today to discuss demonstrate my frustrations when it comes to detangling my hair. The one thing that I don't look forward to at all, the one thing that I just not necessarily that I struggle with but it just irks me is detangling my hair and it's something that you just have to do you have to stay on top of especially when you have for tight hair when you have thick hair and dense hair. Now my hair can hold a lot of a lot of mysteries and a lot of problems. Now I typically detangle my hair of course prior to washing my hair. I have tried everything. I've tried all type of products. I've tried leaving conditioner, rinse out conditioner. I've tried DIY recipes which honestly my favorite just so happens to be nappy headed jojoba's recipe but sometimes I can't go and get all those ingredients because that recipe has a lot of stuff in it you know and most of the time when it's time for me to actually wash my hair I go to YouTube for inspiration you know I type in natural hair wash day.  I want to get inspiration from someone else so you know I'll look up natural hair wash day. I'll look up detangling four C hair or four type hair. Quick detangle and I have tried some of those videos. I tried Whitney's aka natural 85. I also have tried what is her name my natural sisters you know with Tony the three sisters out in Texas I tried her quick and the shower basically you have to do what works best for you your hair type your patients level so I typically like I said I detangle my hair I have to for me to detangle the day before because depending on the state of what is in it's gonna take a couple hours okay and I detangle on dry hair using some things I'm gonna show you guys exactly what I use and how I go about it. Now lately if you notice in my previous styling video my hair wasn't looking right because my hair wasn't properly detangled so again it's something you have to say on top of so for the past three weeks I've really been half assing it for lack of better words this is what we're gonna do I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna be using and then we're gonna unwrap what we got going on here and start properly detangling my hair I'm going to start from the front and work my way to the back now you're not gonna see everything but what I'm gonna do it's really is not that great on this side now I start off by using warm water in a spray bottle and I was gifted this nifty diffie sprayer and it just does this that just went everywhere okay conditioners I use a combination of different conditioners with great slip and oil sometimes I use a little bit more oil than I need to it depends on again how um how tangled my hair is so look already but goodie we got swabs coconut conditioner and I'm gonna turn down the brightness so you guys can really see me yeah I thought that brightness down so you can really see me so I have swabs coconut conditioner I'll go through this she's about halfway done and then VO five strawberries and cream moisturizing conditioner okay I have tons of different hair clips here at least eight I'm missing some one two three four five yeah I don't have six I'm gonna need some more but let's just go ahead and make sure that I have us here now as far as detangling tools I do have several videos demonstrating how I use everything from the Felicia leatherwood detangling brush wooden combs and my hands I don't know where my Felicia leatherwood brush is at I mean I could not take ownership and say someone stole it but anybody still in my stuff in my house girl so I have misplaced that brush but that is okay because I rarely use that I'm gonna show you some of the things I have here and we're gonna go look at this a bunch of combs okay typically when you look at detangling natural hair videos you always see someone not always but oftentimes you'll see someone detangling their hair with a wide tooth comb looking like this in my opinion this is way too wide now I tend to go in between different tools and I'll show you that but this is way too wide because you're not gonna get all the tangles out of your hair is you know very tangled so this is just a typical shower comb I oftentimes will use something this wide if I've already detangled my hair and I'm going in the shower and then I'm raking the conditioner through okay that's what this is good for a pic afro pic can be awesome and look the teeth are not that wide in between they're great it's very sturdy you can get down in there alright this is my nifty-difty comb you see now the teeth are getting a little bit smaller okay and then we have wooden combs now I have two different type of wooden combs I purchased both of these through amazon.com which I will be linking below so as you can see this one has wider teeth this is the one I use because it's very similar to the afro pic if I line see very similar to the afro pic all right so all right y'all let's get right into the madness okay so this is an old perm rat set she is about five days old okay and I've just been having a headscarf on and yeah I know I have bobby pins all throughout here so I'm gonna make sure that we get this all down you know it would be great if someone came up with a mobile detangling service and you know what I'll pay good money for that come over you know you can serve some orders and well I feel like I have another bobby pin in here somewhere but yeah you know you know someone needs to come out with some mobile detangling service so that those of us who are looking like this you know we could have someone help us out all right all right y'all so child I'm looking like the hamburger you know that you know that you'd be wearing that crazy cock head looking head I mean my hair looks like that damn okay Vivian let me just go ahead and start sectioning my hair off okay we'll be talking to y'all someone doing this cuz it's gonna be boring if all you see me just doing my hair right girl okay all right y'all so while I am sectioning my hair off did any of you guys catch the little interaction between send all an African hair god child look let me tell you something when you are a content creator and you decide to put yourself out there it is what it is people will you know you're basically open for criticism you know I get it everyone get gets it you go through it you either can move past it and we you determine as the person receiving the criticism you can determine how you deal with it and depending on what it is too so I'll give you guys a quick view if you not you know not give you a quick overview of of you what happened all right y'all so this is what this backside is not too bad let's just be honest so let's just go ahead and clip that up and get down to the business which is all right y'all I'm telling you I I get on as a youtuber I watch YouTube there ain't nothing that frustrates me more when I get on YouTube and searching for a video for matted matted tangled hair preferably 4b and I see 3a all over my screen or some other like what I want this is not even tangled really at this point it's not that tangled you know cuz it's a little bit blown out but my one video that has quite a bit of a hitch that was matted hair but it could have been even more matted you know I mean like right now my hair is tangled because I could put my hand sign here and the tangles are right there it's stopping right there it's not going anywhere else so I need to bring these tangles down okay so I need to further separate this and get down to business yeah see this isn't you know I've only seen a handful of videos where the person's hair was really matted only a few now at this point I'm gonna go with a little bit of conditioner okay I see I'm bringing those tangles down I'm working that through now I'm gonna take my wooden comb I'm gonna start at the bottom it worked my way up taking my time now now that I'm up here I'm gonna work that down see how I'm working down the hair chef and see now I can slide my fingers through the hair because it is properly detangled and I'm gonna go ahead and twist that up and I do wash my hair while it's still in twist meaning using shampoo if you guys see my hair loose in my shower videos I'm just doing it for y'all I don't girl I'm just doing it for added effect you know I typically cleanse my scalp and my hair while it's still in twist because it's just gonna get you just makes it easier okay now this isn't again this isn't bad at all it really isn't but it's still if I put my think yeah my finger gets stuck right there so I have a type of hair also I will be putting my hair in loose two-strand twist but I have to watch it one year I left the man for about two and a half weeks and certain pieces started to lock up so I'm getting a little bit it's getting really hard here somewhere so I'm getting a little bit of matting so I need to take my time with this area yeah I could feel it feels like a patch you know what I mean it feels like a patch when it starts to mad a patch of hair a patch of matted hair basically I'm gonna take a little bit of conditioner work that in now let's see now that section is to tangle I made it brighter you guys so you can see that you can see that that's why it's so bright right now I'm gonna twist that up at my son JB who was now six years old I felt like my hair texture had changed something had changed my hair of course got thicker I did experience some postpartum shedding around this area around here which you know it's since has grown back but besides that I felt like my hair became well since it was thicker of course I was gonna have issues with detangling my hair I just feel like it was it was for a while there it was harder for me to detangle my hair yeah so this section is not bad at all so yeah let's just get into this video we saw or I'm putting you in it too so like I said earlier in the video as a fellow content creator I know that when I put information out here that you know not everyone's gonna agree with it and there are gonna be people who are gonna have their own opinions and that is fine as long as you come at me you know you're coming at me sideways I'm open to any type of constructive criticism and I think that's just the type of mindset you have to have and sometimes people you know will say things in a