Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen. Welcome to willkay F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to start off today with something that is alarming,
Speaker 1: as one does in the twenty twenties, it seems as
Speaker 1: if I will say this that since we have entered
Speaker 1: into the twenty twenties, that everything has seemingly gone downhill.
Speaker 1: And I say that not even tongue in cheek. It
Speaker 1: just really feels like everything has gone downhill. We spoke
Speaker 1: about this yesterday with doctor Jonathan Metzel with this just
Speaker 1: consistency around panic and anxiety. So just another way to
Speaker 1: know that you're not crazy with the way that you're
Speaker 1: feeling well. Axios reports this which I just had to,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of laugh at but not really, which
Speaker 1: is that the doomsday clock. The doomsday clock, which was
Speaker 1: created by the bulletin of Atomic Scientist, is a symbolic
Speaker 1: clock of you know, according to Axios, how close we
Speaker 1: are to midnight, and midnight is essentially a human cause
Speaker 1: catastrophic events. So the doomsday clock was created in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty seven and was initially used, according to this article,
Speaker 1: to represent the danger posed by nuclear weapons, and you
Speaker 1: know that we had nuclear weapons were created, and these
Speaker 1: scientists got together and started to think about all of
Speaker 1: the risks to mankind. And at the time in nineteen
Speaker 1: four seven, the only really truly to mankind was nuclear war,
Speaker 1: as countries were building their nuclear arsenals. Well. Now, over
Speaker 1: the course of many, many decades, the doomsday clock has
Speaker 1: since evolved, and not in a good way, right in
Speaker 1: the way that it takes into account other risks to humanity,
Speaker 1: which is climate change, bioweapons, and disinformation. And for the
Speaker 1: first time, so this is wild, but for the first
Speaker 1: time in our history, we are the closest to midnight,
Speaker 1: meaning basically the collapse of our humanity or a catastrophic event,
Speaker 1: than we have ever been in our lifetime. And so
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three the announcement came down that we are
Speaker 1: ninety seconds to midnight, which ten seconds was taken off
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty which is when we were the closest
Speaker 1: to midnight because of a global health pandemic. Now we
Speaker 1: are ninety seconds to midnight. And this is what they say.
Speaker 1: The clock is a figurative tracker of the world's proximity
Speaker 1: to total human cause destruction. The clock's hands are moved
Speaker 1: closer to midnight to suggest humanity is nearer to self
Speaker 1: made catastrophe and farther when that risk appears to fade.
Speaker 1: What has prompted some of these factors to contribute to
Speaker 1: us literally ticking closer to our destruction is, according to
Speaker 1: the Bolton of Atomic Scientists, this Russia's thinly veiled threats
Speaker 1: to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of
Speaker 1: the conflict by accident, intention, or miscalculation is a terrible risk.
Speaker 1: The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone's
Speaker 1: control remains high. They also go on to talk about
Speaker 1: the expansion of China's nuclear capabilities, the rise in North Korea,
Speaker 1: the increase in North Korea's missile testing, which we have
Speaker 1: seen and every time it happens it is breaking news.
