Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke app Daily. Friends.
Speaker 1: I am recording this from the Long Island Bunker, and
Speaker 1: I'm recording it Election Day. We will not know. I
Speaker 1: do not know as of the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: who has won, where we are, where America stands, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to use today's Woke Wednesday to
Speaker 1: make any predictions whatsoever because we don't know. But what
Speaker 1: I will say, first off, I want to thank each
Speaker 1: and every single one of you for listening to this show,
Speaker 1: for supporting truth, for supporting independent media, for however long
Speaker 1: you've been listening to WOKF. I started WOKF as a
Speaker 1: response and a reaction to the Donald Trump presidency, and
Speaker 1: over the last god forsaken years, I have tried my
Speaker 1: best to spread the truth and to enlighten people to
Speaker 1: their power. We have to understand that, regardless of whether
Speaker 1: or not you live in the quote unquote battleground states,
Speaker 1: that our work, our engagement as Americans across this country matters.
Speaker 1: What we do, how we engage at our state, local,
Speaker 1: and federal level matter. I think that if there is
Speaker 1: anything that we can take from the last nine years
Speaker 1: of MAGA is that Donald Trump would have never been
Speaker 1: able to happen if people paid attention to our democracy,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't just a foregone conclusion that a criminal
Speaker 1: would never become president of the United States, or that
Speaker 1: an outright racist and misogynist in modern day times would
Speaker 1: never become president of the United States, or that democracy
Speaker 1: wasn't something that we needed to protect like our lives
Speaker 1: depended on it, that we didn't need to be vigilant
Speaker 1: because the assumption was that this project would just continue
Speaker 1: whether we paid attention or not. I think that the
Speaker 1: best thing, if I can say this, that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: did for America is open our eyes. I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people have been sleepwalking through their lives
Speaker 1: and just paying attention to what is happening in front
Speaker 1: of them, as opposed to paying attention to what is
Speaker 1: happening around them. While America has been built in this idea,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a false notion of rugged individualism.
Speaker 1: It's not we don't get anywhere by ourselves. We get
Speaker 1: to where we are because of our families, because of
Speaker 1: our communities, because of our teachers, because of nurses and doctors.
Speaker 1: We get to where we are in life because of
Speaker 1: other people. And so we should care about how other
Speaker 1: people are treated, how they are living right, because that
Speaker 1: is a reflection of who we are and who this
Speaker 1: country is. I have always believed that you treat the
Speaker 1: most vulnerable among you the best because it shows your
Speaker 1: character as a country. So for far too long, it
Speaker 1: has just been a me me me, over consumption, overstimulated,
Speaker 1: hyper consumed group of individuals. And I think that over
Speaker 1: the last nine years, dare I say that, there have
Speaker 1: been so many inflection points that have brought people together
Speaker 1: to demand better not just for themselves but for everyone.
Speaker 1: And I believe that if we function as a collective,
Speaker 1: then forces that have been at play before Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and after Donald Trump won't take hold in the same
Speaker 1: way because the people are finally woke. You see people
Speaker 1: in power, the Republican maga set in power, whether we're
Speaker 1: talking about the judiciary, whether we're talking about Congress. These
Speaker 1: are people that do not care about the rest of us.
