Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy fuck It Friday. We have made it to the
Speaker 1: end of the week. We have made it to what
Speaker 1: I hope for all of you is a long holiday
Speaker 1: weekend where you are doing something in the sunshine, doing
Speaker 1: something outdoors, and doing something that brings you joy. Because,
Speaker 1: dear God, this fucking week. And yes I say that
Speaker 1: every week, but dear fucking God, so let's just get
Speaker 1: right to it on this good, good, good fuck it Friday.
Speaker 1: And again, for my patrons, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your support. Tell me who you are saying fucke to,
Speaker 1: whether you're dming me putting it below in the comments section,
Speaker 1: and for all of my other followers, dm me tweet
Speaker 1: me because I'm still there and that's cesspool of a place,
Speaker 1: or hit me up on Instagram and let me know
Speaker 1: who you are saying fuck it to this week.
Speaker 2: My list is long, but it is.
Speaker 1: Probably going to revolve around the same theme of anti
Speaker 1: LGBTQ policy, sentiments actions that are taking place as we
Speaker 1: get ready to lead into Pride Month. And for those
Speaker 1: of you who are new to wok F. Pride is
Speaker 1: a big deal on WOKF where we try and talk
Speaker 1: to influencers, academics, organizers, activists, personalities, etc. In the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus community to bring you up to speed with what
Speaker 1: is at stake, what is happening, and also how we
Speaker 1: can remain joyful during this time. So that will be
Speaker 1: coming up the whole month of June, and I'm super
Speaker 1: excited about it. But before we get there, let's get
Speaker 1: to fucking Friday. So first up on my list, God
Speaker 1: damn it, fucking Target. You know, you, like Disney, have
Speaker 1: been most adults happiest place on Earth, and you just
Speaker 1: couldn't muster the fucking strength that Mickey Mouse has been
Speaker 1: able to muster against Ronda Santis and instead you have caved.
Speaker 1: You have fallen like a fucking deck of cards. So
Speaker 1: let me bring you all up to speed as to
Speaker 1: where we are with Target. So once again, fucking right
Speaker 1: wing bullshit Christians, white evangelical Christians have decided that they
Speaker 1: can't avert their eyes. God forbid, God forbid, these people
Speaker 1: live inside of a world where not just them exist.
Speaker 1: God forbid. You walk into a fucking store or a
Speaker 1: library or a fucking bookstore and see something that makes
Speaker 1: you uncomfortable and just look the other way. God fucking forbid. So,
Speaker 1: for those of you who have ever shopped at Target
Speaker 1: during the month of June, you know that Target had
Speaker 1: created a bunch of apparel around Pride. I mean the
Speaker 1: whole store basically look like Rainbow Bright threw up in there, right,
Speaker 1: that's the extent to which they had rainbowed out their
Speaker 1: Pride collection during the month of June. Well, as it
Speaker 1: turns out, you know, rainbows apparently are offensive. So is
Speaker 1: saying the word pride is offensive. So is existing inside
Speaker 1: of a gay body or queer body or a trans
Speaker 1: body is just offensive. To these fucking people that can't
Speaker 1: just manage to avert their fucking eyes, right, that can't
Speaker 1: just manage to go about their fucking day, They got
Speaker 1: to control everyone and everything around them. And so they've
Speaker 1: decided not to just go into targets and throw around
Speaker 1: pride gear and knock over displays, but they've decided to
Speaker 1: also call in with threats of violence against those store
Speaker 1: employees because of these Pride displays during the month of June.
Speaker 1: Now you would think to yourself, so haven't We always
Speaker 1: been taught that you don't negotiate with terrorists, that once
Speaker 1: you show them any sign of weakness, that they're gonna
Speaker 1: take that and fucking run with it. Yeah, you have,
Speaker 1: which is why you have seen the opposite happen down
Speaker 1: in Florida with Disney and Ronda Santis's attacks on Disney. Right,
Speaker 1: you've seen them now lob lawsuits against Ronda Santis for
Speaker 1: his attacks on private industry. So I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: all people, all corporations, could show up in the way
Speaker 1: that Disney has been showing up every single day to
Speaker 1: battle that small, narrow, disc despicable human being known as
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis. But instead Target has decided that for the safety,
Speaker 1: as they say, the quote unquote safety of their employees,
Speaker 1: they're not going to add more security. They're not going
Speaker 1: to quote unquote stand their ground and their allyship for
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community. No, instead, they're going to remove their
Speaker 1: pride apparel displays as a way to show extremists and
Speaker 1: the right wing that they too can be bullied and
Speaker 1: pushed around and that they will cave. Folks, When I
Speaker 1: tell you what you can hear in my voice the
Speaker 1: rage that bubbled up inside of me as I was
Speaker 1: reading this story, as I was recognizing that.
