1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: what a fucking week this has been. I mean, dear God, 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: I sit here today absolutely exhausted, and I just came 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: back from vacation, and my vacation feels like it happened 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 1: at least two months ago, and it was literally a 7 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: week ago, Folks. I can't express to you how this 8 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: news cycle has completely and utterly gutted my belief that 9 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: there is ever going to be any type of accountability, 10 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: any type of you know, real conversations in journalism about 11 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: the fall of our democracy. So let me start out 12 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: by saying I wrote a piece another piece I was 13 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: very hot with the words this week on medium, And 14 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: if you don't follow me on medium, you totally should, 15 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: because I post often. I post at least twice a 16 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: month to different op eds. But this week I went 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: in because there was just so much news, and so 18 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: my latest piece, which I want to share a piece 19 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: of it with you all because I'm outdone. I'm outdone 20 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: by what the media decides to pay attention to and 21 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: the reasons that they decide to pay attention to certain 22 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: things versus others. When I woke up this morning, right, 23 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: you would think that every major headline, every major headline, 24 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: every major story would be directed at the fact that 25 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: a sitting president of the United States during the insurrection, 26 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: during an attack, an actual physical attack orchestrated by his followers, 27 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: by himself. Donald Trump, himself, if you all do not remember, 28 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: back in December of twenty twenty, said that January sixth 29 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: was going to be wild. Right, Donald Trump was out 30 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: there on Twitter before his dumbass got banned, telling his 31 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: followers to head to Washington, DC have their voices heard, 32 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: and that to stop the Steel rally was going to 33 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: be wild. Donald Trump on that day got up on 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: the diets along with many other of his followers, touting 35 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: the lie, the big lie, about the election having been stolen. 36 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: Right then, fast forward to over a year fucking later. 37 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: The only people that have faced any type of charges, 38 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: that have faced any type of quote unquote jail time, 39 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: if you can count a couple of months for trying 40 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: to overthrow the governments of the United States, if you 41 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: can count that right as real time. The only people 42 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: that have been held accountable are the people that have 43 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 1: actually entered into right the Capitol Building, or encourage their 44 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: followers like the leader of the Oath Keepers and the 45 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: Proud Boys two get violent. Right, So we're seeing these 46 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: people slapped with a couple of months here, a couple 47 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: of months there, right, knowing, good, God damn well that 48 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: these fucking people that march to the Capitol Building, built 49 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: a guillotine, entered said Capitol building, stole property, abused and 50 00:03:52,360 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: injured police officers get slaps on the wrist during that time. Though, 51 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: as it as we come to find out, there's over 52 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: seven hours missing in terms of White House phone lugs. Now, 53 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: let me bring this into focus when Nixon was brought down, 54 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: and by the way, we can account for the fact 55 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: that accountability really doesn't ever happen in politics because Richard 56 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: Nixon was able to resign. Richard Nixon was not removed 57 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: from office, right, he was able to resign. Had we 58 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: actually made an example of Richard Nixon and the eighteen 59 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: minutes that were missing from the White House tapes, that 60 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: would then show the cover up right of him trying 61 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: to steal an election. Eighteen minutes we have so far 62 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: as an entire fucking work day was missing from the 63 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: White House phone logs. But that's not front page news. No. 64 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:12,119 Speaker 1: What is continuing to be part of conversation all week 65 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: long is the slap that we saw on fucking Sunday 66 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: by Will Smith against Chris Rock for his comments his 67 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: joke I use in air quotes with regard to his wife, 68 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia autoimmune condition. Right you have madisone Cawthorne, 69 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: whose dumbass finds himself in the press for a whole 70 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: host as stupid shit that comes out of his mouth. 71 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: But he decides to spill some tea with regard to 72 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: being invited to a Washington political elite orgy right where 73 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: people are just freely doing bumps of cocaine, or so 74 00:05:54,279 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: he says. And then Hunter Biden's laptop. These are the 75 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: three stories that have been dominating the news cycle this week. 76 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here saying to myself self, how is 77 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: it that Donald Trump covered up, erased lost seven hours 78 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: worth of phone interaction during the historic violent event in 79 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: America's modern day history? And that is not enough for headlines? 