WEBVTT - Spinning Out in Misery 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.360 me your girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.400 because well, I'm too fucking scared to leave it. Let's 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.639 be real. You know, one of the things that I 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.440 have been noticing over the last couple of weeks, you know, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.959 being on social media, being on Twitter, is how everyone 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:40.040 is freely sharing just how emotionally spent exhausted they are. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.760 And I say that that is a good thing because 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.879 I think that too often we're sitting alone in our 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.160 feelings trying to work them through and trying to process, 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:56.600 like and describe what is this feeling of dread? Like? What? What? 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.800 What is this feeling of unease that I have that 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.600 I can't shake? And I expressed to you all yesterday, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:10.920 you know that following the news of the shooting in 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.760 um in the subway in New York, that I was 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.280 really shaken up, and you know, and then I started 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.440 to like beat myself up for the fact that I 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.880 was shaken up, that somehow I felt that I should 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.600 just be able to kind of power through. I mean, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.199 how many mass shootings have we been through? How many 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.880 mass shootings, you know, make the headlines and how many 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.760 of them don't, and that it has become such a 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.520 normalized part of everyday existence in America that I found 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.880 myself even though I found myself saying to a friend, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.040 I'm too busy to cry. I don't really have the 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.960 time I got, you know, this to write and these 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.960 shows to do, and and and emails to answer. And 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:04.000 so it's this continued grind that we're in where we're 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.120 still in a pandemic, right, We're still in a pandemic 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.720 where we have to be a point to variant that 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:16.119 has overtaken the omicron variant. You have the CDC that announces, oh, well, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.000 we're going to kick the can down the road and 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.280 we're going to have mass on you know, transportation for 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.040 another two weeks. And I tweeted, and I said, because 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.680 what do we think that they're going to discover in 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.240 two weeks that they don't fucking know now mass work 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.120 and no one has stopped travel. You have airlines and 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.680 the train operator not the train operators, but these CEOs 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.040 that are trying to put pressure on Congress and Republicans 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.040 suing rights, multiple states suing the CDC to release these 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.760 mass mandates and I'm like, I'm sorry, Am I missing something? 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.960 Are these airlines not fucking making money making billions of 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.520 dollars for price gouging people? Right like they're trying to 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:01.160 make up for what the sick months that they didn't 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.160 make any money. I've been to the airport I have flown. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.960 They're not you know, they're not working at the understaffed 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.639 and low population level. No things are actually back. So 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.200 if the decision is being made around you know, purely 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:21.120 capitalistic reasons, then show me where you're losing money, Show 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.359 me where things are down. Because people need to put 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.720 a fucking cloth mask over their face so that we 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.519 all don't breathe in COVID, right Like, I'm just I 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.400 get to the point of just breaking, which kind of 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.280 happened yesterday. I'm going to be honest that by the 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.440 time that the day was finished and I had not 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.360 one but two martinis that I made for myself at home, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.280 I was just like sitting on my couch and I 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:53.160 just got overwhelmed and I started tearing up. I started crying. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.680 And it wasn't through pain, it was just through sheer 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.440 frustration and overwhelmed. I am just tired of all of 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.880 this shit. I'm tired of Democrats not battling against people 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.960 that are literally putting this country in our democracy through 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.040 the ringer. I'm tired of the lies being told as 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.400 if COVID does not exist and hasn't killed millions of 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.880 people around the world. There's a piece right now. I 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.440 didn't read it yet. There's a piece right now in 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.200 the New York Times, and the headline was something like 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.960 grandparents taking over because two hundred thousand children in the 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.840 United States, almost a quarter of a million. Two hundred 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.120 thousand children in the United States lost at least one 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.000 parent to COVID and now or both, and now their 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.440 grandparents are stepping in to take care of them. That's 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.279 an actual news story right now. But we're having a 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.120 debate about whether or not we should remove mass from 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.600 public transportation. I mean, mass mandates have all but gone 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.520 away in a majority of cities and places. But I 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.800 will tell you, as somebody that was tally just on 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:05.440 the Amtrak to and from Washington, DC last week, I 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.400 feel comfortable being locked inside of this moving tube because 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.719 everybody has to wear a fucking mask. And yes, people 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.159 are still eating and drinking, but for the most part, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.640 right the mask is on and the ventilation and the 