Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ook f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: My god, what a difference so we make. I am
Speaker 1: recording this back from a few days off, and I
Speaker 1: have to tell you that feeling recharged, re energized, hopeful,
Speaker 1: these things cannot go unsaid as to being important when
Speaker 1: we're trying to, you know, save our democracy in our country.
Speaker 1: I thought for a while that just talking about the
Speaker 1: consequential nature of the presidential election, talking about all of
Speaker 1: the bad things that Donald Trump and the Republicans are
Speaker 1: set to do if in fact they regain power, was
Speaker 1: going to be enough that fear was going to be
Speaker 1: a great motivator. And what I've realized since the seismic
Speaker 1: shift of Joe Biden stepping aside and making way for
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris is extraordinary. People need hope. People
Speaker 1: need not just to feel like, oh I want to
Speaker 1: go and have a beer with said candidate, but they
Speaker 1: need to feel inspired. And it is harder to invoke
Speaker 1: inspiration than it is to invoke fear. For better or worse,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been a master at inspiring his cult
Speaker 1: into doing some of the most ridiculous shit, like wearing diapers,
Speaker 1: like putting on huge maxipads on their ears during convention,
Speaker 1: like buying his gold sneakers, or his version of the Bible.
Speaker 1: He has been a master at the grift and making
Speaker 1: himself the avatar for their grievances, for all the ways
Speaker 1: in which America has done them wrong, because we're no
Speaker 1: longer centering and I should say this that it's still
Speaker 1: really not true, but in their minds, it is that
Speaker 1: we're no longer centering whiteness and maleness as the default
Speaker 1: in our society. That we have made considerable advances towards
Speaker 1: creating more space and room at the table for other people,
Speaker 1: that through laws passed around bodily autonomy, around financial independence
Speaker 1: for women in particular, That there has been shifts in
Speaker 1: this country over the last fifty years. Now, while all
Speaker 1: of us look at that and we say, wow, look
Speaker 1: how far America has come, Republicans look at that and
Speaker 1: they say, oh my god, look how far America has
Speaker 1: strayed from its white, Christian centered values. What I am
Speaker 1: loving right now is something that is so fucking small,
Speaker 1: and in hindsight, you're just like, this is what it
Speaker 1: took is that Republicans are finally being labeled as weird,
Speaker 1: not crazy. I am happy to use that term, but
Speaker 1: it's also you know, offensive to some, but weird. Your
Speaker 1: preoccupation with women's uteruses, with cat ladies with no fault divorce.
Speaker 1: It's weird. The behavior is odd, right, Donald Trump hugging
Speaker 1: a flag, as Shapiro points out, He's like, I love
Speaker 1: the flag, but I'm not gonna like march over to
Speaker 1: it and like and hug it. That's weird behavior. And so,
Speaker 1: according to ABC News, the quote weird message appears to
Speaker 1: have given Democrats a narrative advantage they rarely had when
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden was still running for reelection. Trump's campaign,
Speaker 1: which so often shapes political discussions with the former president's pronouncements,
Speaker 1: has spent days trying to flip the script by highlighting
Speaker 1: things about the Democrats it says are weird. And you know,
Speaker 1: many people are saying, it is incredible that the Trump
Speaker 1: vance team and ticket have been finding it almost impossible
Speaker 1: to come up with a credible response because they tried
Speaker 1: to say, oh, the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: laughs and has joy is somehow weird. Really, I think
Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump has been on the political
Speaker 1: scene for over a decade and we've actually never seen
Speaker 1: him laugh, unless, of course, he is poking fun at, belittling,
Speaker 1: dehumanizing other people, then maybe he'll give off some type
Speaker 1: of sinister, you know, cartoon villain type of laugh. But
Speaker 1: this is not a party that has anything to do
Speaker 1: with joy. We watch that at the RNC. So when
Speaker 1: you are gonna juxtapose that between visions and memes of
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris, you know, enjoying conversations with children,
Speaker 1: marching in college bands, being at the LGBTQ parade, just
Speaker 1: like enjoying people and laughing. They think that that's weird.