80 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: So the Justice Department now has finally announced that they 81 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: are expanding their investigation into those that were not actually 82 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: in the Capitol building. But they're expanding their investigation into 83 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: the donors of said insurrection, right, And I know that 84 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: before on this show, and so let me make it 85 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: clear now. Before in this show, I have said that 86 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: Jenny Thomas, Clarence Thomas's wife, funded buses for the insurrection. 87 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: That has not been substantiated. But what has been substantiated 88 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: about Jenny Thomas is that she was at the insurrection. 89 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: She used her platform and her political clout to encourage 90 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: other people to go to the insurrection, and then while 91 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: there was an invasion in our Capitol building, she was 92 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: on the phone with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief 93 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: of staff. So here's the thing. What's so curious and 94 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: interesting about this, which you think would be front page news, 95 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: is that Jenny Thomas is married to Clarence Thomas, a 96 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: sitting Supreme Court justice who was the sole dissenter on 97 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: the case that would allow the House Select Committee who 98 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: is investigating the insurrection to be able to have access 99 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: to the phone logs. Now, the question we all need 100 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: to ask ourselves is why was Clarence Thomas the sole dissenter? Right? 101 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: What is it that Clarence Thomas knew and was he 102 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: concerned that when those phone numbers, when that information would 103 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: be released, that he would have to then explain to 104 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: the public why his wife's phone number was showing up. 105 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: But get this, because it gets even better than that. 106 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: And you would think in a country that it loves salaciousness, right, 107 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: we love reality TV, we love gossip, we love trash, 108 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: that you would think that this story, which pretty much 109 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: reads like a fucking episode of Bridgeton combined with an 110 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: episode of gossip Girl wrapped in your favorite soap opera, right, 111 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: all my children, as the world turns, you would think 112 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: that this would make news. Well, here's the other thing. 113 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: John Eastman, Trump Attorney, I just discovered, like Columbus was 114 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: an actual clerk for Justice Thomas. So there's a relationship there. 115 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: So you're telling me, let's all connect these beautiful dots 116 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:42,359 Speaker 1: sitting Supreme Court justice has a wife that attended the insurrection, 117 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: was in regular contact with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, stiff 118 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: chief of staff on the day of the insurrection, also 119 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: has a connection to the man that wrote the power 120 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: point slide presentation about the insurrection, John Eastman, and no 121 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: one except for a handful of Democrats are currently calling 122 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: for an investigation into Clarence Thomas to see whether or 123 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: not what we see with our own two eyes is 124 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: actually what it is, which is a compromised Supreme Court justice. How? 125 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: How sway? How? How is no one talking about this? 126 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: How is this not the story of all stories? You know? 127 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: You go back to the days right of fucking deep throat, 128 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: You go back to the days of the I gotcha stories? 129 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, isn't this like a slam dunk too? 130 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: At the bare minimum, open up an investigation into Clarence 131 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: Thomas and start to ask questions about what he knew 132 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: and when he knew it. Isn't this wouldn't this be 133 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity and the time for Democrats to take off 134 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: the kid gloves and actually get serious about the courts 135 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: and realize that not only did we have a Supreme 136 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: Court seat stolen by Mitch McConnell, did we have over 137 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: three hundred federal judges put in place by Mitch McConnell 138 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump, but that the ones that they actually 139 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: have are deeply in their pockets. Folks, Come on, right, 140 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: so let me read you the opening to my piece, 141 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: which I entitled a slap an orgy and a laptop 142 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: that is up at medium right now. Quote. There is 143 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: an old saying in media, if it bleeds, it leads, 144 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,599 Speaker 1: meaning that stories that are the most salacious and horrific 145 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: drive the most traffic are the ones media outlets will push. 146 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: In the advent of social media and our capitalistic clickbait 147 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: society we live in now, ratings and eyeballs equal money, 148 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: and where there is money to be made and power 149 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: to covet, morality dare not enter. Currently, there are three 150 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: stories that the media can't get enough of, and not 151 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: one of them has to do with the America's impending 152 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: nosedive into the arms of anti democratic forces that are 153 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: hell bent on ripping up our constitution, destroying what's left 154 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: of our political norms, and tap dancing their way into authoritarianism. 