Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: it has been a fucking hell of a week this week,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that one just shout
Speaker 1: out to all of you who have been sending me
Speaker 1: really wonderful dms and in boxing me with kind of
Speaker 1: just positive, you know, positive thoughts and you know appreciation.
Speaker 1: I tell you often that sometimes I find being in
Speaker 1: this work to be fairly thankless, because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: swimming and shit so that you all don't have to,
Speaker 1: but being reminded that it's next necessary to come up
Speaker 1: for air, that it's necessary, as they always say, to
Speaker 1: put your own oxygen mask on before you can help others.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate everyone, you know, taking the time to
Speaker 1: remind me of that. So let's get into it with
Speaker 1: this fucked Friday. So first off, let's just start down south,
Speaker 1: shall we, and work our way back up to the north.
Speaker 1: So fucking rond DeSantis is just hell bent on turning
Speaker 1: the state of Florida into the hate state, and that's
Speaker 1: what it is, and that's what it has become. It
Speaker 1: is absolutely reprehensible that it isn't enough for Ron DeSantis
Speaker 1: to say, oh no, don't say gay, and let that
Speaker 1: be about young children, right and you say, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well we'll let that slide. Now, the don't say Gay
Speaker 1: bill has been expanded to no mention whatsoever of the
Speaker 1: presence the existence of lgbt Q people from K through twelve.
Speaker 1: So that means that if you happen to be a
Speaker 1: kid in school you're suffering, having a difficult time being
Speaker 1: bullied administration teachers, Yeah, they can't fucking help you. If
Speaker 1: the teachers or the administration are bullying you or speaking
Speaker 1: ill of you, yeah, you have no fucking recourse if
Speaker 1: you want to do a project, let's say, on an
Speaker 1: elected official, an elected official happened to have been you know,
Speaker 1: the history of Harvey Milk or Stonewall or any of
Speaker 1: those things, talking about Bayard Rustin or any presence there
Speaker 1: so of LGBTQ people who have accomplished a continuing to
Speaker 1: accomplish amazing things in this country. Well, in the state
Speaker 1: of Florida, they do not exist. And it's going so
Speaker 1: far as to possibly these laws extend to forcing LGBTQ
Speaker 1: health clinics to have to utter their doors, just leaving
Speaker 1: LGBTQ people, you know in the wind right. The governor
Speaker 1: doesn't give a fuck. In a recent interview that he did,
Speaker 1: he said that Florida is the place where woke goes
Speaker 1: to die. And I just want to remind all of
Speaker 1: you what woke actually fucking stands for. It means being conscious,
Speaker 1: It means being politically aware and engage of systems of oppression.
Speaker 1: And so basically what Ron DeSantis is saying is that
Speaker 1: Florida is where where consciousness goes to die. It is
Speaker 1: where education goes to die, It is where equity goes
Speaker 1: to die, it is where justice goes to die. Right,
Speaker 1: And we all know that this very thin skinned piece
Speaker 1: of trash doesn't take questions from reporters who aren't going
Speaker 1: to throw him softballs or make him feel good about himself,
Speaker 1: because you know, that's what quote unquote men do. And
Speaker 1: I say that with a wink and a nod, because
Speaker 1: you know that Republican men are all about their masculinity
Speaker 1: and shooting, you know, balloons out of the sky and
Speaker 1: posing with weapons and all of these things. And so
Speaker 1: Ronde Santis can't take a couple of hard questions, you know,
Speaker 1: you're seeing pretty fucking soft. And I use that in
Speaker 1: a way to present to you that everything that the
Speaker 1: Republican Party does is about projection, is about how ill
Speaker 1: and deflated and disgusted they are with themselves, and they
Speaker 1: want everyone else to feel that way as well. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing, Ron de Santis. Queer people
Speaker 1: aren't going fucking anywhere. We're not going back into the closet.
