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

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody right here from the Long

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Speaker 1: Island Bunker. Question I'm posing to all of you this morning,

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Speaker 1: is what is an acceptable number of deaths? I just

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Speaker 1: said that, what do you think is an acceptable number

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Speaker 1: than the nine to eleven terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing,

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Speaker 1: or is it over sixty thousand Americans since we started

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Speaker 1: counting the coronavirus deaths. Well, if you're a Jared Kushner,

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Speaker 1: the President's lackey, I mean son in law, then we're

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Speaker 1: doing a great job the federal government. This administration has

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Speaker 1: leaned all the way in and everything's fantastic. So apparently

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Speaker 1: for Republicans and the Trump administration, sixty thousand, sixty thousand

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Speaker 1: dead Americans is acceptable. That is the sign of a

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Speaker 1: job well done. I don't understand why when Jared Kushner

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Speaker 1: is allowed to say some hot, fucking stupid shit like that,

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Speaker 1: that reporters around don't say. Really, so you believe that

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dead Americans is acceptable for this administration? Shall

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Speaker 1: I pull up Trump's Twitter feed? When he was coming

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Speaker 1: for Obama to resign because of I think it was

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Speaker 1: maybe five or so deaths from the Ebola virus in

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Speaker 1: the United States during his administration. Are you fucking kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Sixty thousand people, sixty thousand mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers,

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Speaker 1: loved ones, fiance's husbands, wives, people. These are not just numbers,

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Speaker 1: They're not just statistics. They are people who right now

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Speaker 1: can't even have proper burials. They're loved ones, can't even

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Speaker 1: gather and grieve in the way that they should because

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Speaker 1: of this global pandemic. I had someone tell me one

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Speaker 1: of our Woke f contributors this week, Jonathan and Metsol,

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Speaker 1: told me where had he been before he came on

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Speaker 1: to do the show at a zoom funeral? Wrap your

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Speaker 1: mind around that. So what Jared Kushner thinks is acceptable.

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Speaker 1: Sixty thousand families, sixty thousand families around this country are

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to grieve in the midst

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Speaker 1: and sit with you and wipe your tears and hug

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Speaker 1: you and hold you as you work through the stages

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Speaker 1: of grief, that in many cases, if you are isolating

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Speaker 1: now alone because you had sent your loved one off

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Speaker 1: to return to you, that now you were also grieving

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Speaker 1: in isolation as well. That should never be acceptable. Ever,

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Speaker 1: there has not been one time that I've watched any

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Speaker 1: of these bogus bullshit campaign rally quote unquote coronavirus briefings

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Speaker 1: inkling of human empathy, any inkling that inside of that big, stupid, square,

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Speaker 1: orange body. And yeah, I'm being petty and I'm being small,

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Speaker 1: and you can say, oh, Danielle, you're better than that.

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Speaker 1: No the funk. I'm not not today, not today. I'm

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Speaker 1: because my heart and my mind is with sixty thousand families.

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Speaker 1: My heart and my mind is with people who are

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Speaker 1: looking for leadership, desperately in a moment where they need

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Speaker 1: to believe in something, where they need to wrap their

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Speaker 1: faith and looking for guidance in their moment of darkness,

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Speaker 1: and there is no one to be found. My heart

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Speaker 1: is with them, So I will be as petty as

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Speaker 1: fucking necessary to make my goddamn point, sixty thousand Americans.

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Speaker 1: Their blood is on the tiny hands of this would

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Speaker 1: be motherfucking dictator named Donald Trump and his classless, empty family,

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Speaker 1: if you can call it that, I prefer to call

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Speaker 1: them spawn folks. We are months into this thing. And

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Speaker 1: while doctor Fauci may have given us a shred of

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Speaker 1: And he was talking yesterday in the Oval office about

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Speaker 1: a clinical trial for a potential coronavirus treatment drug called

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Speaker 1: rem desivie. I never understand why they can't give these

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Speaker 1: They're they're looking into research here where they had like

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Speaker 1: a placebo group right when you're doing these testings, and

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Speaker 1: what the study shows, according to doctor Fauci, is that

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Speaker 1: rem desivie haste a quote clear cut significant positive effect

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Speaker 1: They will need to do more intense research right to

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Speaker 1: see the long lasting effects of this. But it was

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Speaker 1: the United States, along with Spain, along with Italy and

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Speaker 1: in Gilead. It's Gilead Pharmacy's rem desivie treatment for the coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: and you know, a couple of times in his conversation