Speaker 1: They care about themselves, They care about their own pockets,
Speaker 1: they care about their own power. And they've been able
Speaker 1: to stay in power because of gerrymanderin, because of lawlessness,
Speaker 1: because of lies, and because of too much money in
Speaker 1: politics and I think finally Americans have started to wake
Speaker 1: up and say, wait a minute, it does not have
Speaker 1: to be this way. We shouldn't have to live a
Speaker 1: life of struggle. We shouldn't have to prepare, as Elon
Speaker 1: Musk has said, for necessary hardship. This coming from a
Speaker 1: multi billionaire that is used his power and influence to disparage, discriminate,
Speaker 1: and to destroy any fabric of what could possibly bring
Speaker 1: us together in online spaces. Imagine having that much power
Speaker 1: and choosing to do everything that is anti American, anti
Speaker 1: humanists that you can. Over the last several months, the
Speaker 1: last years, really, I feel like we have been battling
Speaker 1: day in and day out. It's why today I can
Speaker 1: say to you, as I record this on election Day,
Speaker 1: that I am so oh utterly exhausted, Like I got
Speaker 1: out of bed this morning and every part of my
Speaker 1: body hurts, And it's just my body's reaction to stress,
Speaker 1: to holding on for so long hoping that people wake
Speaker 1: up enough to change this country for the better, that
Speaker 1: we recognize that our power just doesn't come around every
Speaker 1: four every two years. It's an every year endeavor to
Speaker 1: make this project of American democracy work better than it
Speaker 1: did the day before. I hope that that's what we
Speaker 1: can take from this. I don't want to go back
Speaker 1: to normal. I don't want to go back to a
Speaker 1: time where people bury their heads in the sand and
Speaker 1: don't actively participate in the world around them. I don't
Speaker 1: want that. I want this to be a lesson to
Speaker 1: future generations jen Alpha that will vote in the next
Speaker 1: selection about the possibility that comes from collective power. I
Speaker 1: want them to look back on this election and say
Speaker 1: they fought for us, and so we will continue that fight.
Speaker 1: I'm filled with so many emotions today, as you can
Speaker 1: hear my voice cracking, because I don't know what happens,
Speaker 1: but I do know that I believe that this campaign,
Speaker 1: the Harris Walls campaign, did everything that it could possibly do.
Speaker 1: I think that they knocked on every door. I think
Speaker 1: that they spoke to every community. I think that they
Speaker 1: created plans and not just concepts, of a plan to
Speaker 1: reimagine America for all Americans. They created a very clear
Speaker 1: dichotomy between Donald Trump's American carnage and Kamala Harris's American possibility.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm encouraged right now by the lines that
Speaker 1: we are seeing for people who are voting today, I
Speaker 1: voted early for the very first time because I knew
Speaker 1: that I was going to want to spend the next
Speaker 1: several days with my family, and I'm very fortunate that
Speaker 1: I have one a family that I want to spend
Speaker 1: time with that makes me feel safe and sane, and
Speaker 1: I believe that that's what we all need right now
Speaker 1: to get through the coming weeks, because it's going to
Speaker 1: be incredibly contentious. What I saw today as I was
Speaker 1: getting ready to record were buildings in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Being boarded up as if we are anticipating some type
Speaker 1: of hurricane. And I guess, to some extent, they are
Speaker 1: trying to anticipate what we didn't anticipate in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: which was Donald Trump going to tell his followers to
Speaker 1: go and take their country back by any means necessary.
Speaker 1: I think that sadly that Washington, d C. And America
Speaker 1: is bracing themselves at this moment, and I don't want
Speaker 1: this to become our norm. This should feel outrageous that
Speaker 1: we are seeing buildings boarded up in Washington, DC as
Speaker 1: opposed to just lines of people getting ready to vote.
Speaker 1: It is a sign of the times in a very
Speaker 1: dark way, you know, America is not immune to political violence.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have had assassinations galore that have happened
Speaker 1: that have taken presidents and civil rights leaders, so we
Speaker 1: are not immune to this. But I think that what
Speaker 1: MAGA has unleashed is this kind of zero sum idea
Speaker 1: of who America is. That it isn't a place for sharing,
Speaker 1: It isn't a place for collaboration. It is winner take all,
Speaker 1: and that means stamping out your opponent. I mean listening
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump over the last week alone has been
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Listening to the things that have come out
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's mouth. If nothing else the last nine years,
Speaker 1: but the last week has just shown you the hoods
Speaker 1: are off, the hats are off. He's getting off of
Speaker 1: his plane and playing the Undertaker music, a funeral march.
Speaker 1: Is that supposed to inspire people? Is that supposed to
Speaker 1: make people want to make America great again? No, it's
Speaker 1: an intimidation tactic. I'm here, I'm coming right like a
Speaker 1: big monster that is about to take hold of this
Speaker 1: country and break it. Because that's what Donald Trump does
Speaker 1: to everything that he touches. He destroys it, whether it's
Speaker 1: people's careers, like Rudy Giuliani who continues to fucking campaign
Speaker 1: for this man who because of him, you've lost everything,
Speaker 1: but you learn nothing. Megan Kelly, who's out campaigning for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who said that she was bleeding from her wherever.
