Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Ook f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy fucking Friday, but more importantly, happy fucking Pride. I
Speaker 1: have so many feelings as we begin this Pride month,
Speaker 1: and yesterday I talked a bit about it on the show,
Speaker 1: and for this fucking Friday, I'm saying fuck it to
Speaker 1: the entire state of fucking Florida and Ron de Santis.
Speaker 1: It is really challenging right now, and I want folks
Speaker 1: to like, really understand how and challenging isn't even the
Speaker 1: right word. It is so dehumanizing, so cruel, so hateful.
Speaker 1: So discuss what is happening in the state of Florida
Speaker 1: at the hands of Rond de Santis, who is doing
Speaker 1: his best to try and show what an alpha dog
Speaker 1: he is by attacking the most vulnerable community among us.
Speaker 1: Within the LGBTQ community, which I am a proud member of,
Speaker 1: have been out for a very, very long time. But
Speaker 1: your status of being out or in is not about
Speaker 1: anything other than safety, right. I have fortunately been able
Speaker 1: to live and existence in environments and communities and family
Speaker 1: that have been supportive and loving I have never had
Speaker 1: any adverse treatment for being queer that I know of,
Speaker 1: and that is so not the case for a majority
Speaker 1: of people. My experience is not the majority of LGBTQ
Speaker 1: people's experience, and it's certainly not the majority of trans
Speaker 1: people's experience, particularly black trans people and trans people of color.
Speaker 1: And when I think about the attacks, when I think
Speaker 1: about how hard it is just in general right to
Speaker 1: come out, to live your truth, to live inside of
Speaker 1: your body, right, And all you're asking for, all you're
Speaker 1: asking for is dignity, right, All you're asking for is
Speaker 1: to be treated with dignity and respect. Like, and I
Speaker 1: continue to ask, like, why is that so fucking hard?
Speaker 1: And the thing that I want from reporters? Right? But
Speaker 1: of course Ronda Santis is too much of chicken shit
Speaker 1: to actually take any questions from reporters, right. He only
Speaker 1: he only creates a comfortable environment for himself where he
Speaker 1: surrounds himself with people that are just yes, men and
Speaker 1: women and who not in small and he can't take
Speaker 1: any any adverse comments or treatment. Like right now, that
Speaker 1: motherfucker finds himself on a tour de fource, apparently in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire and NBC News has reported that guess who's
Speaker 1: not taking any questions from reporters, just going up and
Speaker 1: shaking the hands of people who already like him and
Speaker 1: are excited to see him, but won't take questions from reporters. Right.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is is that Ron DeSantis has
Speaker 1: been able to govern inside of this hateful bubble that
Speaker 1: he has created in Florida, but he has no idea
Speaker 1: about how the rest of the country actually feels about
Speaker 1: what is happening in Florida, those that aren't part of
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community, those that aren't black, or Jewish or Asian. Right,
Speaker 1: And you know, when I see the fact that he
Speaker 1: is making all of these cruel, vicious, hateful policies and
Speaker 1: just passing them one right after the other, even if
Speaker 1: reporters aren't able to ask him the direct question, they
Speaker 1: should be writing about it. What is the trans community
Speaker 1: ever done except ask for dignity and respect? Why are
Speaker 1: you so afraid of people who don't want to exist
Speaker 1: inside of this false, fictional binary that was created only
Speaker 1: to really ultimately control women and give men sis men
Speaker 1: the ability to continually dominate. That's all this is about.
Speaker 1: It's about power. And so what does the trans community
Speaker 1: offer and represent. It is bodily autonomy, right, That's what
Speaker 1: it is. And you can already see with the Republican
Speaker 1: policies to roll back abortion in this country that they
Speaker 1: want total and absolute control over womb, right over people.
Speaker 1: It isn't about the fucking kids. They could give a
Speaker 1: fuck about kids, because if they actually, if the Republican
Speaker 1: Party actually cared about kids, then maybe they would care
Speaker 1: about ar fifteens that turn their bodies into Swiss cheese.
