46 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: But what we know to be fucking true, because we're 47 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: not dumb, is that there are more Derek Chauvin's right 48 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: and Joe R. Pios right, who Donald Trump pardoned, if 49 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: you remember, for his lies and torture and schemes to 50 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: brutalize and terrorize undocumented people when he was police chief 51 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: in Arizona, and he was sent to jail for that. 52 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: But of course Donald Trump pardoned him because he only 53 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: surrounds himself with the best fucking people. Nonetheless, we also 54 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: know that through the history of the KKK and why 55 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: they wore their hoods and all and their sheets and 56 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: all of that bullshit garb was because they wanted to 57 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: hide their idea entities. Why because they were law enforcement, 58 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: they were judges, teachers, doctors, right. What supremacy is pervasive 59 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: in every single facet of life. What is troubling me 60 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: about this story is one I've only seen it in print. 61 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: I have not heard about it, talked about on mainstream 62 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: cable news right, and I wonder why. And it's funny 63 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: because I posted a video the other day on TikTok 64 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: and folks in the comment section about this very story, 65 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: and folks in the comment section, we're just like, of course, 66 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: mainstream media is not going to cover it, because I 67 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: bet some of their fucking names are on there too. 68 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: Because when you think about the coverage or the lack 69 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: of coverage that is actually good, that actually puts black 70 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: and brown people in a positive light or in an 71 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: empathetic light, we see those stories few and far in between. 72 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: So from the court room to the police department, to 73 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: the newsroom, to the classroom, to every other place that 74 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: you can possibly find yourself in, we know that white 75 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: supremacy exists. My fucking problem, though, is A, this is 76 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: a major story, and B why the fuck do these 77 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: people still have jobs? So here's what we have right here. 78 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to share this with you from BuzzFeed. The 79 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 1: full report, if you want to see the list of names, 80 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: was published by the Anti Defamation League earlier this week, 81 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: and this is what BuzzFeed reports. The far right extremist 82 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: organization rose to prominence after the insurrection for playing a 83 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: key role in planning the insurrection at the Capitol. Many 84 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: members have been arrested for taking part in the riot, 85 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: and some, including the group's founder, facing charges of seditious conspiracy. 86 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: The membership list, which was first published last year by 87 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: the journalism collective distributed Denial of Sequences, demonstrates that the 88 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: radical anti government group is far from fringe and in 89 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: fact holds close ties to mainstream power. So this is 90 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: the thing that I really want to talk about for 91 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: a moment, because these are the distinctions that mainstream media 92 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: would like to make, right just I would say in 93 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: the same vein that Democrats like to make the distinction 94 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: between maga Republicans and this mythical, magical unicorn of a 95 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: good Republican that they often love to speak about. Oh, 96 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: we've done some good work with these good Republicans, my man, 97 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: you are talking about like two people. Okay, This is 98 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 1: not the entire community of Republicans who have Donald Trump's 99 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: back until that motherfucker goes off of a cliff, and 100 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: even then they'll jump on it and hope that he 101 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: turns into some type of magical bird that will carry 102 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: their bullshit. Right. So here's the thing is, these lists 103 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: are known, they are published, they don't get the NonStop 104 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: news coverage that it should because we just shrug at 105 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: it and we have believed, or maybe it makes us 106 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: feel comfortable to be lied to by mainstream media when 107 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: they tell us that these groups are just fringe groups, right. 108 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: Just in the same way when these horrible racist police 109 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: officers murder or brutalized black people and people of color, 110 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: we say that that person is just a bad apple, 111 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: because taking on the entire system of law enforcement right 112 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,679 Speaker 1: would just be too fucking much to do. How would 113 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: one undertake getting rid of all of these police officers 114 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: who are only on the job to be able to 115 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: utilize their power to oppress, torture, humiliate, discriminate against other groups. 116 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: This is the problem, because we have loved to believe. 117 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: It's the same way that Donald Trump became president of 118 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: the United States. The media sat around and they said, oh, 119 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: he's just good for ratings, he's a clown. We'll go 120 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: ahead and follow him. They followed it as every movements, right. 