Speaker 1: But JD. Van's talking about the fact that people who
Speaker 1: don't have children shouldn't have the same amount of rights
Speaker 1: and pay more taxes and that's supposed to be some
Speaker 1: normal shit and doubling and tripling down on it. Or
Speaker 1: how about most recently, Donald Trump being interviewed by that
Speaker 1: Ingram person right over at Fox and she's trying to
Speaker 1: clear up for him the fact that he told Christians
Speaker 1: that if they vote in this election, that they'll never
Speaker 1: have to vote again. And she says to him in
Speaker 1: the interview, trying to force feed him the right lines
Speaker 1: so that he doesn't seem like the dictator that he is.
Speaker 1: She says, well, you know, the left is trying to
Speaker 1: make it seem as if you know, there's never going
Speaker 1: to be another election again. So can you clarify what
Speaker 1: it is you said to the group of Christians that
Speaker 1: you were speaking in front of. Donald Trump goes off
Speaker 1: on one of his Trumpian fucking tangents and says exactly
Speaker 1: what he said in front of those Christians, Well, Christians
Speaker 1: don't really vote life. That they need to understand that
Speaker 1: they don't really vote, and that if they vote this time, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not going to have to vote again because everything's
Speaker 1: going to need to be fixed and they won't have
Speaker 1: to worry about voting. What have you ever heard a
Speaker 1: former president or a candidate for president ever talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that people won't need to vote ever again.
Speaker 1: That isn't something that democracies or somebody that believes in
Speaker 1: democracy utters. So Ingram tries to redirect him again and
Speaker 1: again he's like, nah, I got this and continues on
Speaker 1: with the same bullshit rhetoric of being a dictator. That
Speaker 1: shit is weird. When you're rambling about Hannibal Lecter as
Speaker 1: if that's a real person as opposed to a character
Speaker 1: from Silence of the Lambs, that shit is weird. So
Speaker 1: the fact is that it's taken this revival of energy
Speaker 1: with a new candidate for Democrats to somehow find their messaging.
Speaker 1: Now we are less than one hundred days away from
Speaker 1: this election, and it looks as if we've gotten some spirit,
Speaker 1: some hoot spot, if you will, in our ability to
Speaker 1: take on Republicans and meet them where we are. Because
Speaker 1: the thing is, we're not trying to name call in
Speaker 1: the way that let's say, Tennessee representatives are trying to
Speaker 1: call Kamala Harris everything outside of her fucking name, whether
Speaker 1: it's colored, whether it's ding dong, whether it's not that smart,
Speaker 1: not that bright, blah blah blah blah blah. All they
Speaker 1: are doing with this continued line of name calling and
Speaker 1: race baiting is doing Democrats a job for them. Even
Speaker 1: on Fox you have anchor saying, well, do you think
Speaker 1: that this kind of name calling is going to actually
Speaker 1: bring people in? And they don't care because they all
Speaker 1: think that they can somehow model Donald Trump, and that's
Speaker 1: going to mean winning for them, folks. It doesn't. It
Speaker 1: won't because the only person who apparently can have that
Speaker 1: kind of deep character flaw and still continue to rise
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. Everybody else that's tried to impersonate him loses.
Speaker 1: So I love the direction that this campaign is taking.
Speaker 1: And it's only been a little over a week that
Speaker 1: we've had this seismic shift. But the fact is that
Speaker 1: the campag can feels younger, fresher, and revitalized in ways
Speaker 1: that seem very much in touch with social media and
Speaker 1: like culture and are being able to activate and energize
Speaker 1: people across age spectrums because we are seeing things that
Speaker 1: we've never seen before. There's a town in Florida. It's
Speaker 1: called the Villages, and it's like some retirement village I
Speaker 1: believe for like very old, wealthy white folks, and they
Speaker 1: like drive around in golf carts, and I feel like
Speaker 1: it became really popularized like these folks, because they became
Speaker 1: like uber Trumpers. Well, most recently, these golf cart having
Speaker 1: folks organized a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Over
Speaker 1: the course of a week and a half, we have
Speaker 1: seen calls that began with we win with black women
Speaker 1: to we win with black men, to white women answer
Speaker 1: the call, to Southeast Asians, to Indians to now you
Speaker 1: have the Latino call coming up. The white Dudes call happened,
Speaker 1: and Elon Musk was so upset with the White Dudes
Speaker 1: call and the fact that they were bringing in over
Speaker 1: three million dollars that he suspended their Twitter account during
Speaker 1: their call and the hashtag because that's how fucking scared
Speaker 1: these people are, because you know, they are getting into formation.
