Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy Woke Wednesday. Halfway through this week and preparing I know,
Speaker 1: at least I am preparing for some Pride activities this
Speaker 1: weekend in New York City. What do I want to
Speaker 1: talk about today on Woke Wednesday? Because there are several
Speaker 1: things that are just like gnawing at me, if you will, so,
Speaker 1: right before I came on, I am on ex you
Speaker 1: know that dumpster fire of a site, and I see
Speaker 1: a story that comes across Joe Biden is closing the
Speaker 1: border to migrants, and I think, to my is he
Speaker 1: trying to lose the selection? Like? Are you trying to
Speaker 1: create absolutely no daylight between yourself and the Republican Party?
Speaker 1: Or is it that your advisors are offering to you
Speaker 1: bullshit polling that shows that somehow Republicans and or independents
Speaker 1: are going to vote for you if in fact, you
Speaker 1: model Donald Trump and the Republicans inhumane policies that I
Speaker 1: use air quotes against people seeking asylum. What I want
Speaker 1: folks to understand, and I've said this before, so I
Speaker 1: know you all know, but then you parrot it to
Speaker 1: your people, your circles, your friends, the questions that people
Speaker 1: need to be asking themselves about our immigration crisis, because
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie, we do have a crisis.
Speaker 1: When I moved into my neighborhood, you very rarely saw
Speaker 1: homeless people a one and there were absolutely no migrants. Right.
Speaker 1: How do I know that my neighborhood that things have
Speaker 1: gotten considerably bad in terms of the migrant situation. Is
Speaker 1: that on a regular basis, I see small families with
Speaker 1: signs of people that don't speak any English at all.
Speaker 1: Who we are seeing more so on subways selling candy,
Speaker 1: selling anything that they can to make any bit of money.
Speaker 1: But that there is an influx of people that are
Speaker 1: not being housed properly, that are being given some access
Speaker 1: in New York City, for instance, children to school. But
Speaker 1: there is an issue. But the question isn't about who
Speaker 1: is here and how do we deal with them? Sure,
Speaker 1: but the question is what have we done to their countries?
Speaker 1: How has the United States contributed to the instability that
Speaker 1: we are seeing in Central America and countries in South America?
Speaker 1: Why they are making their way to the United States
Speaker 1: Like this did not happen in isolation. These issues of instability,
Speaker 1: of drugs, of gangs, of all of these things happened
Speaker 1: because of the United States and other countries meddling into
Speaker 1: the business of Central America moving around whatever leaders they
Speaker 1: think are going to serve their own countries' needs and
Speaker 1: not that of the people in that country. And so
Speaker 1: after decades and decades of doing so, destroying the economy,
Speaker 1: making it easier for arms to flow between these places
Speaker 1: as well as drugs, we arrive at this point. So
Speaker 1: the question isn't about how do we stop people from
Speaker 1: coming into the United States, It's how do we stabilize
Speaker 1: the countries that they are coming from, given that we
Speaker 1: are part of the reason for the instability. But I
Speaker 1: realized that why we don't have those conversations, because then
Speaker 1: the United States would have to take responsibility. And if
Speaker 1: there is anything that the United States never does, not
Speaker 1: even with its own citizens in this fucking country, it's
Speaker 1: take responsibility for their actions, right, because that would require acknowledgment, accountability,
Speaker 1: and then restitution, none of which America wants to do,
Speaker 1: not with its own citizens. And sure it's fuck not
Speaker 1: with migrants coming to the country. So instead, we turn
Speaker 1: those people whose country we have been a party to
Speaker 1: destroying into the problem, as opposed to figuring out, well,
Speaker 1: what do we do to restabilize places like Venezuela, Honduras,
Speaker 1: Guatemala and others, Like what is it that we need
Speaker 1: to do? What will the cost be? How do we
Speaker 1: build up the infrastructure for a political shift that would
Speaker 1: allow for stability to make its way in? People will say, well,
Speaker 1: we need to deal with a problem that's in front
Speaker 1: of us right now. All of it is in front
Speaker 1: of us right now. But Joe Biden deciding to do
Speaker 1: a Republican fucking pivot on this doesn't serve the Democratic
Speaker 1: base for fucking shore. And so I just continue to
Speaker 1: ask myself when I see the things that this administration
Speaker 1: is doing, who in fact they are trying to help?
Speaker 1: I honestly am confused. Let me tell you the other
Speaker 1: thing that I'm confused about. Story number two. So we
Speaker 1: all know now, right, Donald Trump is a convicted fucking
Speaker 1: felon right thirty four felony guilty charges against him, and
Speaker 1: the mainstream media is having a conversation about whether or
Speaker 1: not it's going to affect his chances to be president,
Speaker 1: and basically making the fact that, for the first time
Speaker 1: in US history, a president of the United States has
Speaker 1: been found guilty of criminal charges. And that is historic
Speaker 1: in and of itself. And what does that say about
Speaker 1: the laws that actually allow for somebody with a felony
Speaker 1: not to vote in this country in certain states, but
Speaker 1: to be able to become president of the United States.
