WEBVTT - Weaponization of a Virus 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay EPP Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.840 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back in twenty twenty two, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.840 recording from where the Brooklyn Bunker. Why because oh Macron, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.920 My god. Folks, you know, it has been a nice 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.600 break over the last ten days. I hope that you 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.320 enjoyed the content that we created for you before we 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.919 left for the holiday break. I hope that all of 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.720 you got some rest. We're able to recharge, enjoy small 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.519 groups of family and friends. I want to open up 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.640 today with telling you a little bit about my holiday experience. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:53.000 As many folks across the country are headed back to 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:57.840 work today, are headed back to school today, when the 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.279 United States is at a break point where we are 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:07.920 seeing three hundred thousand new cases a day, three hundred 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.080 thousand new omicron cases a day. Here's a little bit 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.440 of good news before we go into the apocalyptic nature 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.200 of our politics. The good news with Amicron that we 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.160 have thus far, and again, this has only been on 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.520 the planet for but a handful of weeks, right, so 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.160 we gotta be as intellectually nimble as possible in understanding 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.679 that all the information that we are receiving. Scientists and 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.080 doctors and analysts are getting in real time and providing 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.080 that information to the public. What we know thus far 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.400 is that Omicron for those that are vaccinated and boosted right, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.960 it is obviously a vaccine evader. But at the same point, 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.520 for those that are vaccinated and boosted, the reality is 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.960 is that you will most likely either a have no 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.080 symptoms at all or be have very mild symptoms, probably 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:07.600 those associated with a cult. However, if you are experiencing symptoms, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.519 stay the fuck at home, right, So, let me tell 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.840 you something about my feelings about the CDC and Rochelle Wilenski. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.840 At this point in time, I think that the CDC 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.640 has lost all fucking credibility, and I don't think that 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.560 we can just blame the Trump administration for the CDC 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.440 and where they are right now. I think the fact 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.799 of the matter is is that it is very clear 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.120 and evident thanks to the good people over at Routers 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:42.000 and the AP and other news lines that once the 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.480 CDC spoke with the president of Delta Right Delta Airlines, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:52.079 the CEO of Delta, and he asked that the guidelines 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:57.440 be cut from ten days of quarantine to five because 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.400 he doesn't have any staff. There is no one available 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:07.160 to fly or to serve for DELTA because everyone's infected 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:12.679 with fucking COVID. Well, here's the thing. Are we following 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.960 the science or are we following CEOs? And with the 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.079 abrupt pivot that the CDC made in terms of shortening 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.840 the recommendation of quarantining for ten days to five, you know, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.560 a good five day work week, leads us all to 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.600 believe what we've always known is that capitalism is what 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.560 rules everything, not just in this country but around the 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.880 fucking globe. No one actually cares about the science or 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:47.360 the public health implications. We just care about keeping things 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.480 running right. Even in the CDC's statement that they released 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.440 a couple of days back when we were all still 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.400 on break their recommendations, they said, well, we have to 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.840 figure out how to balance public health with a like 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.480 keeping our economy going. My god. You know what I 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:12.440 find really frustrating here is that if those same sentiments 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.640 came out of the CDC during the Trump administration, then 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.320 everybody would have been up in arms. But because it's 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.000 coming out in the Biden administration, there's nothing more than 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.719 memes and jokes that are being made, but no real 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.640 interrogation as to what data the CDC is using to 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.760 make their decisions these days, because here they go saying, well, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.400 you know, we're going to rely on the public to 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.799 do the right thing. It's like, have you been paying attention? 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.719 Have we all been on planet Earth since February of 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.200 twenty twenty when the first alpha variant the og raret 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.400 its head. Do we not understand that depending on people's 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:00.120 goodwill right and their honesty is not where we are 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.559 as a country right now when we have still still 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.400 at this moment in time, a sixty two percent of 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.480 the public has been vaccinated. Sixty two percent, that's it. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.840 But we're all supposed to feel what good about that? 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.279 You know, folks. And what's frustrating here too is that, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.560 you know, the CDC they did a lot of things. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.680 In my humble opinion, again, I'm not a doctor and 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.240 I'm not a scientist, and I say that because, unlike 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.760 you know, the right wingers, I actually admit to where 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.280 my analysis can fall short because I don't have those 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:47.120 years of education in the medical industry, particularly epidemiology, to 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.280 provide you with my COVID intel. But what I can 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.040 say as a person who has coached many as CEOs 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.680 and has done media trainings for many of people, including 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.440 members of Congress, is that the communication aspect of the 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.760 CDC as faulty as fuck. Right. The rush to tell 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.720 people to take off their masks when they were vaccinated, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.000 the rush to tell people that they could go back 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.359 inside to indoor dining, all of those things were used 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:23.120 as tactics, as carrot dangling tactics for an unvaccinated public 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.000 that if you had been paying attention, you would know 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.320 you were not going to move the needle with There 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.479 are twenty five percent of those people, those staunch Trumpers, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:38.520 those that are so enveloped in QAnon, in Newsmax, in 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.440 Fox News, and in Trump's orbit, that regardless of what 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.800 it is that you do to try and get them 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.719 over to your side, they're not coming. And so the 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.599 question that I continue to ask is the same question 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.800 that I ask about why Democrats go off trying to 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.760 court the Karens and the Chads and these invisible independence 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.960 as opposed to shoring up their base in the same 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.440 way that Republicans do, right, Like, why do you keep 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.680 going after the people that don't want to fuck with 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.040 you as opposed to the people that actively do and 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.880 are saying so on a regular basis. But with the CDC, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.600 it's once again not rewarding those people that have been 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.680 doing the right thing, that have been masking up that 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.000 we're social distancing when we were told to social distance right, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.120 that we're outdoor dining, when we were told that we 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.400 could outdoor dine. Not those people. They have given up 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.560 everything for those that are unvaccinated. And I get it. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.760 I get the idea that we believe that these people 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.000 pose a threat and the reality is, folks, we are 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.600 going to be living with COVID. COVID is just now 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.080 a part of our culture. It is a part of 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:49.240 our world. And all we can do, frankly, is hope 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.120 that with so much virus in the air, with omicron, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.640 and how fast it is spreading, I mean like fucking 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:01.040 wildfire in a tender field. This thing has spread. I mean, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.040 just think about this when we think about this for 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:10.559 a moment. It was the beginning of December, right either 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.680 late November the beginning of December, when the news broke 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.240 that omicron was present in South Africa and in Brussels, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.920 and in the Netherlands and in the UK. Right it 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.920 was South African scientists who first discovered the mutation that 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.200 was the beginning of December. Within three weeks it had 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.920 ravaged the fucking globe. So with that much virus in 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.600 the air, all we can do, folks, is pray that 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:46.640 each and every iteration of COVID will be less and 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.360 less life threatening. That's all we can hope. There's no 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.280 science to prove that we can deal with the fact 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.360 that delta was transmitted faster than alpha, right, and then 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.200 omicron was transmitted faster than delta. But it also seems 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.800 that right now again for those that are vaccinated and boosted, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:13.040 that the symptoms right or are mild. But if you're 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.240 still paying attention to COVID nineteen news, then you know 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.199 in places like Tennessee, in places like Alabama and Arkansas, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.480 right these very right states, that their hospital systems are 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:30.400 on a breaking point, at a breaking point right where 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.080 doctors and nurses and other health professionals are not able 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.280 to keep up with the demand. But their governors still 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.480 don't give a shit. And here's the thing with COVID 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.920 that just pisses me off. And now folks will say, Danielle, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.680 we got to deal with one thing at one time. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.960 And I have to tell you this, no, we do not. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.160 We all need to learn how to fucking juggle, right, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.560 because that's the kind of climate and world that we 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.360 are living in when we are not able to just 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.920 take one crisis at a time. No, we're getting multiple 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.520 crises over the course of multiple weeks that are coming 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.720 at us all at once. Here's the thing, over eight 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:18.719 hundred thousand Americans are dead, right. We have actual evidence 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:24.440 that Donald Trump was aware of just how dangerous, just 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:33.920 how deadly deadly COVID nineteen was, and he did nothing. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.439 And as a matter of fact, did they not only 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:41.000 do nothing, they decided to as a collective, as a collective, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.000 as an administration, and as an entire political party, to 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:50.359 weaponize a virus that would kill close to a million Americans. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.199 No one is being held accountable for that. No one 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.560 is being held accountable for the lies. I see no 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:02.080 lawsuits being waged at Q and on being waged at Newsmax, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.760 at Fox News, at any of these places for their 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.720 participation in the weaponization of a virus that is killed 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.559 close to a million people. Now, you can have people 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.760 on the other side that say, well, how would we 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.560 have known you can even have them feign ignorance. But 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.800 you see, to this date, we are now two years 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.360 into this pandemic, and they still refer to it as 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.240 a hoax. They still say that everyone is overreacting. They 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.559 still say, no, no, it's the economy, get back to work, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.560 don't mask up. Masking your children is child abuse. These 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.480 people still continue with this narrative because they have faced 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:50.480 absolutely no consequences for it. And my question is when, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:56.199 if ever, we wonder why bad actors keep getting worse 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:01.240 just right before, right over the weekend, Once again, it 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:06.880 is only corporations that are holding these wayward, lying ass 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:12.160 politicians accountable. Marjorie Taylor Green has finally not through her 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.120 anti semitism, not through her xenophobia, not through her racism, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.600 but through her lies about COVID nineteen, has finally lost 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.000 her Twitter account permanently. But guess what she has two 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:32.160 She has her congressional Twitter account. They didn't fucking suspend that. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.520 So let me just paint this picture for you. We're 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:42.760 living in a society. We're the only consequences that lying 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:48.360 ass politicians face who not only lie, but are racist, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:55.280 Our misogynist, are anti Semites, are xenophobic, are homophobic? Are transphobic? Right? 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.000 That are the most deplorable and disgusting human beings on 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.000 the face of the it's planet that the only consequence 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.880 they receive for their actions is losing a Twitter account. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.880 That's it. They don't lose their seats, they're not expelled 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:20.960 from Congress. Maybe maybe they'll lose their committees, as Marjorie 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:25.000 Taylor Green has already done. But that woman, right, and 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.920 I use that, and I'm telling you their other word 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.960 just wants to come up. But I'm going to try 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.800 and start out twenty twenty two on a better note. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:44.160 That crackpot walks around stalking her colleagues, running them down, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:50.160 putting up posters, using her social media followers to threaten them. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.000 And she still has a job, even though she has 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.200 no committee power, even though she is no ability to vote, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:05.200 She's still receiving a salary, a check from us, the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:12.000 American people. She's still able to fundraise off of her 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:18.960 fucking crazy How is it that the only consequences that 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.240 these people are facing is losing the ability to tweet. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:31.760 The only consequence Donald Trump has faced since leaving office, right, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:39.360 is the loss of his Twitter account. That's it. It 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:45.040 is hard to keep faith in focus when it's just 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.240 we are living in such absurd times. I mean, that's 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.240 honestly all that I can say. You know, I don't 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.720 believe in resolutions. I believe in manifestations, right. I believe 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.200 in energy. I believe in energy shifts. I believe in 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.520 matching people with the energy that they give you. And 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.080 I have to tell you, I also believe in letting 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.320 some shit go. I want us as we go into 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.480 this new year together, I want us to use woke 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.920 af use the community that we have here in order 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.680 to rage, in order to vent. And then at the 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.120 end of each episode, y'all collectively take a deep breath, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.880 take three, and let it go, right, because I am 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.200 going to refuse. I don't know how much time we 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.120 have left. I honestly do not. And when I say 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.040 I don't know how much time I have left, I 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.400 mean between COVID climate change and the impending collapse of 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:44.200 our democracy. It's unclear, right, It's unclear how long somebody 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.600 like me will be able to broadcast four Right, it's unclear. Right. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.240 So with whatever time that we have left, I say 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.880 we rage, I say we try and wake as many 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.480 fucking people up as possible. But at the end of 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.320 each day, we let that shit go. Right. I'm not 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.680 holding this toxic waste inside of me any longer. So 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.920 if you see me, you know, on Twitter, also cracking 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.480 jokes on Instagram, also live in life. Yeah, I implore 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.320 you to do the same, because I'm not going to 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.120 stay in rage and in anger and in frustration and 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.520 in anxiety and in depression and in sadness because I 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.640 think that doing so is going to shift something. The 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.960 only thing that it shifts is me off a cliff 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.800 and I'm not going out like that, right. So, you know, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.120 as I run through the news, which we will because 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.120 there's so much to cover, I just want to remind 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.480 you of all of that. It is okay. You can 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.240 hold both rage and joy at the same time. You 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.560 can both pay attention and decide that you're going to 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:57.000 