Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy Woke Wednesday. Today, I'm not going to run through
Speaker 1: a bunch of news stories that are on my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm actually just going to dive into a topic that
Speaker 1: is on my mind that I have myself been struggling with.
Speaker 1: It seems as if things are picking up in momentum.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? It seems like the unraveling,
Speaker 1: if you will, the unraveling is picking up steam. And
Speaker 1: by that I mean that I have inside of me
Speaker 1: when things start to pick up pace, my reaction is
Speaker 1: not to try and keep pace with it any longer.
Speaker 1: And this is something that I've taken through my time
Speaker 1: during COVID, which is, I, you know, like some of
Speaker 1: you had the privilege to slow down, had the privilege
Speaker 1: to work from home and to develop a whole new
Speaker 1: type of way of working that didn't involve being in person,
Speaker 1: And so by virtue of that, there was an ability
Speaker 1: to kind of get off of the treadmill and create
Speaker 1: a different pace for the work that I do and
Speaker 1: largely what I am feeling and what I'm sensing is like,
Speaker 1: as we get closer and closer to this election, as
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's trials start to take place, is that there
Speaker 1: is this frenetic energy that is expanding, for lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, And you know that frenetic energy. It
Speaker 1: is that very busy, very impulsive energy that just kind
Speaker 1: of grows, and if you're not paying attention to it,
Speaker 1: it can consume you. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you feel yourself rushing, and you feel yourself agitated, and
Speaker 1: you feel your anxiety growing, and you feel your foundation
Speaker 1: being shaken. And what I want to offer to myself
Speaker 1: as well as to all of you, is that that
Speaker 1: is part of their plan. Part of the plan of
Speaker 1: flooding the zone and throwing everything at the wall is
Speaker 1: to create a dizzy frenzy of disaster, of doom, of grief,
Speaker 1: of pain. If you can keep people in a frenzy,
Speaker 1: then all they spend their time doing is reacting. They
Speaker 1: don't have time to think, they don't have time to plan,
Speaker 1: they don't have time to develop anything, because all you're
Speaker 1: doing is reacting to the frenzy and anticipating that frenzy.
Speaker 1: And what that robs you of is your piece. What
Speaker 1: that robs you of is your imagination. And those are
Speaker 1: the two tools that are needed and required for innovation
Speaker 1: this moment that we're in. I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people across a lot of different movements inside and
Speaker 1: outside of the Democratic Party believe that fighting is going
Speaker 1: to be the only tool that we have. That we
Speaker 1: need to respond to everything, which is fucking impossible in
Speaker 1: order to keep pace with their crazy Right, we got
Speaker 1: to match their energy. We got to match their pace,
Speaker 1: We got to match their intensity. And what I am saying,
Speaker 1: I'm going to offer something that is radical. How about no,
Speaker 1: how about when they speed up, we slow down and
Speaker 1: become a lot more thoughtful and methodical about what it
Speaker 1: is that we're doing and what it is that we're
Speaker 1: trying to do. In the first place. It isn't just
Speaker 1: to stop Republicans from their assault on our democracy, on freedom,
Speaker 1: on our rights, our values. It isn't just to stop
Speaker 1: them in this moment. It is for us to actually
Speaker 1: create and design the world that we want to live in.
Speaker 1: And we cannot do that if we are constantly reacting
Speaker 1: to their bullshit. Now, look, there are people whose role
Speaker 1: it is to respond quickly, right to be in every
Speaker 1: single aspect of the quote unquote, No, that is not
Speaker 1: everybody's role. Some people's role is to pause, to think,
Speaker 1: to plan, to dream, to imagine, to create something different.