Speaker 1: How does that make sense? And if Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: able to be found guilty by a panel of everyday
Speaker 1: American citizens who understood a fifty some odd page list
Speaker 1: of directives for them, how is it that members of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party can't Oh, it's not that they can't.
Speaker 1: Let me say that they won't because of that. Of
Speaker 1: all of the Republicans that these motherfuckers could have chosen
Speaker 1: from to be their next messiah, who wasn't a criminal,
Speaker 1: who wasn't up against multiple trials, who wasn't just found
Speaker 1: guilty of thirty four charges, they couldn't find anybody else.
Speaker 1: And I go back to when and Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: acquitted of impeachment in the Senate. These Republicans, if they
Speaker 1: really wanted to have done away with Donald Trump, they
Speaker 1: have had multiple chances to do so. So we need
Speaker 1: to stop kidding ourselves that there is going to be
Speaker 1: some moment, some aha when Republicans come back to Earth
Speaker 1: one they are gone. So again, I go back to
Speaker 1: the first story. I don't understand the moves that Biden
Speaker 1: is making. Who are you increasing this tent for? Because
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, You opening the door so
Speaker 1: big that a lot of motherfucker is just gonna start
Speaker 1: to walk out because they're not going to see themselves anymore.
Speaker 1: Because the actions that you are taking, it's not the
Speaker 1: dark Brandon that we saw in the State of the
Speaker 1: Union that was set in the record straight and handing
Speaker 1: Republicans their hats. No, that's not who is on the
Speaker 1: fucking campaign trail right now. You know how? I know
Speaker 1: so because Donald Trump, the person that you're fucking running against,
Speaker 1: just gave you an easy goddamn layup, and the campaign
Speaker 1: and the President has been fucking mum on this guilty
Speaker 1: charge as well as the Democrats. Why I'm confused. I'm
Speaker 1: confused about why we are missing opportunities to create the
Speaker 1: story for the American people about why this Republican Party
Speaker 1: is wayward, treacherous, diabolical, and dangerous. I'm confused about how
Speaker 1: we are just shrugging off thirty four felony counts. But
Speaker 1: the same, very same media turned Hillary Clinton's email server
Speaker 1: into a national security crisis. But you think that a
Speaker 1: motherfucker being a convicted felon somehow is not a man
Speaker 1: that has been found guilty of defamation, of lying, of fraud.
Speaker 1: Are we serious here? This is why I have to
Speaker 1: say that you can no longer, and I've said this
Speaker 1: so many times on this show and on others, you
Speaker 1: can no longer rely on corporatize mainstream media. And people
Speaker 1: will say, well, Danielle, why do you still go on TV?
Speaker 1: Because I pop in and out right, because when I
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to go into that space and tell
Speaker 1: the truth, I'm gonna do so. But the reality is
Speaker 1: is that that's not where I get all my fucking
Speaker 1: news from. And we just see that the Washington Post
Speaker 1: is another legacy outlet that is on the chopping block
Speaker 1: now under the grips of fucking Murdoch. So folks gotta
Speaker 1: wake up and recognize that, like all these ways in
Speaker 1: which the white supremacist radical right have their clause in
Speaker 1: every part of our society to bend us to their
Speaker 1: will is real, and the fact is is that it's
Speaker 1: going to get worse because again calling all Democrats, where
Speaker 1: are you with the narration of what is going on
Speaker 1: every single day in this country what Republicans are pulling
Speaker 1: and doing. Biden needs to understand that he is not
Speaker 1: running against Donald Trump. He is running against a diabolical,
Speaker 1: evil cult party because, regardless of it through I don't
Speaker 1: know divine fucking intervention that Joe Biden is able to
Speaker 1: beat said convicted felon Trumpism is not going away. These
Speaker 1: people have doubled down and metastasized this deep, huge, fucking
Speaker 1: tumor in this country. When you have Republicans going on
Speaker 1: television in the way that Mike Johnson did following that
Speaker 1: verdict and saying that the Supreme Court needs to intervene
Speaker 1: because this has never happened before in history. It's never
Speaker 1: happened before because we've never had a fucking criminal as
Speaker 1: the president of the United States. I mean, let's be clear,
Speaker 1: We've had criminals as heads of the United States, but
Speaker 1: none of them were tried and convicted. So now that
Speaker 1: one was now all of a sudden, the Party of
Speaker 1: Lauren Order doesn't believe in law in order but this
Speaker 1: was the same party that was screaming and yelling at
Speaker 1: the top of their lungs lock her up. But the
Speaker 1: media again doesn't report on that hypocrisy and ask these
Speaker 1: people very blankly, like, weren't you the same one in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that said that Hillary Clinton needed to stand trial. Well,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump did stand trial. Why didn't Hillary Clinton? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right because there were no charges that were brought
Speaker 1: against her because it was all fabrication. A trial was brought.
