Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to say that there are some
Speaker 1: days when you're watching the news and you're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this seems normal, And then there are days in America
Speaker 1: where you're watching the news and you're like, so this
Speaker 1: is on par with the insane that I'm used to. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Dow Jones by mid afternoon was down
Speaker 1: over a thousand points, Okay, And on top of that,
Speaker 1: you were watching reports on the Biden administration warning Americans
Speaker 1: in the Ukraine and the embassy basically to get the
Speaker 1: hell out of Dodge, that there is an imminent threat
Speaker 1: being posed once again by Republicans favorite President Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: to invade the Ukraine. And you know, I know that
Speaker 1: often I don't necessarily delve into foreign affairs, and I
Speaker 1: want to say that I don't generally do that because
Speaker 1: it's not something that I went to school four But
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that I don't have an educated opinion
Speaker 1: or thoughts or deep analysis on where things are and
Speaker 1: why they are there. But as I'm watching the Tao
Speaker 1: tank and you know, your four O one case, maybe
Speaker 1: your children's future, your fucking stock interests, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: go off of a cliff because you know, most of
Speaker 1: us aren't millionaires or billionaires, and so these things cause
Speaker 1: us a lot of problems. And as I'm watching the
Speaker 1: new poll numbers come out by NBC News talking about
Speaker 1: forty seven percent of Democrats are enthusiastic about the midterm elections,
Speaker 1: whereas sixty one percent of Republicans are excited, and then
Speaker 1: balancing that information against the last midterms of twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: when we had the quote unquote blue tsunami, and then
Speaker 1: looking at the latest poll numbers with regard to Bidens
Speaker 1: his numbers right in the administration's numbers, with fifty four
Speaker 1: percent of Americans now believing that we are on the
Speaker 1: wrong track right, which if you go into any grocery
Speaker 1: store or go to the gas station, that's not a
Speaker 1: hard thing to see when you know products that you're
Speaker 1: used to getting in America, you know, without even thinking
Speaker 1: about it, are no longer available, which is causing us
Speaker 1: to have to do what millions tens and tens, if
Speaker 1: not hundreds of millions and billions of people around the
Speaker 1: world always have to do, which is plu what they're
Speaker 1: going to get and when, and knowing that prices change
Speaker 1: on a daily And it's so funny because I think
Speaker 1: that Americans are really out a step right with the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. And that's you know, that's an
Speaker 1: obvious thing to say. But unless you actually travel or
Speaker 1: have traveled to different countries and different regions of the
Speaker 1: world and spend any time there and I mean like
Speaker 1: outside of a resort, actually talking to people and connecting
Speaker 1: with them just casually, you realize that people around the world,
Speaker 1: in lower wealth nations have had to deal with the
Speaker 1: issues that we are facing now and we want to
Speaker 1: throw our hands up. And you listen to people on
Speaker 1: the right say this is communism because gas is so expensive. No,
Speaker 1: it's actually not communism. This is capitalism. This is what
Speaker 1: happens when you have a problem with production. This is
Speaker 1: what happens when inflation goes through the roof, This is
Speaker 1: what happens when you've had an economic downturn because of
Speaker 1: a global health pandemic. And then recognizing that, you know,
Speaker 1: the United States government has always been about controlling certain
Speaker 1: things that they can, but recognizing that the world has
Speaker 1: changed right in really significant ways, and the ability for
Speaker 1: the United States to control oil prices and to control
Speaker 1: how other nations are producing a third of our products,
Speaker 1: like China, which we had mentioned last year, not last year. God,
Speaker 1: it feels like last year was only last week when
Speaker 1: we mentioned China, and the fact that severe lockdown measures
Speaker 1: in various provinces around China are affecting production flow here.
Speaker 1: And what happens when you become completely dependent right on
Speaker 1: other nations to make your goods right and produce your services.
Speaker 1: What then happens when those areas are not safe right,
Speaker 1: and then instead of it being sold to Americans that
Speaker 1: you know, we're the greatest nation and we don't need anybody,
Speaker 1: and we're just on an island onto ourselves. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: now you understand why you're not getting your car or
Speaker 1: your furniture, or while your grapes and meat and produce
Speaker 1: and other things are through the fucking roof right now,
Speaker 1: maybe you would understand connectivity and production and supply chains
Speaker 1: and all of those things if actually we were teaching
Speaker 1: those in very real ways instead of just filling our
Speaker 1: public education system with a lot of gung ho American propaganda.
