Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bok a f Daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, so much is going on already and
Speaker 1: it's just Tuesday, so let's get right to it. First
Speaker 1: of all, what the fuck do you think is wrong
Speaker 1: with the one six House Commission? Seriously, Like all the
Speaker 1: news reports coming out right now have Liz Cheney, right,
Speaker 1: who is the vice chair Republican Vice chair of the
Speaker 1: one six House Committee, saying in no uncertain terms that
Speaker 1: it is evident that Donald Trump committed crimes at the
Speaker 1: federal level, right, that there were crimes that were committed,
Speaker 1: that everyone around him knew that he lost the election,
Speaker 1: but we're still actively trying to ensure that he would
Speaker 1: stay in power. They know this, and as she said,
Speaker 1: no uncertain terms, but there is tepidness about referring writing
Speaker 1: a letter on behalf of the committee to the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice because of what exactly. So let me give
Speaker 1: you some of the bullshit reasons that are coming out
Speaker 1: from the House Commission. So here's one of them. Oh,
Speaker 1: we don't want to rush Merrit Garland because by virtue
Speaker 1: of the House Committee recommending right that the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice prosecute or begin investigation or prosecution or whatever of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump for all of the wrongdoing that they've been
Speaker 1: able to unearth after a year of investigation or however
Speaker 1: long they've been doing. It's definitely been longer than we've
Speaker 1: known that the Department of Justice hasn't been moving. And
Speaker 1: let me get this straight. So, Congress, these group of
Speaker 1: select members that have organized over five hundred plus interviews,
Speaker 1: who have organized getting I don't know how many different documents,
Speaker 1: including those that were illegally removed by Donald Trump, that
Speaker 1: sat at Mara Lago probably next to the buffet for
Speaker 1: the last year or so. And now you're pretty much
Speaker 1: reaching your conclusion and you're not even done. You still
Speaker 1: want to potentially interview Jinny Thomas, who we know was
Speaker 1: actively on the phone with Mark Meadows. How do we
Speaker 1: know that, oh, well, thank goodness, has been was the
Speaker 1: lone dissenter and the decision to open up Trump's phone
Speaker 1: records and those of the folks in the administration so
Speaker 1: that we know exactly who Jennie was on the phone
Speaker 1: with Sharon her Q and on theories. So you have
Speaker 1: all of this information and now you are at the
Speaker 1: finish line and Democrats, instead of running through the tape,
Speaker 1: are there and they're like, I know it's been a
Speaker 1: marathon and this is mild twenty six, but maybe we
Speaker 1: just don't go the point too right, Maybe we just
Speaker 1: don't finish. And here's the thing. A marathon, it's twenty
Speaker 1: six point two miles, right, So stopping at mile twenty
Speaker 1: six means that you are not in fact a marathoner.
Speaker 1: Why the fuck would you go through a long, arduous, painful,
Speaker 1: fucking race to get this information about Donald Trump, about
Speaker 1: his associates, about getting to the core of who was
Speaker 1: involved in the insurrection, who were the architects, who were
Speaker 1: the donors? That you get all the way here, and
Speaker 1: then you say, nah, we don't want to rush Mary Garland.
Speaker 1: Merrick Garland is moving at a sloth's fucking pace. I
Speaker 1: don't think that there is there an animal slower than
Speaker 1: the sloth. Whatever animal is slower than the sloth is
Speaker 1: the pace at which Merrick Garland's Department of Justice is
Speaker 1: moving now. And again here's the other thing, so so
Speaker 1: second bullshit comments that are being made with regard to
Speaker 1: there being a split on what to do inside this
Speaker 1: Select House Commission. The other one is we don't want
Speaker 1: to seem as if we're playing politics. Bitch, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what fucking game do you think that we are in
Speaker 1: right now? What do you think that Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: doing when he was trying to get his vice president
Speaker 1: to decertify the fucking twenty twenty election. Do you think
Speaker 1: he was playing what? Exactly? Tag? Republicans only know how
Speaker 1: to play one game, and that is politics. You know what,
Speaker 1: the American people give a fuck about somebody that seems
Speaker 1: like they are fighting for them, So you can't get
Speaker 1: on television, get on all these fucking radio shows for
Speaker 1: their last year plus following the insurrection, and tell people
Speaker 1: that no one is above the law, including the president
Speaker 1: of the United States, and then get to a place
Speaker 1: where the people finally get to see what we have
Speaker 1: known all along, that that motherfucker is a criminal, and
Speaker 1: then decide that you're not going to do it because
Speaker 1: you don't want to seem like you're playing politics. Like,
Speaker 1: is Congress a different game? Right? Is the White House
Speaker 1: is governed? Is this a different industry? All there is
Speaker 1: is politics to play. We have a fucking election coming,
Speaker 1: and while Joe Biden and the Biden administration has done
Speaker 1: a good amount of work to add more jobs, right
Speaker 1: to you know, bring down joblessness, to have a functioning
Speaker 1: economy right that is doing well post a pandemic and
Speaker 1: post the Trump administration. Except no one is talking about that.
