WEBVTT - Failing to Raise the Alarm 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.400 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.760 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.520 I want to talk a bit about monkey pox and 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.479 the way that the media and politicians and cities and 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.559 states have been handling this outbreak, which as you know, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.680 we talked about it last week with our friend, our 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.159 in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, and the ways in 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:47.000 which it seems to me, just based on observations from 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:52.680 our handling of covid um our handling before COVID, of 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:58.080 HIV AIDS and now with monkey pox, that we as 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:04.920 a society have learned absolutely fucking nothing. So here's my feeling. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.520 And you guys know that I'm not a doctor, so 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.039 the opinions that I offer are just that, they are 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:15.160 my opinions based on my analysis of the facts that 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:22.880 are presented. Monkeypox is a condition, a disease, a virus 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:29.240 that is shared via close physical contact. Right now, it 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:36.280 seems as if it is running rampant in the community 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:42.320 of men who sleep with other men, right And the 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.800 way that it has been talked about, however, you know, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.240 from the beginning, has been just that which is essentially 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.840 oh monkeypox is something that we all don't really have 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.960 to worry about unless you are, in fact a man 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.760 that sleeps with other men, which, by virtue of just 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.480 saying that in the media, you are placing a stigma 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.040 around a virus that at some point in time anyone 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.120 is going to be able to pick up, which is 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.480 what has happened. Right as the cases begin to spread, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:18.919 and now children have contracted monkey pox, and now more 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.000 women are contracting monkey pox. What we know to be 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.400 true is that what begins in one community does not 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.760 fucking stay there. And I don't know how many times 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.240 that we need to see something happen in order for 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.040 us just to recognize that we need to be alerting 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.240 all people, not saying like, hey, don't worry, don't give 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.079 a shit about this community, and you're good, which is 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:49.639 essentially how this monkeypox rollout has happened. Monkeypox has been 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.880 something that is obviously has been prevalent in some African nations, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:03:00.519 why because of their geography and environmental conditions that they 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.840 live around actual fucking monkeys, right so much in the 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.920 same way that people in this country didn't give a 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.760 fuck about a bola because it was something that was 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:17.560 basically just prevalent in certain areas of African nations. And also, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.639 you know, based on the world's anti blackness, we don't 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.640 give a fuck what comes out of African nations and 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.760 communities because our belief is like, oh, we're so far away, 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.840 as if there are not trains, not trains, but as 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.280 if there are not planes, and as if we don't 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.920 live now in a global community. But so, monkeypox was 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:44.800 something that was ravaging certain areas on the continent of Africa. Okay, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.040 so we don't talk about that. We don't talk about 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:54.120 the fact that pharmaceutical companies did not make vaccinations readily 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.560 available because it was considered a disease that was very 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.520 much targeted to one area of the world. That guess what, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.760 large pharmaceutical companies that are run by white people don't 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.360 give a fuck about producing enough vaccines for because they're 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.000 not going to be able to make money off of it, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.080 and they don't really care. Let's just understand that that 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.680 they're in the business of making money. This is an 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:22.279 industry and it wasn't as widespread well now, much in 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.880 the same way that COVID started out in one part 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.000 of the world and then readily spread very quickly. Monkeypox 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.599 is doing the same. Last week when I was watching 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.600 the news, there are like a handful of cases right 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.120 all across the country. Now what is being reported by 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.919 MSNBC is that there are ninety new cases like a 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.040 fucking day now, where there were just like maybe one 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.120 or two in a week. So now in the last 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:54.600 two weeks, monkeypox has fucking doubled in its spreading, right, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.440 and again it is spreading outside of the men sleeping 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.479 with men community. And no, that does not mean that, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.280 oh well, now, if you are a woman that has 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.200 contracted this, it means that somehow your partner, if you 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.840 are in a heterosexual relationship, is somehow on the down low. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.719 This is how this shit, this stigma begins to happen. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.039 That we decide that we turn these viruses that are 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.960 becoming more prevalent, we turn them into moral failures. Right 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.680 that there must be something wrong with you if you've 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.279 contracted COVID, why weren't you following the rules right where 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.800 it's just like, okay, the fucking virus has changed, right, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.839 and it spreads quicker, and even if you are outdoors, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.960 but you're in close contact. And now I'm speaking specifically 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.120 about COVID. It isn't a moral failure that you contract 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.280 this disease. It is the virus. It is fucking spreading, right, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:56.480 and can spread faster. So the way that we begin 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:03.279 to explain these different medical conditions and viruses to the public, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.320 I think is in large part part of our huge 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:13.400 fucking failure. Right, monkey Pots needed to be presented as 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.520 it is a virus that happens when you are in 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:21.039 close physical contact with other people. And maybe we start 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.599 to think about what are we talking about when we 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.960 say close physical contact. Are we talking about the touching 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.560 of hands? Are we talking about the touching of like 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.960 actual body parts. Are we talking about an exchange of 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.719 bodily fluid? Are we putting monkey Pots in the category 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.320 of a sexually transmitted disease or is it not? Are 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.200 we going back to a place where we need to 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.640 be talking about You know, hey, this is really about 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.400 hygiene and bodily care, So you need to be washing 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.680 hands regularly, carrying your hand sanitizer. This is not something 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.840 that spreads through the air like COVID, right that This 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.880 is more about bodily contact, So you need to be 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.440 if you are intimate with people in that in a 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.680 sexual contact like there needs to be more explanation that 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.800 is done as opposed to giving people just enough information 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.880 for them to feel as if they can opt out, right, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.840 as if oh I don't have to care about this 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.120 and I don't have to pay attention because this has 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.880 nothing to do with me, when it fact, it fucking does. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.520 Because I guarantee you that two weeks from the time 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.680 that you are listening to this, that those case numbers 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.560 will have doubled again, right, and then this is going 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.840 to be a conversation that we're going to be having 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.720 once again that kids are getting ready to go back 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.440 to school, because when we are talking about I just 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:48.000 want to set this stage. Imagine this. I used to 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.040 when I got my master's in early childhood education. As 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.600 part of one of the internships that I was doing, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.760 I was working in a preschool. And you all know, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.600 preschool and acres are basically Petri dishes for every type 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.960 of sickness that you can fucking imagine. Why, Because these 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.800 little kids are putting everything in their mouths. They're putting everything, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.280 you know, they're running noses, they're spitting up on things, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.520 they're throwing up. You know, some that are not potty trained. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.960 All of these things are happening in preschool and in 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:28.640 daycare settings, right. So if we're talking about close skin contact, right, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:34.160 and it doesn't necessarily have to be sexual, then we 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.400 need to have eyes wide open as kids begin to 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.280 go back to school, and I'm talking specifically to about 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.280 younger kids that are learning how to care for themselves 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:50.880 in terms of hygiene. If we're not having these conversations 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.600 about what we are talking about, when we are saying 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.760 close skin contact and close physical contact, then we are 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.920 setting ourselves up once again for a huge, fucking devastating 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.840 pandemic that then will turn endemic because again, what is 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.719 being reported right now is saying that, oh, we are 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.880 failing once again. The world's failing once again, this country 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.720 is failing once again to raise the alarm in a 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.760 significant way that can have people take the steps that 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.600 they need, all people to keep themselves safe. And what 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:33.040 does safety look like with monkeypox versus COVID, Well, we 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.000 know about one major difference. You wearing a mask right 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.040 will help an airborne virus like covid, right, But it 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.240 is not going to help with a skin touch, a 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:51.640 body touch virus like monkeypox. So if you are becoming 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.400 an if you are infected, we know with monkeypox, much 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.400 alike covid, it is highly contagious. There is a quarantine 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.640 that has to happen, right, And they're not just talking about, oh, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.480 if you're in a shared space or home with people, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.120 oh okay, you can just wear a mask. They're talking 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:14.199 about separate plates, utensils, cleaning, cleaning of surfaces. That literally 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.480 everything that you touch from the point of infection with 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:26.400 monkeypox is indeed a vector point for the disease. So 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.040 I'm like, what the fuck is happening right now in 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.720 terms of our explanation to the public about the differences 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.960 in these two fucking serious issues that we have in 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.920 this country right now, So, folks, I want you to 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.640 read up right, we are going to continue following monkeypocs. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.400 The state of New York, where I am, has issued 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.120 a state of emergency, so has the state of California. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.600 Other places will be doing it as what we are 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.760 seeing now is that it is becoming once again monkey 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:08.720 pops rampant in the middle of the country as well. Right, So, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.000 if we are not giving the people, giving the public 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.160 the information as the information is becoming available and instead 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.439 of pinning it on one community just because you were 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.360 seeing it in one community. Right now, I don't even 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:28.040 think that that necessarily was useful news, right because in people, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.040 you have to understand the psychology of how people think 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.640 and what people think. Is that if you say, oh, 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.120 this is prevalent in black people and I'm white, well, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.200 that ain't got nothing to do with me. If you 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.480 are saying that something is prevalent among women and I 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.520 and I am a man, then again I'm opting out 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.920 of even thinking about this because that doesn't have anything 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.200 to do with me. We are holding so much information 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.680 that I feel like the folks that are supposed to 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.599 be spreading this information to the public to actually understand 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.079 the psychology of people, right and the fact that you 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.680 got one good time to reach people to alert them 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.360 and then they are open into receiving more information. But 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.040 if you set yourselves up in a way that does 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.880 not inform them of the whole we're fucked, right, Like, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.679 we're absolutely fucked. And this is what we are seeing 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:27.079 right now. There is one doctor who is talking about 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.079 monkey pocks becoming endemic to the United States because if 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.080 it finds another animal outside of the monkey that then 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.439 begins to carry this. Let's say, as many we're talking 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:44.680 about a squirrel, a fucking rabbit like animals that are 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.880 more commonplace in the United States now become the host 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:55.040 of fucking monkey pocks. We're pretty much fucked right because 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.640 squirrels be running around here all the goddamn time and 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:03.520 literally are eating your vegetables, are you know, digging up things? 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.520 Like over here where I am, the squirrels attack all 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.319 of the vegetation. So all of my neighbors that are 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.520 growing vegetables blah blah, blah blah blah. Now they think, Okay, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.200 not a big deal. They've eaten this or they've But 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.480 if they have fucking monkeypops, what does that mean about 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.079 our own produce? Is there enough to do a wash? 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.840 It is enough to do Like again, the more you know, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:33.400 the more that we're able to better prepare ourselves and 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.760 adjust to all of this hot shit that keeps coming 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.560 our way. So that's my thought on monkey pots, and 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.840 again we are going to keep an eye on what 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:49.560 is happening as it evolves. 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This is a question that I have 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:11.080 how many coincidences equals a conspiracy? Because, as it turns out, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.520 the latest with the Secret Services text messages, the fact 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:22.840 that the Watchdog Inspector General knew about the deleted text messages, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:28.160 began the process of trying to redeem said text messages 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.280 through their forensics, and then decided not to go ahead 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:41.040 with that project. Why exactly why did they decide to 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:46.160 stop the retrieval process? Because what we are learning is 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.520 that the Secret Service is where a lot of place 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.920 people go, places go, organizations go, companies go when they 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.760 need to be able to retrieve data. So if the 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.520 Secret Service and this watchdog group is where other groups 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.000 go in order to retrieve data, then the absence of 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.439 said text messaging data no longer seems like an accident, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:15.480 does it. It actually starts to seem fairly purposeful and strategic, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:22.040 which then leads us to asking self, oh, why did 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.480 twenty four Secret Service members that were in and around 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:32.960 Trump decide to get their own legal counsel? Maybe because 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.200 they believe that they have criminal exposure. And as I'm 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.399 listening to our friends that are former federal prosecutors like 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:46.640 Joyce White Vans, like Glenn Carshner, none of this seems accidental. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.440 It doesn't seem like an oops. It seems like exactly 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:57.760 what we know, thankfully from the January sixth Committee. All 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.240 of the things that we thought that the Trump administration 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.359 and that sycophants were covering up were indeed happening and 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.400 worse than we even had anticipated. And get guess what, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:14.040 there were Trumpers a part of every fucking agency, a 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.000 part of every fucking department, and so if those people 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:23.760 hadn't been extracted and they all are part of this 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:30.520 wider conspiracy theory to overthrow the government and play a 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.160 part in that, or they knew what was happening and 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:39.280 then didn't do anything about it, they have left themselves open. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:46.000 And so we need to stop pretending like deleted text 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.560 messages are somehow an accident. That all of the explanations 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.320 that are being offered are explanations that you would get 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.800 from a toddler that's knocked over a plant clearly and 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.439 has made a mess everywhere. And when you say did 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.520 you do that, they say no, it was the wind 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.639 Right And with the Secret Service, it's like, did you 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.159 purposefully delete these text messages? Oh? No, we were just 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.600 having a change of platform and they just mysteriously went away. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:19.040 The change of platform digital platform came after the request 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.359 from the January sixth committee. So again, are we all 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:31.520 to believe that this was what an accident? I don't 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:39.399 think so, right, So, I'm just sick and tired of 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.960 the bullshit, right. I think that we are all just 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:49.680 exhausted because I believe that this administration, the Trump administration, 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.679 and they are leftover sycophants think very little of the 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.920 American people. I think they think we're all fucking stupid, right. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.080 I think that they BELI leave that we're not as 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.720 interested in getting to the truth as we are, which 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.480 is why they continue to say that this is nothing 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.119 more than a witch hunt. Well, here's the reality, and 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.800 this is how Democrats should be selling this in midterm elections. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.919 I don't want to be held to a different standard 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.840 then those that are working in government, whether or not 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.280 you are the President of the United States, a secret 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.679 Service member, a Capitol police officer, a chief of staff, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.240 or a member of fucking Congress. I want us all 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.879 to be held to the same fucking standards and the 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.160 same rule of law. And if you're not going to 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:44.119 give a low level fucking criminal the benefit of the 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:49.720 doubt because of their skin color, because of their economic status, 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.920 then why the fuck are we giving secret service members 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.240 and an independent age and an independent watchdog the benefit 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.560 of the doubt that we don't give to somebody on 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.159 the stret This is the question that I honestly have 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.680 right because I wish that black people in America, innocent 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.399 fucking black people in America, were given half the fucking 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.119 benefit of the doubt that white criminals are given in 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.919 this country, because that's what gets me. That's what gets 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.199 me and my fucking blood pressure through the roof. Is 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:26.280 the bait, fucking obvious hypocrisy that we see in our 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:30.080 legal system. Oh, the bar is so fucking high to 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.359 convict a known criminal, Donald Trump. But my god, we 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.639 can shoot and kill or strangle and murder somebody in 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:43.040 the goddamn street on suspicion, suspicion that they had a 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.919 counterfeit twenty dollar bill. By the way, we never even 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.760 learned whether or not George Floyd actually even had a 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.760 counterfeit twenty dollar bill that was worth him being murdered 0:21:53.800 --> 0:22:01.199 over right, Donald Trump. Donald Trump's ignorance and blatant lies 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:06.640 about COVID nineteen cost four hundred thousand American lives by 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.520 the time that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.560 in to be president and vice president of the United States. 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:18.200 Where's the fucking class action suit against the Trump administration? Right? 