Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay EPP Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: recording from where the Brooklyn Bunker. Why because oh Macron,
Speaker 1: My god. Folks, you know, it has been a nice
Speaker 1: break over the last ten days. I hope that you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the content that we created for you before we
Speaker 1: left for the holiday break. I hope that all of
Speaker 1: you got some rest. We're able to recharge, enjoy small
Speaker 1: groups of family and friends. I want to open up
Speaker 1: today with telling you a little bit about my holiday experience.
Speaker 1: As many folks across the country are headed back to
Speaker 1: work today, are headed back to school today, when the
Speaker 1: United States is at a break point where we are
Speaker 1: seeing three hundred thousand new cases a day, three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand new omicron cases a day. Here's a little bit
Speaker 1: of good news before we go into the apocalyptic nature
Speaker 1: of our politics. The good news with Amicron that we
Speaker 1: have thus far, and again, this has only been on
Speaker 1: the planet for but a handful of weeks, right, so
Speaker 1: we gotta be as intellectually nimble as possible in understanding
Speaker 1: that all the information that we are receiving. Scientists and
Speaker 1: doctors and analysts are getting in real time and providing
Speaker 1: that information to the public. What we know thus far
Speaker 1: is that Omicron for those that are vaccinated and boosted right,
Speaker 1: it is obviously a vaccine evader. But at the same point,
Speaker 1: for those that are vaccinated and boosted, the reality is
Speaker 1: is that you will most likely either a have no
Speaker 1: symptoms at all or be have very mild symptoms, probably
Speaker 1: those associated with a cult. However, if you are experiencing symptoms,
Speaker 1: stay the fuck at home, right, So, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something about my feelings about the CDC and Rochelle Wilenski.
Speaker 1: At this point in time, I think that the CDC
Speaker 1: has lost all fucking credibility, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: we can just blame the Trump administration for the CDC
Speaker 1: and where they are right now. I think the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is is that it is very clear
Speaker 1: and evident thanks to the good people over at Routers
Speaker 1: and the AP and other news lines that once the
Speaker 1: CDC spoke with the president of Delta Right Delta Airlines,
Speaker 1: the CEO of Delta, and he asked that the guidelines
Speaker 1: be cut from ten days of quarantine to five because
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any staff. There is no one available
Speaker 1: to fly or to serve for DELTA because everyone's infected
Speaker 1: with fucking COVID. Well, here's the thing. Are we following
Speaker 1: the science or are we following CEOs? And with the
Speaker 1: abrupt pivot that the CDC made in terms of shortening
Speaker 1: the recommendation of quarantining for ten days to five, you know,
Speaker 1: a good five day work week, leads us all to
Speaker 1: believe what we've always known is that capitalism is what
Speaker 1: rules everything, not just in this country but around the
Speaker 1: fucking globe. No one actually cares about the science or
Speaker 1: the public health implications. We just care about keeping things
Speaker 1: running right. Even in the CDC's statement that they released
Speaker 1: a couple of days back when we were all still
Speaker 1: on break their recommendations, they said, well, we have to
Speaker 1: figure out how to balance public health with a like
Speaker 1: keeping our economy going. My god. You know what I
Speaker 1: find really frustrating here is that if those same sentiments
Speaker 1: came out of the CDC during the Trump administration, then
Speaker 1: everybody would have been up in arms. But because it's
Speaker 1: coming out in the Biden administration, there's nothing more than
Speaker 1: memes and jokes that are being made, but no real
Speaker 1: interrogation as to what data the CDC is using to
Speaker 1: make their decisions these days, because here they go saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to rely on the public to
Speaker 1: do the right thing. It's like, have you been paying attention?
Speaker 1: Have we all been on planet Earth since February of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty when the first alpha variant the og raret
Speaker 1: its head. Do we not understand that depending on people's
Speaker 1: goodwill right and their honesty is not where we are
Speaker 1: as a country right now when we have still still
Speaker 1: at this moment in time, a sixty two percent of
Speaker 1: the public has been vaccinated. Sixty two percent, that's it.
Speaker 1: But we're all supposed to feel what good about that?
Speaker 1: You know, folks. And what's frustrating here too is that,
Speaker 1: you know, the CDC they did a lot of things.