Speaker 1: Now We don't like to talk about our education system
Speaker 1: as being a propagandist machine, but that is in fact
Speaker 1: what it is, right. And so when you have no
Speaker 1: real hold on how the things that you're putting in
Speaker 1: your shopping arts actually get there, and I mean virtual
Speaker 1: or physical parts actually make it to your fucking house, right,
Speaker 1: then you have a real major disconnection problem, which is
Speaker 1: what right the Republican Party really wants you to have.
Speaker 1: Because if we started to connect the dots between the
Speaker 1: different things that they have that politics has its hands
Speaker 1: in and the evil right people have their hands in, well,
Speaker 1: then you're going to start raising flags every single way. Right. So,
Speaker 1: so long as we have an undereducated public that doesn't
Speaker 1: ask too many questions, isn't really thinking critically, it is
Speaker 1: just a system of regurgitation, right, recycling and regurgitation, then
Speaker 1: all will be well. That's the assumption that Republicans are
Speaker 1: playing right now as they continue their campaign against critical
Speaker 1: race theory, which just again for the record, is not
Speaker 1: actually being taught in K three twelve, It's not even
Speaker 1: being taught at the college one oh one level. It's
Speaker 1: actually only being taught in post secondary right, and in
Speaker 1: law schools. Right across the country. Nonetheless, Rnda Santis in
Speaker 1: Florida death Santis, as I like to call him on
Speaker 1: this show, has once again dipped his whole fucking body
Speaker 1: in the culture war. And what I want I want
Speaker 1: to make a connection between what I just said in
Speaker 1: the opening and now about propaganda in our public school
Speaker 1: system and why we need to be paying keen attention
Speaker 1: to what is happening in the twenty eight read Republican
Speaker 1: controlled states, and why it is really important for Democrats
Speaker 1: to wake the fuck up. So here's the scenario that
Speaker 1: I woke up to on Monday morning. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: at my kitchen table slash my studio, slash my office,
Speaker 1: and I'm watching the news, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: one of the headers that comes across is on a
Speaker 1: new piece of legislation that is being championed by Rondas
Speaker 1: Santis that just passed the Florida House, which is being
Speaker 1: referred to in the press as the Don't Say Gay Bill. Now,
Speaker 1: what is inside of this bill. I'll give you a summation.
Speaker 1: It is basically under the guise of parental control, which
Speaker 1: is the new buzz word, right buzz phrase for Republicans,
Speaker 1: and I want and I say that because you're going
Speaker 1: to hear a lot of things, and for those of
Speaker 1: you out there that are parents or caregivers of children,
Speaker 1: you're an usually going to think to yourself, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: parents should have a right to control and know what
Speaker 1: their child is learning. And then I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you why that's a terrible fucking idea. So Rhonda Santis
Speaker 1: has passed this piece of legislation that would allow parents
Speaker 1: the ability to sue. Once again, we're a very litigious
Speaker 1: society to sue schools and teachers for teaching their kids
Speaker 1: or mentioning anything that has to do with gender identity
Speaker 1: or sexual orientation. This means even the teaching about let's
Speaker 1: say a Harvey Milk, Let's say other gay heroes, heroines
Speaker 1: people right in our society. Let's say that you are
Speaker 1: a child who has same sex parents. Well, you would
Speaker 1: not be able to mention that or talk about that.
