Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bokay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to start with this. We are
Speaker 1: about a couple of days removed from the second anniversary
Speaker 1: of the insurrection, the attempt to overthrow our government by Trump,
Speaker 1: insurrectionist driven you know, orchestrated, driven and strategized directed by
Speaker 1: the President of the United States. And as you guys know,
Speaker 1: you know, much like COVID, I like to keep a
Speaker 1: lot of things in the news that other people don't.
Speaker 1: They want to just you know, move on as if
Speaker 1: all is well. We don't need to be concerned with
Speaker 1: this growing threat. And what we witnessed last week on
Speaker 1: the floor of the House was as my friend Charles Ellison,
Speaker 1: who hosts a show on WRD in Philadelphia, he called
Speaker 1: it the bloodless insurreption, and I said, Charles, you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: because we have one hundred and forty seven members. I
Speaker 1: believe that after the attack on the Capitol in January six,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one voted to overturn the election. One hundred
Speaker 1: and forty seven and somehow right now the media wants
Speaker 1: to use the term rebels for the Lauren Bouberts and
Speaker 1: the Matt Gates and the Paul Ghosers of the world.
Speaker 1: And then somehow, in their mindset, Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan have become moderates? Are we all dumb? Or
Speaker 1: is the memory that's short? Right? That because you're deciding
Speaker 1: that you're going to, oh, I don't know, vote along
Speaker 1: party lines for your speaker, who is an absolute spineless
Speaker 1: amiba of a human being, that somehow that makes you
Speaker 1: a moderate. Let me news flash, okay, to every media outlet,
Speaker 1: there were no fucking moderate Republicans. They don't exist anymore.
Speaker 1: When you are given everything from the fucking Mulla Report,
Speaker 1: to all of the information that the January sixth Committee
Speaker 1: put together, to all of the impeachment the two impeachments
Speaker 1: that happened right that we're put together. When you are
Speaker 1: given all of that, and then you decide, because of power,
Speaker 1: that you would rather keep this criminal enterprise crackpot as
Speaker 1: the leader of your party than do right by this country,
Speaker 1: you cease being able to utilize the title fucking moderate.
Speaker 1: And I swear to God, you know, I keep going
Speaker 1: back in my mind about when I was in middle school,
Speaker 1: in high school whenever it is, and who knows now
Speaker 1: because in Florida apparently you don't learn anything, as is
Speaker 1: with Texas too. But I remember learning about the Holocaust,
Speaker 1: and I've said this before on WOKEA learning before about
Speaker 1: the Holocaust, and we it was in middle school and
Speaker 1: we had a half day at my school where we
Speaker 1: were watching Schindler's List. Now it's so amazing to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I can only imagine that if you in
Speaker 1: today's age we're trying to organize a showing of Schindler's
Speaker 1: a List, the cans of bomb threats that my school
Speaker 1: in this day and age would have received. Isn't that
Speaker 1: fucking crazy that I can only imagine the bomb threats,
Speaker 1: the protests on the outside of school. Because where I
Speaker 1: grew up is now quote unquote Trump country. All of
Speaker 1: Eastern Long Island was in the bag for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: You see Trump flags all over the neighborhoods that I
Speaker 1: grew up. And what's crazy is that when I'm visiting
Speaker 1: my family, it's almost as if like there is this
Speaker 1: layer that I never either. It was always there, and
Speaker 1: as a young kid, I just didn't realize it. But
Speaker 1: I was a black kid growing up in a predominantly
Speaker 1: white community. I of course faced like racism, but very
Speaker 1: sparse in comparison to the atrocious stories that you hear
Speaker 1: to day and atrocious stories through our history. Mine was
Speaker 1: marginal at best. It doesn't mean that it didn't have
Speaker 1: any impact, and I'm not trying to mitigate it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that, in comparison, was marginal at best. So
Speaker 1: it's not as if I grew up with a sense
Speaker 1: of fear or I grew up with a sense of
Speaker 1: shame about my blackness or anything like that. I didn't, right,
Speaker 1: which is great because I'm the person I am, because
Speaker 1: I'm able to navigate spaces where I'm not the majority
Speaker 1: that is in the room right where I'm able to
Speaker 1: not wait for permission to be seen, because if I
Speaker 1: did that, then I would still be the kid in
Speaker 1: the back of the classroom with their hand held up,
Speaker 1: waiting to be fucking called on. Nonetheless, I think about
Speaker 1: these experiences that I had, and you know, watching Schindler's
Speaker 1: List with my classmates in tears and being like, how
Speaker 1: could a society let this happen? Right? Like, how do
Speaker 1: you just go about your day as your neighbors are
Speaker 1: being carted off to concentration camps, but you're like still
Speaker 1: going to the movies and still going to dinner, and
Speaker 1: just like going about as if life is normal, when
Speaker 1: people just are disappearing right, and the reality is is
Speaker 1: that what do we know now? It happens bit by bit.
