1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with me, 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody once again recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: Why because, folks, yesterday I learned two new words that 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: I never ever wanted to fucking learn. Do you know 5 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: what those two words are? Let me tell you. They 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: are del macron and flarna. Yes, del macron and farona. Now, 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: when you think about those two words, I'm certain, I'm 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: certain what comes to mind because when I read those 9 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: two words in a latest article at the Daily Beast. 10 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: Also another article in the cut entitled what fresh hell 11 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: is this? That is exactly what I thought, New Year, 12 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: New healthscape. So apparently, dear friends, delmicron is a commo 13 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: effect of both delta and omicron coming together and making 14 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 1: a lovely double effect virus, a twindemic, if you will. 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: Flena is the flu and corona combined together to create 16 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: a whole new fucking illness called flena. Now you may 17 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: be saying to yourself, Danielle, where are you getting this 18 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: information from? We'll let me tell you. The first case 19 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: of flu rona was detected in Israel by a pregnant, 20 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: unvaccinated woman who didn't realize that she had either the 21 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: flu or the coronavirus. She had a combination of the 22 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: two of them. And why this is problematic is because 23 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: obviously both the flu and the coronavirus affect your respiratory system, right, 24 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: and so if you are an unvaccinated person, who is 25 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: you know, just live in life, willy nilly, you know, 26 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: by the seat of your fucking pants. This is what 27 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: these mutations are now mutating into. Now, I want you 28 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: to think about del Macron for a minute, because this 29 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: is the one that scared the shit out of me, 30 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: because I kept saying, with so much omicron virus that 31 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: is in the air, with over eight hundred there at now, 32 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: while I'm certain by the time that you all listen 33 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: to this the number will have gone up, but currently 34 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty nine thousand Americans have died from 35 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Eight hundred and twenty nine thousand. You still 36 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: have governors like Ron de Santis who had a press 37 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: conference to talk about how the vaccines don't work because 38 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: people are still getting infected. Well, other than being a 39 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: fucking idiot, Rons also isn't a doctor. And what we 40 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: have known and what we have been told about the 41 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: vaccine is that it won't stop you from getting infected, 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: it will stop you from dying. But when you tell 43 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: that too, you know the white supremacist death cult. It 44 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: falls on non hearing ears. Nonetheless, what I have been 45 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: fearing is what happens when you have a variant that 46 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: is both evasive right to the vaccines, as omicron has 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: shown itself to be and spreads even faster than the 48 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: previous delta, but also now is actually just as deadly 49 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: as the original one. So follow me on what I 50 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: just said, that you would have a variant right that 51 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: is the combo effect of having both the severity and 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: symptoms that delta has, but also spreads just as fast, 53 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: if not faster then omicron and it's vaccine evasive. Right 54 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: therein lies del macron, where there have in fact been 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: cases that have been reported of folks that have both 56 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: viruses available in their system. Now right now, this is 57 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: not of quote unquote concern by the World Health Organization, 58 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: but it is something that we will share as fuck 59 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: be following on woke a f and I want you 60 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: all to just be perking up your ears if you 61 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: hear more chatter about florna and del macron because the 62 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: reality is this, we are not going to escape a 63 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: new variant from forming. And the reason for this is 64 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: what doctor Jonathan Metzel has been telling us over the 65 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: past two years, is that when there is more virus 66 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: in the air, right, the likelihood of it mutating over 67 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: and over and over again becomes higher. And he says, 68 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: the virus is mutating every single second of every single day. Right. 69 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: What we look for, or what scientists look for, are 70 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: those variants that then become dominant, that then become that 71 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: variant of concern, that then become something that is sweeping 72 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: the nation within three to four weeks. But the fact 73 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: is this the reality that we still have, right even 74 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: as hospital systems are buckling across this country. And I'm 75 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: thinking to myself, I have this very dark thought last 76 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: night where I said, maybe they should just all fail, right, Like, 77 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: what do you think would happen if you know every 78 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: healthcare professional decided to walk off the job because they 79 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: have reached their emotional capacity to be able to deal 80 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: with this much death at one time. No one can 81 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 1: prepare you for the type of training, right, Like, there 82 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: is no training that these people could have gone through 83 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: in their years of meta school, nursing school, and what 84 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: have you to prepare them for what life is like 85 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: in this pandemic where at this moment, right we steal 86 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: are our country that is only sixty two percent vaccinated. 