Speaker 1: The climate crisis also continues to pose an existential threat,
Speaker 1: they write, with global carbon dioxide emissions rebounding from their
Speaker 1: pre pandemic low and climate change linked extreme weather events abounding. So, folks,
Speaker 1: basically what they are saying is that, how do I
Speaker 1: put this in delicate ways, We're fucked that every time
Speaker 1: there is some type of catastrophic event and I would
Speaker 1: argue that they should probably this is a global sense,
Speaker 1: but they should probably add in, you know, America's mass
Speaker 1: shootings that are now happening multiple times in one week,
Speaker 1: that that is what is also presenting a problem. So
Speaker 1: you take into consideration mass shootings, climate change, bio catastrophe,
Speaker 1: in terms of another pandemic, nuclear war. I mean, when
Speaker 1: Jonathan and I are talking yesterday about this heightened anxiety
Speaker 1: and why everyone is numbing themselves with xanax or other
Speaker 1: types of anti anxiety medications and antidepressants, it's because of this,
Speaker 1: Like we're not all crazy, right, Like every time my
Speaker 1: phone dings right buzzes and there's the New York Times
Speaker 1: and then the AP that comes right behind it, and
Speaker 1: then Routers that comes behind that, I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is happening? And there's the moment where I don't
Speaker 1: really want to click on what's happening, but I also
Speaker 1: don't want to walk outside and see a big fucking
Speaker 1: plume of smoke and cloud that says, oh, New York
Speaker 1: has been hit by missiles, right, Because while that sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: it's fucking not right. Like that's the thing is that
Speaker 1: I think that what has happened since the rise of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the improbable presidency of a reality TV fraudster
Speaker 1: and grifter becoming the president of the United States, accelerating
Speaker 1: the demise of our democracy. Watching one of the two
Speaker 1: major political parties morph itself into a cult of personality
Speaker 1: that doesn't care about government, that doesn't care about grifters,
Speaker 1: that doesn't care about liars, that doesn't care about insurrectionists,
Speaker 1: and instead embraces them all in their big white supremacist tent,
Speaker 1: and seeing that these people are not losing. Sure, folks
Speaker 1: lost their Secretary of State races and lost local like
Speaker 1: important election positions for races, but we have a whole
Speaker 1: new crop of insurrectionists that are in the House of Representatives,
Speaker 1: who if we had a Department of Justice with an
Speaker 1: Attorney General that actually gave a damn, then these people
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to run of her office because
Speaker 1: guess what, they would have all been fucking indicted before
Speaker 1: they had the opportunity to get on the campaign trail
Speaker 1: in the first goddamn place. We have the likes of
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green being sat on important important committees like
Speaker 1: Homeland Security where you get classified information, and we have
Speaker 1: the likes of Eric Swalwell and Representative Adam Schiff being
Speaker 1: denied placements on important committees like Intelligence because Kevin McCarthy's
Speaker 1: a vindictive piece of shit and doesn't want people that
Speaker 1: actually wanted to hold the former twice impeach president accountable
Speaker 1: for inciting an insurrection and you know, trying to bribe
Speaker 1: a foreign head of state that now he's taking it
Speaker 1: out on them. So, folks, when you take all these
Speaker 1: things that is just happening in these United States to consideration,
Speaker 1: on top of all that has been transpiring globally, our
Speaker 1: collective anxiety is not crazy. And now I want to
Speaker 1: read you pieces of the bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday
Speaker 1: Clock press release, because while sure it's not an actual clock,
Speaker 1: like at midnight, you know, it's New Year's Eve and
Speaker 1: instead of fireworks, it's just bombs going off everywhere, But
Speaker 1: what it says and what it is stating is that
Speaker 1: we are seeing real, viable, credible threats to our existence.
Speaker 1: And what is crazy is I feel like a hundred
Speaker 1: years from now, if in fact the planet is even
Speaker 1: still around, that one hundred years from now, people will
Speaker 1: be sifting through you know, news and articles and information
Speaker 1: and saying why didn't anyone do anything like this was
Speaker 1: clearly preventable, this apocalyptic living that we are doing on
Speaker 1: a broken planet? That why didn't anyone do anything? Like?
