WEBVTT - Black Voters Matter 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:21.760 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.080 today is a very important day, not just for people 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.600 in Virginia who should be voting right now, but also 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.520 for the country. Essentially, where we are is that we 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:39.000 have a critical governor's race in Virginia between Republican Glenn 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:44.800 Yunkin and Democrat Terry mccauliffe. Why is this race so critical, Well, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.760 because all elections these days are absolutely critical and spell 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.839 for us the future of what our democracy and the 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.840 country is going to look like. Or a better way 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.560 to say that is to give us a signal as 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.440 to where things are going to go in the twenty 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.720 twenty two midterm elections. Now here's the thing that I 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.960 find really interesting about this Virginia race. One is that 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.880 as the days go on, that the race gets tighter 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.120 and tighter, and for us to be able to say 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.640 comfortably that Terry mcculloff is going to win is not 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.839 something that we can say right now. I mean, look, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.920 you know that I can't stand poles, pole watchers and 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.640 reading the tea leaves because I don't think that after 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.000 twenty sixteen we can affirmly say that, oh, yes, these 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.920 numbers are correct. We just don't know, right, we don't. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.800 Polls essentially determine whether or not how far ahead a 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.840 candidate is or how far behind they are. But it's 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.960 also about the questions that are asked, how those questions 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.480 are asked, who those questions are asked, right, And so 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.960 here's the problem with that. We know that the numbers 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.440 are tightening, but among who and who is really being asked? 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.040 Right now? We know that already over a million votes 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.240 have been cast in Virginia, which usually bodes very well 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.400 for Democrats, why because we favor mail in voting, early voting, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.480 and all of the things that should in fact just 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.280 be the norm across the country. But thank you so 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.720 much to the three hundred and some odd voter suppression 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.960 laws that have been rolled out and for the Supreme Court, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.160 you know, not giving a fuck about our democracy. But 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.800 I digress. What I'm finding most interesting about this race 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.679 right now is what Glenn Yunkn is deciding that he's 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.440 going to be paying attention to education is on the 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.639 top of his docket, but not education, as in, here 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.760 are the things that Republicans are going to offer to 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.080 make our public school systems better, right, or what he's 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.720 going to do to make education in Virginia top notch? 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.880 Right in comparison to other states across the country. No 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.760 education is number one because of Fox News. Danielle, what 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.120 is this connection that you're making. We'll let me walk 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.680 you through it. Over the summer, we heard what term 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.200 became part of our lexicon, critical race theory. This made 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:07.000 up right title for essentially talking about and teaching history 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.760 in a way that isn't just through the lens of 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.519 white supremacy, isn't just through the lens of false white exceptionalism. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.000 It is history that is taught and the truth about 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.960 the founding of this nation that is about everyone, right, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.440 not just the conquerors, right, but those that were conquered. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.920 It is history taught through the lens of non white people. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.880 But here's the kicker. In Virginia, it's not even being taught. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.320 And in most places, critical race theory is something that 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.000 is taught in higher education. But you see the right 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.080 wing glabbed globbed onto this as a part of their 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:52.000 ongoing culture wars, right, because white grievance is so fucking strong. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:58.839 Nine points is the number that this particular issue has 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:04.080 jumped to the top of everyone's minds in Virginia education. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:09.560 But again, it's not education. It is about white grievances, right, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.640 And the fact that essentially what white people are using 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.080 in Virginia as code for their racism is the fact 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.800 that they don't want their grandchildren or their children to 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.440 be taught to feel bad about themselves. But it's totally 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.840 okay that we have designed an entire curriculum that is 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.360 about making black and brown children feel like shit, and 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.719 so that should just be customary. And what do I 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.440 mean by that, Well, here's what I mean is that 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.800 if you think back to your own public school education, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.720 think back for a moment that outside of February, outside 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.400 of Black History Month, who did you learn about, right, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.400 What black people were you taught about in your school? 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.160 What did you learn about the founding of this country 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.400 that the pilgrims came over and they were so friendly 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.960 and nice and then poof, you know, the Native America 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.320 just started dying off. Did you learn about slavery and 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.520 how it built the entire economy and infrastructure and capitalism 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.640 not only of this country, but around the world. Did 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.880 you learn about that? What people did you learn about 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.800 that were significant as innovators as scientists in this country. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.880 Was it a slew of people that helped to move 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.720 our country forward, that helped to create what we know 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.360 now as America? Or was it a small group of 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.840 white people that get celebrated every single year, year after year, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.719 decade after decade to perpetuate the idea of white excellence. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:43.039 So when we are talking about our education system and 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.680 our education curriculum and what kids are learning, right, this 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.479 was all brought on by the success and brilliance of 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:56.360 the sixteen nineteen project that it gave us a greater 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:02.160 picture and window into how America evolved and on whose 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.360 back it evolved on and who story was erased from 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.440 the history of this country. It's like, oh, there were 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.559 black people, we stole them. They arrived in the United States. Oh, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.159 they were fed three meals a day and worked really 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:23.680 hard for fucking free. Right. Tortured, abused, beaten, raped, all 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.280 of these things children ripped from them, literally ripped from 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.200 their bodies, then forced to throw them on their back 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.160 and continue working in the fields where they were raped. Right. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.680 So like when we think about the reality of this 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:44.000 fucking country. The sixteen nineteen project brought into our purview 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.960 the truth, and do you know what Republicans do not 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:54.000 like facts and truth. And so they decided that they 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.400 were going to make critical race theory their next boogeyman. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.479 That it wasn't just going to be abortion, and it 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.000 wasn't just going to be transgender children, or wasn't just 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.680 going to be the bathroom issue and not to allow 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.480 transgender people into bathrooms. Know that they were going to 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:13.120 find yet another boogeyman to use to get white people 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:18.160 on their side, because what the right knows inherently is 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.600 that white people are racist, Right. They don't want their 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.080 children to learn about their past and their history. They 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.200 want the status quo to be maintained. So if we 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.880 scare them just enough, if we utilize Fox News as 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.280 the scaremongering tool that it is, then we continue to 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:41.120 have these quote unquote white conservatives on our side. So 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.720 what's really funny to me is that if you're watching 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.120 the news reports right as we build up to this 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.800 election today and probably just be very clear, we probably 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.520 won't know right at the end of tomorrow who the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.440 next governor of Virginia is okay that let's just be 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.040 really clear about that that we are now in a 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.200 space where we will no longer find out on the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.480 day of an election who actually fucking won. I say 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.520 all that to say that the right is really good 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.880 at one thing, which is creating a fear campaign, and 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.840 so the idea that white people don't want their kids 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.120 to feel bad, the idea that we need to continue 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.000 to perpetuate the lie of white American exceptionalism, and the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.720 fact that none of this is actually being taught in 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:36.040 Virginia schools at all. Glenn Yuncan has successfully taken over 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.080 the narrative and allowed for the poll numbers in the 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.560 concern around education to rise nine points. And what is 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.160 Terry mcculloff doing in response that? What are Democrats doing 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:52.760 in response to that? Nothing? And so again without direct 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:58.200 and total contrast right, without offering the contrary, without telling 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.240 the truth, without taking these issue who's head on you 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.920 give Republicans all the fucking runway that they need. It 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.320 is infuriating to me that this is where we continue 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:15.160 to be That Republicans get to offer nothing, they get 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:20.320 to provide no policy platform, they get to just essentially 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.800 you know, use Fox News talking points and their poll 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.840 numbers fucking rise, and so I ask you, it's like, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.480 what are Democrats doing? What are you paying attention to? 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.720 Because it sure as fuck is not what the people 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:42.360 actually want. And then, to make matters even worse, if 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.080 I hear one more person get on television to talk 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.040 about how black voters are not motivated and so black 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:55.280 voters are going to cost right the Virginia Democratic candidate 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.679 the election. No, no, no, no, no, let's not even 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.960 start with the fuck scapegoating bullshit. The fact of the 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.320 matter is is that the only reason why Joe Biden 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.800 is sitting in the goddamn White House is because of 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.560 Black voters. The only reason why most politicians are sitting 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.080 any fucking place is because of black voters, and particularly 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.840 black women that come out in large numbers all the 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.760 time and get the fucking job done, knowing, knowing sadly 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.600 that they're never going to have any of their fucking 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.800 needs met. Right, But we're just so accustomed to this 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.600 as black people in America that we're the one that 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.680 have to bear the burden when everything fucking goes left, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.000 but that nobody provides us with any of the attention 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.880 with any of the policies that we actually need, and 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.560 then when we decide that we may sit home and 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.720 not vote, that all of a sudden, it's now our problem. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.520 How about democrats, how about white politicians that you do 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.960 something out of the ordinary, What about you actually deliver 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.960 on the things that the black community and brown communities 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.480 need so that they want to vote for you, right 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.040 the same way that we are so fucking interested each 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.800 and every single day of going into the white working 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.840 class communities and Biden is in Scranton, or he's in Ohio, 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.800 or he's in these places, but never going to densely 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:25.880 populated black rural areas or suburban areas or cities to 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.200 talk to them about what you are going to do 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.840 for them. I'm so fucking tired of using the same 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.560 coded bullshit language that has been used for decades to 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.920 deny black people right what they are fucking do. And 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:47.520 so once again, if Flora, if Virginia, excuse me, if 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.240 Virginia goes to junkin, then who do you think that 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.760 they are going to blame their service? Fuck not going 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.760 to blame democrats for not having a clear message. They're 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.320 not going to blame Joe Mansion for not eaving the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.600 president in a win for which can be campaigned on. No, no, no, no, no, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.160 it's either going to be blamed on black people or 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.520 blamed on progressives, but never laying the blame where it 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.920 fucking goes, right, which is understanding that what the right 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:23.000 is doing is constantly, constantly preying on white resentment, white rage, 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.559 white backlash. And why are they able to do that, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.800 because it's ever fucking present. And what do Democrats do 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.120 in response to that? No, they don't broaden out their base. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.680 They don't try and get people on their side. They 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:42.160 try and play Kate to white people, right too, right, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:49.959 to the fucking disadvantage of everybody else. So where Virginia 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:56.000 goes later today or early Wednesday, Lord only knows. The polls, however, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.320 don't look good and should be the writing on the 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.720 wall for Democrats. But as I'm coming on air to 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.360 deliver this to you once again, guess what Joe Mansion 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:12.480 delivered yet another blow to President Biden's fucking infrastructure agenda 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.160 and again wanting to place the blame on progressives and 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.280 on the Progressive Caucus that is being run by a 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.080 woman of color. And led by women of color to 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.080 blame them and not the fucking old white guy who 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.280 is so out of touch with what is going on 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.040 in the country, but very much in touch with what 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.400 is going on in his own pocket right in terms 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.720 of getting all of these paybacks by big coal, right 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.600 and also pharmaceuticals and anyone that is anti climate change 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.560 or anti family leave. Because right now, Joe Mansion decided 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.120 that he was going to have a press conference to 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.760 essentially say that he's not going to vote for reconciliation 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.240 because he needs to know where the money is coming from, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.480 how this is going to affect the debt. Let me 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.800 tell you something about America right now. If you don't 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.160 understand the sense of urgency and the place of urgency 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.160 that we are in, then you're not paying attention. If 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.200 you are more concerned with the debt and these fucking 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.640 rules of the filibuster, then you are with the day 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.600 to day lives of the American people. You are fucking 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.360 out of touch. And what I'm tired of being told 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.440 is that, oh, the President doesn't have this power. Oh, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.800 it's all up to the Senate. No, do you know 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.600 who these things are up to? Fucking Chuck Schumer, it 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:40.640 is time that you start casting penalties right for Mansion 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.920 and Cinema that the majority of America didn't have the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.920 opportunity to vote for. They voted for Joe Biden and 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:51.000 Kamala Harris, not fucking President Joe Mansion and Vice President 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.880 Kersen's fucking cinema. And much in the same way that 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.920 Mitch McConnell has always been able to get his fucking 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.200 team in line and have them shut the fuck up 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.360 and vote in accordance because they understand power for power's sake, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.960 we still have motherfucker's wanting to get on television and 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.520 do this soft euphemism and negotiation with our two right, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:21.360 with our two very own obstructionists. Where are the penalties. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.120 Where is the fear that Chuck Schumer is putting in? 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.560 Where is the threat to say, we're stripping you of 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.160 your committee assignments like you are not a team player, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.920 right And if you want to go ahead and switch 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.360 your party and be a Republican, then fucking do that. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.080 But you're not going to continue to hold up progress 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.360 for over three hundred million Americans because you don't like 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.880 right different parts of this bill, or you want to 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.760 see a pay for Where was this fucking outrage when 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:52.320 Donald Trump was raising our debt right when was adding 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.840 to it by trillions of fucking dollars? I'm you know it? 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.200 Just and then when when will you offer up a 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.760 path to be able to pay for this legislation to 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.800 pay for the expansion of social safety nets? You have 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.480 Kirsten Cinema that's like, oh, I don't want the billionaire tacks. No, no, no, no, no, 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.120 Well why not, right, because the last time I checked, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.560 there were no fucking billionaires in West Virginia. Right. I 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.400 don't know how many billionaires exist in Arizona, but I 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.760 will tell you this that if the rich in this 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.840 country were to actually pay for their fair share, then 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.000 we wouldn't have to be concerned with how much is 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.880 being added to the debt. Speaking of the fucking rich, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.200 let me tell you what is rich Elon Musk right 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.400 making a statement to the UN that he would provide 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.240 six billion dollars in order to fight world hunger if 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.320 in fact they told him how they were going to 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:59.040 be spending the money. This is some patriarchal, like fucking 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.960 white suprema bullshit. The fact that you would have six 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.600 billion dollars to spare right, that isn't going to hurt 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.960 your pockets, and you dangle it like a fucking carrot. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.240 But much in the same way that nonprofit organizations have 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.520 to do a step and fetch it for fucking philanthropic 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.040 organizations so that they can get their general operating funds. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.200 This is what Elon Musk is doing to the United Nations. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.480 And you want to tell me that there is nothing 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.960 wrong with capitalism when one man, one man who is 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.840 not a fucking elected world leader, can make demands of 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.080 the United Nations. When I tell you that we are 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.440 living in black mirror, when I tell you that squid 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.480 games is about to be fucking real, because you have 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.920 these ultra rich right who are either bored and going 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.160 into outer space, or maybe they will develop their own 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.560 real world squid game where they get to watch the 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.480 rest of us kill each other for their enjoyment. Because 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.720 that's the world that we have lived in. That is 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.960 the world that are imbalanced fucking capitalistic structure has created 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:15.080 where you have people that are so fucking wealthy, so 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.320 fucking wealthy that they could end some of the world's 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.320 problems in a blink of an eye. But choose not to, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.320 and if they choose too, they're going to be able 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.800 to be in a position to be able to dictate 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:32.760 how that money is spent. So we're we're what're do 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.280 we live in a democracy? Is the world is kleptocracy? Like? 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.800 What the fuck is going on? And if you're not 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:45.280 having a conversation or outraged about the utter imbalance in 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:50.960 the world right now, then you're not paying attention. So 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.680 I'm sitting here and unlike, So, on one hand, you 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:01.240 have Joe Mansion, who is a man that is elected 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.919 by I don't even know. West Virginia isn't even the 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:11.560 size of Brooklyn. I've said that before, right, Like West Virginia, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.719 this state doesn't have nearly as many people, is not 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.720 as population dense as one borough in New York. But 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.560 yet you have this man who also has a population 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.879 of people where the demographics do not look like the 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:33.040 changing demographics of America, where it is over ninety five 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:39.160 percent white, being able to stop voting rights right, being 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.600 able to stop any work on climate change, which by 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.840 the way, adversely affects low income black and brown people 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.840 because guests who has homes in low lying areas, right 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.080 that are oftentimes flooded or or in tornado zones. Guests 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.800 who is living in conditions where there is diesel f 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:05.320 and unclean and unsafe drinking water, low income and people 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:11.360 of color. But you have this man with a demographic 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.720 makeup of a state that looks nothing like the America 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.400 that we live in now being able to flex without 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.560 any fear of any retaliation. Why do you think that 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:28.520 he continues on this destruction path because who's pushing back 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.840 against him? No one. He gets all the fame, all 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.720 the headlines, all the flashing lights and cameras in front 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.200 of him in the way that this fame Hohr wants, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.520 and he faces no consequences. But we know this in 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.879 America that white men in power and are never going 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:51.080 to face consequences for a fucking thing. Ever, that's just 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.679 the reality of what it's like to live here. And 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.000 every day I think to myself, Wow, you know, we 