Speaker 1: In my humble opinion, again, I'm not a doctor and
Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist, and I say that because, unlike
Speaker 1: you know, the right wingers, I actually admit to where
Speaker 1: my analysis can fall short because I don't have those
Speaker 1: years of education in the medical industry, particularly epidemiology, to
Speaker 1: provide you with my COVID intel. But what I can
Speaker 1: say as a person who has coached many as CEOs
Speaker 1: and has done media trainings for many of people, including
Speaker 1: members of Congress, is that the communication aspect of the
Speaker 1: CDC as faulty as fuck. Right. The rush to tell
Speaker 1: people to take off their masks when they were vaccinated,
Speaker 1: the rush to tell people that they could go back
Speaker 1: inside to indoor dining, all of those things were used
Speaker 1: as tactics, as carrot dangling tactics for an unvaccinated public
Speaker 1: that if you had been paying attention, you would know
Speaker 1: you were not going to move the needle with There
Speaker 1: are twenty five percent of those people, those staunch Trumpers,
Speaker 1: those that are so enveloped in QAnon, in Newsmax, in
Speaker 1: Fox News, and in Trump's orbit, that regardless of what
Speaker 1: it is that you do to try and get them
Speaker 1: over to your side, they're not coming. And so the
Speaker 1: question that I continue to ask is the same question
Speaker 1: that I ask about why Democrats go off trying to
Speaker 1: court the Karens and the Chads and these invisible independence
Speaker 1: as opposed to shoring up their base in the same
Speaker 1: way that Republicans do, right, Like, why do you keep
Speaker 1: going after the people that don't want to fuck with
Speaker 1: you as opposed to the people that actively do and
Speaker 1: are saying so on a regular basis. But with the CDC,
Speaker 1: it's once again not rewarding those people that have been
Speaker 1: doing the right thing, that have been masking up that
Speaker 1: we're social distancing when we were told to social distance right,
Speaker 1: that we're outdoor dining, when we were told that we
Speaker 1: could outdoor dine. Not those people. They have given up
Speaker 1: everything for those that are unvaccinated. And I get it.
Speaker 1: I get the idea that we believe that these people
Speaker 1: pose a threat and the reality is, folks, we are
Speaker 1: going to be living with COVID. COVID is just now
Speaker 1: a part of our culture. It is a part of
Speaker 1: our world. And all we can do, frankly, is hope
Speaker 1: that with so much virus in the air, with omicron,
Speaker 1: and how fast it is spreading, I mean like fucking
Speaker 1: wildfire in a tender field. This thing has spread. I mean,
Speaker 1: just think about this when we think about this for
Speaker 1: a moment. It was the beginning of December, right either
Speaker 1: late November the beginning of December, when the news broke
Speaker 1: that omicron was present in South Africa and in Brussels,
Speaker 1: and in the Netherlands and in the UK. Right it
Speaker 1: was South African scientists who first discovered the mutation that
Speaker 1: was the beginning of December. Within three weeks it had
Speaker 1: ravaged the fucking globe. So with that much virus in
Speaker 1: the air, all we can do, folks, is pray that
Speaker 1: each and every iteration of COVID will be less and
Speaker 1: less life threatening. That's all we can hope. There's no
Speaker 1: science to prove that we can deal with the fact
Speaker 1: that delta was transmitted faster than alpha, right, and then
Speaker 1: omicron was transmitted faster than delta. But it also seems
Speaker 1: that right now again for those that are vaccinated and boosted,
Speaker 1: that the symptoms right or are mild. But if you're
Speaker 1: still paying attention to COVID nineteen news, then you know
Speaker 1: in places like Tennessee, in places like Alabama and Arkansas,
Speaker 1: right these very right states, that their hospital systems are
Speaker 1: on a breaking point, at a breaking point right where
Speaker 1: doctors and nurses and other health professionals are not able
Speaker 1: to keep up with the demand. But their governors still
Speaker 1: don't give a shit. And here's the thing with COVID
Speaker 1: that just pisses me off. And now folks will say, Danielle,
Speaker 1: we got to deal with one thing at one time.
Speaker 1: And I have to tell you this, no, we do not.
