WEBVTT - Drinking From a Fire Hose 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.640 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Closing out this god forsaken week, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.760 hoping and wishing for a peaceful weekend, a weekend where 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:30.600 we don't hear reports about a massacre, death, despair, tragedy. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:35.120 As we continue to reel from all of the news 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:40.720 reports that are coming out about Uvaldi, Texas. One of 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.919 the most disturbing things, folks, I will say as I 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.639 just jump into conversation with all of you today, is 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.800 that the reports that are coming out with regard to 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.200 according to the Wall Street Journal, parents and Uvaldi who 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.840 rushed to the scene of Robe Elementary School being handcuffed 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:11.520 by police, being detained by police as onlookers were begging, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:17.880 pleading with police officers to enter the building. Reports coming 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.160 out and again by the time you listen to this, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.400 I'm certain that things will have changed, But initial reporting 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.959 is saying that two officers arrived on the scene. Two 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:37.399 officers we know mostly carry handguns nine millimeter guns. Bill, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.000 you've Aaldi shooter had an AAR fifteen, two AR fifteens 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:48.400 with bump I believe bump capacity had three hundred and 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.560 fifty some odd rounds of ammunition. These are the things, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:02:01.240 these magazines that democrats gun rights rights advocates. Even gun 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:06.560 rights advocates have said, you don't need to have magazine 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:13.880 capacity that lets off hundreds of bullets in a fucking minute. So, 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.040 if you are a police officer, and I just want 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:21.120 you to think about this for a minute, because Greg Abbott, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:27.880 the piece of shit governor in Texas, instituted multiple policies 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:33.320 to make Texas with over the last year, the easiest 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:39.079 state to get a gun in, no background checks, no trainings, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:44.960 no certificate, no nothing, basically allowing people like the gunmen 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.800 to essentially grab an a R fifteen the way that 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.400 you would walk into seven eleven and grab a fucking surpie. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.920 And I will tell you that I have been and 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.280 you all have watched, And again I want to thank 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.639 each and every one one of you listeners and supporters 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.960 who have DMed me, who have messaged me, who have 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:13.200 tweeted at me, just with your thoughts and well wishes 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:19.160 and your you know, directives of me taking needing to 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:24.400 take a break and needing to you know, allow myself 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.359 to grieve in this moment because what happened this week 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.800 for me. It was a compilation of so many things 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.440 right for all of us, just so many goddamn things. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.160 It feels in this country like we are consistently drinking 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.880 through a fire hose that is filled with acid. Right. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.040 Nothing is easy. There are no easy moments, There are 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.240 no easy days, There are no easy weeks. Think to yourself, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.040 the last time that you went through a week and 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.160 you were like, it was a great week in America, 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:07.280 we haven't had one. And that weighs on people. It 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.240 weighs on me. I had somebody say to me recently, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.520 I can't believe that you do this, do these shows 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.000 five days a week, You let off this type of 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.240 passion and rage and frustration five days a week. And 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.320 what happened this week is that I hit my breaking point. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.680 What happened this week is that I just there was 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:38.240 just not enough time between these two historic tragic events, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:44.600 Buffalo and Uvaldi, and then the shootings, the sentencing of 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:50.080 the Wisconsin hate crime, the white man who threw acid 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.640 on a Latino man talking about replace me, the shooting 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.200 and killing of four teenagers in South Carolina, all of 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:05.120 this sandwiched into less than two weeks, Less than two 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:15.640 weeks and when you think about what has transpired before Buffalo, folks, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:21.440 it's just exhausting, it's just too fucking much. But listening 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.080 to the reporting, the initial reporting coming out with parents 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:32.080 begging these officers to enter the building waiting sixty minutes 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:37.480 an hour, what would be the reason for that? And 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.600 as many people in the community are saying that are 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.320 being interviewed on cable news, you can listen in their 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.400 voice that they don't want to go against the police 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.400 in this small town, right, Because if you're living in 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:55.960 this small time, chances are you know them, right, you 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.640 