Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: you know, the pundit said set that the primary results
Speaker 1: were going to be foreshadowing for where Democrats and Republicans
Speaker 1: are with midterm elections, and they are right, and it
Speaker 1: is for once, for once, for the love of fucking God,
Speaker 1: in our favor Kansas. I can't believe I'm about to
Speaker 1: say this is the saving grace the state of Kansas, Folks,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, where you know it is a majority
Speaker 1: white state, and you know that I have been very
Speaker 1: vocal about my frustration with the lack of accountability and
Speaker 1: responsibility that white women take for upholding our democracy that
Speaker 1: when things are not affecting them personally, right, that you know,
Speaker 1: they're good to vote alongside their husbands and their boyfriends.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was Lee of ye of little faith,
Speaker 1: because I'm going on twenty sixteen election results, I'm going
Speaker 1: on twenty twenty election results, and I'm going on the
Speaker 1: fact that Republicans have been really fucking suspect in their
Speaker 1: you know, under the cloak of darkness, maneuvering that they
Speaker 1: have been doing in order to get these abhorrent ballot
Speaker 1: measures on the box. You know, we all know that
Speaker 1: I think that the twenty twenty election was I believe
Speaker 1: the highest turnout that we have ever had, and I
Speaker 1: still don't think that it reached seventy percent. Right, we
Speaker 1: are still at a pace where supposedly everybody who is
Speaker 1: a citizen of these United States and above the age
Speaker 1: of eighteen and older are eligible to vote. And what
Speaker 1: we all have always found and have always seen is
Speaker 1: that there is a pretty much about forty percent of
Speaker 1: the population that doesn't vote, let alone, and that's in presidentials,
Speaker 1: let alone in mid term elections. Well guess what Republicans
Speaker 1: did not count on. Or maybe they thought that we
Speaker 1: would just lay back and take their push towards authoritarianism
Speaker 1: and stripping away one right after the other. Maybe we
Speaker 1: would take that just lying on our backs. Maybe we,
Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't notice that now women and people with
Speaker 1: uterus is in a majority of states in this country
Speaker 1: have no recourse to an abortion. That not only do
Speaker 1: they have no recourse in the state and have to
Speaker 1: pay the penalty of being able to travel take off
Speaker 1: time from work, but in some instances like we've seen
Speaker 1: in Texas. They have criminalized, right, criminalized abortion. We saw
Speaker 1: what happened with the state of Indiana, who was the
Speaker 1: state that in Ohio ten year old rape victim needed
Speaker 1: to travel to in order to seek an abortion from
Speaker 1: a rape victim at six weeks and three days. And
Speaker 1: let me pause for a minute on that note, because
Speaker 1: I heard something the other day that, again, if I
Speaker 1: was running messaging for the Democratic Party, this ship would
Speaker 1: be light work. Right. So I heard the other day
Speaker 1: that Republicans are tripping over themselves to talk about the
Speaker 1: ten year old rape victim as if she was in
Speaker 1: a relationship with a grown ass man, right, referring to
Speaker 1: it as a relationship, talking about teen and tween girls
Speaker 1: as if they have the capability to be able to
Speaker 1: become parents and deal with the physical not even speaking
Speaker 1: of the emotional, but the physical trauma to their bodies
Speaker 1: of pregnancy, right, that they are literally doing mental gymnastics.
Speaker 1: This group that is all about following the qan on
Speaker 1: bullshit theories around pedophilia and the lies that they fucking spread,
Speaker 1: and they see no hypocrisy whatsoever in the bullshit that
Speaker 1: they would spew at Democrats. That are supporting trans kids, right,
Speaker 1: because this is where this all came from. Is LGBTQ
Speaker 1: people right being inserted into oh, I don't know, American history,
Speaker 1: American education and curriculum, going so far as to pass
Speaker 1: bills that don't say gay because we don't want to
Speaker 1: have groomers. But then these same people, these very same
Speaker 1: fucking people, turn around and want to tell you that, oh,
Speaker 1: it's gay people and drag queens reading stories that are
Speaker 1: grooming your kids. But they're talking about a ten year
Speaker 1: old in a fucking relationship with a grown ass fucking man,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about a thirteen year old girl being
Speaker 1: totally able to become a parent, Like, are we in
Speaker 1: the nineteenth fucking century? Because again, if I'm doing messaging
Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party, all I'm taking are these motherfucker's
Speaker 1: own soundbites, right, and putting that over an ad that
Speaker 1: says they don't see you as people, You are incubators,
Speaker 1: you are ovens, right for the purpose of authoritarianism and patriarchy,
Speaker 1: that's it, right, they don't care. It's amazing to me
Speaker 1: that they have the audacity at times to once again
Speaker 1: go after places in the Middle East, right, places on
Speaker 1: the continent of Africa and talk about the treatment of
Speaker 1: women and girls, right, and stand on some fucking high horse.