Speaker 1: And if Donald Trump had been innocent, then he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been convicted. Now, let me be clear, and why
Speaker 1: I say that is not because jurors and judges don't
Speaker 1: make quote unquote mistakes. What I mean by that is
Speaker 1: wouldn't be convicted is that how often is a wealthy, white,
Speaker 1: powerful man convicted of doing anything wrong in this country
Speaker 1: and held to account? Different story if Donald Trump looked
Speaker 1: like Barack Obama, but he does not, So if in
Speaker 1: fact he was innocent or there was no there there,
Speaker 1: this case would have never been brought. So a need
Speaker 1: like us to be very clear and conscious that mainstream
Speaker 1: corporatize media is in fucking kahoots because what do they
Speaker 1: all have in common the right wing and mainstream corporatized media.
Speaker 1: The capitalistic grift, my friends, that's what they have in common.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump good for their bottom line. Donald Trump gave
Speaker 1: the American oligarchs, the billionaires and millionaires, their biggest tax breaks,
Speaker 1: which guess what, are expiring in twenty twenty five, so
Speaker 1: they can be ensured that they get to keep all
Speaker 1: of their fucking, greedy, dirty money that other people's backs
Speaker 1: right were broken to make for them so that they
Speaker 1: can get their seventh, eighth, or ninth house. But if
Speaker 1: Joe Biden wins, then guess what those American oligarchs may
Speaker 1: actually have to pay their fair share. So, regardless, taken
Speaker 1: all of that into consideration, does it make sense to
Speaker 1: have real journalists going after Donald Trump in these main
Speaker 1: extreme corporatized outlets When if y'all remember these anchors on
Speaker 1: these major networks making millions of dollars, how much do
Speaker 1: you think the CEOs of the networks are making, how
Speaker 1: much do you think that the shareholders are making. It's
Speaker 1: good for business to destroy democracy because you see, they
Speaker 1: have the complexion and the pocketbooks for the protection. They
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about the rest of us. Or
Speaker 1: integrity or anything for that matter. Right, So we have
Speaker 1: to understand here that when we are talking about journalistic integrity, responsibility, accountability,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the same people, largely white Cis straight
Speaker 1: powerful men who protect other white cis straight powerful men.
Speaker 1: I believe, you know, to be honest, that embidens mine
Speaker 1: if he loses this election. Joe Biden's in the fucking
Speaker 1: sunset of his life, right, He's eighty something. He'll live
Speaker 1: the long rest of his life, wealthy and protected, and
Speaker 1: then he'll go. It is the rest of us that
Speaker 1: need to be concerned about what our futures look like
Speaker 1: because we don't have we don't all have the complexion
Speaker 1: for the protection or the wallets. Right. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at where we are currently and five months to go,
Speaker 1: I don't feel good. I feel absolutely fucking terrible on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. I think that I've never seen such
Speaker 1: missteps in campaigns since twenty sixteen. Because let's be clear,
Speaker 1: while I believe truly that Donald Trump interfered with that election,
Speaker 1: as was proven in the election interference case in New
Speaker 1: York that aka the hush money case, donald Trump lied
Speaker 1: to the American people, stole three fucking justices and sat
Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty federal judges on the bench
Speaker 1: because of said lie. Hillary Clinton also made missteps in
Speaker 1: her campaign. I believe that Joe Biden is making a
Speaker 1: bunch of them right now. So whether we're talking about Gaza,
Speaker 1: now we're talking about the fucking border, I'm like, what's next?
Speaker 1: Because what you're doing is not paying attention or listening
Speaker 1: to your base. Who wants a fighter, not a collaborator,
Speaker 1: who wants somebody that is going to fight for justice
Speaker 1: for democracy, not just here but around the globe. And
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is coming up fucking short. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if enough people recognize just how dangerous of a
Speaker 1: moment we are in. Because look, i am not a
Speaker 1: gambling person. But if I'm sitting around a table and
Speaker 1: everybody around me is smirking and smiling and looking at
Speaker 1: their hand and nudging the other person saying, ah, we
Speaker 1: got her right, I'm thinking that, oh, they may not
Speaker 1: be bluffing. So we need to take these Republicans and
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five and their desire to rally around
Speaker 1: a convicted felon to heart. These motherfuckers are not bluffing
Speaker 1: They're coming for your hand and everyone else's. The question is,
Speaker 1: is everybody paying attention. Can we push past some of
Speaker 1: our single issues that this administration is not hitting in
Speaker 1: order to see further down the road generations to come
Speaker 1: and know oh that, regardless of how much frustration and
Speaker 1: anger that I have, I'm not throwing away my vote,
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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on wo
Speaker 1: af as always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.