Speaker 1: What everybody is talking about, however, is the indecision around
Speaker 1: canceling student loan debt. Is the fact that I don't
Speaker 1: know how many more climate reports need to come out
Speaker 1: and tell us that we're fucked without this administration acting.
Speaker 1: So there's not a lot. There's not a lot for
Speaker 1: folks to be running on here to say that Democrats
Speaker 1: have answered the call of the American voter. But there
Speaker 1: is one thing that we can all agree that everyone
Speaker 1: who voted for Joe Biden wanted, and that was what
Speaker 1: is that word? Oh, I'm at a loss for it. Democracy.
Speaker 1: We wanted democracy to continue. We don't want to live
Speaker 1: in fucking Hungary, we don't want to live in Turkey.
Speaker 1: We want to live in the United States of America,
Speaker 1: the birthplace of democracy, so that the people can feel
Speaker 1: safe and secure that, regardless of some of the bullshit
Speaker 1: politicians that seem to inhabit our Congress, that their voices
Speaker 1: would still matter, that their votes would still matter, and
Speaker 1: that when we all see criminal activity right with our
Speaker 1: own eyes and our own ears, that we can feel
Speaker 1: confident that that criminal activity is it's going to be
Speaker 1: taken care of, right, that we're not the only ones
Speaker 1: that will get caught up, right, that those that are powerful,
Speaker 1: white and wealthy will also be held to account. And
Speaker 1: if you don't utilize this opportunity to stamp out American fascism,
Speaker 1: which was born out of Trumpism, then what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you doing? And it is this kind of well,
Speaker 1: I don't even know it is it uncertainty. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what to refer to it as we don't
Speaker 1: want to seem like we're playing politics, bitch. The Republican
Speaker 1: Party is at war. They have been at war with America,
Speaker 1: with our norms, with our values, with our morals since
Speaker 1: the Obama years, but damn sure over the last four
Speaker 1: right under Trump, they went ham Okay, So if you
Speaker 1: know all of that to be true, and people came
Speaker 1: out at historic levels in order to make sure that
Speaker 1: that motherfucker wouldn't have a second term, but you are
Speaker 1: doing your best to ensure that he can continue to
Speaker 1: run and even threaten to run because nobody is coming
Speaker 1: down with indictments because you're afraid of what it will
Speaker 1: look like. If the actual House Commission does its fucking
Speaker 1: due diligence and its job, then what the fuck are
Speaker 1: we doing? Why don't we just give the Republicans the
Speaker 1: keys right? Why don't we just tell them wave the
Speaker 1: white flag and just say that we've given up because
Speaker 1: I don't know how the actions that are being taken,
Speaker 1: even a murmuring of consideration around not putting the final
Speaker 1: nail in the coffin because you don't want to rush
Speaker 1: Merrit Garland, who's been asleep at the fucking wheel for
Speaker 1: the last year and a half. Give me a break.
Speaker 1: It's this type of shit. It's this type of shit
Speaker 1: that makes me want to change parties. And here's the
Speaker 1: awful position that Democrats that give a shit are in,
Speaker 1: which is this, we're not going to become Republicans. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be an independent and not be able
Speaker 1: to vote in primaries or in these off time elections,
Speaker 1: and then there is no viable third fucking party. But
Speaker 1: what is happening right now is that you are making
Speaker 1: people who are progressive and actually believe in moving this
Speaker 1: country forward. You are making us realize that you are
Speaker 1: not to be trusted Democrats. You are making us realize
Speaker 1: and come to the understanding that there is no party
Speaker 1: for us. There is no party for those that are progressive.
