Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody. Recording from the Long Island
Speaker 1: Bunker and not the Home Bunker. Folks. You know, it
Speaker 1: feels like there is not a week that goes by
Speaker 1: that we are not discussing gun violence or mass shooting
Speaker 1: on this show. And that is because, as of the
Speaker 1: end of April, right which I think it was over
Speaker 1: one hundred days don't question me on the math, there
Speaker 1: have been over one hundred and eighty six shootings, more
Speaker 1: shootings than there are days so far in this year.
Speaker 1: And I say that and I know that sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: for folks, it just falls on non listening ears where
Speaker 1: it's just like, ah, you know, that's just what it
Speaker 1: means to live in America these days. It's not normal.
Speaker 1: And I say this because I have to say it
Speaker 1: out loud to remind myself as well as all of you,
Speaker 1: that how Republicans are forcing us to live is not
Speaker 1: fucking normal. It's not normal when you have several countries
Speaker 1: that issue travel warnings and guidance to people for coming
Speaker 1: to the United States, which is what happened with Canada
Speaker 1: and Germany. And I believe New Zealand and others that
Speaker 1: have been issuing travel warnings for tourists coming to the
Speaker 1: United States. I have long since said that I believe
Speaker 1: that maybe if tourism were to take a huge hit,
Speaker 1: that maybe then something would be done about the rampant
Speaker 1: gun violence in this country. Because it doesn't matter, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where the polls fall, It doesn't matter that here
Speaker 1: is where a majority of Americans agree. Those that are
Speaker 1: gun owners are not that. You know, they would like
Speaker 1: to be able to go about living their day to
Speaker 1: day lives or dropping their kids off at school, or
Speaker 1: going to the grocery store, or going to a house
Speaker 1: of worship or any place without being fearful of being
Speaker 1: shot and killed. Right. You know. I have come home
Speaker 1: to Long Island to spend time with my family, and
Speaker 1: my mother says to me, you know, it's just like,
Speaker 1: the more I watch the news, the more I don't
Speaker 1: want to go outside. And She's just like, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter, because I could be shot dead in
Speaker 1: the house. Right. I draw your attention to, you know,
Speaker 1: the latest shooting that made headlines, because, of course, folks,
Speaker 1: I want you to understand that for every news story
Speaker 1: that makes national headlines, there are so many local stories
Speaker 1: that won't see the light of day nationally. Right So
Speaker 1: the latest story to make national headlines, of course, happens
Speaker 1: in the state of Texas, where five neighbors were gunned down,
Speaker 1: including a eight year old boy, because they had the
Speaker 1: audacity to walk down the street to ask a man
Speaker 1: that was firing off AR fifteen rounds in his front yard,
Speaker 1: because just pause for a minute, because that's fucking normal
Speaker 1: that you just sit and you're just firing off an
Speaker 1: AR fifteen. As if you live on a military base,
Speaker 1: you don't, or this is someplace in the midst of war.
Speaker 1: It's not. But that's what I guess people do when
Speaker 1: you own AR fifteen teens in your front yard. And
Speaker 1: so because the infant that they had could not go
Speaker 1: to sleep because of rapid gunfire, they asked their neighbor,
Speaker 1: could you stop maybe, And instead of doing what any
Speaker 1: normal person would do, that gunman turned around, loaded up
Speaker 1: his gun in his home, walked down the street, and
Speaker 1: assassinated his five neighbors. The little boy, who, according to
Speaker 1: his father, who was shot dead, saw his mother get shot,
Speaker 1: ran to her aid, and then was shot killed. Three children.