know somebody that is on the force. One, you don't 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.479 want to make a target of yourself because I have 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.400 said many a times over that police operate like an 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.600 organized gang, right the blue wall of silence, the way 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.000 that they stick up for each other even when and 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.800 especially when not even when, especially when criminal activity has 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:20.200 taken place, they cover. But when you think about the 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.120 fact that even police officers in the state of Texas 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.360 said to Greg Gabbott, this is not a good fucking 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.240 law because we are not going to be able to 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:36.440 combat the ability of people carrying ar fifteens and hundreds 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.040 of rounds of ammunition and being able to do so 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.120 without a waiting period, without a background check, without anything, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:49.640 And so here it plays out, Greg Gabbott, it is 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.840 bullshit press conference that thankfully Beto O'Rourke interrupted said, Oh, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.680 the school just needed to have more doors. That's your 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:04.400 solution to a gunman being able to access two AAR 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.000 fifteens and three hundred and sixty three hundred and fifty 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.840 six rounds of ammunition. Your feeling is that, Ted Cruz, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.800 we need to arm teachers. You don't pay teachers enough 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.160 to do what the fuck they do right now, Teachers 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.560 out here doing bake sales and using their own small 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:27.720 salaries to be able to supplement the fucking school supplies 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:33.960 that the schools can afford, because our Congress would rather 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.440 send billions of dollars to Ukraine, billions of dollars to 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.720 the fucking Pentagon, but not billions of dollars to our 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.800 public education system. So now you want to turn around 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.280 after villainizing teachers by the way, during COVID who were 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.480 staging fucking walkouts and saying you don't have COVID protocols 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.840 to have us go back into the classroom. This is 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.920 before there were vaccinations and you have governors like Abbot 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.160 and Descantists telling people, open up, open up, open up, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:15.520 but you're not providing sanitizer, mass ventilation systems anything, and 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.400 then turn around and villainize teachers for not wanting to 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.480 put their lives on the line for the small salaries 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.800 that they have in order to teach children. So now 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.920 Ted Cruz's response and Republicans responses, let's give them guns. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.640 Are we also going to provide hazard pay because now 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.600 you're getting a degree in education and you need to 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.640 have what military combat training as well as is bootcamp 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.600 going to be a part of how elementary and secondary 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.760 school teachers are supposed to be entering America's classrooms? And 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.280 our members of Congress think that that is a justifiable 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:02.800 fucking response to the second historic elementary school shooting in 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.800 this country. I listened to a reporter and I don't 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.280 know where he's from. I can tell you that he 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.200 had an accent, so I can assume, and a British accent, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.120 I believe, so I can assume that he was not 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.280 from the United States. And I say that because a 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.600 reporter from the United States, because he was saying specifically, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.960 people around the world, right and we know that America 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.000 is very American centered. But he said to Ted Cruise, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.160 people around the world want to understand how this kind 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.559 of massacre, these kinds of school shootings are uniquely American. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.720 Is this what American exceptionalism looks like? Because it's not great. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.679 Ted Cruise then has the audacy to delay his hands 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.200 on this reporter and says, well, clearly you have a 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.760 political agenda. He said, no, I don't. I just want 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.480 to understand why you can be so calm massacre after 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.920 massacre and offer no solutions. Ted Cruze says, we don't 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.560 need to politicize this moment. He said, this is not politics. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.280 People around the world, and particularly in your country, want 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.440 to know what you were going to do to keep 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.680 children safe. Ted Cruz walks off and goes ahead and 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.480 shakes hands with police officers. This is a motherfucker who 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.280 decided that to look like a man, he was going 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.240 to cook bacon on the end of his AR fifteen 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.840 Look at me. Let me tell you something that seems 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.000 to be small dick energy. And yes, I said, what 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:48.560 the fuck? I said? These white siths, fundamentalist Christian men 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.720 don't give a fuck about families. They don't give a 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.160 fuck about children, because there is no way that in 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.880 a country that is industrialized, in a country that is 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:07.240 supposed to be quote unquote free, that you have nineteen 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:14.280 children grades two through four go to school on a 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.240 motherfucking Tuesday and then not be able to come home. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:23.280 Not because there was some natural disaster, some act of God. No, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.320 it is the inaction of Congress. It is the inaction 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.240 of our politicians that allows for our children to consistently 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:36.680 be mowed down in their classrooms. They haven't even reached 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.720 their prime. So I can't say, oh, they've mowed down, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.040 lost their lives in their prime. No, because we're talking 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:49.360 about fucking seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven year olds. Picture 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.839 after picture that I see being put up on cable 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.240 news and going around social media showing these beautiful children's faces. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.600 And what I said, and I stand by it, is 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:05.240 that until we have one of these parents right from 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.960 new Town to Uvaldi, to Columbine to Parkland and all over, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.400 because there have been too many, decide that they're going 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.440 to do what Mammy Till did in nineteen fifty five, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.559 which is show the world what an AAR fifteen does 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.600 to the human body, does to a child's body, and 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.560 then you allow these politicians to sit around and tell 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.560 you that they can't do anything. This is what I want. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:39.920 I want an open goddamn casket. I want them to 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.400 see that these parents are being forced to get dental 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.120 records to identify their children because the flesh has been 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.120 ripped off of their bones because of an AAR fifteen. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:58.520 There is no other place on this planet where this 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:04.280 is justifiable. I watched a TikTok video where they said, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.600 you know, there was a school shooting in Scotland once 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.160 they banned assault rifles. There was a mass shooting in 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:18.640 New Zealand once they banned assault rifles. Because you see, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.080 you can own a gun, right, it's in the constitution, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.760 but you don't need to own a weapon of war 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.760 that's not in the Constitution. Because, frankly, if we want 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.360 to go back to as Justice Alito wants to do 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.040 with fucking overturning Roe v of way, if we want 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.160 to go back to what is foundational to the Constitution, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.360 then let us make it legal for you to have 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.920 the musket that they were fucking using when the Constitution 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.640 was written, because they weren't slinging AAR fifteens able to 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.319 shoot a hundred bullets in less than a minute. That's 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.160 not what they said, Oh, the right to bear arms. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.720 They were talking about fucking bayonets and muskets that you 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.520 have to stop and then stuff the bullets in and 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:13.960 pack it right and then crank it and then let off. So, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.600 if we want to be constitutionalists, as a Supreme Court 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.440 now decides that they want to be, then let them 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:27.960 use the weapons that existed during that time. You still 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.800 have your right to bear arms, which you do not 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.400 have the right to declare war on the nation's children. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:41.360 New report came out in Axios to say that now 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:48.240 the number one cause of death of children ages one 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:59.200 and up gun violence. Gun violence, not cancer, not heart attacks, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:06.920 not heart disease, not diabetes, No gun violence. But Republicans 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.080 would have you believe that that's necessary. That's what freedom 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.280 looks like. It looks like the freedom to murder. It 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.880 looks like the freedom for people to be able to 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:25.240 access weapons of mass destruction and open fire in grocery stores, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.760 open fire in school buildings, open fire at churches, synagogues. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:39.160 The thing that I'm watching as you have hosts of 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.360 television shows and shout out to the Miami Heat and 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.360 the announcer at the game this week, who through the 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.240 moment of silence on the jumbotront as they are going 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:57.000 through the pictures of the slain children. They said, right 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.880 before they started the game, put up the number to 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:08.160 Congress on the JumboTron and said, call your senators because 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:17.400 this has got to end now. To me, NBA, NFL, NHL, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.360 soccer leagues, all of the major sports, this is all 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.680 that they should do. They should take each and every game, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.120 take five minutes and do the same thing that the 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:37.120 Miami Heat announcer did every single show. Take five minutes 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:43.320 at the beginning and run the faces of the slain victims, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.000 not just of Vivaldi, but start with Columbine and go 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.760 over the last What is it now close to thirty 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:56.720 years of massacres. Get a behind the scenes look at 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.600 Comedy Central's The Daily Show on Beyond the Scenes and 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.880 original podcast from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. 