Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: Before I get into some recent thoughts on Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: fourth indictment, I want to talk about what continues to
Speaker 1: unfold in the state of Florida. So what we need
Speaker 1: to understand is that there are real world and real
Speaker 1: life implications for all of the hateful policies measures autocratic
Speaker 1: behavior that Ron DeSantis has been exhibiting and wielding over
Speaker 1: the state of Florida. So according to Inside Higher Ed,
Speaker 1: which if you are in higher education, that is kind
Speaker 1: of one of your trade magazine newspapers that you read
Speaker 1: on the latest of what is going on in higher education.
Speaker 1: And I want to read you a piece of what
Speaker 1: was offered up inside of this article, and this is
Speaker 1: reposted on the Daily Beast. The New College in Florida
Speaker 1: is in complete chaos after Ron DeSantis stage a conservative
Speaker 1: takeover of the school earlier this year. Now with the
Speaker 1: semester's start just weeks away, students are being greeted with
Speaker 1: housing issues, canceled classes, and missing professors. Since Desanti has
Speaker 1: appointed six new right wing trustees to the school's board.
Speaker 1: In January, more than forty faculty members have quit The
Speaker 1: small public college. Students are outraged as the dropped courses
Speaker 1: are setting them back in their majors. One parent said
Speaker 1: the school told their son to just quote, choose something else.
Speaker 1: These are young adults who are not looking to fill
Speaker 1: up a semester with high school elected. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: chorus is closed, so let me just take that art class,
Speaker 1: Danny Delaney told Inside Higher Ed. Delaney's son is transferring
Speaker 1: to Hampshire College in Massachusetts, which extended guaranteed admission to
Speaker 1: new college students after DeSantis' takeover. These are people's lives
Speaker 1: that Ron desantists is fucking around with. You have all
Speaker 1: the right to hold your right wing bullshit, conspiracy theorists
Speaker 1: live filled misogynistic, capitalistic, driven racist ideology. What you don't
Speaker 1: have is the right to force other people into subscribing
Speaker 1: to your hateful shit. That is what dictators and autocrats
Speaker 1: do you see in a democracy. Right when George W.
Speaker 1: Bush or any of the Bushes and Reagan and others
Speaker 1: were president of the United States, they didn't say at
Speaker 1: that time that everyone then must be a Republican, everyone
Speaker 1: must be a Christian. Everyone must do X, Y and z.
Speaker 1: If you want to create policies that have parental advisories
Speaker 1: on music, If you want to create policies to ensure
Speaker 1: that young people are not going to be influenced by
Speaker 1: pornography or actual pornography and hateful speech and all of
Speaker 1: those things, great, go for it. But when you are
Speaker 1: telling people that their history doesn't matter, which is our
Speaker 1: shared history, that critical thinking is no longer allowed because
Speaker 1: you have instituted a board of trustees in this school
Speaker 1: that basically function like the thought police. Where do you
Speaker 1: think that that state is going to end up? Colleges
Speaker 1: and universities, right are laps for how we want to
Speaker 1: change aspects of our world. It's by providing new minds
Speaker 1: with knowledge and big questions on how they can move
Speaker 1: in this world, how they can affect change, how they
Speaker 1: can decide to apply their skill set to tackle some
Speaker 1: of the world and society's biggest issues. Ron de Santis, however,
Speaker 1: doesn't want big ideas. He doesn't want critical thought, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want innovation. Neither does the Republican Party. They're not
Speaker 1: interested in what the future of America looks like so
Speaker 1: long as it somehow mirrors their heyday of the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: where you could hang a black person right and not
Speaker 1: have any laws be thrown at you, not even worried
Speaker 1: rite about going to prison or any being seen as
Speaker 1: a criminal, Where you could rape a woman and say, ah,
Speaker 1: she was wearing a skirt, so that meant that she
Speaker 1: asked for it, Where you could promote just your cronies
Speaker 1: and just employ through nepotism, taking into account no one
Speaker 1: else other than your golf buddies and their kids. You
Speaker 1: see those, It's just some of the ways in which
Speaker 1: the world has changed and shifted. America has grown and
Speaker 1: expanded over the last fifty sixty years, and that is
Speaker 1: what has Republicans absolutely terrified and on their authoritarian regime. Rager,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, these people can't possibly vote because they're
Speaker 1: thinking too much. They're thinking about the ways that we've
Speaker 1: actually created no policies to make their lives any better.