Speaker 1: As I've stated before, were also discovered covered in blood, alive,
Speaker 1: but covered in blood of their parents. And Texas Governor
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, after days of not saying a fucking thing,
Speaker 1: then comes out with a statement that is so reprehensible,
Speaker 1: you know, folks, I am running out of words to
Speaker 1: describe how heartless, how were moral, how disgusting, how just
Speaker 1: gross Republicans are. Greg Abbott comes out with a statement
Speaker 1: that says that these people were illegal immigrants, which they
Speaker 1: were not. A few of the people, the human beings
Speaker 1: that were murdered in cold blood, were residents of Texas
Speaker 1: and residents of the United States. And to think that
Speaker 1: a governor who had multiple tragic deaths happened in his
Speaker 1: state would see to discuss the citizenship of the people
Speaker 1: who were killed rather than the humanity of those people,
Speaker 1: just goes to show you who the governor is, and
Speaker 1: he is a piece of absolute fucking shit. The sheriff
Speaker 1: in the county where this shooting took place, however, did
Speaker 1: what the governor couldn't bring himself to do because he
Speaker 1: has no heart, which was to, with tears in his eyes,
Speaker 1: expressed very clearly that it didn't matter whether or not
Speaker 1: these people were documented or undocumented. He said, I don't
Speaker 1: give a damn. There are members of my county people
Speaker 1: who lived here a child, and that's what matters, and
Speaker 1: that is where my heart is. You know. I spoke
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the week because I really can't
Speaker 1: get over it. I really, folks, that I just I
Speaker 1: can't wrap my mind around how this Republican Party has
Speaker 1: been allowed to say that they are a party of
Speaker 1: family values, has been allowed to say that they are
Speaker 1: pro life when they or anything. But we are just
Speaker 1: a few weeks removed from the mass shooting that took
Speaker 1: place at the Kentucky Bank, from the mass shooting that
Speaker 1: took place at the Tennessee Private Elementary School, from the
Speaker 1: mass shooting that took place at the Sweet sixteen in Alabama,
Speaker 1: and from every single mass shooting that I'm forgetting about
Speaker 1: that took place before all of those. Lauren Bobert, the
Speaker 1: fucking dummy who represents a district in Colorado, she thought
Speaker 1: that it would be really cute this week, following all
Speaker 1: of those mass that left several children dead, bodies ripped
Speaker 1: to shreds, with a T shirt, a T shirt that
Speaker 1: she thought made a whole bunch of sense and was funny.
Speaker 1: Was funny. She thought the T shirt that she holds
Speaker 1: up with a stupid shitt eating grin on her face reads,
Speaker 1: since we're renaming everything and there's a picture of an
Speaker 1: AR fifteen, this is a cordless hole puncher. She thought
Speaker 1: it was really funny. She thought she was being witty
Speaker 1: by mocking the transgender community, mocking the queer community, and
Speaker 1: also mocking the victims of gun violence and mass shootings
Speaker 1: at the same time. A TikToker decided to do a
Speaker 1: video where he clearly laid out that there was nothing
Speaker 1: funny about the T shirt and how fucking heartless she is.
Speaker 1: And so he went on to say, let me show
Speaker 1: you the faces of the lives that have been taken
Speaker 1: by your cordless whole puncher, And he showed in his
Speaker 1: video the pictures of children from Uvaldi, children from Newtown,
Speaker 1: the grieving parents of those at funerals putting their children
Speaker 1: in the ground because their bodies holes weren't just punched
Speaker 1: through them, their bodies were ripped apart. Because that's what
Speaker 1: weapons of mass destruction do. They ensure that the shooter,
Speaker 1: when hitting their victims, doesn't just kill them, but destroys
Speaker 1: their bodies in the process. You see, we don't know
Speaker 1: what these parents and frankly law enforcement authorities see when
Speaker 1: they go to the site where they have to identify
Speaker 1: the bodies of their loved ones that are unrecognizable. I
Speaker 1: remember that after Newtown, one of the parents saying that
Speaker 1: they had to identify their child, their six year old,
Speaker 1: with their dental records because their little six year old
Speaker 1: body was ripped to shreds, riddled with bullets, not from
Speaker 1: a whole puncher, but from a weapon of war. When
Speaker 1: I see the likes of a. Greg Abbott and Lauren
Speaker 1: Boubert and those members of the Republican Party who removed
Speaker 1: their American flag pins to place ar fifteens on their lapels,
Speaker 1: I think about how they are beyond heartless. I think
Speaker 1: about how they are so devoid of humanity that they
Speaker 1: have no business representing anyone. Lauren Bobert has no business
Speaker 1: being in Congress, not to mention the fact that she's
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot, and that if we actually gave exams
Speaker 1: in the way that you have to enter into law
Speaker 1: school or grad school program we're at college and have
Speaker 1: to take the SATs and get a certain score. I
Speaker 1: wonder how many Republicans would remain in office if they
Speaker 1: had to face I don't know a basic test of
Speaker 1: let's say, the contents of the Constitution, or you know,
Speaker 1: just basic laws, basic you know, Supreme Court cases that
Speaker 1: policies are based around. If they would be able to
Speaker 1: even get a passing grade. I'm pretty sure that if
Speaker 1: it wasn't put out by QAnon, Marjorie Taylor Green wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to wrap her small, little reptile brain around it.
