1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay EPP Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back in twenty twenty two, 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: recording from where the Brooklyn Bunker. Why because oh Macron, 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: My god. Folks, you know, it has been a nice 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: break over the last ten days. I hope that you 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: enjoyed the content that we created for you before we 7 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: left for the holiday break. I hope that all of 8 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: you got some rest. We're able to recharge, enjoy small 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: groups of family and friends. I want to open up 10 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: today with telling you a little bit about my holiday experience. 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: As many folks across the country are headed back to 12 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: work today, are headed back to school today, when the 13 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: United States is at a break point where we are 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: seeing three hundred thousand new cases a day, three hundred 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: thousand new omicron cases a day. Here's a little bit 16 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: of good news before we go into the apocalyptic nature 17 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: of our politics. The good news with Amicron that we 18 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: have thus far, and again, this has only been on 19 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: the planet for but a handful of weeks, right, so 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: we gotta be as intellectually nimble as possible in understanding 21 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: that all the information that we are receiving. Scientists and 22 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: doctors and analysts are getting in real time and providing 23 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: that information to the public. What we know thus far 24 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: is that Omicron for those that are vaccinated and boosted right, 25 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: it is obviously a vaccine evader. But at the same point, 26 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: for those that are vaccinated and boosted, the reality is 27 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: is that you will most likely either a have no 28 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: symptoms at all or be have very mild symptoms, probably 29 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: those associated with a cult. However, if you are experiencing symptoms, 30 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: stay the fuck at home, right, So, let me tell 31 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: you something about my feelings about the CDC and Rochelle Wilenski. 32 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: At this point in time, I think that the CDC 33 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: has lost all fucking credibility, and I don't think that 34 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: we can just blame the Trump administration for the CDC 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: and where they are right now. I think the fact 36 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: of the matter is is that it is very clear 37 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: and evident thanks to the good people over at Routers 38 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: and the AP and other news lines that once the 39 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: CDC spoke with the president of Delta Right Delta Airlines, 40 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: the CEO of Delta, and he asked that the guidelines 41 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: be cut from ten days of quarantine to five because 42 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: he doesn't have any staff. There is no one available 43 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: to fly or to serve for DELTA because everyone's infected 44 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: with fucking COVID. Well, here's the thing. Are we following 45 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: the science or are we following CEOs? And with the 46 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: abrupt pivot that the CDC made in terms of shortening 47 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: the recommendation of quarantining for ten days to five, you know, 48 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: a good five day work week, leads us all to 49 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: believe what we've always known is that capitalism is what 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: rules everything, not just in this country but around the 51 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: fucking globe. No one actually cares about the science or 52 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: the public health implications. We just care about keeping things 53 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: running right. Even in the CDC's statement that they released 54 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: a couple of days back when we were all still 55 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: on break their recommendations, they said, well, we have to 56 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: figure out how to balance public health with a like 57 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: keeping our economy going. My god. You know what I 58 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: find really frustrating here is that if those same sentiments 59 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: came out of the CDC during the Trump administration, then 60 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: everybody would have been up in arms. But because it's 61 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: coming out in the Biden administration, there's nothing more than 62 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: memes and jokes that are being made, but no real 63 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: interrogation as to what data the CDC is using to 64 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: make their decisions these days, because here they go saying, well, 65 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: you know, we're going to rely on the public to 66 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,799 Speaker 1: do the right thing. It's like, have you been paying attention? 67 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: Have we all been on planet Earth since February of 68 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty when the first alpha variant the og raret 69 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: its head. Do we not understand that depending on people's 70 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: goodwill right and their honesty is not where we are 71 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,559 Speaker 1: as a country right now when we have still still 72 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: at this moment in time, a sixty two percent of 73 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: the public has been vaccinated. Sixty two percent, that's it. 74 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: But we're all supposed to feel what good about that? 75 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: You know, folks. And what's frustrating here too is that, 76 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: you know, the CDC they did a lot of things. 