limit that and disconnect, right, because this twenty twenty two 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.120 is also about our health and well being. Yes, we 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.760 have consequential midterm elections. Yes we will probably see more 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.760 variants pop up before the end of the year is over. Yes, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.440 we may or may not see any members of Congress 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.920 be arrested for you know, communicating with insurrectionists and giving 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.640 them the four Plans to the Capitol Building. But at 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.159 that point, here's the thing, folks, I am going to 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.240 begin this year the way that I want to fucking 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:31.080 end it, which is with my emotional, physical, and mental 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:36.760 well being in alignment, right, because they will not rob 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.520 me of that. No matter the crazy shit that we 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.760 are going to see that we're going to discuss on 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.960 this show. Do not let them rob you of your 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:55.399 sanity because you will need it, all right. So let's 0:17:55.440 --> 0:18:01.600 talk about for a moment the Republicans. So, my friend 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:06.159 wajahat Ali, who is a writer at The Daily Beast, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.840 he is a new book that is coming out at 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.520 the end of this month called Go Back to Where 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.479 You Came From. He offered a bit of advice to 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:21.600 the media on Twitter yesterday, and he said, dear media, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.760 let us use this year to cover the Republican Party 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.160 in the way that they should be covered. They are 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.600 not a normal political party anymore, so stop treating them 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:40.800 like that. They are a radicalized white supremist party. They 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:46.360 have radicalized white Americans across this country. And if they 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.200 were of any other shade, if they were affiliated with 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:56.280 any other religion, I would guarantee you that the headlines 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:02.040 and the stories that you saw on news media, on 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.480 the papers anywhere would be a hell of a lot 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:10.040 different than the nothingburger we get most days. We are 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:15.119 coming up on the year anniversary this week Thursday, the 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:21.160 year anniversary that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and all of 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:26.040 his crew, Johnny east all of these folks, Eastman, everybody, Juliani, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:32.520 his fucking spawn all put together a war room PowerPoint 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.959 presentation on how to overthrow the government. And these people 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:44.639 are still free because for some reason, when you are white, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:50.080 rich and powerful, you need to have a Mount Everest 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:59.280 style selection of evidence. The proof has to be so high, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.560 you know. And what makes me so disgusted that I 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:10.840 want to spit is that, folks, if you remember, back 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:15.640 in the early aughts, there was one of the most 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:20.920 devastating cases that New York had seen in quite some time. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.800 And New York had seen a lot of devastating cases 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.440 because millions of motherfuckers live here. But it was a 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.640 case of Caliph Browder, the sixteen year old black boy 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:38.560 who was picked up by police under the suspicion, the 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:44.960 mere suspicion that he had stolen a backpack. Now, as 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.720 far as we were all concerned, the backpack did not 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.600 contain bricks of gold, It did not contain body parts, 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:58.359 It did not contain, you know, kilos of cocaine, It 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:06.080 didn't contain, oh anything. They picked him up and they 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.840 threw him in jail. And not just any jail. They 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.919 threw him in Rikers, and not just in Rikers, but 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:18.040 in solitary confinement where he would be beaten and tortured 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:25.480 and abused, not just by the other inmates at Rikers, 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:31.040 but by the police at Rikers, by the correctional facility, 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:36.840 the correctional staff at Rikers. His family was not able 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.280 to come up with the thousands of dollars for his 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:48.040 bail bonds. And because we have a payola system right, 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.560 New York State and New York City are able to 0:21:53.600 --> 0:22:01.360 target the poor black people, Latin X folks, throw them 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.720 in jail, throw away the key. Well. As it would 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:08.080 turn out, after three years of being in this tortuous 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:14.760 and nightmarish scenario, Caliph Browder was released. He was never 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:19.719 actually charged, he never stood trial. He was just held 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:25.920 for three years under the suspicion of stealing a backpack. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:33.840 He would later, if you remember, commit suicide. He would 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.240 kill himself because the depression and the anxiety that that incarceration, 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:47.800 wrongful incarceration caused him, he couldn't bear to live with it. 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:57.080 That is one of too many stories. He was held 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:02.800 for three years under suspicion of having a backpack, stealing 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.640 a backpack that never turned up. So you tell me 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:13.240 why the fuck we need mountains and mountains and mountains 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.400 of all of the fucking evidence in the world that 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.400 we have had, by the way, We've had evidence of obstruction, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:26.199 we have had evidence of you know, money laundering, of theft. 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.080 We've had all of this evidence on Trump since the 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:33.560 Mulla Report, since his first impeachment, since his second impeachment. 