Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with me,
Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody once again recording from the Brooklyn Bunker.
Speaker 1: Why because, folks, yesterday I learned two new words that
Speaker 1: I never ever wanted to fucking learn. Do you know
Speaker 1: what those two words are? Let me tell you. They
Speaker 1: are del macron and flarna. Yes, del macron and farona. Now,
Speaker 1: when you think about those two words, I'm certain, I'm
Speaker 1: certain what comes to mind because when I read those
Speaker 1: two words in a latest article at the Daily Beast.
Speaker 1: Also another article in the cut entitled what fresh hell
Speaker 1: is this? That is exactly what I thought, New Year,
Speaker 1: New healthscape. So apparently, dear friends, delmicron is a commo
Speaker 1: effect of both delta and omicron coming together and making
Speaker 1: a lovely double effect virus, a twindemic, if you will.
Speaker 1: Flena is the flu and corona combined together to create
Speaker 1: a whole new fucking illness called flena. Now you may
Speaker 1: be saying to yourself, Danielle, where are you getting this
Speaker 1: information from? We'll let me tell you. The first case
Speaker 1: of flu rona was detected in Israel by a pregnant,
Speaker 1: unvaccinated woman who didn't realize that she had either the
Speaker 1: flu or the coronavirus. She had a combination of the
Speaker 1: two of them. And why this is problematic is because
Speaker 1: obviously both the flu and the coronavirus affect your respiratory system, right,
Speaker 1: and so if you are an unvaccinated person, who is
Speaker 1: you know, just live in life, willy nilly, you know,
Speaker 1: by the seat of your fucking pants. This is what
Speaker 1: these mutations are now mutating into. Now, I want you
Speaker 1: to think about del Macron for a minute, because this
Speaker 1: is the one that scared the shit out of me,
Speaker 1: because I kept saying, with so much omicron virus that
Speaker 1: is in the air, with over eight hundred there at now,
Speaker 1: while I'm certain by the time that you all listen
Speaker 1: to this the number will have gone up, but currently
Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty nine thousand Americans have died from
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Eight hundred and twenty nine thousand. You still
Speaker 1: have governors like Ron de Santis who had a press
Speaker 1: conference to talk about how the vaccines don't work because
Speaker 1: people are still getting infected. Well, other than being a
Speaker 1: fucking idiot, Rons also isn't a doctor. And what we
Speaker 1: have known and what we have been told about the
Speaker 1: vaccine is that it won't stop you from getting infected,
Speaker 1: it will stop you from dying. But when you tell
Speaker 1: that too, you know the white supremacist death cult. It
Speaker 1: falls on non hearing ears. Nonetheless, what I have been
Speaker 1: fearing is what happens when you have a variant that
Speaker 1: is both evasive right to the vaccines, as omicron has
Speaker 1: shown itself to be and spreads even faster than the
Speaker 1: previous delta, but also now is actually just as deadly
Speaker 1: as the original one. So follow me on what I
Speaker 1: just said, that you would have a variant right that
Speaker 1: is the combo effect of having both the severity and
Speaker 1: symptoms that delta has, but also spreads just as fast,
Speaker 1: if not faster then omicron and it's vaccine evasive. Right
Speaker 1: therein lies del macron, where there have in fact been
Speaker 1: cases that have been reported of folks that have both
Speaker 1: viruses available in their system. Now right now, this is
Speaker 1: not of quote unquote concern by the World Health Organization,
Speaker 1: but it is something that we will share as fuck
Speaker 1: be following on woke a f and I want you
Speaker 1: all to just be perking up your ears if you
Speaker 1: hear more chatter about florna and del macron because the
Speaker 1: reality is this, we are not going to escape a
Speaker 1: new variant from forming. And the reason for this is
Speaker 1: what doctor Jonathan Metzel has been telling us over the
Speaker 1: past two years, is that when there is more virus
Speaker 1: in the air, right, the likelihood of it mutating over
Speaker 1: and over and over again becomes higher. And he says,
Speaker 1: the virus is mutating every single second of every single day. Right.