87 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: And what I just heard on Cable News before I 88 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: came on to broadcast is that those that are within 89 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: the five to twelve year old range, you know, the 90 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: numbers that are climbing in pediatric hospitals, are only fourteen 91 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: percent vaccinated. And here's a question that was asked by 92 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace on MSNBC that I feel the need to 93 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: ask again, why the fucking hesitancy? Do you know how 94 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: many vaccines your fucking kids need to have in order 95 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: for them to go to kindergarten, in order for them 96 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: to walk into a headstart or preschool? Right? So many? 97 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: Do you know how many shots your newborn babies have 98 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: to get in order for them to be clear to 99 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: do anything, to be able to be around people. I 100 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: don't see anybody protesting that. And oh, because oh this 101 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: is new, bitch, so was the new iPhone. I don't 102 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: see people saying that. I'm so concerned about how quickly 103 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: this was created. Right, we look for ease in every 104 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: other form of our lives, and we take it. Right. 105 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: We look at oh, facial recognition and we think to ourselves, oh, well, 106 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: that's great. I don't have to punch in my code. 107 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that Google and Facebook and everybody else 108 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: is stealing my information and using the face of recognition 109 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: system to then sell to the police departments that my 110 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: face could end up in a database one day. Right 111 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: when we have an authoritarian dictator, No one thinks about that. 112 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: Nobody thinks about the ways in which you know, Netflix 113 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: is tracking what it is that you're watching so that 114 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: they can better sell to you. Right, no one is 115 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: thinking about that. They just think of the ease of 116 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,559 Speaker 1: being able to sit on your couch and get through 117 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: movies and shows and not have to go into these 118 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: theaters and be around people. Nobody thought about the fact that, 119 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, it's too quick about people delivering my 120 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: food with DoorDash and seamless and all of these caviare 121 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: and all of these things. What if the people spit 122 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: in my food? What if they tainted in some type 123 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: of way. No, you just lobbed onto the convenience factor 124 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: of being able to have hot food delivered at your door, 125 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: with you never having to leave your fucking home. The vaccine, 126 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: these boosters are convenience for us to be able to 127 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: have some type of normalcy in this abnormal fucking world 128 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: that we're living in. And all I can continue to 129 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: go back to with deep frustration and rage that is 130 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: blossoming inside of me like a rose is the fact 131 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: that all of this comes down to messaging and that 132 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: somebody from Fox News, Newsmax, QAnon, the Trump administration, from 133 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: fucking Congress should be held at accountable for the goddamned 134 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: deaths that we are continuing to see. Because all we 135 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: understand now, folks, is this. It's not misinformation, right, It's 136 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: not deception. It's full blown fucking lies from the mouths 137 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: of a death cult that is led by a white supremacist, misogynist, stake, homophobic, transphobic, 138 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: anti Semitic piece of shit, right, And the fact is 139 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: is that he was able to hook his claws into 140 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: the psyche of the American public and just plant little 141 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: seeds of doubt, which is what Trump and his fucking 142 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: acolytes have all done, plant these seeds all around the 143 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: country in millions and millions of minds for folks to 144 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: second guests right and decide that no, no, they don't 145 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: need seven eight years of schooling. All they need is 146 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: WebMD all they needed a YouTube video of some fucking 147 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: quack on there telling them that, oh, yeah, take a 148 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: horse tranquilizer. We'll do that, but we won't take a 149 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: vaccine that is made for actual fucking people. You know 150 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: what pisses me off? It's so much. But you know 151 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: what I tweeted today that really got me is, you know, 152 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: we're watching the news reports go back and forth on 153 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: how work should open, if schools should open. There are 154 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: thousands of schools across the country apparently that are closed 155 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: this week, and rightfully so, because they've either had teachers 156 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: or nurses or administrators or children all test positive for 157 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: COVID right, which, of course that is going to happen. 