Speaker 1: It happens with being propped up by the media. It
Speaker 1: happens with those who dare to tell the truth and say,
Speaker 1: see these patterns, look at these characteristics. This is Mussolini
Speaker 1: and the making. This is a mini Hitler. And people
Speaker 1: are like, oh no, you're being hyperbolic. Oh no, that'll
Speaker 1: never happen here, because the idea of American exceptionalism is
Speaker 1: so embedded into the value set of this country that
Speaker 1: it doesn't allow us to see the forest through the
Speaker 1: trees because you think that, oh no, I'm much better
Speaker 1: than the Italians and the Germans and the Brazilians. And
Speaker 1: you know, every fucking place else that has been taken
Speaker 1: over by a dictator or an authoritarian, Oh, that could
Speaker 1: never happen in America. Americans would never let that happen.
Speaker 1: You have motherfuckers that are out cheering the hanging of
Speaker 1: their Republican Vice President milktoast motherfucker, a man who couldn't
Speaker 1: be more Republican if he tried, and they were willing
Speaker 1: to hang him on the steps of the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1: You have people like Donald Trump spawn egging on the
Speaker 1: terrorists that invaded Nancy Pelosi's home, Ambassador husband sculling with
Speaker 1: a hammer. Oh, that's funny to them. Right now. You
Speaker 1: have former Capitol Police Office Sir Michael Phenone, whose quest
Speaker 1: is just to get the Republican Party and members to
Speaker 1: admit that political violence is a problem and to denounce
Speaker 1: it when they see it, and they refuse. So when
Speaker 1: I turn on the television and got all the alerts
Speaker 1: earlier this week about what the fuck was happening in Brazil,
Speaker 1: about the insurrection that happened there that looked eerily split screen,
Speaker 1: exactly like what happened on January six, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and we're watching it now. Our far right extremism be exported.
Speaker 1: Far right extremism, magaism, and Trumpism is now our greatest export.
Speaker 1: Those motherfuckers in Brazil take over their capital, trash every place,
Speaker 1: they took on the courts, they take on the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1: But Funny enough, unlike the fucking United States guests who
Speaker 1: was arrested on the same day the very people that
Speaker 1: ransacked the Capitol building, they were actually hauled off in handcuffs.
Speaker 1: Imagine that that it didn't take six months to go
Speaker 1: searching through somebody's fucking Facebook page in order to find
Speaker 1: them to then give them a slap on the risk. Oh,
Speaker 1: Susy didn't know what she was doing. She just got
Speaker 1: caught up, right, because white people stay getting caught up
Speaker 1: in some shit. They can't possibly ever take responsibility for
Speaker 1: their actions. And no, because they actually don't know their history,
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're capable of, or matter of fact,
Speaker 1: just like to turn, you know, a blind eye to it.
Speaker 1: Couldn't possibly be us. Oh, but it is, and the
Speaker 1: world is learning by fact. Thank you very much to
Speaker 1: Mary Garland for doing absolutely nothing. Two years and we're
Speaker 1: still holding our breath, holding out hope and saying, well,
Speaker 1: maybe this year will be the year, but probably not.
Speaker 1: You know, news came out that the grand jury that
Speaker 1: was called in Georgia to look into the insurrection in
Speaker 1: terms of the ballot but you know, Donald Trump's go
Speaker 1: find me eleven seven hundred and some odd votes. That
Speaker 1: this grand jury has now completed their work January twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: a judge will now hear from that report, which the
Speaker 1: grand jury has voted to be made public. Now the
Speaker 1: decision is in the Attorney General in Fannie Willis's hands.