Speaker 1: We all need to learn how to fucking juggle, right,
Speaker 1: because that's the kind of climate and world that we
Speaker 1: are living in when we are not able to just
Speaker 1: take one crisis at a time. No, we're getting multiple
Speaker 1: crises over the course of multiple weeks that are coming
Speaker 1: at us all at once. Here's the thing, over eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand Americans are dead, right. We have actual evidence
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was aware of just how dangerous, just
Speaker 1: how deadly deadly COVID nineteen was, and he did nothing.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, did they not only
Speaker 1: do nothing, they decided to as a collective, as a collective,
Speaker 1: as an administration, and as an entire political party, to
Speaker 1: weaponize a virus that would kill close to a million Americans.
Speaker 1: No one is being held accountable for that. No one
Speaker 1: is being held accountable for the lies. I see no
Speaker 1: lawsuits being waged at Q and on being waged at Newsmax,
Speaker 1: at Fox News, at any of these places for their
Speaker 1: participation in the weaponization of a virus that is killed
Speaker 1: close to a million people. Now, you can have people
Speaker 1: on the other side that say, well, how would we
Speaker 1: have known you can even have them feign ignorance. But
Speaker 1: you see, to this date, we are now two years
Speaker 1: into this pandemic, and they still refer to it as
Speaker 1: a hoax. They still say that everyone is overreacting. They
Speaker 1: still say, no, no, it's the economy, get back to work,
Speaker 1: don't mask up. Masking your children is child abuse. These
Speaker 1: people still continue with this narrative because they have faced
Speaker 1: absolutely no consequences for it. And my question is when,
Speaker 1: if ever, we wonder why bad actors keep getting worse
Speaker 1: just right before, right over the weekend, Once again, it
Speaker 1: is only corporations that are holding these wayward, lying ass
Speaker 1: politicians accountable. Marjorie Taylor Green has finally not through her
Speaker 1: anti semitism, not through her xenophobia, not through her racism,
Speaker 1: but through her lies about COVID nineteen, has finally lost
Speaker 1: her Twitter account permanently. But guess what she has two
Speaker 1: She has her congressional Twitter account. They didn't fucking suspend that.
Speaker 1: So let me just paint this picture for you. We're
Speaker 1: living in a society. We're the only consequences that lying
Speaker 1: ass politicians face who not only lie, but are racist,
Speaker 1: Our misogynist, are anti Semites, are xenophobic, are homophobic? Are transphobic? Right?
Speaker 1: That are the most deplorable and disgusting human beings on
Speaker 1: the face of the it's planet that the only consequence
Speaker 1: they receive for their actions is losing a Twitter account.
Speaker 1: That's it. They don't lose their seats, they're not expelled
Speaker 1: from Congress. Maybe maybe they'll lose their committees, as Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green has already done. But that woman, right, and
Speaker 1: I use that, and I'm telling you their other word
Speaker 1: just wants to come up. But I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and start out twenty twenty two on a better note.
Speaker 1: That crackpot walks around stalking her colleagues, running them down,
Speaker 1: putting up posters, using her social media followers to threaten them.
Speaker 1: And she still has a job, even though she has
Speaker 1: no committee power, even though she is no ability to vote,
Speaker 1: She's still receiving a salary, a check from us, the
Speaker 1: American people. She's still able to fundraise off of her
Speaker 1: fucking crazy How is it that the only consequences that
Speaker 1: these people are facing is losing the ability to tweet.
Speaker 1: The only consequence Donald Trump has faced since leaving office, right,
Speaker 1: is the loss of his Twitter account. That's it. It
Speaker 1: is hard to keep faith in focus when it's just
Speaker 1: we are living in such absurd times. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: honestly all that I can say. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: believe in resolutions. I believe in manifestations, right. I believe
Speaker 1: in energy. I believe in energy shifts. I believe in
Speaker 1: matching people with the energy that they give you. And
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I also believe in letting
Speaker 1: some shit go. I want us as we go into
Speaker 1: this new year together, I want us to use woke
Speaker 1: af use the community that we have here in order
Speaker 1: to rage, in order to vent. And then at the
Speaker 1: end of each episode, y'all collectively take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: take three, and let it go, right, because I am
Speaker 1: going to refuse. I don't know how much time we
Speaker 1: have left. I honestly do not. And when I say
Speaker 1: I don't know how much time I have left, I
Speaker 1: mean between COVID climate change and the impending collapse of
Speaker 1: our democracy. It's unclear, right, It's unclear how long somebody
Speaker 1: like me will be able to broadcast four Right, it's unclear. Right.