158 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: We just came off of one of the largest gathering 159 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: holiday seasons right in this country. So what would have 160 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,359 Speaker 1: made the most sense, right, let me offer a increably 161 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 1: radical idea that I don't know why people with sense 162 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: and with power to make these decisions didn't fucking think of. 163 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: We could have instituted a two week remote work situation. 164 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: And a two week remote schooling situation, or better yet, 165 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: make the winter break a little bit longer, tack that 166 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: on to the summer months, right, and let school out 167 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: a little bit later when it is warmer outside, when 168 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: you have windows that are open, when you can do 169 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: more activities outside. Also that folks could have come off 170 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: of the holiday, had some type of quarantine light and 171 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: then be able to test negatively back into school and 172 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: back into the workplace. As our seasons are changing, right, 173 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 1: as we have warmer temperatures, and as we created a 174 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: much needed buffer between the holiday surge, right and the 175 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: rush back to work and back to school. Why couldn't 176 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: have that Why couldn't that have been an option? Right? 177 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: The government doesn't have to mandate it, but they could 178 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: strongly have fucking suggested it. They could have called all 179 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: the governors together, at least the ones with some fucking sense, 180 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: and been like, here's an idea. Here's an idea. Private corporations, 181 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: which again are way ahead of the curve of government. 182 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: And if you have the good fortune to work in 183 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: private industry, many of them have been working from home. 184 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: Those that had big decisions and grand plans to come 185 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: back to work in January decided to wait out the 186 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: fucking searge. I don't get it right, because here's the thing. 187 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: We do so many things as it pertains to schooling 188 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: that just doesn't make any fucking sense, but we do 189 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: it because it's the way we've all always done it. Right. So, 190 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: in the area that I live in New York, and 191 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: when I was growing up on Eastern Long Island, schools 192 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: right for high schoolers, you were going in at say, seven, 193 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning, and by two o'clock in 194 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: the afternoon you were done, right, And so you're going 195 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: home unsupervised because I don't know who the fuck is 196 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: getting off work at two o'clock in the afternoon to 197 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: look after their kids. It's to say, similarly with elementary 198 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: school where I grew up, right, elementary school started at 199 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: nine and ended at three pm, right, which still to 200 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: me makes absolutely no sense to have children operate on 201 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: the opposite schedule of their parents and caretakers. We also 202 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: have what summer breaks, which, again, what is the point 203 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: of having two months off from school? Oh, I don't know, 204 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,199 Speaker 1: because we used to be an agriculturally based society and 205 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: you needed those summer months to harvest, to plant, to grow, 206 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: to do all of these things. Well, now, what do 207 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: we know? We know that children lose learning right in 208 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: the two months that they are not in school, and 209 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: that summer break isn't actually a necessity. You could in 210 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: fact have year round school where you just give those 211 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: chunks of two weeks here or a week here right 212 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: throughout the year, okay, and then put children on their parents' schedules. 213 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: Why do I say all of this because to make 214 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: minor fucking changes as we are living in a global 215 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: health pandemic, such as maybe the winter break being a 216 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: little bit longer, because we know that the surge always 217 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: happens between November and fucking January, that maybe for the 218 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: Christmas holiday, you wouldn't have kids return back, whether it 219 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: is in elementary or secondary schools, you wouldn't have them 220 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: come back until a couple of weeks later, which means 221 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: that you then tack on the time that they have 222 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: lost from learning to a later part of the year 223 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: like summer, when they don't actually need the full two 224 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: fucking months off. Right. All of this is arbitrary. It 225 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: doesn't go with the psychology or the science between with 226 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: how children learn, right, I'm so tongue twisted because I'm 227 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: just annoyed. I'm annoyed why we continue to do things 228 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: the way we have just because right with no adaptation 229 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: and no innovation to the current moments, there was no 230 