WEBVTT - Too Many Lies 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bokay f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.720 me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from Eastern Shore of Maryland. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.320 Dear friends, I'm going to tell you ahead of time 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.520 that you may hear children screaming in the background. They 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.400 are not mine, they are not being tortured. I'm visiting 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.559 one of my best friends for her birthday weekend. Um. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.199 I say all that to say, you know, we need 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.800 to be nimble, kind of the way that you know, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.239 our society needs to be with regard to COVID and 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.199 the fact that it's not over right. I know that, folks, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.040 everyone is exhausted, everyone is tired, and everyone wants to 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.720 just move past. Right. This is what the Democratic governors 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.520 are saying as they are rolling back mask mandates, as 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.840 they are rolling back vaccine mandates. Just recently in DC, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:10.080 which only had vaccines in place for restaurants for folks 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.920 to show their vaccinations in place for eight weeks. Guess what. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:19.520 They've decided that it's no longer politically advantageous for the mayor, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.040 so they've decided to end that. Folks. You know I 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.479 don't often say to you, well, both sides right, It's 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.080 actually the phrase that I can't stand the fucking most 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.160 both sides, Well, both sides are doing X, and both 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.000 sides are doing why. But I will say this, Democrats 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.679 had a leg to stand on as the party, right, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.000 the actual political party that was putting public health and 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.880 public safety first. They were the political party that said, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.480 we're following facts, we believe in science. Right, So for 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.440 anybody who these elusive independence that everyone loved to talk 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.720 about every fucking election cycle, except I've never met an independent, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:11.720 you know, you want to believe that, Oh, Democrats are 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.640 doing the right thing, right, Like, it's very clear because 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.760 Republicans are doing everything that they can to be the 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.639 worst people, right. Like everything, it's like after every announcement, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.320 every headline, it's like, oh, no, hold my beer, here's 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.919 somebody that is worse. Here's an incident that is worse. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.480 Here's another book banning that is happening. Here's another rollback 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.880 of COVID, here's another lie that's being told. Right, So, Democrats, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.520 I thought that they're saving grace going into midterms, was 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.440 going to be just that. Where the party that believes 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.320 in public safety, where the party that believes in science, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.320 Where the party that believes in truth, and so that's 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.040 how we're going to be moving forward. Right. But no, no, no, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:00.359 that's not what they're doing. They have decided instead, dear friends, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.120 that it is going to be more politically expedient for 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.440 them or better somehow in the midterm elections to decide 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.680 to try on republicanism and just say, oh, you know, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.239 people are just fed up with COVID, so we're going 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.359 to end restrictions and mask mandates. Now here's the thing. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.680 I've been talking a lot of shit about the CDC 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.720 and the way that doctor Willinsky has had such a 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:34.480 communication nightmare over the past year plus, right, telling people, oh, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.800 get vaccinated, take off your mask. Oh by the way, 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.160 put your masks back on. Oh by the way, and 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.320 not everybody needs a booster. Oh by the way, you 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.600 may need a fourth one. Right. But here's the thing, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.520 here's what we know to be true. COVID over the 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:55.240 last two years has followed the same pattern, right, which 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.839 is this, we had alpha, right, so COVID comes out 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.640 of the blue twenty twenty. We have the alpha variant. Right. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.560 Within a short period of time, roughly seven to eight 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:15.200 months in to alpha, right, then we had what delta 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:20.920 Delta took over Alpha. Then roughly in another seven six 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.120 to eight month span, guess what came omicron. Right, So 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:31.120 now we're at a point where the incredible surge that 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.280 we hit. And mind you, I said this on my 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.200 other podcast, Democracy Ish, which if you're not listening to, 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.400 comes out weekly with my friend wajahat Ali. You should 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.440 check that out as well, really interesting in depth conversations 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.800 with the both of us each week. But here's the thing. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:55.240 Sixty thousand Americans died last month, sixty thousand. We are 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.360 still at a place in this pandemic where two thousand 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:06.320 Americans dying every day. Right, But we've decided as a society, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.480 as a culture, as a country that we don't really 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.640 give a dam. We don't give a dam, We have 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.159 no empathy. It doesn't matter to us that we are 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.560 putting each other in harm's way, so long as everyone 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.680 gets to pretend that normal still exists, whatever the fuck 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.280 that is, they want to be able to go back 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.400 to it. So we have collectively decided to engage in 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.960 the COVID gaslight and tell ourselves and each other right 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.640 that it's no longer a threat. Well, here's what's going 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.480 to happen. And I'm going to make this prediction. I'm 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.400 going to read the tea leaves in the way that 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.240 polsters tell us how elections are going to go. So 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.680 here is this. In this lull that we will have, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.000 you will see things feel good and better as spring 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.440 starts to happen, as we enter into summer. I guarantee 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:05.040 you that before we enter into the fall season, midway 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:10.280 through summer, there will be another fucking variant, right, because 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.880 that is what the patterns have shown us. So for 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.640 these democratic I don't even care about the Republican governors, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.880 but to these Democratic governors who think that they are 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:26.200 making this quote unquote politically smart decision, not the public 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.320 health decision, but a politically smart decision to make these 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.400 changes right before mid terms, I shit you not. That 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:39.359 we will have a new variant before November, right, and 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.880 if the pattern holds, it will happen by the end 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.039 of summer as we head into the fall. So then 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.760 for those people, right, for these governors who are is 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.960 telling people, oh, it's okay, take off your mass Oh 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.720 we're not going to do vaccine checks anymore. It's just 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.960 on everybody. We're going to decide that this is endemic now, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.880 even though, let me remind you, sixty thousand Americans died 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.560 last month of COVID, two thousand or dying every single day, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.000 and before we get to summer, a million Americans will 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:18.520 have died from COVID. So no, you idiots, this is 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.840 not like the flu, because a million people don't die 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.000 over the course of two years from the fucking flu. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.040 And if you want to have some type of normal 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.280 ish type of life, then you need to adapt. You 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.040 need to be nimble in this moment and not decide 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:44.760 to drop all of your COVID protocol in order for 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.160 this rush to normal that doesn't exist. Like, here's the thing. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.240 I know that it is so difficult for us to 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.320 wrap our minds around the fact that two thousand and 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.760 nineteen wasn't that long ago. But our lives are so 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.680 drastically different then they were back then. The problems, the 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.840 issues that even I was talking about on this show 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:13.600 seem ridiculous now when we're facing global death rates at 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.720 numbers that we haven't seen since the Spanish flu. Right 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.880 that the numbers that we have seen in twenty twenty one, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.520 in twenty twenty two with a vaccine are worse than 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.440 what we saw in twenty twenty. So how is it 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.760 that the party that is supposed to follow science, the 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.960 party that is supposed to be about public safety, has 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.600 decided that they're just too exhausted to keep going. So 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.960 instead you give Republicans the talking points that they need, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.320 even though they don't do shit. They don't offer America platform, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.960 they don't offer you any help, they don't offer you 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.600 a direction forward. All they do is offer you the 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:57.599 word no, right, no, on top of white supremacy, racism, misogyny, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.079 That's the only thing that they are offering to you. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.839 But now Democrats have given them a gift, right. You See. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.679 The funny thing is is that I have believed for 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.400 the longest time that Republicans who are going to make 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.280 it easy for Democrats, because it was going to be 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.560 so easy for people to see the writing on the 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.679 wall with Republicans, they want to return to nineteen fifty three. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.920 They want segregation, They want to make segregation great again. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:29.280 They want to whitewash your child's public school curriculum. They 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.959 want to make it impossible to vote. The next thing 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.840 up is going to be we're counting jellybeans again, just 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.560 if you're black and brown, everybody else go to the 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.840 front of the line. They are saying the quiet parts 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.880 out loud, over and over again. So you would think 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.720 then it wouldn't be so hard to combat that narrative 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.640 and to offer up to the American people, here's your alternative, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.720 people that want to exist in the twenty first century 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.040 with you and recognize that we are living in a 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:02.160 multiracial democracy, right that requires participation, because you see in 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.960 all the documents that people love to bring up, it's 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.640 said government foreign by the people, not a selected group 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.479 of minority that have made themselves into authoritarianism and enshrined 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.480 with their over takeover of our judicial system, enshrined and 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:24.439 codified into law, white supremacy. Again. You would think that 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.080 Democrats would be able to figure this out, but no, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.600 Instead they have offered them a gift, which is that 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.199 you see COVID wasn't that big of a deal anyway, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.360 because now the democratic governors are finally coming to their 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.080 senses where Republicans have been all along. So now the 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.199 people don't know who to trust and they don't know 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.480 who to believe in because you see all of the 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.360 things that this administration said on the campaign trail that 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.280 they were going to do, right, it's coming out in 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.240 drips and drabs. If at all, we have no voting rights, right, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.080 we have no climate change legislation. I don't know about you, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.800 but I want to let you know something. When I 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.560 left New York and headed down to Maryland, it was 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.880 sixty five fucking degrees outside. Now, hey, here's a thing. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.479 If we're all going to die anyway, I will absolutely 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.719 enjoy some sunshine and some warm weather. But I want 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.839 us all to realize it's February in the Northeast. It 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.320 shouldn't be sixty five degrees. And last week, right after 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.680 a lovely fifty some odd degree day, it's snowed two 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.960 to three inches the next day. So, folks, what do 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:40.360 you think is happening here? Right like? This is the 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.880 new normal? The new normal is just abnormal. It is 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.200 all of the things that the scientists had been warning 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.240 us about for twenty years. If you don't do something 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.840 about climate change, it's going to get to a point 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.960 where the damage that is done is irreversible. Well, the 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.600 same thing is true about our fucking democracy right now. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:06.440 If you don't do anything to fix right our broken system, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.920 a system that Donald Trump has now told seventy five 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.160 million people or however many white supremacis decided to vote 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.800 for him, that the election was rigged. And now you 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:22.480 have a mirrie I mean, just a fucking bevy, right, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.040 a voter suppression laws now across the country. Like, what 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.360 do you think is going to continue to happen when 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.800 you don't protect what is sacred? So it's the environment, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.360 and today it's sixty five degrees in February and maybe 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.600 it'll snow in fucking June. Right, what do you think 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.600 that that is going to do to your grocery bill? 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.000 For instance? Where do we think that we get this 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.480 food from? So if you have oh, I don't know, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:58.600 extreme frost, extreme heat, droughts, right, that is going to 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:05.600 affect guess what food prices? Because you see the big farms, right, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.800 how are they going to know when to harvest? Which 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.600 is going to make prices go up? All of this 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.839 is connected, but instead we look at these problems as 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.440 if they are silos. Right, Republicans don't want to talk 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.680 about climate change, but they want to talk about opening 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.680 up the economy. Well, I don't know what kind of 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:31.520 fucking economy you can have right when your basic needs 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:36.800 like food is going to be disrupted because you're going 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.040 to have to start outsourcing things that we used to 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.440 grow in the United States but will no longer be 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.200 able to grow and no longer be able to predict 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.200 the seasons of And who is that going to fall 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:53.079 on the consumer? You know? But they want to Even 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.880 the conversation that we have around climate change is one 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.120 that is still sitting in trying to convince people of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.480 the obvious. And I'm just like, just start to look 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.239 at your fucking grocery bills. That's not just because of inflation. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.520 Things are going to get worse. And the reality is 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.480 that the one party that I continue to have faith 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.800 in because I thought that, oh hey right, they believe 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.800 in truth, they believe in science. They are for the people, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.960 at least that that's what they set on the campaign trail. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.960 But they are for the people, and they are for 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.000 science so long as it is convenient. But that's not 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:37.800 how this ship works. So here we are. Pandemic is 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:42.800 not done. News to everybody, especially those folks at Coachella 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.760 that are getting ready to put on their outdoor festival 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.600 for tens of thousands of fucking people with no protocols 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.600 in place, because guess what, right, money over everything else? 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.840 You know. So I don't know, folks, I don't know 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.600 how Democrats are going to showcase to the country right 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.720 when they have no voting rights bill passed, they have 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.320 no police reform passed, they have no climate change measured past. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.880 Now the part of BBB, the human infrastructure that's stalled, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.680 that's not going to pass. So what is it that 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.720 Democrats are going to be running on for mid terms? 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.480 You tell me if you can think about something in 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.560 the comment section that I am not thinking about, then 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.440 tell me in the comments section of the show, if 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.760 you're thinking about, Oh no, Danielle, they can run on this. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.720 Please let me know, because I have been begging, banging 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.480 my head against the wall to figure out what is 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.720 the conversation going to be. I can tell you what 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.440 the headlines are going to be. Democracy dies. That's going 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:56.720 to be the headline. Right America is over. That's going 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.760 to be the headline come following the mid term elections, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.640 because as soon as Republicans get in charge of the 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.239 House and Kevin McCarthy or whatever piece of shit Republican 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.800 could be. They could anoint Marjorie Taylor Green, for all 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.600 we know, to be the new Speaker of the House. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:18.320 Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Right, they will reinstate 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.200 the people that were censured, not you know, the ones 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.840 that believe that, you know, the election was free and fair, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.120 and not the two that they basically booted out of 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.320 the party who sit on the one six Commission. Not 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.960 Chainey and Kissinger, but the Marjorie Taylor Green. Oh well, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.440 that's the future of the party, she told us herself. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.680 And by virtue of the fact that nobody ever has 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:46.040 that racist, anti semite, ever transphobe, ever offer up an 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.760 apology or say that that's not who we are, it 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.000 is not outside of the realm of possibility that someone 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.840 absolutely batshit crazy if Republicans win in midterms, will be 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.800 the new Speaker of the House. So all of the investigations, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.400 what little is happening, will be done. They will gum 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.880 up the works at the Department of Justice. They will 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:12.320 gut finally finish right with public education. I mean, folks, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.720 I just don't think that everyone gets what's at stake. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.960 And I spend each and every day trying to figure 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.760 out how how do I tell this story better? You know, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.400 I try, and I scream at the top of my lungs, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.199 not because I'm doing it for show, but because I 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:34.080 am really that fucking angry, you know. I just it's 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.800 like Democrats feel to me like they are trying to lose, 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.400 that they are trying to make sure that our country 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.920 is over right. And when I look at this administration 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.879 that again I wanted to give the benefit of the 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.240 doubt too. I wanted to give them time because they 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:58.720 were inheriting, right, something that was terrible. They were inheriting 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.720 a catastrophe. But at that same time, right in this 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.960 same moment in Vain, it's been over a year, and 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.880 again I say, what have they done? What have they 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:22.280 offered us? You can't continue to run on public health 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.080 and safety when your own democratic governors are deciding that 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.400 they are no longer going to listen to you, right. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:34.040 You can't run on the success of the vaccine when 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.880 we still have more than a quarter of the population 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:43.560 that isn't vaccinated. You can't run on the fact that, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.080 like people's lives got to go back to quote unquote normal, 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.080 even though we knew those with brains that that was 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.760 never really going to happen. But you can't run on 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:57.120 that either. And now you've turned your back on the virus. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.560 And you think that because we as a soci say 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.520 COVID is done, the virus is like, oh okay, I'm 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.480 finished too. I guess I'll move on now. It's not 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:15.480 how it works. So I sit here deeply worried and troubled. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:21.840 I am deeply worried and troubled because I feel like 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.320 we are at an a point where the end is inevitable. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.800 I feel like we are at a point and even 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.359 I just had a conversation with my friend as I 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.200 walked in with my friends and they're like, you know, Danielle, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.239 sometimes I find it really hard to watch you. And 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.880 I said, you know why, because everything that you say 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.159 is true, and you just say it really fast and 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.720 really straight. But there is nowhere that I can point 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.240 to like it's just not easy to listen to. It's 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.040 not easy to hear the truth. And I said, I 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.320 get it, it's not easy for me to say it right. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.560 But I feel like we're running out of time, so 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.400 I don't have the time to you know, bullshit around 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.160 and say, oh, well, maybe if we do X, why 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.240 will happen? And I'm like, no, guys, you kind of 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.399 know that that's not true. We can have faith, but 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.280 it is not going to be in the fact that 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.080 Democrats may hold on to power, because they have already 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.119 shown the country that they don't know what to do 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:34.040 with power once it's given to them. They are a disappointment. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:45.600 I'm at a point with Democrats right now where I 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.120 really do want to throw up my hands right where 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:53.360 I'm sitting around and I'm wondering why Donald Trump isn't 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:58.040 in jail. I'm wondering why white people who continue to 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.440 break the law, who are criminal are able to get 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.760 off scott free. I'm wondering why Democrats keep saying in Unison, 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.520 no one is above the law. But then you have 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.480 an ag that is apparently a mime who has offered nothing, 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:22.120 no hope that we are restoring anybody's institutions or restoring 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.680 anybody's faith. You know, earlier in the week and I 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.399 spoke about this, but I want to talk about it again. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:36.159 You know, I have really started to unpack what is 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:41.320 happening in Ottawa, in Canada, and you know, we are Americans. 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.160 Let's just be real, right, we're really fucking self centered. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.520 We don't really give a shit about what is happening 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.720 in other countries by virtue of you know, how far 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:53.560 away we are with the rest of the world. But 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.720 Canada is right, you know, to our north. And what 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.879 is happening in Ottawa with this vaccine protests and the 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:08.000 way that they have used these you know, semi trucks 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:14.320 that apparently can't be moved to essentially block off the 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:20.080 road to government and shut down the entire city, and 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:25.080 they are being funded by right wingers in the United States, 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.480 where people reporters are like, why are there so many 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:34.280 American flags? Like this is not how Canadians are. But 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:38.000 they have these fucking transplants that are coming around and 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:42.199 you know, the cops, right, they're not doing anything to 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:46.480 stop people. And come to find out, guess who are 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.840 some of the people that are in this quote unquote 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:56.520 protest that is happening in Ottawa active police, active military. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:02.240 So we're like, why hasn't anybody been arrested? Right? Oh, 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:04.960 because they have a quote unquote right to protest. And 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:11.719 this week Trudeau right has given himself outsized power in 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.840 order to be able to gain control back over a 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.200 situation that they kind of have given over to the protesters. 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:22.080 Now why is this important? Because what is happening in 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.080 Ottawa is gonna fucking happen in the United States. And 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.879 also where do you think that they got the idea from. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.720 Do we all forget when white supremacst decided to take 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.280 over the to take over the capitol in Michigan? We 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.320 did we forget that that happened? Do we forget that 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:45.280 there was a plan to kidnap right and try in 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:50.000 somebody's people's court. I'm sure in rape and murder the 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:55.119 governor right and those people were arrested, Like, do we 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:59.119 not get that the tactics that we are seeing being 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:03.600 used in being used in other places where the right 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:08.680 wing is not the majority of people, but they are 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:11.840 the majority of who is being heard and who is 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:16.520 being shown. And the more spotlight that they get, the 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:19.480 more reporting that is done, the more people that come. 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:23.560 And because once again white people can do no wrong, 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:28.879 they're able to set up an entire fucking Tailgate protest 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:34.119 over the course of three weeks. I don't know in 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:39.320 whose world that that happens in, but all I know 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:45.200 is that in this upcoming election, if folks are not 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:50.280 paying attention to what has happened with the insurrection a 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:53.680 year ago, to what is happening above us in the north, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:25:00.720 to how these right wingers continue to organize and mobilize right, 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.720 because the Department of Justice is doing such a fucking 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:09.880 poor shit job of actually taking down the people who 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:14.840 funded the insurrection, who were the architects of the insurrection. 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:19.720 So all this time has passed, handful of people have 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:22.720 been arrested, given some slaps on the wrist or being 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:29.000 able to just go home, right, to give themselves up right, 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:35.400 So all they're doing is sharpening their knives, polishing literally 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:41.120 their arsenals, just waiting for the next green light from 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.320 their leaders who are telling you out loud that they 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:50.440 want another civil war. But once again we're going to 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:54.800 find ourselves caught off guard. Where did this come from? 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:58.440 Oh my goodness, we need a documentary, an investigation into 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:04.040 understanding how another insurrection could happen because you failed to 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.920 stop the first one and then you didn't hold any 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:12.040 of those people accountable. So basically giving a blueprint to 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:14.840 the next round to make sure that it is successful, 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.159 and just you know, to say this success looks different 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:22.360 to different people. Your ability to storm the Capitol building, 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:24.760 to be able to shit in the halls of democracy 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:27.240 and then go home and brag about it on Facebook 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:30.960 and literally nothing happened to you. I don't know. I 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:33.360 don't have kids, but I'm pretty sure that when they 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:37.040 have poor behavior and you don't course correct it, and 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:42.400 then they continue that behavior and then guess what, it escalates, right, 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:46.440 because they haven't been held accountable. So if we thought 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:51.000 that one six look bad, right, what do you think 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:54.119 that the next iteration is going to look like? I 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:57.320 think it's going to look like bullets and tanks, and 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:02.640 I don't mean tanks on our side, right, Because we're 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:07.159 again not paying attention. We have allowed our guard to 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:13.520