Speaker 1: And I offer this because I think that as we
Speaker 1: watch the headlines get worse and worse and worse, there
Speaker 1: is this desire for us to respond and meet their
Speaker 1: aggression with more aggression. And look, if you've listened to
Speaker 1: me long enough, you know that what I'm stating right
Speaker 1: now is kind of a departure from the ways in
Speaker 1: which I open this show back in twenty seventeen on
Speaker 1: you know, we got to match their might. We gotta
Speaker 1: you know, when they go low, we go like. You
Speaker 1: know that we have to continue pushing, pushing, pushing at
Speaker 1: the same pace. And what I'm realizing is that one
Speaker 1: we don't have the fuel for that, and two, that
Speaker 1: is how we all burn the fuck out. Everyone's role
Speaker 1: at this time is going to be different. And I
Speaker 1: think that the work that we're finding is what is
Speaker 1: your role right? Where do you feel like you can
Speaker 1: have impact? Because folks, pushing against this tsunami of hate
Speaker 1: requires more than our usual direct action. And I came
Speaker 1: out of a conversation most recently where people are looking
Speaker 1: for another alternative for a pivot, but our concern earned
Speaker 1: and have guilt and are worried about what the repercussions
Speaker 1: of making that pivot are. For me to say that
Speaker 1: things feel like they're speeding up, and my response to
Speaker 1: that is to slow down. Well, what if I get
Speaker 1: left behind? What if I don't get the breaking news
Speaker 1: as soon as it happens, and then I can't put
Speaker 1: out a response and I can't do this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing. And folks, the question that we need
Speaker 1: to have ask ourselves is what is the impact that
Speaker 1: we want? This is the question that I want the
Speaker 1: Biden administration to ask themselves. What is the impact that
Speaker 1: we want? What is a story that we actually want
Speaker 1: to tell and to be told about this time? This
Speaker 1: is a time folks that let me tell you, you
Speaker 1: can feel it and sense it that it is pivotal
Speaker 1: that we are and have reached acrossroads. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to be pushed at anyone else's pace in deciding
Speaker 1: how I'm choosing to move at this moment, because it's
Speaker 1: too consequential. And so we are coming up on six months,
Speaker 1: six months until potentially everything that we've ever known and
Speaker 1: understood about America changes forever. It is already changed in
Speaker 1: ways that I think that we refuse to acknowledge. It
Speaker 1: is changed because of a global health pandemic. It is
Speaker 1: changed because of the climate crisis. It has changed because
Speaker 1: of the rise in white supremacy. It has changed, and
Speaker 1: because of the pasm between the haves and the have not.
Speaker 1: It has changed and continues to change because, as Octavier
Speaker 1: Butler wrote Imparable of the Sewer, the only constant thing
Speaker 1: that we have is change. But when I talk about
Speaker 1: the change that will happen and so quickly, if Donald
Speaker 1: Trump becomes president again, what those coming days will look like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that folks are prepared. And so how
Speaker 1: do you prepare? You think you plan? You start to
Speaker 1: ask really important questions, right because what I've been reading,
Speaker 1: you know of, just like times in Germany and what
Speaker 1: happened in Austria and what happened in these countries in
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties with the rise of Hitler, is that
Speaker 1: people were not prepared for how fast things were going
Speaker 1: to move. They thought that they had more time. And
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, if we are not going to
Speaker 1: use this pre time not to work ourselves into a frenzy,
Speaker 1: but to plan for multiple scenarios of the what ifs,
Speaker 1: the very real what ifs, folks, Because this is not hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: I think that so many people believe that because they
Speaker 1: made it out of the first Trump administration, which mind you,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people did not, because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: downplayed the global health pandemic that by the time he
Speaker 1: left off had already killed half a million people that
Speaker 1: he just didn't care about. And by the way, we
Speaker 1: don't acknowledge at all. That being said, now is the
Speaker 1: time to think about the fact that this time around,
Speaker 1: there are no adults in the room. This time around,
Speaker 1: they would be going for blood from everyone this time around.
Speaker 1: I'm reading reports that just broke as I was coming
Speaker 1: to record that the potential Secretary of Treasury under Trump
Speaker 1: wants to devalue the dollar in order to boost exports.
Speaker 1: And that's incredibly risky to do and will probably be
Speaker 1: looked down upon, you know, by Wall Street and you
Speaker 1: know the likes. But what would that mean to regular
Speaker 1: folks that don't have their money wrapped up in Wall
Speaker 1: Street and in exports? Right A Secretary of Education that
Speaker 1: would essentially divert all public school funding and resources to
Speaker 1: charter schools and religious institutions. The closing down of historically
Speaker 1: black colleges and universities that receive a large amount of
Speaker 1: their money from the federal government. What happens to nonprofit
Speaker 1: organizations that are LGBTQ black that also receive government grants
Speaker 1: this time around, when they've spent the last year two
Speaker 1: three criminalizing DEI and black and around people, queer people,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Folks, I don't think that people recognize that.