Speaker 1: There is no party for those of us that believe
Speaker 1: in equity, right, that don't want to move at a
Speaker 1: slow space because we recognize the crises that surround us.
Speaker 1: You know what frustrates me is that the democratic establishment
Speaker 1: continues to operate as if we are not at war
Speaker 1: in this country. They continue to operate as if this
Speaker 1: is like the early two thousands or the late nineties,
Speaker 1: and this is a Republican beast that they know. This
Speaker 1: motherfucker has been a transformer for quite some time. They've
Speaker 1: transformed from the Party of Reagan into the Party of Trump.
Speaker 1: They are no longer there are no longer reasonable, right
Speaker 1: I use quotation marks. They are no longer the reasonable
Speaker 1: Republicans to go to pour your scotch, smoke a cigar,
Speaker 1: and then come out with some policy for the American people.
Speaker 1: Those days are gone, and they've been gone for almost
Speaker 1: two decades now. So how is it that we have
Speaker 1: once again a democratic party that has no fucking teeth,
Speaker 1: no goddamn backbone, being led by a president who still
Speaker 1: believes that they are both there are good people right
Speaker 1: that he believes that this party is filled with people
Speaker 1: that are his friends. And I'm telling you, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: they would soon kill you if they had the opportunity to. Right,
Speaker 1: we are no, I mean I so let me tell
Speaker 1: you this, This was really interesting. So when I was
Speaker 1: back in DC last week and I'm you know, chatting
Speaker 1: with a bunch of politicos and you know, we're all
Speaker 1: were we were excited about history, but we're all deeply
Speaker 1: menting the position that Democrats are in and the fact
Speaker 1: that Democrats have put themselves in this position. And folks
Speaker 1: who are telling me that, you know, they're like, do
Speaker 1: you remember back in the day when we were all
Speaker 1: working on the hill and you know, you would grab
Speaker 1: lunch and grab coffee with you know, somebody from across
Speaker 1: the aisle one of the staff members, to like figure
Speaker 1: out how you're going to work on a piece of
Speaker 1: legislation together, or you know, there'd be a big bill
Speaker 1: and we got to figure out is your boss gonna
Speaker 1: move on this or not? And so that's how things
Speaker 1: used to operate. I was told that staff from opposite
Speaker 1: parties are no longer even allowed to be seen in
Speaker 1: public together, That people are relegated to trying to hash
Speaker 1: out shit in a parking lot, right, because to be
Speaker 1: seen together even walking the halls, sitting having launch or
Speaker 1: you know, actually God forbid going over to somebody's office
Speaker 1: to talk things out is seeing as crossing enemy lines.
Speaker 1: That's what Republicans think. This is not democrats. This is
Speaker 1: how Republicans are operating. So if that is the message
Speaker 1: that has gone out to staff, to the staff of
Speaker 1: members of Congress, and they're no longer in conversation with
Speaker 1: trying to collaborate, there the other staff from across the aisle,
Speaker 1: what is it that we think that the members are doing? Well,
Speaker 1: they're fucking showing us right. They showed us during the
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson hearing where they're at, right, They show us
Speaker 1: every day what it is that they think about Democrats,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, and democracy, because this is how they
Speaker 1: feel about demoocracy. If government is supposed to be for
Speaker 1: and by the people, how do you do that without negotiation? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what you do when you don't want to advance
Speaker 1: any policies. You see, when you have decided, which the
Speaker 1: Republican white supremacist party has decided, that they don't have
Speaker 1: anything to offer up the American people. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to make water cleaner, air fresher, right, They're not trying
Speaker 1: to innovate and figure out how we use green technologies
Speaker 1: and wind and solar as opposed to relying on oil,
Speaker 1: which we see, can you know is pretty fucking unstable
Speaker 1: and also a diminishing fucking resource. They're not trying to
Speaker 1: invest or innovate in any area. So if we know
Speaker 1: that to be true, then they're not open to negotiations
Speaker 1: because what are they bringing to the table. They have
Speaker 1: stated in no unequivocal terms that they are the party
Speaker 1: of no right. Mitch McConnell started that during the Obama years.