Speaker 1: What we look for, or what scientists look for, are
Speaker 1: those variants that then become dominant, that then become that
Speaker 1: variant of concern, that then become something that is sweeping
Speaker 1: the nation within three to four weeks. But the fact
Speaker 1: is this the reality that we still have, right even
Speaker 1: as hospital systems are buckling across this country. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, I have this very dark thought last
Speaker 1: night where I said, maybe they should just all fail, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you think would happen if you know every
Speaker 1: healthcare professional decided to walk off the job because they
Speaker 1: have reached their emotional capacity to be able to deal
Speaker 1: with this much death at one time. No one can
Speaker 1: prepare you for the type of training, right, Like, there
Speaker 1: is no training that these people could have gone through
Speaker 1: in their years of meta school, nursing school, and what
Speaker 1: have you to prepare them for what life is like
Speaker 1: in this pandemic where at this moment, right we steal
Speaker 1: are our country that is only sixty two percent vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And what I just heard on Cable News before I
Speaker 1: came on to broadcast is that those that are within
Speaker 1: the five to twelve year old range, you know, the
Speaker 1: numbers that are climbing in pediatric hospitals, are only fourteen
Speaker 1: percent vaccinated. And here's a question that was asked by
Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace on MSNBC that I feel the need to
Speaker 1: ask again, why the fucking hesitancy? Do you know how
Speaker 1: many vaccines your fucking kids need to have in order
Speaker 1: for them to go to kindergarten, in order for them
Speaker 1: to walk into a headstart or preschool? Right? So many?
Speaker 1: Do you know how many shots your newborn babies have
Speaker 1: to get in order for them to be clear to
Speaker 1: do anything, to be able to be around people. I
Speaker 1: don't see anybody protesting that. And oh, because oh this
Speaker 1: is new, bitch, so was the new iPhone. I don't
Speaker 1: see people saying that. I'm so concerned about how quickly
Speaker 1: this was created. Right, we look for ease in every
Speaker 1: other form of our lives, and we take it. Right.
Speaker 1: We look at oh, facial recognition and we think to ourselves, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's great. I don't have to punch in my code.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that Google and Facebook and everybody else
Speaker 1: is stealing my information and using the face of recognition
Speaker 1: system to then sell to the police departments that my
Speaker 1: face could end up in a database one day. Right
Speaker 1: when we have an authoritarian dictator, No one thinks about that.
Speaker 1: Nobody thinks about the ways in which you know, Netflix
Speaker 1: is tracking what it is that you're watching so that
Speaker 1: they can better sell to you. Right, no one is
Speaker 1: thinking about that. They just think of the ease of
Speaker 1: being able to sit on your couch and get through
Speaker 1: movies and shows and not have to go into these
Speaker 1: theaters and be around people. Nobody thought about the fact that,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's too quick about people delivering my
Speaker 1: food with DoorDash and seamless and all of these caviare
Speaker 1: and all of these things. What if the people spit
Speaker 1: in my food? What if they tainted in some type
Speaker 1: of way. No, you just lobbed onto the convenience factor
Speaker 1: of being able to have hot food delivered at your door,
Speaker 1: with you never having to leave your fucking home. The vaccine,
Speaker 1: these boosters are convenience for us to be able to
Speaker 1: have some type of normalcy in this abnormal fucking world
Speaker 1: that we're living in. And all I can continue to
Speaker 1: go back to with deep frustration and rage that is
Speaker 1: blossoming inside of me like a rose is the fact
Speaker 1: that all of this comes down to messaging and that
Speaker 1: somebody from Fox News, Newsmax, QAnon, the Trump administration, from
Speaker 1: fucking Congress should be held at accountable for the goddamned
Speaker 1: deaths that we are continuing to see. Because all we
Speaker 1: understand now, folks, is this. It's not misinformation, right, It's
Speaker 1: not deception. It's full blown fucking lies from the mouths
Speaker 1: of a death cult that is led by a white supremacist, misogynist, stake, homophobic, transphobic,
Speaker 1: anti Semitic piece of shit, right, And the fact is
Speaker 1: is that he was able to hook his claws into
Speaker 1: the psyche of the American public and just plant little
Speaker 1: seeds of doubt, which is what Trump and his fucking
Speaker 1: acolytes have all done, plant these seeds all around the
Speaker 1: country in millions and millions of minds for folks to
Speaker 1: second guests right and decide that no, no, they don't
Speaker 1: need seven eight years of schooling. All they need is
Speaker 1: WebMD all they needed a YouTube video of some fucking
Speaker 1: quack on there telling them that, oh, yeah, take a
Speaker 1: horse tranquilizer. We'll do that, but we won't take a
Speaker 1: vaccine that is made for actual fucking people. You know
Speaker 1: what pisses me off? It's so much. But you know
Speaker 1: what I tweeted today that really got me is, you know,
Speaker 1: we're watching the news reports go back and forth on
Speaker 1: how work should open, if schools should open. There are
Speaker 1: thousands of schools across the country apparently that are closed
Speaker 1: this week, and rightfully so, because they've either had teachers
Speaker 1: or nurses or administrators or children all test positive for
Speaker 1: COVID right, which, of course that is going to happen.