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.120 Where is the conversation with regard to the fact that 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:28.320 Donald Trump was an accomplice to murder right knowing that 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.119 he had all the information to warn the American people 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.520 and I'm not saying that people wouldn't have died. What 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.320 I'm saying is that four hundred thousand Americans on his 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.879 watch would not have died, and then continue to be 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.600 lied to that they end up killing themselves because they 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.399 are literally willing, as our friend Jonathan Netzels documented, to 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:52.360 die of whiteness. So you will kill a black person 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.840 on suspicion of what them jogging in a neighborhood, sleeping 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.199 in their own bed, going to the store, picking up 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:05.440 a gun in an actual gun store. Black people will 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.240 be murdered. But white people who you know are criming 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.720 out in broad daylight clearly have a different set of 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.040 laws and a bar that must be reached in order 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:21.160 to try or indict them. And so for me, it's like, 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.960 that's how Democrats need to sell this to the American people. 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.600 Why should you be operating under a different set of 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:32.280 laws just because you happen to be black, Latin, x Asian, 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.840 you know, any person of color, or that you're not 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:40.760 a multi millionaire, right Like, why do you have a 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:46.560 different bar to meet than these people? That to me 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:48.840 is a political ad that I would run from now 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.520 until fucking election day, Right Like, if no one is 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.000 above the law, then we should all be subscribing to 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:57.359 the same laws. And if I can be picked up 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:01.480 on the lowest of low level, you know, thought by 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.160 a police officer that I've done something wrong, that by 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:07.760 virtue of them thinking that I've done something wrong, they're 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.000 able to shoot me, you know a number of times, 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.959 then tell me why we have so much evidence of 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:19.760 wrongdoing by the Secret Service, by the Trump administration, and 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:24.240 yet again no one at that level has been picked 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:30.840 up or indicted. These are the questions that the American 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:36.680 people actually are asking. Switching gears again. I went on 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:41.920 MSNBC over the weekend and I was asked a question 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:46.639 about whether or not I believe that abortion was going 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:49.679 lack of access to abortion was going to be a 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:52.879 galvanizing issue for midterm elections, like is it going to 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.639 get people to the polls? And this is what I 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:58.280 want to unpack here, and just for us to tell 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:02.359 the fucking truth about black women vote ninety percent of 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:08.080 the time. Okay, they are the most reliable voting block 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:12.439 in this country. So when you are asking me a 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.480 question about what will be the galvanizing issue to get 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.000 quote unquote people to the polls. Let's be specific, right, 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:24.119 Let's just say who we're talking about, instead of that 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.679 this kind of line of questioning that would have me 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.640 believe that you're talking about all people, when really who 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.840 you're talking about is white women, who the Democratic Party 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.320 has not been able to galvanize or to get them 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.520 a part of the big tent because suburban white women 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.760 vote with their husbands, and their husbands are Republicans. And 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:44.840 we know this to be true, and have known this 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:47.919 to be true since the fucking nineteen sixties. So if 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.320 you're going to ask people questions, let's just be real 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:55.640 about who the fuck you're asking the question about. That's 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.760 number one. Number two. I don't know what it's going 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:01.720 to get white women to the polls. I have no idea. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.960 I don't think either party has any idea, right except 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:11.360 for the fact that wherever their husbands decide to lead. Right, 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:16.840 because white women are the most protected women, the most 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:21.560 protected group, I will say, in this country by virtue 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:26.440 of the fact that white men and society have seen 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:30.000 white women as the ultimate prize. They're the ultimate in 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:32.840 terms of beauty, in terms of femininity, in terms of 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:36.960 all of the things. Right, it is why you know, 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:42.159 there is this push, this anti abortion push. It is 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:48.160 connected to white supremacy and to patriarchy. Their numbers are dwindling, right, 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.200 And part of if you listen to these motherfucking oath 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:54.480 keepers and the three percenters and the proud Boys, part 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:58.440 of their white supremacy, theorizing comes from the fact that 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:03.440 more white women need to be giving birth to white men. Right. 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:08.120 It's why there were misagynation laws on the books, right, 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:11.600 because if you were to have these races mix to 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:14.919 a certain extent, then, my god, how would we be 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:18.679 able to keep the group separate and one at the 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:23.280 top of the pyramid and others at the bottom. You wouldn't, right, 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:27.480