1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: Before I get into some recent thoughts on Donald Trump's 4 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: fourth indictment, I want to talk about what continues to 5 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: unfold in the state of Florida. So what we need 6 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: to understand is that there are real world and real 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: life implications for all of the hateful policies measures autocratic 8 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: behavior that Ron DeSantis has been exhibiting and wielding over 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: the state of Florida. So according to Inside Higher Ed, 10 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: which if you are in higher education, that is kind 11 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: of one of your trade magazine newspapers that you read 12 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: on the latest of what is going on in higher education. 13 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: And I want to read you a piece of what 14 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: was offered up inside of this article, and this is 15 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: reposted on the Daily Beast. The New College in Florida 16 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: is in complete chaos after Ron DeSantis stage a conservative 17 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: takeover of the school earlier this year. Now with the 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: semester's start just weeks away, students are being greeted with 19 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: housing issues, canceled classes, and missing professors. Since Desanti has 20 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: appointed six new right wing trustees to the school's board. 21 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: In January, more than forty faculty members have quit The 22 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: small public college. Students are outraged as the dropped courses 23 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: are setting them back in their majors. One parent said 24 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: the school told their son to just quote, choose something else. 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: These are young adults who are not looking to fill 26 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: up a semester with high school elected. It's not like, oh, 27 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: chorus is closed, so let me just take that art class, 28 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: Danny Delaney told Inside Higher Ed. Delaney's son is transferring 29 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: to Hampshire College in Massachusetts, which extended guaranteed admission to 30 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: new college students after DeSantis' takeover. These are people's lives 31 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: that Ron desantists is fucking around with. You have all 32 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: the right to hold your right wing bullshit, conspiracy theorists 33 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: live filled misogynistic, capitalistic, driven racist ideology. What you don't 34 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: have is the right to force other people into subscribing 35 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: to your hateful shit. That is what dictators and autocrats 36 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: do you see in a democracy. Right when George W. 37 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: Bush or any of the Bushes and Reagan and others 38 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 1: were president of the United States, they didn't say at 39 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: that time that everyone then must be a Republican, everyone 40 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: must be a Christian. Everyone must do X, Y and z. 41 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: If you want to create policies that have parental advisories 42 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: on music, If you want to create policies to ensure 43 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: that young people are not going to be influenced by 44 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: pornography or actual pornography and hateful speech and all of 45 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: those things, great, go for it. But when you are 46 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: telling people that their history doesn't matter, which is our 47 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: shared history, that critical thinking is no longer allowed because 48 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: you have instituted a board of trustees in this school 49 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: that basically function like the thought police. Where do you 50 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: think that that state is going to end up? Colleges 51 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: and universities, right are laps for how we want to 52 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: change aspects of our world. It's by providing new minds 53 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: with knowledge and big questions on how they can move 54 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: in this world, how they can affect change, how they 55 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: can decide to apply their skill set to tackle some 56 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: of the world and society's biggest issues. Ron de Santis, however, 57 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: doesn't want big ideas. He doesn't want critical thought, he 58 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: doesn't want innovation. Neither does the Republican Party. They're not 59 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: interested in what the future of America looks like so 60 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: long as it somehow mirrors their heyday of the nineteen fifties, 61 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: where you could hang a black person right and not 62 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: have any laws be thrown at you, not even worried 63 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: rite about going to prison or any being seen as 64 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: a criminal, Where you could rape a woman and say, ah, 65 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: she was wearing a skirt, so that meant that she 66 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: asked for it, Where you could promote just your cronies 67 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: and just employ through nepotism, taking into account no one 68 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: else other than your golf buddies and their kids. You 69 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: see those, It's just some of the ways in which 70 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: the world has changed and shifted. America has grown and 71 00:05:51,160 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: expanded over the last fifty sixty years, and that is 72 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: what has Republicans absolutely terrified and on their authoritarian regime. Rager, 73 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: Oh my god, these people can't possibly vote because they're 74 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: thinking too much. They're thinking about the ways that we've 75 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 1: actually created no policies to make their lives any better. 