Speaker 1: We're not going back into hiding. We're not going back
Speaker 1: into a place to feel bad about ourselves and to
Speaker 1: feel like we don't belong. Fuck you, you're the one
Speaker 1: that is grasping at straws and holding on for dear
Speaker 1: fucking life. And if you think, if you think that
Speaker 1: your crusade against consciousness, your crusade against equity, your crusade
Speaker 1: against inclusion, is somehow going to catapult you to being
Speaker 1: president of these United States, my friends, my friend, you
Speaker 1: are sadly and sorely fucking mistaken. Because I will make
Speaker 1: it my mission, and I hope every single person that
Speaker 1: listens to WOKF will make it their mission in life,
Speaker 1: whether you live in the state of Florida or not,
Speaker 1: to make sure that you are a fucking failure at
Speaker 1: the presidential level because you are even too fucking weak
Speaker 1: limp dick Haven to announce your presidency because of what
Speaker 1: you think Donald Trump is going to say about you
Speaker 1: and whether or not his followers are going to jump
Speaker 1: on your hate field fucking bandwagon, grow a pair. Next
Speaker 1: up on my fucke it for this fucking Friday. Moving
Speaker 1: on up to uh, the state of North Carolina where
Speaker 1: we have experienced this week. I mean so many shootings
Speaker 1: and these are just the ones that have caught the
Speaker 1: attention of the public. But in North Carolina there wasn't
Speaker 1: just one victim. There was two. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you this story real quick. A father and daughter are
Speaker 1: playing basketball. The basketball goes accidentally into the neighboring houses yard.
Speaker 1: They think, oh, we'll just go over there and go
Speaker 1: get it. Nope, not in America, not where, not in
Speaker 1: this fucking sugar happy country, because they get shot at.
Speaker 1: Both the six year old girl and the father are shot. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: the young girl was treated and released. The father, I believe,
Speaker 1: still remains in the hospital because that is what happens
Speaker 1: in America. Now. There are no room for mistakes, right,
Speaker 1: there is no room for an accident. So now let's
Speaker 1: travel up to upstate New York where that case has
Speaker 1: turned tragic. Kaylan twenty year old a twenty year old
Speaker 1: young woman right who is in a car Caylen Gillis
Speaker 1: in a car with a couple of friends in upstate
Speaker 1: New York, which, if you've not visited upstate New York,
Speaker 1: it's fairly rural nighttime driving there in the rural parts,
Speaker 1: not a lot of street lights, a lot of dirt
Speaker 1: pathed driveways as you wind your way up in this
Speaker 1: mountainous areas to homes. Well, Kaylen Gillis and a couple
Speaker 1: of her friends are driving around looking for a friend's home.
Speaker 1: They go into a driveway, realize it's the wrong place,
Speaker 1: go to make a U turn, and are met with
Speaker 1: gunfire from the porch, killing Kaylen Gillis. The car was
Speaker 1: making a U turn out of the driveway and they
Speaker 1: were shot at, and Kaylen Gillis, twenty years old, is
Speaker 1: now dead. This shooter has no remorse is being charged
Speaker 1: with second degree murder. Then we go to the case
Speaker 1: of Ralph y'arl, the sixteen year old black boy who
Speaker 1: accidentally rings the wrong doorbell looking to pick up his
Speaker 1: younger brothers and is met with a bullet to the
Speaker 1: head and a bullet to the arm. This is a
Speaker 1: story that I talked about earlier in the week in
Speaker 1: the episode Licensed to Kill, where it has taken me
Speaker 1: days and days and days to process this and be
Speaker 1: able to talk about it without bursting into tears. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: by the grace of God in all the universe. Ralph
Speaker 1: y'arl has been released from the hospital and is recovering
Speaker 1: miraculously at home. He's recovering physically from his injuries, but
Speaker 1: I am certain emotionally scarred for sure, because all he
Speaker 1: kept saying to his aunt was I didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that even if he had done something wrong,
Speaker 1: even many of them, any of these people have done
Speaker 1: something wrong, do you deserve to be fucking shot at?