Speaker 1: We just came off of one of the largest gathering
Speaker 1: holiday seasons right in this country. So what would have
Speaker 1: made the most sense, right, let me offer a increably
Speaker 1: radical idea that I don't know why people with sense
Speaker 1: and with power to make these decisions didn't fucking think of.
Speaker 1: We could have instituted a two week remote work situation.
Speaker 1: And a two week remote schooling situation, or better yet,
Speaker 1: make the winter break a little bit longer, tack that
Speaker 1: on to the summer months, right, and let school out
Speaker 1: a little bit later when it is warmer outside, when
Speaker 1: you have windows that are open, when you can do
Speaker 1: more activities outside. Also that folks could have come off
Speaker 1: of the holiday, had some type of quarantine light and
Speaker 1: then be able to test negatively back into school and
Speaker 1: back into the workplace. As our seasons are changing, right,
Speaker 1: as we have warmer temperatures, and as we created a
Speaker 1: much needed buffer between the holiday surge, right and the
Speaker 1: rush back to work and back to school. Why couldn't
Speaker 1: have that Why couldn't that have been an option? Right?
Speaker 1: The government doesn't have to mandate it, but they could
Speaker 1: strongly have fucking suggested it. They could have called all
Speaker 1: the governors together, at least the ones with some fucking sense,
Speaker 1: and been like, here's an idea. Here's an idea. Private corporations,
Speaker 1: which again are way ahead of the curve of government.
Speaker 1: And if you have the good fortune to work in
Speaker 1: private industry, many of them have been working from home.
Speaker 1: Those that had big decisions and grand plans to come
Speaker 1: back to work in January decided to wait out the
Speaker 1: fucking searge. I don't get it right, because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We do so many things as it pertains to schooling
Speaker 1: that just doesn't make any fucking sense, but we do
Speaker 1: it because it's the way we've all always done it. Right. So,
Speaker 1: in the area that I live in New York, and
Speaker 1: when I was growing up on Eastern Long Island, schools
Speaker 1: right for high schoolers, you were going in at say, seven,
Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning, and by two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the afternoon you were done, right, And so you're going
Speaker 1: home unsupervised because I don't know who the fuck is
Speaker 1: getting off work at two o'clock in the afternoon to
Speaker 1: look after their kids. It's to say, similarly with elementary
Speaker 1: school where I grew up, right, elementary school started at
Speaker 1: nine and ended at three pm, right, which still to
Speaker 1: me makes absolutely no sense to have children operate on
Speaker 1: the opposite schedule of their parents and caretakers. We also
Speaker 1: have what summer breaks, which, again, what is the point
Speaker 1: of having two months off from school? Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: because we used to be an agriculturally based society and
Speaker 1: you needed those summer months to harvest, to plant, to grow,
Speaker 1: to do all of these things. Well, now, what do
Speaker 1: we know? We know that children lose learning right in
Speaker 1: the two months that they are not in school, and
Speaker 1: that summer break isn't actually a necessity. You could in
Speaker 1: fact have year round school where you just give those
Speaker 1: chunks of two weeks here or a week here right
Speaker 1: throughout the year, okay, and then put children on their parents' schedules.
Speaker 1: Why do I say all of this because to make
Speaker 1: minor fucking changes as we are living in a global
Speaker 1: health pandemic, such as maybe the winter break being a
Speaker 1: little bit longer, because we know that the surge always
Speaker 1: happens between November and fucking January, that maybe for the
Speaker 1: Christmas holiday, you wouldn't have kids return back, whether it
Speaker 1: is in elementary or secondary schools, you wouldn't have them
Speaker 1: come back until a couple of weeks later, which means
Speaker 1: that you then tack on the time that they have
Speaker 1: lost from learning to a later part of the year
Speaker 1: like summer, when they don't actually need the full two
Speaker 1: fucking months off. Right. All of this is arbitrary. It
Speaker 1: doesn't go with the psychology or the science between with
Speaker 1: how children learn, right, I'm so tongue twisted because I'm
Speaker 1: just annoyed. I'm annoyed why we continue to do things
Speaker 1: the way we have just because right with no adaptation
Speaker 1: and no innovation to the current moments, there was no
Speaker 1: reason right to say, okay, kids, well it's January third,
Speaker 1: and we're back to school, having no time between the
Speaker 1: amount of time that you were just around your family
Speaker 1: and relatives that are around the country, whether or not
Speaker 1: you were testing or not testing. And now we're going
Speaker 1: to take all of this super collected virus and we're
Speaker 1: gonna push you into a school buildings with poor fucking
Speaker 1: air filters or a no HVAC systems, and we're going
Speaker 1: to do the same thing to your parents. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna sit around and we're gonna look up at
Speaker 1: the sky and we're gonna read the headlines and we're
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh my god, this surge is out of control.