Speaker 1: Maybe they would care about those parents that have to
Speaker 1: go and identify their children after mass shootings with dental
Speaker 1: records because their bodies are unrecognizable. If they cared, then
Speaker 1: maybe they would care about the growing mental health crisis
Speaker 1: that young people are in in this country, the silent
Speaker 1: pandemic that we're actually not talking about, because they're being
Speaker 1: faced with a world and an environment that is unsafe
Speaker 1: for them. The other day, I mentioned this on the show,
Speaker 1: and I'll just bring it back up again. I had
Speaker 1: the wonderful honor of being inducted into my high school's
Speaker 1: Hall of Honors, where they celebrate and provide awards to
Speaker 1: those who have reached you know, exceptional heights in their career,
Speaker 1: and I was super honored. But one of the real
Speaker 1: honors was being able to be in a gymnasium filled
Speaker 1: with nine through twelfth graders. Right when was the last
Speaker 1: time I was around Generation Z and Generation Alpha in
Speaker 1: a way that I'm just like in conversation, And I
Speaker 1: was talking to these young people right about, you know,
Speaker 1: what are their fears? What are their interests? And I
Speaker 1: got to tell you that my sister had joined me
Speaker 1: at the at the gymnasium at the you know, the
Speaker 1: like the mini assembly that was held. And these kids
Speaker 1: are like, we're fourteen, fifteen years old, sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about fear of fresh water running out.
Speaker 1: They're talking about fear of not being able to support
Speaker 1: themselves or their families, like real economic anxiety, not that
Speaker 1: couched in racism. They're talking about climate change, they're talking
Speaker 1: about gun violence, right wanting to be successful but not
Speaker 1: really understanding what that success looks like. I asked what
Speaker 1: path these young people wanted to take, you know, were
Speaker 1: they interested in going to college show me your hands,
Speaker 1: you know, or were they interested in a vocation? And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, you know, damn near thirty close
Speaker 1: to thirty over twenty five years ago, when I was
Speaker 1: in high school, if somebody had asked, if an adult
Speaker 1: had asked how many of you were going to college
Speaker 1: right or interested in going to college, every single hand
Speaker 1: would have gone up. Not even half of the hands
Speaker 1: went up. And when I asked, you know, just interested judging,
Speaker 1: but like why, they're like, why the debt? You know,
Speaker 1: when we could get out and start making money now,
Speaker 1: because it was like this real attachment to wanting to
Speaker 1: make money and needing to make money. Why Because they're
Speaker 1: listening to how their families are struggling right now, how
Speaker 1: expensive everything has become. And so when I'm in this
Speaker 1: room filled with these kids, I'm thinking myself, Wow, older
Speaker 1: generations have really fucking failed. It's like absolutely spectacularly failed.
Speaker 1: When fifteen year olds today are going to be so
Speaker 1: much worse off than fifteen year olds of ten and
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. So for the first time, right, younger
Speaker 1: generations are worse off than the generations that preceded them.
Speaker 1: They're in more debt, they're going to experience write all
Speaker 1: of the repercussions of climate denial, They're going to experience
Speaker 1: the economic severe economic disparities right on top of you know,
Speaker 1: are crumbling democracy and the fact that there are people
Speaker 1: that are running for the presidency right now and the
Speaker 1: Republican Party that want to take away their right to
Speaker 1: vote until they're twenty five years old because they don't
Speaker 1: want to have to answer to this younger generation that
Speaker 1: is so much more equipped and educated and technologically advanced
Speaker 1: than any other generation that preceded them. And So when
Speaker 1: I think about why Ron DeSantis is making the kind
Speaker 1: of attacks that he is against trans youth and the
Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, why because they we represent free thinking and
Speaker 1: Generation Z and Generation Alpha don't really give a fuck
Speaker 1: right about people's sexual orientation or gender identity. More of
Speaker 1: them identify with they then pronouns than any other generation.
