WEBVTT - Party of the Future 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bok a f Daily 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.760 with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.239 You know, folks, so much is going on already and 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.320 it's just Tuesday, so let's get right to it. First 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.800 of all, what the fuck do you think is wrong 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.120 with the one six House Commission? Seriously, Like all the 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.680 news reports coming out right now have Liz Cheney, right, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.280 who is the vice chair Republican Vice chair of the 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:48.400 one six House Committee, saying in no uncertain terms that 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.519 it is evident that Donald Trump committed crimes at the 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.880 federal level, right, that there were crimes that were committed, 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.200 that everyone around him knew that he lost the election, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.720 but we're still actively trying to ensure that he would 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.199 stay in power. They know this, and as she said, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:19.360 no uncertain terms, but there is tepidness about referring writing 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.960 a letter on behalf of the committee to the Department 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.920 of Justice because of what exactly. So let me give 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.119 you some of the bullshit reasons that are coming out 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.840 from the House Commission. So here's one of them. Oh, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.479 we don't want to rush Merrit Garland because by virtue 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:45.200 of the House Committee recommending right that the Department of 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:51.520 Justice prosecute or begin investigation or prosecution or whatever of 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.680 Donald Trump for all of the wrongdoing that they've been 0:01:54.720 --> 0:02:01.760 able to unearth after a year of investigation or however 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.200 long they've been doing. It's definitely been longer than we've 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.800 known that the Department of Justice hasn't been moving. And 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:17.840 let me get this straight. So, Congress, these group of 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:25.120 select members that have organized over five hundred plus interviews, 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.920 who have organized getting I don't know how many different documents, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:35.000 including those that were illegally removed by Donald Trump, that 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.760 sat at Mara Lago probably next to the buffet for 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:45.160 the last year or so. And now you're pretty much 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.120 reaching your conclusion and you're not even done. You still 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:54.200 want to potentially interview Jinny Thomas, who we know was 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.240 actively on the phone with Mark Meadows. How do we 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.560 know that, oh, well, thank goodness, has been was the 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.800 lone dissenter and the decision to open up Trump's phone 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.960 records and those of the folks in the administration so 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.680 that we know exactly who Jennie was on the phone 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.720 with Sharon her Q and on theories. So you have 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.440 all of this information and now you are at the 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.560 finish line and Democrats, instead of running through the tape, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.440 are there and they're like, I know it's been a 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.600 marathon and this is mild twenty six, but maybe we 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.880 just don't go the point too right, Maybe we just 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.280 don't finish. And here's the thing. A marathon, it's twenty 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.720 six point two miles, right, So stopping at mile twenty 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.560 six means that you are not in fact a marathoner. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:56.280 Why the fuck would you go through a long, arduous, painful, 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:02.000 fucking race to get this information about Donald Trump, about 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:07.000 his associates, about getting to the core of who was 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.320 involved in the insurrection, who were the architects, who were 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.080 the donors? That you get all the way here, and 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.719 then you say, nah, we don't want to rush Mary Garland. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.120 Merrick Garland is moving at a sloth's fucking pace. I 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.320 don't think that there is there an animal slower than 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.640 the sloth. Whatever animal is slower than the sloth is 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.080 the pace at which Merrick Garland's Department of Justice is 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.320 moving now. And again here's the other thing, so so 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:41.200 second bullshit comments that are being made with regard to 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.640 there being a split on what to do inside this 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.880 Select House Commission. The other one is we don't want 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.080 to seem as if we're playing politics. Bitch, I'm sorry, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.200 what fucking game do you think that we are in 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.880 right now? What do you think that Donald Trump was 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.400 doing when he was trying to get his vice president 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.400 to decertify the fucking twenty twenty election. Do you think 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:14.440 he was playing what? Exactly? Tag? Republicans only know how 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.800 to play one game, and that is politics. You know what, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.440 the American people give a fuck about somebody that seems 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.960 like they are fighting for them, So you can't get 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.760 on television, get on all these fucking radio shows for 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.240 their last year plus following the insurrection, and tell people 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.440 that no one is above the law, including the president 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.320 of the United States, and then get to a place 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.560 where the people finally get to see what we have 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.800 known all along, that that motherfucker is a criminal, and 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.880 then decide that you're not going to do it because 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.880 you don't want to seem like you're playing politics. Like, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:59.520 is Congress a different game? Right? Is the White House 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.840 is governed? Is this a different industry? All there is 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.400 is politics to play. We have a fucking election coming, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.120 and while Joe Biden and the Biden administration has done 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:18.479 a good amount of work to add more jobs, right 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:24.680 to you know, bring down joblessness, to have a functioning 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.680 economy right that is doing well post a pandemic and 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.200 post the Trump administration. Except no one is talking about that. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.159 What everybody is talking about, however, is the indecision around 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.360 canceling student loan debt. Is the fact that I don't 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.719 know how many more climate reports need to come out 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.520 and tell us that we're fucked without this administration acting. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.480 So there's not a lot. There's not a lot for 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.720 folks to be running on here to say that Democrats 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:03.080 have answered the call of the American voter. But there 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.800 is one thing that we can all agree that everyone 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.000 who voted for Joe Biden wanted, and that was what 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.840 is that word? Oh, I'm at a loss for it. Democracy. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.160 We wanted democracy to continue. We don't want to live 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.880 in fucking Hungary, we don't want to live in Turkey. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.920 We want to live in the United States of America, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:32.080 the birthplace of democracy, so that the people can feel 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.240 safe and secure that, regardless of some of the bullshit 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:41.200 politicians that seem to inhabit our Congress, that their voices 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:46.000 would still matter, that their votes would still matter, and 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.200 that when we all see criminal activity right with our 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.400 own eyes and our own ears, that we can feel 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.840 confident that that criminal activity is it's going to be 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.160 taken care of, right, that we're not the only ones 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.800 that will get caught up, right, that those that are powerful, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:15.520 white and wealthy will also be held to account. And 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:23.400 if you don't utilize this opportunity to stamp out American fascism, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.880 which was born out of Trumpism, then what the fuck 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.480 are you doing? And it is this kind of well, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.000 I don't even know it is it uncertainty. I don't 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.000 even know what to refer to it as we don't 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.440 want to seem like we're playing politics, bitch. The Republican 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.400 Party is at war. They have been at war with America, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:53.160 with our norms, with our values, with our morals since 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.439 the Obama years, but damn sure over the last four 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.760 right under Trump, they went ham Okay, So if you 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.640 know all of that to be true, and people came 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.839 out at historic levels in order to make sure that 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.600 that motherfucker wouldn't have a second term, but you are 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.240 doing your best to ensure that he can continue to 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.720 run and even threaten to run because nobody is coming 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.640 down with indictments because you're afraid of what it will 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.520 look like. If the actual House Commission does its fucking 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.560 due diligence and its job, then what the fuck are 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.840 we doing? Why don't we just give the Republicans the 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.760 keys right? Why don't we just tell them wave the 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.040 white flag and just say that we've given up because 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.960 I don't know how the actions that are being taken, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:54.480 even a murmuring of consideration around not putting the final 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.160 nail in the coffin because you don't want to rush 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.600 Merrit Garland, who's been asleep at the fucking wheel for 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.959 the last year and a half. Give me a break. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.160 It's this type of shit. It's this type of shit 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:15.680 that makes me want to change parties. And here's the 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.680 awful position that Democrats that give a shit are in, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.000 which is this, we're not going to become Republicans. I 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.360 don't want to be an independent and not be able 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.880 to vote in primaries or in these off time elections, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.600 and then there is no viable third fucking party. But 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.480 what is happening right now is that you are making 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:43.640 people who are progressive and actually believe in moving this 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.439 country forward. You are making us realize that you are 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.160 not to be trusted Democrats. You are making us realize 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:55.640 and come to the understanding that there is no party 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.000 for us. There is no party for those that are progressive. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.800 There is no party for those of us that believe 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.400 in equity, right, that don't want to move at a 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:11.319 slow space because we recognize the crises that surround us. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:18.000 You know what frustrates me is that the democratic establishment 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.720 continues to operate as if we are not at war 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.800 in this country. They continue to operate as if this 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.000 is like the early two thousands or the late nineties, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.000 and this is a Republican beast that they know. This 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.840 motherfucker has been a transformer for quite some time. They've 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:45.000 transformed from the Party of Reagan into the Party of Trump. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:50.840 They are no longer there are no longer reasonable, right 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.080 I use quotation marks. They are no longer the reasonable 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.000 Republicans to go to pour your scotch, smoke a cigar, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.520 and then come out with some policy for the American people. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:07.600 Those days are gone, and they've been gone for almost 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:12.439 two decades now. So how is it that we have 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.640 once again a democratic party that has no fucking teeth, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:22.520 no goddamn backbone, being led by a president who still 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.480 believes that they are both there are good people right 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.319 that he believes that this party is filled with people 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.800 that are his friends. And I'm telling you, Joe Biden, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:39.880 they would soon kill you if they had the opportunity to. Right, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.120 we are no, I mean I so let me tell 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.120 you this, This was really interesting. So when I was 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.560 back in DC last week and I'm you know, chatting 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:56.320 with a bunch of politicos and you know, we're all 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.760 were we were excited about history, but we're all deeply 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.440 menting the position that Democrats are in and the fact 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.920 that Democrats have put themselves in this position. And folks 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.840 who are telling me that, you know, they're like, do 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.920 you remember back in the day when we were all 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.080 working on the hill and you know, you would grab 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.679 lunch and grab coffee with you know, somebody from across 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.920 the aisle one of the staff members, to like figure 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.760 out how you're going to work on a piece of 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.439 legislation together, or you know, there'd be a big bill 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.480 and we got to figure out is your boss gonna 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.200 move on this or not? And so that's how things 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:47.680 used to operate. I was told that staff from opposite 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.200 parties are no longer even allowed to be seen in 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.000 public together, That people are relegated to trying to hash 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:00.320 out shit in a parking lot, right, because to be 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.640 seen together even walking the halls, sitting having launch or 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.080 you know, actually God forbid going over to somebody's office 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.360 to talk things out is seeing as crossing enemy lines. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:19.760 That's what Republicans think. This is not democrats. This is 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.480 how Republicans are operating. So if that is the message 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.280 that has gone out to staff, to the staff of 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:33.760 members of Congress, and they're no longer in conversation with 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:39.120 trying to collaborate, there the other staff from across the aisle, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.160 what is it that we think that the members are doing? Well, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.600 they're fucking showing us right. They showed us during the 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:51.360 Brown Jackson hearing where they're at, right, They show us 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.479 every day what it is that they think about Democrats, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.880 the Democratic Party, and democracy, because this is how they 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.200 feel about demoocracy. If government is supposed to be for 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:10.120 and by the people, how do you do that without negotiation? Well, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.720 that's what you do when you don't want to advance 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.120 any policies. You see, when you have decided, which the 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.080 Republican white supremacist party has decided, that they don't have 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.800 anything to offer up the American people. They're not trying 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.200 to make water cleaner, air fresher, right, They're not trying 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.520 to innovate and figure out how we use green technologies 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.640 and wind and solar as opposed to relying on oil, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:41.960 which we see, can you know is pretty fucking unstable 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:48.120 and also a diminishing fucking resource. They're not trying to 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:55.280 invest or innovate in any area. So if we know 0:15:55.440 --> 0:16:00.560 that to be true, then they're not open to negotiations 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.560 because what are they bringing to the table. They have 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.520 stated in no unequivocal terms that they are the party 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.840 of no right. Mitch McConnell started that during the Obama years. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.920 They're the party of no And you see, you cannot 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:20.200 have a functioning government and by virtue of functioning society 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.440 if one of the two political parties whole pushback on 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:29.080 everything is just going to be no right and just 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.120 wanting to have power for power's sake, so that they 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:37.240 can roll back any progress, any policies, anythings that Democrats 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.440 have done, so that they can just erase it all 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.120 and then we have literally nothing, no social safety, that's 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.640 no social services. Privatize the funk out of everything so 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.840 that you can make money on desperation, and that is it. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:57.560 That's the fucking goal. So instead of Democrats painting Republicans 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.280 as if they're still operation in a two party system 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.520 where they're both just trying to figure out the best 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.600 way for the country to move forward, it would better 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:13.320 serve Democrats to just outline the fucking truth. Republicans don't 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.640 want to get shit done. It doesn't matter if they're 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.240 at the state level, the local level, or they're at 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.399 the federal level. The Republican Party is the party of no. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.639 They are the party of the past. And the only 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.600 way that America continues to move forward is if we 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.040 invest in ensuring that Democrats hold the seat of power, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.560 because if they lose it this time, it is gone. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.240 And that's the other thing. Here's the other thing that 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.240 I believe that Democrats also are not getting because again 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.359 they are functioning as if we are living in the 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.240 twentieth century and this is the Republican beasts that they know. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.800 And once again I am saying we are in the 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.040 twenty first century, and these motherfuckers have showed you who 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.680 they are one two, three, four a bill in times. 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.480 You may want to start fucking believing them, but the 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:09.280 reality is this, we don't have another election, okay, So 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.919 if we all start operating on the fact that the 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:19.879 mid term election is actually our last opportunity to enshrine 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:25.480 democracy into the hearts and minds and the you know, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:32.200 constitution and the laws, then maybe we would move differently, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:38.320 because that's it. Republicans get back Congress. They will ensure 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.560 through their lives, through their theft, through their criminality, that 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.320 whoever is running in twenty twenty four, if it's Trump, 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.679 if it's de Santist, if it's Abbot, whoever it is, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.960 wins outright. And we know that a Republican hasn't won 0:18:55.000 --> 0:19:00.000 the popular vote in all I don't know, two decades, 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.160 so none of their policies are popular. Their people are 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.280 not even popular. So what is left for them to 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.800 do but lie, cheat, and steal. And if you know 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:19.320 that as a democratic establishment must know, right because I 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.119 know who works there, then why are we all acting 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.880 as if this is your regular average election and not 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:33.360 the last election that we have an opportunity to save democracy. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.040 Why are we not running on the fact that we 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:42.840 are holding everyone accountable who tried to disrupt our democracy. Right, 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:48.199 that we are not only running against the lives, the lies, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.359 and the and the criminality, but we are running for 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:58.080 progress by any means necessary. Right, because our children are 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.000 deserving of clean water and fresh air and good quality 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.600 public schools. That they are deserving of being able to 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.919 get a job, a good paying job, and not be 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.840 gouged by their employers. Right, So we're talking about workers' rights, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.400 that they should be able to go and receive a 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.280 bachelor's degree or an associate's degree without going into six 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.120 figures of debt. So we're going to change how student 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:32.439 loans work. We have got to be the party of 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.399 the future. If the Republican white supremacist Party is the 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.239 party of the past and the party of return, and 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.399 for anybody from a marginalized fucking community, there ain't nothing 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:49.000 for us in the past except deeper and more violent 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:53.240 oppression than what we already experience in the present. So 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.760 if you are not going to be campaigning as the 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.320 party of the future with or without help from the 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.359 white supremacy Republican Party, then what the fuck are you doing? 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:10.600 These are the questions that I'm asking this week, because 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.119 if by week's end I'm not on this show talking 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.560 about and reading from the letter that the House Commission 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.200 sends to the Department of Justice. Lord Jesus m M, 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.400 you don't want to see me on this Friday if 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.440 that's not going to be the news, because I will 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:35.480 lose it. I will fucking lose it. Um okay, switching gears. COVID, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.880 by the way, friends, is still a thing. And come 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.119 to find out, which I apparently didn't pay attention to 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.440 when I headed to DC, was that, oh, COVID is 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:52.199 running rampant there so far your girl is okay, but 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.960 you know, fingers crossed why I was outside an event. 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:03.480 I went to dinner in all of the public transportation 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.680 and all of those things. I was masked as people 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:10.120 were masked. But I did go to dinner, right, and 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:15.080 I did eat in DC. And so come to find out, 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:19.040 damn near everybody there, from White House officials to members 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:23.320 of Congress, all have COVID. And one of the reasons 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.800 that are being set at least in UM what I'm 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.200 hearing from the works is that all of these cities 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.919 including New York where I am, which had indoor mask mandates, 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:37.840 have allowed them to expire. We are at a place 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:44.520 right now where the federal mandate for travel so air train, buses, 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.880 you know, what have you, is set to expire at 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:55.080 the end at next week, on April eighteenth, next Monday. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:23:00.720 So the CDC, apparently, according to report, is working on 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:06.800 quote a new framework for travel mask mandates. Now, when 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:12.280 COVID officials were asked about whether or not masking was 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.600 still going to be on the table, they said that 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.240 it was absolutely on the table. But here's what I 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:21.520 want to make really clear. BA point two, which is 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:25.119 the sub variant of omicron that has now overtaken omicron 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:29.720 in this country and in Europe and other places, spreads 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:34.159 thirty percent faster than omicron, which spread thirty percent faster 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:38.320 than delta, which spread thirty percent faster than alpha. Okay, 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:44.640 so you see the patterns here. Philadelphia this week has 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.720 also reinstated The city of Philadelphia is the first major 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:54.120 US city to reinstate their mask mandate indoors because there 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:59.800 has been a major uptick in Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:04.119 allowed the indoor mask mandates to expire back in February. Well, 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.480 both Georgetown University and John Hopkins University, which are stationed 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:16.040 in the DMV area and DMV sorry DC, Maryland and Virginia, 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.159 not the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the DMV in 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:27.240 terms of geographic location. John Hopkins and Georgetown saw major 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:33.359 outbreaks on their campuses and have reinstated their indoor mask mandates. 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:39.800 Now Here was a question that was posed to the 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:46.880 State Ag in Philly in Pennsylvania, the state and they said, 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:51.199 you know, the city of Philadelphia is reinstating these indoor 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:53.919 mask mandates, but how hard is it going to be 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:58.160 after so long of folks not wearing a mask indoors 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:04.160 to now being mandated to do. And the State ag said, well, 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:09.359 first of all, because he's running for as everybody is 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:13.240 running for a governor, which we will get to that 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:25.199 in in a minute. This man says, and his name 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:30.520 is Josh Shapiro, so and that's what I was looking up. 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:36.680 So Shapiro says, well, he doesn't believe in mask mandates, right, 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:39.120 he doesn't believe in mandates at all. And of course, 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:40.960 if you're running for office and you know that this 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:43.760 is something that is contentious, even though it makes sense 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:46.159 you're going to say whatever it is you think is 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:50.560 going to get you into office because politicians. So he 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.439 says he doesn't believe in mask mandates, but then also said, yeah, 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:56.880 once you have people stop doing something, to get them 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:01.280 to restart doing that thing is really difficult cult. But 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:05.320 here's the thing we've been saying since the beginning that 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:10.560 there needs to be some kind of intellectual nimbleness. Right, 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:16.119 But when you are dealing with a still a thirty 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:20.160 percent of people in the United States who are not vaccinated. 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.359 I think it's twenty five to thirty percent of the 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:25.600 country is still not vaccinated, and also believe the QAnon 0:26:25.760 --> 0:26:28.320 lives or Trump supporters all of these things. I mean, 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.119 that's a lot of fucking people. When you're asking for 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:34.880 intellectual nimbleness, that's hard to do with people that are 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:38.320 fucking dumb, right, Like, I mean, let's just be honest. 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:42.440 You're asking people to say, like, Okay, don't throw away 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.320 your masks. You don't need them right at this moment. 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.480 But as soon as you see and begin to notice 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.560 that there is an uptick that more people around you 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:57.359 are becoming unwell, then maybe right you should put your 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.280 mask on and know that we may ask you to 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:04.640 go back to wearing masks indoors, right Like, this should 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:09.080 be a no brainer, and yet it's so obviously is not. 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:13.080 I do not think that the city of Philadelphia is 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:15.520 going to be the last city to do this. I 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:18.679 think that you were going to see a lot more 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:25.679 reinstated mask mandates for indoors because this next variant is 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:29.600 more contagious than the last variant. And what folks are 0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:32.600 saying is that, you know, God willing, we're not going 0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:35.359 to see the kind of mayhem that we saw in 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:39.199 December and January, which kind of ended around mid February. 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:43.320 But that is only if people remain nimble and vigilant, 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:48.679 right like, That's it. And if you don't, then like 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:53.280 you even though you are double vaxxed and God hoping, 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:57.040 you know, double vacks and boosted or are about to 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:02.240 get your next boost, that you won't die and you 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.879 won't end up in the hospital. But again, we're even 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.400 still trying to think about the twenty five to thirty 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:11.960 percent around us that could And I'm always and I'm 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.280 at the place folks where I'm like, they can go 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.400 with God like, I'm not really concerned. I'm more concerned 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.960 about myself in the fact that I haven't been sick 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:24.520 since twenty nineteen and the fact that I still have 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:28.280 not caught COVID as of right now, fingers crossed, because again, 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.840 I was just in fucking DC, and I, somebody who 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:35.800 is vigilant about all things, did not check and to 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:38.920 see where the levels were because I assumed that the 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:42.000 levels had stayed, you know, pretty much the same, and 0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:44.600 I was going to outdoor events, so I figured I 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:48.800 would be fine. That's what most people are figuring. And 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:52.000 I am here to tell you by my own mistakes 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:56.520 right that no, we need to continue to be vigilant. 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:00.840