Speaker 1: They're the party of no And you see, you cannot
Speaker 1: have a functioning government and by virtue of functioning society
Speaker 1: if one of the two political parties whole pushback on
Speaker 1: everything is just going to be no right and just
Speaker 1: wanting to have power for power's sake, so that they
Speaker 1: can roll back any progress, any policies, anythings that Democrats
Speaker 1: have done, so that they can just erase it all
Speaker 1: and then we have literally nothing, no social safety, that's
Speaker 1: no social services. Privatize the funk out of everything so
Speaker 1: that you can make money on desperation, and that is it.
Speaker 1: That's the fucking goal. So instead of Democrats painting Republicans
Speaker 1: as if they're still operation in a two party system
Speaker 1: where they're both just trying to figure out the best
Speaker 1: way for the country to move forward, it would better
Speaker 1: serve Democrats to just outline the fucking truth. Republicans don't
Speaker 1: want to get shit done. It doesn't matter if they're
Speaker 1: at the state level, the local level, or they're at
Speaker 1: the federal level. The Republican Party is the party of no.
Speaker 1: They are the party of the past. And the only
Speaker 1: way that America continues to move forward is if we
Speaker 1: invest in ensuring that Democrats hold the seat of power,
Speaker 1: because if they lose it this time, it is gone.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. Here's the other thing that
Speaker 1: I believe that Democrats also are not getting because again
Speaker 1: they are functioning as if we are living in the
Speaker 1: twentieth century and this is the Republican beasts that they know.
Speaker 1: And once again I am saying we are in the
Speaker 1: twenty first century, and these motherfuckers have showed you who
Speaker 1: they are one two, three, four a bill in times.
Speaker 1: You may want to start fucking believing them, but the
Speaker 1: reality is this, we don't have another election, okay, So
Speaker 1: if we all start operating on the fact that the
Speaker 1: mid term election is actually our last opportunity to enshrine
Speaker 1: democracy into the hearts and minds and the you know,
Speaker 1: constitution and the laws, then maybe we would move differently,
Speaker 1: because that's it. Republicans get back Congress. They will ensure
Speaker 1: through their lives, through their theft, through their criminality, that
Speaker 1: whoever is running in twenty twenty four, if it's Trump,
Speaker 1: if it's de Santist, if it's Abbot, whoever it is,
Speaker 1: wins outright. And we know that a Republican hasn't won
Speaker 1: the popular vote in all I don't know, two decades,
Speaker 1: so none of their policies are popular. Their people are
Speaker 1: not even popular. So what is left for them to
Speaker 1: do but lie, cheat, and steal. And if you know
Speaker 1: that as a democratic establishment must know, right because I
Speaker 1: know who works there, then why are we all acting
Speaker 1: as if this is your regular average election and not
Speaker 1: the last election that we have an opportunity to save democracy.
Speaker 1: Why are we not running on the fact that we
Speaker 1: are holding everyone accountable who tried to disrupt our democracy. Right,
Speaker 1: that we are not only running against the lives, the lies,
Speaker 1: and the and the criminality, but we are running for
Speaker 1: progress by any means necessary. Right, because our children are
Speaker 1: deserving of clean water and fresh air and good quality
Speaker 1: public schools. That they are deserving of being able to
Speaker 1: get a job, a good paying job, and not be
Speaker 1: gouged by their employers. Right, So we're talking about workers' rights,
Speaker 1: that they should be able to go and receive a
Speaker 1: bachelor's degree or an associate's degree without going into six
Speaker 1: figures of debt. So we're going to change how student
Speaker 1: loans work. We have got to be the party of
Speaker 1: the future. If the Republican white supremacist Party is the
Speaker 1: party of the past and the party of return, and
Speaker 1: for anybody from a marginalized fucking community, there ain't nothing
Speaker 1: for us in the past except deeper and more violent
Speaker 1: oppression than what we already experience in the present. So
Speaker 1: if you are not going to be campaigning as the
Speaker 1: party of the future with or without help from the
Speaker 1: white supremacy Republican Party, then what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: These are the questions that I'm asking this week, because
Speaker 1: if by week's end I'm not on this show talking
Speaker 1: about and reading from the letter that the House Commission
Speaker 1: sends to the Department of Justice. Lord Jesus m M,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see me on this Friday if
Speaker 1: that's not going to be the news, because I will
Speaker 1: lose it. I will fucking lose it. Um okay, switching gears. COVID,
Speaker 1: by the way, friends, is still a thing. And come
Speaker 1: to find out, which I apparently didn't pay attention to
Speaker 1: when I headed to DC, was that, oh, COVID is
Speaker 1: running rampant there so far your girl is okay, but
Speaker 1: you know, fingers crossed why I was outside an event.