Speaker 1: And yet you have Republicans now trying to convince the
Speaker 1: populace that ten year olds should be parents. How does
Speaker 1: that even make sense? Right? But again, this is the
Speaker 1: party that produced a man that talked about rape and
Speaker 1: legitimate rape the fuck. So nonetheless, in a turn of
Speaker 1: events that makes me you have to consider what this
Speaker 1: feeling is that I'm having, what this glimmer is that
Speaker 1: I'm having? And friends, dare I say, I believe it's hope?
Speaker 1: Because Kansas people turned out at presidential voting levels to
Speaker 1: smack down that ballot measure that would have extinguished access
Speaker 1: to a board in the state of Kansas. Now, if
Speaker 1: you listen to my conversation yesterday with our friend doctor
Speaker 1: Jonathan Mezo, Jonathan had pointed out to me, He's like, look,
Speaker 1: Kansas isn't like Texas. Kansas isn't like Alabama or Mississippi.
Speaker 1: It's actually a fairly moderate state. And because you know
Speaker 1: of my prejudices, which I'm fine to say, you know,
Speaker 1: living on the East Coast and being a product of
Speaker 1: New York, and then you know, of Washington, DC being
Speaker 1: the furthest fucking South that I went in my life
Speaker 1: to live. I have a distorted view, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't have the same view or understanding of what is
Speaker 1: moderate and what is just you know, Trump country. So
Speaker 1: Jonathan was in fact right when he said, you know,
Speaker 1: this is going to be something to watch. It isn't
Speaker 1: just a given that the people of Kansas are going
Speaker 1: to sit back and allow their access to abortion and
Speaker 1: their rights to be taken away. And they didn't. So
Speaker 1: let me read you a little bit of this article
Speaker 1: from CNN which reads this thunderclap ballot box victory on
Speaker 1: abortion rights in Kansas gives Democrats a potent midterm issue.
Speaker 1: And I'll get into the reason why they are saying
Speaker 1: that now. It is a potent issue for Democrats because, remember, friends,
Speaker 1: abortion is something that has been the third rail in politics.
Speaker 1: While Democrats have always pronounced themselves to be pro choice,
Speaker 1: they also are the ones that came up with the
Speaker 1: terminology around abortion needing to be you know, safe and
Speaker 1: rare right, And the pushback from progressives over the last
Speaker 1: decades plus has been abortions need to be safe and
Speaker 1: whenever the fuck you need one right, But it was
Speaker 1: this distinction again falling into this stereotype in trope that
Speaker 1: abortion is something that people with uterus is use as
Speaker 1: birth control, which if you actually cared right about numbers
Speaker 1: and statistics and truth and facts, you would know that
Speaker 1: we had been experiencing a significant decrease, like decades of
Speaker 1: decades decrease in the amount of abortions that are even
Speaker 1: done in this country. Why because we have robust access
Speaker 1: to contraception, right, and those things go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: But when you have Republicans wanted to strip away abortion,
Speaker 1: wanted to strip away access to birth control, well, what
Speaker 1: are they saying? Women are nothing women and people with
Speaker 1: uteruses are nothing more than incubators. We don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck if you are able to be in the workforce.
Speaker 1: We certainly are not going to support you with paid
Speaker 1: maternity leave or paid parental leave. We certainly are not
Speaker 1: going to support you with having to pay for childcare
Speaker 1: services or making it even so that the companies that
Speaker 1: you do work for are required to have daycare right,
Speaker 1: are required to offer you these things. They don't want
Speaker 1: to put the burden on anyone but the people, the
Speaker 1: citizens of this damn country, right, because as sure as
Speaker 1: fuck don't want to put the burdens on employers. They say,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, you know won't That won't allow
Speaker 1: them to make the robust profits that the shareholders and
Speaker 1: CEO's need. Right. But at the same time, you turn
Speaker 1: around and you realize everything, all of it is about
Speaker 1: punishing women and people with uteruses. It is also about
Speaker 1: taking away power, right, taking away bodily autonomy, taking away
Speaker 1: the ability to map out your own economic future. Because
Speaker 1: you see, if I can't decide when, where, and if
Speaker 1: I want to become a parent and I'm not in
Speaker 1: the financial situation to be able to become a parent
Speaker 1: that can support another mouth to feed, then you are
Speaker 1: robbing me of my ability to set up my economic
Speaker 1: future in a way that is stable. There's a reason
Speaker 1: why people wait later in life to have kids now.
