WEBVTT - Barely Passing 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peezs, and welcome to Woke f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.239 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.439 Coming up in the show on this Woke Wednesday, we'll 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.720 be talking with our usual in house doctor, doctor Jonathan 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.760 Metzel about the latest with COVID nineteen. I want to 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.560 start today though, with politics and the state of our 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.879 democracy and the fact that this week Joe Biden's administration 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.519 is coming up on year one. On today's Woke Wednesday 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.760 at three thirty pm Eastern on Instagram Live, I'm going 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.880 to be providing what I believe is my report card 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.760 for Joe Biden and this administration, And so I want 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.639 to kick things off on today's Woke a f with that, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.240 with getting us all thinking about it's been a year, right, 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.640 you know, at the beginning of the month, we acknowledged 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.240 the year anniversary of the insurrection, the attempt to overthrow 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.679 our government, the recognition that it's still happening, that there 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.360 is a slow moving coup that has been rolling across 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.120 the United States probably since Donald Trump became President of 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.480 the United States, but definitely hit a fever pitch in 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:31.520 twenty twenty and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.720 And what is really interesting to me when I turned 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:40.160 on the news after the long holiday weekend and am 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:46.440 seeing headlines like White House changes messaging strategy or White 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.080 House signals new pivot on messaging strategy, or year two, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.880 what will the agenda be? Because all of the previous 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.360 things that this president has wanted to do outside of 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:04.280 physical infrastructure has indeed failed. And so I posted on 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.080 Twitter and if you don't follow me, you should at 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.639 D two cents d E two c e nts. I'm 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.000 also thinking about changing that name. Let me know what 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:17.600 you think about that, basically to my actual name. But 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.720 you know so far, I put up this poll, right, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.959 and you know how I think about polls. But I 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.840 like polling you all. I like polling my own audience 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:33.640 because I know who I'm talking to. And basically, this 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:39.040 administration is polling pretty fucking low in comparison to other 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.680 presidents and in their first year. To be fair to 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.840 this administration, everything that they're dealing with are things that 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.239 have never been dealt with by any president beforehand. All 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.560 at the same time, now you can come into the 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.120 presidency and there can be a lagging economy. You can 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.720 come in and there can be you know, foreign adversaries 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.040 and and threats abroad. You can come in and you know, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.040 we may be talking about education or healthcare, what have you. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.359 But to be fair, this administration came into an absolute 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.600 fucking shit show. Right. Not only were they coming in 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:21.320 the midst where we were just becoming aware that there 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.600 was a COVID nineteen vaccine, but that at the time, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.280 right that both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were sworn 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.160 in at that time. Just think about this for a minute. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.360 A year ago, four hundred thousand people had died of COVID. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:45.320 A year later, that number has more than doubled. So 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:52.360 if you came in to this new administration with the 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:59.280 hopes that you were going to ride your mid term elections, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.720 your presidency on you being the adult in the room 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.280 and being able to deal with COVID nineteen and roll 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.760 out vaccines and get the country is shot in the 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.880 arm and all of those things. Well, if we're just 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.039 looking at the death metrics, right, or if we're looking 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.280 at the positivity rates, if we're looking at this administration's 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.640 handling of any of those things, what grade would you 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.279 give them, because I can tell you right now that 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:34.000 they're barely passing. Now, this is not for me to 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.479 say that they should have been prepared for omicron, But 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.880 here's the thing that they should have been fucking prepared for, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.359 which is had a message to the American people because 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.640 Donald Trump and the Republicans were doing a bang up 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.560 fucking job telling people not to wear a mask, telling 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.920 them that the COVID nineteen virus was a hoax, telling 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.040 them to drink bleach, telling them to take horse tranquil liarser, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.279 it's telling them to drink their own urine. They came 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.080 in understanding that the war that we are at is 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:11.440 not necessarily just with the Republican cult party, right, but 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.920 it is with their ability to share their cult messages 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:21.159 and have people bide onto it right, and have even 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.360 those that are supposed to be at the height at 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.640 the peak of our intellectual prowess, like say, oh, I 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:34.520 don't know, members of the Supreme Court parroting the same 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:41.320 right wing extremist thoughts with regard to COVID nineteen, which 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.760 is now informing how they decide to throw out Joe 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.920 Biden's