77 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: In my humble opinion, again, I'm not a doctor and 78 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist, and I say that because, unlike 79 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: you know, the right wingers, I actually admit to where 80 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: my analysis can fall short because I don't have those 81 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: years of education in the medical industry, particularly epidemiology, to 82 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: provide you with my COVID intel. But what I can 83 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: say as a person who has coached many as CEOs 84 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: and has done media trainings for many of people, including 85 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: members of Congress, is that the communication aspect of the 86 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: CDC as faulty as fuck. Right. The rush to tell 87 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: people to take off their masks when they were vaccinated, 88 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: the rush to tell people that they could go back 89 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: inside to indoor dining, all of those things were used 90 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: as tactics, as carrot dangling tactics for an unvaccinated public 91 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: that if you had been paying attention, you would know 92 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: you were not going to move the needle with There 93 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: are twenty five percent of those people, those staunch Trumpers, 94 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: those that are so enveloped in QAnon, in Newsmax, in 95 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: Fox News, and in Trump's orbit, that regardless of what 96 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: it is that you do to try and get them 97 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: over to your side, they're not coming. And so the 98 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: question that I continue to ask is the same question 99 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: that I ask about why Democrats go off trying to 100 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: court the Karens and the Chads and these invisible independence 101 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: as opposed to shoring up their base in the same 102 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: way that Republicans do, right, Like, why do you keep 103 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: going after the people that don't want to fuck with 104 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: you as opposed to the people that actively do and 105 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: are saying so on a regular basis. But with the CDC, 106 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: it's once again not rewarding those people that have been 107 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: doing the right thing, that have been masking up that 108 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: we're social distancing when we were told to social distance right, 109 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: that we're outdoor dining, when we were told that we 110 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: could outdoor dine. Not those people. They have given up 111 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: everything for those that are unvaccinated. And I get it. 112 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: I get the idea that we believe that these people 113 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: pose a threat and the reality is, folks, we are 114 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: going to be living with COVID. COVID is just now 115 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: a part of our culture. It is a part of 116 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: our world. And all we can do, frankly, is hope 117 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: that with so much virus in the air, with omicron, 118 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: and how fast it is spreading, I mean like fucking 119 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: wildfire in a tender field. This thing has spread. I mean, 120 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: just think about this when we think about this for 121 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:10,559 Speaker 1: a moment. It was the beginning of December, right either 122 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: late November the beginning of December, when the news broke 123 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: that omicron was present in South Africa and in Brussels, 124 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: and in the Netherlands and in the UK. Right it 125 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: was South African scientists who first discovered the mutation that 126 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: was the beginning of December. Within three weeks it had 127 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: ravaged the fucking globe. So with that much virus in 128 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: the air, all we can do, folks, is pray that 129 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: each and every iteration of COVID will be less and 130 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: less life threatening. That's all we can hope. There's no 131 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: science to prove that we can deal with the fact 132 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: that delta was transmitted faster than alpha, right, and then 133 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: omicron was transmitted faster than delta. But it also seems 134 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: that right now again for those that are vaccinated and boosted, 135 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: that the symptoms right or are mild. But if you're 136 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: still paying attention to COVID nineteen news, then you know 137 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: in places like Tennessee, in places like Alabama and Arkansas, 138 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: right these very right states, that their hospital systems are 139 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: on a breaking point, at a breaking point right where 140 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: doctors and nurses and other health professionals are not able 141 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: to keep up with the demand. But their governors still 142 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: don't give a shit. And here's the thing with COVID 143 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: that just pisses me off. And now folks will say, Danielle, 144 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: we got to deal with one thing at one time. 145 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: And I have to tell you this, no, we do not. 146 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: We all need to learn how to fucking juggle, right, 147 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: because that's the kind of climate and world that we 148 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: are living in when we are not able to just 149 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: take one crisis at a time. No, we're getting multiple 150 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: crises over the course of multiple weeks that are coming 151 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: at us all at once. Here's the thing, over eight 152 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 1: hundred thousand Americans are dead, right. We have actual evidence 153 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was aware of just how dangerous, just 154 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: how deadly deadly COVID nineteen was, and he did nothing. 