Speaker 1: And that scares the hell out of Republicans. And so
Speaker 1: what do right, what do they do? They turn their
Speaker 1: fear into hateful policy to try and silence a generation
Speaker 1: of people that has critical thought right, that has questions
Speaker 1: about why we have all just been going along for
Speaker 1: the get along when it comes to capitalism, Why we've
Speaker 1: all been going along for the get along when it
Speaker 1: comes to patriarchy and misogyny, Why you go into different
Speaker 1: stores and there aren't just clothes, but they are clothes
Speaker 1: that are specific genders. And if you move outside of that,
Speaker 1: then there are headlines and conversations and bands and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. This younger generation Gen Z,
Speaker 1: they and Gen Alpha they are probably the most queer.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean queer necessarily in their sexual orientation
Speaker 1: or identity. I mean queer in terms of queering the norm,
Speaker 1: moving and thinking outside of the box. Right, not proceeding
Speaker 1: in this linear way of being and not right, not
Speaker 1: connecting with bullshit hierarchy just for the sake of hierarchy.
Speaker 1: You know. There are so many memes and I have
Speaker 1: posted them, and some of them are really and TikTok
Speaker 1: videos about the real difference in ideological makeup of the generations. Right,
Speaker 1: if you go on TikTok and you look at like,
Speaker 1: you know, the boomers versus you know, Gen X versus
Speaker 1: millennials versus Gen Z and so on and so forth,
Speaker 1: and how older people really view Gen Z is like, oh,
Speaker 1: they don't want to work, right, And I've said it.
Speaker 1: I've said it too. Oh they don't want to work. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they don't want to work, Like we did like we
Speaker 1: do right. They want their work to be of purpose.
Speaker 1: They don't want to just succumb and fall in line
Speaker 1: to hierarchical thinking just for the sake of somebody said
Speaker 1: because I told you so. They're the ones that are
Speaker 1: going to continually ask why why are we doing things
Speaker 1: this way? Why is this functioning like this, and then
Speaker 1: decide whether or not they actually want to take part
Speaker 1: or just op the fuck out. You See, when I
Speaker 1: was entering into the workforce, as I'm sure many of
Speaker 1: you were, it was, you know, you kiss the ring,
Speaker 1: You keep your head down, you keep quiet, you soak
Speaker 1: up as much information as you can. If your bosses
Speaker 1: are abusive, you just deal with it, because that's part
Speaker 1: of what it means to quote unquote grow up. If
Speaker 1: you get screamed at, if you get demeaned, right like,
Speaker 1: that's all just par for the course. Except these younger
Speaker 1: generations are now growing up in a way where we
Speaker 1: have created laws and policies around mistreatment right where we
Speaker 1: have openly discussed and you have entire departments in companies
Speaker 1: and organizations that are created about having inclusivity and diversity.
Speaker 1: And that is what the rond Descantis is of the
Speaker 1: world fucking hate because they want the ability to demean,
Speaker 1: to discriminate, to create fearful environments, to push people back
Speaker 1: into the closets, to make people fearful to speak up
Speaker 1: and exist. So he's going to defund leftist ideology. Oh,
Speaker 1: you mean progress. And the question that I want reporters
Speaker 1: to ask is, so, what is it about progress that
Speaker 1: you hate? Right? What is it about people all being
Speaker 1: able to have a voice, whether it is in their
Speaker 1: company or their organization or in government. Why is that
Speaker 1: such a problem If each generation's job is about perfecting
Speaker 1: this union, why are you trying to roll back the clock.