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: reason right to say, okay, kids, well it's January third, 231 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: and we're back to school, having no time between the 232 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: amount of time that you were just around your family 233 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: and relatives that are around the country, whether or not 234 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: you were testing or not testing. And now we're going 235 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: to take all of this super collected virus and we're 236 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: gonna push you into a school buildings with poor fucking 237 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: air filters or a no HVAC systems, and we're going 238 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: to do the same thing to your parents. And then 239 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna sit around and we're gonna look up at 240 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: the sky and we're gonna read the headlines and we're 241 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: gonna say, oh my god, this surge is out of control. 242 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: No fucking shit. I just I don't get it. I 243 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: don't get it. And all we keep hearing is that, 244 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: you know the country will continue to crater and fall 245 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: if you know, if people don't work while they're sick, that, 246 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: oh my god, kids, And the next generations won't learn 247 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: anything if we don't find ways to adapt our learning. 248 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: You see, the thing is is that we were already 249 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: falling behind in so many fucking metrics when it comes 250 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: to how we educate kids. The pandemic actually offered us 251 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: a very clear picture of where our gaps are. Now. 252 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: Those that have been in education policy and been in 253 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: the education field have known this, have been advocating and 254 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: talking about the need for broadband, the need for better 255 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: infrastructure in schools, the need to be able to use 256 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: technology and adapt. Right. But no, No, that all falls 257 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: on nonlistening years. Right, that all falls And we have 258 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: debates right about choice and about this and about that, 259 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: so that you know, when Republicans are in control they 260 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: can continue to siphon off money from public schools. The 261 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 1: fact is is that we are a country that doesn't 262 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 1: like to adapt, We don't like change. And that is 263 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: exactly why Donald Trump was so delicious to the white 264 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: supremacis in this country, which there are millions of. Just 265 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: because they don't join up with the oath keepers or 266 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: the proud Boys or the Boogaloo boys don't mean that 267 00:17:54,320 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: they don't subscribe to their values. Admission, right, Donald Trump 268 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: with such an amazing and a charismatic figure, because you see, 269 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: change scares white America because when you are steeped in 270 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: a scarcity model, right of you have so much because 271 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: the world was created for you and your benefit, and 272 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: anybody else that encroaches upon that is taking away from 273 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: you in this land of abundance, right anyone that comes 274 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: in the door and says, I'm going to stop them, 275 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: right and not only am I going to stop them, 276 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: I'm even gonna punish them for the audacity to believe 277 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: that they could have what you have. Right, So we 278 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: don't like change. When you understand the psychology of white Americans, right, 279 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: then you understand like how we got to this place. 280 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: The thing that has been pissing me off too is 281 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: the fact that you know you have cabled news outlets 282 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 1: this week as we mark the year anniversary of the 283 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: Kudata that are wanting to examine American extremism without actually 284 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: using the word white. It isn't American extremism. They are 285 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: in a bunch of average Joe's Haley Jackson that decided 286 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: one day that one day the grandmother was baking cookies. 287 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: In the next minute, she's using a fucking fire extinguisher 288 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: to beat the shit out of a police officer. This 289 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: isn't this didn't just happen, right, Oh my god, they 290 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: were swept up. I actually fucking heard that they were 291 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: swept up in the emotions of Trumpism. These aren't you know, 292 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: these aren't real extremists. Well then tell me who the 293 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: fuck is a real extremist? Right? Do you just have 294 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: to be Muslim to be a real extremist? Do you 295 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: just have to be black to be a real extremist? Oh? 296 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: They were just you know, caught up in emotion. Betch 297 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: I get caught up in emotion all the time. It 298 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: doesn't ever occur to me to go storm the fucking capital, 299 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: build a guillotine and threatened to hang the president vice 300 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: president of the United States. You know, I talked about 301 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: this yesterday and I said that the burden of proof 302 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: for white people in this country is so just disgusting. Right, 303 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: they get to be swept up, they get to be aggrieved, 304 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: they get to be sad, they get to be you know, 305 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: caught up in an opioid crisis, not an epidemic of drugs. 