155 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, did they not only 156 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: do nothing, they decided to as a collective, as a collective, 157 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: as an administration, and as an entire political party, to 158 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:50,359 Speaker 1: weaponize a virus that would kill close to a million Americans. 159 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: No one is being held accountable for that. No one 160 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: is being held accountable for the lies. I see no 161 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: lawsuits being waged at Q and on being waged at Newsmax, 162 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: at Fox News, at any of these places for their 163 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: participation in the weaponization of a virus that is killed 164 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: close to a million people. Now, you can have people 165 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: on the other side that say, well, how would we 166 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: have known you can even have them feign ignorance. But 167 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: you see, to this date, we are now two years 168 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: into this pandemic, and they still refer to it as 169 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: a hoax. They still say that everyone is overreacting. They 170 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: still say, no, no, it's the economy, get back to work, 171 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: don't mask up. Masking your children is child abuse. These 172 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: people still continue with this narrative because they have faced 173 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: absolutely no consequences for it. And my question is when, 174 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: if ever, we wonder why bad actors keep getting worse 175 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: just right before, right over the weekend, Once again, it 176 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: is only corporations that are holding these wayward, lying ass 177 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: politicians accountable. Marjorie Taylor Green has finally not through her 178 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: anti semitism, not through her xenophobia, not through her racism, 179 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: but through her lies about COVID nineteen, has finally lost 180 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: her Twitter account permanently. But guess what she has two 181 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: She has her congressional Twitter account. They didn't fucking suspend that. 182 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: So let me just paint this picture for you. We're 183 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: living in a society. We're the only consequences that lying 184 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: ass politicians face who not only lie, but are racist, 185 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: Our misogynist, are anti Semites, are xenophobic, are homophobic? Are transphobic? Right? 186 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: That are the most deplorable and disgusting human beings on 187 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: the face of the it's planet that the only consequence 188 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: they receive for their actions is losing a Twitter account. 189 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: That's it. They don't lose their seats, they're not expelled 190 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: from Congress. Maybe maybe they'll lose their committees, as Marjorie 191 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: Taylor Green has already done. But that woman, right, and 192 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: I use that, and I'm telling you their other word 193 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: just wants to come up. But I'm going to try 194 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: and start out twenty twenty two on a better note. 195 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: That crackpot walks around stalking her colleagues, running them down, 196 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: putting up posters, using her social media followers to threaten them. 197 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: And she still has a job, even though she has 198 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: no committee power, even though she is no ability to vote, 199 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: She's still receiving a salary, a check from us, the 200 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: American people. She's still able to fundraise off of her 201 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: fucking crazy How is it that the only consequences that 202 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: these people are facing is losing the ability to tweet. 203 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: The only consequence Donald Trump has faced since leaving office, right, 204 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: is the loss of his Twitter account. That's it. It 205 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: is hard to keep faith in focus when it's just 206 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: we are living in such absurd times. I mean, that's 207 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: honestly all that I can say. You know, I don't 208 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: believe in resolutions. I believe in manifestations, right. I believe 209 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: in energy. I believe in energy shifts. I believe in 210 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: matching people with the energy that they give you. And 211 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I also believe in letting 212 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: some shit go. I want us as we go into 213 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: this new year together, I want us to use woke 214 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: af use the community that we have here in order 215 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: to rage, in order to vent. And then at the 216 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: end of each episode, y'all collectively take a deep breath, 217 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: take three, and let it go, right, because I am 218 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: going to refuse. I don't know how much time we 219 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: have left. I honestly do not. And when I say 220 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how much time I have left, I 221 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: mean between COVID climate change and the impending collapse of 222 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: our democracy. It's unclear, right, It's unclear how long somebody 223 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: like me will be able to broadcast four Right, it's unclear. Right. 