Speaker 1: So with whatever time that we have left, I say
Speaker 1: we rage, I say we try and wake as many
Speaker 1: fucking people up as possible. But at the end of
Speaker 1: each day, we let that shit go. Right. I'm not
Speaker 1: holding this toxic waste inside of me any longer. So
Speaker 1: if you see me, you know, on Twitter, also cracking
Speaker 1: jokes on Instagram, also live in life. Yeah, I implore
Speaker 1: you to do the same, because I'm not going to
Speaker 1: stay in rage and in anger and in frustration and
Speaker 1: in anxiety and in depression and in sadness because I
Speaker 1: think that doing so is going to shift something. The
Speaker 1: only thing that it shifts is me off a cliff
Speaker 1: and I'm not going out like that, right. So, you know,
Speaker 1: as I run through the news, which we will because
Speaker 1: there's so much to cover, I just want to remind
Speaker 1: you of all of that. It is okay. You can
Speaker 1: hold both rage and joy at the same time. You
Speaker 1: can both pay attention and decide that you're going to
Speaker 1: limit that and disconnect, right, because this twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: is also about our health and well being. Yes, we
Speaker 1: have consequential midterm elections. Yes we will probably see more
Speaker 1: variants pop up before the end of the year is over. Yes,
Speaker 1: we may or may not see any members of Congress
Speaker 1: be arrested for you know, communicating with insurrectionists and giving
Speaker 1: them the four Plans to the Capitol Building. But at
Speaker 1: that point, here's the thing, folks, I am going to
Speaker 1: begin this year the way that I want to fucking
Speaker 1: end it, which is with my emotional, physical, and mental
Speaker 1: well being in alignment, right, because they will not rob
Speaker 1: me of that. No matter the crazy shit that we
Speaker 1: are going to see that we're going to discuss on
Speaker 1: this show. Do not let them rob you of your
Speaker 1: sanity because you will need it, all right. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about for a moment the Republicans. So, my friend
Speaker 1: wajahat Ali, who is a writer at The Daily Beast,
Speaker 1: he is a new book that is coming out at
Speaker 1: the end of this month called Go Back to Where
Speaker 1: You Came From. He offered a bit of advice to
Speaker 1: the media on Twitter yesterday, and he said, dear media,
Speaker 1: let us use this year to cover the Republican Party
Speaker 1: in the way that they should be covered. They are
Speaker 1: not a normal political party anymore, so stop treating them
Speaker 1: like that. They are a radicalized white supremist party. They
Speaker 1: have radicalized white Americans across this country. And if they
Speaker 1: were of any other shade, if they were affiliated with
Speaker 1: any other religion, I would guarantee you that the headlines
Speaker 1: and the stories that you saw on news media, on
Speaker 1: the papers anywhere would be a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: different than the nothingburger we get most days. We are
Speaker 1: coming up on the year anniversary this week Thursday, the
Speaker 1: year anniversary that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and all of
Speaker 1: his crew, Johnny east all of these folks, Eastman, everybody, Juliani,
Speaker 1: his fucking spawn all put together a war room PowerPoint
Speaker 1: presentation on how to overthrow the government. And these people
Speaker 1: are still free because for some reason, when you are white,
Speaker 1: rich and powerful, you need to have a Mount Everest
Speaker 1: style selection of evidence. The proof has to be so high,
Speaker 1: you know. And what makes me so disgusted that I
Speaker 1: want to spit is that, folks, if you remember, back
Speaker 1: in the early aughts, there was one of the most
Speaker 1: devastating cases that New York had seen in quite some time.