Speaker 1: No fucking shit. I just I don't get it. I
Speaker 1: don't get it. And all we keep hearing is that,
Speaker 1: you know the country will continue to crater and fall
Speaker 1: if you know, if people don't work while they're sick, that,
Speaker 1: oh my god, kids, And the next generations won't learn
Speaker 1: anything if we don't find ways to adapt our learning.
Speaker 1: You see, the thing is is that we were already
Speaker 1: falling behind in so many fucking metrics when it comes
Speaker 1: to how we educate kids. The pandemic actually offered us
Speaker 1: a very clear picture of where our gaps are. Now.
Speaker 1: Those that have been in education policy and been in
Speaker 1: the education field have known this, have been advocating and
Speaker 1: talking about the need for broadband, the need for better
Speaker 1: infrastructure in schools, the need to be able to use
Speaker 1: technology and adapt. Right. But no, No, that all falls
Speaker 1: on nonlistening years. Right, that all falls And we have
Speaker 1: debates right about choice and about this and about that,
Speaker 1: so that you know, when Republicans are in control they
Speaker 1: can continue to siphon off money from public schools. The
Speaker 1: fact is is that we are a country that doesn't
Speaker 1: like to adapt, We don't like change. And that is
Speaker 1: exactly why Donald Trump was so delicious to the white
Speaker 1: supremacis in this country, which there are millions of. Just
Speaker 1: because they don't join up with the oath keepers or
Speaker 1: the proud Boys or the Boogaloo boys don't mean that
Speaker 1: they don't subscribe to their values. Admission, right, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: with such an amazing and a charismatic figure, because you see,
Speaker 1: change scares white America because when you are steeped in
Speaker 1: a scarcity model, right of you have so much because
Speaker 1: the world was created for you and your benefit, and
Speaker 1: anybody else that encroaches upon that is taking away from
Speaker 1: you in this land of abundance, right anyone that comes
Speaker 1: in the door and says, I'm going to stop them,
Speaker 1: right and not only am I going to stop them,
Speaker 1: I'm even gonna punish them for the audacity to believe
Speaker 1: that they could have what you have. Right, So we
Speaker 1: don't like change. When you understand the psychology of white Americans, right,
Speaker 1: then you understand like how we got to this place.
Speaker 1: The thing that has been pissing me off too is
Speaker 1: the fact that you know you have cabled news outlets
Speaker 1: this week as we mark the year anniversary of the
Speaker 1: Kudata that are wanting to examine American extremism without actually
Speaker 1: using the word white. It isn't American extremism. They are
Speaker 1: in a bunch of average Joe's Haley Jackson that decided
Speaker 1: one day that one day the grandmother was baking cookies.
Speaker 1: In the next minute, she's using a fucking fire extinguisher
Speaker 1: to beat the shit out of a police officer. This
Speaker 1: isn't this didn't just happen, right, Oh my god, they
Speaker 1: were swept up. I actually fucking heard that they were
Speaker 1: swept up in the emotions of Trumpism. These aren't you know,
Speaker 1: these aren't real extremists. Well then tell me who the
Speaker 1: fuck is a real extremist? Right? Do you just have
Speaker 1: to be Muslim to be a real extremist? Do you
Speaker 1: just have to be black to be a real extremist? Oh?
Speaker 1: They were just you know, caught up in emotion. Betch
Speaker 1: I get caught up in emotion all the time. It
Speaker 1: doesn't ever occur to me to go storm the fucking capital,
Speaker 1: build a guillotine and threatened to hang the president vice
Speaker 1: president of the United States. You know, I talked about
Speaker 1: this yesterday and I said that the burden of proof
Speaker 1: for white people in this country is so just disgusting. Right,
Speaker 1: they get to be swept up, they get to be aggrieved,
Speaker 1: they get to be sad, they get to be you know,
Speaker 1: caught up in an opioid crisis, not an epidemic of drugs.