306 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: They get to seek mental health for their racism. They 307 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: don't get persecuted for it. I'm just tired, right And 308 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: so when I look at the situation that we're in 309 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: and people keep telling me, oh, give by Iden and 310 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: Harris time time to do what, time to pat me 311 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: on the head and tell me that everything is going 312 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: to be okay, tell me that. Give me some fucking 313 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: quote about americanism and community and coming together without recognizing 314 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: the state of affairs that we are in. Well, thankfully, folks, thankfully. 315 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: There is an article that went up yesterday in The Guardian, 316 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: and I'm going to read pieces of it because I 317 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: got to tell you that it is going to take, 318 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: apparently the international community to call out the fuckery and 319 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: the bullshit that is going on in America in order 320 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: to set off some types of alarms. But the article 321 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: in the Guardian entitled US could be under right wing 322 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: dictator by twenty thirty, Canadian professor warrens maybe it's going 323 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: to be the outside public and their fear of what 324 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: a ripple effect would be when, not if, but when 325 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: the United States falls. And so here is what Thomas 326 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: Homer Dixon, who is the founding director of the Cascade 327 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: Institute at Royal Rhodes University in British Columbia. This is 328 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: what he wrote, and I got to tell you that. 329 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I was stunned, right, I was stunned. And 330 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: I actually I don't even want to read my notes 331 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: because my handwriting is sometimes quite atrocious, and so I'm 332 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: going to read from the piece, So bear with me. 333 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: This is what Thomas Homer Dixon says. We mustn't dismiss 334 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: these possibilities that American democracy can collapse because they seem 335 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: ludicrous or too horrible to imagine. In twenty fourteen, the 336 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have 337 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live. We 338 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real 339 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: and the horrible commonplace. Let me read that again, because 340 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: this really hit me as I was reading it. Today 341 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes 342 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: real and the horrible commonplace. You see, this is what 343 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: happens when you don't check people, when you don't hold 344 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,959 Speaker 1: them accountable for what they are doing. When you decide 345 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: that institutionalism is more important than what is coming at 346 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: you in real time, you see, you have the filibuster conversation, 347 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: which we will get to that I'm finally right, where 348 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: the fuck was Schumer last year? Senator Schumer, who is 349 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 1: the leader in the Senate and my fucking senator, one 350 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: of them, who has been my senator for my entire life. 351 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: So that just tells you finally is deciding to bring 352 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: the filibuster a change of rules in order to get 353 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: voting rights done to the floor on January seventeenth. Well, 354 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: why is January seventeenth an important day? Oh, because it's 355 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: m l K Day. And so he wants the likes 356 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: of Cinema and the likes of Mansion who have already 357 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: come out and said they're going to vote no because 358 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: they want to be the ones whose names I guess 359 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: are embossed in the nail that goes into the coffin 360 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: of our democracy. Because here is the thing, and I 361 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: said this over the weekend on Reverend Owl Show, if 362 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: we do not pass John Lewis's Vote Rights Act, we 363 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: are fucking done. We talk about every election being consequential, 364 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: but the last election, if we want to be honest, 365 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: did not stop the coup. It merely slowed it down, 366 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: and without their being direct urgency coming out of this administration, 367 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: uttering the words that we are in danger, that white 368 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: supremacy is on the rise, that American white extremism is 369 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: now cemented in this country, and that we must do 370 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: everything in our power to reclaim and strengthen our democracy 371 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: moving forward. And if that means removing archaic, racist laws 372 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: that should have never been in place in the first 373 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: fucking place, right from our books, then so be it, 374 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, democracy falls right 375 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: through our apathy. That's the fucking kind of speech I 376 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: want to hear from the President and the Vice president 377 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: of the United States, not some feel good bullshit right 378 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: where we're gonna come together and I hope Republicans come 379 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: to the table. Fuck them, They're not coming to your table. 