224 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: So with whatever time that we have left, I say 225 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: we rage, I say we try and wake as many 226 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: fucking people up as possible. But at the end of 227 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: each day, we let that shit go. Right. I'm not 228 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: holding this toxic waste inside of me any longer. So 229 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: if you see me, you know, on Twitter, also cracking 230 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: jokes on Instagram, also live in life. Yeah, I implore 231 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: you to do the same, because I'm not going to 232 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: stay in rage and in anger and in frustration and 233 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: in anxiety and in depression and in sadness because I 234 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: think that doing so is going to shift something. The 235 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: only thing that it shifts is me off a cliff 236 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: and I'm not going out like that, right. So, you know, 237 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: as I run through the news, which we will because 238 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: there's so much to cover, I just want to remind 239 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: you of all of that. It is okay. You can 240 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: hold both rage and joy at the same time. You 241 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: can both pay attention and decide that you're going to 242 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: limit that and disconnect, right, because this twenty twenty two 243 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: is also about our health and well being. Yes, we 244 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: have consequential midterm elections. Yes we will probably see more 245 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: variants pop up before the end of the year is over. Yes, 246 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: we may or may not see any members of Congress 247 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: be arrested for you know, communicating with insurrectionists and giving 248 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: them the four Plans to the Capitol Building. But at 249 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: that point, here's the thing, folks, I am going to 250 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: begin this year the way that I want to fucking 251 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: end it, which is with my emotional, physical, and mental 252 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: well being in alignment, right, because they will not rob 253 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: me of that. No matter the crazy shit that we 254 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: are going to see that we're going to discuss on 255 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: this show. Do not let them rob you of your 256 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: sanity because you will need it, all right. So let's 257 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: talk about for a moment the Republicans. So, my friend 258 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: wajahat Ali, who is a writer at The Daily Beast, 259 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: he is a new book that is coming out at 260 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: the end of this month called Go Back to Where 261 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,479 Speaker 1: You Came From. He offered a bit of advice to 262 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: the media on Twitter yesterday, and he said, dear media, 263 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: let us use this year to cover the Republican Party 264 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: in the way that they should be covered. They are 265 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: not a normal political party anymore, so stop treating them 266 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: like that. They are a radicalized white supremist party. They 267 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: have radicalized white Americans across this country. And if they 268 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: were of any other shade, if they were affiliated with 269 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: any other religion, I would guarantee you that the headlines 270 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: and the stories that you saw on news media, on 271 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: the papers anywhere would be a hell of a lot 272 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: different than the nothingburger we get most days. We are 273 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: coming up on the year anniversary this week Thursday, the 274 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: year anniversary that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and all of 275 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: his crew, Johnny east all of these folks, Eastman, everybody, Juliani, 276 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: his fucking spawn all put together a war room PowerPoint 277 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,959 Speaker 1: presentation on how to overthrow the government. And these people 278 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: are still free because for some reason, when you are white, 279 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: rich and powerful, you need to have a Mount Everest 280 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: style selection of evidence. The proof has to be so high, 281 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: you know. And what makes me so disgusted that I 282 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: want to spit is that, folks, if you remember, back 283 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: in the early aughts, there was one of the most 284 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: devastating cases that New York had seen in quite some time. 285 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: And New York had seen a lot of devastating cases 286 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: because millions of motherfuckers live here. But it was a 287 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: case of Caliph Browder, the sixteen year old black boy 288 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: who was picked up by police under the suspicion, the 289 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: mere suspicion that he had stolen a backpack. Now, as 290 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: far as we were all concerned, the backpack did not 291 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: contain bricks of gold, It did not contain body parts, 292 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: It did not contain, you know, kilos of cocaine, It 