Speaker 1: And New York had seen a lot of devastating cases
Speaker 1: because millions of motherfuckers live here. But it was a
Speaker 1: case of Caliph Browder, the sixteen year old black boy
Speaker 1: who was picked up by police under the suspicion, the
Speaker 1: mere suspicion that he had stolen a backpack. Now, as
Speaker 1: far as we were all concerned, the backpack did not
Speaker 1: contain bricks of gold, It did not contain body parts,
Speaker 1: It did not contain, you know, kilos of cocaine, It
Speaker 1: didn't contain, oh anything. They picked him up and they
Speaker 1: threw him in jail. And not just any jail. They
Speaker 1: threw him in Rikers, and not just in Rikers, but
Speaker 1: in solitary confinement where he would be beaten and tortured
Speaker 1: and abused, not just by the other inmates at Rikers,
Speaker 1: but by the police at Rikers, by the correctional facility,
Speaker 1: the correctional staff at Rikers. His family was not able
Speaker 1: to come up with the thousands of dollars for his
Speaker 1: bail bonds. And because we have a payola system right,
Speaker 1: New York State and New York City are able to
Speaker 1: target the poor black people, Latin X folks, throw them
Speaker 1: in jail, throw away the key. Well. As it would
Speaker 1: turn out, after three years of being in this tortuous
Speaker 1: and nightmarish scenario, Caliph Browder was released. He was never
Speaker 1: actually charged, he never stood trial. He was just held
Speaker 1: for three years under the suspicion of stealing a backpack.
Speaker 1: He would later, if you remember, commit suicide. He would
Speaker 1: kill himself because the depression and the anxiety that that incarceration,
Speaker 1: wrongful incarceration caused him, he couldn't bear to live with it.
Speaker 1: That is one of too many stories. He was held
Speaker 1: for three years under suspicion of having a backpack, stealing
Speaker 1: a backpack that never turned up. So you tell me
Speaker 1: why the fuck we need mountains and mountains and mountains
Speaker 1: of all of the fucking evidence in the world that
Speaker 1: we have had, by the way, We've had evidence of obstruction,
Speaker 1: we have had evidence of you know, money laundering, of theft.
Speaker 1: We've had all of this evidence on Trump since the
Speaker 1: Mulla Report, since his first impeachment, since his second impeachment.
Speaker 1: Then he openly threatens to kill the vice president of
Speaker 1: the United States, is still going on television saying that
Speaker 1: the election was stolen from him, has raised a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars plus off of that said lie, has changed
Speaker 1: policies and laws across this country as it pertains to elections,
Speaker 1: And this motherfucker is still walking three So is the
Speaker 1: person that put together the PowerPoint presentation. So is Steve
Speaker 1: Bannon that continues to go on air and threaten people.
Speaker 1: It is more than suspicion to overthrow the government here,
Speaker 1: and yet these rich white men continue to walk fucking free,
Speaker 1: and all we're doing is holding hearings telling people we'll
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. And a year later,
Speaker 1: what's the longest sentence that somebody has received for trying
Speaker 1: to overthrow our government violently so killing five people, destroying
Speaker 1: millions of dollars worth of property, and shitting in the
Speaker 1: halls of our democracy. I think the longest sentence thus far,
Speaker 1: don't quote me. I think might be four years. And
Speaker 1: that was for the fucking idiot QAnon Shaman, right, because
Speaker 1: he was just so front and fucking center. There was
Speaker 1: no way for you not to do something. But will
Speaker 1: he serve those four years? Probably not. It just pains
Speaker 1: me because the injustice is just so blatant, right, the
Speaker 1: imbalance is just so off, But we continue to trudge along.
Speaker 1: And I believe that there's a reason why we continue
Speaker 1: to want to tell ourselves that, oh oh, justice is coming,
Speaker 1: because it's I think that if we don't believe in something,
Speaker 1: we'll lose our minds. I think that we are holding
Speaker 1: on to the hope of some semblance of justice happening
Speaker 1: because we don't want to imagine a society that has
Speaker 1: shown us who it is. We don't want to imagine
Speaker 1: that you're living in a society that, for I don't know,
Speaker 1: since the beginning of time, black people have been very
Speaker 1: aware that the laws were never meant to actually protect us,
Speaker 1: They were never meant to support our citizenship. The laws
Speaker 1: were only ever created to protect white people and property
Speaker 1: from black people and other people of color. So when
Speaker 1: they break the law, you just have to move the goalpost.