Speaker 1: I went to dinner in all of the public transportation
Speaker 1: and all of those things. I was masked as people
Speaker 1: were masked. But I did go to dinner, right, and
Speaker 1: I did eat in DC. And so come to find out,
Speaker 1: damn near everybody there, from White House officials to members
Speaker 1: of Congress, all have COVID. And one of the reasons
Speaker 1: that are being set at least in UM what I'm
Speaker 1: hearing from the works is that all of these cities
Speaker 1: including New York where I am, which had indoor mask mandates,
Speaker 1: have allowed them to expire. We are at a place
Speaker 1: right now where the federal mandate for travel so air train, buses,
Speaker 1: you know, what have you, is set to expire at
Speaker 1: the end at next week, on April eighteenth, next Monday.
Speaker 1: So the CDC, apparently, according to report, is working on
Speaker 1: quote a new framework for travel mask mandates. Now, when
Speaker 1: COVID officials were asked about whether or not masking was
Speaker 1: still going to be on the table, they said that
Speaker 1: it was absolutely on the table. But here's what I
Speaker 1: want to make really clear. BA point two, which is
Speaker 1: the sub variant of omicron that has now overtaken omicron
Speaker 1: in this country and in Europe and other places, spreads
Speaker 1: thirty percent faster than omicron, which spread thirty percent faster
Speaker 1: than delta, which spread thirty percent faster than alpha. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you see the patterns here. Philadelphia this week has
Speaker 1: also reinstated The city of Philadelphia is the first major
Speaker 1: US city to reinstate their mask mandate indoors because there
Speaker 1: has been a major uptick in Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser
Speaker 1: allowed the indoor mask mandates to expire back in February. Well,
Speaker 1: both Georgetown University and John Hopkins University, which are stationed
Speaker 1: in the DMV area and DMV sorry DC, Maryland and Virginia,
Speaker 1: not the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the DMV in
Speaker 1: terms of geographic location. John Hopkins and Georgetown saw major
Speaker 1: outbreaks on their campuses and have reinstated their indoor mask mandates.
Speaker 1: Now Here was a question that was posed to the
Speaker 1: State Ag in Philly in Pennsylvania, the state and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, the city of Philadelphia is reinstating these indoor
Speaker 1: mask mandates, but how hard is it going to be
Speaker 1: after so long of folks not wearing a mask indoors
Speaker 1: to now being mandated to do. And the State ag said, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, because he's running for as everybody is
Speaker 1: running for a governor, which we will get to that
Speaker 1: in in a minute. This man says, and his name
Speaker 1: is Josh Shapiro, so and that's what I was looking up.
Speaker 1: So Shapiro says, well, he doesn't believe in mask mandates, right,
Speaker 1: he doesn't believe in mandates at all. And of course,
Speaker 1: if you're running for office and you know that this
Speaker 1: is something that is contentious, even though it makes sense
Speaker 1: you're going to say whatever it is you think is
Speaker 1: going to get you into office because politicians. So he
Speaker 1: says he doesn't believe in mask mandates, but then also said, yeah,
Speaker 1: once you have people stop doing something, to get them
Speaker 1: to restart doing that thing is really difficult cult. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing we've been saying since the beginning that
Speaker 1: there needs to be some kind of intellectual nimbleness. Right,
Speaker 1: But when you are dealing with a still a thirty
Speaker 1: percent of people in the United States who are not vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I think it's twenty five to thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: country is still not vaccinated, and also believe the QAnon
Speaker 1: lives or Trump supporters all of these things. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fucking people. When you're asking for
Speaker 1: intellectual nimbleness, that's hard to do with people that are
Speaker 1: fucking dumb, right, Like, I mean, let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: You're asking people to say, like, Okay, don't throw away
Speaker 1: your masks. You don't need them right at this moment.
Speaker 1: But as soon as you see and begin to notice
Speaker 1: that there is an uptick that more people around you
Speaker 1: are becoming unwell, then maybe right you should put your
Speaker 1: mask on and know that we may ask you to
Speaker 1: go back to wearing masks indoors, right Like, this should
Speaker 1: be a no brainer, and yet it's so obviously is not.
