WEBVTT - Greed Isn't Good 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.959 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.680 Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, I'm arrived back into New York and 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.920 it feels like March of twenty twenty all over again. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.320 The lines for COVID nineteen testing are back to being 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.480 hours long and wrapped around city blocks. While folks want 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.919 to say to us, epidemiologists and doctors and scientists want 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.279 to say that we are in much better shape than 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.080 we were in March of twenty twenty here in New York. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:50.080 The PTSD, the trauma, the grief, the anxiety that we 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.080 felt back then is back. And frankly, you know, it's 0:00:54.120 --> 0:01:00.640 hard to consistently consistently be the guinea pig for nineteen 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:05.959 and whatever variants come and so right now, currently there 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.560 are four New York City schools that are closed. Hundreds 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.160 of teachers have tested positive in one day. Mayor Bill 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.279 de Blasio says that he will not be closing schools. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.319 I mean, schools will obviously be closing down for the 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.000 upcoming holiday shortly, but that he has no intention, no 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:28.200 intention of closing schools as he did back in twenty twenty. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.600 The reality is this, we have a problem in the 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.560 United States that is obvious, right, and it isn't just Amicron. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.200 We have a whole host of problems that I'm going 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.080 to dig into today because frankly, folks, I don't know 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.640 about you, but I'm feeling a level of fatigue, frustration, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.720 and just hopelessness as we are approaching the holiday season 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:54.680 that I haven't felt in quite some time. You know, Amicron, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.120 what is troubling me about this new variant? You know? 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.480 One I will say this, we are in a better place. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.720 Why because we have vaccines and we have boosters. But 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.919 I know way too many people who have been vaccinated, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.720 been boosted and have contracted COVID. What we are learning 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.000 about amicron is that it is more contagious, and that 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.359 the likelihood of us being able to dodge this variant 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:26.280 that is three times as more contagious than alpha, than delta, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.000 and even in some instances they're saying three to eleven 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.200 times more. It depends on how you are doing your math. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.320 But what we know is that it is unlikely that 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.920 we are all going to end up unscathed. So I 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.760 cannot say this enough. If you are have not been vaccinated. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 If people around you have not been vaccinated, have not 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.360 been boosted, please please please continue to encourage them to 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.280 do so. This is not a joke. Again, I have 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.920 friends right now who have contracted COVID after doing all 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.160 of the right things. And I also want to add 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.960 to this, it is not an indictment of your character 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.080 if you do contract COVID, because what we know is 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.920 that because of the actions right of wealthier nations in 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.720 not giving a waiver to other countries, lower income countries 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.600 to be able to produce their own vaccines, this is 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.040 why variants keep happening. Just you know, we want to 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.040 blame the people that are unvaccinated for this surge, but 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.000 the reality is is that this came out of or 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.080 at least was first identified in South Africa, a country 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.680 whose vaccination levels are low, not because of vaccine hesitancy, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.760 but because of lack of accessibility and the amount of 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.760 vaccines that the higher income nations said that they were 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.520 going to be offering right and giving to these nations 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.440 they fell short of. And why is that because they 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.440 would rather Maderna and Fiser and these other pharmaceutical industries 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.640 make billions and billions of dollars that they receive money 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.600 on the back end for. So once again, what is 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.119 going to be the destruction of this country, of our planet? Right, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.120 it is going to be greed. Greed is going to 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.520 be what destroys us. But what concerns me the most 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.040 about Omicron is this, And I have stated this before, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.160 and our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel has told us that 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.400 when there is more virus that is in the air, right, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.440 it is more likely that it's going to mutate. And 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.880 there was a conversation I was having with a friend 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.560 of mine a couple of days ago, and it was this, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.400 how long, right, did it take us to discover Delta? 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:41.720 So let's let's look at this. In June of twenty 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:48.120 twenty one, vaccinations were readily available and we had mobilization 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:53.760 and roll out from this administration. Okay, by July, Delta 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.640 was already prominent. So by the time that we had 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:02.680 received the vaccines, right, we're alpha, Delta had already come 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.080 on to the scene. Only a couple of months had 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:13.479 passed between the emergence of COVID nineteen alpha to Delta. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:20.120 Now Delta came on the scene in July. It is November. Right, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:26.000 it was November when omicron was first identified in South 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:31.480 Africa and in several other countries in Europe. So we're 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:37.880 looking now at the fact that within July, August, September, October, November, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.200 we're looking at a rent roughly four to five months 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.520 in terms of the next variant. Right, Like the time 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:52.520 is becoming smaller and smaller between when these variants are coming. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.000 So if we're looking at omicron and we're saying that 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.360 there is more of it and it is spreading faster, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.080 the likelihood of the next variant coming is probably going 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.440 to be in the next two to three months. We 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.239 already see that with omicron, that it is moving around 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.720 the vaccinations. Now, people that are vaccinated plus boosted are 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.440 less likely to have severe symptoms and be hospitalized right 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.040 and die. But the thing is is that this virus 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.920 is getting smarter, replicating faster, and moving at the speed 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.520 of light. So in order to her for us to 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.359 get a hold of it, people need to get fucking 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.360 vaccinated and boosted. But more importantly, the wealthier nations need 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:46.120 to be providing those trip waivers so that lower incominations 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:51.200 can begin to tackle the initial vaccination fucking rollouts. We 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.480 cannot be self serving at this moment. If there's anything 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.200 that we have seen over the past two fucking years 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.120 of living in this pandemic is that it is not 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.440 a pandemic of isolation and silos. It is a communicable 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.360 fucking disease and virus. So if we are not thinking 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:16.200 about the collective we then we are going to all lose. Period. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.440 In other news, Joe Mansion is an asshole, right. Joe 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.720 Mansion continues to show the American people, continues to show 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.040 the world that he just does not give a fuck. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.840 And look, I know that shaming somebody who is shameless 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.240 does not matter, but the level of rage that I 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.080 have for Joe Mansion is on some next level. Shit. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.920 If I saw that man on the street, it would 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.600 take everything in me not to punch him square in 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.240 his face. And I'm not an advocate for violence, but 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.040 I am at my wits fucking end, because what I'm 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 starting to realize, folks, is this is that the end 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.120 of our democracy isn't solely going to be laid on 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.720 the shoulders of the Republican Party. The fascist cult right 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.280 that wants to bring us back to nineteen fifty three. No, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.080 it is. It is going to rest on the shoulders 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.160 of Democrats who are not seeing the urgency of now right. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:18.280 I listened fucking yesterday to Jen Saki, Press Secretary Jen 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:25.280 Saki's press conference right following the major scathing statement that 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.080 the White House put out in response to Joe Mansion 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.160 going on Fox Right, going on Fox not calling the 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.280 President of the United States, not issuing a statement, but 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.360 going on the very network that is responsible for spreading 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:43.240 the big lie, for spreading fucking COVID. That's where Mansion 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.160 decided to go on to go and tell the American 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.200 people that he doesn't give a fuck about them. Now. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:55.359 Jensaki right in her statement in her press conference following 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.600 the quote unquote scathing statement that was put out, Jensaki 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.320 contin he needs to refer to Joe Mansion as a 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.360 good friend of the president. Let me tell you something, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.600 If Joe Mansion is somebody that you consider you're a 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.880 good friend, then I would hate to think what your 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.200 enemies do to you. Because Joe Mansion is no friend 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.320 of this president. He is no friend of this fucking country, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.640 and he is sure as fuck not a friend of democracy. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.400 This man who was elected with two hundred and ninety 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.440 thousand votes is able to thwart the voices and the 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.320 need of eighty one million Americans that turned down in 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.280 twenty twenty to vote for Joe Biden. Now, I know 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.720 that everybody wanted to be up in arms about host Charlemagne, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.000 the God who has a new show on Comedy Central, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.040 and if you are a New Yorker, you know him 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.600 because he is one of the three hosts that hosts 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.679 the show called The Breakfast Club, which is a very 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:58.960 popular morning our urban radio show. Charlemagne had Vice President 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.559 Kamala Harris on air, and he asked her directly, who 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.480 is the President of the United States? Is it Joe 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:11.240 Biden or Joe Mansion. Now, Kamala Harris, in my humble opinion, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.040 which I said, recently missed a major opportunity, missed the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.760 major media moment to be able to go after fucking 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.840 Joe Mansion's juggular. You know, here's the thing. I get 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.520 that Joe Biden wanted to come into the presidency and 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.240 say that I am the complete opposite of Donald Trump. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.640 I'm not going to trash my political opponents. I'm not 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.200 going to make targets of them. I'm gonna usher in 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.840 some grown up sensibilities back into our body politic and 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.400 back into this White House. But at the end of 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.040 the day, if you are not going after enemies of democracy, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.920 when you see that we are under fucking attack and 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.000 that people within your own party are the ones that 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.600 are bringing the sword to your legislation, that are tearing 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.360 it up and defecating on our democracy, then I don't 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.520 know what the fuck you are doing, right I honestly 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.200 do not, because politics is a fucking blood sport. Right now, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.880 eight hundred thousand Americans are dead. And what we have 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:17.000 learned right through tens of thousands of documents is just 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:22.240 how willing and able the Trump administration was in thwarting 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.760 right our ability to fight back against COVID when it 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.920 first came on the scene right in twenty twenty, and 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.800 when he learned about it in twenty nineteen. Is Donald 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.200 Trump in jail or any of those administration officials in 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.959 jail for what they did to the American people? Are 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.040 they in jail for negligent homicide? Are they even being 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.360 fucking indicted or questioned about what they did not do 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.320 for the American people? Know they are not and so 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.480 we want to believe in this country that every time 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.520 we get a new administration that we can just turn 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.880 the page without looking back and seeing exactly what it 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:03.600 was that was done. It isn't just Republicans that are 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.200 to blame for the situation that we are in right now. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.880 It is Democrats who want to think that we are 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.880 continuing to function in some type of twentieth century mentality. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.439 We are at war. These people are at war. We 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.840 already have eight hundred thousand people dead. By the time 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.160 that we end the first quarter of this new upcoming year, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.680 a million Americans will have parish perished to COVID nineteen 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.080 And do you know whose responsibility it is that we 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.359 reach that number? Donald fucking Trump and the Trump administration. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.040 But do you hear this current administration laying blame where 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.880 blame should be. Do you see them waging campaigns, going 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.120 after their own party members and having them fall in line? 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.960 Because it is it is inconceivable what will happen to 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.160 this country if we don't pass voting rights? Right, I 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.160 just do not get at it. And I am at 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.080 a place right where I just put up and you 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.800 can go to Zora zoramag dot com you can go 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.040 to media to read my latest piece in zoramagazine, which 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.280 is twenty twenty one, the Year of trauma, right. And 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.640 I have to tell you that when I was asked 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.920 to do a reflection piece on this year, there was 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.280 not one good thing in terms of not in my 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:31.079 personal life, right, but in the grand scheme of America. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.240 There is not one good thing that we can point to, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.679 not one. Now my friends want to say to me, oh, Danielle, well, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.160 the vaccine rollout went really well, And I'm like, were 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.559 you around for the vaccine rollout? Because initially it was 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.880 a bumbling, fucking mess. Now, I'm not saying that this 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.880 administration didn't walk into a steaming pile of shit, but 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.320 they were aware of the steaming pile of shit that 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.400 they were walking into. The vaccine rollout was not great. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.319 The flip flopping by the CDC was not great. Right. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.640 But when we started off twenty twenty one, we started 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.880 off six days in with a fucking insurrection, an insurrection, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.199 an attempt to overthrow the government. And as we are 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.360 coming up on that year anniversary, the people that were 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.600 in charge, the architects behind that, have yet to be 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.000 fucking indicted. We have a Department of Justice that is 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:28.280 spineless and run essentially by amibas. We have a Department 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.040 of Health that is trying to do their best but 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:37.960 still still playcating to the twenty five percent of Americans 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.000 that refuse to get vaccinated and doing so in a 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.160 way that makes them feel good about the fact that 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.680 they're not getting vaccinated. When are we going to actually 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:54.000 start to police and make policy, not police to make 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.200 policy right with those that are doing the right thing 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.400 in mind? When are we going to start to recognize 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.080 that nicenes and euphemisms and patting everybody on the back 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.080 for doing the bare minimum doesn't fucking work. So it 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.480 brings me back to Joe Mansion. So one of the 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.760 reasons why Mansion is saying that he will vote no 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.120 on Build Back Better, and Chuck Schumer has recently said 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.240 that he is going to bring the legislation to the 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.000 floor because he wants everybody to be on record as 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.480 if that fucking matters. Nonetheless, Joe Mansion says he's not 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.160 going to vote for it because he doesn't believe in 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.160 the childcare tax credit, because he thinks that parents are 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.080 going to use that to go on vacation or to 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.400 use it for things that they do not need. And 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.880 the question that I tweeted when I heard that that 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.880 was one of his responses, was why doesn't anybody ask 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.560 Joe Mansion why he thinks that the American people are 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.360 so undeserving? Why he thinks that low income Americans are 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.520 lazy and not deserving of their own fucking money back. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.360 I am so sick and tired of this narrative coming 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.480 down from this fucking uber wealthy about how they're going 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.520 to dictate certain things to low income people and to 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.200 the poor, and do so through a lens right, through 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:17.160 a lens of scarcity, but also through the perception that 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.720 these people are poor are low income because they just 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.480 don't work hard enough, and that if we give people 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.280 quote unquote handouts, then they won't want to do for themselves. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.080 Because to me, basically, what you are saying is that 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.280 you do not believe in Americans. And I want somebody 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.720 to have Joe Mansion be on the record fucking saying 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.480 that as he is sitting on his seven hundred thousand 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.960 dollars yacht and driving in his fucking thousands of dollars 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.760 tens of thousands of dollar Maserati. Right, when you look 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.160 at West Virginia, they are at the bottom, the fucking 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.720 bottom of every socioeconomic indicator. Right, They're at the bottom 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.800 of healthcare, bottom of education. But this man they have 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:07.359 continued to elect for four fucking decades. I didn't have 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.879 the opportunity to vote for or against Joe Mansion because 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.720 I don't live in fucking West Virginia. But Joe Mansion 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.320 has the power in our broken, fucking democracy to vote 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.159 against eighty one million Americans. And we think that the 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:25.320 system is working for us, folks, let me tell you something. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.000 Friend of the Show, Kurt Bardella also this week has 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.240 a really great piece set is up at USA today 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.080 which is his recommendations of what Democrats need to do. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.600 But basically, what he has stated is that Democrats need 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.640 to prepare themselves for the fact that we are losing 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.480 the midterms. Right, the calendar year hasn't even changed, but 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.000 we can already sense what is in the air. Democrats 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.359 will lose the fucking House, and they will lose the 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.320 goddamn Senate. And what Republicans have already said is that 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.760 they will spend the next two years right making it 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.479 so that Donald Trump is going to be the nominee 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.760 for twenty twenty four. We will never have three and 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.720 fair elections, and they will end up probably throwing Joe 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.560 Biden in jail for whatever things that they want to 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.800 make up about him or his families. They have told 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.920 you out loud what the fuck they plan to do, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.240 and so what Kurt Bardella says in his piece is like, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.960 here's the thing. You need to operate off of the 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.040 fact that we are fucked and that we have nothing 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.680 left to lose. So instead of operating from this place 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.960 of fear, which is so the place of comfort for Democrats, right, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.960 they are fearful of every goddamn thing. What will people think? 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.640 What about the movable middle? What about independence? We need 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:46.400 to be bipartisan? Fuck that. Guess what. Republicans don't want 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.040 to fuck with you, right, They've said that to you 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.960 time and time again. And as a matter of fact, 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.000 if you're really not paying attention, many of them have 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.679 threatened you all with fucking violence. Your colleagues in the 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.240 fucking Congress have threatened you with violence. So to think 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.119 that they're coming to the table for any bipartisan measure 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.359 is like dreaming about candy Land, I guess you probably 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.240 believe in Santa and the tooth Ferry as well. So 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.679 that's number one. Number two is this number two? Is this? 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.639 No one fears Democrats. That's what Kurt said in his 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.960 play and his Peace. No one fears them. They don't 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.080 fear the Commission, they don't fear the Department of Justice. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.800 They don't fear this White House because they know they 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.160 have no teeth, because they've proven time and time again 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.879 that they are not willing to do what it takes 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.120 in order to save our democracy. So when you know 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.240 that you're going to continue to run them up, you 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.280 think Mark Meadows wasn't isn't afraid of the criminal indictments 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.800 that may or may not come down from the Department 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.320 of Justice because Merritt Garland has showed us that he 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.560 has no sense of urgency, that he doesn't think that 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.400 ourocracies in peril, and that apparently right. His colleague Bob Mother, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:10.520 who put together a fucking walking memo of ten ways 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.480 that you can fucking charge Donald Trump, well he, I 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.840 guess put that in the bottom of the file draw 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.200 and locked it up. You have all of the evidence 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.439 in front of