Speaker 1: Say that you yourself or in Kate twelve and you
Speaker 1: are queer, right, Or say that your school at one
Speaker 1: time had a GSA, a gay on straight a student alliance, right,
Speaker 1: which probably they've changed the names of these things now
Speaker 1: so that it is more inclusive. Say that you go
Speaker 1: to your teacher, you want to talk about an issue
Speaker 1: I hate crime that has happened that is making news. Well,
Speaker 1: you are no longer going to be allowed to teach
Speaker 1: that for fear that you can be sued because Governor
Speaker 1: de Santis, again under the guise of parental control, wants
Speaker 1: to say what is age appropriate and what is not. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the same ship that they did around critical
Speaker 1: race theory again, which is not actually taught. But they
Speaker 1: decided also in Florida to past legislation that would make
Speaker 1: it illegal to mention race or racism, right, to talk
Speaker 1: about discrimination, to make sure that white people right, and
Speaker 1: now we're moving into heterosexual people, to make sure that
Speaker 1: white heterosexuals remain comfortable, right, and that their kids can
Speaker 1: remain completely and totally fucking ignorant to the world around them, right,
Speaker 1: because we want to ensure that our children are safe. Now,
Speaker 1: these people the descantenses of the world. These are the
Speaker 1: people that reproduce bullies and racists and homophobes and transphobes
Speaker 1: that will in fact bully your kids, beat up your kids,
Speaker 1: bring newstaces to school, show up as clansmen on Halloween
Speaker 1: and do all of these things right, But then your
Speaker 1: teacher and your administration is not actually allowed to tackle
Speaker 1: those issues or to create an open space for there
Speaker 1: to be critical dialogue about what America has looked like,
Speaker 1: what it looks like right now, and what it could
Speaker 1: potentially look like in the future. All of the work
Speaker 1: then that the Obama administration did with regard to creating
Speaker 1: more inclusive school environments by making it a law right
Speaker 1: to end discrimination in schools against LGBTQ youth, that that
Speaker 1: shit can pretty much be dismissed in Florida. And this
Speaker 1: is just the first in what will be a series
Speaker 1: right of new laws that are going to be put
Speaker 1: in place to put a muzzle on public education in
Speaker 1: the twenty eight states that are led by Republicans, which
Speaker 1: will mean what exactly. Ah, I'm so glad you can ask,
Speaker 1: because if you think that the current divisions that we
Speaker 1: are seeing in our political climate are going anywhere, well,
Speaker 1: we are now moving into an area where we're not
Speaker 1: only going to have a division with regard to our politics,
Speaker 1: we're going to have a division in terms of our
Speaker 1: education and curriculum. Now that has already been happening right
Speaker 1: there have been pushes in education for decades. For as
Speaker 1: long as I have been in education and an education policy,
Speaker 1: either in the classroom or working on Capitol Hill or
Speaker 1: anytime thereafter as a lobbyist, I can tell you that
Speaker 1: there has always been a push to create some type
Speaker 1: of core curriculum so that if you are a child,
Speaker 1: right and let's say that you're you're a military kid
Speaker 1: and your parents move around, or you're a diplomats kids
Speaker 1: or whatever, or your parents are you know, farmers and
Speaker 1: they need to move around during the seasons, that your
Speaker 1: education would not be disrupted based on where you're moving to.
Speaker 1: Right that if you were in New York and then
Speaker 1: you went to Florida and then you went to Texas
Speaker 1: and to California, that there would be a core curriculum.
Speaker 1: But instead, you know, we like to in this country
Speaker 1: provide punishments instead of rewards to our teachers and our administration.
Speaker 1: We want to burden them with things that they really
Speaker 1: shouldn't be focused on. And now for these people who
Speaker 1: across the country really aren't paid very well, aren't protected
Speaker 1: in any type of way. Now we're all having opening
Speaker 1: season on all of these educators. There's already a problem
Speaker 1: with their being diverse representation in our schools. I think
Speaker 1: that right now, largely in K through twelve education, white
Speaker 1: women are overrepresented by eighty two percent. Right, eighty two
Speaker 1: percent of K through twelve educators are white women. So
Speaker 1: let's just, you know, wrap our minds around that. And
Speaker 1: if you are a parent of a child of color,
Speaker 1: of a queer child, right, a child that has any
Speaker 1: types of identity that is not white, that is not straight,
Speaker 1: that is not male, chances are your child is ostracized
Speaker 1: by the curriculum that is happening at your schools. And
Speaker 1: if you are not wealthy and can't afford to pull
Speaker 1: your child down and put them into a private school
Speaker 1: or move them around to a different charter school or
Speaker 1: homeschool them, then basically we are just continuing to create
Speaker 1: a citizenury of a whole bunch of fucking sheep, right
Speaker 1: who don't really know anything and don't have any critical thought. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you think that in the long run,
Speaker 1: even in the short run, how that's going to work
Speaker 1: for or our economy, for our country that is trying
Speaker 1: to be globally competitive and falling dramatically behind every other
Speaker 1: developed fucking nation, right, America. I mean you want to
Speaker 1: talk about a backsliding democracy, Our education system has been
Speaker 1: backsliding for decades, right, And so now we are at
Speaker 1: a place where we were once recognizing that we wanted
Speaker 1: our children to be globally competitive, that we wanted to
Speaker 1: create safe zones for them to be educated, because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of barriers to learning your ABC's. If
Speaker 1: you're coming to school hungry, if you're coming to school tired, right,
Speaker 1: if you're coming to school in fear of whether or
Speaker 1: not while you're at school your parents are going to
Speaker 1: be picked up by ice. There are so many fucking
Speaker 1: factors that teachers, our vastly underpaid teachers have to deal
Speaker 1: with on a regular basis. And now, on top of
Speaker 1: dealing with COVID, on top of dealing with guns, now
Speaker 1: they have to think about also being sued for trying
Speaker 1: to educate your kids about the fucking world around them.