way that you know you may not like it but that's just how it is you know so getting back to African hair god does reaction videos and honestly they both do reaction videos I'm send all who is a hairstylist and African hair god is also a hairstylist still let you guys know now I discovered African hair god after he did a he has very informative videos and he was detangling a young lady's matted severely matted hair okay so that's how I discovered him and I just like him for the information that he shares as a natural hairstylist okay and then I can't remember exactly how I discovered send all but I'm pretty sure it was due to one of her she's known for what is it the flantern videos and the silk presses and even though I would never get one of those done on my hair just because I really don't care to see my hair straighten because I know me I would be like yay five hours to doing this and I miss my curls that's just how I am but I appreciate her as a content creator and the information that she provides now I don't agree with everything that send all says I don't have to I don't agree with everything African hair god you know puts on I know send all had several videos as it relates to rice water and their rice water videos are the dangers of rice water and I will say always do your own research in my opinion when it comes to research like that is that a great hair girl we don't I this is a new one for me and she's so disrespectful so anyway I'm the one person who I appreciate the most and I even I still do my research after looking at her it's the green beauty channel and she does have a video several videos the green beauty channel does as it relates to rice water so this particular let's get to the point this particular reaction video African hair god was looking at different natural hair videos and just given his commentary on what he thought the particular video he looked at first of all I in my opinion I thought the video that he reacted to a send all wasn't one of her best videos so the video that he reacted to was of her detangling a child a young lady's natural hair and when I tell you it looked like she was ripping through that poor girl's hair it literally did now understand that the footage was fast forwarded okay it was sped up so it could appear like that just because it was fast it was sped up but even then it just seemed like she was wasn't properly detangling her hair there were comments that someone said that and I don't know if this is true or not but the little girl in the video was crying and all this stuff I don't know about that I saw only bits and clips of the video and it's still up so she was not happy about African hair god reacting to her video one thing I will say is that sent all to say in her video when she was detangling the young girl's hair she did say that she already had started detangling before she came on so her hair wasn't as matted okay she did say that she said at the beginning of the video okay so and I remember that um even though you know like I said everyone has the right to you have to be open you guys um she has since removed meaning send all has since removed a video she made in reaction to his video and then he made a video so yeah it went back and forth like that he made a video basically state in that you know this isn't about you to summarize it my video my reaction video wasn't about you it was a collection of reaction of different hairstyles and she was one of them but she didn't take it so likely so I think she left either a comment on that video or Instagram I believe she left a comment on that video completely is it sent out from Detroit y'all I feel like she's from somewhere where they they get bug we say that in Texas but you know what I mean they snap and so she kind of snap but not really um in her reaction video to his or her response basically to his reaction video there were a couple of her subscribers who were basically stating you need to be open you seem to be very defensive and she responds and it's very I don't want to say it's because I don't think she's passive aggressive it's almost condescending thank you for your feedback but but again I think she's just trying to keep it she's trying to keep it calm she's not trying to go there I'm send all is one of those type of people that I think she's an empath and she's one of those type of people that she she does get into her feelings and I could tell that their reaction video he made really triggered her even though it wasn't all about her but still she felt like it was so like I said she since removed her video I think he's made two videos since then and y'all I mean it is what it is let me tell you something if he ever anyone was ever to react to any of my videos were there be good or bad I will be I would welcome it but then again look I'm not a stylist I'm not a licensed cosmetologist so you know my credentials aren't you know what I mean so I guess my thing is that I will almost go honored I'm like yes drag me I woke no don't drag me but you know what I mean so I don't know I don't know so anyway enough of that I am look at that look at that slowly undo that part I need to make this smaller now let me show you the example of going through with a big comb okay this is the big shower comb right now this section this part is not that tangled and she's about a 4b maybe some 4a in there but she's definitely a 4b okay so that's with me going through with this huge shower comb right now let's go on the wooden comb and see if I got everything see now she's nagging yeah see that's why I you know I saw that people who sometimes use those big shower combs to initially detangle their hair I just don't think it can get everything out I really don't I mean I get you know the weirdest comments you guys lately the man have been snapping child has somebody on one of my um had to delete it some comments I do delete some of them like whatever I had someone comment on their rice for the video that you're already you already have long hair so you're not a good candidate for this I don't think I had long hair when I started that my hair was 9 inches in the back okay I had medium length hair when I started that challenge but hey she thinks I have long hair thank you um you know I've had other you know not too crazy comments you can see the trolls every now and then but the men have been getting out of control I had someone on one of my food videos basically stated that he wants to pay on my meat I'm like okay um thank you for the offer I had someone not too long ago stated that he loves my armpits and he wants to sniff them yeah your ass got he got deleted and removed and you know when it gets weird like that like yeah no but I just think that was crazy so anyway I am working out on the back and she's not even not even close to being tangled I mean I yeah I hardly have even though I've done only about you know four or five parts there's hardly no hair now I could pull tangles on this side see isn't that crazy now my hair is already look at that just the shrinkage is so angry I mean my shrinkage is just angry for no reason look at that you guys you have to you have to remember or maybe you don't know my hair is past my bra but look at her one 15 45 minutes 45 minutes and I hear really wasn't that tangled let me show you how much hair has came out going between all of it now I normally don't use all of these tools that you see here but and honestly I need to put some away because I don't want to be going in between so I will probably just keep the afro pick in the wooden comb use those two and yeah so let me gather up all of my shaded hair which really wasn't that bad this is how much we had for now okay and again Mike was not that I mean it was tangled and it was a little matted in one or two areas but not bad not bad at all she's been worse let me tell you she has been worse so yeah 45 minutes just for that side and this will probably take me another 45 minutes or so to do it's what it is girl it's something that we all have to do so let me know you guys how do you detangle your hair let me know how you do it how do you get through it um are you drinking when you're doing my miss early so just pour yourself a glass of wine and just sit down and start doing it and also let me say this when you are taking out a protective style please make sure to properly detangle your hair I would not recommend depending on I would not recommend shampooing your hair directly after I'm taking out a protective style and I've seen people who do that and that just especially if you're using something that it's a it's a Cleanson agent it's gonna lock up your hair it's gonna lock up that dirt is gonna yeah no I wouldn't recommend doing that and I know it can be overwhelming with all of the information that is out here but you also have to keep in mind um take me as an example I've had to change my arrangement depending on my length okay I started off with a shaving head you guys I could do everything in the shower up until the three year mark um yes I could probably detangle my hair in the shower but I will be wasting a lot of water and that's just not right so that is it everyone I'm gonna start getting on this side praying that we can get through it within 45 minutes which I think I can do all right thank you so much for watching take care


