Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to start off on this Woke Wednesday with
Speaker 1: some thoughts and then we'll go into the stories first.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this every week now, so forgive me, but
Speaker 1: I know the feeling of exhaustion that people have because
Speaker 1: I am literally feeling this achiness in my bones and
Speaker 1: I'm really doing my best to try and double and
Speaker 1: triple down on my self care and my routines, and
Speaker 1: I'm finding myself faltering and also trying to give myself
Speaker 1: grace for the times that I am faltering. And why
Speaker 1: am I sharing that with you? Because I think that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a person that when everything around me
Speaker 1: starts to feel out of control, I try my best
Speaker 1: to control everything that I can, which is not necessarily
Speaker 1: the best because you can't control everything right, like, there
Speaker 1: is just no way to do that. And then what
Speaker 1: happens when when everything right starts to feel like you're
Speaker 1: going back to old patterns or you've you know, say
Speaker 1: you've said I'm gonna not drink or I'm gonna eat
Speaker 1: really well, or I'm gonna work out, and just everything
Speaker 1: starts to become super overwhelming and then you fall off
Speaker 1: of that wagon. And that happens to me more times
Speaker 1: than I'd like to admit, right, And what I have
Speaker 1: learned is to rest when I'm tired, to take breaks
Speaker 1: so that I don't have breakdowns, to remove myself from
Speaker 1: places and spaces, and like go get some air and
Speaker 1: take a long walk, to really connect with friends and
Speaker 1: family if I've been kind of distant and also understanding
Speaker 1: that folks, you know, I find it really hard sometimes
Speaker 1: to articulate to those that are not necessarily in my business,
Speaker 1: meaning in my industry, how draining it is to be
Speaker 1: in politics, and draining isn't even the word, because draining
Speaker 1: seems like, well, you just need a good night's sleep
Speaker 1: or a vacation and then like things will go back
Speaker 1: to normal. No. I feel crazy, exhausted, filled with grief, rage,
Speaker 1: pretty much every emotion except for like the ones that
Speaker 1: are good. Every time that I turn on the news
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm trying desperately to find hopefulness and
Speaker 1: then you get you know, decisions that come down, which
Speaker 1: brings me to the first story that is on my
Speaker 1: mind today. Which is the lowering of Trump's fucking bond
Speaker 1: on the day that Tish James was getting ready to
Speaker 1: see to begin the process to seize properties. It's so
Speaker 1: fucking deflating and so aggravating. How beautifully this system, this
Speaker 1: fucking criminal justice system, is set up to work for
Speaker 1: wealthy white men in power. And you know, we look
Speaker 1: at it and we're like, you know, we're angry, and
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the tweets and I fucking like threw up
Speaker 1: my hands that day, which was Monday, and said fuck it,
Speaker 1: like I'm over it, Like I don't want to cover
Speaker 1: these cases anymore. I don't give a fuck because I
Speaker 1: know that Donald Trump is never going to prison, He's
Speaker 1: never going to have to have any accountability for any
Speaker 1: of his actions. We would rather in this country throw
Speaker 1: low level drug offenders in jail for thirty years. We'd
Speaker 1: rather throw poor people in jail because they can't afford
Speaker 1: bail and keep them there. We would rather use our
Speaker 1: criminal justice system to continue the harm, the torture of
Speaker 1: black and brown people, which is what it was built for,
Speaker 1: right And so every time that we think that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is going to be held accountable, I think that
Speaker 1: the reality is that he's not right and we have
Speaker 1: to move on. I will cover what is news, but
Speaker 1: I think that the fact is, like what the real
Speaker 1: news is, right, isn't going to be the headline that
Speaker 1: comes through and says Donald Trump's been convicted because he'll
Speaker 1: just appeal, right, Donald Trump has to pay out this money,
Speaker 1: He'll just appeal and he'll just run out the clock
Speaker 1: because his lawyers know the games to play. They know
Speaker 1: all of the loopholes inside of the system. They know,
Speaker 1: you know, how to maneuver, and the double speak and
Speaker 1: all of this shit. Because for them, it's more money,
Speaker 1: more time, more money right that they will have. And
Speaker 1: for the rest of us, you know, we're told, well,
Speaker 1: it's normal that you know this judgment was going to
Speaker 1: be decreased. It's normal. Tell me what the fuck is
Speaker 1: normal about Donald Trump? Tell me what the fuck is
Speaker 1: normal about a Republican klu klux Klan takeover of American politics,
Speaker 1: of our judiciary. Tell me what is normal about the
Speaker 1: times that we've been living in for the last you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, seven eight years. Tell me what's normal nothing.