Speaker 1: It is insane when I tell you how fucking livid
Speaker 1: I was when that story came across my screen yesterday.
Speaker 1: There are so many good educators that are leaving the
Speaker 1: field of education teachers, and that's something that I actually
Speaker 1: really do want to cover on woke a f it's
Speaker 1: to see in this ce right of the quote unquote
Speaker 1: great resignation, how many teachers have been fleeing the field
Speaker 1: because of COVID, because of the increase in school shootings,
Speaker 1: and now because of the that they can be called
Speaker 1: out right that if they're asking children in schools to
Speaker 1: lift up your mask, that they're on fucking text to
Speaker 1: their parents who want to come up to the school,
Speaker 1: like the Virginia parents said, with a bunch of fucking
Speaker 1: loaded weapons, Like who are we? What the fuck is
Speaker 1: happening here? This shit is not normal, nor should it
Speaker 1: be normalized on a regular basis by the media talking
Speaker 1: about Oh, both sides, Because when I heard about that
Speaker 1: parent in Virginia who threatened to bring in every single
Speaker 1: one of her guns loaded because of a mask mandate,
Speaker 1: she threatened to shoot up her child's school because wearing
Speaker 1: a cloth mask to protect that student's life and those
Speaker 1: around them is too fucking much. So, mommy dearest wanted
Speaker 1: to be locked and loaded at the next school fucking
Speaker 1: drop off. And then you want to showcase that on
Speaker 1: the news by saying, quote unquote tensions were high at
Speaker 1: school board meeting. Are you fucking dumb. Are we serious
Speaker 1: with this? These people are radicalized, They are dangerous. This
Speaker 1: isn't just hot talk right on the playground. This is
Speaker 1: some threatening ass domestic threat that I'm glad that that
Speaker 1: woman was charged for, but the charges need to be
Speaker 1: a lot higher. Right until we're waiting for what that
Speaker 1: parent who doesn't just provide a verbal warning but then
Speaker 1: just comes up to the school and starts spraying bullets.
Speaker 1: This country is on the wrong track. And you do
Speaker 1: not need to see the latest poll numbers to get
Speaker 1: a sense of that. All you need to do is
Speaker 1: open up your eyes and ears and take in what
Speaker 1: is going on. Take in what we have normalized and
Speaker 1: continue to normalize the vicious, violent, threatening behavior of Republicans,
Speaker 1: and then we want to put them under the category
Speaker 1: of conservative. You tell me what is considered conservative about
Speaker 1: threatening violence? Oh, my kids have rights? You want to
Speaker 1: tell me you know about this parental control, which folks
Speaker 1: I tweeted yesterday that this isn't about parental control, but
Speaker 1: it's the same language that segregationist used in the nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties to try and keep white and black kids separate
Speaker 1: from one another. Right to try and keep public school
Speaker 1: segregation alive, and well, well, your good white children shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to go to school with those black kids, and
Speaker 1: that's not the language that they use. We know that, right,
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have to sit side by side like they
Speaker 1: are equal or some shit. So run de Santis, the
Speaker 1: new George Wallace is sitting around saying, well, what is
Speaker 1: it that I can what I can do to protect
Speaker 1: and insulate white people in the state of Florida. And
Speaker 1: then Abbott will say what can I do to protect them?