Speaker 1: They get to seek mental health for their racism. They
Speaker 1: don't get persecuted for it. I'm just tired, right And
Speaker 1: so when I look at the situation that we're in
Speaker 1: and people keep telling me, oh, give by Iden and
Speaker 1: Harris time time to do what, time to pat me
Speaker 1: on the head and tell me that everything is going
Speaker 1: to be okay, tell me that. Give me some fucking
Speaker 1: quote about americanism and community and coming together without recognizing
Speaker 1: the state of affairs that we are in. Well, thankfully, folks, thankfully.
Speaker 1: There is an article that went up yesterday in The Guardian,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to read pieces of it because I
Speaker 1: got to tell you that it is going to take,
Speaker 1: apparently the international community to call out the fuckery and
Speaker 1: the bullshit that is going on in America in order
Speaker 1: to set off some types of alarms. But the article
Speaker 1: in the Guardian entitled US could be under right wing
Speaker 1: dictator by twenty thirty, Canadian professor warrens maybe it's going
Speaker 1: to be the outside public and their fear of what
Speaker 1: a ripple effect would be when, not if, but when
Speaker 1: the United States falls. And so here is what Thomas
Speaker 1: Homer Dixon, who is the founding director of the Cascade
Speaker 1: Institute at Royal Rhodes University in British Columbia. This is
Speaker 1: what he wrote, and I got to tell you that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was stunned, right, I was stunned. And
Speaker 1: I actually I don't even want to read my notes
Speaker 1: because my handwriting is sometimes quite atrocious, and so I'm
Speaker 1: going to read from the piece, So bear with me.
Speaker 1: This is what Thomas Homer Dixon says. We mustn't dismiss
Speaker 1: these possibilities that American democracy can collapse because they seem
Speaker 1: ludicrous or too horrible to imagine. In twenty fourteen, the
Speaker 1: suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have
Speaker 1: struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live. We
Speaker 1: live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real
Speaker 1: and the horrible commonplace. Let me read that again, because
Speaker 1: this really hit me as I was reading it. Today
Speaker 1: we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes
Speaker 1: real and the horrible commonplace. You see, this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you don't check people, when you don't hold
Speaker 1: them accountable for what they are doing. When you decide
Speaker 1: that institutionalism is more important than what is coming at
Speaker 1: you in real time, you see, you have the filibuster conversation,
Speaker 1: which we will get to that I'm finally right, where
Speaker 1: the fuck was Schumer last year? Senator Schumer, who is
Speaker 1: the leader in the Senate and my fucking senator, one
Speaker 1: of them, who has been my senator for my entire life.
Speaker 1: So that just tells you finally is deciding to bring
Speaker 1: the filibuster a change of rules in order to get
Speaker 1: voting rights done to the floor on January seventeenth. Well,
Speaker 1: why is January seventeenth an important day? Oh, because it's
Speaker 1: m l K Day. And so he wants the likes
Speaker 1: of Cinema and the likes of Mansion who have already
Speaker 1: come out and said they're going to vote no because
Speaker 1: they want to be the ones whose names I guess
Speaker 1: are embossed in the nail that goes into the coffin
Speaker 1: of our democracy. Because here is the thing, and I
Speaker 1: said this over the weekend on Reverend Owl Show, if
Speaker 1: we do not pass John Lewis's Vote Rights Act, we
Speaker 1: are fucking done. We talk about every election being consequential,
Speaker 1: but the last election, if we want to be honest,
Speaker 1: did not stop the coup. It merely slowed it down,
Speaker 1: and without their being direct urgency coming out of this administration,
Speaker 1: uttering the words that we are in danger, that white
Speaker 1: supremacy is on the rise, that American white extremism is
Speaker 1: now cemented in this country, and that we must do
Speaker 1: everything in our power to reclaim and strengthen our democracy
Speaker 1: moving forward. And if that means removing archaic, racist laws
Speaker 1: that should have never been in place in the first
Speaker 1: fucking place, right from our books, then so be it,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, democracy falls right
Speaker 1: through our apathy. That's the fucking kind of speech I
Speaker 1: want to hear from the President and the Vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States, not some feel good bullshit right
Speaker 1: where we're gonna come together and I hope Republicans come
Speaker 1: to the table. Fuck them, They're not coming to your table.