293 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: didn't contain, oh anything. They picked him up and they 294 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: threw him in jail. And not just any jail. They 295 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: threw him in Rikers, and not just in Rikers, but 296 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: in solitary confinement where he would be beaten and tortured 297 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: and abused, not just by the other inmates at Rikers, 298 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: but by the police at Rikers, by the correctional facility, 299 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: the correctional staff at Rikers. His family was not able 300 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: to come up with the thousands of dollars for his 301 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: bail bonds. And because we have a payola system right, 302 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: New York State and New York City are able to 303 00:21:53,600 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: target the poor black people, Latin X folks, throw them 304 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: in jail, throw away the key. Well. As it would 305 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: turn out, after three years of being in this tortuous 306 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: and nightmarish scenario, Caliph Browder was released. He was never 307 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 1: actually charged, he never stood trial. He was just held 308 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: for three years under the suspicion of stealing a backpack. 309 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: He would later, if you remember, commit suicide. He would 310 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: kill himself because the depression and the anxiety that that incarceration, 311 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: wrongful incarceration caused him, he couldn't bear to live with it. 312 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: That is one of too many stories. He was held 313 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: for three years under suspicion of having a backpack, stealing 314 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: a backpack that never turned up. So you tell me 315 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: why the fuck we need mountains and mountains and mountains 316 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: of all of the fucking evidence in the world that 317 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: we have had, by the way, We've had evidence of obstruction, 318 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: we have had evidence of you know, money laundering, of theft. 319 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: We've had all of this evidence on Trump since the 320 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: Mulla Report, since his first impeachment, since his second impeachment. 321 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: Then he openly threatens to kill the vice president of 322 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: the United States, is still going on television saying that 323 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: the election was stolen from him, has raised a hundred 324 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: million dollars plus off of that said lie, has changed 325 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: policies and laws across this country as it pertains to elections, 326 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: And this motherfucker is still walking three So is the 327 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: person that put together the PowerPoint presentation. So is Steve 328 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: Bannon that continues to go on air and threaten people. 329 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: It is more than suspicion to overthrow the government here, 330 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: and yet these rich white men continue to walk fucking free, 331 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: and all we're doing is holding hearings telling people we'll 332 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. And a year later, 333 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 1: what's the longest sentence that somebody has received for trying 334 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: to overthrow our government violently so killing five people, destroying 335 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: millions of dollars worth of property, and shitting in the 336 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: halls of our democracy. I think the longest sentence thus far, 337 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: don't quote me. I think might be four years. And 338 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: that was for the fucking idiot QAnon Shaman, right, because 339 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: he was just so front and fucking center. There was 340 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: no way for you not to do something. But will 341 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: he serve those four years? Probably not. It just pains 342 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: me because the injustice is just so blatant, right, the 343 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: imbalance is just so off, But we continue to trudge along. 344 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: And I believe that there's a reason why we continue 345 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: to want to tell ourselves that, oh oh, justice is coming, 346 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: because it's I think that if we don't believe in something, 347 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: we'll lose our minds. I think that we are holding 348 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: on to the hope of some semblance of justice happening 349 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: because we don't want to imagine a society that has 350 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,719 Speaker 1: shown us who it is. We don't want to imagine 351 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 1: that you're living in a society that, for I don't know, 352 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: since the beginning of time, black people have been very 353 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: aware that the laws were never meant to actually protect us, 354 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: They were never meant to support our citizenship. The laws 355 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: were only ever created to protect white people and property 356 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: from black people and other people of color. So when 357 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: they break the law, you just have to move the goalpost. 