Speaker 1: And isolate right, the white parents in Texas and so
Speaker 1: on and so forth, and so on and so forth,
Speaker 1: until the next piece of legislation that you will certainly
Speaker 1: see before the Supreme Court will be another run brown
Speaker 1: voice versus the Board of Education, right, just under a
Speaker 1: different name. And if you remember in Amy Covid Barrett's
Speaker 1: fucking confirmation hearing, when asked if she thought that brown
Speaker 1: versus the Board of Education was you know, settled law,
Speaker 1: she hummed and hot about that. So when you're looking
Speaker 1: at the news and you're seeing, oh, well crt, well
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. So Democrats don't actually need to
Speaker 1: come up with a cohesive response to what that is
Speaker 1: because you know the American people are smart, No, they
Speaker 1: fucking are not. You saw what happened in Virginia with
Speaker 1: the governor's race. We lost and what did young can
Speaker 1: run on parental control? And now those parents are all
Speaker 1: up in a fucking tizzy because now he started out
Speaker 1: with CRT and Tony Morrison and is now on the Oh,
Speaker 1: we're repealing your mask mandates. So now your kids are
Speaker 1: going to school in harm's way. But you didn't fucking
Speaker 1: think about that, because once again you're only thinking about yourself.
Speaker 1: So word to the wise. They start with black people, right,
Speaker 1: the community of people that white Americans don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about and can come up with every excuse as
Speaker 1: to why they should be treated bad, as to why
Speaker 1: public schools are bad and high black and brown areas,
Speaker 1: and to why they're deserving to be beaten and tazed
Speaker 1: and murdered. They start with the group that no one
Speaker 1: gives a fuck about, and then they move on to you. Right,
Speaker 1: that's how it works. But you vote them in because
Speaker 1: you're a low key fucking racist, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you end up like, oh, fuck, now my
Speaker 1: kid is unsafe. Well, maybe if you had empathy and
Speaker 1: gave a shit about anybody else's fucking kids or anybody
Speaker 1: else's community, we wouldn't end up here. But oh, history
Speaker 1: just loves to repeat itself because we whitewash it or
Speaker 1: don't teach it at all. You know, to me, everything
Speaker 1: is connected, It truly is, and not in the conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: you know, aluminum hat type of way, but in the
Speaker 1: honest type of way. And I started out by talking
Speaker 1: about the Ukraine, so let me circle back to that
Speaker 1: for a moment. I want to be very clear as
Speaker 1: to why our foreign affairs, our foreign relationships in the
Speaker 1: US are part of our education problem. And what do
Speaker 1: I mean by that. I mean that when you have
Speaker 1: been fed propaganda sin birth since since whether you were
Speaker 1: born in the United States or become a citizen or
Speaker 1: show up here or whatever it is, That's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, from birth. If you are here in America
Speaker 1: and you're in school, even if you're not in school, frankly,
Speaker 1: you are fed. The America's great. We are the beacon,
Speaker 1: we are number one, We are the best. Right, we
Speaker 1: pledge allegiance because we are the home of the brave.