Speaker 1: Is there enough in the report to indict? And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, just based on my own seeing ass
Speaker 1: eyes alone, it seems that there's another fucking case. It's
Speaker 1: whether or not anyone has the ovaries or the balls
Speaker 1: to actually bring Donald Trump up on criminal charges, knowing
Speaker 1: that the man has been on a crime spree in
Speaker 1: these United States for at least thirty fucking years. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it is incredibly frustrating that here we are, just a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks into the new year. We want to
Speaker 1: hold out hope, because that's what the new year is about,
Speaker 1: is about turning a page and feeling like we can
Speaker 1: learn the lessons from the past and bring them into
Speaker 1: the future. But lo and behold, there doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: there is going to be a lot of movement, at
Speaker 1: least not in the direction of justice. But when we
Speaker 1: look at what is playing out in places like Brazil,
Speaker 1: we say, oh, there is movement there is movement on
Speaker 1: the side of authoritarianism. There is movement on the side
Speaker 1: of people who want a dictatorship to come back and
Speaker 1: rule over Brazil, which is absolutely batshit crazy, but this
Speaker 1: is what these people want. They are hopped up on
Speaker 1: lies and disinformation and cult of personality, and come to
Speaker 1: find out, oh, this was funny as fuck. Balsonaro also
Speaker 1: is not in Brazil right now. He is in Florida
Speaker 1: receiving medical services because apparently we do that with dictators
Speaker 1: in the United States. Not only do we export our bullshit,
Speaker 1: but we import those people to use, you know, our
Speaker 1: top notch medical facilities. Nonetheless, come to find out that
Speaker 1: his children have tried to flee to the Italian embassy
Speaker 1: inside of Brazil to get Italian passports so that they
Speaker 1: can leave the country because guess who else is up
Speaker 1: under investigation for criminal activity. The apple does not fall
Speaker 1: far from the Trump endorsed tree, my friends, Balsonaro has
Speaker 1: been labeled as the mini Trump, and this is exactly
Speaker 1: what he's doing in Brazil, is what Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been doing. And yet somehow these men are looked at
Speaker 1: as strong men. They're looked at as men to be
Speaker 1: revered and they are nothing more than performance art. It's
Speaker 1: unmistakable the place that we still find ourselves, which is this.
Speaker 1: Our democracy is still very much under attack. Our democracy
Speaker 1: is still very much hanging on by a thread. We
Speaker 1: now have insurrectionists that have been elected to government that
Speaker 1: are going to do their best to finish what it
Speaker 1: was that their foot soldiers couldn't do on the grounds
Speaker 1: in the day on January six, twenty twenty one. What
Speaker 1: they couldn't finish the job then while they just ran
Speaker 1: for office a couple of years later. And guess why
Speaker 1: they were able to run for office. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because none of them were held accountable for
Speaker 1: their part in the insurrection. It's just a page apparently
Speaker 1: that Merritt Garland thinks that we can just turn and
Speaker 1: move on. The thing is is that people don't learn
Speaker 1: from bad behavior. They only learn if they're held accountable
Speaker 1: for that bad behavior. If they're not, then guess what happens.
Speaker 1: They get worse, The monster gets bigger because now they're like,
Speaker 1: look at me, look what I was able to get
Speaker 1: away with. And so then they keep going. So that's
Speaker 1: what happened. We now have a whole Insurrectionist Caucus. You know,
Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus has grown bigger because of why not
Speaker 1: just because of the voters, folks, because Americans are not
Speaker 1: that crazy. It's the fact that we have allowed Republicans
Speaker 1: the ability to gerrymander house districts to look like some
Speaker 1: type of string confetti is a district to ensure that
Speaker 1: Republicans get sent back to the House of Representatives. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you that if the last few days
Speaker 1: or any indication of what we are up against in
Speaker 1: the next two years, then we know for a fact
Speaker 1: that not only are we bracing ourselves for the full
Speaker 1: Republicans circ dis Ola bullshit, but that we're not getting
Speaker 1: anything else done. In November, it was reported that over
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand people across the border, the most in
Speaker 1: history to date. And you know, we know that both
Speaker 1: and I will say this, this is actually a both
Speaker 1: sides thing that I will say, neither Republicans or Democrats
Speaker 1: have a very good idea what to do in terms
Speaker 1: of creating paths to citizenship. Not only that, but America
Speaker 1: hasn't really taken any responsibility for their role in destroying
Speaker 1: economies in other countries, bolstering up either drug lords or dictators,
Speaker 1: and then not intervening when America has already extracted everything
Speaker 1: that it can get, and then wondering why these people
Speaker 1: end up on our borders because you've created absolute mayhem
Speaker 1: in their countries and have done nothing to make amends.