Speaker 1: It's one because women in particular are still penalized from
Speaker 1: leaving the workforce for pregnancy. Even if you are given
Speaker 1: a sizable maternity leave. That then you got a cobble
Speaker 1: together with disability leave, and got a cobble together with
Speaker 1: something else to be able to have the first six
Speaker 1: months of your fucking child's life with them at home.
Speaker 1: Getting back into the workforce, you're still looked down upon.
Speaker 1: I don't care what people say. You have missed time
Speaker 1: and now when you were taking time, whether it's to
Speaker 1: take your child to the doctor's appointment, to take them
Speaker 1: to the dentist as they get older, to be able
Speaker 1: to go to parent teacher conferences. It's men that are
Speaker 1: celebrated from being able to take that time. But women
Speaker 1: in the workforce, you are completely looked down upon and
Speaker 1: become a burden to set employer. And again, we have
Speaker 1: recourse now that allows you not to be fired if
Speaker 1: in fact you are pregnant, but that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the culture and the climate is set up for your success. Right, So,
Speaker 1: when we look at the pushback that happened in Kansas,
Speaker 1: this is what was said as Republican controlled state legislatures
Speaker 1: around the country race to outlaw the procedure in the
Speaker 1: aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: Traditionally conservative Kansas, given the chance to directly respond at
Speaker 1: the ballot box, denied their own elected leaders the chance
Speaker 1: to revoke a right that has broad support across swaths
Speaker 1: of independent polling. They go on to say the rejection
Speaker 1: of the measure highlighted the increasingly stark divide between the
Speaker 1: activities of Republican state lawmakers, often in legislature's gerrymandered to
Speaker 1: effectively guarantee GOP control, and the political and policy desires
Speaker 1: of American voters in more immediate terms. The ballot measures
Speaker 1: defeat on a day of extraordinary turnout also provides a
Speaker 1: clear indication that the desire to defend abortion rights could
Speaker 1: be a potent issue for Democrats in the coming midterm elections.
Speaker 1: And folks, I'll tell you, let me read this little
Speaker 1: point and then give you my thoughts. The polling from
Speaker 1: a variety of sources is unambiguous and consistent across party lines.
Speaker 1: Abortion rights are popular, and the Supreme Court's ruling is not.
Speaker 1: The most recent CNN poll found that sixty three percent
Speaker 1: of Americans disapproved fifty one percent strongly of the Court's decision.
Speaker 1: The Kaiser Family Foundation came to a similar conclusion, with
Speaker 1: sixty one percent of respondents to their surveys saying they
Speaker 1: wanted their state to guarantee access to abortion, only twenty
Speaker 1: five percent them to restrict it. So I want you
Speaker 1: to think about that for a minute, right because that
Speaker 1: twenty five percent is what is important, because when we
Speaker 1: think right again, let's think about this all, folks, as
Speaker 1: like a fucking ven diagram right now, when you think
Speaker 1: about the one circle of people who voted for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, put that on
Speaker 1: top of the people who also believe the big lie.
Speaker 1: Put that on top of the people who refuse to
Speaker 1: get vaccinated, right, Put that now on top of the
Speaker 1: people who believe that America should turn into a Christio
Speaker 1: fascist state. It's that twenty five percent, right, It is
Speaker 1: twenty five damn near thirty percent of the population that
Speaker 1: is on board with this bullshit. Where our problem comes in,
Speaker 1: as the fucking majority, is that we are not at
Speaker 1: the decision level, right, And what is the decision level
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, oh, the Supreme Court, the nine lords
Speaker 1: of this country who are not elected by anybody but
Speaker 1: instead appointed by the President of the United States. Well,
Speaker 1: in the last two Democrats that we've had, right, each
Speaker 1: of them has gotten one appointment, with Donald Trump getting
Speaker 1: three because Mitch McConnell stole one of them and jam
Speaker 1: through another one with absolutely no pushback whatsoever other than
Speaker 1: finger waves. So The reality here is that when you
Speaker 1: care about polling because you are trying to vie right
Speaker 1: for the people's favor, then you don't make decisions like
Speaker 1: how Republicans have moved and made decisions to turn America
Speaker 1: into their moral Disneyland. But you see, folks, there's something else,
Speaker 1: And this is why we need to consistently talk about
Speaker 1: voting rights and access to voting and jerrymantoring right because
Speaker 1: what this article said at the top is that you're
Speaker 1: talking about Republican controlled state legislatures that have been jerrymandering
Speaker 1: the fuck right out of their states and precincts to
Speaker 1: make sure that they are able to choose their voter
Speaker 1: as opposed to the voter being able to choose their leader.