Speaker 1: We open our arms to everyone. Oh, we're a mixing
Speaker 1: pot whatever it is that you want to state. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are so many other phrases in euphemisms
Speaker 1: that we can use and that are used and peddled
Speaker 1: all around the world. So we always love to believe
Speaker 1: because of the line of bullshit that you have been
Speaker 1: fed from K through twelve. Right, it's not until college,
Speaker 1: in all honesty, and it depends on what kind of
Speaker 1: university that you go to, or if you go to
Speaker 1: university when critical thinking actually starts, right, because before then
Speaker 1: it is just remember, recite, regurgitate, that's it. So you're
Speaker 1: taught that everyone everywhere that the United States goes to intervene,
Speaker 1: it's because we want to carry democracy with us, that
Speaker 1: these people from our paternalistic colonizer viewpoint, right, need our
Speaker 1: help because they can't do for themselves. And if the
Speaker 1: United States doesn't intervene, then what will happen. The thing
Speaker 1: that we are never told because it's not a talking
Speaker 1: point that people want to give up, is that most
Speaker 1: times when the United States goes to intervene anywhere, it
Speaker 1: is based on whether or not that particular area, that
Speaker 1: particular country is valuable to the United States. Right. It
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with securing or spreading democracy. It
Speaker 1: has everything to do with political power and capitalism. Those
Speaker 1: are the two things that matter. Because when you ask
Speaker 1: from the vantage point of countries that we have bombed,
Speaker 1: where we have killed thousands of civilians, where we have
Speaker 1: destroyed homes and businesses and communities, and then we want
Speaker 1: to turn around and offer some charitable aid for the
Speaker 1: ship that we blew up, and then we run the
Speaker 1: pr on that. When you were to actually ask the
Speaker 1: people that are on the ground about the United States interventions,
Speaker 1: and I use air quotes, they have a whole different
Speaker 1: understanding about the United States, and it's not a fucking
Speaker 1: pleasant one. Right, We do arms deals and trading, and
Speaker 1: we move around other countries political leaders, prime ministers and
Speaker 1: presidents like fucking pieces on a chessboard, always protecting our
Speaker 1: queen right, which is our country. But we will move
Speaker 1: every other piece around. We will sacrifice other people's stability
Speaker 1: and wellness based on what it does to our positioning.
Speaker 1: So when we look at what is happening in the
Speaker 1: Ukraine right now, why don't you ask yourself about how
Speaker 1: and why the Ukraine isn't allowed to make decisions about
Speaker 1: its own protection, About why these high, wealthy, high incominations
Speaker 1: are the ones that get to decide whether or not
Speaker 1: the Ukraine gets a seat at the table about why
Speaker 1: we continue to negotiate right with the putents of the world,
Speaker 1: or how Putin got into power in the first place,
Speaker 1: or why Afghanistan ended up the fucking way that it did.
Speaker 1: The United States, my god, our hands are not just dirty,
Speaker 1: they are fucking filthy when you look at what we
Speaker 1: have done. America in a lot of ways creates a
Speaker 1: lot of fucking problems. But because Americans have very little
Speaker 1: care about what is happening outside of their front door,
Speaker 1: let alone what is happening outside their country, you never
Speaker 1: hear about those things. It's always those poor schleps over there,
Speaker 1: and you don't recognize that things are being done in
Speaker 1: your name without you knowing, just like we continue to
Speaker 1: uphold Israel and fucking fund that place, and we fund apartheid.
Speaker 1: But don't have that conversation because you may be looked
Speaker 1: at as a person that is, you know, not on
Speaker 1: par not saying the right things is anti Semitic, But
Speaker 1: that's not the truth. We spend billions of dollars in
Speaker 1: countries around the world, and they use that money to
Speaker 1: oppress their own people, to kill them, to destroy economic
Speaker 1: freedom and liberty, all of the things that we say
Speaker 1: that we care about, but we actually don't. We get
Speaker 1: a third, folks, of all of our manufactured goods from China.
Speaker 1: China has the worst fucking record on human rights, pretty
Speaker 1: much on par with the United States. Now, you see,
Speaker 1: we don't like to count things like centuries of slavery, right.
Speaker 1: We don't like to count right internment camps. We don't
Speaker 1: like to count the trail of tears. We don't like
Speaker 1: to count our fucking anti Islam watch lists that we've
Speaker 1: had since nine to eleven. We don't like to count
Speaker 1: any of those things, or putting children in cages the
Speaker 1: first time. Right that Anesty International is like Yo America's
Speaker 1: on our watch list. The things that we do in
Speaker 1: this country to our own people and then abroad, and
Speaker 1: we don't connect the dots because we're not educated on
Speaker 1: these things. And why would you be, I said last week,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why the Chinese have no idea about
Speaker 1: Tianamen Square in Vietnam. They don't refer to the Vietnam
Speaker 1: War as the Awar. They call it the American War
Speaker 1: of aggression. So when we are watching things play out
Speaker 1: around the world and we're saying like, oh, the United
Speaker 1: States is going to add troops or this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing, understand that they always have a fucking
Speaker 1: plan for entry and aggression. They never have a plan
Speaker 1: to get out ever, which is why we were in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan for twenty fucking years and how we watched their
Speaker 1: shell of a shamble of a democracy, this hybrid type
Speaker 1: of model that they had crumble in a matter of
Speaker 1: fucking weeks. And then we say, oh, so sorry, I
Speaker 1: hope you guys can piece that back together. I just
Speaker 1: you know what it is. I think that I have
Speaker 1: reached my level of bullshit, right, I have reached a
Speaker 1: certain level where I'm like, I'm so cynical in my
Speaker 1: feelings every time that I see things about troops being deployed,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, and these are the same people who
Speaker 1: some of them were on the steps of the Capitol
Speaker 1: Building on one six, Like, we always want to care
Speaker 1: about troops and things like that when we're placing them
Speaker 1: in harm's way, But then we don't really want to
Speaker 1: have a conversation about how they're being radicalized, right because
Speaker 1: of what they see and what they know, because we
Speaker 1: love right people in uniform until they come back home
Speaker 1: and actually want to tell us the truth about what
Speaker 1: is going on. This country isn't just on the wrong track.