155 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: America is captivated by the slap scene round the world, 156 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: Representative Madison Cawthorne's claim of cocaine and orgies running amuck 157 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: in Washington's elite political circles, and Hunter Biden's laptop. Meanwhile, 158 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: the real political orgy that everyone needs to be paying 159 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: attention to is happening between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 160 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: his wife Jinny, former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, 161 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: and former Clerk to Justice Thomas, an architect of the insurrection, 162 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: John Eastman. And yet, folks, why isn't the news cycle 163 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: focused on this? Well, let me tell you. Let me 164 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: tell you why I think that the news cycle is 165 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: not focused on this because recent hirings and also the 166 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: admission of the co president from CBS should tell us 167 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: the real truth. We don't have to guess because what 168 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: was said by CBS's news co president Naraj Kelimani is 169 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: this quote. If you look at some of the people 170 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able 171 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: to make sure that we are getting access to both 172 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: sides of the aisle is a priority because we know 173 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to take over, most likely in 174 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: the midterms. So you see here, folks, what does this 175 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: spell out to you? Its spell out that journalism right 176 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: in this day and age, isn't about integrity. It isn't 177 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: about breaking the news to the American public. It isn't 178 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: about educating this citizenury about their responsibility in this democracy. No, no, no, 179 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: It is about making sure that you are doing the 180 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: bidding of the people whose company you would like to keep. 181 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: So would it make sense for say, CBS and other 182 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: news outlets to decide to run segments and stories on 183 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: really diving into and continuing to run it over and 184 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: over again, the way that they did Hillary Clinton's fucking 185 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: email story or Hunter Biden's laptop story. Right, think about 186 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: the ways in which Hillary Clinton's candidacy in twenty sixteen 187 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: was tanked. It wasn't tanked just because Hilary didn't go 188 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: to Michigan. It wasn't tanked just because the American people 189 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: don't like her, or fifty two percent of white women 190 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: decided that they would rather have their pussies grabbed by 191 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump than to have a woman that looks like 192 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: them sit in the Oval office. No, it wasn't just that. 193 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: It was the consistent feeding to America that you should 194 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: be suspicious of Hillary Clinton because she used a private server. 195 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: And if she's going to use a private server in 196 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: private emails, then what else could she possibly been hiding? 197 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: Could she be hiding horns underneath or blonde you know, 198 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: bouquet of hair, right? Could she be hiding some evil 199 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: armor underneath her pantsuits? All they needed to do with 200 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: the constant barrage in print, on TV, on radio, and 201 00:15:54,600 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: everywhere else, was plant the seeds of something suspicious happening 202 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: and let the American people's imagination run wild, and then 203 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: when it would abate, continue to feed them a little 204 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: bit more and a little bit more. So the question 205 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: that I have is, then, when you have a story 206 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: like that of a sitting Supreme Court justice, his wife, 207 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: chief of staff to former twice impeach disgrace president of 208 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: the United States, and then a former Justice Thomas Clark, 209 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: entangled in the biggest political orgy of all time, a 210 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: desire and an attempt to overthrow an election, how the 211 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: fuck do you cover anything else? Well, it's as if 212 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: you don't see that telling the truth and potentially smearing 213 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: said Republican party that you believe is going to return 214 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: to power in a few months would be good for 215 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: your bottom line. So fuck integrity, right, fuck education. We'll 216 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: bury that. We'll cover it so that folks can say, oh, no, no, 217 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: we did a story. It just won't be a one 218 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: above the fold. And it is not enough to say, well, 219 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: there's just so much news that is happening, because folks, 220 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: there's been so much news happening since twenty fifteen, since 221 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump descended on those fucking escalators. There's been news 222 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: happening over and over and over again. But it is 223 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: those that are sitting in the newsroom c suites that 224 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: are deciding what it is that they believe that the 225 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: public should know. So wouldn't it be better if we 226 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: stir up some drama, some made up drama for the 227 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: bidens the current sitting administration that we believe has already 228 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: neutered itself. And then we show favor and fancy to 229 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: the ones that we believe are actually going to get 230 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: into power, and then right they'll see us as friends 231 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: and they won't attack us so much, and then we'll 232 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: be able to get our one on ones and our 233 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: sit down meetings. It's all a game. And the more 234 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: that I become aware of the more dots that are connected, 235 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: the more disgusted I am, because, folks, in all honesty, 236 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: there is no where to look. There's no where to look. 237 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: There is no night coming to save America. There is 238 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: no