Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from Podstream Studios in
Speaker 1: Times Square. Actually, folks, it has been a busy as
Speaker 1: fuck week so far, and as you are listening to this,
Speaker 1: yesterday the president, former president twice in peach president of
Speaker 1: the United States, Donald Trump was arraigned on thirty seven
Speaker 1: federal counts.
Speaker 2: And folks, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: This media cycle, the fucking wall to wall coverage, this
Speaker 1: drone footage showing a twenty car motorcade.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs this.
Speaker 1: Ship and cable news and all of the other mainstream
Speaker 1: news outlets have learned absolutely fucking nothing. Yes, is this historic, Sure,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. But let us understand the reality and
Speaker 1: gravity of this situation that these news stations are not covering,
Speaker 1: which is that Donald Trump continues to use his fake ass,
Speaker 1: broke ass Twitter in order to rile up people who
Speaker 1: didn't show up for him. Right, because this isn't a
Speaker 1: January sixth event. They were able to have January sixth
Speaker 1: happen because whiteness protects whiteness. And even though these people
Speaker 1: were organizing out in broad fucking daylight on every single
Speaker 1: social media platform. You know, Trump was in charge at
Speaker 1: that time, so he was the one that could give
Speaker 1: the order to put out, you know, barricades, to get prepared.
Speaker 1: But you know what, the city of DC was caught
Speaker 1: flat footed. The federal government was being run by the insurrector,
Speaker 1: insurrectionists in chief, and he was able to tell people
Speaker 1: that their votes were stolen. You don't get the same
Speaker 1: fucking energy when it is about you hiding documents in
Speaker 1: your fucking home that had you just returned them when
Speaker 1: they were asked for, we wouldn't have even been in
Speaker 1: this situation. The Department of Justice gave this motherfucker so
Speaker 1: many opportunities and chances to do the right things over
Speaker 1: the last two and a half years since he's left office,
Speaker 1: and you know what, at every single fucking turn, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said, now I'm good. I'm a fucking criminal. And
Speaker 1: not only am I going to hide stuff from the DOJ,
Speaker 1: I'm going to hide stuff from my own fucking lawyers.
Speaker 1: So the issue that we have rights. As Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is now back to his regular scheduled programming of lying,
Speaker 1: inciting violence, and fundraising off of white grievance. Here's what
Speaker 1: transpired as as I'm sure many of you know his lawyers,
Speaker 1: which he was represented by, Todd Blanche, entered a plea
Speaker 1: of not guilty, and as a matter of fact, Todd
Speaker 1: Blanche said this quote, we most certainly enter a plea
Speaker 1: if not guilty. Okay, we all saw the boxes, sir.
Speaker 1: We all know that there were the word classified was
Speaker 1: fucking printed on them, that were strewn across the floor
Speaker 1: and inside of that Takias bathroom and on top of
Speaker 1: that Takias stage.
Speaker 2: But got it.
Speaker 1: The reality is I want you to understand too, that
Speaker 1: the pushback that Republicans are having is by calling this
Speaker 1: a witch hunt, saying that it's politically motivated. But again,
Speaker 1: no reporters are actually saying. Do you think so if
Speaker 1: this were Hillary Clinton, if this were Barack Obama, if
Speaker 1: this were Bill Clinton, if this were any other Democrat,
Speaker 1: y'all wouldn't be up in arms right that you think
Speaker 1: that it's okay that Donald Trump had nuclear secrets and
Speaker 1: military plans strown about for any taxi as motherfucker to
Speaker 1: walk in mar Lago, any you know, member of some
Speaker 1: wedding party to just stumble into this bathroom and be
Speaker 1: able to see, Oh well, I guess that's where Iran
Speaker 1: is going to be attacked. Really, you think that that's
Speaker 1: a good idea for our military and shows the safety
Speaker 1: and security of our military and our treasured secrets to
Speaker 1: our allies. You think that if I'm in the European Alliance,
Speaker 1: if I'm in these other spaces, that I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the United States right now and saying, yeah, they seem
Speaker 1: fucking unstable. They don't really have their shit together. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have to figure out how we operate
Speaker 1: outside of going with and looking towards the United States
Speaker 1: here because they don't really know what they're doing. You
Speaker 1: all think that that's good, that's a good look, But
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what journalism would do. But that's clearly
Speaker 1: not where we are. Cable news is in the entertainment business,
Speaker 1: right They are in the ratings business right now. So
Speaker 1: here is what the New York Times reported, and I
Speaker 1: will read. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman, who oversaw the hearing,
Speaker 1: ordered mister Trump not to discuss the case with his valet,
Speaker 1: who is also being charged with federal crimes, mister Nauda,
Speaker 1: or any witnesses. The judge said he understood that the
Speaker 1: two men must speak on a daily basis, but said
Speaker 1: anything related to the case must go through lawyers.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's see a show.
