1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: I looked at an article in the New York Times 4 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: entitled Democrats Don't have an easy way out, and you 5 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: know the subject matter this is written by Thomas Edsel, 6 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: is about how the Democratic Party, which finds itself in 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: quote unquote shambles, figures out how to bring the working 8 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: class back into the party following Donald Trump's win with 9 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: the working class. And I got to tell you that 10 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: article like this, as well as watching clips of former 11 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton on the View talking about what Democrats 12 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: need to do, get on my fucking nerves because it 13 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: is the same circle jerk bullshit that they do every 14 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: time they lose. How do we go chase down white 15 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: people and bring them back into our party, a party 16 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: that they have not been a part of since the 17 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: Civil rights movement? And the way in which writers use 18 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: the word the phrasing working class as if we don't 19 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: know that they're talking about white people. Bill Clinton on 20 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: the View said, well, we have to understand that those 21 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: rural voters are more conservative. People in rural areasm more 22 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: concernedervative so we use conservative as a euphemism for racists. 23 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: Oh well, the Democrats, they were too busy chasing the 24 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: cultural elites. You mean, those that see the world as 25 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 1: a place for inclusivity and diversity. I am so tired 26 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: of corporate mainstream media tapping the very same fucking old 27 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: white men to tell us what needs to be done 28 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: with this country that is becoming more diverse by the day. 29 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: The Democrats lost, frankly because seven million people sat home 30 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: because they were uninspired by either party. The conversation is 31 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: not about, oh, how do we convince white rural Americans 32 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: that they're with the wrong party. I say, fuck around 33 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: and find out. As Donald Trump appoints more billionaires to 34 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: positions of power than they already have, they will see 35 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: the truth. They will feel it. Because LBJ said it best. 36 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: Lbjy's quote about picking a man's pockets right, is the 37 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: most on point quote I've ever heard in my life. 38 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Because it doesn't matter when he said it, because it 39 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: still resonates today. Here is the quote. If you can 40 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: convince the lowest white man he is better than the 41 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: best colored man, he won't notice your picking his pocket. Hell, 42 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty 43 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: his pockets for you. These are the same people who 44 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: will swear up and down make testimony about Donald Trump's 45 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: wealth and his business acumen while buying his cheap sneakers 46 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: and his Chinese made Bibles because they got to support 47 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: their man. You are never going to convince these people 48 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump ain't their guy. And it has nothing 49 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: to do with economics. It has everything to do with racism. 50 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: But with every loss, every big blow that Democrats have, 51 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: it is the same circle jerk back to what can 52 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: we do, who can we abandon in our base in 53 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: order to shore up the racist white voter folks. When 54 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: we look at who is exactly a part of working 55 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: class America, Lo and behold, it is not the white 56 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: man in the hard hat with the lunch pale, kissing 57 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: his wife at the door goodbye, and heading into work 58 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: to build the buildings, to dig the tunnels. Those days 59 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: are long fucking gone. The working class is largely filled 60 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: with black people and brown people making hourly wages that 61 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: barely have the ability to cover their basic needs. Now, 62 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: I would argue that, yeah, Vice President Kamala Harris could 63 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: have done more in talking to and with working class 64 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: and middle class Americans to show the public who these 65 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: people actually are. For a brief moment during COVID, we 66 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: recognize that those that were considered essential, right, those that 67 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: were bagging our groceries and delivering food and packages and 68 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: essentially needing to put their lives at risk, Those were 69 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: not the rural white folks or the white working class 70 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: that the corporate mainstream media has painted as the only 71 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: people that apparently are down and out and working in 72 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: this country. It is a lie. And so could Democrats 73 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: do a better job at actually cultivating community and connection 74 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: within the Democratic Party? Absolutely, because you know whether or 75 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: not we want to admit it, and I know that 76 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: I sure as hell did not. But when it was 77 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: brought to my attention and I said, you know what, 78 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: you're right. The fact is that MAGA created more of 79 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: a sense of belonging over the last decade than Democrats did. 80 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? Mean that if you 81 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: want to be your worst self, your most racist self, 82 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: your most toxic masculine self, you're like your worst we 83 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: have place for you. Right, society has told you that 84 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: you need to be politically correct, you need to be inclusive, 85 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: you need to use different pronouns, and here in this tent, 86 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, fuck it all. You can do what 87 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: you want. And for those that found themselves struggling to 88 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: really grapple with and understand this new world that they 89 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: are living inside of, where they are not at the 90 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: top of the pyramid, which again is a lie, right, 91 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: It is only the perception thereof We've only made incremental 92 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: progress in this country for black people, for people of color, 93 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: for queer people, it's been incremental. But the way that 94 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: MAGA has painted it is just like, oh my god, 95 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: this DEI, this you know won't go most is everywhere, 96 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: and so you don't have to change at all. I'm 97 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: saying that you get to be yourself in our MAGA 98 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: tent and Democrats are very different. If you misuse a pronoun, 99 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: if you are not your most inclusive, most woke self, 100 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: if you mess up in any way, we will kick 101 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: you out. We will kick you out of the party, 102 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: we will dismantle your character, and you will never be 103 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: heard from again because you're either with us or you're 104 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: against us. And those are the facts, whether we want 105 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: to admit it or not. There has been no real 106 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: room for us to bring people along and that's what 107 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: I realize, Like, that's the honest truth. While the Democratic 108 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: Party is made up of a lot of different communities, 109 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: it is pretty much like a tossed salad as opposed 110 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: to a blender. We're not all connected, right, There are 111 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: frictions within each and every group, so we're not grounded 112 