Captain America that's going to rush in and make 239 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: everything right. Because everybody that has a responsibility to do 240 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: something or the power to do something, even if it's 241 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: just to plant some seeds and shift shift some hearts 242 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: and minds. They are actively choosing not to because it 243 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: doesn't work or mesh with their bottom line. Our democracy, 244 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: dear friends, has been sold. And so when we turn 245 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: around and we say to ourselves, well, it's all Republicans 246 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: and their misgivings and their bad doings. Of course those 247 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: things are absolutely true, but they also have help. They've 248 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: been enabled by mainstream media, right. And the thing is 249 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: because I have conversations with my friends in media all 250 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: the time, and I have been telling them it is 251 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: not enough for us any longer to just be talking 252 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: withinside inside of our own echo chambers. It's not enough. 253 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: We have got to find a way to penetrate and 254 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: get our words and thoughts out to the masses because, 255 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: dear friends, because mainstream media ain't gonna fucking cover it. 256 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: So you have to rely on information that is coming 257 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: to you by people who are not bought and sold, 258 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, surely. Chisholm the first African American woman, the 259 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: first black woman to run for the presidency in nineteen 260 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: seventy nineteen seventy two. Her moniker that she used was 261 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: Unboston unbothered, Right, unbought, Unboston unbothered. I think was the 262 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: whole of it. And I think about how bold that 263 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: was in nineteen seventy two to say that, but that 264 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: it is even bolder to say that today, because there's 265 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: a reason why Republicans and Democrats both have allowed so 266 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: much money to be in politics, because it suits their 267 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: personal bottom line. There's a reason why there's always been 268 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: a campaign against the Elizabeth Warrens and the Bernie Sanders 269 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: of the world who want to call out corporate misgivings 270 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: and wrongdoings. Right, But there's a reason why they're allowed 271 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: to do that shit, And it isn't just one party's fault. 272 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: When everything revolves around capitalism, and everything revolves around those 273 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: with the most get to decide and delineate to the least, 274 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: you are going to make sure, above all else that 275 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: you stay at the top. So you are going to 276 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: get in bed with people that you should have no 277 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: business being in bed with. So when people say to me, 278 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: you know, I don't trust the news, I don't trust 279 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: this paper, I don't trust this outlet, I don't trust 280 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: this network. Now I am beginning to understand why not 281 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: even beginning to understand, because I fucking knew it was 282 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: why I was fired from Serious because you tell people 283 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: the absolute truth and they don't want that. It's why, folks, 284 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: you don't see me regularly anymore on cable news, because 285 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: you continue to tell the truth and call people out 286 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: and guess what they don't want that. They don't want 287 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: that at all, because it's too much. The reason why 288 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: I became an entrepreneur and the reason why I am 289 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: on independent channels as an independent podcaster is because I 290 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: don't want anybody telling me what I can and cannot do, 291 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: and I don't want anybody deciding what is going to 292 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: drive my voice, and it certainly is going to be 293 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: anybody else's fucking bottom line. I tell you that. You know, 294 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: one of the quotes that I pulled up in this 295 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: piece sits so heavy with me now as somebody who 296 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: has done public relations and spin and crisis communications for 297 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: part of my living, right, George Orwell said, this journalism 298 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: is printing what someone else does not want published. Everything 299 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: else is public relations. That couldn't be more true. I mean, 300 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: when you look at the fluff pieces right that were 301 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: written about Amy Covid, Barrett. Right. You look at the 302 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: car rich of her confirmation, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, right, and 303 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: look at that of Judge Katangi Brown Jackson. See who 304 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: it benefits? Right? And why when you see people on 305 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: television saying a lot of hot shit or saying nothing 306 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: at all. Oh, they don't want to upset the apple cart. 307 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: Do you know why they don't want to upset the 308 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: apple cart? Because they don't know who's going to own 309 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: that apple cart at the end of the week. So 310 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: it's best to have this perceived notion that is false 311 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: of somebody's neutrality. News is not neutral. None of these 312 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: fucking outlets are. Every single one of these people that 313 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 1: are sitting up in the c suites that get to 314 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: decide what it is you ingest on a regular basis 315 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: have political affiliation, but their ultimate affiliation is to money, 316 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: and money ain't got no morals. And so every time 317 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: that Democrats are trying to appeal to people's better angels, 318 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, are you dumb? Right? Like, seriously, are you dumb? 319 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: Do you not get it that everybody is in it 320 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: to win it right, to get as rich as possible. 