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For those of you who are just joining us, this is a crazy time in the world who have ever thought we would be at this moment when the whole world is living in fear and uncertainty and we are feeling fear and uncertainty here in the United States. You know it's usually that our friends overseas are the ones that are feeling this and our government is often the one causing the problems but we're not feeling the results immediately in our daily lives and here we're all feeling the same and on the one hand it's terrifying on the other hand it does give a sense that the world is small and because of that talking about Iran and what the Iranians are suffering right now is so important to do so Trita we're really glad that you took time out of your busy busy schedule we want to thank the other co-hosts for joining us and I think we're going to have a good audience today and it will be online for you to tell your friends afterwards. Trita you're the founder of the National Iranian American Council and now involved in an exciting new venture the Quincy Institute. I wonder if you want to say a word or two about that and then we'll jump into what's happening in Iran. Sure thank you so much and thank you to Cote Pink and all the co-sponsors for organizing this and want to really commend you all for the work that you've been doing for the last two weeks in particular when it comes to lifting sanctions on Iran which I see has gotten a lot of traction on capital ale and hopefully will come to victory as well. The Quincy Institute was founded or was launched late last year it's a new think tank in town that unlike most of the other think tanks in Washington is on the one hand transpartisan in the sense that we do have support from both the left and the right but the most important aspect is that we are founded in order to rethink American foreign policy and question the first principles of American foreign policy. We want to shift the paradigm of American foreign policy towards a national security strategy that is centered on diplomacy and on military restraint meaning far far less military interventions than we have seen in the last 40 or so years and we're off to a good start and I think with the coronavirus it is a stark reminder to everyone that after spending all of this money and killing so many people against all of these kinds of threats from abroad many of them highly exaggerated look how vulnerable we are to a pandemic look how unprepared we are for dealing with it and look how our priorities are when it comes to how much money we're spending on healthcare and for preparation for a pandemic like this and how much money we're wasting on all of these endless wars and all of these foreign bases right now. So jumping right into it we wanted to ask you to give us an update on where things stand in Iran including with the pandemic but how does this change the correlation of forces inside Iran and then we'll go into the U.S. policy and the global level. Sure the pandemic hit Iran not only very hard but very early probably because of extensive contacts with the Chinese as a result of Trump leaving the nuclear deal the Iranians have become more and more dependent on the Chinese their economy in particular so the connections there are very very intense and that's probably why they were hit so quickly compared to other countries. The government clearly mismanaged the situation continues in many ways to mismanage it partly as a result of a power struggle within the country between the Rouhani faction and some of the more hard line elements we saw just in the last couple of days that that fight had actually led to the hard line elements telling the Medecins en Frontier that their help is rejected and you saw the Rouhani government overruling that and continuing to welcome the help from that organization and others as well so you have on the one hand for those who don't understand the French. Oh I'm sorry yeah and we see you know the continuation of how lack of preparedness lack of taking it seriously we see some parallels between what the Iranians did and what happened in this country in the sense that the Iranians were notified that there's something happening it's not entirely clear how well they understood the situation but they decided to go forward with the parliamentary elections anyways fearing that otherwise it would be a propaganda point for the west or particularly for the Trump administration if they had to postpone it and we saw the same thing happening here in the United States where the DNC going forward with some of the primaries in the midst of this pandemic so on the one hand they've handled it very poorly and you have a very large number of cases probably a very large undercounting of the cases as well as the undercounting of the deaths there's a lot of anecdotal evidence that many deaths that are corona related have been categorized differently perhaps in order to push down the statistics. So how able was the healthcare system in Iran to deal with people's needs before this happened? Well on the normal circumstances their healthcare system is is not in a bad shape actually it's quite good in many aspects but as a result of the sanctions from the United States for the last couple of years which have been immense just to give you a bit of statistics before Trump left the nuclear deal the Iranians were exporting roughly 2.2 million barrels of oil a day and that was one of the main if not the main source of income for the state it is after all in oil country. As a result of the sanctions the first round of it when Trump refused to renew waivers for several different countries this dropped down to 1.1 million barrels now as a result of him essentially not renewing any waivers at all the Iranians are most likely not exporting more than 260,000 barrels a day which means a more than or roughly 90% reduction in the main export of that country. Now imagine how that then spreads throughout the country and how that impacts the entire economy you cannot do something like this and say well this will only affect their military budget or this will only affect the regime but not the population that is just pure nonsense it is preposterous there is no case in history in which a downturn of economy or pressure of economy of this kind has happened that has not affected not only everyone but primarily the weaker elements in society. And then you add to that the recent oil wars between the Saudis and Russia that has made the price of oil plummet and so they're getting even less than they were before that. Certainly and the budget of the country was based on a 50 dollars per barrel oil now it's below that and Iranians are probably offering discounts in order to get anything sold mindful of the risks that entails with buying oil from Iran mindful of the additional expenses for shipping and insurance that is taking place again as a result of sanctions. Now the administration of course claims that hey but you know medical equipment is not sanctioned and as a result this is nonsense the Iranians are lying about this that is clearly and disingenuous talking point from the administration because they know very well that by sanctioning the entire financial system and the banking sector in Iran it doesn't matter whether a specific good is sanctioned or not the transaction is already sanctioned and if this wasn't the case you wouldn't have seen some measures by OFAC earlier this year in which they were trying to change some things to be able to claim at a minimum that they're doing something to ease humanitarian trade. Office for foreign assets control yeah the office for foreign assets that would not have been necessary had it not been the case that this is affecting the health care sector and you know you don't have to take it from me or take it from other experts human rights watch itself issued a report about a month and a half or so ago I think it was that documented how this very much is not only affecting the health care sector in Iran but it actually is a violation of human rights you also have international courts having ordered the United States to lift these sanctions because of the impact that it has on the health care sector. So the the terrible situation of coronavirus in Iran has really led to new calls throughout the world for the US to lift these sanctions can you say how things have shifted just in the last two weeks? Well I mean there's been an outcry an organized outcry but also a very organic outcry because I mean how can you continue and not just continue impose new sanctions on a country in the midst of a pandemic I mean there's a a level of inhumanity I don't think we have the word for it yet we have to invent a new word in order to be able to describe this and in fact it's even worse I mean under these circumstances according to the New York Times Mike Pompeo took the opportunity to go to the president and say actually this is a really good time to bomb Iran because they're already suffering so much under these sanctions and under the pandemic it's the perfect moment to do so. That's our top US diplomat. The Secretary of State the very same guy who essentially held up an agreement within the G7 on how to deal with this issue by insisting that all of the countries would have to refer to corona as the Chinese or the Wuhan virus. I mean where our priorities are and this is just absolutely grotesque. Isn't he the same one who also wanted the US to hit back harder against the Iraqi militias that are lined with Iran again at this time of the coronavirus? Yes indeed there's been several occasions in the last 12 months in which a question has been you know an issue has come up to the table of the desk of the president and the question has been whether he would take military action or not in each and every one of those instances Mike Pompeo counseled war instead of other measures and I think in many different ways because of the presence of Bolton at least up until a couple months ago a lot of attention was taking away from the very equal if not worse hawkish sentiments and instincts of Pompeo because he could just hide behind Bolton. Bolton had that ability of just saying the most ridiculous things publicly and getting all the attention to go to him but in reality based on the record it does not seem as if Pompeo in any way shape or form is better in many ways he may actually be worse. So is it actually the Pentagon that is a more moderating force in terms of any kind of military action? In that specific case in an earlier cases that appears to have been the case but we still have to take it with a grain of salt in the sense that yes I don't think there's a lot of folks in the Pentagon who wants to have war but that is not the only issue and this goes into the work that we're doing at Quincy. It is not as if the Pentagon is pushing back against the idea that the United States needs to dominate the world militarily and particularly when it comes to dominating the Middle East militarily taking the side of the Saudis on many of these different issues because that approach