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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Closing out this god forsaken week,

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Speaker 1: hoping and wishing for a peaceful weekend, a weekend where

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Speaker 1: we don't hear reports about a massacre, death, despair, tragedy.

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Speaker 1: As we continue to reel from all of the news

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Speaker 1: reports that are coming out about Uvaldi, Texas. One of

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Speaker 1: the most disturbing things, folks, I will say as I

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Speaker 1: just jump into conversation with all of you today, is

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Speaker 1: that the reports that are coming out with regard to

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Speaker 1: according to the Wall Street Journal, parents and Uvaldi who

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Speaker 1: rushed to the scene of Robe Elementary School being handcuffed

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Speaker 1: by police, being detained by police as onlookers were begging,

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Speaker 1: out and again by the time you listen to this,

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Speaker 1: I'm certain that things will have changed, But initial reporting

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Speaker 1: is saying that two officers arrived on the scene. Two

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Speaker 1: officers we know mostly carry handguns nine millimeter guns. Bill,

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Speaker 1: you've Aaldi shooter had an AAR fifteen, two AR fifteens

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Speaker 1: with bump I believe bump capacity had three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty some odd rounds of ammunition. These are the things,

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Speaker 1: these magazines that democrats gun rights rights advocates. Even gun

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Speaker 1: rights advocates have said, you don't need to have magazine

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Speaker 1: capacity that lets off hundreds of bullets in a fucking minute. So,

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Speaker 1: if you are a police officer, and I just want

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Speaker 1: you to think about this for a minute, because Greg Abbott,

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Speaker 1: the piece of shit governor in Texas, instituted multiple policies

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Speaker 1: to make Texas with over the last year, the easiest

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Speaker 1: no certificate, no nothing, basically allowing people like the gunmen

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Speaker 1: to essentially grab an a R fifteen the way that

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you that I have been and

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Speaker 1: you all have watched, And again I want to thank

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Speaker 1: each and every one one of you listeners and supporters

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Speaker 1: who have DMed me, who have messaged me, who have

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Speaker 1: tweeted at me, just with your thoughts and well wishes

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Speaker 1: and your you know, directives of me taking needing to

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Speaker 1: take a break and needing to you know, allow myself

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Speaker 1: to grieve in this moment because what happened this week

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Speaker 1: for me. It was a compilation of so many things

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Speaker 1: right for all of us, just so many goddamn things.

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Speaker 1: It feels in this country like we are consistently drinking

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Speaker 1: through a fire hose that is filled with acid. Right.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is easy. There are no easy moments, There are

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Speaker 1: no easy days, There are no easy weeks. Think to yourself,

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Speaker 1: the last time that you went through a week and

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Speaker 1: you were like, it was a great week in America,

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Speaker 1: we haven't had one. And that weighs on people. It

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Speaker 1: weighs on me. I had somebody say to me recently,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that you do this, do these shows

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Speaker 1: five days a week, You let off this type of

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Speaker 1: passion and rage and frustration five days a week. And

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Speaker 1: what happened this week is that I hit my breaking point.

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Speaker 1: What happened this week is that I just there was

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Speaker 1: just not enough time between these two historic tragic events,

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin hate crime, the white man who threw acid

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Speaker 1: and killing of four teenagers in South Carolina, all of

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Speaker 1: this sandwiched into less than two weeks, Less than two

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Speaker 1: weeks and when you think about what has transpired before Buffalo, folks,

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Speaker 1: it's just exhausting, it's just too fucking much. But listening

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Speaker 1: an hour, what would be the reason for that? And

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Speaker 1: as many people in the community are saying that are

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Speaker 1: know somebody that is on the force. One, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to make a target of yourself because I have

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Speaker 1: said many a times over that police operate like an

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Speaker 1: organized gang, right the blue wall of silence, the way

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Speaker 1: especially when not even when, especially when criminal activity has

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Speaker 1: And so here it plays out, Greg Gabbott, it is

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Speaker 1: bullshit press conference that thankfully Beto O'Rourke interrupted said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: the school just needed to have more doors. That's your

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Speaker 1: we need to arm teachers. You don't pay teachers enough

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Speaker 1: send billions of dollars to Ukraine, billions of dollars to

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Speaker 1: public education system. So now you want to turn around

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz's response and Republicans responses, let's give them guns.

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Speaker 1: going to be a part of how elementary and secondary

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Speaker 1: our members of Congress think that that is a justifiable

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Speaker 1: Is this what American exceptionalism looks like? Because it's not great.

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruise then has the audacy to delay his hands

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Speaker 1: need to politicize this moment. He said, this is not politics.

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Speaker 1: Look at me. Let me tell you something that seems

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Speaker 1: to be small dick energy. And yes, I said, what

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Speaker 1: the fuck? I said? These white siths, fundamentalist Christian men

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Speaker 1: it is the inaction of Congress. It is the inaction

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Speaker 1: And what I said, and I stand by it, is

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Speaker 1: which is show the world what an AAR fifteen does

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Speaker 1: see that these parents are being forced to get dental

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Speaker 1: they banned assault rifles. There was a mass shooting in

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Speaker 1: not what they said, Oh, the right to bear arms.

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Speaker 1: New report came out in Axios to say that now

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Speaker 1: and up gun violence. Gun violence, not cancer, not heart attacks,

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Speaker 1: would have you believe that that's necessary. That's what freedom

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Speaker 1: The thing that I'm watching as you have hosts of

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Speaker 1: the announcer at the game this week, who through the

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Speaker 1: through the pictures of the slain children. They said, right

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Speaker 1: this has got to end now. To me, NBA, NFL, NHL,

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Speaker 1: at the beginning and run the faces of the slain victims,

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