121 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: They laughed at some of his fucking jokes. They gave 122 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: him more coverage and more airtime because they said, Oh, 123 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: he's just part of the fringe. Marjorie Taylor Green, same 124 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: fucking sentiments, Lauren Bobert, Matt Gates, Josh Holly. We continue 125 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,239 Speaker 1: to say that these people are part of a fringe 126 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: radical right, when in fact they are assuming and are 127 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: already in positions of power. And maybe if we actually 128 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: spoke about these people and their ideology with the attention 129 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 1: and urgency that it deserves, then we would actually do 130 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: something about it. But I don't think that we really 131 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: want to. That's the thing is that you have a 132 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: list of thirty eight thousand people. Right. We don't designate 133 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: in the United States domestic organizations as terrorists organizations because 134 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: we love to believe in America that terrorists are brown 135 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: people that live in the Middle East, right, not fucking 136 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: Bob and Jim and Chet that live in Idaho, Wisconsin 137 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: and Kansas got together and then decided to show up 138 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: at the Capitol Building with their fucking ar fifteens and 139 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: their military gear and attempt to overthrow the government. We 140 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: don't label these organizations outside of the klu Klux Klan, 141 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: which took bombing of churches and killing of I don't 142 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: know how many fucking black people to be designated a 143 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: fucking hate group. When Donald Trump stood up on stage 144 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: when he was asked directly to denounce white supremacy and 145 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: didn't and instead incited a fucking insurrection, you would think 146 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: that maybe the Department of Justice, and it's awful in 147 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: its Office of Civil Rights, would decide, you know what, 148 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: maybe part of our problem is that we don't actually 149 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: name the ship that is in front of us, and 150 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: by not naming it, we allow it to be normalized. 151 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: Because you see, the only way that you can actually 152 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: get rid of something is if you name it. This 153 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: is the thing that I have been saying about Joe 154 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: Biden before he gave his speech about the soul of 155 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: the nation. I said, if you are not being specific 156 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: with the American people and pointing to the villain and 157 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: saying this is who is the problem is the group 158 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: that is standing between you and your right to vote, 159 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: between you and bodily autonomy, between you and your ability 160 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: to marry who you love, between you and your ability 161 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: to be relieved of student debt, between you and clean 162 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: drinking water. If you are not naming these people and 163 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: you're still congratulating them and calling them over as your colleague, 164 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: then how were people to understand that there really is 165 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: a distinction, a sharp and fucking clear distinction between the 166 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: two parties. It's the same way that I feel about 167 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and the other 168 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: two hundred some odd fucking white supremacist organizations in this country. 169 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: If you are not naming them as hate groups, if 170 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: you are not whole them to the standard that you 171 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: would other terrorist seals and organizations, if you were not 172 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: working to infiltrate them and take them down, then what 173 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: you were doing is readily allowing them to spread like 174 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: a cancer across this fucking country, which they've done. We 175 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: are at a point right now where things have gotten 176 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: so fucking out of hand because we ignored the elephant 177 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: and pun intended in the fucking room. We ignored Donald 178 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: Trump's misogyny, we ignored Donald Trump's racism, we ignored the 179 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 1: Islamophobia because democrats that are impowering. I'm not talking about 180 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: we the people, because we the people fucking saw it. 181 00:12:55,679 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: We the people showed up in twenty twenty, and that 182 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: not on my watch, but when those motherfuckers decided to 183 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: infiltrate Congress in very aggressive ways Democrats were nowhere to 184 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: be naming these motherfuckers as who they are, said, oh, 185 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: let's try and work with them. How are you trying 186 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: to work with somebody that is literally gave insurrectionists a 187 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: map to your office to have you killed. How are 188 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: you working with people who have put your name and 189 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: face up on their websites in crosshairs? How are you 190 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: working with people who turned you into a graphic video 191 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: game showcasing your murder. You don't. It's simple, you don't. 192 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: What you do instead is every day, with every breath 193 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: that you have and every micro phone that you are 194 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: in front of, then every screen that you can tweak from, 195 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: is that you consistently tell the American people who the 196 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 1: fuck they are and what they're doing. You don't give 197 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: them credit for saying thank you to the Republicans for 198 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: helping us pass infrastructure, because then what you're signaling to 199 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: the American public is that, oh, these motherfuckers still are 200 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: working for us, even though they're rapid racists and white 201 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: supremacists and misogynistic pigs. This is not even about playing dirty. 