in and of itself constantly puts the United States on the verge of war not just with Iran but with other countries it's a very aggressive foreign policy so as long as that policy still has more of a consensus within the government the fact that some of these elements at the last moment counsel against war which is obviously good but it's not good enough we need to fundamentally review our foreign policies so that we're not constantly in this position in which the question of war keeps on coming up. Now in terms of the crux of the supposed crux of the issue around the nuclear deal you wrote a piece that said this might be a time when hardliners in Iran are saying let's go for the bomb can you explain your analysis there. So I published a piece over the weekend that pointed out that there's some significant changes taking place in Iran I mean the hardliners are on the rise Trump has completely humiliated those in Iran who argued in favor of diplomacy with the United States who argued in favor of some form of reconciliation and modus vivendi between the US and Iran who saw the nuclear deal as just the beginning of a larger process in which other issues between the two countries would be dealt with as well diplomatically with the aim of coming to a resolution. They've been all proven wrong essentially in the eyes of most Iranians right now because the nuclear deal has not delivered in any way shape or form for them in fact Iran is under more sanctions now than it was before it signed the nuclear deal Iran is under more sanctions now when it is abiding by a nuclear deal than when it was accused of having violated the NPT it is as bizarre of a situation as you can imagine some of those circumstances the argument of the hardliners that you know the mistake of the Rouhani government was that they actually believe that a deal with the United States could be struck and that you could trust the US to implement it you know hardliners warned already during the debate of the nuclear deal that the US is going to betray this agreement and stab Iran in the back and in the eyes of many it seems like that argument that line has been vindicated now these forces are now rising in Iran we saw what happened in the parliamentary elections it's likely going to repeat itself and then in the presidential elections in Iran next year meaning the hardliners getting the upper hand they're going to get the upper hand and probably win the presidency as well and the likelihood is that they're going to be pursuing a much much more hawkish line than what the Rouhani government has pursued I mean they're still sticking to the nuclear deal they're trying to see if the Europeans can come in and aid them and in that circumstance there's also now rumors and murmurs that the debate and the conversation inside the regime itself has changed in the sense that the argument in favor of leaving the npt or building a bomb was a very very very small minority within the regime and this is corroborated by US intelligence European intelligence even Israeli intelligence who all agree the Iranians never made a political decision to build the bomb and certainly leaving the npt would be a massive step but also dashing for a bomb would be a massive step as well and I've not seen any indications that early around they had the intent or the desire to go in that election now it appears that things may be changing that the conclusion for the Iranians are that if they only had the bomb or if they at least left the npt and use that as leverage they might be in a more similar situation as with the North Koreans and we've seen how Trump is treating the North Koreans compared to the Iranians and the danger here is this Pompeo thinks that the coronavirus is making Iran very very weak and in this way and I think he's actually correct in that it is making Iran much weaker but the coronavirus is and it's toward it cuts both ways because at the end of the day it's also spreading global chaos and it may actually also provide the Iranians with opportunities that they earlier on did not desire nor need now however with the coronavirus with the additional pressure from the United States the hardliners may come forward and say well this is actually the best moment to withdraw from the npt kick out all the inspectors and dash for a military bomb what is the United States going to do it's going to be dealing with its own coronavirus its own elections international community doesn't have an appetite for a conflict with Iran under these circumstances and as a result see this as a small opportunity within a larger crisis this is very dangerous in my view I think would be very bad if the Iranians got a nuclear bomb it would be very bad to see further proliferation of nuclear weapons and none of this would be happening had it not been for Trump doing this huge huge disfavor to US national security by pulling out of the nuclear deal and starting to wage economic warfare against Iran well I'm glad you went back to that because it's so important for people to understand that this is a manufactured crisis and also how much it's affecting next door in Iraq we're just this week we see US soldiers two US soldiers killed in a British soldier in an attack how much of the of those attacks are do you think really directed by Iran and how much is there really a danger of this what's been called a tit for tat I don't like to use those terms because it's people's lives turning into a much larger conflict we don't know for certain how much controlled Iranians have the US intelligence believes that some degree of control that they had probably has been lost as a result of Soleimani Muslim Soleimani being assassinated by the United States we also know that even if the Iranians were completely against any of these actions the Iraqis have themselves their own incentives to do what they're doing because together with Soleimani was also the head of one of these militias Mohandas who was killed and there is likely a desire among some of those Iraqis to avenge his death and we don't know if they're acting completely independently or not now Pompeo thinks that if they do something the US should target Iran both the military as well as Trump himself pushed back against that knowing very well that that would lead to a major military confrontation a full-scale war but the question that we also have to ask ourselves is that the Iraqis have now asked the US to leave the fight against ISIS is something that Iraq together with the help of a couple of other countries can handle on its own the United States is not needed there any longer why is the United States staying when the fight against ISIS according to the president is over the Iraqis are asking the US to leave why do we still have troops there that essentially are just a tripwire if some Iraqi militia completely independently from Iran chooses to attack those US troops the US may end up in a war with Iran and now we have because of coronavirus a lockdown of US troops that will not be leaving anywhere they are for the next what is it three more months except from Afghanistan that withdrawal appears to still be taking place so in our remaining less than 10 minutes at this point let's move towards the international scene what people are calling for how this growing chorus both outside the US and within the US might be used as a time to really get some kind of lifting partial lifting of the sanctions it's been interesting you see the spokes you know the EU foreign policy chief borrell explicitly blaming US sanctions for the devastation and disarray in Iran when it comes to the coronavirus saying that it's made the situation much much worse you have the Pakistani prime minister on twitter urging the United States to lift sanctions you have the brits privately lobbying trump to lift the sanctions they're not doing it just out of a sense of humanity which of course is very critical but i think they're also doing out a sense of self-interest particularly if you're sitting in in Pakistan you're not going to be safe if the coronavirus can fester in Iran in fact if the virus can fester anywhere it will be a threat to everywhere that is the reality of these pandemics and these viruses so as a result seeing the United States and the Trump administration imposing more sanctions in the midst of the pandemic is something that is not just seen as inhumane by a lot of countries including close US allies but it's also something that is seen as a danger to themselves so there are because of the lack of revenues that the Iranian government has and because of these new needs now to fight this pandemic they have gone to the IMF and asked for a loan of five billion dollars can you say where that stands now and can the US actually veto that the US can veto that they've signaled that they're going to veto that that's also something that the Europeans have pushed back against this is a specific loan that was announced just a couple of weeks ago for countries to be able to get help in order to deal with the virus and the idea that the United States actually would specifically block a loan aimed for the virus by the IMF tells you how disingenuous the administration is when they're saying that nothing they're doing is actually impacting the medical sector in Iran it clearly is it clearly is intended to because you would not have a scenario in which Pompeii would argue this is a great moment to bomb Iran if he didn't want to see this degree of disarray inside the country these sanctions are not as a side effect affecting the medical sector in the country and the population so negatively that is the intent it is not a byproduct it is not a bug this is what always happens and what is the intent of broad-scale sanctions in fact the theory behind it is that once the population as a whole is on the data amount of pressure they will pressure their government to change the policies in order to get rid of those sanctions that's the entire thinking behind the very idea of sanctions so just to play out that scenario there are people in the US government that are always saying the government of Iran is about to topple about to topple now there are those who say this is just going to force an explosion in