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: in anything. And I have said on a number of 113 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: occasions that Democrats need to reclaim patriotism, need to reclaim 114 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: the family, need to reclaim what it means to be free, 115 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: because we need something that grounds and connects us. I'm 116 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: not saying that we need to all be the same, 117 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: wearing the same fucking red hat and pledging our allegiance 118 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: to mind Fewer or Trump. But what I am saying 119 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 1: is that people need to be rooted in something. And 120 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: this is where the Democratic Party falls short because they're 121 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: not the party. They're not the anti capitalist party that's 122 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: for fucking shore. Not when you're taking billions of dollars 123 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: from pharmaceutical companies and billionaires and the like. So those 124 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: that actually are doing us harm with their greed, the 125 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: Democratic Party is not coming out and saying these are 126 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: the things that need to get done. We are the 127 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: party of the people, and this is what it means 128 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: to be the party of the people. This is what 129 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: we're offering because we recognize that you have been ripped off, 130 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: whether it be our healthcare system, whether it be a 131 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: secondary education system, like you are being ripped off so 132 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: that CEOs and shareholders can buy their second, third, fourth, fifth, 133 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: and sixth homes. But because we have so much money 134 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: in politics, Democrats have never been able to situate themselves 135 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: as a party of the people because they're beholden to 136 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: the people that are holding the purse strings. You can't 137 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: be the party of black folks and civil rights when 138 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: you're tiptoeing around and putting yourself into condortion in order 139 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: to appease racist white people and not to upset folks. 140 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: As I continue to mourn the loss of poet and teacher, author, 141 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: brilliant thought leader Nikki Giovanni, there's a video that I 142 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: was watching where she's sitting down with Clint Smith, a 143 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: young writer and poet, and she's talking about the fact 144 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: that reflecting on because this interview happened in twenty sixteen, 145 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: so Donald Trump was coming into office, and she reflects 146 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: on the eight years of Barack Obama, and she says, 147 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: what did he do for black people? He was so 148 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: busy trying to appease those that did not agree with him. 149 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: And then she paused and said, actually, those that hated him, 150 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: that despised him, that he did very little to build 151 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: the pipeline in the infrastructure of people who look like him. 152 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: And that is the truth, whether we want to admit 153 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: it or not. I love Barack Obama as a symbol 154 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: of what him and his family symbolize about change in America. 155 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: But what does it say that after eight years of him? 156 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: She argued, then America opens its arms to a Nazi, right, 157 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: a Nazi sympathizer. So we have to ask ourselves in 158 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: our desire to showcase. Oh, we're the adults in the room, 159 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: and you saw Vice President Kamala Harris going all around 160 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: the country with Liz Cheney. Where were the linked arms 161 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: with AOC right with the younger folks inside of the party, 162 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: And we know that she was in fact a surrogate. 163 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: But the reality is, folks, that there were missteps that 164 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: are made. But it wasn't just made by Vice President 165 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. It's been made by the Democratic Party for decades, 166 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: always going after, always chasing who does not want to 167 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: dance with you and leaving the people that are standing 168 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: in front of you to dance alone. Donald Trump, for 169 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: better or for worse, and we know that it is 170 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: for worse built a community of like minded people. Democrats 171 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: did not and do not, And so I'm struggling with, like, 172 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: what does it mean to be a Democrat these days? 173 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: What does that even symbolize? For a moment? Right for 174 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: the three months of the Harris campaign, we could say 175 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: we were about joy, We are about hope and possibility, 176 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: but at the core hope and possibility for whom for 177 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: what My problem with all of the conversation that is 178 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: happening right now is that it is the same old, 179 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: same old. Rather than working with the base of black 180 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: people that you have, people of color, that you have, 181 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: queer people that you have, Democrats continue to chase who 182 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,479 Speaker 1: doesn't want them, and in doing so continues to fracture 183 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And that's why I say, and have said, 184 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: this is our time to really think about a viable 185 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: third party option, because if we're real about it, our 186 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: needs are not being met clearly. And if there is 187 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: anything that this killing of the United Healthcare CEO shows 188 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: us is that America is in a lot of pain, 189 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: and there is a lot of despair, and there is 190 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: a lot of suffering, and there is nearly an issue 191 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: where I can't point to the billionaire class and say 192 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: that they are at faull, that we continue to allow 193 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: politicians to be bought and sold by them, that then 194 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: create policies that only benefit that class of folk. So, 195 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: as I've said, great harm is coming to America, Elon 196 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: must said, oh, Americans are going to have to suffer. 197 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: He's nearly a trillionaire. What the fuck does he? We 198 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: know about suffering and pain? Nothing. But maybe when folks 199 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: realize that now everything becomes more expensive, American life becomes 200 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: harder because you've given over your power to the oligarchs, 201 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: maybe that suffering will finally be what unites us because 202 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: it will be shared suffering. Of course, black folks will 203 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: suffer more, as they always say. When you know America 204 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: catches a cold, black folks catch pneumonia. But this is 205 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: why I say that maybe Donald Trump is necessary because 206 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: he will fuck up, He will overreach. His people will 207 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: turn on him. I don't know when, but they will, 208 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: because that's what history tells us. But from what I 209 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: can see right now, Democrats are certainly not using this 210 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: as an opportunity to unite. They are too busy pointing 211 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: fingers and telling us all the ways that we need 212 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: to go and court people that hate us. That is 213 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: not a winning strategy. So I agree with the title 214 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: of this opinion piece. Democrats don't have an easy way out, 215 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: because if you're gonna keep knocking on the same doors, 216 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: you're never gonna find anything that is new. That is 217 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on woke app as always, 218 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 219 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.