202 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: It's about just telling the fucking truth. So if they're 203 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: eighty motherfucking elected officials that are on this list, and 204 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't even care if they are dog catcher in 205 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: their fucking town. If you are holding elected office and 206 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: you are a part of a designated white supremacist group. 207 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: But that's the fucking problem. You see where we get here, 208 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: because we can see, oh, it's an extremist group, but 209 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: they're not designated as a white supremacist group. They're not 210 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: designated akin to the KKK, And we need to get 211 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: that image out of our heads because these motherfuckers are 212 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: shopping at the Gap, wearing tan pants and going to 213 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: party the party store and getting their tiki torches. 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I want to tell you about 235 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: another story, and I want to tell you that partisanship 236 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: here doesn't even fucking matter right with this story, because 237 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: evidently this story involves political violence that took place earlier 238 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: this month at the hands of a Democratic, a local 239 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: Democratic official, and a reporter. And then I'm going to 240 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: tie together how all of these things are coming into clear, 241 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: clear focus about just how dangerous of a time we 242 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: are living in. And oh, that's also cemented by the 243 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: fact that the Supreme Court said everybody and anyone could 244 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: have a fucking gun, right, So we know that everyone 245 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: is filled with the most disgusting amount of hate for 246 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: people that they don't know, but who Donald Trump told 247 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: them is stealing their lot in life, coming in and 248 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: taking their jobs and caravans and this, that and the 249 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: other thing. I've never seen people with so much privilege 250 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: wine so fucking much than the Republican Party. But I digress. 251 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: So let me tell you about this story because when 252 00:17:52,119 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: I saw it, I was absolutely shocked. Las Vegas Police. 253 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 1: This is in the Los Angeles Times, The La Times. 254 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 1: Las Vegas investigative reporter was killed over critical stories. Robert 255 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: Tells Is to appear on a homicide charge in Nevada, 256 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: six days after investigative reporter Jeff German was stabbed to 257 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: death outside of his home. Las Vegas police alleged Thursday 258 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: that a top local official killed investigative reporter Jeff German 259 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: because of critical stories the journalists had written, as well 260 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: as a new piece he was planning to write. Las 261 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: Vegas Metro police arrested Nevada elected official Robert Tellis on 262 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: suspicion of murder of the Las Vegas Review Journal reporter 263 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 1: German after recovering items worn by the killer from the 264 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: Clark County Public Administrator's home. Authority said. Police said they 265 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: also tied him to a vehicle he drove to the 266 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: scene of the crime and found his DNA at the 267 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: scene of the fatal stabbing. So here's what it goes 268 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: on to say, tell Us was upset about articles that 269 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: were being written by German as an investigative journalist that 270 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: exposed potential wrongdoing, and tell Us had publicly expressed his 271 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: issues with that reporting. This is according to the Las 272 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: Vegas Metro Police Captain Dorry Coreyn, and then ultimately tell 273 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: Us was also upset from what he found out later 274 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: that there were additional reportings that was pending. Folks, this man, 275 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:59,479 Speaker 1: this elected official, apparently he's a Democrat. The funny thing 276 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: about this story, there's nothing actually funny. I don't mean funny, 277 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: ha ha. The funny thing about this story is that 278 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: Democrats right now are not saying that the police department 279 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: is corrupt. They're not calling for a more increased political violence, 280 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: which is what we know would happen if this were 281 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: a Republican We know exactly the tactics that they would 282 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: use to ratchet up the fear, the hate, and the anxiety, 283 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: because that helps them win. We are at a place 284 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: in this goddamn country where it is so unrecognizable that 285 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: an investigative journalist can't do their job. This man went 286 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: to his home and stabbed him to death outside because 287 00:20:52,359 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: of stories that he had written, because he's reporting the truth. Now, 288 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: I want you to think about this, and I want 289 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: you to think about Jamal Kashogi, who was dismembered and 290 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: murdered by Mohammed bin Salam in Saudi Arabia. When we 291 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: hear those stories and it's in another country, namely one 292 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: that is in the Middle East, we say, oh those people, 293 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: my god. Right, we have no problem equating viciousness, right 294 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: and barbarianism to brown people or black people. This shit. 295 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: There is no fucking difference except this man is going 296 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: to go to jail. This is the thing that is 297 00:21:52,359 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: separating us from dictatorships and authoritarianism is the ability to 298 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: have accountability through the press. I read you my piece yesterday. 