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.919 really are a shiitthole country when you look around. I 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:10.080 think somebody had put up a slide infographic where it 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.080 was measuring all of the countries in the world that 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:18.879 have paid family leave and to see how many days 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.920 people get in other countries, other developed nations that don't 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.920 have a GDP of our size, right, and you are 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:36.560 providing in some places almost two hundred days a paid 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.240 leave and America has zero. But we have the audacity 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.480 to go around the world and talk about how great 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.000 we are. Joe Biden being abroad right now talking about 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.159 his plans for the world and how America is going 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:55.080 to work in partnership, and I'm like, if I am 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.360 a foreign leader, I'm saying, you can't even get your 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.880 own fucking house in order. So what do you doing 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.040 over here telling us what your plans are for the world. 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.840 You can't even get an infrastructure bill passed, you can't 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.639 even get voting rights passed. Who is America right now? 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.280 That's the question that we really should be asking, who 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:19.360 are we? Because we are getting no work done, let 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.919 alone Joe Biden being able to say to foreign leaders 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:27.720 like America is back? Is it? Because it doesn't seem 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.719 back to me? Right, It doesn't seem that with a 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.400 little bit of time that we had with the Presidency, 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.639 with the Senate, and with the House, that we have 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:41.720 gotten anything done. We have spent the last ten eleven 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:48.000 months just fighting amongst ourselves because you have two stunts, 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:52.360 obstructionists right, who don't want to see progress, who barely 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:56.000 want to uphold the status quo. But then you want 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.960 to turn around and blame the fact that we can't 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:02.120 get things done on progressives because what because they are 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.960 listening to their constituents that put them in office in 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:09.639 the first place, who want to see action on climate change, 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:11.800 who want to see paid family leave, who want to 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:16.360 have broadband, who want to see stronger bridges and tunnels 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:20.439 that are able right, that are able to withstand every 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:33.000 single season's thousand year storm. I tell you that all 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:39.639 of this, to me, is not even about Republicans obstructionism. 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:45.160 It's not even about their desire to win at their 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:49.520 slow moving coup and just ushering fascism and authoritarianism. It's 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.679 part of it. But what this really boils down to, 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:55.880 and what the American people are thinking right now as 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.400 they go to the polls in Virginia and in New 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.840 Jersey and another jurisdiction around the country, is what have 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:08.840 Democrats done? What is the messaging here right? What are 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:12.360 we selling? Why are we better? It is not just 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:17.280 enough right to say that we're not the Republicans when 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:20.640 you have nothing else to offer. The only thing that 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.360 Democrats can run on right now is their botch vaccination rollout, 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:29.199 where we are still stuck right in the high fifty 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:33.200 percentile fifty seven fifty eight percentile of the amount of 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:36.640 people that have been vaccinated in this country. And again 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:42.040 when you measure us against other industrialized, high wealth nations, 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:47.320 we are last in terms of vaccinations. So again I 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:49.800 ask you, how is it that we think that the 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:52.879 rest of the world is looking at us and thinking 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.119 that we are the leaders that are swooping in that 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:59.359 they've needed after four years of Donald Trump. If I 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.440 am a for and leader and I'm looking around and 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:05.960 I'm saying, America, have a fucking seat, get your own 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:08.359 house in order before you want to come out the 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:10.720 gate and start dictating to us about what it is 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:13.320 that we need to do in order to preserve democracy 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:15.720 when you don't even have free and fair elections in 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:24.040 your country anymore. I just you know, every great empire 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:29.600 right falls. History has shown us that some last for 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:35.080 hundreds and thousands of years, right, but they all eventually fall. 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:44.399 We are living inside of America's decline. Everywhere you look, 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:48.760 and you're measuring the United States against other countries right 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:53.560 now and we are coming in dead last. So what 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.359 does that say about us? How do you not stop, 0:25:57.400 --> 0:26:01.080 pivot and reflect on how you got here and figure 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:04.960 out where you're going. I listened to Joe Biden speaking 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:08.520 and I'm like, again, you sound like a president for 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:13.359 the twentieth century, not the twenty first century. After we've 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.920 lived through and are continuing to live through, a global 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:28.000 health pandemic, racial uprisings, white resentments, right voting rights that 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:31.360 have been gutted, abortion bands that are rolling out all 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:36.160 over the country, and the threat to our democracy has 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:40.600 never been stopped because you have Merritt Garland sitting somewhere 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:44.919