WEBVTT - 365 Days Later 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bige F Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.479 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording once again from the 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:25.680 Brooklyn Bunker. Today is January sixth, twenty twenty two. Three 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.400 hundred and sixty five days have passed since there was 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:35.040 a coup attempt, an attempt to violently overthrow our government occurred. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:42.640 We all sat before whether our computers, televisions, phones, tablets, whatever, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:50.760 and watched as thousands of Trump supporters, thousands of white Americans, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:56.680 ransacked our Capitol Building, tormenting our representatives as they were 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.400 doing their duty to certify the twenty twenty election and 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:08.880 the win, legitimate win of Joe Biden. There have been 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:17.640 countless videos, stories, tweets, tiktoks that have been shared to 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:24.800 convey the seriousness of that day. It exemplified just how 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:33.520 broken our democracy had become. Where a president could lie 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.680 to his millions of followers, that he could be uplifted 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.800 by cable news networks, that he could be celebrated and 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:50.160 seen as a legitimate and normal president as he gathered 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.920 his followers, his legions of fans as he calls them, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.440 in front of the Capitol Building on January six, twenty 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:05.639 twenty one, hyping them up on toxic masculinity, on xenophobia, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:12.920 on hatred, on partisanship, on white supremacy, and then pointed 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.360 them in the direction of the Capitol Building and told 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.280 them no, commanded them as I would write in My 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:26.160 Peace America, It's time to take the red pill. Commanded 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.560 them to go and take their country back. As I 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.360 said earlier this week, there is a piece in the 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:40.720 New York Times, and it is a startling, horrific piece 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.440 of journalism that outlines just how devastating the one six 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.680 events were for those officers that were on the front lines. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.440 I would be remiss if I didn't tell you what 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:01.359 stood out for me as I listened to January six, 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:06.280 the Scars, right from the New York Times. It's called 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:13.680 it's entitled the Capitol Police January six Scars, and what 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.600 stood out for me are the accounts of Capitol Police 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.360 officers talking about why they decided to join their police 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.720 ranks and how proud they were right how proud they 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:32.440 have been to serve to uphold democracy. There are more 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.000 members that talked about the fact that they decide to 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.240 join the Capitol Police force after nine to eleven, that 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:45.600 they felt so driven to protect democracy, to protect their country, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.160 But after the events of January sixth, they said, well, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.920 I didn't sign up for this. Have I thought to myself, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:02.440 what should I infer from that you signed up on 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.240 nine to eleven? Because what the terrorists that you thought 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.320 that you would be battling had a different color melanine 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.160 than you did, had a depth of pigmentation, spoke a 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.880 different language, came from that part of the world that 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.960 George Bush told you was an access of evil. That 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:26.640 there were not people who were citizens and mothers and 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:32.080 fathers and uncles and who also had a desire to 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:37.200 live out healthy, normal lives. That you thought, what that 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.800 after nine to eleven you would be like John Wayne 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.599 and what go get the bad guys? But when the 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:49.160 bad guys, the terrorists, actually look like your neighbor or yourself, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.800 it's something that you didn't sign up for. Is that right? 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:58.080 Did I read that and hear that correctly? The problem 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.200 that this country is facing is grave, and you guys 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.520 know that because you've been listening to me for years. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:13.479 At this point, I wrote one of my most honest 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:19.800 pieces this week, my reflections on one six that I 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.839 want to share with all of you. I normally don't 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.920 read an entire piece. I just go through and highlight, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.839 but what has hit me in this moment, this day 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:39.840 that is going to be filled with images and video 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:45.799 and analysts and hosts except for on Fox, talking about 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.840 the events of these of this day, and members of 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.360 Congress talking about their fears in that moment. And they'll 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.200 be asked questions like do you feel safe now? And 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.040 do you feel like you know justice is going to prevail? 