Speaker 1: You just have to change the law, or you just
Speaker 1: have to increase the burden of proof. You see in America,
Speaker 1: you can just point out a black person and say
Speaker 1: they did that thing right, whether it is in the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, a black man whistled at me, and so
Speaker 1: we're gonna lynch and murder and torture them. And that's
Speaker 1: based on what just some white person's thoughts. But in
Speaker 1: order to convict a known mob for burning down a town, lynching, beating,
Speaker 1: raping people, oh, you need to show so much, not
Speaker 1: just their faces, not even just their own words and statements. No,
Speaker 1: we need to create an entire circus around it, only
Speaker 1: to have them sit up, cry their crocodile white tears
Speaker 1: and then be sent home. And then we say, well,
Speaker 1: you win some, you lose some. Well, how many do
Speaker 1: you actually have to lose for us to recognize that
Speaker 1: the system is rigged. It's not broken, right, it's rigged.
Speaker 1: I don't even like using that word anymore because when
Speaker 1: you use it nowadays, it triggers, you know, the conversations
Speaker 1: and the rants of Donald Trump. But you see, the
Speaker 1: system really is rigged. It has been rigged against black
Speaker 1: people and other people of color. We know, good god,
Speaker 1: damn well, what would have happened? How many thousands of
Speaker 1: people would have been dead on the steps of the
Speaker 1: Capitol building? How you would have seen it look like somebodies,
Speaker 1: you know, Capital Down or White House Down or whatever
Speaker 1: one of those movies with you know, helicopters and bombs
Speaker 1: being dropped just to stop those crazy black and brown
Speaker 1: people from wanting to declare their rights as citizens, right,
Speaker 1: because that's what would have happened, and then they would
Speaker 1: have spun the tail. America has been doing this since forever.
Speaker 1: We just have the internet now. So a year later,
Speaker 1: do I think that we are going to see anything
Speaker 1: like the Nuremberg Trials. You know, is somebody a fantashow
Speaker 1: Kyle shout out to you, sent me on Twitter and
Speaker 1: article and I'm certain that we talked about this in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but apparently November twenty twenty was the seventy
Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of Germany's Nuremberg Trials, you know, the trials
Speaker 1: that brought down executed the top members of the Nazi Party.
Speaker 1: It created whole new international laws around how war criminals
Speaker 1: could be tried personally for their participation. And I think
Speaker 1: about the fact that those prosecutors had to be brave,
Speaker 1: had to be valiant, because they were breaking ground, because
Speaker 1: there was no precedent, not any precedent for what Hitler
Speaker 1: was able to do right for so many years without
Speaker 1: people caring, because all you have to do is pick
Speaker 1: a population of people that people the large majority doesn't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about or has a conspiracy about, and
Speaker 1: just go about your day. I remember folks saying so
Speaker 1: many times as a young person learning about the Holocaust
Speaker 1: and learning about the Nuremberg Trials, how could this happen?
Speaker 1: How was it that Hitler was receiving coverage in the
Speaker 1: New York Times Home and garden section as he was executing,
Speaker 1: burning alive, gassing millions of Jewish people. Right, How how
Speaker 1: could people go along with their day to day when
Speaker 1: their neighbors, right, their friends, I thought they were Maybe
Speaker 1: their friends are getting picked up one by one. You
Speaker 1: don't know where they're going. How does it happen collective apathy?
Speaker 1: Oh well, at least it's not me, it's them, so
Speaker 1: I don't have to care. I wonder, And I know
Speaker 1: that I'm not the first person to say this. I
Speaker 1: know that millions of people have said it to me before.
Speaker 1: But if Hitler had had Fox News, would they have
Speaker 1: taken him down? Or would he have just had his
Speaker 1: full on propaganda machine? And he did, He had all
Speaker 1: the news stations he had, you know, the aggrieved citizen
Speaker 1: try of Germany that was spiraling out of control in
Speaker 1: an economic downturn, and they needed somebody to blame, right,
Speaker 1: And you can't possibly blame government. You can't blame your
Speaker 1: employer for not providing you with living wages, for not
Speaker 1: creating social safety gnats that would protect people from downturns. No,
Speaker 1: you just point to somebody over there and you say
Speaker 1: they're the reason. They're the reason why you've lost your home,
Speaker 1: lost your job, or standing in a breadline. And so
Speaker 1: then when you decide to turn around and begin the
Speaker 1: slow but steady execution of those people, no one bats
Speaker 1: an eyelash because you slowly but surely turn society against them.