Speaker 1: These people have lost their fucking minds. It's extraordinary. My
Speaker 1: hope is that we win, and that there are case
Speaker 1: studies that are done on the brilliant and flawless campaign
Speaker 1: that Kamala Harris has run, and that we begin to
Speaker 1: build a pipeline for future generations so that she is
Speaker 1: the first but not the last. I believe, which is
Speaker 1: why I put it on my shirt, that the future
Speaker 1: is woke. Once you wake up to injustice, once you
Speaker 1: wake up to your power, you don't go back to sleep.
Speaker 1: And that has been my work here friends, for the
Speaker 1: last millennia. It is what I believe that my purpose
Speaker 1: has always been to try and educate, to try and illuminate,
Speaker 1: to try and excite and engage people. So today I
Speaker 1: hope that you are still gathered as you listen to
Speaker 1: this with family, with friends, that you are providing yourself
Speaker 1: and those around you with grace and with kindness, because
Speaker 1: we're all going through it. No one person has it
Speaker 1: harder than the next. And I think that that is
Speaker 1: the mentality that we need to have, which is what
Speaker 1: would it take to just assume the best as opposed
Speaker 1: to assume the worst in people, you know, let them
Speaker 1: show you who they are are, rather than us concocting
Speaker 1: narratives about who they are. There was a video that
Speaker 1: I saw and it was this white guy, working class guy,
Speaker 1: delivery guy, think being interviewed, white beard, blue jeans, probably
Speaker 1: looked to be, you know, in the middle age, and
Speaker 1: he was asked who he was voting for, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm voting for the future. I'm voting for Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: like I'm voting for workers' rights and workers protections. And
Speaker 1: even the reporter that asked him, right, and I think
Speaker 1: there was Don Lemon was shocked because he's like, do
Speaker 1: people assume because of how you look that like you're
Speaker 1: a Trump supporter? And he's like all the time, but
Speaker 1: I sure as hell i'm not, because I believe in
Speaker 1: this country. And that's what I want us to take away, Like,
Speaker 1: let's not assume unless you see somebody wrapped in maga
Speaker 1: regalia like that. Donald Trump hasn't shown himself to be
Speaker 1: a selfish, petty small man that other men are looking
Speaker 1: at with disdain. I saw another cartoon today as I
Speaker 1: was recording that showed a white man at a booth,
Speaker 1: you know, voting booth, and his daughter is behind him
Speaker 1: and she says, Daddy, who are you voting for? And
Speaker 1: his response was you, because that's who the vote is for.
Speaker 1: The vote isn't just about us. It is about the future.
Speaker 1: It is about future generations that should inherit a clean earth,
Speaker 1: that should inherit possibility of owning a home and a
Speaker 1: car and having work that inspires and engages them, and
Speaker 1: that they can and afford to live on. The American
Speaker 1: dream has slipped away from so many people. Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: seven trillion dollar deficit with tax breaks to the one percent,
Speaker 1: added to that burden, and sadly, if he is elected,
Speaker 1: it will get far, far, far worse. But we cannot
Speaker 1: be discouraged, We cannot be deterred. We need to rest,
Speaker 1: recharge after this cycle and get to work. The work
Speaker 1: may look different depending on who is in office, but
Speaker 1: the work needs to continue. Nonetheless. Again, dear friends, I
Speaker 1: want to thank you. I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: knocking on doors, for making phone calls, for donating. I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for showing up. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing. So many of you post these
Speaker 1: episodes and share and tweet and DM me, and it
Speaker 1: means the world. Honestly, I want you to know that
Speaker 1: the work, this work sometimes is harder, you know, some days,
Speaker 1: and less hard other days. But the past several years
Speaker 1: have been fucking difficult. But I show up because of
Speaker 1: all of you, and so whatever our future holds, just
Speaker 1: know that you are appreciated, you are seen, and I
Speaker 1: believe in your power and your commitment to a better,
Speaker 1: brighter America. Let's do this, my friends. The Danielle Moody
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Speaker 1: dear friends, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See you on
Speaker 1: the other side, Friends, be well.