Speaker 1: Of hands, virtual hands right now to how many people
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump is gonna shut the fuck up?
Speaker 2: Right? Even if shutting the fucked up.
Speaker 1: Would give him tens of millions of dollars a day
Speaker 1: in his bank account, that motherfucker wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: do it. So I'm pretty sure that this was just
Speaker 1: said to be said, but we know it's not going
Speaker 1: to be followed. Mister Trump was represented in court by
Speaker 1: Christopher M. Keith, a former Florida Solicitor General, and mister Blanche,
Speaker 1: a prominent New York defense lawyer. His legal team has
Speaker 1: been in flux, which many of you know and has
Speaker 1: been reported here since two of the lawyers representing him
Speaker 1: have resigned shortly after the indictment was made public. Mister Smith,
Speaker 1: Jack Smith, the Special Counsel, also attended the hearing. The case,
Speaker 1: as we know, has been assigned to Aileen Cannon. And
Speaker 1: if you've been watching the news, staying up to date
Speaker 1: on Twitter, and listening to this show, you know that
Speaker 1: Judge Aileen Cannon is not even held in high regard
Speaker 1: by her own fucking colleagues. Uh. If you remember, the
Speaker 1: Eleventh Circuit Court basically admonished her publicly, basically called her
Speaker 1: a fucking dummy for the decisions that she made during
Speaker 1: the initiation of the document's case. Uh, and said that
Speaker 1: she was making decisions that were well outside the rule
Speaker 1: of law and that it was egregious. Right, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna continue to watch this space. Obviously, the Slate article
Speaker 1: that I read yesterday was with regard to her refusal.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But you know, here's the thing about the United States
Speaker 1: and our judicial system is that pretty much these motherfuckers
Speaker 1: in black robes are I guess, kings, right, kings and
Speaker 1: queens that can do whatever it is that they want.
Speaker 1: There is really no check and balance at all. So
Speaker 1: Judge Aileen Cannon, who is ill equipped, as as some
Speaker 1: said on on cable news, not intellectually up to the
Speaker 1: task for this very important job, could recuse herself, could
Speaker 1: take her name out of the out of the lights
Speaker 1: and keep it pushing and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm too involved, My name is too much here, I'm
Speaker 1: under too much scrutiny, and I'm going to recuse myself.
Speaker 1: But you know, up until this point, she has it,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure she won't because she got that job
Speaker 1: for this particular reason.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You know, I want folks to think about this, that
Speaker 1: when presidents have the opportunity to instill federal judges, right,
Speaker 1: and now we understand late, you know, better late than ever.
Speaker 1: Now we understand exactly how important federal judges are. You see,
Speaker 1: when most presidents and Republicans prior to Donald Trump were
Speaker 1: placing federal judges, they were doing so not to cover
Speaker 1: their own asses, do you know what I'm saying. Not
Speaker 1: because they thought that at some point in time they
Speaker 1: were going to be appearing before the judge.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They were doing it more so on ideological realms and focuses.
Speaker 1: But we had never really thought about judges impartiality until
Speaker 1: the Trump years. I really want us to understand that. Sure,
Speaker 1: we've had conservative courts and liberal courts, and conservative judges
Speaker 1: and more progressive judges, but the fact is that we
Speaker 1: always held and maybe this is why they see and
Speaker 1: have a God complex, we always held judges beyond reproach
Speaker 1: right because they took an oath and they followed that oath.
Speaker 2: But that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 1: It's not where we have been in almost a decade
Speaker 1: now since Donald Trump came down that escalator. We're you know,
Speaker 1: seven to eight years into this bitch, and know that,
Speaker 1: you know, Aileen kind of knows exactly why she was
Speaker 1: put in that place, and so you know, she's pretty
Speaker 1: much the Manchurian candidate, but a judge for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And we will see and we will cover how this
Speaker 1: plays out because frankly, Jack Smith called for a speedy trial.
Speaker 2: And it would be normal that.
Speaker 1: Within I think it was said sixty to seventy days
Speaker 1: that an indictment comes down that the trial would begin,
Speaker 1: which would put us around September. But we will see
Speaker 1: if Judge Aileen Callen is going to play politics, and
Speaker 1: we will see if the Department of Justice, because of
Speaker 1: the safety of our were international secrets, because of the
Speaker 1: sensitive time frame that we're working in, actually decide to appeal.
Speaker 1: Trump left the court and you know, did what he does,
Speaker 1: which is he's going back to do a fundraiser at Bedminster.
Speaker 1: You know, this is what was said about the media coverage,
Speaker 1: the wall to wall media coverage.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Whenever politics and law clash, there's always a tension because
Speaker 1: they they are both places where fighting takes place. This
Speaker 1: is John Dickerson of CBS said from a makeshift balcony.