Speaker 1: It is so much deeper than that. It's so much
Speaker 1: deeper than any one administration. And that's really the problem, right,
Speaker 1: is that we don't have people in power who have
Speaker 1: really strategic planning and thoughts past four years. Right. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not as a country ever playing the long game.
Speaker 1: It's always reactive or how we pop off now like again,
Speaker 1: using education, we knew well before COVID that a majority
Speaker 1: of children in the United States didn't have access to broadband,
Speaker 1: didn't have the tools that were needed for them to
Speaker 1: be able to get a quote unquote good quality education,
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck that means when you are literally putting
Speaker 1: white out over America's history, right, But they didn't have
Speaker 1: the tools. We knew that, right. We also knew that
Speaker 1: by shutting schools down, that millions of kids in America
Speaker 1: during the pandemic when we were remote learning fully weren't
Speaker 1: going to receive two meals or one meal that day.
Speaker 1: Because we have turned schools also into community centers, knowing
Speaker 1: that children in the wealthiest nation are fucking starving outside
Speaker 1: of maybe a school breakfast or lunch. You know there
Speaker 1: is right now and you may have seen this a
Speaker 1: mom who I believe is a nurse that went viral
Speaker 1: on TikTok for sharing her story about the fact that
Speaker 1: her daughter was born really fucking early. I want to
Speaker 1: say that the baby was born maybe at like twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty six weeks or something and was like two
Speaker 1: pounds when she was born. And because the mother only
Speaker 1: received six weeks of medical leave but the baby was
Speaker 1: in the hospital, she needed to go back to work
Speaker 1: twelve days after giving birth because of the paid family
Speaker 1: leave policy, and she wanted to make sure that by
Speaker 1: the time that her child was actually going to be
Speaker 1: coming home after spending seventy two days in a niku,
Speaker 1: that she would be able to spend time with her.
Speaker 1: So didn't want to eat into her fucking limited paid
Speaker 1: family leave to be by her child's bedside incubator side,
Speaker 1: because she had to go back to work because we
Speaker 1: don't have paid family leave in this country. That it
Speaker 1: depends on your fucking employer and six weeks six to
Speaker 1: eight if you're lucky, when You're looking at high wealth
Speaker 1: nations around the world that have a fucking year off
Speaker 1: or six months, but they will come up with every
Speaker 1: excuse as to why that can't happen here. But I
Speaker 1: thought everything could happen in America. I thought anything was
Speaker 1: possible here. That's the bullshit you've been feeding me since kindergarten.
Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, I start asking for
Speaker 1: the things that we don't have of note, like universal healthcare,
Speaker 1: paid leave policies, support for you know, like in any
Speaker 1: which way, and you tell me to shut up. I
Speaker 1: should be grateful for the crumbs that I have, but
Speaker 1: you tell me you're the best, but I don't get
Speaker 1: the best. We don't have the best policies. We don't
Speaker 1: care about workers, we don't care about parents, we don't
Speaker 1: care about youth. So tell me again about these lies
Speaker 1: that you've been feeding to me since kindergarten. Tell me
Speaker 1: again what we are number one in because I'm searching
Speaker 1: high and low folks and looking for it, and I
Speaker 1: don't see because you keep telling me that this country
Speaker 1: is about the it's the land of opportunity and you
Speaker 1: can be anything and do anything. But I'm just listening
Speaker 1: out bouncing back and forth between domestic policy and foreign
Speaker 1: affairs and nowhere and my seeing where we are doing
Speaker 1: the best things. We are now a country that won't
Speaker 1: have abortion, but we're number one, number one in what grief, pain, frustration, resignations, dropouts,
Speaker 1: minimum wage. People need to be shaken right to their
Speaker 1: very core. You know, when people say like, I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why so and so gets it. I want
Speaker 1: to shake the shit out of them. I want to
Speaker 1: shake the shit out of this country and wake them
Speaker 1: up out of the fucking slumber that they have been in.
Speaker 1: Walking around on fourth of July waving fucking flags right
Speaker 1: where in you go to any fucking Trump rally, they
Speaker 1: are rocking whatever old navy fucking you know flag T
Speaker 1: shirt and matching pants. Oh we're Americans. We're great, how
Speaker 1: because the only thing that you're fucking number one is guns? Right?
Speaker 1: We got more guns in this country than anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the world. There are more guns than people in America.
Speaker 1: So there's your number one. We're number one in school shootings, right,
Speaker 1: there's another number one. So I don't know where the
Speaker 1: right gets there fucking false rose colored patriotism from. But
Speaker 1: I got more questions about what America is great at,
Speaker 1: other than making more mess than it's necessary. You know,
Speaker 1: the reality here is that you can't change things, as
Speaker 1: Aldwin has said, that you refuse to face. But the
Speaker 1: main thing here is that Republican politicians want to ensure
Speaker 1: that you don't have to face things, because they're gonna
Speaker 1: make it so that you never see it, right, so
Speaker 1: that all you see is America through these foggy, rose
Speaker 1: colored glasses that you never have to question or be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And you see, the reality here is that change happens
Speaker 1: where there is friction, and growth comes from being uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: So when you are trying to pacify an entire community
Speaker 1: of white people so that they are not uncomfortable, so
Speaker 1: that they're not questioning, and they can continue blindly and
Speaker 1: stupidly way that American flag and all look at the fireworks,
Speaker 1: but let me, let me not interrogate any of the
Speaker 1: things that are happening in between. That's what success looks
Speaker 1: like for them. While everything is crumbling around us, you
Speaker 1: continue to push the lie that we're better than everybody else,
Speaker 1: because you see, the only way that things shift in
Speaker 1: society is with an educated citizentury, but an educated citizenury
Speaker 1: will then hold its elected officials, its representatives accountable. So
Speaker 1: long as they know nothing, then you don't have to
Speaker 1: do anything. Do see how that works. This is where
Speaker 1: we are. Ignorance is not bliss, It is dangerous. The
Speaker 1: entire nation needs to be shook. And maybe that only
Speaker 1: happens when everything crumbles to the ground, because right now
Speaker 1: America is creating its own earthquake, and I think that
Speaker 1: it is honestly going to take the collapse of everything,
Speaker 1: and whoever is left standing when the dust finally settles
Speaker 1: will be the ones to rebuild. But in whose image.
Speaker 1: We are at a crossroads right now, at a really
Speaker 1: scary crossroads, and I don't know which direction we're going
Speaker 1: to go in, and that is what keeps me up
Speaker 1: at night. That is what is worrying me. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that the Democrats that are in charge for
Speaker 1: the next couple of months, I don't think that they
Speaker 1: get the level of urgency that we are at. We
Speaker 1: have hit whatever the highest deathcom fucking alarm alert is,
Speaker 1: that's where we are. And all I can say is
Speaker 1: that y'all better buckle up, because sometimes things don't get
Speaker 1: better after they get worse. They get bad, they get
Speaker 1: even worse, they get horrific, and then maybe they start
Speaker 1: to make a turn upwards. But that dark period can
Speaker 1: last for decades. That is it for me today. Here,
Speaker 1: Folks on Woke a F Daily, you know, if you
Speaker 1: have thoughts, comments, questions about any episode of the show,
Speaker 1: please do feel free to float me a comment, dm
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Speaker 1: media platforms. As always, dear friends, Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.