299 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: The fourth estate is crumbling. What do you think will 300 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: happen to journalism if things like this become the norm. 301 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: There's a commercial that plays to promote Rachel Nadow's Monday 302 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: Night show on MSNBC, and in the commercial it's a 303 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: clip obviously, it's a mashup of clips from her show 304 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: and on our show. She said it should not take 305 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: bravery to be a poll worker. You shouldn't have to 306 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: be looked at as courageous, she says, to be an epidemiologist. 307 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: It shouldn't take bravery to be an investigative reporter, unless, 308 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: of course, you're on the battlefield in a war zone, 309 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: not if you're reporting in your hometown. It is. When 310 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: I saw this story, I didn't even look up the 311 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: political affiliation of the murder suspect because I didn't care, 312 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: because it didn't matter to me one way or the other. 313 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: But what matters is the environment, the toxic, dangerous, violent 314 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: environment that has been created in this country in our 315 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: politics because of the likes of Donald Trump and what 316 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: has been permitted because we refuse to name things as 317 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: they fucking are when we see them. Motherfucker's knew Donald 318 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: Trump was a racist and a misogynist and a sexual 319 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: assaulter and a crook, but they didn't want to name it. 320 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: God forbid, for neutrality's sake. We don't want to seem 321 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: like what we're telling the fucking truth. So we play 322 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: both sides. In countless rallies, you hear Republicans in particular 323 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: ratcheting up their calls for political violence. You heard Lindsey 324 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: Graham say that about even the appearance of Donald Trump 325 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: being held accountable, there's gonna be riots in the streets. 326 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: What that rhetoric and the media's placating to this bullshit 327 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,959 Speaker 1: is what leads here. Now people will tell you, oh, 328 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: you can't connect those dots, like this is a standalone thing. 329 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: It's a lone wolf case. This isn't part of the norm. 330 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: Who were we kidding again, It's the same thing we 331 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: say about police officers and the killings of unarmed black 332 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: people and people of color. It's always an isolated fucking 333 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: incident and not a pattern of violent behavior and white supremacy. 334 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: You have got to name things if you want to 335 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: change things. James Baldwin said, you cannot change things that 336 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: you refuse to face. We walk around with blinders on 337 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: thinking that rhetoric, thinking that words don't have power. If 338 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: they didn't, then we wouldn't have the First Amendment that 339 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: has protected speech. If we didn't believe that words had power. 340 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: This politician, a democrat, didn't like what was being said 341 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: about him, didn't like what was being written about him, 342 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: and hopped up on the world's bullshit, went and stabbed 343 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: another man to death for words that he put in 344 00:26:51,720 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: the newspaper. What message is that sending? I will say this. 345 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: This is from the statement. This is a statement from 346 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Review Journal newsroom. The arrest of Robert 347 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: tell Us is at once an enormous release and an 348 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: outrage for the Review Journal newsroom. We are relieved tell 349 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: Us is in custody and outraged that a colleague appears 350 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: to have been killed for reporting on an elected official. 351 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: Journalist can't do the important work our communities require if 352 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: they are afraid a presentation of facts could lead to 353 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: violent retribution. This is the world that we are living 354 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: and now where it has become commonplace that doctors and 355 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: nurses are threatened for trying to save people's lives from 356 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: a killer virus. We live in a world where teachers 357 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: and school administrators are threatened for having the audacity to 358 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: want to teach children the truth and not give them 359 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: a bunch of bedtime stories that white supremacists think that 360 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: they should learn This country was founded on violence, and 361 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: all of these fucking roosters are coming home. And we 362 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: do ourselves and every single person around us a disservice 363 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: when we make excuses and use euphemisms for things that 364 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: we know are fucking wrong. I wish that we lived 365 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: in a society where news actually worked to connect the dots, 366 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: to deliver the truth, to enlighten the public, to engage 367 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: them so that they want to show up and be 368 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: responsible citizens. But we don't. Capitalism rules the day. Click 369 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: bait is what brings in ad dollars. Everything is about 370 00:29:52,880 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: the bottom line. But the bottom line is this, for ends, 371 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: we are living in the most dangerous times. I think 372 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: that any of us who were not alive during the 373 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: Civil Rights movement has ever seen And my fear is 374 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: that stories like this one, stories like the oath keepers list, 375 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: are going to become more commonplace, just like mass shootings 376 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: that unless you know five or more people are killed, 377 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: we just go on about our day. This shit is 378 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: not right and it should never be. That is it 379 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: for me today, Dear friends on wokeay f as always, 380 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power 381 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: at woke and stay woke as fuck.