Treasonous Traitors

for property that belongs to the United States. Come to find out, dear friends, that Donald Trump, the man who doesn't fucking read and couldn't sit down for his own intelligence briefings when he was the godforsaken president of these United States, seems to have been going through these three hundred documents all by his little lonesome. And the question that I have is, what the fuck do you think everyone everyone is waiting for in order to indict Donald Trump.

Let's piece together a couple of things, shall we. When Jared Kushner left the White House after the disgrace twice impeached President was voted out of office in twenty twenty, he received a very large, very large cash infusion to his business by Mohammed bin Salam, you know, the murderer

responsible for killing Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashogi. This would also be the man Joe Biden fist bumped when he went to Saudi Arabia in order to you know, open up oil reserves so that American gas prices could go down, because you know, who cares about murderers anyway, when we're talking about capitalism and gas. Kushner received two billion dollars, not two million, not even two hundred million, two billion

dollars from Mohammed bin Salam, a known murderer. We know that Donald Trump loves to keep the company of dictators, fascists, authoritarians, and that while he was president of the United States, Donald Trump was given access to things that that criminal motherfucker should have never had access to. We also know that they're one of the reasons, many reasons why Donald Trump didn't release his tax returns and still fighting in the courts to never release his tax returns. Is one,

donald Trump is not as rich as he claims to be. Two, he doesn't pay taxes. Three He's in a lot of fucking debt and not like we need to cancel student loan type of debt, but talking about like into the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of debt. We know that the company that Donald Trump keeps is not the greatest.

So what Donald Trump saw in those documents that he couldn't bother have been being briefed on when he was president of the United States is only one thing dollar signs Donald Trump is a treasonous traitor to the United States. Contrary to what Republicans are trying to sell the American people about, Oh, this was no big deal, is the fact that it is probably one of the biggest deals

that we've ever seen. So much so that the normal quiet National Archives, which, by the way, if you've never gone to Washington, DC and visited the National Archives, I highly recommend it. If you were a nerd like myself, which I believe that most of you are, the National Archives as well as the Library of Congress, well pieces

that are resistance you should go and visit. But this place that you oftentimes never hear about unless you're in history class or on a tour in Washington, DC had to send a sternly worded letter to Donald Trump's one of his goon lawyers saying that no, we're not going to hold off on sending these boxes which we had requested over a year ago to the FBI. We're not going to be in the way and cause our selves

to be an obstacle to an open and ongoing investigation. Now, my question is, like I said at the top, is when the fuck are we going to start to see Donald Trump's list of indictments come down? Because here's what we know to be true. The FBI has now had those documents in their possession for the last two weeks.

We know that there are thousands and thousands of pages fifteen boxes, you know, three hundred pages of highly classified documents, right that were just like being held in Marlago and a storage shed so that whenever Donald Trump had time in between buffets and tea time that he could then what, go down there and maybe scan a couple of documents, maybe send off some Right, this man is a criminal, and we know that Donald Trump doesn't hold on to

anything that he doesn't find monetary value in. That includes people. So the reality here is I'm assuming that outside of whiteness and privilege and maleness and wealth and all of these things, that all the reasons why the bar for Donald Trump is so fucking high in order to be able to prove what we all know to be true, and for people who have lived in New York City who have always known to be true, is that the

man is a goddamn criminal. But the question I think that is really taking time is trying to figure out whether or not America is actually safe, because you see, Donald Trump had nuclear codes, Donald Trump knows where certain intelligence agents are. All of this kind of information you receive in regular briefings, and I'm certain or in those boxes that were in Mara Lago. The National Archives knew that Donald Trump had those when he left the White

House back in January twenty twenty one. They only received some of them back in January twenty twenty two, an entire fucking year later. So basically, what I believe to be true is that the Department of Justice is trying to suff out exactly how damaged our national security is because of Donald Trump, so that they're going to be able to hold this motherfucker accountable. Now, the question keeps being asked, well, what about political violence, what about the

MAGA world? And how they will flip out and tear this comfetry apart? Folks, They're already doing that. Republicans are

already doing that. So this whole like, oh, it's in the best interests of the country to do what Let a criminal keep criming, right, not set the precedent that no one, including the President of the United States, is above the law, so that when a Ron de Santist takes into office potentially in twenty twenty five, that this motherfucker doesn't just use Donald Trump as the blueprint to

create his own evil plan. If we do not hold this man to account, then my god, what I've been saying for the last six goddamn years, what comes next is going to be worse than our worse nightmare. So TikTok Merrick Garland tick, motherfucking talk time is of the essence.