321 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: That's it. That's the American dream, right, It isn't just 322 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: the house and the pick offense. No, no, no. If 323 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: you look on Netflix right now, if you look on 324 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: Amazon primacy, all of the stories right that are on 325 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: top right now are about how people became multibillionaires, or 326 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: it is about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. 327 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 1: Because we are addicted, addicted to wealth, and it is 328 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: to us in all of these different ways. And so 329 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: if you are given the opportunity, we all would love 330 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: to believe that, we would say no, no, I have morals, right. 331 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: I actually am one of those people, which is why 332 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 1: I broadcast to you from my apartment and not my mansion, 333 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: because I entered into a profession that if you wanted 334 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: to get rich, right, you could, but you need to 335 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: also be able to swallow a lot of hot shit. 336 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: You need to be able to divorce yourself from your values. Right. 337 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: You need to make compromises. And I'm not saying that 338 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: all compromises are bad. They absolutely are not. And I'm 339 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: also not saying that everybody that is on television is bad. 340 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: They absolutely are not. But every single one of them 341 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: has had to compromise. And I'll tell you that the 342 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: people of color and the women have had to compromise 343 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: the most. And so when I see and I listen 344 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: to people like the co president at CBS, and then 345 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: you know, uncovered tapes of of Nunez, the former disgraced 346 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,959 Speaker 1: president of CBS, right, who had to step down because 347 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: of you know, somebody's affair or whatever. It was, some 348 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: type of sexual indiscretion. Lee Moons, he said the same thing, said, yeah, 349 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: Trump may be mad, maybe bad for the country, but 350 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 1: he's good for ratings. I can tell you how many 351 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: times that I heard that in the halls of MSNBC. Right, 352 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: everybody knows, everybody knew that Trump was terrible for the country, 353 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: but oh my god, he's fucking making it rain. I 354 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: remember sitting in the chair at MSNBC and I was 355 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: posted be on a segment. Then all of a sudden, 356 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Danielle, we're canceled for the day because 357 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to be landing in some place 358 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: giving some type of hate speech. And do you know 359 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: what every single cable news station did. They had a 360 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: live feed going of a tarmac just waiting for Trump's 361 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: plane to land, and that was the whole conversation four hours. 362 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: What will Trump say this is what he said last time. 363 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what do you think the plane is 364 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: going to come in? What is he going to be wearing? 365 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: What's Ivanka going to be doing? It was free press, 366 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,479 Speaker 1: it was free advertisement at a time when political ads, 367 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: by the way that you see on television costs millions. 368 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: The last couple of presidential races have been in the 369 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: billions in terms of how much it actually costs to 370 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: run for president. We have seen some of the most 371 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: expensive Senate races ten hundreds of millions of dollars that 372 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:25,959 Speaker 1: they have cost. But every single news outlet in twenty 373 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty sixteen gave Trump free coverage because people 374 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: couldn't take their eyes off of the fucking circus. So 375 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: when I say, you have a story like this political 376 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: orgy that is literally unfolding in front of us, that 377 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: has some key players from the Supreme Court to the 378 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: White House right all the way around, and I'm asking, 379 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: why the fuck is the lead story about Hunter Biden's laptop. 380 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden ain't in the fucking White House, not in 381 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: the way that the fucking Trump spawn were with senior 382 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: titles and all access passes, Like it's fucking political lallapalooza. 383 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: But home, I wonder what's on that laptop? Mmm? Donald 384 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: Trump's still going around saying hmm, you know, Zelinski should 385 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: really open up an investigation. Who cares that his entire 386 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: country is being bombed to smithereens? But oh, if he 387 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: had only opened up an investigation, it's fucking wild. It 388 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: is honestly really wild. On a day today, we're unlike, 389 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: how how are these stories? Seven hours? Folks? Over seven 390 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: hours of tapes are missing on accounted for. There is 391 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: nothing that is there. How it is the White House. 