76 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: Do we think that what happened on Maui was a 77 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: fucking accident that was mother nature? It wasn't. You can 78 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: tell yourself that, you can tell your shareholders that. But 79 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: the wildfires and the fucking massive hurricanes and tornadoes and 80 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: all of this extreme heat and extreme weather that we 81 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: are experiencing is not natural disasters that somehow happened because 82 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: of God. They happen because of greed and capital and deregulation. 83 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: I know that generations from now, if there are still 84 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: books around, if the planet is actually still functioning, that 85 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: the moments that we are living in will have been 86 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: those red flag moments where historians and professors will be saying, 87 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: why didn't they listen? Why didn't they heed the warnings? 88 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: The environment was changing right before their very eyes, and 89 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: they did nothing. Their political party, once in a two 90 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: party democratic system, had turned into an entire cult and 91 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: they did nothing. They had so many opportunities to stop. 92 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: But it's not as if we haven't seen these things 93 00:07:50,320 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: happen before, right McCarthyism, neo Naziism, apartheid. We have seen 94 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: what happens with absolute power. We saw what happened in 95 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: Iran a post the late seventies when the religious regime 96 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: took over. So none of this is new. It's just 97 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: using new tools to spread the same amount of lies 98 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: and hysteria to divide people, to make you think that 99 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: what you were seeing with your own eyes isn't actually 100 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: fucking happening. We know the weather systems were not like 101 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: this twenty and thirty years ago. We know that we 102 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: were not experiencing belts of triple digit temperatures affecting almost 103 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: one hundred million people at one time. We know that 104 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: that has never happened before, that every fucking summer is 105 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: the hottest summer recorded on planet Earth. But no emergency session. 106 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: We know that by the time that all is said 107 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: and done with, the accounting for of lives lost and 108 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: MAWI will probably be into the thousands. That didn't happen 109 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: because it was God's will. It happened because of failed 110 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: fucking governments. And I'm not just talking about inside of 111 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: the United States. I'm talking about around the fucking world. 112 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm talking about calling for the Paris Climate Agreement that 113 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: looks really great on paper, but no one is actually 114 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: doing the really hard work of making it happen. I'm 115 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: talking about a political part that wants to lie to 116 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: thirty percent of the country to tell them that they 117 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: can bring back coal and factory jobs. You're fucking lying. 118 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: We are living in the future. Would you like your 119 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: kids to chew the fucking air? Would you like it 120 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: to just be the norm that you know, some weeks 121 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: we stay inside for days because the air is too 122 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: fucking polluted for us to go outside. But don't you know, 123 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: react in any way. It's not a big deal. Just 124 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: slap on a mask and watch the sky turn yellow 125 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: and green. I get beside myself looking at the headlines 126 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: that are screaming at us, that are telling us to 127 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: do something, to take action. The people who can afford 128 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: to flee will for as long as they can, whether 129 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:18,479 Speaker 1: you're fleeing the authoritarian states of Florida and Texas, uprooting 130 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 1: your families and your lives to go to higher ground, right, 131 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:30,479 Speaker 1: just like people who can flee tornado valleys and hurricane 132 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: prone areas. But guess what we're running out of higher 133 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: ground and what happens then? The headlines are heartbreaking, and 134 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: we pay a lot of attention to them because they're 135 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: clickbait and because we can't get enough. We pray for 136 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: accountability as it pertains to Donald Trump and literally his 137 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 1: crime syndicate, because we think that that is going to 138 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: take us back to a place of normalcy where we 139 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: can have ease and deep breaths. Again, the same way 140 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: that we felt about COVID, which by the way, is 141 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: raging again. Hospitalizations are going back up. But we're not 142 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: going to talk about that because you know, corporate America 143 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: and the c suite at media networks and you know 144 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: Biden not wanting to have this as a talking point 145 