380 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: And if they do, they are bringing arsenic and a 381 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: fucking torch. Do we not get that? Are the the 382 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: wokaf audience the only people that have been paying attention 383 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: over the last two years. This is what else Homer 384 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: Dixon had to say, and it was very blunt, and 385 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: I said, you know, after watching which I will get into, 386 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: don't look up the Netflix movie, which is terrifying, and 387 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: if you have not seen it, if you like satire 388 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: in the way that I do this was so on 389 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: the nose that I don't even know if you can 390 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: call it satire, because it's just so evident where we 391 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: are going, Like you had people screaming right on news stations, 392 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: in the street, on social media, the world is ending, 393 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: and instead of doing anything about it, people were debating 394 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: whether or not a comet that was coming to wipe 395 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: out the planet could provide jobs if we could mine it. 396 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: And we think that that's absurd. Oh my god, so 397 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: was weaponizing a fucking virus and calling it a democratic 398 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: hoax when it's killed millions of people around the fucking globe. 399 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: What do you think that everybody around the world is 400 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: in on it right just to you know, stick it 401 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: to the Dems. How fucking self centered and out of 402 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: touch with reality does one need to be? But let 403 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: me not ask questions that I know the answer to. 404 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: Let me just go on to say this. Homer Dixon 405 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: writes this, by twenty twenty five, American democracy could collapse, 406 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 407 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: twenty thirty, if not sooner, the country could be governed 408 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: by a right wing dictatorship. Trump, he warned will have 409 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: only two objectives if he is re elected, Vindication and vengeance. 410 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: Vindication and vengeance. Think about this for a moment. What 411 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: was Donald Trump's biggest applause line back when he was 412 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: campaigning in twenty fifteen? Lock her up? Lock her up? 413 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: What our Republicans saying about Joe Biden right now? Seventy 414 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: one percent of Republicans polled believe that Joe Biden is 415 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: an illegitimate president. Seventy one So what would stop the 416 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: Republican Party from deciding to haul the Biden administration in 417 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: the way that you know the Biden administration should be 418 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 1: doing to the Trump administration, but you know isn't because 419 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: they said they have bigger fish to fry, you know, 420 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: other than dealing with the collapse of our democracy. What 421 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: would be to stop them from being the judge, jury, 422 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: and executioner of every outspoken Democrat that they don't like. 423 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: If they're in charge of the FBI and the CIA. 424 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: How difficult would it be? Because you know, the FBI 425 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: and the CIA all have histories of what they have 426 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: done to plant and to create strategies to kill civil 427 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: rights leaders in this country right to make it look 428 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: like it was a you know, inter civil rights dispute, 429 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: right to pin organizations and people against each other. But 430 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: knowing all along that Hoover was the puppet master, right 431 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: rating and doing whatever. So what would stop the next 432 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: iteration of the Trump administration, if it isn't Trump himself, 433 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: or if it's the disantist administration, to being the judge, jury, 434 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: and executioner over our political leaders, rounding them all up right, 435 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: instituting martial law, shutting down the likes of Twitter and 436 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: Facebook and this thing and that thing. And you want 437 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: to say, oh, that's crazy, that's a ludicrous that would 438 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: never happen. But this is what Thomas Homer Dixon is 439 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: saying that again up at the top today we live 440 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: in a world where the absurd has become regularly real, right, 441 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: and the horrible has become commonplace. This is not the bottom. 442 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: We are circling the descent. This was his ultimate warning 443 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: for Canada, which I thought was it took me back. 444 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: This is what they write. A scholar of violent conflict 445 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: for more than four decades, Homer Dixon said Canada must 446 00:31:54,720 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: take heed of the unfolding crisis. He said this quote, 447 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: A terrible storm is coming from the south and Canada 448 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: is woefully unprepared. Over the past year, we've turned our 449 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: attention inward, distracted by the challenges of COVID nineteen reconciliation 450 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: and the accelerating effects of climate change. But now we 451 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: must focus on the urgent problem of what to do 452 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States. 453 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: We need to start by fully recognizing the magnitude of 454 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: the danger if mister Trump is reelected. Even under the 455 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: more optimistic scenarios, the economic and political risks to our 456 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: country will be innumerable. They go on. Homer Dixon said 457 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 1: even saw a scenario in which a new Trump administration, 458 00:32:54,760 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: having effectively nullified internal opposition, deliberately damaged its northern neighbor. 