WEBVTT - Two More Weeks 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikf Daily with me 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.160 your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.919 we are two weeks out until the final day of voting. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.080 As I've been saying, Election Day is the final day 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.520 of voting, being as how early voting has started in 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.000 a majority of states in the country, I myself, for 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.559 the very first time, will be early voting. Normally, I 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.960 wait until election day to vote because I'm, you know, 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.680 old school and a traditionalist. But this year, I said, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.279 let's just get this show on the road, frankly, and 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.800 get it done, get it done, and get it done early. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:57.400 Right now, millions of Americans, millions millions of Americans have 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.000 already cast their ballot. And what I think is really important, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.920 and you'll hear from our friend Jonathan later this week, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.240 but what I think is really important and encouraging is 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:15.000 the anecdotes that are coming out of states like Georgia 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.959 and North Carolina and most recently in Tennessee, with people 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.440 talking about how long the lines have been in states 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.960 and in places where traditionally early voting folks are in 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.639 and out because you know, they're in gerrymandered places where 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.800 they have been kind of depressed into feeling that their 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.560 votes do not matter. So why would I show up 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.280 early and why would I vote at all? And so 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:47.200 I think that listening to folks say that the lines 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.840 are long and that people are feeling hopeful, and there's 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.880 something about this moment that feels different is encouraging. I 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.360 know that it is hard, though, to kind of muster 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.480 and hold on to the faith and hopeful. It's because 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.160 we have a fear of being let down. And the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.680 fact is, folks like that is just part of what 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.679 it means to be human. You know, sometimes things work 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.880 out and sometimes they don't. And I know where my 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.880 anxiety and fear is at this moment as we get 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.760 closer and closer to the final day of voting, because 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.080 we know what's at stake. We've been talking about it 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.959 four years on this show, four years. I kind of 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.360 want to reminisce with you for just like a moment 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:34.560 about why WOKF started. WOKF started in the spring summer 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:40.080 of twenty seventeen, and I had just moved back from Washington, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.720 DC to New York and I started a new job, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.079 and I needed an outlet because following the devastation of 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.880 the twenty sixteen election. I was just like miserable, and 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.440 I knew that a lot of people were also feeling 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:02.920 the same way, just depressed and uninspired and devastated, like 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.280 this country that we thought that we knew let us down. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.560 And so I started the show. I was asked if 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:15.200 I was interested in continuing podcasting, and I had been 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.640 podcasting for a while, but then it was just like, hey, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.600 this is live radio. Do you want to do that? 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.720 And I started the show just as a way to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.840 get things off of my chest. And it's been several 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.040 years now that I have been doing WOKF and WOKF 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.400 you all have followed me, some of you, from different 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.760 networks into different places and finally landing here. And the 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.920 fact is is that WOKF was started as a reaction 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.280 and a rebuff to Donald Trump and the Republicans and 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.080 this idea that like they were going to drag America 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.520 kicking and screaming back to you know, not even the 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.920 twentieth century, but like the nineteenth century. And I knew 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.480 that there were more people that were conscious but that 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.080 left on the twenty sixteen election, frankly, and they thought that, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.520 you know, I'm not really that excited by Hillary Clinton, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.880 and her ascension is inevitable, and they just kind of 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.040 let it rock and we all know how that fucking 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:18.400 ended up. I feel like America, though, since the twenty 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.680 sixteen election, I would like to say, has learned a lot, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.680 while mainstream corporate media hasn't learned anything, as it pertains 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.680 to their coverage of Donald Trump. I do believe that 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.000 Americans have learned a lot. In twenty twenty, in the 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.599 midst of global health pandemic, people showed up in mass 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.240 to vote against Donald Trump and to say that this 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.359 is not who we are, this is not what we want. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.240 It was a different time. Thousands of Americans were dying 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.240 a day from COVID, where Donald Trump told them to 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.040 inject bleach, where saving a life could mean just covering 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.440 your fucking face with a piece of cloth. But he 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.400 couldn't bring people to do that and instead divided the country. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.520 It is where we stand right now, and I have 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:10.320 no flights of fancy in believing that if Donald Trump 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.719 is defeated again in twenty twenty four that poof you know, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.159 all of our problems disappear. No, that to me is 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.600 when the real hard work begins, because then it is 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.720 when we will have to as Americans, figure out what 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.400 we want this country to be moving forward and how 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.520 we're going to put the pieces back together again. And 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.760 that is going to take just as much work as 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.480 it took to get rid of Donald Trump in twenty 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.040 twenty to rebuild this country because we know that it 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.800 is broken, and we know that Republicans will continue to 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.279 try and tear it apart. And that's why I pray 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.719 and continue to speak to all of you in saying 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:57.159 that we need to make this win so resounding, so 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.800 resounding that one that Republicans can't steal it, and two 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.400 so that they get the fucking message that we're not 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.160 interested in their Project twenty twenty five. We're not interested 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.040 in their misogyny, we're not interested in their racism, we're 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.599 not interested in their hate. And so they need to 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.240 go back to the drawing board and figure out who 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.599 they're going to be and what the next iteration of 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.680 Republican will be, because this last ten years of trump Ism, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:31.000 this ain't it. That's what I hope, that's the place 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.680 that I hope that we get to. And so that's 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.280 the energy that I'm going to put out I'm not 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.920 going to talk about what could possibly happen because it's 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.720 a waste of time with two weeks to go, With 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.400 two weeks to go, we need to just truly get 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:51.599 Americans in the mindset that this is possible, that everything 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:58.400 is possible to do, and that with enough hope, with 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.279 enough power, that we can get things done. So that's 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:09.400 where I am, that's where I find myself today. I 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.200 watched a video Keith Boykin put it out. Keith Boykin 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.880 is the person that has been on the show before, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.200 and he put up a video of a conversation at 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.040 a black barbershop with a group of black men talking 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.680 about the upcoming election. And what we know right now 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.240 is that there's been a lot of chatter in mainstream 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.520 corporate media about black men voting for Donald Trump. And 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.960 there's been a lot of chatter about, oh, fifteen percent, 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.800 twenty percent of black men are voting for Donald Trump. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.000 It's not true. The reality is that eighty five to 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.440 ninety percent of black men vote with aligned with black women, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.200 which is democratic. Nonetheless, what I thought was really important 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.760 about this conversation is that it was a real conversation. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.800 It was a real conversation with black men about not 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.680 only supporting a black woman, but some of the men 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.640 in the barbershop haven't voted in over a decade because 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:14.480 they've been really disenchanted with the Democratic Party and haven't 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:19.840 had their issues and their needs. And so what they 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.400 were talking about was being disappointed, being let down by 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:29.000 different administrations and unpacking, you know, some of the lies 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.120 that have been told by Donald Trump about what he 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.240 will do, and folks saying, I don't even think about 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.280 myself in this moment. I'm thinking about you know, how 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.240 old is your mother. One gentleman says, my mother is 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.880 fifty six, And he said, well, how would it feel 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.960 if you knew that Donald Trump was trying to raise 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:55.200 the retirement age. This other man said, well, look, my 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.920 mother is close to sixty and walks with a limb, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.400 and I couldn't bear to think about her having to 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.120 work another ten to twenty years. She can't, It's like 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.240 physically impossible. She's just barely hanging on now. So what 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.520 does it say that the Republican Party wants to take 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:20.640 away Social Security, wants to take away Medicaid? And so 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.760 the men in the barbershop were just like nah, that 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.560 can't happen. These are programs that are needed. They're needed 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:32.480 for our community in particular. You know the conversation that 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.600 I watched, it was about a seven minute clip, and 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:40.840 it was so heartwarming in its vulnerability and in its 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:46.320 honesty because nobody was being judged or made to feel 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.320 small or stupid about what they knew versus what they didn't, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.880 and frankly, they knew a lot. And by the end 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.760 they were just like, look, you know what, I realized, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.920 this isn't even about me. This is about my mom, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.520 this is about my sisters. And if black women have 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.240 been trusted to raise all of us and raise us, well, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.480 then why wouldn't we trust a black women to lead? 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:15.160 When they said that, When they said that, I really 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:20.679 like choked up, because that's real. Black women are heads 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:27.440 of households and are raising sometimes their families their children alone. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.520 Because of our incarcerle system that punishes black men and 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:39.320 black boys at greater rates, then they do their white counterparts, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.400 meaning that they take those black men and black boys 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.400 out of communities and put them in the prison industrial complex. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.720 And so there has been so much destruction at the 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.520 hands of the state with regard to black families that 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.120 have put black women in really tough pause posicians. They've 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.720 always met the moment, but it doesn't make it any easier. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.040 And so for those black men to acknowledge that and 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.360 then say, like, why wouldn't we then trust the black 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.839 woman to lead the country when she's been leading us 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.560 and carrying us and taking care of us, It really 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.120 struck me. And so those conversations feel new as well 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:30.600 and feel really welcomed. So I do believe that something 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.920 different is happening. I do believe that we are in 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:42.640 a different place and space with this election, and I 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:47.400 will continue to hope that what we are seeing with 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:53.920 early voting and these long lines, that people are exhausted 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.760 by Donald Trump, as Obama you know, has said on 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.960 the campaign trail, he was just like, we're tired, you know, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.120 we're tired of this man. We're tired of the vulgarity, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.520 We're tired of the depravity, we're tired of the insanity. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.920 And it's like it's finally time to close the book 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.200 on him. You know. My hope is that not only 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.440 do we close the book on him, but that we 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.880 throw the book at him. Just this week, Today's only Wednesday, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:34.959 but on Monday, the former Central Park five, now exonerated five, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:44.120 have sued Donald Trump for his defamation. And what we 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.720 know about all of these lawsuits that are waiting in 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.640 the wings, that are pending, is that if Donald Trump 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.720 loses this election, he loses his get out of jail 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.760 free card, which means that he will finally, in shallah, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:04.640 finally have to face some type of accountability, whether that 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.360 is monetarily. Because I'd love to see this mfor broke, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.559 do you know what I'm saying? Like, I would love 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:17.080 to see Donald Trump broke, broken, shunned. Those are my 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.959 two favorite things because I still believe that it is 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.600 less likely that this man will end up in prison 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.160 because he's still a former president, whether or not he 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:31.559 was a good one. So what I would like is 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.760 that he's broken, shunned, can't afford his you know, legal fees, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.040 and like no one is coming to mar A Lago anymore, nobody, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.080 you know, Like he's not getting invitations anywhere anymore. Like 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:50.600 that to me would be perfect for a man that 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.960 just needs and craves attention. Is that if he loses, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.600 and he's a two time loser, that all the people 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.920 that have been hyping him up and holding him up 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.880 like weekend at Bernie's. Will walk away and then we'll 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.040 watch him slowly crumble. That's what I hope, That's what 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.240 I'm rooting for. Just think about it for a moment. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:23.720 Think about not having to worry about Donald Trump anymore, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.280 not have to talk about him anymore, not have to 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.400 give a shit about any of the things that are 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.000 coming out of his mouth anymore, because they bear no fruit. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.440 I think about the way that I felt almost ten 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.080 years ago, in twenty fifteen, Almost ten years ago. I 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.880 don't even remember what it's like to have that kind 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:56.000 of ease anymore, but just the idea. Just allow it 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.840 to kind of swirl around in your head and like, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:05.920 my shoulders drop. So that's what's possible in two weeks, folks, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.240 And that's what I am hopeful for two weeks, you know. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.480 And the funny thing, and I've said this before, I 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.440 was like, how long was it until we knew who 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.120 won the election in twenty twenty? It was only five days. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:24.480 It felt like five months. It was five days. We 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.640 had the election on Tuesday, and by that Saturday it 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:34.560 was official, God willing, It's not that long but just 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.480 the thought that in two and a half weeks we 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:46.320 could not care anymore about Donald Trump. Oh yeah, I'm 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.520 just like thinking about it. I will close out with 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.320 this today, which is to make sure that all of 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.240 you go to ballot dot org and make sure that 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.240 you know of all of the ballot measures propositions that 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.560 you may be voting on in your state. That you 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.040 have an idea of what you're voting for, what you're 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.120 voting against. That there isn't be in a lot of states, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.200 including in New York, there is you know, abortion that 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.400 is on the ballot and protecting that. There are other 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:25.920 places where abortion, the rights of certain elected officials, the 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.960 power that certain elected officials and offices have, all of 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.000 those things are also being voted on. And while they 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.080 explain things to you on the back of your ballot, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.520 I think that it's important to go in knowing in 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.920 greater detail about the measures. So if you head to 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.920 ballot dot org, you get a good rundown put in 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.880 your state and it'll tell you what you're voting on, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.880 and that is a good way to keep track, so 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.840 that you're walking in with the understanding of how many 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.240 measures you're voting for. And whether you're voting yes or 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.440 no or what have you. Glean as much information as possible, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:09.160 continue to send notes and text messages and have those 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.080 conversations with your family members, young and old about what 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.360 their voting plan is. And you know, if you have 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:22.280 the treasure, donate. Continue to do so so that Kamala 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.160 and Walls can blast the last bit of their money 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.600 on television, on radio and do the blanketing that they 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.240 need to do. Continue to canvas. All of these things matter, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:39.639 particularly in the last two weeks. So buckle up, friends, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:45.600 and let's get this shit done. Let's get it done. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.960 That is it for me today, dear friends on wok 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.480 app as always, Power to the people and to all 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.560 the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.