Speaker 2: The right is winning. Right.
Speaker 1: And you may say, Danielle, like, how could you not
Speaker 1: have realized that the right is winning? No, Because you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at what is happening in Florida and
Speaker 1: what's happening in Texas and Tennessee and Alabama and Mississippi
Speaker 1: and all of the in South Carolina and North Carolina
Speaker 1: and all of these places, I'm like, Okay, they're going
Speaker 1: to keep pushing these constituents to the point where they're
Speaker 1: going to get voted out, because I do believe that
Speaker 1: what we are seeing right now, the reason why you
Speaker 1: are seeing this kind of egregious, cruel legislative session that
Speaker 1: is happening across this country at the state and local levels,
Speaker 1: is because that's how close to actual progress we are.
Speaker 1: That's how close to inclusive, multiracial democracy and democratic values
Speaker 1: we are. You see, when they see people, queer people,
Speaker 1: black people, people of color standing in their fullness and
Speaker 1: standing in their power and daring to take up space,
Speaker 1: they lose their fucking mind.
Speaker 2: Right, you have.
Speaker 1: Children that are being shot dead in their classrooms, but
Speaker 1: they think that it's more important to legislate against drag shows.
Speaker 1: You see that we are losing right our global standing
Speaker 1: in the world, But they think that it's more important
Speaker 1: to make sure that trans kids want to commit suicide
Speaker 1: on a regular basis because you're creating such a hostile
Speaker 1: and hateful environment for them to exist in. Right, and so,
Speaker 1: of course these things are happening, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I also see a lot of pushback. I also see
Speaker 1: a lot of people in Wisconsin and Kansas and other
Speaker 1: places saying, yeah, absolutely not on our watch.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I am seeing people be voted into office and people
Speaker 1: using their bully pulpit in order to take on these
Speaker 1: right wing people. But when I see major corporations like
Speaker 1: Target and mind you, let's just be very clear. Target
Speaker 1: has always been doing undercovered dirt, right, because what Target
Speaker 1: loves to do is take people's money by day and
Speaker 1: then give money to Republican packs at night. So this
Speaker 1: we're not new, right to what Target has always done
Speaker 1: what a lot of these corporations have done, which is
Speaker 1: that they are totally fine right to use capitalism as
Speaker 1: a way to increase their shareholders' pockets, right, and their
Speaker 1: CEO's pockets and to line those folks in wealth. But
Speaker 1: they then turn around and they give the money that
Speaker 1: you give to them, thinking that they are actually a
Speaker 1: socially conscious company, they turn around and they give it
Speaker 1: to those Republican packs. Right, so let's not get it twisted.
Speaker 1: But when you decide to publicly cower and disregard the
Speaker 1: safety and well being of an entire community, and you
Speaker 1: use that quote unquote safety is the reason for you
Speaker 1: cowering to tech errorists, get the fuck out of here
Speaker 1: and miss me with your bullshit. I believe that it
Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, Target brought in
Speaker 1: about a one hundred and nine billion dollars in revenue.
Speaker 1: One hundred and nine billion dollars. You're telling me you
Speaker 1: can't hire a few security guards. You can't add some cameras, right,
Speaker 1: you can't coordinate with local law enforcement to make sure
Speaker 1: that they are on standing, on the ready so that
Speaker 1: when these motherfuckers do come in and they try and
Speaker 1: harm your employees, that they are readily picked up and
Speaker 1: hauled off to fucking jail. You're telling me you can't
Speaker 1: figure that the fuck out, that instead you would rather
Speaker 1: cower and then want to go and then call the
Speaker 1: heads of LGBTQ organizations to try and say to them, oh,
Speaker 1: oh oh, you know, we're still with you. But it's
Speaker 1: really about the safety. Let me tell you something for
Speaker 1: those of you who are not a part of the
Speaker 1: queer community, and I just want you to think for
Speaker 1: a minute about young people, about young queer kids, right
Speaker 1: that find no community, that have no safety. Right, not
Speaker 1: in their schools anymore. Right, not in their clubs anymore,
Speaker 1: not on their sports teams anymore, when you're living in
Speaker 1: these red states. So to be able to walk into
Speaker 1: a store, right and see somebody, see a T shirt,
Speaker 1: see a rainbow display that says love is love, right,
Speaker 1: that says pride is joy, that could save a kid's life,
Speaker 1: that could save a queer kid's life.