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.800 And they'll give their platitudes and they will offer up 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.040 a range of thoughts, right that will both try and 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.240 present the sense of urgency that we still face in 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:17.599 this country while also trying to assuage our fears. And 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.640 I realize, folks, that's not my job. My job is 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.520 not to make people feel safe. It's to make you 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.800 feel hard. It's to make you feel seen, and it's 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.440 certainly in this particular climate, meant to make you feel 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.960 as if you're not being gas lit, as if you're 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:43.159 not going crazy. Right, because we all see what's happening, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.920 we all see what's coming, We see the direction that 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.880 this country has taken. But those that are in power, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.080 whether they are in front of the camera behind the camera, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.200 whether they are wearing a little congressional pin or not, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.320 are trying to downplay. Some will say that they're trying 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.480 to downplay the events because we have bigger fish to fry, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.080 or it's time to turn the page, or it was 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.840 just a bunch of tourists anyway. But they're all serving 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:24.600 the same master. They're all serving the same beast, which 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:31.680 is what James Baldwin referred to as moral apathy. See 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.600 this always a rush to go back to normal, a 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.840 rush to just put the bad times behind us and 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.000 tell people that, oh, the good times are here to stay. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.280 Except for some Americans, those good times never arrived. They're 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:54.280 still waiting for the elusive American dream. There's a reason 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.200 in this country while some people wave American flags and 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.960 other people kneel at them, and it's one that we 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.240 choose to ignore so that we can just get along 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.400 for the get along. We have these moments and these 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.280 flares where we see this country for what it is, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.000 but then it all becomes just too much. The problem 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.520 seems too big, And then we go about our days 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:30.800 putting away our posters, resting our voices from our marches 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.280 and protests and thinking that it's somebody else's problem to solve, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:43.080 except the destruction of our democracy isn't somebody else's problem. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.360 If you live here, citizen or not, it is your problem. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.319 I talked earlier this week about the Canadian professor who's 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.920 ringing the alarm about the crisis in the South. As 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.640 he refers to it, what are we going to do 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:08.800 if America falls? That's a real question. It's a question 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.720 that the world is asking, But somehow our American leaders 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.160 are not. You have the Senator mansions and the Senator 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.840 cinemas of the world that are pretending that this is 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.480 the twentieth century and all is well. All wasn't fucking 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.960 well in the twentieth century either, But at least we 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:32.560 weren't battling climate change, a global health pandemic, and a 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.120 rise of white supremacy all happening at the same fucking time. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.160 We could, at least at that time, take one problem 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.959 right after the other. So I want to share with 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.440 you my thoughts, my reflections on one six and what 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.160 I wrote, and then I'll talk about it some more. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:58.560 But I got to tell you, folks, dear friends, I 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:07.120 am feeling so sad and deflated and it's just six 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.719 days into twenty twenty two. I'll talk later in the 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.079 show about Merritt Garland's press conference non conference because nothing 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.839 was truly announced and where I think that we are 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.160 going from here. But I'm not going to lie to 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.000 you because I refuse to bullshit you. It ain't great. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:34.840 So as per usual, as many of you know, I'm 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.480 a columnist with Zora Magazine, which is the property of Medium, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:44.320 and I was asked right before the holiday break if 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:50.520 I would write a reflection on one six and I 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.880 was going to do you know, the normal, this is terrible, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.080 this is bad, and this is you know what I say, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.840 But I wanted to cut through the bullshit and just 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.240 state why we are in this place and why I 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.800 actually don't see a path forward. You know, I remember 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.400 when I was on Serious and I started woke af 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:22.199 when Donald Trump got elected. And after the election, I 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:28.240 read Psychology Today's the Eleven Signs of Gaslighting, and I 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.959 would read it like I felt like I was reading 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.040 it every month, right, just to remind people this is 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.360 what it looks like, because you're not going crazy, but 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.720 you're going to start to feel crazy. And years later, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:50.160 I feel like the entire every apparatus is participating in 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:57.240 the gaslight. Right, you had Joe Biden deciding that he 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.640 wanted to move on infrastructure because he wanted to show 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.920 the country that Democrats and Republicans can work together on 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.800 rebuilding America. And I'm like, where the fuck have you been, dude. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.360 They're trying to destroy this country through voting rights, through 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.280 voter suppression. How was that not the first thing that 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:22.360 you're doing. You came into office at the height of 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.600 the racial uprisings, when we all watched a black man 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:31.280 get suffocated to death in broad fucking daylight. Eight months later, oh, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.480 we can't get policing done, so you want to turn 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.520 to something that you think will be easy. They don't 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:47.240 want America to succeed, period. And until we actually grasp 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.280 that and name it and tell the fucking truth, how 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.800 were we going to do anything to change it. So 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:02.840 here is my piece, America. It's time to take the 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:09.559 red pill. Our biggest problem moral apathy. On the anniversary 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:15.160 of the one six insurrection, it's been three hundred and 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.080 sixty five days since the twice impeached former President Donald 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.480 Trump stood before his legions of fans in Washington d 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.600 C and urged them, no, commanded them to stop the 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.679 steel and go take their country back. It was a 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.400 site that no one could have imagined, and yet the FBI, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.240 Capitol Police, and DC Metropolitan Police should have been prepared for, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:45.679 but weren't. Since then, we have been nationally stunned by 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:52.079 Republicans who completely and totally gaslight us every day, a 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.480 day we all witness take place. We have allowed the 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.000 reality of the breakdown of that day to fall by 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.400 the wayside. The main question that should have been asked 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.200 about the one six insurrection is not how did it happen? 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:12.120 But instead why did all policing mechanisms fail? This is 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.520 the real question, and the answer doesn't require a House 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.960 commission to uncover. Why did all police systems fail on 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:25.640 one six? Simple because they were never intended to protect 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:31.240 white people from themselves. In the New York Times article 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.840 The Capitol Police and the Scars of January six, the 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.720 reader receives a horrific and graphic account of the day 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.520 that a hundred and fifty police officers were injured, beaten, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.040 and tazed by rabid Trump supporters who were hyped up 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.160 and then unleashed by their lion tamer Aside from the 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.960 brutality that they faced, the article also highlights the many 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.320 emails that went out referring to folks as bolos or 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:02.640 be on the lookout for. Many red flags were overlooked. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.880 The FBI also received tips and can see that white 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:12.080 nationalist groups were organizing in plain sight. Ultimately, the agency 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.840 decided that it was much to do about nothing. Why 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.200 because historically, when some white people scream about liberty, they 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.040 are applauded for it, not seen as a threat. If 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.760 any white man in the world says give me liberty 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.760 or give me death, the entire white world applause, said 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.160 James Baldwin once while in conversation with Decavit in nineteen 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.480 sixty nine. Yet, he continued, when a black man says 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.920 exactly the same word, same thing, word for word, he 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.720 is judged a criminal and treated like one, and everything 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.400 possible is done to make an example of this bad 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.520 nigger so that there won't be more like him. This 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.720 is the reality we refuse to face as a nation. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.480 White America and often Brown America too, will literally map 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:11.200 out every possible scenario, offer every excuse about regular joes, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.800 even dal being radicalized, but won't look at their historic 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.760 patterns of violence that have been led to their own 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:25.280 very real psychosis, the belief that whiteness is perfectly infallible 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.880 and anointed by their white Christian God. It is so 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.840 embedded in the system, and this is in fact what 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.680 Trump and his acolytes were able to stir up for 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.560 four years. Why do you think that Republicans next campaign 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.640 has been to take down critical race theory, which isn't 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:48.240 even taught in K through twelve schools. The very idea 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:53.120 of having their fictitious understanding of America questioned is one 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.560 that they cannot bear. And so instead of doing the 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.800 work to interrogate whiteness and the privileges that it affords, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.640 it is much easier to be quote swept up by 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.080 the benevolent desires of a used car salesman who tells 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.400 you that not only will he get your country back 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.040 from the grips of these liberal snowflakes, but he will 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.600 punish them for believing they had the authority to lead. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.160 Why is it that three hundred and sixty five days 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.919 after an attempt to overthrow the government, the ringleaders of 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.199 this attempt are still roaming free. The answer is simple, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.760 moral apathy and the unwillingness of whiteness to be accountable 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:42.359 to the monster it created. I'm terrified at the moral apathy, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.760 the death of the heart which is happening in my country. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.480 These people have deluded themselves for so long that they 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.040 really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.560 not on what they say, and this means that they 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:04.160 have become in themselves, moral monsters. Notes from James Baldwin. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.720 Moral apathy will be the death of us unless we 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.640 make the decision to unplug from centering whiteness and give 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.760 up the white Christian American Disneyland version of ourselves and 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.160 begin to take responsibility for our past so we can 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:26.440 chart a better future. America. It's time to wake up 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:33.960 and take the red pill. You know it is not 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:41.439 lost on me the mental gymnastics that are performed on 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:51.000 a daily to excuse, to pardon the violent behavior of 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:56.280 white people. It is always not all white people. It 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:03.359 is always don't categorize them, But it's okay to categorize 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.879 every other group. It's okay to look at every black 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.000 person and say you are ANTIFA and a Black Lives 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.360 Matter a protester, and you hate all white people. It's 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.600 okay to look at the Muslim community and say that, oh, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.639 because she wears a hijab, then she must be a terrorist. 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.800 Oh haha, let's make jokes about backpacks and elevators like 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:34.320 Laura Bobert did about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. It's okay to 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:39.000 categorize all LGBTQ plus folks. It's okay to talk about 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.679 every other group as a group, as a collective and 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.960 path and the pathology around that, but never white people. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.159 It's a reason, there's there's a reason, folks, why the 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:59.000 Capitol police were so fucking stunned, right, the DC Metropolitan Police, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:05.119 the FBI so stunned by what happened because they can't 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:13.920 see themselves as criminal. There's always a justification. Oh, it's 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:20.120 racial anxiety. Oh, it's economic anxiety. Oh teachers, they shouldn't 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.280 be able to tell our kids what they should do. Oh, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:27.040 it's parents choice. You know, parents had choices too in 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:32.720 the nineteen fifties when segregation was passed, when we desegregated 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.760 schools after the Brown versus the Board of Education in 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:41.280 nineteen fifty four, parents had a choice. Then they were 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.000 told that they had a choice, So they pulled their 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.440 kids out of the public school system, They put them 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.000 into Catholic schools, they put them into private schools, they 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.280 put them anywhere, so long as they weren't going to 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.479 be sitting side by side with black children. And so 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.879 then what did the federal government do? Then they started 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:02.480 to pull resources out of public education. The only reason 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.280 why we had public education in the first fucking place 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:14.560 was because of black people, because