you. You know that the administration that 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.040 came before. You are a group of criminals. They have 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:30.919 fucking told you on podcasts and on Fox, and still 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.000 you do nothing. I am so tired, folks, of being 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.680 a part of a party that no one fears, being 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.199 a part of a party that all they want to 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.080 do is have in fighting about policies that the American 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:51.840 people honestly don't understand. Do what needs to be done, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.879 get your fucking members in line. And if you're not 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.000 going to do it with carrots, right then it's time 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.720 to take out the fucking stick. I want to see 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.480 campaigns waged against Joe Manchin. I don't give a fuck 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.240 if we lose West Virginia, because frankly, we are losing 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.160 right now. Because if this is what power looks like, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.120 if this is what winning in twenty twenty looks like, 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.960 then you can fucking have it, you know. I'm so 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:23.280 like infuriated because we have so much that is at stake, 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.159 There is so much that is at risk, and it 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.040 seems like there are only a handful of people that 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.240 recognize that truth. And so when Charlemagne says to Vice 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.280 President Kamala Harris, who's the president of the United States, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.879 and she has the audacity to pop off and be like, 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.639 it's Joe Biden, don't act like a Republican. Well, then 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:45.240 Joe Biden should start acting like the fucking president, right, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:51.960 Maybe do that. We are in a lot of trouble, folks, 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.520 Like as this year comes to a close and as 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.080 we get ready to move into twenty twenty two, we 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:01.919 are in a world of fucking trouble. Over eight hundred 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.119 thousand Americans are dead, Twenty five percent of the population 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.320 still doesn't want to get vaccinated. We have mass shootings 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.160 that are back on the rise. We have over four 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.200 hundred voter supression bills that are on the books. We 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:16.920 have you know, the rise in racism, rise in white supremacy. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:22.560 We have so much climate change right. I mean, it 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:27.680 is either fire season, tornado season, hurricane season. But every 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:30.720 time these seasons roll around, they are once in a century. 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.960 How can it be once in a century? Every couple 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:40.439 of months, we are headed towards the end of days 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.840 in so many fucking ways. It's biblical what is happening 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:48.800 right now? And yet I'm waiting for Democrats to wipe 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.400 the call out their eyes and wake the fuck up. 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:54.320 We are out of getting to a point where we 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.080 have nothing to left to lose, so you better leave 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:00.920 it all on the fucking floor right now, or just leave. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.000 The reality is is that I'm ready to fight. I've 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:10.120 never stopped fighting. The Trump administration and what they did 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.720 and Donald Trump descending down that escalator set off an 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.199 alarm inside of me that has yet to go, that 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.120 has yet for me to be able to hit snooze. 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:24.159 It has been blaring for the last five years, and 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.280 I want to know if anybody else can hear it. 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.520 There's so much at stake, and as we tick down 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.880 with just a handful of days left and this year, 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.840 all I keep wondering is, my God, what does twenty 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:44.119 twenty two have in store? Because I'm actually terrified to 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:50.159 find out, folks. Coming up next is a really hopeful, 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:57.360 hopeful conversation with Hope will Well and Sack. Hope Well 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.719 and Sack is the executive director of a Georgia initiative 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:06.720 to create a guaranteed income for black women of eight 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.720 hundred and fifty dollars eight hundred and fifty dollars a 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:14.560 month that could provide black women with breathing room, provide 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:17.360 them with the ability to understand what it's like to 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:21.119 thrive and not just survive. And I'm really excited because 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.240 Hope will offer to us a lot of statistics and 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:28.199 a lot of reasons why the in Her Hand initiative 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:31.800 that they have launched will launch, excuse me at the 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:35.439 beginning of twenty twenty two matters and could possibly present 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:39.320 itself as a model for what guaranteed income, which is 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:43.800 different from universal basic income, what guaranteed income could look 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:48.439 like for those communities that are always marginalized and never 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:52.840 invested in. So I'm very excited for the upcoming conversation 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:59.480 with Hope while in Sack, folks, I am very excited 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.520 to welcome to woke F for the first time Hope 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:06.119 wallin sach who is the executive director of Georgia Resilience 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:11.720 and Opportunity Fund or GROW Fund in Atlanta. The in 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.480 Her Hand initiative will be focusing on providing black women 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:19.440 with guaranteed income of around eight hundred and fifty dollars 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.440 a month over the next two years. And the hope here, 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:26.800 I'm assuming, is to see how such a program that 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.600 we've heard in different formats and in different ways by 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:34.640