Speaker 1: And if they do, they are bringing arsenic and a
Speaker 1: fucking torch. Do we not get that? Are the the
Speaker 1: wokaf audience the only people that have been paying attention
Speaker 1: over the last two years. This is what else Homer
Speaker 1: Dixon had to say, and it was very blunt, and
Speaker 1: I said, you know, after watching which I will get into,
Speaker 1: don't look up the Netflix movie, which is terrifying, and
Speaker 1: if you have not seen it, if you like satire
Speaker 1: in the way that I do this was so on
Speaker 1: the nose that I don't even know if you can
Speaker 1: call it satire, because it's just so evident where we
Speaker 1: are going, Like you had people screaming right on news stations,
Speaker 1: in the street, on social media, the world is ending,
Speaker 1: and instead of doing anything about it, people were debating
Speaker 1: whether or not a comet that was coming to wipe
Speaker 1: out the planet could provide jobs if we could mine it.
Speaker 1: And we think that that's absurd. Oh my god, so
Speaker 1: was weaponizing a fucking virus and calling it a democratic
Speaker 1: hoax when it's killed millions of people around the fucking globe.
Speaker 1: What do you think that everybody around the world is
Speaker 1: in on it right just to you know, stick it
Speaker 1: to the Dems. How fucking self centered and out of
Speaker 1: touch with reality does one need to be? But let
Speaker 1: me not ask questions that I know the answer to.
Speaker 1: Let me just go on to say this. Homer Dixon
Speaker 1: writes this, by twenty twenty five, American democracy could collapse,
Speaker 1: causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, if not sooner, the country could be governed
Speaker 1: by a right wing dictatorship. Trump, he warned will have
Speaker 1: only two objectives if he is re elected, Vindication and vengeance.
Speaker 1: Vindication and vengeance. Think about this for a moment. What
Speaker 1: was Donald Trump's biggest applause line back when he was
Speaker 1: campaigning in twenty fifteen? Lock her up? Lock her up?
Speaker 1: What our Republicans saying about Joe Biden right now? Seventy
Speaker 1: one percent of Republicans polled believe that Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: an illegitimate president. Seventy one So what would stop the
Speaker 1: Republican Party from deciding to haul the Biden administration in
Speaker 1: the way that you know the Biden administration should be
Speaker 1: doing to the Trump administration, but you know isn't because
Speaker 1: they said they have bigger fish to fry, you know,
Speaker 1: other than dealing with the collapse of our democracy. What
Speaker 1: would be to stop them from being the judge, jury,
Speaker 1: and executioner of every outspoken Democrat that they don't like.
Speaker 1: If they're in charge of the FBI and the CIA.
Speaker 1: How difficult would it be? Because you know, the FBI
Speaker 1: and the CIA all have histories of what they have
Speaker 1: done to plant and to create strategies to kill civil
Speaker 1: rights leaders in this country right to make it look
Speaker 1: like it was a you know, inter civil rights dispute,
Speaker 1: right to pin organizations and people against each other. But
Speaker 1: knowing all along that Hoover was the puppet master, right
Speaker 1: rating and doing whatever. So what would stop the next
Speaker 1: iteration of the Trump administration, if it isn't Trump himself,
Speaker 1: or if it's the disantist administration, to being the judge, jury,
Speaker 1: and executioner over our political leaders, rounding them all up right,
Speaker 1: instituting martial law, shutting down the likes of Twitter and
Speaker 1: Facebook and this thing and that thing. And you want
Speaker 1: to say, oh, that's crazy, that's a ludicrous that would
Speaker 1: never happen. But this is what Thomas Homer Dixon is
Speaker 1: saying that again up at the top today we live
Speaker 1: in a world where the absurd has become regularly real, right,
Speaker 1: and the horrible has become commonplace. This is not the bottom.
Speaker 1: We are circling the descent. This was his ultimate warning
Speaker 1: for Canada, which I thought was it took me back.
Speaker 1: This is what they write. A scholar of violent conflict
Speaker 1: for more than four decades, Homer Dixon said Canada must
Speaker 1: take heed of the unfolding crisis. He said this quote,
Speaker 1: A terrible storm is coming from the south and Canada
Speaker 1: is woefully unprepared. Over the past year, we've turned our
Speaker 1: attention inward, distracted by the challenges of COVID nineteen reconciliation
Speaker 1: and the accelerating effects of climate change. But now we
Speaker 1: must focus on the urgent problem of what to do
Speaker 1: about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States.