Iran if indeed the government were to topple at this point in time what would happen well I mean that's the other thing that is kind of interesting we don't have a lot of cases in history in which sanctions as a result of economic warfare get toppled or collapse but I do believe that that is part of the intent behind this that they are not so much looking for regime change as they're looking for regime collapse meaning the US doesn't have any responsibility for what comes afterwards which means that it can just wash its hands and then see the chaos in Iran essentially consume that country and this is the idea of it before the pandemic post pandemic obviously the situation is a hundred times worse and this is part of the fear that a lot of pro-democracy defenders and activists in Iran have that as much as they are opposed to the government they're opposed to the repression of the government the mismanagement and the corruption of the government seeing the country's state and central authority completely collapse will only lead to chaos and democracy does not tend to come out of chaos in fact it rarely comes out of chaos and as a result on the these circumstances where you clearly need a central authority in order to be able to make sure that the pandemic is defeated and that the virus is isolated and contained and we can make a parallel to the United States which has a tradition of having a lot of this authority be delegated to the states and and more local services we see how chaotic that is compared to a South Korea that has a very strong state and I can impose a statewide response very quickly well if you don't have a state at all imagine what will happen then so that brings us back to what can we do in the US and there are some letters there there's some movement within congress not much not enough but can you say what is happening and what can we do I think what several of these organizations called bank nyak and others have done is absolutely fantastic the leadership shown by AOC, Bernie, Ilhan Omar and others and taking the lead on this is absolutely needed this is not going to be a quick fight the the pressure here has to keep on building up if it wasn't effective you would not have had editorial pages on the wall street journal and others arguing please don't lift the sanctions even for a pandemic they're only writing this because they do understand that what is happening right now and the continuation of the sanctions and the efforts by these different groups and lawmakers is really undermining the support for this ridiculous and inhumane sanctions policy at this point my hope is also that this will really wake us up not just in the case of Iran or Venezuela or others but also for us to really rethink this idea of sanctions it has been presented and oftentimes on Capitol Hill you see that a lot of folks a lot of folks that are on the right side of most issues I would say still have a tendency of viewing economic sanctions as an alternative to war but it's important to understand that economic sanctions particularly broad-based economic sanctions actually are war they're not an alternative to war and the academic literature also shows that they oftentimes lead to military war afterwards so after we say goodbye to you Trita Ariel is going to stay on for a while with those who can stay with us just to talk a bit more about what we can do but before you leave us is there anything else that we have uncovered that you would like to say? I would just like to thank Code Pink and all of your supporters and all of the grassroots that are following your work and engaging your work the mobilization you all have done in favor of lifting these sanctions and making sure that our response to the coronavirus in Iran and elsewhere is not just going to avoid putting civilian populations there on their threat but also make sure that it doesn't do anything that puts the United States itself on the threat or US personnel that are around the region very close to these different places so thank you so much for all of that. Thank you and I just want to you know we had a tremendous response to your coming on we have other groups like Pax Christie, Peace Action, co-hosting Metro DC for the Democratic Socialists of America, Popular Resistance, World Without War and we all thank you for the work that you're doing and we look forward to continuing to work with you and figuring out ways that we can put enough pressure on our government to stop these sanctions and move back to where we were under the last administration which is into a normal relationship with Iran so that people inside Iran can determine what kind of government they want. Thank you so much for all you do thank you thank you so much thank you so Ariel you have been doing a lot of work in the last couple of weeks well the last years and been to Iran recently so maybe you can follow up with what you heard from Trita anything you want to add as well as what is the work that is being done what can people do what are you watching or listening to in the chats or questions that you might want to let everybody know about. Well it's been devastating to watch what's happening in Iran right now with the coronavirus after having been there recently and met people there and to say I worry you know daily about people's safety and the medical care because of the sanctions even before these sanctions many life-saving medicines were being blocked from the country it is heartening to see right now voices from around the world countries and organizations even the new york times today calling for sanctions to be lifted and this is fairly new we've been working on this and struggling against this so one of the exciting things right now is that many of the people watching and with us here on zoom right now have likely been emailing congress both recently and for a year and more asking for congress to speak out to do things to get these sanctions lifted and there has been a response a number of members of congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Bernie Sanders Ayanna Presley Ilhan Omar Elizabeth Warren and others have released a letter to the White House calling for the sanctions to be lifted and if you go to our website code pink.org and I'm also going to show that page then you can contact your member of congress and ask them to add their names to this well I'm trying to go to that page but that looks like it isn't happening so that's fine um but if you go to code pink.org you can contact your member of congress directly you can send them an email and say please add your name to the AOC Bernie Sanders and more letter calling for the sanctions to be lifted code pink.org you'll see it right on the top of our website at code pink.org and you can also after you sign that it will direct you to a petition that is over 11,000 signatures right now to the World Health Organization and to the Secretary General of the United Nations asking them to speak out and call for these sanctions to be lifted this is so urgent. So that is an action that is important to take and the other thing if you're watching and not signed up to our website we'll put out future actions I also recommend people go to the National Iranian American Council and sign up for theirs as well as a number of groups that are the co-hosts and we listed the co-hosts for today in the chat box if you want to see that and all of them have been doing work on this issue and are great groups to be part of. It's pretty amazing how many groups are getting into gear doing this in-house kind of education and organizing and in lieu of being together usually code pink we would be working right out of the Rayburn Cafeteria and Congress right now so as we're doing this virtual education and lobbying we hope you'll stay in touch with us and before we close this out Ariel is there anything else you wanted to add? Well I wanted to say that people are also calling the Treasury Department and that we encourage you to do that you can look up their number because I don't have it on my fingertips but I encourage you to call the Treasury Department and ask them to lift the sanctions and I see that Medea is pulling up that number for us right now I know Medea well I know how quickly she does that and so maybe as we're ending this call before we end it we can have everybody type that number into their phone but not yet push dial until we get off and then they can call the Treasury Department and ask them to lift those sanctions. This is such a time for our world to be coming together and in the midst of this horror watching this worldwide there are these silver linings that we see how important it is for us to come together as one world we see how important it is not to be tearing each other apart destroying entire regions of the world but instead to be building global health and safety and this opportunity in the midst of everything that is so heartbreaking now to move towards that world that we want to be. Medea did you get that number? Well I see a couple of different numbers but I think I can pull it up actually. Okay and while you're doing that just a couple of other things we have put together a number of wonderful films on Iran that people can watch while you're home if you want to learn more and you can go to the Code Pink website to get a list of those. You can also send work here. I've got that number. Okay. So everybody get your phones out. The number is two zero two six two two two zero zero zero. I'm going to put that in the chat box as well as well as a little script for you to say. Tell them what city you're from that you are gravely concerned about U.S. sanctions especially in this time of the coronavirus pandemic and that these sanctions need to be immediately lifted. Great well thank you everybody for joining us. We will have this available on our Facebook for anybody who wants to go back over what was discussed or send it to your friends to watch it. Tree Days I would think the one of the best analysts in the United States on Iran. We were very lucky to have them on and we're very thankful to have all of you joining us today.  We will send out the link to the YouTube recording so that you can send it around. Great thank you.