Speaker 1: So when we are doing right conducting all of these
Speaker 1: polls about where the American people are, well, if you
Speaker 1: no longer need to actually rely on convincing the voter,
Speaker 1: but rather just making sure that the right voter votes
Speaker 1: for you, and that you're closing down precincts or you know,
Speaker 1: erasing voter roles, or you know, doing everything that you
Speaker 1: can to make it impossible for people of color and
Speaker 1: young people and people that are disabled to actually be
Speaker 1: able to vote. Well, then you don't need to be concerned.
Speaker 1: You won't trouble yourself with fucking poll numbers because that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you don't care. And again, if I
Speaker 1: were leading messaging for the Democratic Party, this is what
Speaker 1: I would be making the case explicit. Right, I would
Speaker 1: make this case explicit. Republicans don't care about polls. They
Speaker 1: don't care about your desires. They don't care about your future.
Speaker 1: They don't care about making the world and this country
Speaker 1: a better place for you. They care about their own comfort,
Speaker 1: their own wealth, and their own power and access. How
Speaker 1: do I know that to be true? Because a majority
Speaker 1: of people do not want the bullshit that Republicans are
Speaker 1: trying to jam down their throats, but because they have
Speaker 1: been allowed in broad fucking daylight to jerrymander the fuck
Speaker 1: out of their states. This is where we are indisputable
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Speaker 1: right about where this country is and where it is
Speaker 1: right now and rightfully so is in a place of
Speaker 1: pure rage. The question that has been being asked since
Speaker 1: the overturning of the Dabs case, which was effectually overturning
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court and Justice Solito did,
Speaker 1: and then in the concurrent opinion and the concurrent decision,
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas put a big spotlight on what else they
Speaker 1: are coming after When they readjourn right when they come
Speaker 1: back together, the American people are saying, not on my
Speaker 1: fucking watch. And that is what is giving me hope.
Speaker 1: Nine hundred thousand people in Kansas turned out to vote.
Speaker 1: That is on par with who came out to vote
Speaker 1: in the presidential election. These people not only did they
Speaker 1: sneak this ballot and mission measure on right, not only
Speaker 1: did they sneak this measure on in the mid terms
Speaker 1: when they know that turnout is low and attention is low,
Speaker 1: but then they sent out right all of these like
Speaker 1: wrongly worded questions and robo calls that were just spreading
Speaker 1: lies to confuse people so that they would not show up.
Speaker 1: And again, if you are spreading fucking bullshit and lies right.
Speaker 1: That means that you know your shit ain't popular, because
Speaker 1: if it was, and you would be singing it from
Speaker 1: the tops of every hills and mountain, knowing that the
Speaker 1: people would flock to you, regardless of the nefarious strategies
Speaker 1: that you're going to put in place to try and
Speaker 1: make sure that either they don't know the right day
Speaker 1: to vote, they don't know if a yes is actually
Speaker 1: the yes that they want, or if it's to know right.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do any of those tactics. So you know,
Speaker 1: as as the many pundits and polsters, we're covering the
Speaker 1: returns and we're still waiting on some other big races.
Speaker 1: And you know, we know that the Trump backed folks
Speaker 1: in Arizona and in Michigan did really well, right. We
Speaker 1: know that those that were in other places did not.