459 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: He says this, under the less optimistic scenarios, the risk 460 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: to our country, in their cumulative effect, could easily be existential, 461 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: far greater than any in our federation's history. What happens, 462 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: for instance, if high profile political refugees fleeing persecution arrive 463 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: in our country and the US regime demands them back, 464 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: do we comply? Trump? Said Trump? He said quote, and 465 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: a host of acolytes and wannabes such as Fox News 466 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: is Tucker Carlson and Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green had 467 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: transformed the Republican Party quote into a near fascist personality 468 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: cult that's a perfect instrument for wrecking democracy. Worse, he said, 469 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: Trump may be just a warm up act. Still, through 470 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: targeted harassment and dismissal, he'll be able to thin the 471 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: ranks of his movements opponents within the state, the bureaucrats, officials, 472 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: and technocrats who oversee the nonpartisan functioning of court institutions 473 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: and abide by the rule of law. Then the stage 474 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,760 Speaker 1: will be set for a more managerily competent ruler after 475 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:33,720 Speaker 1: mister Trump, to bring order to the chaos he created. Folks, 476 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: That is the picture that needs to be painted in 477 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: clear technicolor, that needs to be shared across every network, 478 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: around every paper and blog on every social media platform. 479 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: You see, our problem in the United States is our 480 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: lack of the imagination. In a lot of ways, we 481 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,959 Speaker 1: love to believe and get wrapped up in our hopefulness 482 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 1: that good will always prevail. And I think that that 483 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: is because Hollywood consistently feeds us a diet of bullshit 484 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: and fairy tales. We believe that, oh, this could never 485 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: happen here. You hear that phrase repeated over and over again. Oh, 486 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 1: this is not the America I knew, Really it isn't. 487 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: It isn't the America that created an entire white mob 488 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 1: to wipe out black neighborhoods and businesses. It isn't the 489 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: America that the government dropped a bomb on an area 490 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: of Philadelphia in nineteen eighty six. It isn't the America 491 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: that murdered Tamir Rice and Trey von Martin and George 492 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: Floyd and Brianna Taylor and Sandra Bland and John Crawford, 493 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: Alton Sterling. The list goes on and on and on 494 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: and on. It isn't the America that once had interment 495 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: camps for the Japanese. It isn't the America that stole 496 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: land and broke treaties from Native Americans and put them 497 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: on destitute, unfarmable lands. It isn't the America that locked 498 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: children in cages, separated them from their families, where hundreds 499 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: still may never be reunited. You can't fix what you 500 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: refuse to see. That's what James Baldwin said. You cannot 501 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,919 Speaker 1: change what you refuse to look at. And so when 502 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: I tweet on a regular basis. Why can't mainstream media 503 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 1: tell the fucking truth about who is responsible? Why is 504 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: there such a desire and need to tiptoe around whiteness 505 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: and white rage because you are fucking scared? And why 506 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 1: are you scared? It isn't just because of the CEOs 507 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: in the c suites who see the money, right, the 508 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,839 Speaker 1: money in the rage, the money in the fear. It 509 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: isn't just that. It is the fact that people are 510 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 1: afraid of what white people will do. Well, why would 511 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 1: you be afraid of such a benevolent group? Why would 512 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: you be afraid of these gun toting, lawless what supremacis. 513 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: If they're all these you know, Grandma cookie bacon motherfucker's, 514 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: then why were they storm in the capitol? The fact is, 515 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,440 Speaker 1: extremism is extremism because regardless of the pigmentation of your 516 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: fucking skin, you get caught up in it. White people 517 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: aren't immune to it. They may in fact have fucking 518 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: created it. You've been lynching people, you've been beating people 519 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 1: in mass We just don't tell the story about it 520 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,440 Speaker 1: because our history in this country and the history of 521 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: the world was written by the oppressors, not the oppressed. 522 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: We keep telling ourselves, Oh, history will remember you whose 523 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 1: fucking history. We're burning books, we're benning authors, and it 524 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 1: is just in a short amount of time, a handful 525 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: of years, that we will be rounding up people and 526 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,360 Speaker 1: we will go for the academics, We will go for 527 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 1: the protests, We will go for the broadcasters who don't 528 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:56,759 Speaker 1: give a fuck and who want nothing more than to 529 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:03,439 Speaker 1: tell the truth. We will round up those political people, right, 530 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 1: we will gun them down, and then we will turn 531 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: around and we will call the people who assassinated them patriots. 