I had just come home from church and then we kept hearing Pearl Harbor was bombed, Pearl Harbor was bombed. I had no idea where Pearl Harbor was. My geography was not that sophisticated. I had no idea and my father said, oh, there's going to be trouble. And I said, well, how come? He said, well, Japan just bombed Pearl Harbor. And he says, we're at war with Japan. But I thought, why should it bother me? And I'm American. And then he said, you know, we are aliens. My parents, we don't have the citizenship, so they're going to do something. He says, we'll probably get taken away. But at that time, my parents had no feeling that we would be removed. So they were saying my brother would have to take on the response building to keep the family together because they may be removed or put into camp or whatever. And then when I went back to school that following morning, December 8th, one of the teachers said, you people bombed Pearl Harbor and I'm going, my people, you know. All of a sudden my Japaneseness became very aware to me. And listening to Aki, was that a normal story? I mean, she was a teenage girl in high school. Yeah. So Aki talked about how before December 7th, 1941, she really thought of herself as this sort of all-American teenage girl and growing up in Seattle at, again, a large public high school and thought of herself as an American. And then on December 7th after the bombing and then going to school the next day and having a teacher say, you people bombed Pearl Harbor. All of a sudden because Aki looked like the enemy, she was being treated like the enemy. And so that was, again, a story we heard over and over again from Japanese Americans. You know, very similar. This is a slight tangent. But right after 9-11, I was doing some interviews with Japanese Americans. And so I asked the question, so what were you thinking after you heard about 9-11? And almost all of them said the same thing. They said, we all thought about those poor Arab-Americans and Muslims because we knew that they were going to be targeted the same way that we were.  But right away they thought about the people that sort of looked like the enemy and how they were going to be treated.


I thought we could have just a short discussion on elections and where we are with that. The secretary of state met with the governor the other day and the the governors from what I understand is that the governor isn't particularly worried about fraud. I know there was some discussion of that and I think that he feels that that isn't an issue. It hasn't happened in Vermont and it isn't likely to and we have a very different setup than the other states because we have town clerks that are kind of integral to this this system. So he wasn't worried about the fraud and what he really wanted was for us to be back to normal in November so we could have a regular election. But I have major concerns about that because even Dr. Levine said we're likely to have a resurgence in October or November. So I have I have written a letter to the governor asking him to please make a decision and come to an agreement with the secretary of state. I think that he he actually does not want to be in the middle of this but we made him by saying that it had to be in agreement with instead of just in consult consultation with which is what we originally had. So they I don't know how much of this we went through before so stop me if we've already gone through all of this but there they expect to have about 500,000 voters registered by this fall. The plan is to in August to send out a postcard and you return the postcard asking for an early ballot. That for the primary and they all it's less usually less than 25% of the people who vote in the primary and people don't consider the primary as important because you're not actually choosing your leader you're just choosing your party candidate. So they're not going to do a mail out this is their plan not do a mail out for the primary. Then in sometime in it would be the mid mid-september they also are going to do a postcard mailing to everybody just and lots of lots of public relations. They have a whole campaign set up to do public relations about how it's going to change this year and on social media and in the newspapers and mailings and through the bca's and they have a whole plan for that. But anyway then sometime in September like when you have the 45 days when it has to go out to the overseas people they would then send a ballot to every registered voter. The lists and addresses should have been somewhat cleaned up because when they send out the one in August there will be return address on there and say return to the town clerk and they can clean up the the lists. So and it's a very very complicated I didn't realize it was quite so complicated but there are 246 different return addresses on there and 275 completely separate ballots that have to be printed and then collated into the right envelopes to be sent and then they will be returned to the town clerk. The town clerks will be given the option to either have the secretary of state send them all out from the state but with the town clerk's return address on them or the town clerks can do them themselves and apparently a number of town clerks have already said it would be great if the secretary of state sent them out. So because this is so complicated and they need to as Carol Dawes pointed out in her letter if they're going to send it out in mid-September a project that big and to get local vendors as much as possible we need to sign be signing contracts now so that they can get the postcard stock that they need or a card stock is not a postcard card stock that they need to print the ballots. So we need to have a decision quickly and I have written a letter a number of town clerks have written letters a number of groups around the state have our writing letters to the governor just urging him to come to a decision right now and I don't know where we are. I Carol I mean Sarah Copeland Hanses and I are as chairs are going to write a letter but I don't know how the committees feel about it so Chris Bray you had a question and then Allison. Thank you for the update. I guess what's a little confusing to me is to hear you know I can fully appreciate and understand that governor not wanting to make our elections political that sounds but one way to do that is simply and not to be sort of somehow he's now in the middle of it because we put him there I think we added we changed in consultation to with to in agreement with I don't know that they origin anyway to give him a room on the playing field or something like that but if he really doesn't want to be there he could simply say I'm going to defer to the chief elections officer and follow his recommendations and judgment because this is in my bailiwick so I don't I don't quite understand how not wanting to purchase be in the middle of it also means holding up you know getting to a decision and so that's one observation slash question and the other thing is I would think even though we all wish we could vote in person in November the most prudent thing to make sure that we have a sound election is to plan for the contingency that we can't and and then it could well come off without a hitch because we'll have gone through this careful wind up as opposed to being a little tight on time and maybe surprise that there's a flare up and all that kind of stuff so that's just two thoughts well the timing is we we have to if we don't make a decision now we won't we won't be able to do it that's the bottom line and if we do make a decision now we're going to have to go through with it because we we will be signing contracts with a mailing house and a printer the and polls will still be open that but they will be limited they're expecting I don't know maybe 80 of the people or more to to mail in their ballots so the person when you get your ballot you'll have the option then of mailing your ballot back taking it to the the time some of the town clerks are considering having safe drop boxes that you can put it in by the town clerk's office so you can do that or you could just hold on to your ballot and go to the poll and vote there because your name won't have been checked off on the early checklist so you can go there and do it and if you lost your ballot and you show up at the poll and your name is not checked off on the list you can vote there they'll have extra ballots there and they so the polls will still be open but very limited and town clerks are already getting um information from their usual core of people that work on the election saying they don't feel safe doing it the other thing let me throw in before I go to you Allison is that one of the things that governor suggested was going back to the legislature for a vote and we we've already voted and given that authority there and clearly on the first list of options that we all accepted and voted for was a mail out um ballot so anyway I just wanted to throw that in Allison yeah no I I think we're pretty clear I I think we're wise to hope for the best but prepare for the worst I I think we absolutely have to do this and um it would be great if if we're open in November but as a committee member I fully support and would love to have the committee support the two chairs and have it be from the whole committee in addition and from all of us because you know we've learned that that is a good modus operandi is hope for the best and prepare for the worst yeah so basically what what the letter says is just some of the details that about how complicated this is and that it really doesn't change it it still puts the decision of how to vote in the hands of the voter because the voter can mail it in just just