Speaker 2: Right to be.
Speaker 1: Able to know that maybe in their small towns and
Speaker 1: in these small minded people's heads, that they may not
Speaker 1: be accepted, but that the world at large actually sees them.
Speaker 1: But that's not what Target did. Target decided not to
Speaker 1: go the route of Disney. Target decided to go the
Speaker 1: way of letting us know exactly who the fuck they are.
Speaker 1: And this is why I say, folks, you know it
Speaker 1: is really important for us to recognize our power as consumers,
Speaker 1: write our power as people and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: then fuck you Target. You know, I'd rather get my
Speaker 1: stuff someplace else. I rather shop someplace else. Because if
Speaker 1: you can't be bold enough, right, if a young queer
Speaker 1: kid can be in bolder in fucking Florida right now,
Speaker 1: then you can. There's a fucking problem and they need
Speaker 1: to be called out.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 1: I know that shame doesn't work because you cannot shame
Speaker 1: the devil. But I'm telling you that you can absolutely
Speaker 1: show people where your values are by where you put
Speaker 1: your money. And so I'm calling on folks, you know what,
Speaker 1: call in to the headquarters at Target right, call in
Speaker 1: and say that this is shameful, Say that it is
Speaker 1: an embarrassment that you thought that Target was better than this,
Speaker 1: because they're not. But once they start to be trending
Speaker 1: on social media for all the wrong reasons, once people
Speaker 1: start in organizations right like Family Equality and HRC and
Speaker 1: Equality Florida and other organizations that are coming together in
Speaker 1: a letter to say to the people at Target, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not about this life right, like, this is actually
Speaker 1: not fucking okay. I want to read for you all
Speaker 1: a part of this collective letter that came out calling
Speaker 1: on Target from Family Equality, Glad Glisten, the Human Rights Campaign,
Speaker 1: the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the National LGBTQ Task Force,
Speaker 1: and the National Black Justice Coalition. And here's in part
Speaker 1: what it says.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Recent pushback against businesses such as Anaheuser, Bush and Target,
Speaker 1: blatantly organized by extremist groups serves as a wake up
Speaker 1: call for all business that support the LGBTQ plus community.
Speaker 1: We've seen these extremist playbook of attacks before. Their goal
Speaker 1: is clear to prevent lgbtq plus inclusion and representation, silence
Speaker 1: our allies, and make our community invisible. These attacks fuel
Speaker 1: hate against the LGBTQ plus people, just as we've seen
Speaker 1: this year with more than five hundred anti LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: bills that restrict basic freedoms and aim to erase LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus people. Extremist attacks and harassment of businesses for standing
Speaker 1: in solidarity with lgbtq plus community and values of diversity, equity,
Speaker 1: and inclusion have challenged Target and businesses more broadly to
Speaker 1: lead to demonstrate they mean what they say when investing
Speaker 1: and standing with the LGBTQ plus people, creatives and organizations.
Speaker 1: And let me say this, let me say this real
Speaker 1: quick too, and there is no amount of fucking rainbow washing, right,
Speaker 1: which means when these corporations that they don't actually want
Speaker 1: to do the right thing and stand for the right thing,
Speaker 1: and so they'll just throw money at the problem. They'll say, Okay,
Speaker 1: well we're gonna take away the apparel line and we're
Speaker 1: gonna take down our pride celebration. But oh here, HRC
Speaker 1: will break you off a little piece of money. Here,
Speaker 1: Glisten will break you off a little piece of money.