Speaker 1: Do we think that what happened on Maui was a
Speaker 1: fucking accident that was mother nature? It wasn't. You can
Speaker 1: tell yourself that, you can tell your shareholders that. But
Speaker 1: the wildfires and the fucking massive hurricanes and tornadoes and
Speaker 1: all of this extreme heat and extreme weather that we
Speaker 1: are experiencing is not natural disasters that somehow happened because
Speaker 1: of God. They happen because of greed and capital and deregulation.
Speaker 1: I know that generations from now, if there are still
Speaker 1: books around, if the planet is actually still functioning, that
Speaker 1: the moments that we are living in will have been
Speaker 1: those red flag moments where historians and professors will be saying,
Speaker 1: why didn't they listen? Why didn't they heed the warnings?
Speaker 1: The environment was changing right before their very eyes, and
Speaker 1: they did nothing. Their political party, once in a two
Speaker 1: party democratic system, had turned into an entire cult and
Speaker 1: they did nothing. They had so many opportunities to stop.
Speaker 1: But it's not as if we haven't seen these things
Speaker 1: happen before, right McCarthyism, neo Naziism, apartheid. We have seen
Speaker 1: what happens with absolute power. We saw what happened in
Speaker 1: Iran a post the late seventies when the religious regime
Speaker 1: took over. So none of this is new. It's just
Speaker 1: using new tools to spread the same amount of lies
Speaker 1: and hysteria to divide people, to make you think that
Speaker 1: what you were seeing with your own eyes isn't actually
Speaker 1: fucking happening. We know the weather systems were not like
Speaker 1: this twenty and thirty years ago. We know that we
Speaker 1: were not experiencing belts of triple digit temperatures affecting almost
Speaker 1: one hundred million people at one time. We know that
Speaker 1: that has never happened before, that every fucking summer is
Speaker 1: the hottest summer recorded on planet Earth. But no emergency session.
Speaker 1: We know that by the time that all is said
Speaker 1: and done with, the accounting for of lives lost and
Speaker 1: MAWI will probably be into the thousands. That didn't happen
Speaker 1: because it was God's will. It happened because of failed
Speaker 1: fucking governments. And I'm not just talking about inside of
Speaker 1: the United States. I'm talking about around the fucking world.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about calling for the Paris Climate Agreement that
Speaker 1: looks really great on paper, but no one is actually
Speaker 1: doing the really hard work of making it happen. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about a political part that wants to lie to
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the country to tell them that they
Speaker 1: can bring back coal and factory jobs. You're fucking lying.
Speaker 1: We are living in the future. Would you like your
Speaker 1: kids to chew the fucking air? Would you like it
Speaker 1: to just be the norm that you know, some weeks
Speaker 1: we stay inside for days because the air is too
Speaker 1: fucking polluted for us to go outside. But don't you know,
Speaker 1: react in any way. It's not a big deal. Just
Speaker 1: slap on a mask and watch the sky turn yellow
Speaker 1: and green. I get beside myself looking at the headlines
Speaker 1: that are screaming at us, that are telling us to
Speaker 1: do something, to take action. The people who can afford
Speaker 1: to flee will for as long as they can, whether
Speaker 1: you're fleeing the authoritarian states of Florida and Texas, uprooting
Speaker 1: your families and your lives to go to higher ground, right,
Speaker 1: just like people who can flee tornado valleys and hurricane
Speaker 1: prone areas. But guess what we're running out of higher
Speaker 1: ground and what happens then? The headlines are heartbreaking, and
Speaker 1: we pay a lot of attention to them because they're
Speaker 1: clickbait and because we can't get enough. We pray for
Speaker 1: accountability as it pertains to Donald Trump and literally his
Speaker 1: crime syndicate, because we think that that is going to
Speaker 1: take us back to a place of normalcy where we
Speaker 1: can have ease and deep breaths. Again, the same way
Speaker 1: that we felt about COVID, which by the way, is
Speaker 1: raging again. Hospitalizations are going back up. But we're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about that because you know, corporate America
Speaker 1: and the c suite at media networks and you know
Speaker 1: Biden not wanting to have this as a talking point
Speaker 1: for the right. But that's happening again. So just like
Speaker 1: I was on a train the other day and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting I'm thinking to myself, Man, I really got to
Speaker 1: take out my masks again. I really got to retrain
Speaker 1: myself back into protecting myself, regardless of if there is
Speaker 1: going to be a press conference to tell me to
Speaker 1: do so. See, that's the thing is that much like
Speaker 1: with COVID and just trying to get back to normal
Speaker 1: and pretend a million plus people didn't die and that
Speaker 1: our lives and work and wasn't changed, right, there is
Speaker 1: no going back to normal. Guys like and I I've
Speaker 1: said this before, but there was no normal if you
Speaker 1: weren't a white cis hetero, white evangelical Christian male. Everyone
Speaker 1: else works with the hyphen right. And so if you
Speaker 1: are a black person in America, you've always been treated
Speaker 1: like a second class citizen. You've always known that government
Speaker 1: doesn't actually work for you, that your voice and your
Speaker 1: vote you have had to fight for every step of the way.
