1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok ap Daily with 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: I don't even know where to begin on this good Tuesday, 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: but let me tell you that it is the beginning. 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: Of the week and I am at my WIT's fucking end. 6 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: If you follow me on TikTok Underscore Danielle Moody you know, 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: or Danielle Moody Underscore. 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 2: Either way you can follow me and find me. 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: I posted you videos on Monday because. 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 2: I woke up after the weekend after learning of the. 11 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: Killing of three black people in Jacksonville by a white supremis. 12 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: I he woke up to video of Rohnda Santas having 13 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: the fucking audacity, the fucking audacity to show up at 14 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: a vigil for those three black souls that were lost, 15 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: that were put together by black officials in Jacksonville, Florida, 16 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: and had the audacity to show up there with his 17 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: fucking Barbie white supremaist Karen AS's wife and sit among 18 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: a black community whose contributions, lives and voices he is 19 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: trying to erase and silence in that state. To sit 20 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: there with the fucking audacity after removing duly elected prosecutors 21 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: from their jobs because they are black, right, and thinking 22 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: that putting one black person out and putting another black 23 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: face in but for white supremacy, then there should be 24 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: no uproar because there is no difference he sees in 25 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: us to sit there. And I am so grateful for 26 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: the people who booed him, because that man should have 27 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: never been welcomed, He should have never been given a 28 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: microphone to speak. His very fucking presence is an insult 29 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: to those people's lives that were taken by a white 30 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: supremacist who is hopped on the fucking rhetoric and the 31 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: lies and the policies that are being driven by that 32 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: very fucking man and the entirety of the Republican Party 33 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: that is backing him. I want folks to really crystallize 34 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: where we are right now, and there is a peace 35 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: that I have posted that I want every single person 36 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: who listens to me to read this piece and to 37 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: share it, share it on social media, Text it to 38 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: your family and friends, put it up in your WhatsApp 39 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: chat groups, spread it widely. And it is an article 40 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: in The Inquirer by Will Bunch that was written on Sunday, 41 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: and I've done a video on it, I've posted it 42 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: in my stories, and I want you to understand because 43 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: what he crystallizes is where we are as a country 44 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: and how journalism continues to fail us spectacularly having learned 45 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: absolutely fucking nothing, and frankly, they are going to fuck 46 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: themselves out of a job as well as fuck our democracy. 47 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: This is what will Bunch says in this piece that 48 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: you can find at The inn Quirer William Bunch, and 49 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: the article is entitled Journalism fails miserably at explaining what 50 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: is really happening to America momentous week of GOP debate, 51 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: Trump's arrest gets horse race coverage when the story's not 52 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: about an election but authoritarianism. I want to give you 53 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: a couple of snippets from this piece, and then again 54 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: I encourage every single person listening to this to read 55 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: it in its entirety, to download it, to share it 56 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: on your own platforms, in your track groups, with your friends, 57 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: with your families, especially those that are Trumper's and maga. 58 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: He says this. They stood at an arena stage in 59 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: Milwaukee under a massive sign that read democracy the metaphorical 60 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: a high undred pound gorilla that loomed over this stage 61 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: political event, but was never really discussed when the dust 62 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: finally settled after two hours of the first televised debate 63 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four GOP primaries, nothing from the 64 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: rude kid's table outbursts from the impertinent Vivek Ramaswami to 65 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: the doomed efforts by Nikki Haley or Mike Pence to 66 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: be the quote grown ups in the room actually mattered 67 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: inside the airy thiser forum except for one thing. All 68 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: those not so wonderful people out there in the dark, 69 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: a mob that raged and witch ultimately ruled this audience, 70 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: seemed to only care about the man who wasn't there, 71 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who was too busy refueling his private jet 72 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: for his next arrest to bother attending. The restive crowd 73 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: reached its peak when its bete noir, the anti Trump 74 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: turnco Chris Christie dared try to challenge Ramaswami's outburst that 75 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: Potis forty five was quote the best president of the 76 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: twenty first century. It filled the basketball arena with booze. 77 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: The pro Trump ruckus was such that Fox News co 78 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: anchors Brett bhar and Martha McCollum dramatically turned around to 79 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 1: face the audience, So listen, Behar said, the more time 80 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: we spend doing this, the less time they can talk 81 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 1: about the issues you want to talk about. 