Speaker 1: I do not think that the city of Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: going to be the last city to do this. I
Speaker 1: think that you were going to see a lot more
Speaker 1: reinstated mask mandates for indoors because this next variant is
Speaker 1: more contagious than the last variant. And what folks are
Speaker 1: saying is that, you know, God willing, we're not going
Speaker 1: to see the kind of mayhem that we saw in
Speaker 1: December and January, which kind of ended around mid February.
Speaker 1: But that is only if people remain nimble and vigilant,
Speaker 1: right like, That's it. And if you don't, then like
Speaker 1: you even though you are double vaxxed and God hoping,
Speaker 1: you know, double vacks and boosted or are about to
Speaker 1: get your next boost, that you won't die and you
Speaker 1: won't end up in the hospital. But again, we're even
Speaker 1: still trying to think about the twenty five to thirty
Speaker 1: percent around us that could And I'm always and I'm
Speaker 1: at the place folks where I'm like, they can go
Speaker 1: with God like, I'm not really concerned. I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: about myself in the fact that I haven't been sick
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen and the fact that I still have
Speaker 1: not caught COVID as of right now, fingers crossed, because again,
Speaker 1: I was just in fucking DC, and I, somebody who
Speaker 1: is vigilant about all things, did not check and to
Speaker 1: see where the levels were because I assumed that the
Speaker 1: levels had stayed, you know, pretty much the same, and
Speaker 1: I was going to outdoor events, so I figured I
Speaker 1: would be fine. That's what most people are figuring. And
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you by my own mistakes
Speaker 1: right that no, we need to continue to be vigilant.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're boosters like mine are coming
Speaker 1: up to expiration, I know that they're still at the
Speaker 1: fifty and over can get a fourth booster, But I'm like,
Speaker 1: can they speed this shit up so that the rest
Speaker 1: of us can feel covered? Covered? Who knows? And now, folks,
Speaker 1: for where we are in Ukraine, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: as I know that all of you are watching and
Speaker 1: following those images from Marapaul. My god, to think that
Speaker 1: what is it fifty days ago, just a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: several weeks ago, now that people were just going about
Speaker 1: their lives living in those apartment buildings that now are
Speaker 1: burned out, That the train stations that have been bombed
Speaker 1: by putin. You know, we're once carrying people on their
Speaker 1: way to see friends and loved ones and to work.
Speaker 1: That these school buildings that are being used as shelters
Speaker 1: were once where kids were, you know, learning their daily
Speaker 1: lessons and you know, playing with their friends. It's really hard.
Speaker 1: You know sometimes when I am on my walks and
Speaker 1: I just am, you know, looking up at New York City,
Speaker 1: and I think to myself, and this is the piece
Speaker 1: that I wrote when the war first broke out for Medium.
Speaker 1: It's like, look around. You go outside, and if you
Speaker 1: live in the suburbs, look down your streets. If you
Speaker 1: live in the city, look just up at the buildings
Speaker 1: in your neighborhoods, and now imagine them being absolutely vacant
Speaker 1: and blown out. That your regular routines of work and
Speaker 1: school and friends, and it's completely disrupted, never ever to
Speaker 1: return to normal, because you're normal has literally been blown up.
Speaker 1: Four and a half million people have fled Ukraine, four
Speaker 1: and a half million. We haven't ever I don't think
Speaker 1: seen that kind of population move in such a short
Speaker 1: amount of time. I don't think we've seen that in
Speaker 1: modern times. Four and a half million people have gone
Speaker 1: to bordering countries and beyond. These people have left behind everything,
Speaker 1: They've only taken what they could carry. So imagine you
Speaker 1: in your home right now listening to this, because I
Speaker 1: want the reminder to really sink in, what are you taking?
Speaker 1: What are you packing up? Never to see your pictures
Speaker 1: and your furniture and your plants and your animals again,
Speaker 1: never to see your home country again. You hope that
Speaker 1: at some point you'll be able to go back, But folks,
Speaker 1: you're seeing the images of once thriving, vibrant cities and townships.
Speaker 1: They are completely and utterly destroyed. So even if war,
Speaker 1: even if the fighting were to end tomorrow, those four
Speaker 1: point five million people have nothing to go back to
Speaker 1: because it's been utterly destroyed. Wrapping my mind around this
Speaker 1: on a daily basis is it's really hard to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, it really is. It's really difficult to take in.