Speaker 1: Well that's the meticulousness of the Trump administration. They slowly,
Speaker 1: meticulously turned normal people against facts, against truth, against their
Speaker 1: own fucking health. We should have saw the possibility of
Speaker 1: COVID coming when people were voting against their own ability
Speaker 1: to have healthcare. Jonathan saw it, our friend and the
Speaker 1: author of Dying of Whiteness. You see, they were willing.
Speaker 1: These white folks are willing to cut off their nose,
Speaker 1: cut off their arm, so long as the black person
Speaker 1: down the street of the Latin, next person a neighborhood
Speaker 1: over loses more body parts than them, loses more rights
Speaker 1: than they do, because then they can still what hold
Speaker 1: on to some idea, some lie of superiority. I'm never
Speaker 1: in a million years if you had told me, Danielle.
Speaker 1: People will literally flip over tables, threatened hospital staff, beat
Speaker 1: up school board officials, call in threats just so they
Speaker 1: don't get a life saving vaccine. And not only that,
Speaker 1: they'll threaten you and your safety. I never, we never,
Speaker 1: but here we are. So how is it that nobody
Speaker 1: is being held responsible for that from the insurrection to COVID.
Speaker 1: How how is it that these governors still have their jobs?
Speaker 1: How is it that you don't see from this administration
Speaker 1: every single day fucking PSAs about how dangerous the Republican
Speaker 1: Party has become. How they are a party that literally
Speaker 1: has created death panels, people willingly though lining up to
Speaker 1: be executed. It's wild, you know, it really is when
Speaker 1: you think about what really is the cause of all
Speaker 1: of this, and it is misinformation, but it's I mean,
Speaker 1: even the word misinformation isn't effective enough. It's bald face
Speaker 1: lies that are allowed to spread by full networks that
Speaker 1: this government refuses to shut down. Oh, Danielle, they don't
Speaker 1: have the power. Give me a fucking break. I'm so
Speaker 1: tired of being told what we don't have the power
Speaker 1: to do, what we don't have the authority to do.
Speaker 1: And then all we have to do is sit around
Speaker 1: and wait for the next Trump administration to come in
Speaker 1: and decide that they're turning the FCC on every single
Speaker 1: news channel that does not bow to their will and
Speaker 1: you will see how quickly those CEOs will, how they'll bend,
Speaker 1: how they'll contort themselves. We'll all sit around and say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is an American not in this country,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I'll say, you had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do the right thing four years ago, but you
Speaker 1: decided not to because you wanted to seem politically fucking neutral,
Speaker 1: you know. Desmond two two, Archbishop Desmond tu two died
Speaker 1: over the holiday the ripe old age of ninety A
Speaker 1: life incredibly well lived. And why was it well lived?
Speaker 1: Because he told the truth. He told the truth about
Speaker 1: what was happening in South Africa during apartheid. He told
Speaker 1: the truth about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Speaker 1: He told the truth about why people need to pay attention.
Speaker 1: He as an archbishop at a time when no one,
Speaker 1: no one was laying a finger, let alone embracing the
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus community. He said, I'd rather go to Hell
Speaker 1: than a homophobic heaven. I want those leaders. Where are they?
Speaker 1: Where are the ones that are willing to do and
Speaker 1: say what is necessary. They've all become pawns of capitalism.