Speaker 1: No amount of fucking rainbow washing is gonna wash away
Speaker 1: the stench that target has created with their cowardice.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That's the fucking truth. And that's what all of these
Speaker 1: organizations need to let these folks know that there is
Speaker 1: no amount of rainbow washing. There's no amount of checks
Speaker 1: that you're gonna send out that is gonna wash away
Speaker 1: the stench of this cowardice and your inability to lead
Speaker 1: in moments of crisis, because that's what the fuck we're
Speaker 1: in right now. You have an opportunity to actually stand
Speaker 1: with the people, stand with equity and inclusion and not
Speaker 1: just take the LGBTQ community's money by day and then
Speaker 1: fucking vote against and fill the coffers of the people
Speaker 1: that will vote against their rights at night. You don't
Speaker 1: get to do that, not anymore so for me today,
Speaker 1: Target is my major major, like fuck it for this week.
Speaker 1: Moving on, dear friends, because there is just so much
Speaker 1: to get to. Let's go to Twitter, shall we to
Speaker 1: where Ron death Santists, death Sciantists, dis Satan meetball. Ron Rob,
Speaker 1: as Donald Trump likes to refer to him, has announced
Speaker 1: his run for the presidency. Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: about Ron DeSantis. This motherfucker is so lackluster. He makes
Speaker 1: paint drying, brick walls and staring into just space seem exciting.
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is the epitome of lack of charisma. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want people to get it twisted
Speaker 1: and think like, oh, well, he's a joke because all
Speaker 1: of his he's had a failure to launch and show
Speaker 1: prove that. This week with his ineffectual Twitter bomb where
Speaker 1: he gets one of the most powerful and wealthy men
Speaker 1: in the world to stand on an audio stage with
Speaker 1: him that is silent for several minutes, has major technical
Speaker 1: difficulties and pulls in about six hundred thousand listeners, and
Speaker 1: folks are like, oh my god, they broke the Internet.
Speaker 2: No, bitch, you didn't break the Internet.
Speaker 1: Maybe you just fired too many people that actually worked
Speaker 1: at Twitter and knew how to make things work Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and so you couldn't manage that. But what I
Speaker 1: think is happening over in Ron DeSantis's camp is that
Speaker 1: they are really not reading the room, that they really
Speaker 1: believe that the curated bubble that Ron DeSantis lives in
Speaker 1: makes him feel as if he has a chance in
Speaker 1: hell nationally and makes it feel as if the rest
Speaker 1: of the country wants to look like Florida. It does
Speaker 1: not news fucking flash. Okay, that's not to say that
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis as a whole is not a dangerous person
Speaker 1: that we all need to be paying attention to, because
Speaker 1: unfortunately we do, because he's legislating hate at a rate
Speaker 1: that I don't think that we have seen since Hitler.
Speaker 1: I don't think that we have seen this kind of
Speaker 1: just blatant transphobia, homophobia, anti blackness, probably since the McCarthy era. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's who Ron DeSantis is, and he's much smarter in
Speaker 1: terms of political savvy and knowing legislative rules than Donald
Speaker 1: Trump ever was. But what he knows in that area,
Speaker 1: he lacks in everything else, you know, like being able
Speaker 1: to laugh like a normal human being or be able
Speaker 1: to hold a conversation without saying the woke ten million times,
Speaker 1: Like he has some type of fucking tick. So his launch,
Speaker 1: and I use that with quotation marks, was a flop,
Speaker 1: like I'm assuming his entire campaign will be. But I
Speaker 1: don't want us to count him out because it's really
Speaker 1: fucking early. But I got to tell you, when I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the field the Republican slate, I'm just like, whoa,
Speaker 1: you guys got not a not a fucking star, not
Speaker 1: anybody with any energy, not anybody that doesn't have Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's policies. So I don't know how they plan on
Speaker 1: taking him on, or maybe they're all just auditioning. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is just the extension of the Apprentice, right, and
Speaker 1: they all are just auditioning to be a part of
Speaker 1: his next administration. And that is if he doesn't land
Speaker 1: in jail before then. I mean, I'm not gonna hold
Speaker 1: my breath because I don't want to pass out. But
Speaker 1: the reality is is that the Republicans are not putting
Speaker 1: up their best. Ron de Santis is not their best.