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Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic, as you have to be in science, as

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Speaker 1: it was one of the first anti viral drugs used

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Speaker 1: drugs that were introduced, ACT being one of them, happened

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Speaker 1: after god damn tens of thousands of gay men died, right,

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't without protest and action and forcing an

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Speaker 1: And you know when Doctor Scarf, Lady Burks, when when

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Speaker 1: America America's response to HIV AIDS. And I had just

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Speaker 1: come off of watching a watching a series, and god,

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Speaker 1: this seems like so many months ago now, but it

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Speaker 1: really wasn't. I had hosted a screening of Apple TV

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Speaker 1: plus their series called Out on television and it was

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Speaker 1: a about eights, the HIV AIDS epidemic. And what's so startling,

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Speaker 1: Tell me what you remember in the days, the early

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Speaker 1: quote unquote gay cancer and how the Reagan administration, another

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Speaker 1: And Reagan during their early nineteen eies, you couldn't even

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Speaker 1: And I get choked up when I think about it,

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Speaker 1: just the lack of humanity. I think that that was

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Speaker 1: the media side not doing the best job of connecting

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Speaker 1: the dots for the American people. And I know, because

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Speaker 1: we're in the midst of a global pandemic and we're

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Speaker 1: focused on the number of debts, and we're focused on

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Speaker 1: the number of spreading, but we're not so keenly focused

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Speaker 1: on all of the nefarious things to use your words,

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00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is doing. The states that are the

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00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: most impacted right now in this particular moment are blue states, right,

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00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: the states that also have sanctuary cities within them blue states.

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not need those states to win election

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00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: re election and doesn't want them, right, So, as Mitch

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: McConnell refers to providing states with the resources that they

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00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: need as a blue state bailout. As you know, they

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00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: talk about, well why don't you file for bankruptcy, and

444
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: the joke was made, well, they're not Trump businesses, so

445
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: maybe we don't want them to do that. And what

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00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: would that, as Governor Cuomo said, signal to the markets

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00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: if fifty states applied for bankruptcy and signal to the world.

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00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I this is so it's so partisan, Glen, It's so

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00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: partisan and so despicable as if Democrats as a as people,

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00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: right as people, as human beings do not matter. Yeah,

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00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: Republicans seem to have given up on decency and on

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Speaker 1: any sense of concern for humanity. And I know that

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00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: sounds hyperbolic, but you know you hit the nail right

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Speaker 1: on the head. When we have a national health emergency

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00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: and we have so many people suffering and struggling and

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00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: dying without their loved ones even being at their side

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00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: will and without even having improper funerals, proper burials, You've

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00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: got nich McConnell really scoffing at that and laughing at

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00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: that and saying, well, you know, we don't want these

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Speaker 1: blue state bailouts to help the New York's of the world,

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00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: and you know, let's let those states go bankrupt. I mean,

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00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: what he's saying is, you know what, let those people

463
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Speaker 1: struggle and die. You know, what is it to us?

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00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: They're not Republican voters, right, And I don't I don't

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00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: understand kind of how we got here. Not that politics

466
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: was ever you know, clean and nice and genteel, and

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00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't, But how it is that politicians

468
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: are you know, not only failing to respond adequately to

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Speaker 1: our national health emergency, but gleefully seeming to celebrate it

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Speaker 1: and expressly take advantage of it, hoping that dead Democrats

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Speaker 1: translates into more Republican votes in November. Because, make no

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00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: mistake about it, that's what the Mitch McConnell's of the

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Speaker 1: world are virtually saying. How did we How did we

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Speaker 1: get here as a society? I you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm at a complete loss. Decency and integrity and human

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Speaker 1: life still kind of matters to me. And I thought

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Speaker 1: it would still kind of matter to all of our

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Speaker 1: elected officials. Apparently it doesn't. You know, we're so far gone, Glenn,

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00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, we're so far gone. And I know that

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Speaker 1: you have seen so much over your over your career,

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Speaker 1: but I can't imagine you've ever seen anything like this,

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Speaker 1: and so and to me, what is even most disconcerting

483
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Speaker 1: at this moment is that the polls don't even reflect

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Speaker 1: how disgusting and vicious this administration and this president's policies are.

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Speaker 1: Right like, it's not even reflecting that the people that

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Speaker 1: are outside protesting social distancing and protesting against a virus

487
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,479
Speaker 1: are the very workers that Trump doesn't really care about. Yeah,

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00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: but you know what, and I know this again sounds hyperbolic,

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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: but Nazi Germany happened, right, That's not just a bad movie.