like now the the only difference the only difference in this is that everyone would get a ballot not just those requesting that's the only change um the what you do with your ballot afterwards and is all up to the individual voter right and I think the key difference is every voter will they're more likely to get the ballots because we will clean up the mailing list with the August work and I think that's critically important it's not like we're wasting money there won't be a lot of wasted money in that it's important I think for the administration to understand that is that that's part of the objective within August primary postcard mailing is that we will have a much better a much cleaner better stronger mailing list yeah I think that um I mean I I feel very strongly about this um me too but um but I don't know where the rest of the committee is and I I do know that um and the governor was not he wasn't worried about fraud he wasn't worried about partisanship in the election at all he he mainly just wanted to to be back to normal so that we could hold a regular election which I completely understand I think that is the ideal but even if we're back to normal people poll workers are saying I'm not going to feel comfortable even in November coming there because they get I mean I don't know about our poll and polling place in Putney doesn't get that crowded because it's a great big gymnasium and it's just a you know some boxes but in Brattleboro it is really crowded and you have to go in and and the same thing in bellows falls they're in small areas and um would be a massive um the project to change the polling place so that they could be far apart and have people standing far apart so oh and he wasn't money is not the issue because there is federal money that can be used for us but if we if we use the federal money and then didn't do it then there's the possibility we'd have to pay it back so anyway it sorry Jeanette sounds like we'll use it I mean we'll use it and people will just have one more option if they yeah yeah and then we'll use it all the envelopes all the return envelopes to the town clerks will have a postage paid on them yeah so yeah we will have used it yeah and there just may be one more option which is more people may be willing to vote in person by number that yeah maybe chris my if i had a guess and it's only a guess it's that if we do it this way many people may like it so much that this becomes uh the new normal way of voting well i don't want to go there until we have that discussion mainly i think this is a one one off yeah and we'll have to have that discussion later because i mean we have to see how it goes i'm not i don't think i don't want to think beyond that this election because i think that raises more questions than we're prepared to answer around this one sure i guess i'm just saying it's a bit of an experiment right yeah yeah but a good that's it that anthony well i don't want to be redundant i was going to ask about the money so i'm glad that money's not an issue because i had friends asked me about who's going to pay for all these mailings and whatnot but i think the bottom line is if the committee agrees i think it would be really good for the committee to sign on to the letter i mean because putting off the decision is going to be a real problem the decision will be made for us if we don't make it soon and i the feeling i get is the governor didn't say no but the voice reservations which is holding things up and i think he needs to get on board as soon as possible so that we can get this going otherwise it'd be too late just for your information the change from in consultation with to agreement with did not come from the governor he was actually i think a bit surprised when he heard that that that was the language i can't say that for sure but it did not come from him that's it do you have anything to add so carol dos do you have anything to add um yeah i was i was going to say uh you talked about um the concerns about election workers i think another thing that that even if we're they're predominantly back to normal and i don't think anybody thinks we will be but even if we were predominantly back to normal by november i think we also need to be really cognizant of voter fear of people being afraid of coming to um to large crowded areas uh and that that's a a probably a huge barrier to participation and so the more of those barriers we can we can break away we can push away on the the better we'll be serving the voters and it'll just create more peace of mind for the voters that they know that they don't have to go to the polls thank you brian well i've waited till uh most of the others have spoken uh i remain concerned about the situation in november i'm curious why since the results of the august primary won't be known until after august 11th why we need to make a decision now to pull the trigger and mail the ballots in november i understand about printing them and but you can't print anything until you have the winners so there's already a date at which you sort of have to take a pause and i would prefer that we not make a final decision about mailing the ballots in november until after the august primary and if we do and i realize i'm in uh you know minority position here um i would like the secretary of state to make it clear that it has to be the voter him or herself that either mails the ballot back or brings it to the polling place that you can't have someone else collect them for you and mail them you know three or four at a time or or bring them back i think that there there was some discussion about that when i met with the secretary of state's office and um and in fact i believe on our joint meeting jim harrison brought that up like could he yeah take your wipes back yeah and i i think that there has to be some flexibility here for the um woman who is pretty feels pretty compromised and doesn't want to have to go down to the polling place to drop off her ballot um there has to be some ability for people to deliver it for them but and i and the and i think the secretary of state in the town quirks were talking about how how you would um do that so that and that was um i mean the thing that happened in north carolina was it was it was it was a stupid thing to for whoever to do and i don't even know what exactly did happen i don't know that but i don't that's not going to happen here i don't we currently allow other people to bring them back i mean that's true we you know we currently allow i i you know i have delivered them the people who go to the old folks homes and to the assisted living places in the nursing homes they bring them back i mean we currently allow that the postman is another person who is brings them back i mean it's we currently allow that i don't see any reason to deviate from what we already allow that's true we do also when you when you go to there to the uh those places do you ever counsel people about the way that they're going to vote no i mean for example i picked up my mother's and took it back in uh march you know when we had town meetings so um she took a while to fill hers out they um the the some of the bca go to these places uh and help facilitate their voting and they bring them back i mean we allow we allow for this already and i there are people who bring their college kids back who they might be home for november for example uh or or they might be home for christmas holidays and they could early vote for town meeting or you know i i just think i think we already allow for that so how would you react if someone said well how should i fill this ballot out you you you would say i'm you know it's up to you i and i think the bca already does that with nursing homes where people don't necessarily know all the candidates and they they have a very thoughtful way that they counsel them and we should hear from the bca but you know that's already happening and i think that a lot of time i know that when my mother was um at an assisted living facility what they did is they brought the ballots over there and then the um the it wasn't the bca that came but the um activities director some there were a couple people there that met with people and helped them fill it out but as far as i know nobody ever i mean my mother said to me how should i vote and i said for me but um nobody nobody else worked with her told her how to vote or anything like that and ellison is right we do that now we allow that now so um if we and they're they're just um brian they're usually the assistant clerks or and or members of the bca and or and or family members i mean i i and you you know you take it into the clerk's office they check it off i mean it's you know it's a very formal process of it receiving it um but just like now when people get them at home family members can work with older people and people who are disabled to answer their to do their ballot i mean it this happens this is the joy of being able to vote at your kitchen table so what would be the problem with waiting until after the results of the august primary are known everything is going to have to be printed and the the postage is going to have to be printed on them before they we have to sign a contract they there is no way as a printer's daughter as a as a printer's daughter brian i can answer that which is uh the paper the paper the stock has to all be ordered now they're going to be probably a huge rush on this stuff so they have to get the paper you're absolutely right it isn't the final printing doesn't happen till august but that's the easy part it's securing the materials that it's going to be very hard for them if they wait that and the printing will all happen except for many the return envelopes and the the