Speaker 1: The fact is is that these people, by their actions
Speaker 1: show you who they are on a regular basis, And
Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert sees fit and the people that put her
Speaker 1: in office, and we know that she hung on by
Speaker 1: a threat. I think, what was it? Just a handful
Speaker 1: of votes? Right, so when people say, oh, my vote
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it was a handful of votes that kept
Speaker 1: that piece of traction office in Colorado. But I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I would like to at least believe that most people
Speaker 1: in the United States actually have a heart, that most
Speaker 1: people in the United States, when they hear stories of
Speaker 1: mass shootings, whether they happen at concerts or parades, or
Speaker 1: schools or synagogues or churches, or mosques or movie theaters
Speaker 1: or Sweet sixteen parties, that most people, when they see
Speaker 1: the heartbreak, the tears, and how communities and families are
Speaker 1: ripped apart, that there would be compassion. But you see,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party has become so detached from humanity, so
Speaker 1: detached from reality, that they think that this shit is funny.
Speaker 1: I find nothing funny about death. I find nothing funny
Speaker 1: about mass murder. I mean, we supposedly have ethics rules,
Speaker 1: but apparently they don't apply to actions being taken like this. Again,
Speaker 1: if this were any other country and an entire political
Speaker 1: party was wrapped around the ideology of mass murder and violence,
Speaker 1: we would be invading, we'd be withholding funds. But in America,
Speaker 1: so long as that party is led by white evangelical Christians,
Speaker 1: I guess it's okay. It's okay to applaud terrorism, it's
Speaker 1: okay to wear T shirt. It's in smile at the
Speaker 1: trauma that we are forcing generations of children to live through.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw recently No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen,
Speaker 1: who I interviewed on Democracy Ish. My colleague and I
Speaker 1: wajahat Ali interviewed on Democracy Ish last year, and he
Speaker 1: reposted this tweet by Bridget Gabriel, a Republican, and she
Speaker 1: tweeted this, raise the voting age to twenty one, Bring
Speaker 1: back the draft. Gen Z is a disaster that requires
Speaker 1: emergency correction. So I want folks to think about what
Speaker 1: she tweets here. Raise the age to twenty one? Really,
Speaker 1: so you should be eighteen to go to war, but
Speaker 1: twenty one to vote? Right? Raise the age because what
Speaker 1: Generation Z is showing themselves to be one of the
Speaker 1: most conscious and politically astute generation Maybe because the prior
Speaker 1: generations are handing them a fucking pile of shit in
Speaker 1: the form of a country and the planet for that matter.
Speaker 1: Bring back the draft. So send this generation to war
Speaker 1: to die so that they don't vote. How about you,
Speaker 1: motherfuckers create policy that people actually want to get behind.