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00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: Nazi Germany happened, and we look back and we say,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, how could that happen? Well, look at

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00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: what's happening here. It's you know, we we always looked

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Speaker 1: at Germany and said that, right, that it could never

494
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Speaker 1: happen here. It could never happen here, or we or

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Speaker 1: you know, I remember being young and learning about the Holocaust,

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Speaker 1: uh in school and saying, how could these people let

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Speaker 1: this happen? How how could nobody have stopped this? We

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00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: have our answer, and we have our and we have

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00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: our answer, and it's so it's it's There are so

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Speaker 1: many pandemics that are happening right now. Um one of consciousness,

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00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: one of decency, um morality like it's just it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's incredibly off putting. And so to transition into yet

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00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: another thing that just shows just how disconnected and evil

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00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: this administration is that they have decided to institute the

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Speaker 1: Defense of Production Act. After Tyson Foods, which is one

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Speaker 1: of just a handful of meat chains in this country

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Speaker 1: that have a whole lock hold on all of our

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Speaker 1: meat supply, they close their plants because over eight hundred

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Speaker 1: employees had been infected with the coronavirus. There was a

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Speaker 1: push by the labor unions right that if people are

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Speaker 1: going to be working under these conditions, then they need

512
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Speaker 1: to have hazard pay, they need to increase their pay,

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00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: they need to have ppe all of these things. Well,

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Speaker 1: Trump has now with the Defension Production Act, mandated that

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Speaker 1: meat production these slaughterhouses remain open right and don't shut

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Speaker 1: down for the safety of the public. Now, if In fact,

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Speaker 1: the way in which the coronavirus entered Earth, right entered

518
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Speaker 1: society is through the wet market in China in Wuhan,

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Speaker 1: and then like a nuclear bomb just you know, blast

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Speaker 1: radius around the world. We know then that the coronavirus

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Speaker 1: can enter into animals. So how is it that these companies,

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Speaker 1: these meatpacking companies are saying for the public health and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure for the ability not to be sued, which

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Speaker 1: will go into we're closing down, which is going to

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Speaker 1: disrupt the supply chain, and you're gonna you know, we're

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Speaker 1: moving into this World War one, World War two time

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Speaker 1: capsule when we were having meatless Mondays and we were

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Speaker 1: having these things because the food production chain had been

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Speaker 1: broken because of war. But now Donald Trump is demanding

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Speaker 1: that he get his chicken nuggets from McDonald's. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and Rachel Matta' did a great piece on this last

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Speaker 1: night how the meatpacking plants have become something of a

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Speaker 1: Petrie dish or COVID to spread and the numbers of

534
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: infected workers and some of these meatpacking plants is like

535
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 1: off the charts as compared to the general population. So

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Speaker 1: we already know that meatpacking plants is one of the places, unfortunately,

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00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: like our prisons and jails, where COVID is thriving and exploding,

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00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: and it's something that we need, we need to wrestle

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Speaker 1: to the ground one to protect human beings, whether they're

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Speaker 1: inmates or working in meat packing plants too. When it's

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Speaker 1: a meatpacking plant, as you say, we need to protect

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Speaker 1: the food source because everything that the government does should

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Speaker 1: be about promoting public safety, and what Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: doing with respect to ordering the meatpacking plants to remain

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00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: open is actually damaging, potentially in a really dangerous way,

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Speaker 1: public health because, as you point out, this virus started

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Speaker 1: in kind of the ugliest, most unruly meatpacking plant in

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Speaker 1: the world, the wet markets, right, That is a virus

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00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: that started in a food source. You know, it's we

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Speaker 1: don't really have wet markets here, so it's not a

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00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: US food source, but it's still a food source, a

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00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: wet market. So we know that if it's started in

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Speaker 1: a place where you know, food is being produced, why

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00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: in the world would we have our government say, Okay,

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00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: we have this enormous batch of infected workers in meat

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Speaker 1: packing plants. We want you all. We are ordering you

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Speaker 1: all while you're sick while you're infected to produce the

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00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: nation's food supply. What kind of special dystopian movie is that?

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Speaker 1: You know? What's the next step is soil and green

560
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: as people right where the old movie where it turns

561
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: out there's this strange food that's being consumed by the population.