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sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. Folks, whenever I have the opportunity to speak with our good, good friend, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Methsol, I'm always thrilled, and so today, Jonathan, let's start off with the fact that, well before we jump into our mid terms conversation, doctor Fauci is going to be leaving the Biden administration, leaving his public position that he has had

under I believe seven presidents. Folks were showing him throughout the years on cable news, and my god, what a career doctor Fauci has had. I just wanted to give you an opportunity to provide thoughts on him. He says he's not retiring, but he is leaving his position. To give thoughts on the last couple of years under Fauci.

I mean, what a career, right, you know, imagine being a doctor who basically joins the US version of the National Health Service in your late twenties, which is what he did, and then is at the front of, like I mean, like some of the most contentious, heated, charged and also important and life saving initiatives that a public

health service can face. I think that doctor Fauci, as many people know, was basically in charge of the government's response to the HIV epidemic, and initially with somebody who towed the party line. And I think, you know, I think the Fauci basically changing his mind about the ways that drugs should be made available to people was one of the more remarkable about faces in American medical history. The idea that basically he said, hey, look, I'm representing

an establishment. We have a process that touts testing the safety of medications by testing them for years, but people are dying right now. And the fact that he, after I think a very initially horrible period, made some kind of alliance with Act UP protesters and change the way that drugs are distributed just really honestly saved a lot of lives, and it took a kind of flexibility of purpose that I think is incredibly rare in public service

right now. The fact that he basically didn't about and changed the ways drugs are tested and distributed in this country in response to that. Not that it was easy, not that he was always right, but the fact that he admitted he was wrong, I think really is a pretty remarkable chapter in the history of health and illness and America. I don't know how many people would want to be charge in charge of the COVID response under Trump. I can't imagine that that was a very fun job

for somebody who's in their eighties and nearing retirement. But there as well, I think, you know, I mean, obviously there's there's going to be a lot of opinions. We're still in the middle of the pandemic, but imagine the hand you're dealt, Like, here's a new pathogen, that humanity has no immunity against, and we don't know quite yet what the treatments are, and we don't know quite how

lethal this thing is. And we have a president who's not interested in science at all, and so kind of overseeing that I think as a kind of bookend to a career is pretty remarkable. Now, if Republicans take over Congress, I shudder to think about what they're going to do to that legacy. But I would say that we should be lucky enough to have public servants among us who are that dedicated for and that competent for such a

long time. You know, I just want to ask you, doctor Fauci, to me, you know, regardless of the ups and downs that we've had over almost three years living with multiple variations of COVID, I think exemplify to your point what it means to be a public servant, what it means to actually want to serve the public, particularly

during a time of crisis. And I think that you know, a majority of Americans, a majority, a strong majority of Americans are very grateful to doctor Fauci and the work that he did, exemplified by the magazine covers that he was on the conversations that he had in so many days. I mean, I had the good the pleasure of interviewing him on woke F And I just want to ask you, like, what do you think, you know, if America survives another five ten years, what do you think that his legacy

will be well? I think I think hopefully. It's the things we're talking about now again. I mean, the issue right is that there's always a danger of somebody hanging on too long. As great as RBG was, she did not do us any favors by hanging on too long after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis that had a five year survival with total admiration and respect for her accomplishments and

her memory. You know, we're facing a conversation right now about Biden and so leaving on top I think is really important for people who are in positions of power and authority. And it feels to me like vout she is kind of going out on top. I mean, the pandemic is probably right now. I don't hold this against me, but it feels right now like it's more manageable than

it's been in three years. And and I think there's a lot to be said and I can see, you know, it doesn't feel like this is somebody who's held on too long. Now again, I think the main issue is and I thought everybody, including President Obama, had a lovely

tweet about the honor of serving with doctor Fausci. But again, if there are Republican hearings and he's dragged in front of a sub committee and talk about you know, I mean, if if I were him, I just wouldn't show up, right like at this point, like I I'm you know, I just I just wouldn't come. We know what Republicans would be doing. This would not be a thumb in the face to government. It's just like I'm not going

to participate in your circus. So you know, I like, in my humble opinion, if I were him, I'd be like, no, I'm I pieced out. So you all can manage this unless you enforce a subpoena. I mean, I think what we're going to see is the power of the China virus narrative is if the Republicans take over the House, it's going to become one of the dominant stories is mandates. Um people are already I mean, when you see people turning against Trump, toward De Santists right now, it's because

of public health. I don't think people fully realize that. Um But I think that when when you see people saying, well, Trump was the person who did the did the mask mandate or even force people to stay home for a couple of months or schools or things like that, people like even like Joe Rogan on down people who are turning on Trump toward de Santists or because Desantists paid no attention to public health whatsoever, to the detriment of the lives of the people in his state. Data is

pretty clear about that. UM. So, I think public health is politicized, and I think, you know, he's not gonna you know, he's He's part part of that in a way, and that's just kind of the what we're in right now.