Speaker 1: But in America, we shoot first and maybe we ask
Speaker 1: questions later. All of this stand your ground, ow fucking
Speaker 1: wild wild West that the Republican Party has been conjuring
Speaker 1: up for decades is now here. This is how we
Speaker 1: live now. The week prior to this series of shootings
Speaker 1: that we experienced this week in the headlines, there was
Speaker 1: a shootout on a highway in Florida because of road rage, right,
Speaker 1: because this is how we deal with things now. It
Speaker 1: is the flooding of toxicity, of fear mongering that is
Speaker 1: increasing anxiety, that is increasing racism and hate, that is
Speaker 1: shrinking the minds of people and enlarging their hostility. Then
Speaker 1: we have the shooting that took place in Texas where
Speaker 1: cheerleader Peyton Washington remains in ICU following a game on
Speaker 1: her way home in a parking lot, her and her
Speaker 1: friends go to the wrong car, are met with gunfire,
Speaker 1: and now she is in ICU fighting for her life.
Speaker 1: Is this how we want to fucking live? Where we
Speaker 1: can't go anywhere, we can't make mistakes, There's no room
Speaker 1: for accidents, there's no room for missteps, because just waiting
Speaker 1: behind a closed door on a porch in a parking
Speaker 1: lot is someone in ready waiting to take you out there.
Speaker 1: Republican ideologies that more guns make us safer, tell me where,
Speaker 1: because the ones who are facing the bullets are supposedly
Speaker 1: the people that they care about, you know, the children,
Speaker 1: the children that they don't want groomed right by wok ideology. Well,
Speaker 1: it isn't walk ideology. That's fucking killing them. It's the
Speaker 1: fucking guns, it's the racist all hopped up on Fox
Speaker 1: and OAAN and Newsmax get hopped up all day injecting
Speaker 1: that shit like it's fucking heroin into their veins. Somebody
Speaker 1: rings a doorbell, somebody goes down a driveway. Ah, I
Speaker 1: gotta defend myself because that's what Fox News is telling
Speaker 1: me to do. The grandson of the eighty four year
Speaker 1: old white racist that shot Ralph y'all has been doing
Speaker 1: the media rounds where he says that, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: his grandfather has racist tendency. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: fuck that means. I know, either you're racist or you're
Speaker 1: not right. That his grandfather has been listening NonStop to
Speaker 1: Fox News, o AN and Newsmax, that he spouts their
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories from you know, COVID to black people being criminals,
Speaker 1: and that it's a steady diet. He hasn't had much
Speaker 1: contact with his grandfather in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: because he said he's grown up and developed his own
Speaker 1: political ideologies. There's a direct correlation, folks, that is being
Speaker 1: made between what we are seeing in these headlines of
Speaker 1: gun violence, mass shootings, quote unquote standing your ground and Fox.
Speaker 1: So now let me move to my otherfuck it right
Speaker 1: of the week, which is Dominion settling their case against
Speaker 1: Fox for the big lie and implicating Dominion voting machines
Speaker 1: as the main culprit in their lie that they've spread
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. So you all know that I hold
Speaker 1: on to the mustard seed of hope that I stick
Speaker 1: into my pocket and I just pray for it to sprout.
Speaker 1: I had hoped that this Dominion case was going to
Speaker 1: go fully to trial, to stay in the news, so
Speaker 1: that the real news, so that people, particularly Fox viewers,
Speaker 1: knew that this entire network has been lying to them,
Speaker 1: that this wasn't just one incident but a pattern of behavior.
Speaker 1: Right when opening arguments were to take place, Fox settled
Speaker 1: for seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars to Dominion. Now,
Speaker 1: I want folks to understand something. And if you watched
Speaker 1: Ari Melber's show on MSNBC this week, you know he
Speaker 1: wanted to give a huge rundown saying that you know,
Speaker 1: for those of us me uh included, who believed that
Speaker 1: this settlement isn't historic when you look at the numbers.
Speaker 1: Sure it's historic when you look at the law. But
Speaker 1: when you look at the numbers, Fox News brings in
Speaker 1: four and a half billion dollars a year, seven hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty seven million dollars. Sure is sixteen percent as
Speaker 1: he riddled off of their revenue. But I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a financier, but I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: between insurance and tax ride offs that this isn't going
Speaker 1: to put a fucking ding in Fox whatsoever, let alone.