mandates, and saying that certain agencies like OSHA right 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:56.520 don't have the power to be able to institute these 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.920 types of mandates that it would need to be an 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.760 Act of Congress. But the fact is is that if 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.479 you were to actually listening, listen to the questions that 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.720 a Gorsitch or a Thomas are offering, they sound like 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.800 they're on O N. They sound like they're coming from 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:19.279 Fox News. So it's almost laughable to see headlines now 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.600 in the news about the White House pivoting their messaging 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.800 when the only fucking thing that needed to matter with 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.000 them coming into office was how do we get the 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.159 right messagers? What is our message and how do we 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.200 get that out on podcasts, on radio, on TV, word 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.000 of mouth, on social media? What is the plan looking 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.840 at and interrogating the way that the right wing has 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.680 been able to capitalize right on their lies and have 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:54.599 that miseducation and misinformation spread like wildfire. What were the 0:06:54.720 --> 0:07:02.239 Biden administration's plans to disrupt that? Narrow? Because I haven't 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:07.039 seen one. Now, you have seen organizations right like the 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.400 Lincoln Project. Because all of these projects and programs and 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:17.520 fucking organizations are run usually by men, usually by white men, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.640 who continue to get caught literally and figuratively with their 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.239 fucking pants down, or just not knowing how one should 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.480 conduct themselves in a professional setting, So which goes to 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.559 undermine the entire mission that Lincoln Project had been after 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.360 and had actually captivated a lot of eyes around, which 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:42.760 was their messaging strategy. So to me, I think to myself, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.840 why is it that the White House that Democrats as 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.680 a whole, whether it is the d n C right 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.679 the Democratic National Committee, whether it is the d SCC, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:59.760 the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or the D Triple C, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:06.480 the Democratic Congressional Campaign Company. Why you have these institutions 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.200 and these apparatus that are supposed to be building the 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:15.480 pipeline of our candidates and the ones that are gathering 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.960 these messaging and talking points. Tell me again why it's 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:25.800 so difficult to match what works and then use the 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.600 power of these agencies and these offices to be able 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.240 to amplify it like this. It's these places that I 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.400 find myself where I'm like, if you know that you 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.120 have one major problem, and you're a one major problem 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:47.320 has now contributed to more depths and more misinformation as 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.560 it pertains to this fucking virus, Why wouldn't you figure 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.000 out you have the power of the White House to 0:08:55.160 --> 0:09:00.760 gather all of the most important mouthpieces right in America, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.800 to gather them and figure out how are you getting 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.800 the word out? How can we partner with the TikTok's 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.920 and the TikTok stars and not just to come in 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.559 and say, get a shot in your arm and take 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.679 a picture with the President. But I'm talking about consistent 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:20.440 fucking messaging, right, Like, what is it that this White 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.120 House should be learning and should have been learning right 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.280 as they were coming into power and over the past 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:32.160 year that we have seen none of it done. So 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.679 when I am thinking about this one major problem of 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.200 messaging that is absolutely like the nail and the coffin 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:46.520 to our democracy, I'm outdone by the laziness on the 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.679 part of this administration to just think that putting a 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.680 grown up or somebody that was perceived as a grown 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.640 up in the room was going to be enough, That 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:02.520 just exercising Donald tru from the White House was going 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.440 to mean a pluses across the board. That's not what 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.080 has happened. And what I find really frustrating about government 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.520 just in general is the fact that it is so 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.920 huge makes it less nimble to be able to adapt 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:22.280 to change. And when we are in a rapidly changing environment, right, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:27.160 both politically culturally as a society, When we are in 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:32.319 this rapid environment, how effective can this dinosaur of an 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:37.000 operation be in messaging to the people that are literally 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.720 on their devices, on their computers, sitting down in front 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.080 of streaming services day in and day out. How do 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.440 you infiltrate that? But there are people who have done 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:54.160 so effectively, and yet you're not using those people to 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.720 your advantage, right, You're not using industries to your advantage. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.080 You're not sitting down at least as far as we 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.800 can see, because the messaging is fucking stagnant and stupid. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.480 If I hear one more fucking politician that is one 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.760 hundred years old talk to me about, well, we'll just 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.640 continue the fight, bitch, I don't want to just continue 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.679 your fight, right. I want new strategies, so I'm not 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.760 just pushing a boulder up the fucking hill. I want 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:31.559 new strategies and pivots and ideas about how we fight differently, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.240 how we fight dirtier, how we actually get to the 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.320 heart of the heart of the thing, not just the 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.720 no one's above the law, but we're actually not going 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.560 to use the laws to their fullest right. We're actually 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.640 not going to find the thoughtful ways in which to 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:55.400 make laws amenable to what we're dealing with. Now. You know, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:01.640 I listened to a cable news reporter on CNN say, well, 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.640 it seems like voting rights is, you know, just dead 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.800 in the water. So we're just going to move on 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.600 from that. What's next for the Biden administration? And I'm 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.560 saying to myself, what's next for the Biden administration? Nothing? 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.880 You haven't been able to do, Dick with the one 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.480 year that you had that was going to be outside 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.160 of midterms and dealing with the pressures of that. You 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.600 had one year to grab America's attention. You had one 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.640 year for them to understand the urgency of this moment 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.200 as it pertains to holding onto our democracy right and 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.800 how those things feed into us having public health and 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.760 safety initiatives that keep us all well right, which feeds 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.840 into your economy problems, which feeds into right every fucking 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:59.280 thing else. It is the issue of siloed fucking thinking 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:08.360 and this hierarchical understanding of our crises. This is a 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:15.679 problem of thought, right, of linear thought is this is 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:22.680 the issue because you're not able to really look at 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.360 multiple issues at one time and see how one is 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.800 feeding into the next, feeding into the next, feeding into 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.280 the next. No. Instead, the way that it's organized and 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.600 the way that it is retold to us in the 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.480 news is like, well, this is the top of the agenda. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.800 This is the middle of the agenda, this is the 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:46.160 bottom of the agenda. No, the agenda should be If 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.600 I'm going to quote Joe Biden's campaign speech when he 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.079 was running, when he was candidate, Joe Biden, the soul 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.720 of America, Well, what the fuck does that look like? 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.000 If that is the heading, Well, it looks like secure 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.000 during our democracy. What does that look like? It looks 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.800 like holding those that are responsible for thwarting our democracy, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.760 for trying to overturn an election. It looks like holding 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.880 those people responsible. And then it looks like taking those 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.600 taking that narrative right, and the push through the Department 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.840 of Justice, through the FBI, it looks like a purging right. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.040 It looks like also on the one hand, holding people 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:33.119 criminally liable right for treason, for the conspiracy to overthrow 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.640 the government, the seditious conspiracy right. It looks like that, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.320 it looks like the criminal responsibility part. And then what 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.600 are we doing policy wise in order to secure our 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:54.160 democracy to our overarching goal of saving the soul of America. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:15:02.560 I am so frustrated with this administry, with Democrats and 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:10.360 what is just laziness, right. I heard a White House 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.560 official say, you know, when asked about the messaging, well, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.400 we're not you know, we we don't have the ability 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.280 to go door to door. We can't go town to town. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:27.680 And I'm thinking to myself, really, because that's exactly what 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.080 Steve Bannon told his followers to do. He told them 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.680 that these next fights are coming at the local and 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.480 state level. So he told people to go run for 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.680 your student board, he'd for your school board, to go 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.960 run for city council, to go run for these open 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:50.320 positions and and local races that nobody's paying attention to. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.640 But then all of a sudden, when you look up, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.160 you realize that your entire state is under the control 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:01.360 of like a neo Hitler Trumps. Figure, where is that 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.480 messaging from Democrats telling people to get out on the 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.280 new That the new fight, right is at your school board, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.000 that the new fight is at your city council, that 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.360 it's at your it's at the board of operations, right 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:22.320 of your community. Where is that messaging? This is why 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:28.080 I say that I sometimes folks outside of the policies, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.200 loathe being a fucking Democrat because I hate losing. I 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.440 hate being a part of the loser party. I hate 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.840 being a part of the party that can't manage to 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:46.320 get it shipped together. I don't want to lambast our president, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.080 but what else am I supposed to do? Pretend that 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.080 everything that they're doing is great. Pretend that Democrats have 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.760 a fucking clue as to how angry their constituents are. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.400 One of the things that I tweeted earlier this week 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.840 as well was imagine, imagine what our politics would look 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.840 like if Democrats cared as much or feared their base 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:17.040 as much as Republicans do. And you know, so many 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.080 people responded, and they're just like, well, the problem with 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.520 the Democratic base is that the base is black, right, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.560 and black people have no place else to go. So 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.520 they're not going to cater to the base. They're going 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.280 to still continue to run after all of the Karens, right, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.080 all of the white suburban Karents that haven't voted with 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:41.000 the Democratic Party since the nineteen fifties. But I am 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:49.440 so confused by that continued, failing, fucking strategy. How is 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.320 it that you feel that it consistently undermining and ignoring 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:59.960 your base? This administration would rather put fucking Maya Angela 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:06.680 on a fucking quarter, right, you know, highlight Juneteenth as 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:17.200 a federal fucking holiday, commemorate the murder of Emmett Till, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.919 but refuse to give you voting rights and refuse to 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:26.440 pass any anti lynching lass. How the fuck is this 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.400 symbolism and pageantry supposed to make us feel? Well, I'll 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.400 tell you what it makes me feel like. It makes 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.400 me feel like a little fucking kid that you're trying 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.480 to pacify with a bunch of fucking toys, right so 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.720 that they don't realize that you're not actually providing them 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.119 with shit, Like you're not giving them an education. They 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.280 don't really have a house to live under, they don't 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.159 have food on the table. But here are all of 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.359 these plastic fucking toys that you'll get bored with in 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:58.280 a little bit. But at the moment you're distracted by 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.160 the Black community doesn't need your fucking distractions. That's number one, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.399 and we are so hip to your hot shit that 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.800 what it's going to take, in my humble opinion, is 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.800 for people to just fucking walk away, to walk away 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.240 from the Democratic Party. Let Republicans do what white people 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.520 are going to do right, which is what they've been 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:27.960 doing right since slavery. I told you this last week, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.560 what did I say? I said that you had twelve 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.399 good years of reconstruction that then was matched by one 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.840 hundred years of Jim Crow in modern times. We had 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.600 eight good years under the Obama administration that is now 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.240 probably going to be matched by a hundred years of 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.679 authoritarian and fascist regime, and that will be nobody else's 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.720 fucking fault but Democrats. And I'm laying it squarely on 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.480 this shoulder, because you see people the Republican Party, these 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:03.280 white fucking rabid racists are telling you out loud who 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.520 the fuck they are and exactly what it is that 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.600 they are doing, and you are doing nothing about it. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.920 You are having closed door meetings with Joe Mansion and 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.120 kursin Cinema instead of doing what the Republican Party would 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.600 have done to their asses last year, which is stripped 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.880 them of their fucking leadership and shut them the fuck up, right, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.840 because that's what I would do. It is past time 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.000 to fucking change the locks on the democratic chambers to 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.040 Joe Mansion and Kursen Cinema and any other two bit 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:38.600 fucking moderate democrat that wants to hide behind those two 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:44.600 who are media horse at best, take away their power, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.439 reach out to all of the fucking news stations with 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.560 the same statement. At the same time, have the presser 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.760 event that says we are no longer going to be 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.000 dealing with Kursten Cinema or Joe Mansion because they have 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:06.159 expressed that they are against our shared democratic values and 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.800 our norms. Now, many of you right may say, well, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.080 then you're just going to put them in Republican hands. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.880 And I will ask you, how is that different than 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.280 what has been done? Right now? It is time that 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.720 we air out our dirty laundry and our bad apples, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.720 because right now it is spoiling not just the bunch, 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.840 but our entire democracy. And at some point in time 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.840 you have to put a stake in the ground. This 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.439 is our stake in the ground. We are done, and 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:44.720 anyone else who objects to cohesive democratic values right and 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:48.440 decide to speak out on such you too will be booted. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.880 We are looking for people that are going to champion 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:56.199 our causes, not just in rhetoric, but with their policies 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.159 and with their votes. And those two have shown us 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.800 time and time and that they are not with us. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.480 So we are announcing publicly we are no longer with them. 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:13.439 Let the chips fall where they may, but at least 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:18.680 the people that voted this party into power would actually 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.720 feel as if they are fucking doing something with the 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:30.119 bad apples that they continue to court. The niceties are done, 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.240 the rhetoric is over. The pageantry I could do without. 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:39.280 If you're not going to deal with the problems that 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.080 are in front of you, then you should not be 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:45.119 trusted to deal with the potential problems that are in 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:51.280 front of us right that are down the road. The 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:55.119 midterms in twenty twenty two and how they are playing 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:59.720 out right now leading up nine months away to November, 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.880 are going to show us exactly where this country is going. 