Speaker 1: So what are they supposed to do? Right? We only
Speaker 1: ever see and are ever fed the picture that is
Speaker 1: directly in front of us. No one is ever providing
Speaker 1: any of the back history or intel as to how
Speaker 1: these countries gotten to the situations where they are. At
Speaker 1: this point where tens of thousands of their people need
Speaker 1: to flee with nothing but a knapsack on their backs,
Speaker 1: are willing literally to risk everything, including their lives, to
Speaker 1: make it over the boarder. So, folks, this problem isn't
Speaker 1: going to be solved one because we don't have serious
Speaker 1: people on the side of the Republican Party. But we
Speaker 1: also don't have brave people that are willing to tell
Speaker 1: the American people the truth and say, you know all
Speaker 1: that bullshit that you've been believing for decades upon decades, well,
Speaker 1: it's lies that was force fed to you based on
Speaker 1: what white supremacy and capitalism. If we weren't able to
Speaker 1: make money off of that country anymore. Think that's what
Speaker 1: we didn't really care. So we move prime ministers and
Speaker 1: presidents around like chess pieces on a board because that's
Speaker 1: what wealthier nations are able to do. But it's the
Speaker 1: people on the ground. Those are the ones that make
Speaker 1: the greatest sacrifices. But we don't humanize them. No, you
Speaker 1: have politicians, abbot and discantists that further to humanize these
Speaker 1: people by making them a political stunt, turning them into
Speaker 1: a butt of their right wing fascist jokes, not ever
Speaker 1: asking themselves what would force families to literally walk four
Speaker 1: months for months? So I'm not talking about hours, I'm
Speaker 1: not even talking about a couple of days. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about four months. What kind of fear would be inside
Speaker 1: you to give what little money that you have to
Speaker 1: these coyotes that put you in the back of trucks
Speaker 1: that have no ventilation, no windows, there's no way for
Speaker 1: you to get in and out other than under their
Speaker 1: lock and key. But we don't have those conversations. We
Speaker 1: always want to do fucking case studies on white people
Speaker 1: and how they think, the way they think and why, oh,
Speaker 1: let's understand the Trump voter. I don't need to understand
Speaker 1: racism to any deep extent. But I would love to
Speaker 1: understand what has happened in places like Venezuela and Guatemala
Speaker 1: and in Mexico and what America's responsibility was and is.
Speaker 1: But we don't want to have that conversation. That's not
Speaker 1: good political fodder. So if we think that big topics
Speaker 1: like this or how about this, folks, At the time
Speaker 1: of this taping, California has issued a state of emergency.
Speaker 1: There are multiple cyclones winter cyclones that are causing mudslides,
Speaker 1: record breaking snow and more that is happening and at
Speaker 1: to this point, over a dozen people have been killed. Well,
Speaker 1: that sounds eerily familiar. But on the other side of
Speaker 1: the country where we had forty plus people freeze in
Speaker 1: their cars because of another historic storm that happened up
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. But we don't have people that are willing
Speaker 1: to have these conversations, no, because the Republican Party is
Speaker 1: too busy denying science and truth to actually recognize that
Speaker 1: we are way past Oh what will happen with the
Speaker 1: impending climate crisis? We cross that bridge or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we couldn't because it was washed away by a fucking
Speaker 1: historic hurricane, but no one is there to meet Americans
Speaker 1: where they are and say this is how we can
Speaker 1: help you. That's not who the Republican Party is. It's
Speaker 1: never been. They had a better mask during the Reagan
Speaker 1: years if you weren't paying attention to the war on drugs,
Speaker 1: or better the war on black people. So now we
Speaker 1: are at the perfect storm or one of my favorite
Speaker 1: horrible but good movies, The Day After Tomorrow, where it's
Speaker 1: like all of these major storms converge on one and
Speaker 1: we fast forward into another ice age. Because that's how
Speaker 1: we fucked up the planet that much. You look at
Speaker 1: what Republicans do to the earth here, gutting of the
Speaker 1: EPA during the Trump administration, giving corporations anything and everything
Speaker 1: that they want in order to destroy the environment because
Speaker 1: you know, trickle down blah blah blah. Bulsonato in Brazil
Speaker 1: basically wanted to turn the rainforest into you know, a
Speaker 1: woodshed so that he could make any amount of money possible.
Speaker 1: And it's just like it's the same people. They just
Speaker 1: have different names, but it's the same mentality. Extract and
Speaker 1: colonize and oppress for power and money. The goal of
Speaker 1: Democrats and those who actually believe in community, who believe
Speaker 1: in equity. It's up to us to figure out how
Speaker 1: to message, how to show these people for who they are.
Speaker 1: Because these folks know how to use the media, they
Speaker 1: know how to tell a good lie, and they watch
Speaker 1: it spread like a forest fire. And then all the
Speaker 1: media does is what continue to give them oxygen because
Speaker 1: it's clickbait, because it's ratings, because it's quote unquote good
Speaker 1: for business. It seems to me these days that what
Speaker 1: is good for business is no longer good for democracy.
Speaker 1: The voters understood that at the midterms. The question is
Speaker 1: is how much more damage will be done over the
Speaker 1: next two years that Kevin McCarthy holds the hollowed out
Speaker 1: gavel as the puppet of the House. How much more
Speaker 1: damage will be done? Will Americans be ready in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four to be done with them once and for all,
Speaker 1: or we will just continue to teeter until eventually the
Speaker 1: Republican cult white supremacist party wears us all down. These
Speaker 1: are the real questions that I gotta tell you keep
Speaker 1: me up at night, and I know from many of
Speaker 1: your exchanges on social media do the same to you.
Speaker 1: It's like we continue to just win enough right, like
Speaker 1: we just hold on enough. But my worry is is
Speaker 1: it truly enough? Or are we kidding ourselves? Are we
Speaker 1: just bracing for impact? That is it for me today.
Speaker 1: Friends on wokey f as always power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.