Speaker 1: But the fact is is that Trump still has considerable
Speaker 1: power over the Republican Party. It doesn't matter that the
Speaker 1: man is a full on criminal, it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: he has multiple court cases against him. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that the man who is so disgusting fucking buried his
Speaker 1: first wife on his goddamn golf course, Like what the fuck. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I think that this is a pivotal moment for Democrats
Speaker 1: to not mince words, to not play it fucking safe, right,
Speaker 1: and to recognize that, guess what, it just so happens
Speaker 1: that taking away bodily autonomy from a majority of this
Speaker 1: country is not a good idea, and that now more
Speaker 1: than ever, if you are running for office, I don't
Speaker 1: care what level of office you are running for, if
Speaker 1: you are not being fervent in your opinions about what
Speaker 1: this country needs and who is trying to destroy it,
Speaker 1: if you are not speaking feverishly about abortion, bodily autonomy, power,
Speaker 1: and the ability to chart one's own course, which is
Speaker 1: the tenant foundation of what it means to be an American,
Speaker 1: what it means to actually be free. And if we're
Speaker 1: not tying the words liberty and justice and freedom to
Speaker 1: these things, we are missing an opportunity because the people
Speaker 1: are showing us exactly where they are, and they are
Speaker 1: not going to go quietly into the cold, dark night
Speaker 1: as Republicans had hoped. And I tell you, folks, that
Speaker 1: pressure creates two things. It can create an explosion, it
Speaker 1: can create a diamond. And I'm saying right now that
Speaker 1: I need fucking Democrats to be mining right, to be
Speaker 1: following taking the lead from the voters, taking the lead
Speaker 1: from the voters who are telling you stand up for us,
Speaker 1: fight for us. I said this the other day on
Speaker 1: Mary Lle Trump. I have joined her round Table of
Speaker 1: Avengers what she calls the nerd Avengers, and they Mary l.
Speaker 1: Trump does a show on that is live on YouTube
Speaker 1: every Tuesday that I'll be joining with an amazing panel
Speaker 1: of people. Many of the guests have been on woke
Speaker 1: Ay app. But one of the things that I was
Speaker 1: asked this week was, Danielle, what can democrats do? What
Speaker 1: should democrats do? It's a question, folks that I am
Speaker 1: asked every single time that I am being interviewed. And
Speaker 1: what I say and what I continue to say and
Speaker 1: what I will say again, tell the fucking truth right,
Speaker 1: do not mince words, do not half step, do not
Speaker 1: not say things with the full throatedness and the puffing
Speaker 1: out of your chest. We are in the fight for
Speaker 1: our lives. The people of Kansas got that fucking memo right.
Speaker 1: And I cannot believe once again that I'm using the
Speaker 1: people of Kansas as an example of what it means
Speaker 1: to show up and show the fuck out but I am,
Speaker 1: and I will applaud people where they need to be applauded,
Speaker 1: and these good people need to be applauded. I have
Speaker 1: also continued to say to my lovely white listeners, particularly
Speaker 1: white women right, use this what happened in Kansas as
Speaker 1: your rallying cry to get your sister and together right.
Speaker 1: Do not assume that your book club, your soul cycle class,
Speaker 1: your plant group, you know, is on board with abortion
Speaker 1: and willing to fight for it. You got to ask
Speaker 1: the hard questions, You got to offer the hard probes,
Speaker 1: and you got to tell people young and old are
Speaker 1: you registered to vote? Have you checked your registration lately?
Speaker 1: If you know that you are in a red state
Speaker 1: that likes to play fuck around with the roles, we
Speaker 1: need you to be as activated and engaged not only
Speaker 1: on issues that affect you, but use your power and
Speaker 1: your privilege to uplift the issues of others whose voices,
Speaker 1: sadly are not given as much weight and power as yours.
Speaker 1: Is what would it look like if, in the way
Speaker 1: that we are seeing white women galvanize around abortion, if
Speaker 1: they did that around voting rights as well. What would
Speaker 1: it look like if they did that around police reform
Speaker 1: as well, that instead of something needing to personally affect you,
Speaker 1: that you say to yourself, what kind of world do
Speaker 1: I want to live in? Do I want my family
Speaker 1: to live in? And what power do I have to
Speaker 1: actualize that for them? Because I can't imagine that a
Speaker 1: majority of people in this country want their kids to
Speaker 1: inherit air that they can't breathe water that they can't drink, right,
Speaker 1: that are never going to be in the economic position
Speaker 1: to be able to buy a home, to own a car,
Speaker 1: to go to college. Right, everybody wants the same goddamn things, friends,
Speaker 1: and it is the ability to feel safe, to live free, right,
Speaker 1: and to pursue your own American dream without obstacle or oppression.
Speaker 1: So can we give these people all right the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt and say your struggle is my struggle,
Speaker 1: recognizing that we are all linked, right, that all of
Speaker 1: us have the same desires. We may go about the
Speaker 1: tactics differently, but we have the same desire to live
Speaker 1: free and safe and healthy and to pass on those
Speaker 1: tenants to our children. So if you are in a
Speaker 1: place of power and privilege, access it, use it, and
Speaker 1: not just only for your own benefit. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today? Dear friends on Woke a f as always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.