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Speaker 1: It turns out it's human beings that are being ground

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Speaker 1: into this soil of green food. Right again, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like a crazy dystopian movie, but it's he's yeah, but

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is ordering it. Sick, folks. I want you

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Speaker 1: to stay in the meatpacking plant. I want you to

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00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,959
Speaker 1: get each other sick. I know y'all are going to die,

568
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: but that's okay by me. And I want you to

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Speaker 1: produce the country's food. Really. So here's what we have.

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Speaker 1: This is according to Bloomberg and this article for folks.

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Speaker 1: It was entitled Trump orders meat plants to stay open

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Speaker 1: and move slam by unions. And I just want to

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Speaker 1: tell people because again, it is only a handful of

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Speaker 1: companies that supply our meat right. So, plants that are

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Speaker 1: closed right now are Cargill, ConAgra, JBS, Smithfield Foods, Tyson Foods,

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Speaker 1: and they are all up in Trump areas by the way,

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Speaker 1: I just want I want folks to understand that. And

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Speaker 1: according to the unions, at least twenty workers in meat

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Speaker 1: and food processing plants have died, right, and five thousand

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Speaker 1: meat packing workers have either tested positive for the virus

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Speaker 1: or we're forced into self quarantine five thousand and Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump wants us to go into our local grocery store

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Speaker 1: and feel super good about picking up our next pack

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Speaker 1: of meat after these plants have said weird. So the

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Speaker 1: meat that's in the store right now, I'm going to

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00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: assume is okay. But I'm going to assume who knows?

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00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: Because but why is nobody thinking about this? It started

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00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: in a market, and don't we have to ask ourselves

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Speaker 1: if that's kind of the point. Is Donald Trump trying

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Speaker 1: to continue to spread fear among the population? I mean

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00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: that kind of is the definition of terrors and right,

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00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: it's a spreading fear among the populations so that you

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00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: can leverage that to your own political or personal advantage.

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Speaker 1: You know, he wants the whole country to do him

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00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: a favor though by you know, worry worrying about whether

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Speaker 1: their chicken sandwich is going to kill them. And you

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Speaker 1: know the other thing that Bloomberg had reported yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I tweeted about it. Is apparently during some Oval office

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00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: gathering yesterday, the President like didn't really hide part of

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Speaker 1: his intentions about why he was ordering the meat packing

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Speaker 1: plants to stay open. He said, he's doing it to

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Speaker 1: limit liability for the meat packing executives. So if you

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Speaker 1: have a certain responsibility to run a safe workplace, So

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Speaker 1: if you know your workplace is a peatree dish for

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Speaker 1: a deadly virus to infect and multiply among your workers,

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Speaker 1: you could be sued for wrongful death. You could be

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Speaker 1: sued for all sorts of sort of torts, civil wrongs,

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Speaker 1: or causing harm to your workers, or knowing there's a

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Speaker 1: harm and being grossly negligent in failing to address that

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Speaker 1: harm and protect your workers. But you know what, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump says, Hey, hey, hey, tyson, executives, I got you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna order that I'm gonna I'm gonna issue a

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Speaker 1: federal proclamation. I'm gonna I'm gonna say you must remain open.

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Speaker 1: So guess what, you can't be sued. I'm protecting you.

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00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: I got your back. So you know what, when any

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00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: little election cheese in my campaign offers you get my

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00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: back right, we can see that unfolding. That's not that's

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00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: not just wild speculation. That's exactly part of what's going

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Speaker 1: on here. Limiting liability for executives. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna kill our workers, we're going to infect

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Speaker 1: our country's food, and we're not gonna let the cats

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Speaker 1: be held accountable for it. So they can help me

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Speaker 1: get real lot. Those dots are not hard to connect.

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Speaker 1: They're like six of them, three, four, five, six, like

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00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,479
Speaker 1: a third grader connected. Do you know it's not It's

626
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Speaker 1: not like you know, a million dots. It's six dots.

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Speaker 1: And I constantly have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure

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Speaker 1: this out. I say follow the money, you know what?