Speaker 1: But no, you're not interested in that. You're just interested
Speaker 1: in suppressing the vote. This is not the first Republican
Speaker 1: to say this. There's a multiple Republican members that have said, oh,
Speaker 1: we need to pass legislation to ban the use of
Speaker 1: college id's in order for young people to vote, because
Speaker 1: they don't want young people voting, because you see the
Speaker 1: more young people that vote and are able to vote
Speaker 1: on their college campuses, the more young people that are
Speaker 1: engaged with what is going on, you think that they're
Speaker 1: voting for Republicans. What the fuck policies are Republicans passing
Speaker 1: that young people are going to get behind. You're banning abortion,
Speaker 1: you're banning books, you're banning curriculum. You're voting against the
Speaker 1: actual environment in the air, clean air, and clean water.
Speaker 1: So what policies are you giving them to vote for?
Speaker 1: So you just don't want them to vote at all,
Speaker 1: and you are saying because there is no quiet part,
Speaker 1: you are saying everything out loud. So when people say
Speaker 1: I don't know what's in the hearts of Republicans, well
Speaker 1: you don't have to wonder, because they are telling you.
Speaker 1: You know I people have said before that you can
Speaker 1: tell where a country's values are by what they place
Speaker 1: their money in. And we know that every year we
Speaker 1: have the same conversations that circulate on mainstream media with
Speaker 1: regard to the debt ceiling. Republicans want to hold America's
Speaker 1: debt hostage in order to just fully decimate the middle
Speaker 1: class and the working class by basically saying, as terrorists do,
Speaker 1: either you cut social safety nets or else. Right, the
Speaker 1: Pentagon received hundreds of millions of dollars over their actual
Speaker 1: budget request. I think it was last year or the
Speaker 1: year before, hundreds of millions of dollars over they asked for.
Speaker 1: I'd call me crazy, but the next ten countries, according
Speaker 1: to one of my fellow nerd Avengers on the Mary
Speaker 1: Trump Show, the next ten countries, which are our allies,
Speaker 1: have budgets that are minuscule in comparison. If we were
Speaker 1: to just level out or maybe just give back and
Speaker 1: redistribute the money that was given to the Pentagon over
Speaker 1: what they asked for, this country, in so many ways
Speaker 1: would be in better shape. People say, oh, well, we
Speaker 1: need to be able to defend ourselves from who because
Speaker 1: no one else's military budget matches ours. And even if
Speaker 1: we were too, I don't know. Again, redistribute the of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars over that we gave, and let's say
Speaker 1: I put it into something crazy like education or healthcare.
Speaker 1: American citizens would be better off. It's our tax dollars, right.
Speaker 1: You see, we've created this culture of fear and the
Speaker 1: belief that we're always under attack. Somebody's always coming to
Speaker 1: get us, so we must we must pump up our military,
Speaker 1: except that is just thinking that extends from white supremacy
Speaker 1: and manifest destiny. We have created most of the problems
Speaker 1: that we have, and by we, I mean our military,
Speaker 1: and our military by virtue of the politicians that you know,
Speaker 1: get to create policy that use human beings as toy
Speaker 1: soldiers and put them in places in order to rape
Speaker 1: and pillage literally natural resources, disrupt economies for the betterment
Speaker 1: of America. It has never been really about democracy, are
Speaker 1: we fucking kidding? That's the biggest lie. It's always been
Speaker 1: about plundering other nations and having a large enough military
Speaker 1: that they can't fight back. We look at our issue
Speaker 1: like immigration, and we want to blame it on those
Speaker 1: people that are being forced to leave their homes, in
Speaker 1: their whole lives in seeking out something better, a better
Speaker 1: life for them and their kids. But nobody tells you
Speaker 1: the side of the story that has had them fully
Speaker 1: in the first fucking place, The way that America and
Speaker 1: our politics are responsible for the instability that their country's face,
Speaker 1: their lack of economic development, the fact that we have
Speaker 1: moved around different prime ministers in presidents and put them
Speaker 1: in place so that it benefits our bottom line, not