of the push that 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:20.879 government had a responsibility to educate its citizenjury. You know, 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.760 I always think about the adage all the time, Oh, 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:30.280 if you don't understand history, you'll be doomed to repeat it. Well, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.000 that's the point of this whole, fake, fictitious battle around 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:39.840 critical race theory, is so that your children will never 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:44.400 learn anything. They'll never learn anything except about white heroes 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:50.520 and white inventors and innovators. Right, those are the people 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.439 that make this country great, because, according to Rick Santorum 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:58.679 and others, there was nothing here before their ancestors rolled 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.720 up on the Mayflower. There were just a bunch of 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:16.840 savages running around with no industry, no currency. We are sick, 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.520 and you can't cure a disease that you refuse to identify. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.159 You can't just look at all of these systems that 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.959 have been designed to oppress everyone who is not white, 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:39.800 everyone who is not mail, everyone who is not cists. 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:45.000 You cannot look at these systems as silos and then 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:49.399 pretend played dumb that you don't understand where this is 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:51.679 all coming And why was there a breakdown. There was 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.560 no breakdown in Oregon with the police. There was no 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:59.040 breakdown in Lafayette Square when Donald Trump had it cleared 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:03.880 with the Italian right. There was no breakdown in upstate 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:08.040 New York where officers that were in the latest g 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.040 I Joe gear trampled a white man with blood coming 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:13.840 out of his head and knocked him down and walked 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:22.879 right over him. But there's always a breakdown when it 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:29.920 comes to dealing with angry white mobs. They turn they 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:35.080 turned their terrorists into heroes. If that is not something 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.720 that should wake people the fuck up, then I don't 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:46.120 know what is Kyle Rittenhouse is a terrorist. He grabbed 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:50.919 an R fifteen, He traveled across state lines looking for 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:57.120 people to kill, and this justice system said that he 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:02.720 was well in his right. That these judges who we 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:06.919 think are beyond reproach and are so neutral said that 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:11.720 we can't use the term victim because we don't know 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.160 what those people were up to. Well, we know exactly 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:20.720 what the fuck Kyle Writtenhouse was up to. But do 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:34.160 you see the applause that that motherfucker got. We cannot 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:39.560 continue to lie to ourselves and say that we are 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:47.040 in a political fight when we are not. There used 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:52.919 to be a time when we had a shared sense 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:59.000 of what was acceptable, We had a social contract, what 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:03.000 was moral, what was immoral, what was right, what was wrong? 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:13.920 Those lines have been completely blurred. It is now facts 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:28.159 and alternative facts. It is now right and right ish. 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:35.639 I feel like America is in a free fall. And 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:40.199 when I talked to you about the European Organization for 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:43.120 the first time, for the first time in America's history, 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:45.760 for the first time in the fifty years of this 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:54.160 organization's reporting, that they referred to America as a backsliding democracy. 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:58.000 They talked about signs and alarms going off in twenty nineteen. Well, 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.439 those alarms were sounded in fifteen, but everybody thought it 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:09.400 was a joke. Now you have an entire cable network 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:18.200 that is forced feeding lies to the public, from COVID 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:22.879 to a stolen election to the point that seventy percent 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:26.760 of Republicans believe that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president. 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:42.040 Cancer unchecked spreads. White supremacy is a cancer on this country. 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.720 We want to believe that everything isn't about race, except 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:53.320 white people make everything about race. Why is Kyle Rittenhouse 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:58.959 their hero a murderer but a victim of white supremacy. 