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And the reality is that, through conversations with 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.120 my therapist, with my friends and family, is that as 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.760 an EmPATH, as a person who, as I said on 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:11.680 Woke Wednesday, has dedicated their lives to democracy, to our 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:16.520 functioning government, to educating the citizenury, whether it was as 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.480 a classroom teacher at the beginning of my career, as 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:28.760 an education lobbyist, right as an activist, as an LGBTQ activist, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.720 as a writer, as a communications person, all of it, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:39.000 I have dedicated to making this country a better, safer 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:49.160 place to exist in. And when you wake up and 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.880 you realize that everything is crumbling around you, everything that 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:58.160 you have taken to heart, to know to be true 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:07.320 is crumbling around you. Some days I can't breathe. Some 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:13.359 days I question abandoning all of this and finding something else. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:20.560 But you see, when you have a calling, you don't 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:29.000 just turn off that message, you don't just stop hearing it. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:33.680 It is something that pulls at you, that says, for me, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.880 your voice matters, your voice is needed. I don't care 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.640 if one person listens to the show or one million 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.639 people listen. The fact is, I do believe that a 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.560 small group of people can make considerable change an impact 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.600 in this country. But it has to be consistent. We 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:58.200 have to have discipline, we have to have focus because 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:04.240 the reality, the reality is that our tension spans because 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.880 we are so overwhelmed with so much right now, are 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.880 that of a gnat? How do you keep track of 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:17.000 everything when it is one fucking crisis after another. We're 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.160 dealing with another uptick in COVID and at the same time, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:24.119 fucking monkey pocks. You are grieving the hate crime that 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.440 happened in and Buffalo, and now the news has completely 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:36.040 shifted to another fucking massacre in Uvaldi. Once you get 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.120 over one hump and you think, oh god, there lies 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:44.720 the oasis, No it's not. It is a mirage. People 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.280 have said to me so many times. Your safety is 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.640 in fact an illusion, and it is It's a necessary illusion, 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.120 because if we all operated from a place of fear 0:21:54.119 --> 0:22:01.160 and anxiety, we would never leave our homes. So we 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:07.720 have to we have to believe, even if we are 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:10.439 lying to ourselves that no, it is safe for me 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:12.320 to go to the grocery store. It's safe for me 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.400 to go and worship at my house of worship. It's 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:20.400 safe for me to send my kids to school, because 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:26.840 what is the alternative, first all, to become reclusive. The 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.359 fact that's the thing that scares me is at the 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:35.359 only time then where we were all collectively safe was 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:40.920 in COVID, in quarantine at the beginning of COVID, And 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.439 even during that time, they didn't stop killing Black people. 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:51.840 Amand Aubrey was murdered in February of twenty twenty, George 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:56.280 Floyd was murdered in May of twenty twenty, Brianna Taylor 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:05.919 was murdered Rachiard Brooks. There are so many fucking people 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:15.000 black people that were murdered. That's why folks left their 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:19.840 homes with masks on to take to the streets in 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.040 the summer of twenty twenty, because not even during that 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:33.720 time could black people exist and live free. But it 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:39.399 was the only time since Columbine that we hadn't heard 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:44.320 a series of school shootings because school was at a session. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:50.000 It was the only time that we hadn't heard about 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:54.600 a mass shooting at a concert or a grocery store. 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:02.520 Parties or wherever because people were inside. But you see here, 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.879 people are not the problem, as Republicans would love to 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.439 tell you, Oh, it's you just need a good person 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:10.439 with a gun to battle the bad person with a 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:12.440 gun because we all want to live in the wild, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:23.080 wild West. I know, I fucking don't, folks. I will 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.399 tell you that today's show is going to be a 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:34.280 short one. And why is that? Because I have felt unwell. 