Speaker 1: those of the country, the countries that we get to
Speaker 1: label as underdeveloped because we've purposefully underdeveloped them and kept
Speaker 1: them indebted to the United States. Colonialism may be done
Speaker 1: on its face by name, but not in action. So
Speaker 1: I want people to understand that when we are told
Speaker 1: by politicians that live in this ideology of scarcity and
Speaker 1: fear that my god, we couldn't possibly redistribute the over
Speaker 1: budget that we are paying for the Pentagon into other areas,
Speaker 1: understand that they make money because they have stocks and
Speaker 1: don't owner interests in war in defense contracts. This isn't
Speaker 1: about safety, It's about fucking greed, and both Republicans and
Speaker 1: Democrats in this vein are responsible for perpetuating this lie.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to end today with, you know,
Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit of good news,
Speaker 1: and it's not even really good because you know, unfortunately
Speaker 1: too many horrific things need to happen, right, and then
Speaker 1: we just pray for a monicum of justice. But one
Speaker 1: of the last of the four officers who were responsible
Speaker 1: for the murder of George Floyd. The paper is referred
Speaker 1: to it as the death of George Floyd but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call it what it is, which was a public
Speaker 1: execution in lynching so Hannipen County in Minneapolis, Judge of
Speaker 1: Peter Cahill said in a verdict that the former officer
Speaker 1: the last officer, and I believe it's Tow Tao t
Speaker 1: o U t h a O, who had waived his
Speaker 1: right to a jury trial. The judge said this when
Speaker 1: convicting him of aiding in a bedding in the murder
Speaker 1: of George Floyd. Quote he actively encouraged his three colleagues
Speaker 1: dangerous prone restraint of Floyd. That he was guilty on
Speaker 1: Monday of aiding in a bedding in second degree manslaughter
Speaker 1: of George Floyd. And you know, I want to remind folks,
Speaker 1: as if you need reminding, that George Floyd was killed
Speaker 1: during the height of the pandemic in twenty twenty. It's
Speaker 1: set off global protests in the midst of a pandemic
Speaker 1: against the killing of an unarmed black man in broad daylight.
Speaker 1: Mister Taw, the former ex police officer, is currently serving
Speaker 1: a three and a half year federal sentence for failing
Speaker 1: to provide medical help to George Floyd and to stop
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin from killing him. So he's already in federal prison,
Speaker 1: and he is going to now be sentenced again, and
Speaker 1: that hearing will take place on August seventh. Now, while
Speaker 1: again we can say, oh, well, you know, justice has
Speaker 1: quote unquote prevailed. What justice looks like is George Floyd
Speaker 1: being able to go home after police were called for
Speaker 1: a routine, you know, counterfeit twenty dollars? Did you know
Speaker 1: that it was counterfeit? Here's a ticket and go along
Speaker 1: your way. That's what justice would have looked like. Justice
Speaker 1: would look like being able to believe that most police
Speaker 1: officers are good instead of a part of a poisonous orchard.
Speaker 1: Justice would look like not having to hold your breath
Speaker 1: and wonder whether or not officers who were filmed would
Speaker 1: be found guilty. In America, this, while is news, is
Speaker 1: not really good news. I'm confused about what good news
Speaker 1: and our justice system would look like. Maybe it will
Speaker 1: look like the conviction of Donald Trump for rape in
Speaker 1: a civil suit. Maybe it'll look like the federal indictments
Speaker 1: and then guilty verdicts for Donald Trump and his sycophans
Speaker 1: for over trying to overturn an election and destroy our democracy.
Speaker 1: Maybe it will look like white, wealthy people and police
Speaker 1: officers being held accountable for their wrongdoing, and that not
Speaker 1: being a hope and a prayer that the people of
Speaker 1: this country have that it would just be this is
Speaker 1: what happens. You break the law, regardless of who you are,
Speaker 1: how much money you have, and whether you have a
Speaker 1: shield or not, you're held accountable. We live in a
Speaker 1: really unjust, injust country where headlines like this give us
Speaker 1: brief comfort when it shouldn't. That is it for me
Speaker 1: to day. Dear friends on woke f as always power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.