Speaker 1: Let alone it's multi billionaire CEO Rupert Murdoch. The reason
Speaker 1: why they fucking settled is because they don't want their
Speaker 1: shit air it out. But understand, this is again a
Speaker 1: pattern of behavior, that's all Fox does. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that they write into their fucking budgets for the year. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll probably soon because you know, we have no journalistic
Speaker 1: integrity and we could give a fuck, but we'll write
Speaker 1: it off. So sure, in terms of lawsuits against news networks,
Speaker 1: is this historic? Yeah? Is it going to hurt Fox
Speaker 1: in any which way? No? Is it gonna change their
Speaker 1: behavior on air? No? Do they have to issue an
Speaker 1: on air apology on any of the shows that we're
Speaker 1: doing most of the lying. No, will the Fox viewers
Speaker 1: ever know that this case even happened. No, So, folks,
Speaker 1: when I look at this, I think that it's a
Speaker 1: major fucking loss. Not for Dominion because they're walking away
Speaker 1: with seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars, but for democracy,
Speaker 1: for the fourth estate, for accountability and responsibility, because this
Speaker 1: is a disrupt behavior. All it did was tell them how
Speaker 1: next time to hide their tracks better, Maybe use burner phones,
Speaker 1: maybe don't text, maybe pat people down to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're not recording you. But it's not going to
Speaker 1: change what it is that they're putting out to tens
Speaker 1: of millions of viewers every single day. Does demeanor and
Speaker 1: have other lawsuits pending against Juliani and the Mike Pillow guy,
Speaker 1: Mike Lindell and you know, the bigger pushers of the
Speaker 1: Big lie as well as Newsmax and Oan. Yes, Newsmax
Speaker 1: and o AAN do not have the deep pockets that
Speaker 1: Fox does, so even though Fox is a parent company
Speaker 1: of Newsmax. So hopefully, you know, we see these move forward.
Speaker 1: But if we believe things that we see, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll just see a series of settlements. So Dominion will
Speaker 1: be a billion dollar company by the time this is
Speaker 1: all done, but our democracy will be in shreds. But
Speaker 1: you know, capitalism, folks, you know, I know how difficult
Speaker 1: it is is to maneuver through these stories, how difficult
Speaker 1: it is to just kind of continue to grind, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to be a cog in the wheel of capitalism
Speaker 1: and pretend that everything that we are seeing and hearing
Speaker 1: isn't affecting us on a cellular level. Right, And it
Speaker 1: would be a lie, right, because I know that my
Speaker 1: body betrayed me this week with sleepless nights and rage
Speaker 1: and then grief and then rage again, because everything that
Speaker 1: I see is just dark right now. I don't see
Speaker 1: the light. But I do want to end this fucked
Speaker 1: Friday with just a little bit, and I did the
Speaker 1: same last week. Generation Z is a generation that is
Speaker 1: being forced to fight for themselves at such a young age.
Speaker 1: But it has often been in this country that those
Speaker 1: that were fighting the hardest were those whose lives were
Speaker 1: just getting started. John Lewis was but a young man
Speaker 1: in his twenties when he was marching in the South
Speaker 1: and sitting at lunch counters to integrate and to stop
Speaker 1: the racist practice and policies of Jim Crow. It was
Speaker 1: a young people that were out in the streets protesting
Speaker 1: again it's a senseless war in Vietnam, And once again
Speaker 1: now it is young people that are pouring into the streets,
Speaker 1: that are walking out of schools because many of them
Speaker 1: don't yet have the right to vote, but they're watching
Speaker 1: their futures be decided by people who don't care whether
Speaker 1: or not they live and die at the end of
Speaker 1: a school year. They're watching their freedoms that their parents
Speaker 1: and grandparents readily enjoyed be stripped away before they have
Speaker 1: the ability to cast a ballot. It has always been
Speaker 1: young people that have shown up to fight for a
Speaker 1: future that the adults in the room have already given
Speaker 1: up on. So when I see from Tennessee, can Florida
Speaker 1: and other states, when I see these young people leading
Speaker 1: the way, they are what I have hope in because
Speaker 1: I have lost faith in the legislators, I have lost
Speaker 1: faith in the judges. But I believe that what these
Speaker 1: Republicans are doing are creating a generation of activists. We
Speaker 1: won't save them, but I sure as fuck believe that
Speaker 1: they are ready to save themselves. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on wokef as always power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power. Get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.