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:37.800 I have felt unwell, and I have been pushing myself 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:44.439 to continue to do the most and realizing that when 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:49.760 I spent an entire day in tears, that I was 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.640 not well and it was time for me to admit 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:58.680 that to myself that my work was making me sick. 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.720 And it's not really my work. It's the country and 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:07.399 my job is to cover, to have deep analysis, to 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:14.600 have thoughtful perspectives, to provide solutions and pathways, and I 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:21.240 opening analysis to wake people up. But to be at 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:26.160 that level of high alert all the time, to never 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:30.000 put my phone down, to never close a computer screen, 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.480 and even when I do, I still get dms and 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:38.480 texts and tweets about things and stories that I've missed. 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:45.200 And so on this Friday, I'm giving myself a break, 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:50.159 and I want, what would be the initial time for 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:55.520 the show, for you all to do something for yourselves. 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:02.240 Call your strong friends, right, they always say, check on 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:05.040 your strong friends. You know, the ones that seem to 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:08.280 always have it together, that seem to always be able 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:12.760 to power through and plow through. Check on them, make 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:16.080 sure that they are actually okay. And if they are not, 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:19.320 and you are that strong friend, then just sit with them, 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:27.400 whether it's on FaceTime in a park. Check on your family. Right. 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:34.399 We need to build up our sense of community and 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:38.760 togetherness and thoughtfulness with one another because things are just 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:44.119 so dreadful. They're just so fucking awful. So if you 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:49.080 are not actively daily, multiple times a day, seeking out 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:54.120 those pockets of joy, connecting with your friends, your family, 0:26:54.520 --> 0:27:01.800 your children, if you're an auntie in, an uncle right, 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:11.119 a godparent, a caregiver, say a prayer, a meditation, a 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:15.919 moment of silence for all of these fucking families man, 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:20.960 who are only at the beginning of trying to put 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:26.560 together the pieces of a life that is now shattered 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:33.480 and didn't need to be. No one, not the families 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:37.520 in Buffalo, not the families in Uvaldi, not the families 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:40.760 in Parkland, not the families in Newtown, not the families 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:47.399 in Columbine, not the families in al Paso, not the 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:51.960 families of the Pulse nightclub victims in Florida, not the 0:27:52.000 --> 0:27:56.280 families in South Carolina, not the families from Las Vegas. 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:02.520 Nobody should have to figure out how to put the 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:06.440 pieces of their lives and their heart back together because 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:12.160 of gun violence. We shouldn't have to live like this. Hey, 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:15.879 I'm David Plots of Slates Political Gabfest. As another election 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:19.640 season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through all 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:22.520 the noise and the news. Each week, on the Gapfest, 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:26.000 John Dickerson, Emily Bathlon and I decipher the headlines, break 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:29.240 down the races, and tell you what issues really matter. 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:33.000 We do not always agree, We definitely do not always agree, 0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:36.359 but we always deliver thoughtful debate and we always have 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:40.320 a good time. So subscribe to Slate's Political Gapfest, new 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:48.480 episodes every Thursday. So, if you do nothing else, check 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:51.720 on your friends, on your family, on your community. Figure 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:55.520 out how you can get involved and just feel connection. 0:28:55.560 --> 0:28:58.600 Whether it's through a community garden, if it's through religious services, 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:04.400 if it's through volunteers, just a kind smile to somebody 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:11.840 on the street, Be a light. Be a light because 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:15.960 there is just too much darkness. That's what I wish 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:19.920 for all of you as we head into this weekend 0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:22.240 and God knows what will unfold, but what I will 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:25.160 say to you is that we all have the capacity 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:33.160 to be a light for ourselves and for those around us. 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:37.720 It is the only way, the only way that we 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:42.120 are going to make it through this darkness. I thank 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:46.240 you all again, so so very much for your support, 0:29:46.440 --> 0:30:02.080 your encouragement, your patronage, empathy, your strength. We'll continue to 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:09.760 move through this, whatever this is, dear friends, together as always, 0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:14.040 Power to the people and to all the people. Power. 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:19.040 Get woke and stay woke as fuck. 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