Speaker 1: I would rather be really thoughtful in the next six
Speaker 1: months about planning for the best and worst case scenarios
Speaker 1: then being caught out in the wind because we won't
Speaker 1: have time then and all of the things that we
Speaker 1: are watching play out on our screens right now, and
Speaker 1: we're still fairly far geographically removed from the wars that
Speaker 1: we are seeing play out. I mean, there's a movie
Speaker 1: right now called Civil War that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go see. Everybody tells me, Oh, it's really great, and
Speaker 1: it'll probably get nominated for all these things, but I
Speaker 1: don't need to go see what I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: living through right now. For entertainment purposes, because they're nothing
Speaker 1: entertaining at all about the way that I've been feeling.
Speaker 1: And so, rather than just trying to move and jump
Speaker 1: to the next thing, I am taking the time to pause,
Speaker 1: to reflect, and to think about the next few months,
Speaker 1: the next crucial six months of America, my family, my friends,
Speaker 1: my work, and I want everyone to do the same thing,
Speaker 1: because if Donald Trump and the Republicans sink their claws
Speaker 1: into the White House are able to hold on to
Speaker 1: the House and take back the Senate, Folks, our marching
Speaker 1: won't matter, Our boycotts won't matter. The decision to throw
Speaker 1: away your vote on a third candidate won't matter because
Speaker 1: it will be done. And so rather than spending time
Speaker 1: with frenetic energy and just spinning our wheels and trying
Speaker 1: to respond in every which way to everything that is happening,
Speaker 1: I'm going to encourage us to take some time to
Speaker 1: pause and to really think and to plan with our families,
Speaker 1: with our friends, particularly those of us from vulnerable populations,
Speaker 1: targeted populations, about what your plans are, because I will
Speaker 1: tell you it will not be business as usual. Will
Speaker 1: the camps open the next day, maybe not, but will
Speaker 1: executive order can shut down America can shut down, borders
Speaker 1: can shut down certain populations, can name people as enemies
Speaker 1: of the state, right, like, I want us to have plans.
Speaker 1: This is not to be an ominous episode of this show,
Speaker 1: but it is to be a very real one because
Speaker 1: I think that some of the conversations that I'm having
Speaker 1: with people that are a lot more in the know,
Speaker 1: they're not good conversations. And I would be doing a
Speaker 1: disservice to all of you if I didn't implore you
Speaker 1: at this time to really start to think. Put it
Speaker 1: this way, if Joe Biden is able to win, right,
Speaker 1: if democracy is able to hang on, I want you
Speaker 1: to think back to January sixth, and I want you
Speaker 1: to understand that even if Biden wins, we are going
Speaker 1: to be in a dangerous, dangerous, highly contentious several months
Speaker 1: following the election, and folks need to prepare for that.
Speaker 1: And so some of you will, you know, ask me
Speaker 1: in the comment section under this video, or get at
Speaker 1: me on social media on x at D two cents,
Speaker 1: on Instagram at D two cents and on TikTok. Danielle
Speaker 1: Moody underscore and I get at me. Ask the questions right,
Speaker 1: and I will do my best to provide answers and resources.
Speaker 1: But what I will say, folks, is that the Heritage
Speaker 1: Foundation's Project twenty twenty five lays out not their plan
Speaker 1: for the election, that lays out their plan for America
Speaker 1: for the next like fifty sid years, and it is
Speaker 1: dark and it doesn't include many of us. So it
Speaker 1: is incredibly important that we take this time that is
Speaker 1: in front of us and ask ourselves and our families,
Speaker 1: and our friends and our community some real questions about
Speaker 1: what happens after the election and what you're prepared for
Speaker 1: or not, because I think that it is going to
Speaker 1: be really important, and now is the time when we
Speaker 1: still have that time on our side to plan. So
Speaker 1: that is what I offer to you on this wook Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You know, when I start seeing you know, when we
Speaker 1: know how the Supreme Court is moving, we know how
Speaker 1: the court system is working to the benefit of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and his sycophants. You know, they're starting to feel
Speaker 1: very confident, you know, about the directions that they're moving in,
Speaker 1: and I want us to feel the same. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on wokef As always,
Speaker 1: power to the people, and to all the people power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay wop as fuck.