Speaker 1: How could you take no action when you see that
Speaker 1: the waters are warming and that extreme crimate events are
Speaker 1: becoming increasingly the norm? Why wouldn't you create legislation that
Speaker 1: would stop people from being able to access guns legally
Speaker 1: and then take out an entire office or classroom? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't everyone collectively care about humanity? And the funny thing is, folks,
Speaker 1: is that like when you put it that way, it's
Speaker 1: just it's insane. But it's the same way that I
Speaker 1: remember being a young person learning about the Holocaust and saying,
Speaker 1: how could no one do anything? How could you allow
Speaker 1: six million souls to be exterminated from this planet and
Speaker 1: no one say him like, after the first fucking million,
Speaker 1: after the first one hundred thousand? How is there not
Speaker 1: collective fucking outrage? How do you sit idly by as
Speaker 1: six million people are killed? Folks? It's the same thing now,
Speaker 1: except it's not happening over a course of a few
Speaker 1: years at the hands of one person. It is happening
Speaker 1: at the hands of so many people collectively just not
Speaker 1: giving a fuck. Millions of people died from COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: and we have representatives in our government who are telling
Speaker 1: people not to get vaccinated. Did who have allowed people
Speaker 1: in their own state, like Ron de Santis, to kill
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people in Florida and not be
Speaker 1: brought up on any type of fucking charges. Like sometimes
Speaker 1: I tell you that I feel absolutely fucking crazy because
Speaker 1: I'm like, am I the only one that's seeing this
Speaker 1: the handful of people that seem to be on the
Speaker 1: up and up and seem to be saying, like, are
Speaker 1: our voices just not loud enough? Because how is it
Speaker 1: that the people who think the least about our humanity
Speaker 1: are the ones that are in charge right now? It
Speaker 1: makes no fucking sense. George Santos is a member of
Speaker 1: fucking Congress because somehow we have no laws as it
Speaker 1: pertains to being a compulsive liar to your constituents and
Speaker 1: then bamboozling them into voting for a fraud and there's
Speaker 1: no recourse to take. They just got to sit with
Speaker 1: dude for two years. Like that's when you look at
Speaker 1: the laws and you say something is not fucking right here.
Speaker 1: Similarly with the fucking Second Amendment, the four fathers of
Speaker 1: this country did not have the imagination to consider what
Speaker 1: a fucking hundred magazine of bullets could do to the
Speaker 1: body of a seven year old, right, But we don't
Speaker 1: have to imagine it because it's happening, and yet there
Speaker 1: is no will to do anything about it. It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is how we live now. We live completely in fear,
Speaker 1: fear of being shot, fear of the world just imploding
Speaker 1: from climate change, because greedy corporations can possibly decide to
Speaker 1: make money in a way that does not harm our
Speaker 1: environment or frankly harm us, because money is the most
Speaker 1: important thing. God forbid. You have regulations, you have people
Speaker 1: that are sitting idly by why people in the Ukraine
Speaker 1: are being raped and murdered. Right, we won't know what
Speaker 1: Putin has really done until all is said and done.
Speaker 1: But let's not escalate the situation by going in and
Speaker 1: fucking stomping him out. Let's just sit around and wait
Speaker 1: for him to pull the trigger on a nuclear bomb
Speaker 1: and then we'll take action. When I look at this
Speaker 1: press release and I'm going to read you what the
Speaker 1: President and CEO doctor Rachel Bronson of the Bulletin of
Speaker 1: the Atomic Scientists sets because it isn't hysteria, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what's happening in front of our eyes is real, and
Speaker 1: I think that there is just this collective shock and
Speaker 1: paralysis around how to wrap your arms and mind around
Speaker 1: crises that are so big. But there are not acts
Speaker 1: of God. These are acts of man that have gotten
Speaker 1: us here. She says this quote. We are living in
Speaker 1: a time of unprecedented danger, and the doomsday clock time
Speaker 1: reflects that reality. Ninety seconds to midnight is the closest
Speaker 1: the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it's
Speaker 1: a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government,
Speaker 1: its NATO allies, and Ukraine have a multitude of channels
Speaker 1: for dialogue. We urge leaders to explore all of them
Speaker 1: to their fullest ability to turn back the clock. The
Speaker 1: doomsday clock statement goes on to explain this quote. Russia's
Speaker 1: war on Ukraine has raised profound questions about how states interact,
Speaker 1: eroding norms of international conduct that underpin successful responses to
Speaker 1: a variety of global risks, and, worst of all, Russia's
Speaker 1: thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world
Speaker 1: that the escalation of the conflict by accident, intention, or
Speaker 1: miscalculation is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict
Speaker 1: could spin out of anyone's control remains high. Russia has
Speaker 1: also brought its war to the Chernobyl and zappapor Zia
Speaker 1: nuclear reactor sites, violating international protocols and risking widespread release
Speaker 1: of radioactive materials. Efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency
Speaker 1: to ensure these plants so far have been rebuffed. The
Speaker 1: doomsday clock is sounding an alarm for all of humanity.