Speaker 1: We need to start by fully recognizing the magnitude of
Speaker 1: the danger if mister Trump is reelected. Even under the
Speaker 1: more optimistic scenarios, the economic and political risks to our
Speaker 1: country will be innumerable. They go on. Homer Dixon said
Speaker 1: even saw a scenario in which a new Trump administration,
Speaker 1: having effectively nullified internal opposition, deliberately damaged its northern neighbor.
Speaker 1: He says this, under the less optimistic scenarios, the risk
Speaker 1: to our country, in their cumulative effect, could easily be existential,
Speaker 1: far greater than any in our federation's history. What happens,
Speaker 1: for instance, if high profile political refugees fleeing persecution arrive
Speaker 1: in our country and the US regime demands them back,
Speaker 1: do we comply? Trump? Said Trump? He said quote, and
Speaker 1: a host of acolytes and wannabes such as Fox News
Speaker 1: is Tucker Carlson and Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green had
Speaker 1: transformed the Republican Party quote into a near fascist personality
Speaker 1: cult that's a perfect instrument for wrecking democracy. Worse, he said,
Speaker 1: Trump may be just a warm up act. Still, through
Speaker 1: targeted harassment and dismissal, he'll be able to thin the
Speaker 1: ranks of his movements opponents within the state, the bureaucrats, officials,
Speaker 1: and technocrats who oversee the nonpartisan functioning of court institutions
Speaker 1: and abide by the rule of law. Then the stage
Speaker 1: will be set for a more managerily competent ruler after
Speaker 1: mister Trump, to bring order to the chaos he created. Folks,
Speaker 1: That is the picture that needs to be painted in
Speaker 1: clear technicolor, that needs to be shared across every network,
Speaker 1: around every paper and blog on every social media platform.
Speaker 1: You see, our problem in the United States is our
Speaker 1: lack of the imagination. In a lot of ways, we
Speaker 1: love to believe and get wrapped up in our hopefulness
Speaker 1: that good will always prevail. And I think that that
Speaker 1: is because Hollywood consistently feeds us a diet of bullshit
Speaker 1: and fairy tales. We believe that, oh, this could never
Speaker 1: happen here. You hear that phrase repeated over and over again. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is not the America I knew, Really it isn't.
Speaker 1: It isn't the America that created an entire white mob
Speaker 1: to wipe out black neighborhoods and businesses. It isn't the
Speaker 1: America that the government dropped a bomb on an area
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia in nineteen eighty six. It isn't the America
Speaker 1: that murdered Tamir Rice and Trey von Martin and George
Speaker 1: Floyd and Brianna Taylor and Sandra Bland and John Crawford,
Speaker 1: Alton Sterling. The list goes on and on and on
Speaker 1: and on. It isn't the America that once had interment
Speaker 1: camps for the Japanese. It isn't the America that stole
Speaker 1: land and broke treaties from Native Americans and put them
Speaker 1: on destitute, unfarmable lands. It isn't the America that locked
Speaker 1: children in cages, separated them from their families, where hundreds
Speaker 1: still may never be reunited. You can't fix what you
Speaker 1: refuse to see. That's what James Baldwin said. You cannot
Speaker 1: change what you refuse to look at. And so when
Speaker 1: I tweet on a regular basis. Why can't mainstream media
Speaker 1: tell the fucking truth about who is responsible? Why is
Speaker 1: there such a desire and need to tiptoe around whiteness
Speaker 1: and white rage because you are fucking scared? And why
Speaker 1: are you scared? It isn't just because of the CEOs
Speaker 1: in the c suites who see the money, right, the
Speaker 1: money in the rage, the money in the fear. It
Speaker 1: isn't just that. It is the fact that people are
Speaker 1: afraid of what white people will do. Well, why would
Speaker 1: you be afraid of such a benevolent group? Why would
Speaker 1: you be afraid of these gun toting, lawless what supremacis.
Speaker 1: If they're all these you know, Grandma cookie bacon motherfucker's,
Speaker 1: then why were they storm in the capitol? The fact is,
Speaker 1: extremism is extremism because regardless of the pigmentation of your
Speaker 1: fucking skin, you get caught up in it. White people
Speaker 1: aren't immune to it. They may in fact have fucking
Speaker 1: created it. You've been lynching people, you've been beating people
Speaker 1: in mass We just don't tell the story about it
Speaker 1: because our history in this country and the history of
Speaker 1: the world was written by the oppressors, not the oppressed.