392 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: There are calls coming in all day, all the time. 393 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: So the only way that you have that fucking day 394 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: long gap is if somebody was being really mindful about 395 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: making sure not to leave any evidence behind. And if 396 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: you don't want to leave any evidence behind, sounds to 397 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: me like you're in the midst of committing somebody's fucking crime, 398 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: because who else would be picking up other phones and 399 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: using different phones other than the one that is stationed 400 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: on your desk in the fucking Oval office. Oh, let 401 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: me let me use your phone, Mark, Mark Meadows, Hey, 402 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: let me use that phone right quick? Hey of uncle, 403 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: let me let me let me use your phone, right quick, bitch, 404 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: where's your phone? It makes no sense, But the only 405 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: sense that it does make is that everybody's in on it. 406 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: And this is why I say, you know, I'm not 407 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: going to be cheering Merritt Garland right now for his 408 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: Department of Justice announcing that they are widening their probe. 409 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be applauding that because I want 410 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: to know if it's actual pr Right. We just need 411 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: to have the perception that work is being done so 412 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: that Democrats don't come through with a full on media onsought, 413 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: which we know that they wouldn't fucking do anyway. I 414 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: need to know that whether or not right this overt 415 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: you know, window, this overt expression of the Department of 416 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: Justice saying oh, we've hired all these people and we're 417 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: doing all of these things, if it isn't about the 418 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: appearance of justice and accountability, or if it is actually happening. 419 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: So I will hold my breath, I will wait because 420 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: I know good pr spin when I fucking see it. 421 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: So I want perp walks. I want indictments reigning down. 422 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: I want an investigation by this Department of Justice into 423 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: Alvin Brad the Manhattan District Attorney to figure out why 424 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: he decided not to continue on with his investigation into 425 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, right. I want an investigation into Clarence Thomas 426 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: opened up by the Department of Justice to figure out 427 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: whether or not we have a compromised sitting Supreme Court 428 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: justice that is about to rule against Rovie Wade, not 429 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: to mention a whole other series of important laws that 430 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: are about to be overturned because we have a six 431 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: to three court. I would like to know if one 432 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: of those nine justices is bought. We folks are in 433 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: a whole lot of motherfucking trouble. There really is no 434 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: way around it. And I know you're tired. You're tired. 435 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm tired of seeing this shit and being 436 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: like staying in my head running the same record over again. 437 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: Imagine if this were Baroque, Imagine if this were Hilary. 438 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: Can you imagine what Republicans would be doing. Do you 439 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: know that Democrats much in the same way that they 440 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: have done in the past to their own The first 441 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: time that Republicans throw any type of fucking grenade, Democrats 442 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: get in line behind them and say, we don't like 443 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: that person either, and they should resign. So you think 444 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: that if the shoe were on the other foot, and 445 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: what Clarence Thomas did say, oh, I don't know Sonia 446 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: Sotomayor had done right, or Briar had done or anybody 447 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: that was appointed, anybody that's left that was appointed by 448 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: a Democrat had done you think that this ship would 449 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: be okay, That Republicans would just be allowing this to 450 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: roll off their backs and then say some shit like 451 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer said, like, oh, well, maybe there should be 452 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: some type of ethics rules for people with lifetime appointments. 453 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: I think that somebody that has a lifetime appointment to 454 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: the bench is worthy of some type of fucking scrutiny 455 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: when it seems very obvious that something don't smell right. 456 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: But alas, alas, dear friends, you would have to have 457 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: some type of kutspa right, some type of gravitas in 458 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: order to get that done and see that through. And 459 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: we know, good god damn well that if we are 460 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: looking for those two things from this Democratic Party, y'all, 461 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: you better look elsewhere. Here's the other thing that I 462 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:23,800 Speaker 1: also want to talk about. So this week, this week, 463 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: Joe Biden signed into law the anti lynching bill. Right. 464 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 1: And you know, this, as I've said earlier this week, 465 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,399 Speaker 1: is an important piece of legislation. It should have been signed. Oh, 466 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe sixty years ago when Emmitt Till 467 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: was killed, you know, um, and when it was found 468 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: out that the white woman who said that she that 469 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: he whistled at her, right m was a fucking liar, 470 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:03,640 Speaker 1: that maybe, you know, the murder and torture of a 471 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:10,719 Speaker 1: fourteen year old boy would have urged the public to 472 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: really look at racism, at their anti blackness, at the 473 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism that was happening at the hands of white people. 