Speaker 1: Every single group is getting into formation behind Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Why because they don't want fascism. So whether
Speaker 1: it's disabled voters for Kamala, right, cat ladies for Kamala,
Speaker 1: white dudes, white women united for Kamala, women united for like,
Speaker 1: all of this is coming together because guess what we
Speaker 1: all agree on now. Democracy is on the ballot, which
Speaker 1: it's been, but we actually feel like we can do
Speaker 1: something about it because we feel like we have a
Speaker 1: candidate that we can get behind. And folks, I will
Speaker 1: say this, Look, you know, back in twenty twenty I
Speaker 1: didn't want Joe Biden, but I also in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four didn't want Joe Biden to step aside because I
Speaker 1: was like, unless they are going to unify behind Vice
Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris, I want no parts of it. I
Speaker 1: want no parts of a fucking open primary at convention
Speaker 1: that will be a fucking disaster and ensure that trumps
Speaker 1: and wins. But for once, holy shit, they listened and
Speaker 1: Joe Biden set the fucking tone from the moment jump
Speaker 1: and said, oh no, Vice President Harris, that's our girl,
Speaker 1: and that's who we're getting behind, and everyone fell in line.
Speaker 1: We've never seen Democrats do that. So now here we
Speaker 1: are where the messaging is like, Okay, Republicans are weird.
Speaker 1: Run with that shit, do what you may, and guess what,
Speaker 1: it's not that hard. It really is not that hard,
Speaker 1: because Wow, some of the shit that comes out of
Speaker 1: these people's mouths is just wild. Right, it's wild, and
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous and it's dangerous. But to say that it
Speaker 1: is weird and have that stick, it's absolutely fucking brilliant.
Speaker 1: Here is some other thoughts on this. It said many
Speaker 1: Democrats comments appear to be allusions to a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one interview with Vans in which he slamms some prominent
Speaker 1: This is again coming from ABC News. Some prominent Democrats
Speaker 1: without biological children, including Harris as childless cat ladies with
Speaker 1: no direct still in America. Because again, this is what
Speaker 1: they think. This is not just a JD vance off
Speaker 1: on the Fringes commentary. Their policies align with the rhetoric
Speaker 1: that is coming out of his mouth. But they go
Speaker 1: on to say, but Harris's own characterization of Trump as
Speaker 1: weird may date back even further. In his twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one book, political reporter Edward Isaac Dover wrote that Harris
Speaker 1: reportedly gathered with AIDS in twenty eighteen to prepare for
Speaker 1: her own presidential bid. As staff aimed to prepare her
Speaker 1: for how she'd react if during a debate Trump stood
Speaker 1: over her, as he did Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Harris reportedly equipped, I turn around and say,
Speaker 1: why are you being so weird? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: So while the right decides to melt down over this
Speaker 1: like this is just it, you don't have to really
Speaker 1: dig that deep for people that are as deep as
Speaker 1: a puddle. Do you know what I'm saying. I feel
Speaker 1: like Democrats have been overworking themselves over the past ten
Speaker 1: years to try and distinguish themselves from an ideological makeup
Speaker 1: that is in fact, just fucking weird. It is handmaid's
Speaker 1: tail weird. It is nineteenth century weird. When you're pulling
Speaker 1: up and digging for policies that were passed in the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century in the twenty first century, yeah, that shit
Speaker 1: is weird. So here we are where in I believe
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days, I think what some
Speaker 1: are looking at is around August seventh for the campaign
Speaker 1: to name a running mate as we head into convention
Speaker 1: at the end of August, and you know, many people
Speaker 1: have weighed in. I've weighed in in terms of like
Speaker 1: who makes the most sense. I think that it is
Speaker 1: obviously going to be a white man. I think that
Speaker 1: it is obviously probably going to be someone from a
Speaker 1: battleground state, which makes sense. I stand on the fact
Speaker 1: that I do not think that it should be Shapiro,
Speaker 1: only for the reason that we need him to hold
Speaker 1: down Pennsylvania and be a very staunch surrogate and advocate.