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Speaker 1: And my new thing is I say follow the money

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Speaker 1: and follow the racism. Who is you know? Because yesterday

631
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Speaker 1: I wrote a Peace Glenn for Zora magazine on the

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Speaker 1: fact that the PPE, the PPP excuse me program that

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to protect small businesses is not actually protecting

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00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: small businesses because it's protecting the ruth Chrisses and the

635
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: pot bellies and the shake shacks of the world. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking about minority businesses are the ones

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Speaker 1: that are going to be bearing the brunt and like this,

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00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: this pandemic could essentially wipe out minority and women owned businesses. Okay,

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00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: and again I said, just casually, I said, do you

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Speaker 1: know what I wonder. I wonder if the stats that

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Speaker 1: have been put up about who is dying from this virus,

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't black and brown people. You think that

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Speaker 1: we would be having these conversations if this had been

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Speaker 1: a pandemic that instead of hitting densely populated areas, which

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Speaker 1: by the way, I don't believe that rural and suburban

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Speaker 1: areas are immune. I believe that it may be slow

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Speaker 1: moving because you have this dense population, so you're going

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Speaker 1: to attack that. But these folks that are opening up

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Speaker 1: in Texas and Tennessee and Georgia, it's going to blow

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Speaker 1: up in their faces like it will. It's a virus.

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Speaker 1: But I said, if the people who were dying from

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Speaker 1: the virus didn't look like me, we would be having

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Speaker 1: a different conversation. There wouldn't be people outside protesting social

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Speaker 1: distancing and protesting demanding that we open up the economy.

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Speaker 1: So I said, with this administration, it's very easy six

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Speaker 1: dots and follow two things, the money and racism, and

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Speaker 1: then you'll understand what the motivation is. And we have

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Speaker 1: to unravel this from January Danielle. I mean, once we

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Speaker 1: have a law abiding president and a law enforcing attorney general,

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Speaker 1: we are gonna have to get after every last criminal

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Speaker 1: politician that has done this to the people, and not

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Speaker 1: just the American people, to the immigrant populations, to our

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Speaker 1: country generally. We have to get after it. There can

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Speaker 1: be no turning the other cheek to this and the

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Speaker 1: one not when they are killing or letting a virus

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Speaker 1: kill you know, huge segments of our populations. They can't

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Speaker 1: get away with it. They can't because isn't it again

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Speaker 1: legal terms? I know, But isn't this like manslaughter? Isn't

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Speaker 1: it you know? Will? I mean, it's you have all

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Speaker 1: the facts. The scientists have told them right what the

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Speaker 1: risks are. So how is it that this administration it

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Speaker 1: will not be liable. Yeah, it's it's either negligent homicide

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Speaker 1: or in voluntary manslad. Those terms are largely interchangeable. But

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Speaker 1: it is that all day long. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: I could walk into court, you know, the day after

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Speaker 1: inauguration and prove the three elements of involuntary manslaughter, you know,

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Speaker 1: gross negligence, risks of life and thereby death results. I can.

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Speaker 1: I can prove that all day long to a jury,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me a fair jury, and I can

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Speaker 1: prove it. The question is will we have the political

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Speaker 1: will to do it. We've got the legal tools and abilities,

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Speaker 1: we have to have the political will to do it.

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Speaker 1: And if we don't do it, then we're just as

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Speaker 1: bad as Donald Trump. You know, my last question for you,

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Speaker 1: speaking of January, speaking of November upcoming New York is

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Speaker 1: not having a primary, has canceled there has canceled their primary,

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Speaker 1: which again elevates fears of what can happen in November.

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Speaker 1: What will happen in November? Do you think, just you know,

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Speaker 1: that Biden needs to be using this, all of the

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Speaker 1: what seemed to be overt intention to harm the American population,

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Speaker 1: that this needs to be a part of his campaign

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Speaker 1: messaging because right now, again, you know, I haven't heard much.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard much coming out on the political side

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Speaker 1: from the Biden camp other than you know, this week's announcement.

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton endorsed Joe But I mean, who else is

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Speaker 1: there to endorse mister Potata had. But do you think

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Speaker 1: that they need to be using some of this harsh

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Speaker 1: but very real things that we've been saying today in

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Speaker 1: their campaign. Yeah. First of all, I'm not a political

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Speaker 1: strategy report to tell what tell Joe biden Is campaign

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Speaker 1: what to do or how to run their campaign. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think you can't help but address this and take

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Speaker 1: it head on. And I don't think that is exploitation

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Speaker 1: of a bad situation. I think it's putting in focus

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Speaker 1: for the American people exactly why we are suffering the

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Speaker 1: way we are and why we don't have to suffer

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Speaker 1: or we didn't have to suffer this way, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming full circle when you talk about the defense production

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Speaker 1: app the president has always had the power to order

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Speaker 1: manufacturers to produce life saving YEA yet produced the masks

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Speaker 1: that our doctors and nurses need so they can attend

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Speaker 1: to the struggling and the dying. A safely produce the

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Speaker 1: test kits. Because I don't care what Trump says, we

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Speaker 1: are so woefully behind on testing less than two percent

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Speaker 1: of our population per capita. Every country is doing better

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Speaker 1: than us because of Trump's negligence or intentional misconduct. He's

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Speaker 1: never used the defense production app so order manufacturers to

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Speaker 1: produce test kits to help people survive. But he's ordered

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Speaker 1: that they produce chicken so everybody can have their chicken sandwiches.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you have to you have to not exploit it.