Speaker 1: Politics is the fighting of the barroom, and the law
Speaker 1: is more like a boxing match.
Speaker 2: There are some rules.
Speaker 1: Fox did broadcast live images of a person the network's
Speaker 1: anchors described as Milania, the former First Lady, though within
Speaker 1: a few minutes the network said it was in fact
Speaker 1: not her. A day like this, with so many comings
Speaker 1: and goings, it's easy to mistake people from a distance.
Speaker 1: Sure it is, because you wanted to pretend that Milania
Speaker 1: Trump is going to stand by her man the bitch
Speaker 1: wouldn't even hold his hand when he was president of
Speaker 1: the United States, and so many embarrassing moments. You know, folks,
Speaker 1: I will say this that we are living in unprecedented times.
Speaker 1: And I know I say this over and over and
Speaker 1: over again because it's pretty wild. It's really wild where
Speaker 1: we are. It's wild that Republicans, even with this forty
Speaker 1: nine page indictment that reads so very clearly that they
Speaker 1: don't care, right that they don't care that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a criminal. They don't care that he was potentially
Speaker 1: holding on to hundreds of boxes in order to be
Speaker 1: able to sell sensitive information to our enemies. He does,
Speaker 1: they don't care. Right as I'm recording this, Senator JD.
Speaker 1: Vance says he will put a procedural hold on Justice
Speaker 1: Department nominees in response to the prosecution of former President
Speaker 1: Trump and my friend aim And Mohedeen, a host of
Speaker 1: Amen on MSNBC says, quote, tell me more about how
Speaker 1: Democrats are weaponizing government. It is really important. And I
Speaker 1: will agree with my friend Joyce White Vance, with former
Speaker 1: federal prosecutor, I will agree with her when she has
Speaker 1: said that it is essential that there be cameras in
Speaker 1: the courts or we're just advancing the cult. Because what
Speaker 1: it was said in a in another tweet, this was
Speaker 1: a never before seen arrest. This is Michael Beschlos. This
Speaker 1: was a never before seen arrest of an ex president
Speaker 1: on grave federal criminal charges. And because we and our
Speaker 1: free press have been barred from watching and hearing in
Speaker 1: real time, the accused man managed to make it look
Speaker 1: like a triumphant motorcade arrival. And you know it is.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy, the clear distinctions between what is happening
Speaker 1: on Earth one and what is taking place on Earth two.
Speaker 1: And when you hear speaker McCarthy, for instance, say well,
Speaker 1: you know, mister speaker McCarthy, do you think that it's
Speaker 1: a secure location to have, you know, classified documents in
Speaker 1: a bathroom? Will? I guess it's just as secure as
Speaker 1: having them in a garage. Well, at least the bathroom
Speaker 1: can be locked. Are you fucking dumb?
Speaker 2: Are you dumb?
Speaker 1: Right? Like? That is really the question to Republicans, And
Speaker 1: I mean it with total and complete disrespect, because here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Mike Pence also had classified documents. We know
Speaker 1: that President Biden had classified documents. You know. The difference
Speaker 1: between the two of them and Donald Trump is that
Speaker 1: when those documents were found, they turned them over to
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, They opened up their homes willingly
Speaker 1: and said, go at it right, it's yours. This was
Speaker 1: actually and obviously a mix up. Donald Trump had two
Speaker 1: and a half fucking years to return this critical information
Speaker 1: to its proper owners and chose not to. But this
Speaker 1: Republican cult is continuing to do what they've been do
Speaker 1: what they've been doing, which is step and fetch it
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the truth. They don't care about
Speaker 1: him being a sexual abuser, a sexual assaulter. They don't
Speaker 1: care about him being a liar.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 1: About him potentially selling secrets and making money off of
Speaker 1: the secrets that he was privy to as president of
Speaker 1: the United States. They don't care about anything. Again, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump could walk out and shoot somebody, shoot several people,
Speaker 1: and they would rally to his defense and say that
Speaker 1: he feared for his life.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We're not going to get back the thirty percent of
Speaker 1: the population, including those members of Congress, who are all
Speaker 1: in it for Donald Trump. It is going to be
Speaker 1: up to the seventy percent of us, write the sane
Speaker 1: seventy percent, to say, oh fucking hell no, not in
Speaker 1: our country, not in our democracy, no goddamn way. Right,
Speaker 1: And until we start moving and marching and acting as
Speaker 1: a collective right, as an actual new American majority, Right,
Speaker 1: we're not going to move the needle here. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna continue these war of words. Right while these motherfuckers
Speaker 1: want to use violent language on their broke ass social
Speaker 1: media platforms, why they want to post pictures with their
Speaker 1: ar fifteens, It is going to be up to the
Speaker 1: seventy percent of us to save our democracy.
