WEBVTT - Holding Onto Democracy 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to wikf Daily with me 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.040 your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.279 I'm recording this ahead of time, as I normally do 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.959 Monday shows, but I have to tell you that today 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:32.640 I am recording this in a level of anger that 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.560 I don't know if I've had for a while. Everything 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.400 I know is up against us right now. The powers 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.800 that be, whether they be in corporate media, whether they 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.440 be on the Supreme Court, whether they be on federal benches, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.080 whether they be governors of red States, whether they be 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:57.600 secretaries of elections. They don't want democracy to continue. It 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:02.040 is so fucking clear, right. It is clearer when the 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.360 Washington Post decides that they're not going to endorse a 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.399 presidential candidate for the first time since nineteen eighty eight. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.240 It is clear when the La Times decides that they're 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.640 not going to endorse a presidential candidate for the very 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.959 first time. It is clear when NBC decides that they 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.840 are not going to run a documentary from one of 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.360 their own anchors about the children and the families that 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.480 were separated at the border until after the election. It 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.199 is clear when you have someone like Elon Musk, who 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:41.240 is in private conversations with Vladimir Putin and other nation 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.920 states about whether or not he'll flip the switch on 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.320 starlink and stop Ukraine from being able to defend itself, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.640 or whether or not he is going to divulge his 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.040 top secret clearance to you know, the highest fucking bidder 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.560 who will put him in their admits imistration. Folks, we 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.320 are up against so very much and just a handful 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.360 of days to hold on to democracy. And here's what 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.960 I will say. The Harris Walls team has run one 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.840 of the best campaigns I have ever seen in my career. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:22.000 The loss of this election will not be because they 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.320 didn't go into the right states, or they didn't do enough, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.639 or they didn't pull out all the stops. No, it won't. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.760 It will be because corporate mainstream media is complicit in 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.440 the rise of fascism and Donald Trump because it is 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.000 better for their bottom line. It'll be because the Supreme 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.880 Court voted to provide Donald Trump the criminal, with absolute immunity, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.080 so that the next time that he got his hands 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.320 on power, he never had to let go. Democracy isn't 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.240 like a heartbeat that you don't have to think about 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.600 it just kind of happens. Democracy is something that requires 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.079 consistent vigilance because there will always be people who are 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.480 working to undermine it. That's the lesson that we should 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:11.160 all take from the last nine years is that if 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:16.600 we pay attention, then things like Donald Trump don't happen. Right, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.960 because Donald Trump came to power because we were like, eh, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.519 you know, I'm kind of meant about Hillary Clinton. How 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.400 bad could a Trump presidency be? You know, he was 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.400 on the Apprentice, He's rich, so maybe he knows how 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.960 to run the country. This is the fucking lie of 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.120 capitalism too, by the way, which is this idea that 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.480 because people have wealth that that somehow means that they're smart. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:45.160 It fucking doesn't. By the way, your wealth is not 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.920 contingent upon how smart you are. And how smart you 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.839 are is not contingent upon your wealth because there are 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:58.000 very many, many, many people who are poor, people who 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.960 know how to make a dollar out of fifteen cent, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.720 right because they've had to have a kind of resilience. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.040 That are the people that have been given a platinum 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.320 spoon like a Donald Trump. Don't know that to me 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.720 is smart. But because we equate intelligence with wealth, then 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.640 if you're poor, well, then you must be stupid. That's 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.640 how we the people give our power away, because they're 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.719 the ones that fed us that line of bullshit to 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.880 begin with. We know better, folks, right now about what 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.320 is happening. You can see it everywhere. You can see 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.480 it as clear as day that when you look at 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:43.000 Donald Trump's economic plan one, his mass deportations would cause 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.239 this country to careem into probably one of the worst 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.520 depressions that we've ever seen. Don't take my word for it, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.200 I'm not an economist. You can take right the twenty 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.720 three No Bell winning economists who have said so, who 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:04.359 have said that Donald Trump's plans for this country in 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:10.320 terms of tariffs will cost the average American person thousands 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:16.159 of dollars thousands of dollars a year. So, folks, we 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.080 know that Donald Trump is not a person that is 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.840 for the middle class, for the working class, for any 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.840 other class other than the top one percent. And what 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.680 we are seeing with these decisions that are being made 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.320 by the Bezos of the world and the Musts of 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.400 the world, the American oligarchs, is that they're in control 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.920 of what we know, what we see, and what we do. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.760 The fact is folks, we have to understand where our 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.520 power actually lies, because these American oligarchs are showing us 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.640 where their power is and they're wielding it. They're wielding 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:58.440 it in a way that is turning us into a 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.400 banana republic, turning us into no place that is any 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.560 better than Russia with the Russian oligarchs that have drained 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.240 the people of all of their income and resources. Also 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.320 that the multi zillionaires and what have you can have 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:20.520 seventeen thousand votes and seventeen thousand homes. Fuck the people, right. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.240 The people are a means to an end, and that 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.800 is what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are showing us. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.440 And Mark Zuckerberg is not immune from this as well, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:37.479 because through his platform meta, he's ensuring that democracy and 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.080 any mention of it, any mention of voting, any mention 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.600 of gaza, any mention of the candidates, is suppressed. And 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.240 you have to go into your own systems to make 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:52.479 sure that you turn on the metric that says that 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.680 you actually want political content, because Mark Zuckerberg has decided 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.400 that you don't, and so you won't see it. So 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.120 all of these places that are supposed to be tools 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.760 of democracy have been weaponized against us, have been weaponized 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:14.320 against the people, so that we are just walking around dumb, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.240 under educated because the places that we are choosing to 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:24.320 get our information from are choosing to shrink what we see, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.800 shrink what we know, shrink what we have power for 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:33.760 power over. I'm just I'm so frustrated, you know, as 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.400 we close out this election, like, there are so many 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.000 things that I wish were better about this country. I 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.440 wish that we had gotten rid of the electoral college. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.920 You know, maybe in the twentieth century, that we would 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.280 have decided that, you know what, this system doesn't actually 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.600 work and it's really rigged, and that maybe Democrats would 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.840 have started a ground campaign in the same way that say, oh, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.920 I don't know, the white evangelical Christians had decided to, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.000 you know, continue with their crusade to eventually overturn Roe v. Waite. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.400 Maybe we should have started doing that about the electoral 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:11.000 college and about the Supreme Court, just educating people little 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.040 by little, showing them little by little that you know what, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.200 your vote would actually count more if the electoral college 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.720 didn't exist, because then a person who lives in New 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.720 York and has a vote and a person that lives 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.840 in Ohio and has a vote, their vote would be 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.040 weighed the same. There would be no such place as 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:36.600 like battle ground right because each of our votes would count. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.080 You know, I people keep asking me, you know, who 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.800 do I think is going to win? Do I think 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.720 that Kamala is going to be able to pull it off? 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.760 And friends, I have no idea. I wish that I did, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.000 because I would save myself and you all a whole 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.640 lot of grief over the next couple of weeks. But 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.720 I don't. I feel right now that everything is stacked 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.280 against us, which is why I'm asking for peace people 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.079 to do everything in anything that you can, whether it's donate, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.080 whether it's volunteer, whether it's had the hard conversations, just 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.440 find out a way to get activated and do that. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.720 But it's like every lever of power is right now 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:23.400 pulling for Donald Trump. Like, how do you already decide 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.240 that you're going to upend democracy by not endorsing a 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.440 candidate because you care about your government contracts more than 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.080 you care about the people. And like, why the fuck 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.240 does Amazon and like and Elon Musk is Starlink have 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.760 these billion dollar contracts with the government anyway, do you 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.079 know that Elon Musk has a one point eight billion 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:50.640 dollar contract with the US government for Starlink and that 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:58.320 our space you know, efforts rely on Elon Musk. And 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.120 I said this in a live that I did on Friday. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:07.040 I don't give a fuck about Mars. I cannot express 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.720 that enough. And if you are a science buff, I 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.200 you know my apologies. It's not that I don't care 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.760 about exploration. It is that I care more about what 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.360 is happening here on Earth, Like why are we going 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.839 to explore other planets when we are fucking this one up? 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.640 I have no idea. It don't make no sense. So 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:35.120 you know, Elon Musk has fucking top secret clearance and 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:40.680 he's on the phone with Vladimir Putin on a regular basis, Like, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.160 why don't we just shift all of our documents to 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:48.160 Vladimir Putin? Why don't we just save all the middleman, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.000 all of the all of the underhanded trouble and just 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.960 send our shit directly to him, Because between Trump and 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.520 Elon Musk, that motherfucker has a map probably of all 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.559 of our homes. Also that the United Time States can 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.040 compete in some type of space race, give me a break, folks. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.600 Most recently in you know, and I bring all this 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.199 to you about Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin because at 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.240 the end of last week a story broke in the 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.440 Wall Street Journal whose title is Elon Musk's Secret Conversations 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.760 with Vladimir Putin. I spoke about it on Friday on 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:30.040 Democracy Ish with Wajahat Ali. All of the ways in 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.760 which Elon Musk has basically been given all the keys 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:40.000 to the kingdom. In what democracy does a private citizen 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.520 have the ability to have conversations with the world's dictators 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:51.080 and decide what switch he's gonna flip and when to 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.400 provide access to internet, access to satellite. I don't think 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:00.680 that people understand how fucking dangerous Elon Musk is, how 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.360 dangerous it is that this man has this much power 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.960 and no one elected him. No one elected this man, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.240 and if Donald Trump becomes president, he's gonna be in 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:18.199 the cabinet. Today's one of those days when I am really, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:24.400 really angry, and I don't want us to feel powerless. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:31.120 But I do understand what it feels like to feel powerless, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.880 because you know, I do these shows, all of these 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.199 shows across all of these different platforms because I'm doing 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.480 my best to educate and activate as many people as possible. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:49.360 But I'll never have the kind of platform where you know, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.240 millions and millions upon millions of people are tuning in 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.760 because everything that I do gets suppressed, which is why 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.080 I try and do so much, because I'm just like, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.679 maybe this will eek through, maybe this will eek through, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.000 and I'm not kidding. From TikTok to Meta to X, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.120 a lot of the conversations, a lot of the podcasts 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.240 that you hear, a lot of the shows that I do, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:18.040 get suppressed, right, So I try and change hearts and 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.720 minds one person at a time, and I hope that 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.840 the one person that may be tuned in maybe hips 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.160 another person or two people to what they're hearing and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:33.359 what they're subscribing to. Every effort that I do is grassroots, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.280 because I've never been given write the keys to the 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.080 kingdom in the way that so many milk toast motherfuckers have, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.640 because why because they're neutral. I was told years ago 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.560 to stop being so controversial that I would have a 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.720 lot more success, and I know that that is true, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.560 and you know, at another point in my life, I 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.360 may have taken people up on it if I actually 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.880 had money dangling in front of me, but I don't 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.439 do this work for the money. I'm appreciative of what 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:08.400 I have, but trust me, this type of political conversation 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.880 does not pay. That's why I'm so grateful for the 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.920 donations that come in in a variety of ways, because 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.520 it's all of you that allow this work to keep going. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.920 But I also know that shows like mine and the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.400 work that I'm doing is on an egg timer right now. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:33.440 Because Donald Trump becomes president. Independent media is the enemy within. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.480 Mainstream media is the enemy within. People will be shut down, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:43.280 shut out, called the enemy of the state, docked. That 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:49.000 will become the norm until you are silenced completely. I 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.040 know this. That's why I'm trying to do everything that 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.760 I can and the time that I have, because I 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.200 know that it is limited. I just really hope that 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.520 America is able to do what it did in twenty 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.720 twenty all over again, but bigger. And I don't know 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.280 if we will. I don't know if we will. I 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.720 don't know if we'll pull it off. And it's again, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.560 it's not because of the lack of effort and work, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.240 and you know, connections that the Harris Walls team is doing, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.960 it is because of all of the entities that are 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.720 against us, that are against democracy, that are against the people. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.720 So I implore you to do everything that you can 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.760 with the time that we have left to get democracy 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.760 over the finish line, because we're in for the fight 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:45.440 of our lives and you know, I'm scared, I will 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.160 admit that, but there's no way to truly prepare for 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:57.400 what is coming. All we can do is educate, activate, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.240 and have faith that those actions that we are taking 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.440 will be the difference maker in this election, and we 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:13.680 can finally, for once and for all, say goodbye and 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:19.640 go to hell to Donald Trump. That is it for 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.920 me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always, Power 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.240 to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.320 woke and stay woke as fuck.