358 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: You just have to change the law, or you just 359 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: have to increase the burden of proof. You see in America, 360 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: you can just point out a black person and say 361 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: they did that thing right, whether it is in the 362 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, a black man whistled at me, and so 363 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna lynch and murder and torture them. And that's 364 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: based on what just some white person's thoughts. But in 365 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: order to convict a known mob for burning down a town, lynching, beating, 366 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: raping people, oh, you need to show so much, not 367 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: just their faces, not even just their own words and statements. No, 368 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: we need to create an entire circus around it, only 369 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: to have them sit up, cry their crocodile white tears 370 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: and then be sent home. And then we say, well, 371 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: you win some, you lose some. Well, how many do 372 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: you actually have to lose for us to recognize that 373 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: the system is rigged. It's not broken, right, it's rigged. 374 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: I don't even like using that word anymore because when 375 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: you use it nowadays, it triggers, you know, the conversations 376 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: and the rants of Donald Trump. But you see, the 377 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: system really is rigged. It has been rigged against black 378 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: people and other people of color. We know, good god, 379 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,959 Speaker 1: damn well, what would have happened? How many thousands of 380 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: people would have been dead on the steps of the 381 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: Capitol building? How you would have seen it look like somebodies, 382 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 1: you know, Capital Down or White House Down or whatever 383 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: one of those movies with you know, helicopters and bombs 384 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: being dropped just to stop those crazy black and brown 385 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: people from wanting to declare their rights as citizens, right, 386 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: because that's what would have happened, and then they would 387 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: have spun the tail. America has been doing this since forever. 388 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: We just have the internet now. So a year later, 389 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: do I think that we are going to see anything 390 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: like the Nuremberg Trials. You know, is somebody a fantashow 391 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: Kyle shout out to you, sent me on Twitter and 392 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: article and I'm certain that we talked about this in 393 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but apparently November twenty twenty was the seventy 394 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of Germany's Nuremberg Trials, you know, the trials 395 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: that brought down executed the top members of the Nazi Party. 396 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: It created whole new international laws around how war criminals 397 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: could be tried personally for their participation. And I think 398 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: about the fact that those prosecutors had to be brave, 399 00:29:52,280 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: had to be valiant, because they were breaking ground, because 400 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: there was no precedent, not any precedent for what Hitler 401 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: was able to do right for so many years without 402 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: people caring, because all you have to do is pick 403 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: a population of people that people the large majority doesn't 404 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: give a fuck about or has a conspiracy about, and 405 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: just go about your day. I remember folks saying so 406 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: many times as a young person learning about the Holocaust 407 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: and learning about the Nuremberg Trials, how could this happen? 408 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: How was it that Hitler was receiving coverage in the 409 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: New York Times Home and garden section as he was executing, 410 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: burning alive, gassing millions of Jewish people. Right, How how 411 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: could people go along with their day to day when 412 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: their neighbors, right, their friends, I thought they were Maybe 413 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: their friends are getting picked up one by one. You 414 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: don't know where they're going. How does it happen collective apathy? 415 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: Oh well, at least it's not me, it's them, so 416 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: I don't have to care. I wonder, And I know 417 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: that I'm not the first person to say this. I 418 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: know that millions of people have said it to me before. 419 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: But if Hitler had had Fox News, would they have 420 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: taken him down? Or would he have just had his 421 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 1: full on propaganda machine? And he did, He had all 422 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: the news stations he had, you know, the aggrieved citizen 423 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: try of Germany that was spiraling out of control in 424 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: an economic downturn, and they needed somebody to blame, right, 425 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: And you can't possibly blame government. You can't blame your 426 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: employer for not providing you with living wages, for not 427 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: creating social safety gnats that would protect people from downturns. No, 428 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: you just point to somebody over there and you say 429 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: they're the reason. They're the reason why you've lost your home, 430 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: lost your job, or standing in a breadline. And so 431 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: then when you decide to turn around and begin the 432 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: slow but steady execution of those people, no one bats 433 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: an eyelash because you slowly but surely turn society against them. 434 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: Well that's the meticulousness of the Trump administration. They slowly, 435 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: meticulously turned normal people against facts, against truth, against their 436 00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: own fucking health. We should have saw the possibility of 437 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: COVID coming when people were voting against their own ability 438 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: to have healthcare. Jonathan saw it, our friend and the 439 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: author of Dying of Whiteness. You see, they were willing. 