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:07.000 Trey von Martin was thug. Why do they lift up 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.240 the woman who was shot at the Capitol Building as 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:16.560 a martyr, but Heather Meyer, who was mowed down by 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:28.320 white supremacists in Charlottesville was an agitator. Why do we 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:35.360 have members of Congress who don't believe that the Newtown 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:42.480 massacre happened, who believe that there are Jewish people with 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:48.920 space lasers shooting down onto earth that woman is sitting 0:27:48.960 --> 0:28:01.280 in Congress. You know, many people believe that the movie 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:06.439 Don't Look Up was too much on the nose. And 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:12.680 I'm like, this current political climate pretty much has put 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:17.959 the Onion out of business because they can't come up 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:23.159 with anything more absurd, more ridiculous, more devastating than what 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:29.000 we are living in right now. Over eight hundred and 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:34.399 thirty thousand Americans are dead, and you have governors going 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:39.520 on television, surgeon state surgeon generals telling us that the 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:44.040 vaccine doesn't work when them themselves are vaccinated and boasted. 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:50.360 They've weaponized a virus, and yet we still are referring 0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:57.960 to them like a legitimized, normal political party. Make it 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:11.400 make sense, Make it make sense. In Merrick Garland's press 0:29:11.440 --> 0:29:20.000 conference yesterday ahead of today's anniversary, I'd made a joke 0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:24.000 on Twitter and I said, so are we doing a 0:29:24.080 --> 0:29:26.720 drinking game along with this? Every time that he offers 0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:31.280 some type of justice will prevail platitude that we just 0:29:31.360 --> 0:29:35.120 take a shot. I'm a big fan of day drinking. 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:45.520 And then I watched it and watching him use strong 0:29:45.600 --> 0:29:53.680 language but really offered nothing, telling us that it takes time. Right, 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:59.840 justice takes time seems like a move swiftly when the 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:07.560 defendants have a different shade. Right. On today's episode of 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:17.800 Democracy Ish, which is prerecorded, I offered my thoughts about 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:25.760 this slow pace of this entire justice department, and I 0:30:25.880 --> 0:30:27.880 bring this up all the time. I said, do you 0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:33.720 know how many black men, women and children have lost 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:39.040 their lives under the suspicion that they've done something wrong, 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:48.080 never to actually have concrete evidence, but the suspicion, right, 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:52.520 you're up to something. Trayvon Martin walking home in the 0:30:52.600 --> 0:30:55.520 rain with a hood up. He seems suspicious, so I'm 0:30:55.520 --> 0:30:57.680 going to murder him and then I'm going to get 0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:06.560 off to me. Or Rice playing on the playground with 0:31:06.600 --> 0:31:11.320 a toy gun, as most twelve year olds do. Police 0:31:11.360 --> 0:31:15.120 officers rolling by that seems suspicious. You know, a child 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:19.440 on a playground, but they're black, so I must kill them. 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:35.120 We're always convicted and or murdered under suspicion. We have 0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:40.560 concrete fucking evidence. We got text message changed, we got 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:44.320 PowerPoint presentations, we got people in their own fucking voice. 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:51.320 Peter Navarro was on Ari Melber's show this week on MSNBC, 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:56.800 saying every part out loud. There were a hundred Republicans, 0:31:56.840 --> 0:32:01.160 he said, lined up as a part of this strategic 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:07.600 plan to overthrow the government. Those motherfuckers still sitting in 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:11.800 Congress dictating policy that affects our day to day lives. 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:17.360 And they are criminals. Oh but Merritt Garland wants to 0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:19.600 tell us, we will follow the facts where they fucking 0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:23.520 lead us. Bitch, you have enough to indict and I 0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:26.080 don't need to have gone to law school in order 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:31.800 to know that, because black and brown people in this 0:32:31.920 --> 0:32:36.120 country have been convicted, have been murdered for fucking less, 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:49.720 much less falsified police reports. Right, Everything lies made up 0:32:50.000 --> 0:32:52.440 in order to lock people up. Throw away the key. 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:56.240 But you have these white people in their own fucking 0:32:56.560 --> 0:33:01.360 voice telling you what they planned. But we got to 0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:03.640 follow the facts, We got to look for more evidence. 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:12.880 Don't insult us, and we shouldn't just be taking it. 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:18.600 We shouldn't just be sitting back and say, oh, yeah, 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:23.880 they'll figure it out. Three hundred and sixty five days, 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:30.880 Donald Trump and the Republican Party are terrorists, operators. They 0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:34.040 are not a secret cell. They are not a sleeper cell. 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:37.440 They are awaken out in the open, telling you exactly 0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:39.600 what it is that they are doing, and what they 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:43.560 are planning, and who they are modeling. This new regime 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:56.200 after Victor orbon in Hungary. You know what, they refer 0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:00.640 to Hungry as a hybrid regime because it's no longer 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:05.960 a democracy. Victor Roban has been in power since twenty ten, 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:12.040 and during that time he has a race history books. 0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:15.879 He has scared the ship out of journalists so now 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:19.080 the journalism that you get is just propaganda. He has 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:23.760