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.119 Then he openly threatens to kill the vice president of 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.280 the United States, is still going on television saying that 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.080 the election was stolen from him, has raised a hundred 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:49.879 million dollars plus off of that said lie, has changed 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.920 policies and laws across this country as it pertains to elections, 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.320 And this motherfucker is still walking three So is the 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:03.280 person that put together the PowerPoint presentation. So is Steve 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.000 Bannon that continues to go on air and threaten people. 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:12.160 It is more than suspicion to overthrow the government here, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:17.000 and yet these rich white men continue to walk fucking free, 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:23.520 and all we're doing is holding hearings telling people we'll 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:28.040 get to the bottom of this. And a year later, 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.439 what's the longest sentence that somebody has received for trying 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:37.840 to overthrow our government violently so killing five people, destroying 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.399 millions of dollars worth of property, and shitting in the 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:45.680 halls of our democracy. I think the longest sentence thus far, 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.480 don't quote me. I think might be four years. And 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:54.040 that was for the fucking idiot QAnon Shaman, right, because 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.520 he was just so front and fucking center. There was 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:01.080 no way for you not to do something. But will 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:08.680 he serve those four years? Probably not. It just pains 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:17.480 me because the injustice is just so blatant, right, the 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:28.320 imbalance is just so off, But we continue to trudge along. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:34.200 And I believe that there's a reason why we continue 0:25:34.200 --> 0:25:37.760 to want to tell ourselves that, oh oh, justice is coming, 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:44.880 because it's I think that if we don't believe in something, 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.960 we'll lose our minds. I think that we are holding 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:56.160 on to the hope of some semblance of justice happening 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:02.320 because we don't want to imagine a society that has 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:06.719 shown us who it is. We don't want to imagine 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:11.479 that you're living in a society that, for I don't know, 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.280 since the beginning of time, black people have been very 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:19.520 aware that the laws were never meant to actually protect us, 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:26.080 They were never meant to support our citizenship. The laws 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:30.400 were only ever created to protect white people and property 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:36.200 from black people and other people of color. So when 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:39.280 they break the law, you just have to move the goalpost. 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.119 You just have to change the law, or you just 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:45.800 have to increase the burden of proof. You see in America, 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:48.640 you can just point out a black person and say 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:53.800 they did that thing right, whether it is in the 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:58.480 nineteen fifties, a black man whistled at me, and so 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:02.400 we're gonna lynch and murder and torture them. And that's 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:09.639 based on what just some white person's thoughts. But in 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:15.439 order to convict a known mob for burning down a town, lynching, beating, 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:20.000 raping people, oh, you need to show so much, not 0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:26.920 just their faces, not even just their own words and statements. No, 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:32.199 we need to create an entire circus around it, only 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.560 to have them sit up, cry their crocodile white tears 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:38.680 and then be sent home. And then we say, well, 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:43.520 you win some, you lose some. Well, how many do 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.720 you actually have to lose for us to recognize that 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:52.080 the system is rigged. It's not broken, right, it's rigged. 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:56.440 I don't even like using that word anymore because when 0:27:56.520 --> 0:28:01.359 you use it nowadays, it triggers, you know, the conversations 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:05.080 and the rants of Donald Trump. But you see, the 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.560 system really is rigged. It has been rigged against black 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:13.800 people and other people of color. We know, good god, 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:18.959 damn well, what would have happened? How many thousands of 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:21.800 people would have been dead on the steps of the 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:26.760 Capitol building? How you would have seen it look like somebodies, 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:30.679 you know, Capital Down or White House Down or whatever 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:34.240 one of those movies with you know, helicopters and bombs 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:37.639 being dropped just to stop those crazy black and brown 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.840 people from wanting to declare their rights as citizens, right, 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.120 because that's what would have happened, and then they would 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:49.520 have spun the tail. America has been doing this since forever. 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:56.720 We just have the internet now. So a year later, 0:28:56.880 --> 0:29:00.320 do I think that we are going to see anything 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:05.880 like the Nuremberg Trials. You know, is somebody a fantashow 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:09.920 Kyle shout out to you, sent me on Twitter and 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:13.320 article and I'm certain that we talked about this in 0:29:13.400 --> 0:29:18.360 twenty twenty, but apparently November twenty twenty was the seventy 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:23.320 fifth anniversary of Germany's Nuremberg Trials, you know, the trials 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:29.400 that brought down executed the top members of the Nazi Party. 0:29:30.040 --> 0:29:36.480 It created whole new international laws around how war criminals 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:42.680 could be tried personally for their participation. And I think 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:50.680 about the fact that those prosecutors had to be brave, 0:29:52.280 --> 0:30:00.840 had to be valiant, because they were breaking ground, because 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:06.360 there was no precedent, not any precedent for what Hitler 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:10.800