82 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: Lol. 83 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 1: As the night dragged on, the only issues the crowd 84 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: seemed just about were brash challenges to scientific truths that 85 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: it considers elite liberal pieties like Ramasami's false claim that 86 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: climate change solutions have killed more people than climate change, 87 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: or authoritarian vows of violence like Ron DeSantis's promise to 88 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: render any drug dealers at the border Stone cold dead. 89 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: None of the eight people on the stage one only Trump, 90 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: his angry mob and a twenty first century brand of 91 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: American feats fascism that is the enemy of democracy. The 92 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: writing on the wall, folks. I want to pause there 93 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: because I generally do coverage of debates, election knights, and 94 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: all of the pomp and circumstance that lead up to 95 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: us going to the ballot box. I usually do specials 96 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: or you know, will do a ig live on said debate. 97 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: I didn't do any of those things with regard to 98 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: the Republican farce that was Milwaukee, and the reason being 99 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: because I'm not going to use my platform, my microphone 100 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: to amplify white supremacy. There was not a person on 101 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: that stage that is not how bent on American fascism. 102 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: There is not a person and on that stage that 103 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: believes in the rule of law, a democracy. Every single 104 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: person on that stage, whether or not they are Chris Christi, 105 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: who is trying to call out now Donald Trump, after 106 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: having fucking carried that man's water and being a punching 107 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: bag for him, now all of a sudden got woke, 108 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: got caught the fucking spirit and realized that the man 109 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: is nothing more than a fraud. Every single one of 110 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: them will do exactly what Donald Trump has done, if 111 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: not worse, because they actually understand the interworkings of our 112 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: political system and our judicial system. Every single person on 113 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: that stage is a violent threat to American democracy. And 114 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: there is not one person, not that those fucking Fox 115 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: News moderators, or any goddamn journalist that is sat down 116 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: with the vek Ramaswami or is sat down with Ron 117 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: de Santis, that is pointedly asking them questions about the 118 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: policies that they areioning in their state and on these 119 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: stages that go against the very fabric that formed America 120 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: in the first goddamn place. Not one fucking journalist. They 121 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: all are doing puff pieces and these bullshit both sides 122 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: ism as if oh, it's tribalism on both sides. 123 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: No it is not. 124 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: You have one party that is fighting for dear life 125 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: to hold onto democracy, and you have another that is 126 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: biting tooth and nail to destroy it, aid it, and 127 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: abedded by an entire media apparatus that sees money in 128 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: the opportunity to continue to push their white supremacist talking 129 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: points and values onto us and mainstream them. This piece 130 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: by Will Bunch gets to the heart and actually calls 131 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: out names. He goes on to write this, if you 132 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: watch the ap hours of TV news coverage during and 133 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: especially momentous week in August, there was little sense that reality, 134 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: and for long stretches of pundit blather none at all, 135 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: as talking heads gave ernest high school debating marks to 136 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: candidates who were all but ignored by the GOP voter base. 137 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: The disconnect deepened the next night as Trump turned what 138 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: would surely be his come upp ince his surrender at 139 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: Atlanta's bug infested County jail for fingerprinting and a mugshot 140 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: into an outlaw display of authoritarian force. It was a 141 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: remarkable night of imagery over substance, Yet there was little 142 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: discussion of why this accused felon was getting a phalanx 143 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: of dozens of motor cycle cops, comprising police who were 144 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: drawn to Trump's authoritarian bluster like moths to the light. 145 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: Trump's glowering mugshot instantly became the most talked about picture 146 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: in American history. Yet not one pundit was able to 147 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: explain why tens of millions of everyday voters are so 148 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: eager to turn the White House to this man who 149 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: attempted a coup on January sixth, twenty twenty one, or 150 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: why his poll numbers rise with each indictment. I guess 151 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: the twentieth century author and socialist Upton Sinclair really nailed 152 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: it when he wrote, it is difficult to get a 153 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: man to understand something when his salary depends on his 154 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: not understanding it. Let me say that again, this quote 155 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: by Upton Sinclair quote, it is difficult to get a 156 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: man to understand something when his salary depends on his 157 00:11:47,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: not understanding it. Those journalists in mainstream media at these 158 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 1: large networks outside right of a few make their money 159 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: and their living off of perpetuating bullshit. Oh, let me 160 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: talk to you about how Nicki Haley scored points. Nicki 161 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: Haley is a fucking liar. Nicki Haley is a transphobe. 