440 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: These white folks are willing to cut off their nose, 441 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: cut off their arm, so long as the black person 442 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,719 Speaker 1: down the street of the Latin, next person a neighborhood 443 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: over loses more body parts than them, loses more rights 444 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: than they do, because then they can still what hold 445 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: on to some idea, some lie of superiority. I'm never 446 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: in a million years if you had told me, Danielle. 447 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: People will literally flip over tables, threatened hospital staff, beat 448 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: up school board officials, call in threats just so they 449 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: don't get a life saving vaccine. And not only that, 450 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: they'll threaten you and your safety. I never, we never, 451 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: but here we are. So how is it that nobody 452 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: is being held responsible for that from the insurrection to COVID. 453 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,760 Speaker 1: How how is it that these governors still have their jobs? 454 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,800 Speaker 1: How is it that you don't see from this administration 455 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 1: every single day fucking PSAs about how dangerous the Republican 456 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: Party has become. How they are a party that literally 457 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: has created death panels, people willingly though lining up to 458 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: be executed. It's wild, you know, it really is when 459 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:02,399 Speaker 1: you think about what really is the cause of all 460 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 1: of this, and it is misinformation, but it's I mean, 461 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: even the word misinformation isn't effective enough. It's bald face 462 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 1: lies that are allowed to spread by full networks that 463 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 1: this government refuses to shut down. Oh, Danielle, they don't 464 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: have the power. Give me a fucking break. I'm so 465 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: tired of being told what we don't have the power 466 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: to do, what we don't have the authority to do. 467 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,760 Speaker 1: And then all we have to do is sit around 468 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: and wait for the next Trump administration to come in 469 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: and decide that they're turning the FCC on every single 470 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: news channel that does not bow to their will and 471 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: you will see how quickly those CEOs will, how they'll bend, 472 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: how they'll contort themselves. We'll all sit around and say, 473 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, this is an American not in this country, 474 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I'll say, you had an opportunity 475 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: to do the right thing four years ago, but you 476 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 1: decided not to because you wanted to seem politically fucking neutral, 477 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: you know. Desmond two two, Archbishop Desmond tu two died 478 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: over the holiday the ripe old age of ninety A 479 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: life incredibly well lived. And why was it well lived? 480 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: Because he told the truth. He told the truth about 481 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: what was happening in South Africa during apartheid. He told 482 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: the truth about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. 483 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,920 Speaker 1: He told the truth about why people need to pay attention. 484 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 1: He as an archbishop at a time when no one, 485 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: no one was laying a finger, let alone embracing the 486 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,839 Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus community. He said, I'd rather go to Hell 487 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:21,280 Speaker 1: than a homophobic heaven. I want those leaders. Where are they? 488 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: Where are the ones that are willing to do and 489 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: say what is necessary. They've all become pawns of capitalism. 490 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: This isn't about we the people. And it's why I 491 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: have always, over the last several years, ended every woke 492 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 1: a f show with power to the people, because I 493 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 1: believe in the collective. But what happens when the leaders 494 00:37:54,960 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 1: that you elect to be your voice, to stand up 495 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: and to do what's right for the collective all of 496 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:11,240 Speaker 1: a sudden have selective laryngitis. What does it look like 497 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: when it is the people that are screaming into the 498 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: ether and it's falling on non listening ears. You know, 499 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: one of the questions that I was asked yesterday when 500 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 1: I had the good fortune to join Reverend Owl on 501 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: MSNBC on Politics Nation, one of the questions that they 502 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 1: asked was, you know, what do you see for twenty 503 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,400 Speaker 1: twenty two? What is that steak? And I can't say 504 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: this enough. What is that steak? Everything? Everything that you 505 00:38:54,400 --> 00:39:00,360 Speaker 1: hold dear, Your ability to vote, your ability did have 506 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 1: an