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.760 And all I have to say to you, dear friends, 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:08.880 is I hope that your passports are up to date, right. 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.640 I hope that you are being really thoughtful about your 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:17.840 resources and about your safety networks and what those look like, 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.040 and I do not say that glibly. I'm saying that 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:25.280 seriously because again, this is what it looks like when 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:28.840 Democrats have a slim margin of power, and it looks 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:33.199 really fucking dangerous to me. Coming up next is my 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:37.200 conversation with our dear friend, doctor Jonathan Metzel to run 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.800 us through the latest with the omicron variant and what 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:48.000 we need to know about COVID nineteen now and moving forward. Friends, 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.800 you know that when it is a Wednesday, we are 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.359 happy to be joined by our in house doctor, doctor 0:23:54.480 --> 0:24:00.520 Jonathan Metzel, to run through the latest with the COVID crisis. Jonathan, 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:04.320 I have to start out today and say this. I 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:07.840 have been having so many conversations with different friends and 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:11.679 family members, and there's just one thing that has popped 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:15.400 up to me is that we no longer have as 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:21.080 a country a shared value in life. And I think 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.720 that what you know, I ended up tweeting out like 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.600 this long you know, long for me because I never 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:32.600 really tweet threads, but this long thread on how disturbing 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:38.199 it is to wake up to see our COVID numbers 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:42.879 that are astronomical in comparison to other countries around the world, 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:47.600 To wake up to the news that China has imposed 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:51.560 new lockdown restrictions that are affecting about twenty million people 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:54.040 in the country, which is about only one point five percent. 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:57.800 But there are fears about how that's going to impact 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:02.360 the supply chain because third of our manufacturing goods come 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:06.720 from China. You're already seeing our supply chain issues. But 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:11.240 what struck me, Jonathan, is the fact that news, mainstream 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:16.080 news right is covering the supply chain as a crisis, 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:21.640 but not talking about why China is taking the measures 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:26.040 that it did in twenty twenty to impose lockdown restrictions 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:29.000 to try and get a hold of Amicron. Now we 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:32.160 know that the Olympics is next month, so we also 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:36.280 understand that they have another motivated factor to not want 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.520 to once again be ground zero for a world outbreak. 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:43.960 But how is this sitting with you? Like, how is 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:50.240 the latest of where we are honestly genuinely sitting with you. Well, 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.480 there's a lot in that question, so I'll just say yes, 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:58.040 I mean, yeah, it's a mess right now. It's a 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:00.280 mess right now. So I want to say one thing 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:03.400 that just kind of hovers over all of this, which 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:10.200 I was sorry, which is that before before oh Micron hit, 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:13.159 before all this kind of stuff hit, we had a 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.199 great plan for Delta, right, And so I just I mean, 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:20.400 we've said it a bunch on this show, but the virus, 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:23.840 the virus sets the narrative, right, and so if if 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:25.879 I mean, of course it mutates, that's what viruses do. 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:28.639 But we had a great plan for Delta. We had 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:34.080 vaccines that work, social distancing worked, masks worked, and so 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.800 so much of what's happening now is because of the 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:40.240 change in the virus. Oh Micron is just a completely 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.119 different animal like and so we just can't control it. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.399 And before I answer about China, I'll say, look at 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.240 a place like Israel, for example. Israel is a place 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:54.200 that has been very aggressive, very active in vaccinating people 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:56.919 three or four times. And even in a place like 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:01.000 Israel that is seemingly done everything right short total lockdown, 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:04.359 they're seeing dramatically high numbers. Look at New Zealand. New 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:07.800 Zealand had basically zero cases for a very long time, 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.040 but the minute oh Micron hit, they just were like, man, 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:13.879 we can't stop this thing. And now they're seeing record spread. 0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:16.760 Same thing with Australia. And so I think that in 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:20.160 a way, the question is we're not. We just obviously 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:25.320 not yet don't have the kind of authoritarian structure that 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:29.600 a place like China does. So I think that the 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:33.960 comparable countries to the United States are places like Israel, Australia, 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:37.879 New Zealand, and I think in those cases they're also 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:40.720 seeing this dramatic spread. And so the problem with the 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:43.119 United States isn't just the numbers, of course that's a 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:46.760 huge problem. It's also that this kind of chaos is 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:50.200 then being used to destabilize our political system because people 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:52.440 then are saying, you know, you see, the vaccines don't work, 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:54.920 and Fauci's a liar and blah blah blah, all those 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:56.840