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.200 air is pumping, and it's a way for you to 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.880 be able to try, Like, why is it that it 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.479 is the least among us, right that have the loudest 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.640 fucking voices. So, whether it is and I'm going to 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.880 get into this, whether it is about being pro gun 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.440 and having no restrictions on guns whatsoever, so that has 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.440 to infringe upon my fucking safety and my ability to 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.680 feel like I can leave my home in my neighborhood 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.960 and feel fucking safe because I got gun tote. Motherfucker's 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.599 all over the place. Right. And then these people with 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.400 the mask, if you were to do a then diagram, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.240 it's the same fucking people, right, The people who didn't 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.159 want to wear a mask, right, are the same fucking 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.640 pro gun people, are the same fucking anti portion people. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.559 They're the same demographic. And the fact that I'm saying 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.560 this because the numbers, the numbers that they actually have 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.120 are small in comparison to the majority of us. But 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.279 they literally have figured out how to become the squeaky 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:20.560 wheel that is consistently consistently pampered too, Right, And I'm 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.880 just I'm over it. I am over it. You know, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:30.000 I said yesterday on my woke Wednesday, I said, you know, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.359 following this shooting, you all listen to the conversation with 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.719 Jonathan Metzal that I had, And the reality is that 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.400 Republicans want to turn this country into the wild wild West. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.919 They want to have people you know, in the streets, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.040 no social safety nets. Only the rich are able to 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:57.640 continue to navigate. This just desert of despair that they're creating. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.720 Like that, That's literally what it is. Right, So people, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.279 pregnant people can't get abortions, gay people and trans people 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:11.960 are forced back into the closets. You have climate change rearing, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.640 you have a global health pandemic that we're never going 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.000 to get a hold of, and just continues to mutate 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.760 with multiple variants over and over again. And just wait, folks, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.120 just wait, because the next variant that is going to 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.280 come is not going to be of the shrug off variety, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.280 right like those This is the truth. But you see, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.480 the thing is is that if we are all spinning 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.440 out of control, we're spinning out in overwhelm, We're spinning 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.080 out in fucking misery and feeling like there is just 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.920 no path through this darkness. This is how fascism and 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.360 authoritarianism rises like they are literally playing through the same 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.560 playbook that got Hitler into power. But you have Joe 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.120 Biden doing these tough talk, fucking press conferences and the 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.400 only motherfucker he's calling out is Putin And I'm saying, bitch, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.840 make the bridge, make the connection. Right. So you have 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.800 Putin deciding that he's going to sanction I think he's 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:12.160 sanctioned over like three hundred and ninety eight members or 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.480 something crazy right of the House of Representatives. And I'm 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.120 saying to myself, do you know what I would do? 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.400 If I were Merritt Garland and wasn't a sloth and 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.840 actually believed in upholding American institutions and values and justice 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.520 and not just in name only. I would start an 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.920 investigation into the motherfucker's who didn't receive putent sanction and 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.480 wonder why why aren't you being sanctioned? Right? I would 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.600 go into an investigation, open up an investigation into Tucker Carlson. No, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.840 but nobody wants to play politics. But it's totally okay 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.200 for Republicans to consistently make up lies, lies that turned 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.760 into you know, millions of dollars spent during the Benghazi 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.600 hearings right to haul Hillary Clinton and to do nothing 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.120 other than to smear her name. But then at the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.280 end of the day, when we have all of the 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.040 evidence on our side, to justify the fact that we're 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.480 not playing politics. This isn't politics, It's about fucking democracy. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.960 And if motherfuckers are going to call you outside your 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.600 name regardless, then why wouldn't you do the work. This 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.240 is where I am with Democrats right now, is that 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.079 they are so fucking tepid, and tepid is a nice 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:27.280 euphemism because it's not even tepidness. They're lackluster. They're jellyfish, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:32.720 They're spineless, right, they have absolutely no fight in them whatsoever. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.760 And they're so they move in such a way that 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.800 they are so afraid of how Republicans are going to react. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.840 And I continue to say, you cannot lead like that. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.079 My cross country coach us to tell us in high school, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.560 you can't lead from the back. So if I'm saying 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.800 that you're one of the leaders of the team, right, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.400 you need to be out front. How you leading from 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.760 the back. But that's what democrats logic is. So you 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.320 have right now, one of the most violent tax that 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.760 is coming that it's been coming, it's been brewing, and 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.839 it came once again, as most things in the Republican 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.240 Party these days, are coming from QAnon. QAnon fucking batshit 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.680 crazy theory has found its way into mainstream Republicanism, and 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:23.480 one of QAnon's biggest and most disgusting theories. Democrats are 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.320 running some type of pedophilia ring right now. A couple 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.640 of years ago, we all wanted to like that wasn't 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.920 even making anybody's news, right, We're just like, oh, those 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.720 are the crazies over there, because that's clearly not the case. Right. No, No, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.880 you heard it come up in the hearings for Judge 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.920 Katangi Brown Jackson. Right, Oh, you're soft on pedophilia, you're 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.719 soft on sex crimes. You hear it now through that 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.000 the siren of batshit Crazy, which is Marshary Taylor Green 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.280 saying that the Democratic Party is just filled with pedophiles. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:03.400 And then I heard recently that Hakim Jeffries has said, oh, well, 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.199 that's just nonsense, and we don't respond to nonsense. Let 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.760 me tell you what happens when you don't respond to 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.640 what you perceive to be nonsense. You have what happened 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:18.200 in Virginia, Right, Virginia was in the blue column for 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:24.080 the last twelve years up until Junkin comes in. And 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.079 what does Trump and a Vest do. Trump and a 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.520 Vest decides to turn his entire campaign into being about 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.360 parental control. And what is at the core of this 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.560 quote unquote parental control? It is critical race theory, which 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.240 I've told you time and time again, is not taught 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.840 in K through twelve schools. It's not even taught in 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.239 undergrad It's taught in select as an elective in selective 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.720 law schools. Right, but it doesn't don't allow the truth 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.400 to get in the way of a good story and 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.240 a good campaign. Glenn Uncan didn't. And what ended up 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.720 happening is that Democrats didn't actually formulate any type of 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.280 messaging or plan to come back to the nonsense about 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.240 critical race theory. Instead, they decided to ignore it. And 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.600 now we have Governor Junkin and Virginia has gone back 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.679 into the red column. And what Republicans are doing, it's 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:22.880 basically using there when in Virginia to create the framework 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.319 and the and the strategic planning that they are doing 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:32.520 now all across the country, right, making criminalizing education, because 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.520 if you are a teacher right now in any of 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.480 these red states, I would be fucking scared to even 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.000 talk about Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks, you know, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.440 the people that they love to bring out during Black 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.400 History Month to use their quotes as if they're not racist, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.760 just so that they can put on some political black face. Right, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.480 you wouldn't even want to talk about that, because God forbid, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.400 little Josie and Jamal go home and say, look what 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.920 I learned today, Mom, dad, grandma, and then the parents 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.400 come marching up to the school slap a lawsuit on you. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.000 This is the kind of vigilanteism that Republicans have set 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.199 out and Democrats haven't pushed back on. So now they 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.439 started with critical race theory, they've moved into don't say gay, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.960 what the fuck you think is coming next? So my 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.680 thing is that you don't at some point in time, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.520 you don't just ignore the bully that is in the schoolyard. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.800 You actually walk up to them and you punch them 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.920 directly in the fucking face, right because you let them 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.599 know that you're not to be played with. But Democrats 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.360 don't play like that. They're like hiding in the corner. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.400 Please don't look at me and don't see me. And 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.240 maybe if I bring you a dollar every day then 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.480 you won't be beating my ass. And I'm just like, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:51.040 I need people to start to recognize that this kind 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.320 of operation from weakness is not a winning strategy, and 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.280 it's having people who are Democrats right, voters who are well, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.760 what are my two options here? Either I'm a part 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:08.160 of a white supremist cult, right, or I'm with the jellyfish, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.880 Like these are my two options. So what will people 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.360 start deciding to do. They'll just opt out altogether and rightfully. So, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.880 I'm a person that believes in voting. I believe in democracy. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.280 I believe in government form by the people. But when 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.440 you are putting in and voting for representatives that are 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.440 too chicken shit to actually take it to our political foes, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.760 I don't know what options we have left, but I 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:42.200 know that right now, Joe Biden once again held a 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.080 very tough talking press conference, colin putting everything but a 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.680 child of God, saying that he is committing genocide, which is, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.120 you know, the big buzzword in you know, war crimes 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.160 is genocide. Of course, the Kremlin has come out and said, no, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.520 we're not committing war crimes. Of course, we're not raping 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.080 and murder ring and you know, executing civilians right and 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.720 blowing up hospitals and train stations like that's not happening. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.400 It's all made up. Sure, Okay, I'm not saying that 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.760 you shouldn't have tough talk on Putin, but I'm saying, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.480 connect the fucking dots to the Republicans in the United 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.400 States that are supporting Russia in their war of aggression, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.560 whether they're supporting them with their actual pocketbook or wallets, like, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.560 let's figure that out. That's what you think you would 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.560 do inside of an investigation, but you sure as fuck 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.400 should be like, so, America on my watch is not 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.280 going to turn into anybody's hungry Turkey or fucking Russia. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.400 And here are the people that I need to ask, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.000 where is your patriotism at? Instead of referring to you know, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.040 Mitch McConnell as a man of like good morals and character, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.800 I'm like, we're talking about this same motherfucker that stole 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.080 a seat from your president when you were vice president. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.960 We're talking about that guy. We're talking about the one 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:05.840 that rushed through the confirmation of Amy Covid Barrett in 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.720 thirty days right before, right after the election, and before 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.680 you were able to be sworn in. We're talking about 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.000 that guy, that's the one that you say has good 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.360 moral character. Do I need to look up a new 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.680 definition of what morality is because that ain't it. And 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.880 so the fact is is that if the people that 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.280 are in democratic leadership and are in the establishment can't 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.600 clearly identify our villains right the villains of democracy, then 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.160 I'm confused about how you think that you're going to 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.920 get the people's votes. Like this is the thing that 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.320 I continue to worry about, frankly on a regular basis. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.560 We got seven months, folks, that's not a lot of time. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.240 And I know that people like to think that a 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.320 majority of voters don't actually pay attention until around September 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.800 or October, but I'm telling you it is April and 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.600 I'm seeing no change in messaging coming out of the 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:10.119 Democratic camp. Let's look at abortion right now and what 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:15.680 is going on with the anti abortion movement. Once again, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:21.679 just to remind everyone, Democrats run all of the quote 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:28.640 unquote points of power outside of the Supreme Court, the Senate, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:34.240 the House, and the White House, and I'm saying to myself, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.440 as you are watching Republicans make decisions state by state 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.000 to not only ban abortion, but to go so far 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.680 as to do what Oklahoma did earlier this week, which 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.399 is to criminalize it, criminalizing pregnant people with up to 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.160 ten years in jail for a felony for terminating their 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.680 own goddamn pregnancy. This is where we're going. So I'm 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.399 saying to myself, where the fuck is the fed the 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.040 outrage at the federal level. Now you can tell me, oh, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.800 there's nothing that we can do but executive orders, and 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.399 I'm saying, you got two years for those executive orders 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.640 to stick, So what are you doing. The federal government 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:19.360 during COVID right decided when the Biden administration came in 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.080 that they were going to allow medical abortions to happen. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.440 These are the two pill situations that allow pregnant people 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.960 to be able to have a safe abortion at home. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.359 They did that during COVID and why because you couldn't 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:44.280 leave your home. And here's something that has a kind 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:50.920 of you know, deadline. So they allow this to stay, right, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.600 and I'm thinking to myself, this is great, So what 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.000 else are you going to do. You're able to use 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.960 these medications for up to ten weeks. But there are 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.000 nineteen states in this country that still require you to 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:10.080 have a physician a physician sign off for you to 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.239 be able to access that medication. So, now, if you 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.800 are a physician that is in one of those states 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:22.080 that are now criminalizing abortion, you think that you're writing scripts. No, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:27.720 So we actually need the Department of Justice to penalize 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:33.920 these states for not following the FDA's guidelines. But we're 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.480 seeing no action in that way. I'm not hearing Merritt 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.080 Garland saying We're going after Oklahoma, We're going after Texas, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:46.320 We're going after Florida. No, there's no murmurings. And I'm like, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.479 am I missing something? Like if this is what winning 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.920 looks like? That I am terrified to know what it's 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.760 going to look like post November, because if the Pauls 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:03.119 hold right, we're fucked. And you know, it was funny 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.920 because when I was in DC last week and I'm 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:10.720 talking to folks there and everyone right who is working 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:15.400 at national organizations and in the grass roots are just like, 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.320 what do you think is happening with the Biden administration? 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.080 Like is it that they feel like they're gonna get 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.720 a second bide at the Apple. Because the thing that 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.359 I keep trying to convey on this show and on 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:38.160 others is this, when midterms are lost, that is it period. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.120 Republicans will take control of the Senate, they will take 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.119 control of the House, and guess what is They're going 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.879 to be their first mode of operation to start the 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:53.160 impeachment process for Joe Biden. And they're going to use 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.120 his son Hunter as the way to get to Joe Biden. 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:03.119 Now we know damn youson Hunter Biden's laptop for I 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.760 don't even know how long now right to try and 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.800 smear Biden. But here's the thing. Republicans have already showed 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.919 you that they don't operate inside of the rule of 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:17.600 law or the constitution. Right, that's a mere suggestion to them. 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.000 So we can say, oh, well, they're not going to 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.000 be able to impeach him. They have no grounds, they 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.480 don't need any All they need is control of the 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.359 House and the Senate. So then after they're able to 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.000 impeach Joe Biden for no fucking reason whatsoever, what else 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.400 do you think that they're going to do? Probably open 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.359 up a commission and investigation so that they can get Hillary, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.720 get Barack Obama, and go down their list right and 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:46.840 start to create a situation where we have political prisoners 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.760 in this country. You think that I'm being crazy, right, 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.000 Oh my god, Danielle, that could never happen. Well, I 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.480 never thought that I would see an insurrection, and that happened. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.680 And right now you have the one six Commission weighing 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.520 and quote unquote split on whether or not they're going 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.960 to actually refer Donald Trump and company to the Department 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:14.240 of Justice for criminal charges. Now you have some that 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.680 are speculating in the news that say, well, it's nothing 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.080 more than, you know, symbolism. It's not as if the 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.200 one six Commission has any teeth. Well, guess what America 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.800 is starving for right now? Some sign that justice is 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.840 actually going to prevail, some sign that when we say 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.920 that no one is above the law, that that isn't 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:41.360 just some bullshit bumper sticker, that there is actual action 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:48.600 behind that. So America is starving for a symbol, a 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:53.280 sign that those that were so brazen in their attempt 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.040 to overthrow our government, so brazen in fact, that they 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:02.840 advertised and celebrated it on social media that not just 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.840 the foot soldiers, but the architects of said insurrection, like 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.639 the Ginny Thomases of the world, are going to be 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:15.120 hauled the fuck in. But if you decide that, oh, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:17.680 you know what, we're running this marathon and I get 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.040 to the twenty sixth mile and even though a full 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:24.080 marathon is point two, I'm going to give up the fuck? 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:29.280 How do it work? How does that work? And here's 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:33.000 the thing that I've been thinking about too. I honestly 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:38.080 believe sometimes that Democrats want to lose because you see, 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:42.080 if you wanted to win, you wouldn't act like this, right. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.040 I think that they like being in the minority so 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:48.600 that they can wag their fingers and they can stomp 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.520 their feet, and they can give the appearance and the 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:55.560 performance of action. But then no one is going to 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.280 hold them to account for what it is that they 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:00.439 can and can't do, because they say, oh, my hands 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.760 are tied behind my back. But when we get the 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:08.600 majority back, then things will be different. Well, we gave 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:11.640 you the majority back. We didn't give you a supermajority, 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.639 but we gave you the majority back, and you're still 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.600 operating as if you are in the political minority, and 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:22.000 you're not. You will be soon, and at that point 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.880 we might as well just all, I don't know, look 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:27.640 at the Constitution as some type of relic, because it's 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:31.040 not going to be, you know, a living, breathing document. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:42.960 I find this all just so easy to put together. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:47.959 You know. Somebody said to me, you know, Danielle, I 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:51.040 don't just need rants, I need solutions. And I said, well, 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:54.280 here's a solution. Here's a couple of things that I 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:59.000 believe can actually happen and should happen. Right one, I 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:03.200 believe that the ones Excommission should refer right Donald Trump 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:09.040 and company to the Department of Justice. I believe that 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:15.520 then Merritt Garland should openly begin to indict all of 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:21.960 those that are responsible, from Eastman to Bannon to fucking 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:29.160 Meadows to Trump. Right open up an investigation into Jinny 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.280 Thomas to see whether or not we have a compromised 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:38.119 Supreme Court Justice. Reminder, the lone dissenter on whether or 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:41.600 not Trump should be forced to release his records because 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:45.960 guess whose number was going to show up his wives. 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.880 We need to act as if we are at war. 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:56.959 So that's number one. Number two is a full blown 0:25:57.040 --> 0:26:02.200 messaging campaign, right, and I mean taking on the lies 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:05.840