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Speaker 1: But you have to drive home to the American people

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Speaker 1: those willing to listen, and they're not all willing to listen.

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Speaker 1: This is what he has done to you and to

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Speaker 1: us and to our country, and we cannot endure it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we cannot. Glenn, as always, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on to WOKE a f weekly to break down

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Speaker 1: all of the legal ease that we need to understand.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, I hope that you are keeping

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Speaker 1: a very large file so that when when the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration is done, you're like, here, friends, we're going to

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Speaker 1: court today. Yeah. I look forward to being back in

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Speaker 1: the mix with government holding these folks accountable. You know,

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Speaker 1: come January everything falls into place. That's you know, I

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Speaker 1: took my two year break from government service after thirty

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Speaker 1: year as a federal prosecutor, and I really am looking

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Speaker 1: forward to getting back to it. Well, we will be

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Speaker 1: glad to have you back. Glenn. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Daniel. The point is this, none of what

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Speaker 1: has transpired should be deemed acceptable. Nothing. We deserve better,

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Speaker 1: We should have gotten better. And for all of you

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Speaker 1: that are still homing in, he in about Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: who y'all know you've been listening to You've been listening

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Speaker 1: to me, You've been listening to me from back in

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Speaker 1: serious days, You've been listening to me for a long time.

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Speaker 1: You think Joe Biden was my favorite? He wasn't my first, second, third,

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Speaker 1: or fourth pick, but he is what the fuck we have?

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Speaker 1: So I need him to show up right now. He's

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Speaker 1: not really doing that, but I need you to be

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Speaker 1: reminded that this what is happening, what the Trump administration,

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Speaker 1: what this right wing Republicans are doing, is unacceptable. There

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Speaker 1: should be no toleration for the amount of death that

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Speaker 1: we have seen in just two months. You have Republicans,

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Speaker 1: which I have called they're not Republicans anymore. They're not

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Speaker 1: as sure as how will never be the pro life party.

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Speaker 1: In my fucking mind, they are the death party. They

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Speaker 1: are willing to sacrifice two to three percent of the population,

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Speaker 1: which is six to eight million people. Folks. We already

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Speaker 1: have sixty thousand funerals that need to take place or

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Speaker 1: are taking place over zoom six to seven million, two

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Speaker 1: to three percent of three hundred and thirty million. This

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Speaker 1: current president was calling for Obama to resign over five deaths?

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Speaker 1: Are you fucking kidding me? It is a crime what

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Speaker 1: has taken place? And we know, we know it's a crime.

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Speaker 1: You know why because the president has daily briefings that

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Speaker 1: he fucking ignored that we're warning him of what was

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Speaker 1: coming from December. And I'm sure the more that people

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Speaker 1: dig into it and the more analysis that we get,

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Speaker 1: the longer we will know. The more time that they had.

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Speaker 1: You know why Italy and Spain and France and other

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Speaker 1: European nations were in the place that they were in

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Speaker 1: because they were closer to the center of the fucking

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Speaker 1: storm than we were. They didn't even have the lead time.

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Speaker 1: But here we are now, where we are number one,

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Speaker 1: over one million cases of the coronavirus in the United States.

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Speaker 1: I suppose that that's what Donald Trump meant when he

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Speaker 1: said America first. I didn't know that he meant it

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Speaker 1: where we would have one foot in the grave. If

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Speaker 1: you're grasping for hope like I grasped for a bottle

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Speaker 1: of wine at night. These days, we still have an election,

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Speaker 1: We still have a shred of hope. We waited for Muller,

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Speaker 1: we waited for impeachment. We are the last ones that

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Speaker 1: we are waiting for. If we failed this time around,

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Speaker 1: we will become a real life version of the Hunger Games.

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Speaker 1: And that is not me being hyperbolic. That is it

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Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay

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