Speaker 1: So stop trying to apply normal rules and logistics to
Speaker 1: a person that has said fuck you to the system.
Speaker 1: Not only said fuck you to the system, but like
Speaker 1: actively has continued to try and burn it down from
Speaker 1: the outside in and the inside out. And so we
Speaker 1: continue to apply these arbitrary bullshit rules for the preservation
Speaker 1: or at least the perception of the preservation of some
Speaker 1: type of legal normalcy that doesn't fucking exist. So when
Speaker 1: I saw the judge lower his bond to one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five million, I just said, fuck it, who
Speaker 1: gives a fuck anymore? Right, Like, the justice system is
Speaker 1: working exactly how it was designed to work for, exactly
Speaker 1: who it was designed to work for. And that's the fact,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that what else is also
Speaker 1: true is that the other strategy is to just depress
Speaker 1: the vote by depressing to really depressing the people. Because
Speaker 1: when you feel like everything is hopeless, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what you do, that you have no power, no voice,
Speaker 1: no say, you know, you become easily pliable and malleable.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Republican klu klux Klan white supremacist
Speaker 1: counsel is working on doing. And they're doing a great job, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm fucking exhausted, and I know that
Speaker 1: you all are too, you know, I honestly, I say
Speaker 1: to my friend's advent, I don't know how people listen
Speaker 1: to me all the time. This is not me advocating
Speaker 1: for you to, like, you know, not up your subscription
Speaker 1: or not continue listening to the show. But I struggle
Speaker 1: to listen to the news, which will be my story
Speaker 1: number two, because nothing good has come of it, right,
Speaker 1: And the reality is that the only thing that is
Speaker 1: going to hold Donald Trump accountable is us is people
Speaker 1: voting in November. To keep democracy, to keep abortion in
Speaker 1: blue states at least you have some access to it,
Speaker 1: to you know, keep voting right and free and fair elections,
Speaker 1: to keep democracy, to keep some semblance of bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: All of that will go with a Trump two point
Speaker 1: zero regime. Right, Like they're telling us everything that they're
Speaker 1: going to do, we don't have to fucking guess. They've
Speaker 1: taken away the guessing work. So it's just like if
Speaker 1: people don't come out to vote, because by the time
Speaker 1: November rolls around, you are exhausted and depleted and just
Speaker 1: like hopeless, then they win, then they've won. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I do want to say something somebody I posted in
Speaker 1: my comment section to a post that I said, where
Speaker 1: I said, I feel like, you know, we always learned
Speaker 1: about fallen empires in school, but we never learned about
Speaker 1: what was happening while they were falling. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: now we know, right, because we are living inside of
Speaker 1: a falling empire and where you have this deep sense
Speaker 1: of unease where every day is something new being taken
Speaker 1: away or ruined, right, and you still trying to convince
Speaker 1: yourself like, no, no, no, America can come back, America
Speaker 1: can come back. No, actually, it's not ever going to
Speaker 1: come back the way that we knew it. Right, What
Speaker 1: we are trying to do right now was just to
Speaker 1: hold on so that these right wing, rabid Republicans don't
Speaker 1: burn down the country in a way that makes it
Speaker 1: possible for the next fifty years for anything to grow,
Speaker 1: because that's what they're doing. And so what I say
Speaker 1: to folks, somebody in the comment section said I'm going
Speaker 1: to take a break from politics, and somebody said, right now,
Speaker 1: are you crazy, like you're gonna take a break now.
Speaker 1: I would rather you fucking take a break now than
Speaker 1: take a break in November. I would rather, folks, tap
Speaker 1: out right for a couple of months and get right
Speaker 1: back in, you know, come August. Because if you need
Speaker 1: a break so that you don't lose your fucking mind
Speaker 1: and then don't opt out of the election, then take
Speaker 1: a fucking break. I'm never gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: people that says, no, you got to stay in it.