pieces that aren't going to be affected by the primary but right absolutely the stock is the big key issue here it is and the the envelopes will be can be printed yeah they don't have to wait they don't have to wait and you're talking about um if they're 500 000 voters i think that's what he said a lot you're talking about um one million envelopes because there's the outside envelope that they're going to send to them right no you're talking about 1.5 million because you're talking about the outside envelope that's going to go with the ballot and then there's an inside envelope that you put in your put your ballot in and then you put that in another envelope so they're like a million and a half envelopes i mean i it sounds horrendous to me and i just i can't believe that i just said that and i hope i'm not making it up but no there are three different envelopes with every every ballot so they're going to have to be printed and with the postage on there and the return postage printed on there and so what they have to do is they're going to have to go get work with the post office to get the permit the the mailing permit postage thing so that they can print that on there and then it's going to then they're going to have to figure it out with the town clerks when it comes back how all those permits so it has to be printed you're talking about a project if anybody's done any kind of a fundraiser with right a mailing list of 500,000 people you know that it's going to take you months and months to do that and that's that's essentially what we're talking about here except that it's not a fundraiser right right it's a big and also quite honestly i think all of us want this to be our local printing houses if you're going to have all the printing houses it's going to have to be done in stages so because it will overwhelm them otherwise betian i'm sorry i have to go to another meeting oh okay thank you thank you thank you i'll keep track of stuff for me thank you tucker okay thanks anthony did you have a comment i was saying goodbye to betsey oh okay well i but i but but i i mean i first when brian mentioned the idea of why not wait till after the primary i could see why on some level that makes sense but then when you think about the need to order the card stock the stock to get the paper all set up it doesn't you know you just can't do that you got to get that stuff ready now so it's a legitimate question but i think that when it comes to ordering so many pieces of paper getting such a large project organized i don't think we can wait i think we should have we should have done this last week or the week before quite honestly well they were they were hoping to but there there are now a week a little behind themselves and i i'm hoping they'll be able to come to a decision by the end of this week i guess i'm still not clear if they print a million and a half ballots no no not a million and a half ballots it'll be 500 000 ballots and then with some kind of an overrun if they have 500 000 registered voters they'll print the 500 000 plus maybe 100 000 extras for people who lose them or show up at the polls or whatever it's the envelopes themselves that have to be printed and have that a little indisha on them in the corner that from the permit from the post office right that that those have to they couldn't possibly print that million and a half between august um 11th and september 15th they just can't do it i find that hard to believe but well it isn't just but it isn't just the the printing remember that so you have 275 different ballots so the organizational skills of the printer and the mailing house here are going to be crucial because you have 275 different ballots because the towns have different ballots and the counties have different ballots and then you have 246 different return addresses because they're going back to the town clerks they're not going back to the to the secretary of state's office which is the way it should be they should go back to the town clerk's office because i think people will feel more feel more confident in the election if they know that it's going to their own town clerk instead of some state entity out there so you have those 246 return addresses and which of the 275 ballots goes in each of those it's a massive project yeah it's it's um i would not want to undertake this but we're glad that we we're glad that that the secretary of state's office it feels that they see a path forward and can manage it well we're glad that they there are some local vendors who who have the ability to do that but if if we wait they will not be able to get the card stock or the envelope stock and they will not be able to print it for us because um there's a lot going on so that's anyway i'm happy to write the letter um with just sarah if um committee members want to write as a committee member um to the governor and just say um i think the two things to say are that we need to make a decision quickly and and he if he doesn't want to make a decision he can just say i'm going to trust the secretary of state to make the decisions and do it and it should not have to come back to the legislature because that will hold it up a long time there won't be um no we voted we voted unanimously i believe yes and i do agree with that madam chair i don't have an issue with uh i don't remember what act number it is but back in the middle of march perhaps or maybe it was early April and we did there were six provisions as i recall right we gave the secretary of state the authority to consider as possible procedures and i was i was fine with that um and the governor uh i guess can do whatever he chooses to do and um um i feel badly i can't join you all um unanimously but i still i i did get a bunch of emails over the uh weekend from constituents that have concerns so i have to uh feel like i'm representing them too are there are there concerns about fraud well i don't know that anyone used that i think that's a strong term um i i just think sometimes that they're looking for safeguards um to prevent any sort of misadventure um i would phrase it that way and um you know i realized that it's probably going to happen the way the secretary of state is planning on it and that's fine but i just want to at least um express my uh feelings well brian um i think your your constituents have such a good our track record in vermont is so good on mail voting by mail i mean we've had almost no i mean we had no fraud as far as our testimony is gone and we've been doing this for years so um if ever there was a state that could in confidence move forward on this option i think we're in a position to to do that given our track record i agree but we are expanding the uh the universe of people getting the uh the mail-in ballots i mean they don't have to request them they're just going to get them so i do think it's a little different i'll be honest i'm still planning on going to the poll to vote i think that's the best way that we have to vote and i'm glad that they'll hopefully i guess i haven't heard for real for certain that there will be polls open but i'm hoping they will and i have all the confidence in the world that the clerks will figure a way to put people through the polling places in a safe manner and i have no no doubt that's how i'll vote you know that i i think that that whether the polls are open and how they're open and the procedure that they use is going to be up to the individual town clerks to decide whether they want to have a regular polling place or people come in and stand and do the check off or if they want to have drive-by voting um where you one car pulls up and you get your ballot and you see the other cars sit there and wait until just like you're doing at the bank now you can't you can't go into the banks you have to do everything by drive-up so you have to sit in line and wait if the person has a an issue in front of you that's going to take 20 minutes you're just going to wait 20 minutes and so there might be some town clerks where the um the voting workers the poll workers are nervous enough that they don't want to have contact at all with anybody and um they think that way so they might do it any or they might have um safe drop boxes that people can't but the polls will be open in some manner and people who choose to go there to vote I love going to the polls my guess is that candidates won't be standing at the polls this year I wonder that too you know are you going to stand out with your sign and I don't know I I have always hated doing that anyway half the half the people there are only a couple towns in my district that expect you to do that and half the people in those towns hate it and half the people love it so I I um I like seeing the people and standing there and stuff but I don't I think it's no I think that if we're going to have this election we're yeah if you want to stand all six feet apart and have a mask on and stand depending on the situation I don't know that's something that we will see we have we have many months to get there very true yeah those kinds of issues I think will be dealt with um I appreciate the community's understanding my position thank you yep we do thank you all right so commit Jeanette if um it could it be that that some of us the committee members who'd like to could just join you and and Sarah or you and Sarah I think it's stronger if you and Sarah is chairs of the committee send the letter and um uh maybe the Chris and Anthony and I write our individual letters should we just send them to Kendall I assume Kendall or Jay Johnson they're the two contacts I think Jay is the one that's mainly dealing with this issue but either one work okay


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