Speaker 1: Nikki Haley is not their best. Vi Veck Ramaswami not
Speaker 1: their best. Tim Scott the faceless black man. And I
Speaker 1: say that because that is literally his I guess his
Speaker 1: campaign logo is literally a faceless black man. Go check
Speaker 1: it out Google.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: No eyes, no nose, no mouth, right, because that's what
Speaker 1: the Republican Party thinks about black people in general. Right,
Speaker 1: just faceless, right, don't really matter. So none of these
Speaker 1: people are gonna hold a candle to Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: I just, I mean, I almost can't wait for the
Speaker 1: Republican Prime for the stage because my god, it is
Speaker 1: just gonna be open season by Donald Trump. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like playing and I'm gonna date myself fucking duck
Speaker 1: Hunt on Nintendo. Like just line him up, shoot him down.
Speaker 1: That's what it's gonna look like. I mean, did you
Speaker 1: see the video that Donald Trump put out after Ron
Speaker 1: DeSantis has failed launch? It was a blood death right,
Speaker 1: And so you know, were to the wise for Ron
Speaker 1: DeSantis's campaign. The biggest person on your candidate stage should
Speaker 1: be the candidate no one else should be up there
Speaker 1: outshining him, right, which you know is pretty impossible because
Speaker 1: a light bulb could outshine him literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2: But what a fucking does it?
Speaker 1: I mean, the one time that I will honestly agree
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, what a fucking disaster like?
Speaker 2: Really? And then lastly, just to leave us on a.
Speaker 1: Lighter note, you know, on this fuck at Friday, to
Speaker 1: leave us on a lighter note. Did y'all see the
Speaker 1: video of the entire Democratic Party left and at Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green. So here's the thing. Marjorie Taylor Green was
Speaker 1: serving in the speaker's chair for a vote and had
Speaker 1: the audacity to bang the gavel and call on Democrats
Speaker 1: to have decorum. Bitch, please, You first of all, don't
Speaker 1: know how to spell decorum, let alone what the definition is.
Speaker 1: And you are the last motherfucker that should be telling
Speaker 1: anybody to have decorum. When you screamed at the President
Speaker 1: of the United States during the State of the Union,
Speaker 1: when you screamed and followed around a teenager on Capitol Hill,
Speaker 1: David Hogg, who had already been traumatized by a school shooting,
Speaker 1: when you I've had restraining orders put against you by
Speaker 1: your colleagues because of your wayward and fucking erratic stalking
Speaker 1: behavior on Capitol Hill. Give me a fucking break about decorum.
Speaker 1: Miss me with it. But folks, if you have not
Speaker 1: seen that video of just the collective laughter that was
Speaker 1: let out by Democrats on the floor when she called
Speaker 1: for decorum, my god, it is a thing of beauty.
Speaker 1: It is fucking hilarious because it's like that moment when
Speaker 1: you're just you know, when you have one of those
Speaker 1: bad dreams and it was set on the New Abnormal,
Speaker 1: when you have one of those bad dreams and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, everybody is looking and pointing and laughing
Speaker 1: at me. Like that was her real life. That was
Speaker 1: absolutely her real life. So yeah, Marjorie Taylor Green, shut up.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I will say, if you want
Speaker 1: to see another really good video from this week on
Speaker 1: the positive side, check out and Google. Representative Jasmine Crockett,
Speaker 1: who represents the thirtieth Congressional District of Texas, that took
Speaker 1: one of her Republican colleagues to task in like forty seconds.
Speaker 2: The clip has.
Speaker 1: Gone viral where during a oversight committee hearing, her Republican
Speaker 1: freshman colleague wanted to talk about rampant sexual abuse in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: and Jasmine Crockett then turned around and just read her
Speaker 1: for filth, read the whole entire party for filth and said,
Speaker 1: maybe instead of worrying about the crime that is happening
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC, you may want to clean up the
Speaker 1: crime that is happening in this fucking house with our
Speaker 1: colleague that has been indicted on thirteen felony counts. Maybe
Speaker 1: start with that and miss me with your bullshit.
Speaker 2: That is it for me.
Speaker 1: Today, friends, on this fucket Friday.
Speaker 2: As always, please.
Speaker 1: Do hit me up in the tweets, in the tiktoks
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and if you're a Patreon in the comments
Speaker 1: or DM me and let me know who you are
Speaker 1: saying fuck it to. On this fuck it Friday, I
Speaker 1: wish you guys a RESTful, restorative, sun filled.
Speaker 2: Weekend as we kick off summer.
Speaker 1: Do take a break so that you do not have
Speaker 1: a breakdown, and I will see you back here on Monday.
Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.