Speaker 1: You gotta stay miserable, you gotta cry at everything, you
Speaker 1: gotta be rageful all the time. You got to spend
Speaker 1: all of that energy. No, I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 1: What I'm going to say is that if you're going
Speaker 1: to take a break, then to you know, if you
Speaker 1: have the resources to be able to donate, to be
Speaker 1: able to support or independent media like myself and others
Speaker 1: who don't get paid by the mainstream but do their
Speaker 1: best to try and continue to have conversations with the
Speaker 1: folks that are willing to support their voice. So if
Speaker 1: you have friends and family and colleagues around you that
Speaker 1: are like, I'm tapping out, then say like, look, you know,
Speaker 1: tap out of this, but tap into WOKF Daily, tap
Speaker 1: into you know, a muckraker, tap into you know, other
Speaker 1: shows and other individuals that are like doing the work
Speaker 1: right that mainstream media refuses to do. And if you
Speaker 1: need to take a break, do that, right, but find
Speaker 1: another way to support that. Doesn't, you know, harm your
Speaker 1: mental health. That's the real work, right Because I do believe, folks,
Speaker 1: and I've been saying this for a long time, that
Speaker 1: I do think that things are going to get worse
Speaker 1: before they get better. I remember saying this way way
Speaker 1: way way back on Serious XM. You know, say saying
Speaker 1: that things are going to get bloodier before they get better.
Speaker 1: And that, folks, was in twenty seventeen, and here we
Speaker 1: are in twenty twenty four. So it's not great. It's
Speaker 1: not great. But again, if you need to take a break,
Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that now and find other
Speaker 1: ways to support that, don't challenge your mental health. Let
Speaker 1: me now turn to fucking mainstream media and the uproar
Speaker 1: that has happened over NBC News deciding to hire Ronna
Speaker 1: Romney McDaniel. I never agree with fucking Chuck Todd, and
Speaker 1: I think that Chuck Todd has been part of the
Speaker 1: fucking problem in journalism. And so when you have lost
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd and he is talking about the credibility of
Speaker 1: this network being challenged because of them deciding to bring
Speaker 1: in an alecching Denier a fucking January sixer so that
Speaker 1: they can have access because they think that if they
Speaker 1: play well with the devil, the devil won't burn them.
Speaker 1: Are you dumb? So he comes out on Meet the
Speaker 1: Press and you know, says that the CEOs and you know,
Speaker 1: the folks, their bosses, oh, Christen Welker, and apology for
Speaker 1: putting her in such a horrible, you know position, with
Speaker 1: having Roni McDaniel on after they decided to pay her
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars to become a contributor. And now
Speaker 1: there are rumors that because of all of the pushback
Speaker 1: and because of Rashida Jones, who's the president of MSNBC,
Speaker 1: saying she will not be on our airwaves. But yet
Speaker 1: you approve the deal to begin with, you thought it
Speaker 1: was a good idea. Then why don't you think it's
Speaker 1: a good idea now? Oh, because all of your talent
Speaker 1: is saying that they will not have her on air,
Speaker 1: and you can't fire all of them, you know, the
Speaker 1: way that he did Mehdi Hassan, I'm just so over it,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying. I'm over the fucking
Speaker 1: disgusting revolving door between the MAGA world and mainstream media.
Speaker 1: They bash mainstream media saying it's liberal when it's totally
Speaker 1: fucking not, because there is a revolving door that comes
Speaker 1: with these administrations. And the fucking thing is we're in
Speaker 1: this position because of mainstream media and they continue to
Speaker 1: just get worse. And my co host of Democracy Ish,
Speaker 1: my friend Wajahat Ali you know, tweeted and said, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll pay Roni McDaniel, but when it comes to black
Speaker 1: and brown talent, there is never any money. Kurt Bardella,
Speaker 1: friend of the show, also tweeted that you know why,
Speaker 1: because people like us when you see me on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: understand that I am not being paid. I go on
Speaker 1: MSNBC when I think that I have something to say
Speaker 1: and to offer that has a larger reach, Right, So
Speaker 1: I'm doing it as part of my work, but I
Speaker 1: don't get paid for it like work. I never have.
Speaker 1: For all of the years that I have been on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: which at this point is about ten years, I've never
Speaker 1: once been approached about a contributorship. But I have watched
Speaker 1: them give contributorships to less talented white Republicans on a
Speaker 1: regular fucking basis. I have watched them ghetto wise, right
Speaker 1: the weekend shows, which is where you see all of
Speaker 1: the hosts of color except for Joy Reid, who is
Speaker 1: the only person of color in their lineup, who is
Speaker 1: until seven pm. From Morning Joe until seven pm. There
Speaker 1: are no people of color hosting anybody that you see
Speaker 1: right that is a person of color that comes on
Speaker 1: that show unless it says MSNBC Legal Analyst, MSNBC political contributor.