Speaker 1: We keep telling ourselves, Oh, history will remember you whose
Speaker 1: fucking history. We're burning books, we're benning authors, and it
Speaker 1: is just in a short amount of time, a handful
Speaker 1: of years, that we will be rounding up people and
Speaker 1: we will go for the academics, We will go for
Speaker 1: the protests, We will go for the broadcasters who don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck and who want nothing more than to
Speaker 1: tell the truth. We will round up those political people, right,
Speaker 1: we will gun them down, and then we will turn
Speaker 1: around and we will call the people who assassinated them patriots.
Speaker 1: You know, don't look up is a story about climate change, right,
Speaker 1: and the fact that we had become a society that
Speaker 1: hates facts, that doesn't believe in truth. That can be
Speaker 1: whipped up and sold a big fucking smelly bag of bullshit,
Speaker 1: so long it is wrapped right and in great packaging,
Speaker 1: we will mainline that shit. And when they tell us
Speaker 1: not to look up, as a fucking comment or a
Speaker 1: virus is hitting us, seventy five million people will they'll
Speaker 1: keep their heads down, they'll recite your bullshit. We are here, folks.
Speaker 1: There is not a comment heading towards us. But the
Speaker 1: end is damn sure near and I keep looking around
Speaker 1: wondering and feeling like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in
Speaker 1: Don't Look Up, where they are screaming the world is
Speaker 1: fucking angry, cry about it, be upset about it, do
Speaker 1: something about it. But instead they would waste the entire
Speaker 1: six months lead time to be able to create a
Speaker 1: strategy to do something, to then have it fall to
Speaker 1: capitalism and greed, just pure, unadulterated breed. You know, the
Speaker 1: thing that Don't Look Up didn't capture and focus on
Speaker 1: is how whiteness is leading at all. That's the only
Speaker 1: place that that film failed. They made it seem like, oh,
Speaker 1: everyone is not looking up. No, that's not true. But
Speaker 1: they needed to make something so absurd that everyone could
Speaker 1: see themselves in it and could see this moment. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is going to take. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is going to take for enough
Speaker 1: Americans to get angry to get actionable. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's going to take another fucking you know, Vultron
Speaker 1: transformer style variant of COVID that forces us, regardless of
Speaker 1: whatever your affiliation is, back inside, because it's either that
Speaker 1: or certain death. From sniffing the air and dropping dead
Speaker 1: in front of the streets. You know, I continue to
Speaker 1: say that again because of hippo laws, we didn't do
Speaker 1: a good job showing the devastation. You know, why didn't
Speaker 1: we show the hospitals that were being built in Central
Speaker 1: Park and that we were turning school parking lots into
Speaker 1: open air hospitals. Or do we not remember when the
Speaker 1: ships pulled in to the Hudson here in New York
Speaker 1: because we were out of hospital beds? Like do we
Speaker 1: need people dropping dead in front of us in mass
Speaker 1: in order for us to wake the fuck up? And
Speaker 1: by then it'll be too late. And that's where I
Speaker 1: think that we are headed at the end of don't
Speaker 1: look up. The commet took out the planet, right, but
Speaker 1: a small group of greedy motherfuckers would find themselves on
Speaker 1: a new planet somewhere, certainly not to survive. Right. But
Speaker 1: what do you think that the Bezos and the Brandsons
Speaker 1: and the Musks are doing. They're creating their exit plan
Speaker 1: for them and their billionaire friends. They're building their nou
Speaker 1: vo Noah's Ark. The rest of us be fucking damned.
Speaker 1: So when are we going to get actionable when are
Speaker 1: we going to get tired of waiting? The countdown clock
Speaker 1: started on January first, one year, not even a handful
Speaker 1: of months until November, until the midterm elections that have
Speaker 1: already been rigged that we've already lost. But we don't
Speaker 1: want to tell the truth because everybody's so worried about
Speaker 1: people being alarmed. Look around. I don't know anybody that
Speaker 1: isn't alarmed, anyone that isn't on fucking edge. The truth hurts, right,
Speaker 1: but you can deal with it. You can move through it,
Speaker 1: you can make a plan about it. You can't if
Speaker 1: you continue to be an ostrich. You can't if you
Speaker 1: refuse to actually look up. We are headed for a
Speaker 1: world of hurt. America isn't just on the decline. It's
Speaker 1: not a what if proposition anymore. It is happening, and
Speaker 1: it is happening in real time. We cannot use yesterday's
Speaker 1: tools to fix today's crises. It is not working. We
Speaker 1: got to find a new way forward. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today. Dear friends, on woke f daily as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.