532 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: You know, don't look up is a story about climate change, right, 533 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 1: and the fact that we had become a society that 534 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: hates facts, that doesn't believe in truth. That can be 535 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 1: whipped up and sold a big fucking smelly bag of bullshit, 536 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,319 Speaker 1: so long it is wrapped right and in great packaging, 537 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: we will mainline that shit. And when they tell us 538 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: not to look up, as a fucking comment or a 539 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:59,279 Speaker 1: virus is hitting us, seventy five million people will they'll 540 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: keep their heads down, they'll recite your bullshit. We are here, folks. 541 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 1: There is not a comment heading towards us. But the 542 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 1: end is damn sure near and I keep looking around 543 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 1: wondering and feeling like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in 544 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: Don't Look Up, where they are screaming the world is 545 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,600 Speaker 1: fucking angry, cry about it, be upset about it, do 546 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:40,280 Speaker 1: something about it. But instead they would waste the entire 547 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: six months lead time to be able to create a 548 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: strategy to do something, to then have it fall to 549 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: capitalism and greed, just pure, unadulterated breed. You know, the 550 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: thing that Don't Look Up didn't capture and focus on 551 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,840 Speaker 1: is how whiteness is leading at all. That's the only 552 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: place that that film failed. They made it seem like, oh, 553 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: everyone is not looking up. No, that's not true. But 554 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,360 Speaker 1: they needed to make something so absurd that everyone could 555 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: see themselves in it and could see this moment. You know, 556 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is going to take. I 557 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: don't know what it is going to take for enough 558 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:50,200 Speaker 1: Americans to get angry to get actionable. I don't know 559 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:55,239 Speaker 1: if it's going to take another fucking you know, Vultron 560 00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:02,440 Speaker 1: transformer style variant of COVID that forces us, regardless of 561 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,719 Speaker 1: whatever your affiliation is, back inside, because it's either that 562 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,879 Speaker 1: or certain death. From sniffing the air and dropping dead 563 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: in front of the streets. You know, I continue to 564 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:16,799 Speaker 1: say that again because of hippo laws, we didn't do 565 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: a good job showing the devastation. You know, why didn't 566 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: we show the hospitals that were being built in Central 567 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,200 Speaker 1: Park and that we were turning school parking lots into 568 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,799 Speaker 1: open air hospitals. Or do we not remember when the 569 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,160 Speaker 1: ships pulled in to the Hudson here in New York 570 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,440 Speaker 1: because we were out of hospital beds? Like do we 571 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,320 Speaker 1: need people dropping dead in front of us in mass 572 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,960 Speaker 1: in order for us to wake the fuck up? And 573 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,799 Speaker 1: by then it'll be too late. And that's where I 574 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,760 Speaker 1: think that we are headed at the end of don't 575 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:02,319 Speaker 1: look up. The commet took out the planet, right, but 576 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,239 Speaker 1: a small group of greedy motherfuckers would find themselves on 577 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: a new planet somewhere, certainly not to survive. Right. But 578 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:19,200 Speaker 1: what do you think that the Bezos and the Brandsons 579 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:24,759 Speaker 1: and the Musks are doing. They're creating their exit plan 580 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:32,480 Speaker 1: for them and their billionaire friends. They're building their nou 581 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,600 Speaker 1: vo Noah's Ark. The rest of us be fucking damned. 582 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,399 Speaker 1: So when are we going to get actionable when are 583 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 1: we going to get tired of waiting? The countdown clock 584 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:58,640 Speaker 1: started on January first, one year, not even a handful 585 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 1: of months until November, until the midterm elections that have 586 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,279 Speaker 1: already been rigged that we've already lost. But we don't 587 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:12,279 Speaker 1: want to tell the truth because everybody's so worried about 588 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,440 Speaker 1: people being alarmed. Look around. I don't know anybody that 589 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:24,359 Speaker 1: isn't alarmed, anyone that isn't on fucking edge. The truth hurts, right, 590 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,120 Speaker 1: but you can deal with it. You can move through it, 591 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,399 Speaker 1: you can make a plan about it. You can't if 592 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 1: you continue to be an ostrich. You can't if you 593 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:42,600 Speaker 1: refuse to actually look up. We are headed for a 594 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:49,560 Speaker 1: world of hurt. America isn't just on the decline. It's 595 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 1: not a what if proposition anymore. It is happening, and 596 00:44:53,800 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 1: it is happening in real time. We cannot use yesterday's 597 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:08,640 Speaker 1: tools to fix today's crises. It is not working. We 598 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:15,200 Speaker 1: got to find a new way forward. That is it 599 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:20,399 Speaker 1: for me today. Dear friends, on woke f daily as always, 600 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,360 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 601 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,000 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.