So I don't know, I know it. I mean, like I've been so critical of people who don't show up to talk to the January sixth Commission, But but I do think that again, this is why, thinking now about the midterms, it's so important that people vote right now because I guess the question is, do you want two years plus of hearings about Hunter Biden and about the China virus and about all this other stuff, or do you want you know, hearings about climate change and student

debt and inflation and gas prices and stuff like that. So I just think we have a pretty real choice coming up that has to do the links to this topic in some pretty important ways. You know. One of the things that I have been asked about, and I'm certain that you've been asked about recently on television and in the interviews that you do, is, you know, is around what do you think are driving people to the polls?

And I personally believe that it is like we're not living in single issued times, right, And you know, as Audrey Lord that said, we don't live single issue lives, right, And I think that one of the machinations of politics that I hate is that there is no complexity, there is no layering. It's like we're going to talk about climate change only when things are on fire or underwater. We're going to talk about abortion only when it's taken away, right,

Like we're not linking these issues together. And so when you talk about public health, right as as as a public health advocate, as somebody who is a doctor and is in this work, what do you think if you were to create, you know, and contextualize messaging that would have people understand really what public health is and how it is important to their day to day lives. As we are making, you know, this march to midterms, what

would that be? Jonathan Well, I can think of three things that are important to know about public health before I get into political messaging. But one, of course, is that public health does not value free. Public health has in the past had policies and outcomes that were incredibly disparate by race and socioeconomic class. Public health has instilled treatments from sterilization to you know, locking up quote unquote

imbeciles and things like that in asylums. So public health has always been in any ways embedded in American culture. And so I always think that critiques of public health are very important because public health is not value free, and it's important to take a critical lens of that. As again I was saying doctor Fauci did during HIV

and said, wait, man, we're getting this totally wrong. And so it's not like, oh, here's some marble monolith called public health that is unassailable and in ways the way like medicine has done for example. So one is public health is of the culture, and I think critiques of public health are always going to be important to its function. The second is that public health has often handed problems

that nobody knows the answer too. Yet. You know, I have a lot of friends in the CDC, and the who and the problems they get are like, hey, man, there's a bacterial born food illness, but we have no idea where it's coming from. And then they have to go test every kind of food and track down what people have eaten and where they shop and stuff like that.

So they're hearing your problems that are not teleological, right, They're they're not the end is not known from the beginning, and so in a way it's very easy to critique public health because then you're like, of course, of course you made people wear masks, of course you held people out of school, But at the time those answers are not very clear, and so the question is kind of, how can we save the most people until we until we get an answer for this, And I think that's

another important thing. And then the third, of course, is it's not medicine. It's not giving you a treatment. So the main tool that public health has is prevention, right, and so you have to ask yourself, are the risks of getting the vaccine worse than the risks of getting the monkeypox or covid or polio or whatever. And so prevention is so important because it's it's so much it's so speculative, right, It's so much like, Okay, I think it's worse to get this thing injected. I just got

my COVID booster. I feel fine, But I'm going to be teaching this semester, and I'm going to be teaching in front of a lot of students. And so I was thinking about it on the way over that you're really you're really kind of thinking in advance in a way it takes. And so thinking in advance about it and imagined threat is different from like, here's some penicillin for your illness right now, right, And so there's a level of kind of speculation in the way public health

functions that requires a leap of faith. And I think, again, because it's so political, not everyone has that, and that's very contested terrain. So those are my three off the top of my head points about public health, but I think they're important for people to keep in mind, because it's not an exact science, and so what you want

is you want to trust really in the system. And so if you were crafting the messaging then around public health, for instance, being on the ballot from midterms, what would you be saying, Well, it used to be pretty easy, right, It was a progress narrative, right, right, So other countries were dying of polio. We had two scientists who invented polio vaccines. We had smallpox, we had antibiotics, all these things. So America is a national leader. It's a pride, you know.

So that that that used to be very very easy in a way, and I think right now, of course, it's much more complicated. Um, I do think there's still a lot of I think there's a lot of fear about the next pandemic or the next next infection, or the next thing like that. So I would I guess my what would work on me, but I don't know

if it work on everybody else. Is like, we don't want to be caught unprepared for the next thing that comes down the pike, and and so like kind of fear of the unknown and being prepared for it would be my personal strategy, But I'm not a political messaging person, but I would say that I just know so many people who are like, it's not just about the next variant, it's like the next pandemic or something. Let's not get

caught behind the eight ball again. I mean, the CDC has already admitted that its response was was not right, and so I think I think that you know, let's let's invest in our future would be my message. But I don't know you can ask like m Rachel or somebody who who can tweak that into like a thing,

you know, one of the one. As you're as you're talking, I'm I'm thinking about, you know, how we've had COVID, how now monkey pops, and the correlation between our climate change crisis that we're living in and public health crises. And I wonder, like, do we talk enough, Jonathan about

the correlation of these things. The fact that because you know, we are going to have longer, hotter summers that you know, stretch all the way through what was fall into winter, that we have, you know, an increase in mosquitoes right and West Nile and these things that we're not making the connection between how the climate crisis and these you know, waterborne airborne viruses are going to become prevalent. It's not going to be every hundred years, right, It's going to

be every two and you know that. I mean, my other tip for our listeners today is stock up on coat COVID tests right now, because the government just stopped funding them. And so it's it's not theoretical like we're going to be not prepared if there's a wave in the fall because we're not making COVID tests in this country right now because we didn't get the funding from