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: for the right. But that's happening again. So just like 146 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: I was on a train the other day and I'm 147 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: sitting I'm thinking to myself, Man, I really got to 148 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: take out my masks again. I really got to retrain 149 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: myself back into protecting myself, regardless of if there is 150 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: going to be a press conference to tell me to 151 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: do so. See, that's the thing is that much like 152 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: with COVID and just trying to get back to normal 153 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: and pretend a million plus people didn't die and that 154 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: our lives and work and wasn't changed, right, there is 155 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: no going back to normal. Guys like and I I've 156 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: said this before, but there was no normal if you 157 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: weren't a white cis hetero, white evangelical Christian male. Everyone 158 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: else works with the hyphen right. And so if you 159 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: are a black person in America, you've always been treated 160 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: like a second class citizen. You've always known that government 161 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: doesn't actually work for you, that your voice and your 162 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: vote you have had to fight for every step of the way. 163 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: Now white folks in places like Ohio and Kansas and 164 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: Wisconsin are like, oh wait, it's not just the blacks 165 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: and the Latinos that they were trying to suppress, Like 166 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: I was okay with that, but now it's me first. 167 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: They come for the low hanging fruit, the folks that 168 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: have been traditionally marginalized and treated like second class citizens 169 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: and oppressed. And because we don't band together and stay together, 170 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: they just keep crying open the cracks. The goal is 171 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: to create no room for there to be cracks, for 172 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: us to be able to see that our liberation is intertwined. 173 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: It isn't just about trans people, LGBTQ people, black people, 174 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: Latino people, Asian people. It is about all of us, 175 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: all of us having the ability to breathe fresh air, 176 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: drink clean water, provide for our loved ones, build a life. 177 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: And so when one group, one party, decides that they 178 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: want to disrupt for a portion, that should be seen 179 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: as a disruption for the fucking hole. You shouldn't have 180 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: to know somebody love somebody to see that what they've 181 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: been doing is fucking wrong. So whether it is the 182 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: capitalistic driven climate change that has killed people, burned a 183 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: historic city in town to the ground, and you know 184 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. The fucking corporate vultures are gonna come 185 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: in and put up a fucking Hilton and a race 186 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: whatever history, because that's what the fuck they did in 187 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: parts of New Orleans after Katrina. We are more powerful 188 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: than we know. That is the purpose of what it 189 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: means to be and stay woke is to recognize the 190 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: connective tissue that binds us all is our shared humanity, 191 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: and by virtue of that humanity, realizing that we all 192 00:16:50,840 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: deserve to be free. So I sit here and I 193 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: want to believe that accountability will come at some point, 194 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: whether we're talking about Trump, whether we're talking about climate change, 195 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: whether we're talking about education, the economy. But accountability only 196 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: comes through actions of the collective. We're never returning to 197 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: what we once were, nor should we have a desire to, 198 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: because the goal should be to be better, even if 199 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: it's one percent better each and every day, with every 200 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: step that we take forward as individuals and as a nation. 201 00:17:53,480 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: So anybody that is selling you on the bullshit of 202 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: going backwards is a used car salesman and is somebody 203 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: that is trying to get you to give up the liberty, 204 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: the innovation, the creativity that we've gained in exchange for 205 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: some white utopia that is only good for the thirty percent. 206 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: We're better than what they're selling, We're better than what's 207 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: being done, and we're better fighting as a collective than 208 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: in our silos. What we are facing is not just 209 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: the potential of a criminal that has been brought up 210 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: on ninety one charges, impeached twice, and is a rapist 211 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: becoming president of the United States again. We're up against 212 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: an entire mindset and ideology that has thrown law and 213 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: order out the window. Alongside freedom. We are in a 214 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: collective struggle that we can only win through collective solutions. 215 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on wogay 216 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: f as always, power to the people and to all 217 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.