Speaker 1: Why at a time when we need to be ensuring
Speaker 1: that young people who do decide to go into higher
Speaker 1: education are globally competitive. Why are you changing curriculum and
Speaker 1: only qu focusing on the quote unquote basics. The basics
Speaker 1: aren't going to get them into the middle class, let
Speaker 1: alone anything above that. So is your goal to create
Speaker 1: just and solidify an indentured class, right? Like, these are
Speaker 1: the real questions, because you see, we get very distracted
Speaker 1: with the hate, right, We get very distracted with the
Speaker 1: banning of drag shows and the banning of trans youth
Speaker 1: from participating in sports, right, and all of these things,
Speaker 1: but we're not getting to the they're there, and that
Speaker 1: they're there is about control, because so long as you
Speaker 1: can create an environment of fear and hopelessness and despair,
Speaker 1: those people are easier to control. Because you see what's
Speaker 1: happening in Florida is that those that can actually afford
Speaker 1: right to pick up their entire lives are leaving the state. Right.
Speaker 1: Those that are left behind are going to be the
Speaker 1: ones that are the most endangered. What kind of education
Speaker 1: are they going to receive? And this is why I
Speaker 1: appreciate and I have lifted this up Gavin Newsom, the
Speaker 1: governor of California, and what he is pushing back against
Speaker 1: with the textbooks, the textbook publishing companies that are folding
Speaker 1: to Ron de Santis and to Greg Abbott and changing curriculum. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, there isn't a plethora of fucking textbook publishers
Speaker 1: in the country. So if Florida decides that, oh, we're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about slavery, we're not going to
Speaker 1: talk about the suffragist movement, we're not going to talk
Speaker 1: about unions, and we're going to take all of that
Speaker 1: out of the history books. Well, that isn't just about
Speaker 1: the lack of education that is going to be happening
Speaker 1: in Florida because those books are sent all around the country.
Speaker 1: And what Gavin Newsom is saying, and frankly, what the
Speaker 1: fuck Kathy Hopel should be saying in New York the
Speaker 1: governors of the two most populous states, is like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we're not doing that. So when I think about this
Speaker 1: Pride Month, when I think about what a difficult situation,
Speaker 1: what a dangerous situation. So many queer people are in
Speaker 1: around this country. And look, you know, folks, I know
Speaker 1: that it's very easy for those of us who live
Speaker 1: currently in safe zones to say, well, people should just move.
Speaker 1: How would you feel having to pick up your entire
Speaker 1: life and just move and start over again when generations
Speaker 1: of your family have lived in one state in area
Speaker 1: where that's where your family is, that's where you went
Speaker 1: to school, that's where you've laid down roots, and now
Speaker 1: you're just going to uproot yourself and go and start
Speaker 1: over again. And look, we've seen this happen in this
Speaker 1: country with the great migration over the course of a
Speaker 1: decade plus, with black people fleeing Black Americans fleeing the
Speaker 1: South and spreading out into the North and Midwest where
Speaker 1: there was just a little less racism. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have a burning cross on their lawn, maybe
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have to be fearful of being lynched each
Speaker 1: and every day that they left their homes. We saw
Speaker 1: it with the Holocaust and people fleeing, spreading out all
Speaker 1: over Europe and coming to the United States. So there
Speaker 1: have absolutely been so many situations where you're talking about
Speaker 1: Syrian refugees, Ukrainian refugees, right. There have always been times
Speaker 1: in political climates and moments that have forced people from
Speaker 1: their homes. To think about the fact that that is
Speaker 1: happening inside of the United States, with people needing to
Speaker 1: flee Florida. I want us to wrap our minds around
Speaker 1: that reality because that is where we are. So this Friday,
Speaker 1: I say fuck it to all of the inhumane, horrendous,
Speaker 1: cruel policies that are becoming law all over this country.
Speaker 1: And the fact is that we cannot wait until we
Speaker 1: are the ones that are affected before we actually do
Speaker 1: something about it, because there are young people that are
Speaker 1: depending on us, frankly, because they don't have the right
Speaker 1: to vote yet, and yet the decisions that are being
Speaker 1: made right now are going to affect their futures. So
Speaker 1: the question is what are we all going to do
Speaker 1: about that? That is it for me today, dear friends,
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