Speaker 1: This isn't about we the people. And it's why I
Speaker 1: have always, over the last several years, ended every woke
Speaker 1: a f show with power to the people, because I
Speaker 1: believe in the collective. But what happens when the leaders
Speaker 1: that you elect to be your voice, to stand up
Speaker 1: and to do what's right for the collective all of
Speaker 1: a sudden have selective laryngitis. What does it look like
Speaker 1: when it is the people that are screaming into the
Speaker 1: ether and it's falling on non listening ears. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the questions that I was asked yesterday when
Speaker 1: I had the good fortune to join Reverend Owl on
Speaker 1: MSNBC on Politics Nation, one of the questions that they
Speaker 1: asked was, you know, what do you see for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two? What is that steak? And I can't say
Speaker 1: this enough. What is that steak? Everything? Everything that you
Speaker 1: hold dear, Your ability to vote, your ability did have
Speaker 1: an abortion, your ability to vaccinatured children, your ability to
Speaker 1: turn on the television and get news that is not
Speaker 1: riddled with lies and state propaganda agencies that are supposed
Speaker 1: to be supporting you, that you're paying into with your
Speaker 1: own tax dollars, all of it, I said to Rev.
Speaker 1: I said, he says Danielle. What happens if we don't
Speaker 1: pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, if Biden can't
Speaker 1: get it done because of mansion in cinema and their
Speaker 1: love affair with the filibuster, Well, I said, very simply,
Speaker 1: then our democracy will go up and smoke like the
Speaker 1: Capitol Building did on one six. That is not hyperbole,
Speaker 1: that is the truth. We have never been in a
Speaker 1: worse position in this country than we are now. And
Speaker 1: we've been in two World Wars on top of other
Speaker 1: failed wars that took countless lives, billions of dollars lost,
Speaker 1: and no justice found. And I will tell you that
Speaker 1: this position that we are in is the worst most
Speaker 1: historians have ever seen. If we have the ability to
Speaker 1: look back on this time, and that is a big if.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what is going to be said,
Speaker 1: probably the same thing that I said when learning about
Speaker 1: the Holocaust for the first time. How did they let
Speaker 1: this happen? How did so many people fail to stop
Speaker 1: madmen from taking over the country. Why weren't there riots
Speaker 1: in the street. Why wasn't capitalism and government grinded to
Speaker 1: a fucking halt until people were held accountable for what
Speaker 1: they've been doing. I hope you see if those conversations
Speaker 1: are being had, that means that some portion of our
Speaker 1: world has been saved. But as it looks right now, folks,
Speaker 1: you know, it was Michael Harriet from The Route who
Speaker 1: tweeted about the Netflix movie Don't Look Up. He said,
Speaker 1: don't look up as a documentary. I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: it certainly fucking is, because it's so fucking absurd that
Speaker 1: you would have the president find out that there's an
Speaker 1: existential threat and say, let's wait an assess. But isn't
Speaker 1: that what this administration is doing voting rights is an
Speaker 1: existential threat to our fucking democracy and you're still having
Speaker 1: coffee and tea with the two people with their fucking
Speaker 1: fingers on the nuclear button. So how is it that
Speaker 1: we think that what the Biden and Harris administration is
Speaker 1: doing right now with regard to voting rights isn't the
Speaker 1: same thing that Meryl Streep was doing and fucking don't
Speaker 1: look up. Let's wait an assess. Now. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: they're dealing with COVID, they're dealing with climate change. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you what they're not doing is that
Speaker 1: they're not setting off any type of alarms and that
Speaker 1: actually they're doing the fucking reverse. Oh keep calm, folks,
Speaker 1: we have it all under control. Bits just three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people that just were infected with omicron. You just
Speaker 1: had devastating tornadoes, tornadoes that were miles wide that took
Speaker 1: out full fucking towns. You got emergency rooms now being
Speaker 1: filled up with fucking children. You have Republicans that are
Speaker 1: threatening to kill their own colleagues, and you have an
Speaker 1: ex president twice in Peach that is using his Morilago
Speaker 1: compound as White House too. And if you are not
Speaker 1: articulating the urgency of this moment to the people, then
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing? And that is my
Speaker 1: question for this administration because I feel, folks, as we
Speaker 1: come up to the year mark of the insurrection, as
Speaker 1: we come up to the first complete year of the
Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration, I have given them enough time to
Speaker 1: stress the importance, the emergency, the urgency of this moment.
Speaker 1: Because I'm about to ride that administration like a motherfucking donkey, okay,
Speaker 1: because they are not meeting this moment and you can
Speaker 1: fight me on it. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Folks on woke f as always power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.