Congress because the GOP blocked it. So if you're at extra cash five five boxes of COVID tests right now, you're you maybe you won't need them, but if you do, you'll be happy to have them in the fall. So it's not like theoretical like that kind of thing is happening right now. We're not funding we're basically making the

same mistake we did before COVID. And I don't know, part of me wants to say education, right, I mean, the education system is being gutted, like scientific concepts vire a level of speculative nuanced thinking, and if you're in a class that's being taught by the wife of a of a military veteran who has not had any teaching experience whatsoever except for being able to say the pledge

of allegiance, which I guess is the criteria. Then you're then we're just we're gonna have an uneducated populace, which I think is a danger for imagining speculative threats like this, and of course distilling information from disinformation, all those factors. So I do think there are a lot of factors at play right now that I don't know. Don't get me started on education. No, but that that's a bit because because for me though that and as you were talking,

I was just like, I felt my blood boiling. But I'm like, because the point is to have an ignorant populace, right, because ignorant people are easy to control, Like we're you know, case and point, every single one of Trump's followers. But you know that, I think that what is troubling me is that because we have politicized science and then with COVID politicized health, that we're not even teaching it to a way to your point that allows people to have nuance.

There is no nuance, right, Like the advent of social media, there's no, you know, there's no nuance and what people are saying, there's no context that we are that we are understanding. I remember learning about what a hypothesis was right and education hated guests and why is it an educated guests versus just you know, something out of the blue.

And I feel like the attack on critical thinking, Jonathan, I think is going to be our demise, right because if you are just having the wife or the husband of said military you know, a veteran or you know, active military person come into a classroom to teach third graders, which to me I remember as a critical time for like science in school and and and they're reading along with you and have no you know, no understanding, no schooling.

Like honestly, without us going on a tangent, what do you think that that does to our future of being quote unquote leaders in public health and science and innovative innovation spaces. I mean, I don't need to speculator. It was even much better, much better than what we have now. But I studied education cuts to Kansas for my book Dying of Whitenes, and I found that just two years of education cuts and lowered teacher standards. I mean that's what this military thing is. They don't want to pay

people for teaching. They don't want to pay the credentialing. It's it's just lowering the standards. And you know, having somebody who's trained as a teacher is going to be a better teacher than someone who's looking at truth social during their break to figure out what, you know, what a question is. And so what I found in Kansas, Kansas had the number six education system in the country

for public schools. The public schools were incredible and it was It was useful in so many ways, including creating an educated workforce for the state, which led to innovation, technology, productivity, finance, everything like that. Like having a great public school system in Kansas, which took seventy years to build, was great for the state in all of these unintended and invisible ways.

And then Sam Brownbeck took over and they viscerated the school system and within three years they were in the mid forties for math and science and reading exams for fourth and eighth graders, and the entire productivity of the state really fell off the map because all of a sudden they didn't have people. It wasn't just like people

out there spouting off critical race theory. They didn't have people who understood how to develop new technologies for farm equipment, they didn't have people who knew how to do banking, all these kind of things. And so in a way, what it created was a kind of two tier system where poor people became trade workers they went to public school, and which people bought themselves out and they were the kind of noble elites who could go get the knowledge. And so in a way, what it did is it

just reaffied all of these social divisions. And again it was horrible, horrible for the state. Because the state had an in house supply of educated workers, it didn't have to import them, and it was great for the finance of the state. And so when I see this in Florida, I'm just like, I'm sat on so many levels. Um, but it really is it's really a catastrophe for the future innovation and development and finance in that state. Oh, Jonathan, we will have are on fire today. All make it all,

make it all the bad connections between everything wrong? Does Rooster's gone to my head? I love it now, But see, I I mean, I don't think and you know, I'll end here today is that I really do not think that people are paying enough attention to what Ron de Santis is doing in Florida and how he he is corrupting the education system, how he's corrupting the voting system, how he is really setting Florida on a path um to the bottom, on a you know, on a on

a race to the bottom. And what that is going to do as one of you know, the most populous states you know in this country. What it's going to do to us as a collective, um, I think is going to be um, you know everything that you you just said, times ten? All right, Jonathan, Well we will have to leave it there with your boosted brilliance today. As always, we appreciate you. I'll get another booster every

week so we can appreciate you. That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke A app as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.