Speaker 1: We are on the brink of a precipice, but our
Speaker 1: leaders are not acting at sufficient speed or scale to
Speaker 1: secure a peaceful and livable planet. From cutting carbon emissions
Speaker 1: to strengthening arms control treaties and investing in pandemic preparedness.
Speaker 1: We know what needs to be done, they write. The
Speaker 1: science is clear, but the political will is lacking. This
Speaker 1: must change in twenty twenty three if we are to
Speaker 1: avert catastrophe. We are facing multiple existential crises. Leaders need
Speaker 1: a crisis mindset, folks. That statement cannot be more clear.
Speaker 1: The anxiety that we are feeling is one that is
Speaker 1: steeped in real existential threats to humanity. Over a million
Speaker 1: people were wiped out in this country by a pandemic.
Speaker 1: What this statement lies out, lays out, excuse me, is
Speaker 1: that these once in a century storms, once in a
Speaker 1: century pandemics are no longer once in a century. And
Speaker 1: what is so chilling and crazy is that we have
Speaker 1: all of the information and tools to stop what is happening,
Speaker 1: but for a handful of crazy, fucking egomaniac white supremacist leaders,
Speaker 1: we can't get anything fucking done. So when I say, oh,
Speaker 1: here are options which are becoming really limited. Either we
Speaker 1: have a revolution in this country, one that is steeped
Speaker 1: in justice, climate justice, gun reformed justice, you know, the
Speaker 1: rights to live on a livable planet, one that is
Speaker 1: free from mass shootings, one that actually is prepared for
Speaker 1: the worst and not just by building up our fucking
Speaker 1: pentagon stockpiles, but one that is invested in the future
Speaker 1: while also taking care of the present. Instead, we have
Speaker 1: protests erupting at fucking drag story times, curriculums being erased
Speaker 1: or denied from being taught, books being fucking burned, people
Speaker 1: refusing to take vaccines so that they can spread illness,
Speaker 1: and have the freedom to do so, and mass shootings
Speaker 1: happening more than we can even count. We didn't even
Speaker 1: learn the names of the people in the first shooting
Speaker 1: before the second one happened. There is a reason why
Speaker 1: people are numbing themselves, whether it be with xanax, with alcohol,
Speaker 1: with whatever, because the reality is so fucking stark, and
Speaker 1: I want folks to really truly understand that you are
Speaker 1: not alone. You are not alone in having moments a
Speaker 1: lot of them, where you feel utterly hopeless because I
Speaker 1: am fighting against this like black pit and hole that
Speaker 1: is growing in my stomach and in my heart, that
Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to stop this impending
Speaker 1: doom and instead we're watching its acceleration. Now. I have
Speaker 1: said many times that fighting for justice and equity is
Speaker 1: a marathon. It is a marathon that is also a
Speaker 1: relay that you do what you can. You pass the
Speaker 1: baton and you may never see the finish line, but
Speaker 1: you know that you are moving things down the path.
Speaker 1: But when we take into account the things that are
Speaker 1: actually out of our personal control and look around at
Speaker 1: what is happening, it does become overwhelming. This is why folks,
Speaker 1: I encourage therapy. I encourage healthy use of medication. I
Speaker 1: encourage meditation, connecting with nature, you know, connecting with art,
Speaker 1: with music, spending time with people who lift your spirits
Speaker 1: and your soul, and tapping in just enough to not
Speaker 1: lose your mind. I do this show as a form
Speaker 1: truly of cathartic release, and also just so that people
Speaker 1: recognize that you're not crazy. You're not crazy for caring,
Speaker 1: You're not crazy for being worried, because we have a
Speaker 1: lot to worry about. You know, we are living in
Speaker 1: unprecedented times. As I know, so many people have said
Speaker 1: we need leaders to meet this moment, and currently there
Speaker 1: is not only an absence of collective leadership and force,
Speaker 1: but there is just no will and it is up
Speaker 1: to us to force their hand. Otherwise we are going
Speaker 1: to be collateral damage in the games that they are playing.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on Will
Speaker 1: gay f as always, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as
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