Speaker 1: But he needs to hold down the state during this
Speaker 1: critical election. We cannot just hand that over, so I
Speaker 1: take him out of it. I think that Kelly Mark
Speaker 1: Kelly in Arizona is an interesting pick. I think that
Speaker 1: for his astronaut background, as military background, his gun reform background,
Speaker 1: I think that he is a good candidate. Other folks
Speaker 1: are looking at Waltz and Basher, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that we gain anything with Basher. Waltz is an interesting one.
Speaker 1: Governor of Minnesota, another important state. He has won multiple
Speaker 1: times when he was a member of Congress in a
Speaker 1: rural red district. So I think that that adds a
Speaker 1: lot of flair into this campaign. Rural red in comparison
Speaker 1: to the liberal from California. So you have to look
Speaker 1: at this ticket. And I disagree with some folks that say, oh,
Speaker 1: vice presidents don't matter. Is that right? Tell that to
Speaker 1: John McCain and Sarah Palin. It absolutely does matter. Tell
Speaker 1: that to Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: needed white evangelicals who weren't trying to fuck with him, right,
Speaker 1: And then so you get this weirdo Mike Pence, whose
Speaker 1: staunch religious zealot to be on your ticket. I think
Speaker 1: that tickets matter. Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Barack Obama
Speaker 1: was in the Senate for a hot minute before he
Speaker 1: ran for president. He needed someone with the wisdom and
Speaker 1: with the sensibility and with the favor that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: could bring in for him. So that vice presidential pick mattered,
Speaker 1: and I think that this one does too. So I
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of things to weigh in
Speaker 1: about what would propel this ticket, which has gained so
Speaker 1: much energy in such a short time. You don't want
Speaker 1: to do anything that is going to be a drag
Speaker 1: on the ticket when we need as much momentum to
Speaker 1: continue to propel us into early voting, which starts in
Speaker 1: some places folks in September. We're heading into August, right
Speaker 1: when convention is over, which is starting I think like
Speaker 1: August nineteenth or twentieth, right and goes during that week
Speaker 1: we're coming out. You blink, it's Labor Day. You blink again,
Speaker 1: and early voting starts in some states. So election is underway,
Speaker 1: Like we're waiting on November fifth for probably I was
Speaker 1: going to say the results, but we know we're not
Speaker 1: getting results on Member fifth. I think it's important for
Speaker 1: us to acknowledge that the choice is going to matter,
Speaker 1: as well as all of the surrogates that are getting
Speaker 1: out there, all of the organizing that is happening from
Speaker 1: the grassroots, all of the money that is being raised,
Speaker 1: and as Vice President Kamala Harris is saying, this is
Speaker 1: a people run campaign, it is people engineered, and she
Speaker 1: says that her administration is going to be people centered
Speaker 1: and people focused. So this is why you are seeing
Speaker 1: Republicans just grasping at straws trying to figure out their
Speaker 1: path forward because their entire campaign was built around Joe
Speaker 1: Biden being too old. You subtract Joe Biden from the scenario,
Speaker 1: and now they don't know what to do because, like
Speaker 1: Joy Reid said recently on Twitter, I wish that her
Speaker 1: colleagues in the media would have the same fucking energy
Speaker 1: around Trump's age now being the oldest person to run
Speaker 1: for the presidency that they did around Joe Biden, because
Speaker 1: those issues still remain, but now it's just not on
Speaker 1: the Democrats side. So we'll see. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen all of the barrage of stories now,
Speaker 1: you know, pivoting to how old Donald Trump is and
Speaker 1: how he seems to be in cognitive decline, you know,
Speaker 1: because Hannibal Lecter and all, and that's just like the
Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. I'm gonna leave it there today,
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