Speaker 1: And you know, there are times when I'm watching like
Speaker 1: the news cameras zoom in on crying grandmothers and grandfathers
Speaker 1: and people who have just learned that their loved ones
Speaker 1: that they thought were hiding, you know, are now dead.
Speaker 1: And I see the camera's pan in to get the
Speaker 1: most emotion, and part of me is just like, God,
Speaker 1: this is disgusting and exploitative. And then the other part
Speaker 1: of me is like, the only way that we're going
Speaker 1: to get these countries to act, including our owns, outside
Speaker 1: of sanctions, because I think that Putin is playing for keeps.
Speaker 1: I've said that since the beginning. This isn't just about Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It's the beginning. He wants the USSR back, and these
Speaker 1: sanctions that are being placed while they are, you know,
Speaker 1: threatening to really upend the Russian economy. You think that
Speaker 1: this motherfucker hasn't hid money in other places. Do you
Speaker 1: think that the maneuvers that he's making right now to
Speaker 1: hold oil and gas in Russia hostage for the rest
Speaker 1: of Europe isn't going to have the rest of Europe
Speaker 1: like be on the verge of prices that they have
Speaker 1: never seen and causing their economies to constrict. Like, I
Speaker 1: think that we're underestimating the long game that is being
Speaker 1: played here. And why do I say that, Well, because
Speaker 1: of who putin just put in charge of his fucking army.
Speaker 1: So this is a report. According to NBC News, Russia's
Speaker 1: reported appointment of General Alexander Ronikoff to take over operations
Speaker 1: in Ukraine marks what some military analysts see as an
Speaker 1: indication that the war could be set to enter a
Speaker 1: brutal new phase, as Moscow ready's a major offensive in
Speaker 1: its neighbors east. Let me say this again, this man,
Speaker 1: according to active generals and former generals in the United States, Varnikoff.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's Devarnikov, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if the d is silent, So I will listen
Speaker 1: out for that when I hear his name again. They
Speaker 1: refer to this man as the butcher of Syria. I
Speaker 1: don't think that when you decide to appoint a man
Speaker 1: that is known for butchering civilians, that that means that
Speaker 1: the war is coming to an end. I think that
Speaker 1: it means exactly what NBC News reported. They're going all
Speaker 1: in on rape, on torture, on chemical weapons, on creating
Speaker 1: as much mayhem and despair as they possibly can putin
Speaker 1: there is he is not saying to himself, you know,
Speaker 1: as this fucking quote unquote strong man, right, And everybody
Speaker 1: and every reporting of people who have studied Putin all
Speaker 1: these years have said he only responds to strength, that
Speaker 1: is it him. Retreating from this war would be Putin's
Speaker 1: worst fucking nightmare, which is on the global stage to
Speaker 1: look like a lose and to look weak. So I
Speaker 1: think that this man would rather lose everything, do you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying then to admit defeat. I think
Speaker 1: that he will push this to its brink. I think
Speaker 1: that he will push it to the fucking button on
Speaker 1: the nuclear warhead. That's what I believe. And I think
Speaker 1: that all of these calculated economic responses are just slow
Speaker 1: walking the inevitable, which is that everybody's going to war.
Speaker 1: Because the only way that this ends is exactly what
Speaker 1: Biden said and was admonished for several weeks ago, is
Speaker 1: if this motherfucker is removed, and he ain't going to
Speaker 1: be removed by a quote unquote election, that's for fucking sure.
Speaker 1: So he just hired the butcher who was known in
Speaker 1: Syria to target civilians. That's what Putin is doing. There's
Speaker 1: no oh military operation at play to take over military
Speaker 1: bases and nuclear sites. No, he is bombing train stations
Speaker 1: and fucking apartment buildings and schools and hospitals and movie
Speaker 1: theaters and museums. He is bombing where people are, and
Speaker 1: if he can't control Ukraine, he's going to make sure
Speaker 1: that the only thing that has left of it is
Speaker 1: a crater in the fucking ground. So how do you
Speaker 1: respond to that? That's the question on the table, not
Speaker 1: only for the Biden administration but for the world. That
Speaker 1: is it for me today, dear friends, here on woke
Speaker 1: f as always, Power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.