abortion, your ability to vaccinatured children, your ability to 507 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: turn on the television and get news that is not 508 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:17,280 Speaker 1: riddled with lies and state propaganda agencies that are supposed 509 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: to be supporting you, that you're paying into with your 510 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: own tax dollars, all of it, I said to Rev. 511 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,919 Speaker 1: I said, he says Danielle. What happens if we don't 512 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,399 Speaker 1: pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, if Biden can't 513 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: get it done because of mansion in cinema and their 514 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,400 Speaker 1: love affair with the filibuster, Well, I said, very simply, 515 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 1: then our democracy will go up and smoke like the 516 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: Capitol Building did on one six. That is not hyperbole, 517 00:39:53,360 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: that is the truth. We have never been in a 518 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: worse position in this country than we are now. And 519 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: we've been in two World Wars on top of other 520 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:19,560 Speaker 1: failed wars that took countless lives, billions of dollars lost, 521 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,879 Speaker 1: and no justice found. And I will tell you that 522 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: this position that we are in is the worst most 523 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:39,880 Speaker 1: historians have ever seen. If we have the ability to 524 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,239 Speaker 1: look back on this time, and that is a big if. 525 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,720 Speaker 1: I can only imagine what is going to be said, 526 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 1: probably the same thing that I said when learning about 527 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: the Holocaust for the first time. How did they let 528 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 1: this happen? How did so many people fail to stop 529 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: madmen from taking over the country. Why weren't there riots 530 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:23,880 Speaker 1: in the street. Why wasn't capitalism and government grinded to 531 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: a fucking halt until people were held accountable for what 532 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: they've been doing. I hope you see if those conversations 533 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,799 Speaker 1: are being had, that means that some portion of our 534 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,920 Speaker 1: world has been saved. But as it looks right now, folks, 535 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 1: you know, it was Michael Harriet from The Route who 536 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: tweeted about the Netflix movie Don't Look Up. He said, 537 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 1: don't look up as a documentary. I gotta tell you 538 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 1: it certainly fucking is, because it's so fucking absurd that 539 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 1: you would have the president find out that there's an 540 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 1: existential threat and say, let's wait an assess. But isn't 541 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: that what this administration is doing voting rights is an 542 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: existential threat to our fucking democracy and you're still having 543 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: coffee and tea with the two people with their fucking 544 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: fingers on the nuclear button. So how is it that 545 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: we think that what the Biden and Harris administration is 546 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 1: doing right now with regard to voting rights isn't the 547 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 1: same thing that Meryl Streep was doing and fucking don't 548 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:55,320 Speaker 1: look up. Let's wait an assess. Now. Don't get me wrong, 549 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 1: they're dealing with COVID, they're dealing with climate change. But 550 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,000 Speaker 1: let me tell you what they're not doing is that 551 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 1: they're not setting off any type of alarms and that 552 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,240 Speaker 1: actually they're doing the fucking reverse. Oh keep calm, folks, 553 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,000 Speaker 1: we have it all under control. Bits just three hundred 554 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,839 Speaker 1: thousand people that just were infected with omicron. You just 555 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 1: had devastating tornadoes, tornadoes that were miles wide that took 556 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,919 Speaker 1: out full fucking towns. You got emergency rooms now being 557 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: filled up with fucking children. You have Republicans that are 558 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,239 Speaker 1: threatening to kill their own colleagues, and you have an 559 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,799 Speaker 1: ex president twice in Peach that is using his Morilago 560 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:50,080 Speaker 1: compound as White House too. And if you are not 561 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 1: articulating the urgency of this moment to the people, then 562 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,400 Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing? And that is my 563 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,839 Speaker 1: question for this administration because I feel, folks, as we 564 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,440 Speaker 1: come up to the year mark of the insurrection, as 565 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:13,799 Speaker 1: we come up to the first complete year of the 566 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:20,600 Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration, I have given them enough time to 567 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 1: stress the importance, the emergency, the urgency of this moment. 568 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: Because I'm about to ride that administration like a motherfucking donkey, okay, 569 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,320 Speaker 1: because they are not meeting this moment and you can 570 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:46,040 Speaker 1: fight me on it. That is it for me today, 571 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 1: Folks on woke f as always power to the people 572 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,760 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay 573 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:55,959 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.