162 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: That is actual facts, because when she was at her 163 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: CNN town hall debate, she made it a point to 164 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: turn trans girls children into a target. But you have 165 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: mainstream media reporters and I use quotation marks saying oh, 166 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: but I have to report the facts, Then report the 167 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: fucking facts. The facts are that Ron de Santis is 168 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: instituting policies that are anti democratic. Ron de Santis is 169 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: kicking out duly elected prosecutors from their job so that 170 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: he can install his own goons. Greg Gabbott is doing 171 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: the same, Glenn Youngkin doing the same. Every single Republican 172 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: that is running for office is talking about all of 173 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: the ways that they can thwart American democracy and the 174 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: people's voice and vote. That is actual news. So when 175 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: they tell you that, oh, well, we have to report 176 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: the facts, they are picking and choosing what facts that 177 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 1: they want to report and then looking so hard to say, oh, well, 178 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: look if if Clarence Thomas has a billionaire benefactor, and 179 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: he's the one that is changing the laws for our country. Sonya, 180 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: such a mayor sold some books? 181 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: What the fuck? 182 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: Those two things are not the same? Oh, Donald Trump 183 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: has a mugshot that now Fox and the rest of 184 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: them are trying to say makes him an icon and 185 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: a hero. And they're literally posting up his mugshot against 186 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King. One of those people is a fucking 187 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: criminal who has done everything to enrich himself and thwart democracy, 188 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: while the other was jailed to fight against unjust laws 189 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: that were put in place to suppress and subjugate black 190 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: people in this country. Those two mugshots are not the 191 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: fucking same. You have people marching in a pandemic for 192 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: black lives matter and for black people having a right 193 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: to exist, and you have teaky torch marchers down in Charlottesville, 194 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: Virginia talking about Jews will not replace me. Those two 195 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: marches are not the fucking safe. But the media, what 196 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: have you believe that they are? And what Will Bunch 197 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: lays out in this piece is that yeah, they're actually not. 198 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: And he goes on in his piece to say this again, 199 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: Will Bunch for the Inquirer America is entering its most 200 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: important pivotal year since eighteen sixty, and the US media 201 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: is doing a terrible job explaining what is actually happening. 202 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: Too many of us, with our high falutint polycide degrees 203 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: and our dog eared copies of the late Richard ben 204 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: Kramer's What It Takes, are still covering elections like it 205 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: was the twentieth century, as if the old touchstones like 206 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: debates or a thirty second spot still matter. What we 207 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: are building toward on November fifth, twenty twenty four might 208 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: have the outward trappings of an election, but it is 209 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: really a show of force. What we call the Republican 210 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: Party is barely a political party in any sense of 211 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: the word, but a dangerous anti social movement that has 212 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: embraced many of the tenants of fascism, from calls for 213 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: violence to its dehumanizing of others, from desperate refugees at 214 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: the border to transgender youth. There is, in reality, no 215 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four primary, because this movement embraced its infallible 216 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: strong man in Trump eight years ago, and there is 217 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: no quote Trump's scandal, because for them, each new crime 218 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: or sexual assault is merely another indictment of the messenger, 219 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: the arrogant elites, from whom their contempt is the number 220 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: one issue. These foot soldiers stopped believing in democracy a 221 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: long time ago, no matter how big an Orwellian sign 222 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Fox News erects. If you watch enough not Fox cable 223 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: TV News, you'll occasionally see an expert on fascism like 224 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: NYU's Ruth ben Giat or Yale's Timothy Snyder explaining the 225 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: roots of the American authoritarianism. Or you can read a 226 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,959 Speaker 1: piece like Margaret Sullivan's Guardian take on the fascist appeal 227 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: of Trump Clone Ramaswami. But then it's back to your 228 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: regular scheduled programming, including a desperate desire to frame today's 229 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: clash in the context of long lost twentieth century democratic 230 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: norms and to blame any transgressions on a mysterious quote tribalism. 