Speaker 2: Not one community, not one person, not one.
Speaker 1: Constituency, but all of us from the grips the clause
Speaker 1: of this Republican white supremacist cult. You know, folks, we
Speaker 1: are just in a wild place, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think that it is really important to take stock of
Speaker 1: this moment. I think that it's really important to understand
Speaker 1: what each and every person's responsibility is into telling the truth,
Speaker 1: standing in the truth, and standing with those who's lives
Speaker 1: are on the line right now. Switching gears off of Trump.
Speaker 1: And obviously we will continue to talk about it, but
Speaker 1: you know, I don't need to talk about Trump all
Speaker 1: day every day, but I want to bring this up
Speaker 1: to your attention as well. The New Republic is reporting
Speaker 1: that Starbucks. Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores
Speaker 1: halfway through Pride Month. The company workers' union revealed this week.
Speaker 1: And here's what I tweeted in response to that is
Speaker 1: that giving into right wing terrorists shows us exactly what
Speaker 1: your company values. Understand your capitulation to these anti LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus folks will cost you. You've been notified. And I
Speaker 1: say this in you know, in real, real ways that
Speaker 1: it is incredibly important for these companies to be boycotted
Speaker 1: right for them to hear from people within the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus community, those that are allies, those that are progressives,
Speaker 1: to understand that the actions that you were taking to
Speaker 1: become beholden to a small group of terrorists is going
Speaker 1: to cost you. Because I will tell you this, Like one,
Speaker 1: I don't love Starbucks coffee nowhere. I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's great, uh and it is oftentimes a last motherfucking resort.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna let Starbucks know exactly what I think
Speaker 1: about them. I mean, on top of the fact that,
Speaker 1: you know, the hell that has been brought down on
Speaker 1: those trying to unionize to have safe working conditions. We've
Speaker 1: had those leaders on this very show. So you know, folks,
Speaker 1: if you're looking to have your coffee needs met, go
Speaker 1: to a local place, right, support local businesses, support local
Speaker 1: outfit It's better yet, make your coffee at home and
Speaker 1: save yourself the seven or eight dollars because Starbucks ain't it.
Speaker 1: You know, Starbucks was a company that had revolutionized how
Speaker 1: companies care for and look after their staff. But the
Speaker 1: bigger that they got, the farther that they moved from
Speaker 1: what was initially their mission. What set them aside from
Speaker 1: everyone else. This similarly with Target, Target was all in
Speaker 1: right for communities, for all for inclusivity because they recognized
Speaker 1: that there was money right in being inclusive and being
Speaker 1: progressive and being thoughtful, even though we know that Target
Speaker 1: was also giving money to Republican packs. So I think
Speaker 1: that it's really important, dear friends, for us to pay
Speaker 1: attention to where we put our money, for us to
Speaker 1: pay attention to what is important, what is necess what matters,
Speaker 1: and what matters in this moment now more than anything else,
Speaker 1: is one that we are all taking very good care
Speaker 1: of ourselves and remaining rooted, because as this storm continues
Speaker 1: to blow and take hold, we need to be as
Speaker 1: rooted and as balanced and as spiritually, physically and emotionally well.
Speaker 2: As we can possibly be.
Speaker 1: That means, you know, meditation, workouts, time and nature, filling
Speaker 1: our bodies and our minds with things that fill our
Speaker 1: hearts and lift our spirits. It also means if you
Speaker 1: have the ability to provide resources to give to local
Speaker 1: organizations that are on the front lines, whether they be
Speaker 1: LGBTQ organizations, women's organizations, black social justice organizations, Latin x
Speaker 1: Asian organization whose lives and livelihoods are on the line
Speaker 1: with each and every election that passes, right, think about that.
Speaker 1: If you're not concerned about whether your rights are going
Speaker 1: to be taken away or whether you're going to be
Speaker 1: protected by a certain administration every two and four years,
Speaker 1: then you are part of a privileged class, right, and
Speaker 1: you need to think about how you are best utilizing
Speaker 1: your privilege to advance the health and well being of
Speaker 1: those that are often marginalized and oppressed. Right, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing on a daily basis?
Speaker 2: Is you know?
Speaker 1: Is it volunteering? Is it sharing content? Is it you know,
Speaker 1: giving a little bit of money? I think I am
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Speaker 1: some of you isn't so little, but you're willing to
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Speaker 1: the rest of us can live free.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 1: You know, on this woke Wednesday, there is just so
Speaker 1: much to be fucking woke to. I listed off my
Speaker 1: top ending with the companies that are caving. You tell
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Speaker 1: Danielle Moody underscore that is it for me today, dear
Speaker 1: friends on wokp as always, power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.