474 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: But no, we want to pat ourselves on the back 475 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 1: for shit that is happening now sixty years later, six 476 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: decades later. Right. And here's the other thing that I 477 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: will say about this. Do you know did you know what? 478 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 1: I was trying to find it but I can't. Did 479 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:53,760 Speaker 1: you know that it wasn't a unanimous vote, an anti 480 00:37:53,920 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: lynching bill in twenty motherfucking twenty two not passed unanimously. 481 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: That there were not one, not two, but three fucking 482 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:17,959 Speaker 1: Republicans that voted against it. Three three Republicans came out 483 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:26,400 Speaker 1: and actually actually went on record to vote against it, 484 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: and here here, here's who they are, thankfully for bearing 485 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: with me. I found it Representative Andrew Clyde Republican Georgia, 486 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: Thomas Massey, Republican Kentucky, and Chip Roy, Republican Texas. Now 487 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 1: let me just make mention of Chip Roy. And I 488 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: learned about this through Joy Reid Joy Reid's Instagram because 489 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: I thought that it was unanimous, right. I thought that 490 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: this was why there was so much celebration because for 491 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,720 Speaker 1: the first time in sixty fucking years and two hundred 492 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,320 Speaker 1: attempts at passing an anti lynching bill in this country 493 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: that white people love to say isn't innately racist and 494 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: that we don't actually need to teach anything about differences, 495 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: because you know, all is good in a country that 496 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,759 Speaker 1: couldn't bear to pass an anti lynching bill even right, 497 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: and we're still we're holding our breath after we watched 498 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: George Floyd be lynched in twenty twenty, Chip Roy was 499 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna mess up his exact quote, but he 500 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: said that lynching was a form of justice and that's 501 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: how they do things down in Texas. He said that 502 00:39:54,560 --> 00:40:00,280 Speaker 1: in the last few years. So what I have said 503 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,799 Speaker 1: is that these people are not Republicans. They are not 504 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 1: and not just these three that I called out, I'm 505 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:14,799 Speaker 1: talking about the entire party. They are white nationalists. This 506 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: is a white nationalist party. They are a white nationalist cult. 507 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 1: And when we continue, even myself, because I slip to 508 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: refer to these people as Republicans, we are legitimizing them. 509 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: We are legitimizing their hateful ideology as if it is 510 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 1: an acceptable alternative to life in America. When we have 511 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,239 Speaker 1: the CBSS and the CNNs and the Fox news Is 512 00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: decide to hire known liars and avid white supremacy, we 513 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,319 Speaker 1: are allowing them to tell us that white supremacy and 514 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 1: white nationalism is a legitimate ideology that is worthy of 515 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:24,600 Speaker 1: conversation and being heard. And until we say no, no more, 516 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 1: until we actually use our collective power and voices to 517 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: whether it is to fucking boycott the CBS's of the world, 518 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,359 Speaker 1: whether it is to boycott, you know, the Fox news 519 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,360 Speaker 1: Is of the world, to call the FCC on a 520 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 1: regular basis and say why is it not why are 521 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 1: there no disclaimers for Tucker Carlson and its hateful, violent 522 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: speech the way that you see on every fucking show 523 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,000 Speaker 1: that you turn on. Oh, this shows nudity and foul language, 524 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,239 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Why is the same not done 525 00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 1: for our political discourse, because it should be. It would 526 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,399 Speaker 1: have people think differently about how and where they are 527 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: consuming the information that they need to make informed decisions 528 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:18,799 Speaker 1: about their lives. But that's just it. We don't want 529 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:24,879 Speaker 1: an informed citizenjury. Those in power don't want you to 530 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,719 Speaker 1: be informed because then you will question. And if you 531 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,719 Speaker 1: begin to question them, the question that you're going to 532 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,799 Speaker 1: ask is why are they in power? Why are they 533 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,799 Speaker 1: the chosen ones to make decisions for the rest of us? 534 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,920 Speaker 1: And then they will have to be accountable to you. 535 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:51,560 Speaker 1: So the goal has never been education. The goal has 536 00:42:51,719 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: always been disinformation and the gaslight. That is it for 537 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:05,880 Speaker 1: me today on this woke af on this good good Friday, folks. 538 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: You know, I will say this, it is very difficult 539 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 1: from me on a regular basis to keep up with 540 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,840 Speaker 1: the woke moment of wellness. And I say that in 541 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,400 Speaker 1: all honesty and transparency, because I am just filled with 542 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,799 Speaker 1: anger and rage all of the time, and there are 543 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,560 Speaker 1: so much news to cover and so many things that 544 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:30,080 Speaker 1: are just exasperating that I forget and so I am 545 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,880 Speaker 1: going to challenge myself to make it a point because 546 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,960 Speaker 1: I know that by virtue of me doing this, it 547 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 1: will allow you all to pause and to think about 548 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,840 Speaker 1: your wellness in the midst of all of the crazy. 