231 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: That quote plagues both sides. This is it, folks, This 232 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: is the They are there, the root of the route, 233 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: the source of where we are. We have been lulled 234 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: into this place that America and our democracy can survive anything, 235 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: that with each decade we get better and we bend 236 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: the arc. The Republican Party has taken a fucking jack 237 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: hammer to that arc and they are drilling. Drill, baby, drill, 238 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: That's what the fuck they are doing. And the mainstream 239 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: media is so hell bent on Joe Biden's age and 240 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: on trying to have this perception of equity when there 241 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: isn't equity, and what the Democrats are trying to do 242 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: in America and what the Republicans are doing to America. 243 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: I implore you to read this piece, to read it, 244 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: to share it, to really absorb it. We are not safe, folks, 245 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: And if, by the grace of God, we are able 246 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: to make it to twenty twenty five and Joe Biden 247 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: actually wins, you have to understand that we are still 248 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: not safe. Republicans in their current form cannot should not 249 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: be allowed to hold any office in this country. If 250 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: we are, by the grace given another four years, that 251 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice must must if given that rare 252 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: opportunity that we skid by holding democracy on with our 253 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: fingernails in twenty twenty four, the Department of Justice has 254 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: got to root out every single Republican bad actor and 255 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: excavate this party from this country. I believe in a 256 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: multi party system, I believe in democracy, but we do 257 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: not have democracy when the other party is a white supremist, fascist, 258 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: white evangelical Christian juggernaut. That's not what we have. It 259 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: is up to all of us to wake the fuck 260 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: up and to wake up everybody around us, until you 261 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 1: are horse, until your face is blue, until you have 262 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: no more energy left to give. We cannot, folks stop 263 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: fighting for this country because they are not resting. They 264 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: are just getting started. And it is coming from every 265 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: fucking direction. The lies, the criminality, sects don't matter, science 266 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Democracy does not matter to these people. Thirty 267 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: percent of the country is willing to have an authoritarian 268 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: regime so long as white people are favorite. That's where 269 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: the fuck we are. That is not hyperbolic. Look around, 270 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: look at the last several mass shootings that have happened 271 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: in this place at the hands of white supremacists. So, 272 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: whether they are shooting up a synagogue, whether they are 273 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: shooting up a black supermarket in Buffalo, whether they are 274 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: shooting up a dollar store in Jacksonville, whether they are 275 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: shooting up women write Latino people out of Walmart, they 276 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: are coming in drobes, being egged on. I want to 277 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: end with this from Will Bunch's article, He concludes his 278 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: piece with this, these are the stakes dueling visions for America, 279 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: not democratic or republican with parades and red, white, and 280 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: blue balloons, but brutal fascists or flawed democracy. The news 281 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: media needs to stop with the horse race coverage of 282 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: this modern day march on Rome, stop digging incessantly for 283 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,479 Speaker 1: proof that both sides are guilty of the same sins, 284 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: and stop thinking that a war for the imperiled survival 285 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: of the American experiment is some kind of inexplicable tribalism. 286 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: We need to hear from more experts on authoritarian movements 287 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: and fewer polsters and political strategists. We need journalists who'll 288 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: talk a lot less about who's up or down and 289 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: a lot more about the stakes, including Trump's plans to 290 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: dismantle the democratic norms that he calls the administrative state, 291 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: to weaponize the criminal justice system, and to surrender the 292 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: war against climate change if the forty fifth president becomes 293 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: the forty seventh. We need the media to see twenty 294 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: twenty four not as a traditional election, but as an 295 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: effort to mobilize a mass movement that would undo democracy 296 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: and splatter America with more blood like what was shed 297 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: Saturday in Jacksonville. We need to understand that if the 298 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: next fifteen months remained the worst covered election in US history, 299 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: that it might be our last. 300 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: Folks. 301 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: The pieces up right now at the Inquirer by Will Bunch. 302 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: It is entitled Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is 303 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: really happening to America. Please don't walk, run to go 304 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: and read it. That is it for me today, Dear 305 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: friends on woke ASA as always, power to the people 306 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: and to all the people. 307 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 2: Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.