Speaker 1: If it just says that person's name, they're coming on
Speaker 1: for free, which is a majority of the fucking people
Speaker 1: that are coming on. It's a continuation of a slap
Speaker 1: in the face. I said this. You know at the
Speaker 1: end of the Trump administration that no one that had
Speaker 1: that campaign or that administration on their resume should be
Speaker 1: employable outside of Fox and Oaan and whatever other type
Speaker 1: of right wing conspiracy fucking outlets. To legitimize them and
Speaker 1: to whitewash them through mainstream media makes them now credible, Right,
Speaker 1: These people that spent their years lying to our faces
Speaker 1: and supporting a criminal and now you want to have
Speaker 1: them on Dancing with the Stars, in NBC News and
Speaker 1: The View and other places and think that like people
Speaker 1: don't get it. And so the outrage that folks are
Speaker 1: receiving now and they're saying, oh, they're gonna NBC is
Speaker 1: gonna rescind the offer and blah blah blah. I hope
Speaker 1: the fuck that they do, you know, but they never
Speaker 1: should have extended it in the first place. And this
Speaker 1: kind of foot seas that they want to keep playing
Speaker 1: with fascists isn't going to land them anywhere. They're not
Speaker 1: going to be liked anymore. Pick me, pick me Donald, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you were to become president, like, we'll
Speaker 1: play nice with you. No, you fucking won't. And you
Speaker 1: know why, because he's going to shut you down regardless.
Speaker 1: So it's just, you know, the anger that I had
Speaker 1: at that announcement and the pushback. I wish that, I
Speaker 1: will say this, I wish that the people that are
Speaker 1: so adamant about Roni McDaniel not being on NBC News,
Speaker 1: I wish they were as adamant when Mehdi his son
Speaker 1: was being wrongfully terminated. You know, I wish that a
Speaker 1: person of color, a Muslim, who is one of the
Speaker 1: best interviewers I have ever seen, was given that kind
Speaker 1: of support internally by his fellow colleagues who would have
Speaker 1: gone on air and said him being fired is absolutely outrageous.
Speaker 1: I wish that they would have done that for Tiffany Cross, right.
Speaker 1: I wish way back in the day that they would
Speaker 1: have done it for Melissa Harris Perry right. Like, It's
Speaker 1: just it's amazing, folks. And you know, I could list
Speaker 1: off a bunch of names of people who once had shows,
Speaker 1: had platforms and were shut down. But white mainstream media
Speaker 1: will bring back, you know, Jeffrey Tuban on CNN after
Speaker 1: he's caught like fondling himself on a call, but you
Speaker 1: won't hire back Mark Lamont Hill, a scholar on Palestine
Speaker 1: and Palestine and Israel. Like it is wild, do you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? But you understand that mainstream media
Speaker 1: is complicit in the fuckery. They're complicit and they perpetuate
Speaker 1: it on a regular basis, which is why I say
Speaker 1: often support independent media, support people who believe in what
Speaker 1: they say and will tell you the truth and work
Speaker 1: off of something called integrity as well as passion, because
Speaker 1: those two things don't exist in corporate media. Folks. We're
Speaker 1: in tough, tough, tough tough times, and they continue to
Speaker 1: get worse. You know. Right now as I'm speaking, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is hearing the case on MiFi pristone, mif
Speaker 1: of pristone, the abortion pill that was approved by the
Speaker 1: FDA twenty three years ago and whose usage is now
Speaker 1: being challenged, which means that if they overturn the use
Speaker 1: of MEFA pristone, the FDA loses its teeth, loses its
Speaker 1: ability to confirm medication. That you know, the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: those those nine unelected black robes, get to decide what
Speaker 1: you put in your mouth, what you don't, what you
Speaker 1: you know, whether you have a baby, whether you don't.
Speaker 1: We're in dark times. We're in dark, dark times, and
Speaker 1: so I tell you, please find the light, Please seek
Speaker 1: it out. Please make it a regular part of your
Speaker 1: day of your life. Please find the joy. If it's
Speaker 1: gardening right now as we enter into spring on the
Speaker 1: East coast, if it is you know, going for walks,
Speaker 1: if it's you know, cooking, baking, hanging out with your
Speaker 1: loved ones, just whatever it is, do it, and do
Speaker 1: it often so that you are connected to and reminded
Speaker 1: of and grounded in what's important. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on Woke app. As always, Power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.