Speaker 1: Now white folks in places like Ohio and Kansas and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin are like, oh wait, it's not just the blacks
Speaker 1: and the Latinos that they were trying to suppress, Like
Speaker 1: I was okay with that, but now it's me first.
Speaker 1: They come for the low hanging fruit, the folks that
Speaker 1: have been traditionally marginalized and treated like second class citizens
Speaker 1: and oppressed. And because we don't band together and stay together,
Speaker 1: they just keep crying open the cracks. The goal is
Speaker 1: to create no room for there to be cracks, for
Speaker 1: us to be able to see that our liberation is intertwined.
Speaker 1: It isn't just about trans people, LGBTQ people, black people,
Speaker 1: Latino people, Asian people. It is about all of us,
Speaker 1: all of us having the ability to breathe fresh air,
Speaker 1: drink clean water, provide for our loved ones, build a life.
Speaker 1: And so when one group, one party, decides that they
Speaker 1: want to disrupt for a portion, that should be seen
Speaker 1: as a disruption for the fucking hole. You shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to know somebody love somebody to see that what they've
Speaker 1: been doing is fucking wrong. So whether it is the
Speaker 1: capitalistic driven climate change that has killed people, burned a
Speaker 1: historic city in town to the ground, and you know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. The fucking corporate vultures are gonna come
Speaker 1: in and put up a fucking Hilton and a race
Speaker 1: whatever history, because that's what the fuck they did in
Speaker 1: parts of New Orleans after Katrina. We are more powerful
Speaker 1: than we know. That is the purpose of what it
Speaker 1: means to be and stay woke is to recognize the
Speaker 1: connective tissue that binds us all is our shared humanity,
Speaker 1: and by virtue of that humanity, realizing that we all
Speaker 1: deserve to be free. So I sit here and I
Speaker 1: want to believe that accountability will come at some point,
Speaker 1: whether we're talking about Trump, whether we're talking about climate change,
Speaker 1: whether we're talking about education, the economy. But accountability only
Speaker 1: comes through actions of the collective. We're never returning to
Speaker 1: what we once were, nor should we have a desire to,
Speaker 1: because the goal should be to be better, even if
Speaker 1: it's one percent better each and every day, with every
Speaker 1: step that we take forward as individuals and as a nation.
Speaker 1: So anybody that is selling you on the bullshit of
Speaker 1: going backwards is a used car salesman and is somebody
Speaker 1: that is trying to get you to give up the liberty,
Speaker 1: the innovation, the creativity that we've gained in exchange for
Speaker 1: some white utopia that is only good for the thirty percent.
Speaker 1: We're better than what they're selling, We're better than what's
Speaker 1: being done, and we're better fighting as a collective than
Speaker 1: in our silos. What we are facing is not just
Speaker 1: the potential of a criminal that has been brought up
Speaker 1: on ninety one charges, impeached twice, and is a rapist
Speaker 1: becoming president of the United States again. We're up against
Speaker 1: an entire mindset and ideology that has thrown law and
Speaker 1: order out the window. Alongside freedom. We are in a
Speaker 1: collective struggle that we can only win through collective solutions.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on wogay
Speaker 1: f as always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.