549 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: So for this Friday, woke moment of wellness. What I 550 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,880 Speaker 1: discovered while I was on while I was on vacation 551 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:59,400 Speaker 1: is how important yoga is to my body. And you 552 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,560 Speaker 1: guys know because my mother owns a yoga studio, is 553 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,319 Speaker 1: an avid yogi, so is my sister, and I am 554 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: not that has never been really my chosen form of 555 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,200 Speaker 1: exercise because I like more aggressive exercise, no surprise to 556 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: anyone who listens to me or knows me. But what 557 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,000 Speaker 1: I realized on vacation is how important it is to 558 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:28,359 Speaker 1: listen to our bodies. And sometimes what our minds want 559 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,040 Speaker 1: us to do is not actually what our body needs. 560 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,040 Speaker 1: And while I was on vacation and I limited the 561 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 1: amount of noise that I was taking in on a 562 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,359 Speaker 1: regular basis, I realized that I would wake up. On 563 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,839 Speaker 1: my first couple of days in Panama, I woke up 564 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: and I was very very stiff. My body, my joints ached, 565 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,960 Speaker 1: and it wasn't just you know, the travel to my destination, 566 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,680 Speaker 1: which was a part of it, but it was also 567 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,120 Speaker 1: the weight of all of the things that I was carrying. 568 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: So I challenged myself to do yoga the entire time 569 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: that I was on vacation, and I would say I 570 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,320 Speaker 1: did it a majority of the time. I was gone 571 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 1: for eight days, and I did it for at least 572 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 1: six of them. But I also did something else for myself. 573 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,120 Speaker 1: I got a massage. I got two because they were 574 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,959 Speaker 1: cheap and I could afford to get two in a week. 575 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,360 Speaker 1: And I want to share with you what happened during 576 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,920 Speaker 1: my first massage. I had the good fortune of being 577 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:37,520 Speaker 1: with an incredible healer and wellness expert in you know, 578 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 1: skilled in Swedish and time massage, and during you know, 579 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:51,680 Speaker 1: our session, I started to cry. I started to seriously 580 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:58,560 Speaker 1: just I mean tears rolling down my face because as 581 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 1: I was laying there and having my body twisted and 582 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: worked and not you know, rolled out and you know, 583 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,720 Speaker 1: joined stretched and just taking this time to be still 584 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,920 Speaker 1: but also be cared for by other hands, I started 585 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:26,239 Speaker 1: to think about my ancestors, actual family members, and then 586 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:36,279 Speaker 1: the enslaved Africans whose perseverance through so much torture, so 587 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:43,240 Speaker 1: much pain allows me to exist, and how they never 588 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: got to rest, how they never were able to relax, 589 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:59,920 Speaker 1: and how their sacrifice should be honored through how each 590 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,440 Speaker 1: and every one of us choose to care for ourselves 591 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,400 Speaker 1: and the people around us. I thought about my grandparents, 592 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,200 Speaker 1: and how I can't think about, you know, aside from 593 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,960 Speaker 1: their joy of you know, planning parties with family and 594 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,279 Speaker 1: you know, and their trips back and forth from the 595 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:26,480 Speaker 1: United States to Jamaica, had they ever indulged in a 596 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:31,680 Speaker 1: massage in a sauna, in a steam room, in some 597 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:37,600 Speaker 1: yoga that was just about stretching their body and nourishing it. Right, 598 00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,279 Speaker 1: we are always doing and there are some of us 599 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,319 Speaker 1: who never ever had a choice as to whether or 600 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,160 Speaker 1: not they could just be, even just for a moment, 601 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:55,800 Speaker 1: because they were seen right as the machines, as the chattel. 602 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,839 Speaker 1: And so I realized, as I was laying on that 603 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:06,640 Speaker 1: table that I my body, our bodies hold so much. 604 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,319 Speaker 1: As my mother says, we have so many issues in 605 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:15,759 Speaker 1: our tissues, and that the needing that we need to 606 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:21,440 Speaker 1: do in order to get that energy out is so 607 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,719 Speaker 1: critical to our health and to our well being. And 608 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:29,560 Speaker 1: so the tears that I wept during that massage. We're 609 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:35,880 Speaker 1: not sadness in grief. It was deep relief and gratitude 610 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,200 Speaker 1: and the gratitude that I had to be able to 611 00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,719 Speaker 1: experience this moment but also experience it for those that 612 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:50,719 Speaker 1: never never did And how necessary rest is to the 613 00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:56,319 Speaker 1: revolution that we are in. And so, folks, you know, 614 00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:05,520 Speaker 1: listen to your body, allow it to lead you right 615 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,640 Speaker 1: into places and spaces that you may not think that 616 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,719 Speaker 1: you quote unquote deserve right because we always are on this. 617 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,080 Speaker 1: I have to earn this. I have to earn my rest. 618 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,120 Speaker 1: You do not. You do not by virtue of being 619 00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:28,840 Speaker 1: human and needing to sleep. That is it, kneading downtime, 620 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:33,320 Speaker 1: that is it. You don't have to prove your value 621 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:40,120 Speaker 1: in order to rest. That, friends, is your woke moment 622 00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:50,120 Speaker 1: of wellness. As always, power to the people and to 623 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,640 Speaker 1: all the people. Power. Get woke and stay woke as fuck. 624 00:49:55,080 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. Have a wonderful, RESTful weekend.