Speaker 1: Good morning, peepsend Welcome to wok F Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Some news just broke as I was about to come
Speaker 1: on air, and I want to bring it up for
Speaker 1: all of you. Obviously, by the time of this recording
Speaker 1: you will have seen it already, but it's worth noting. So.
Speaker 1: The European Union has issued a letter, a formal letter
Speaker 1: to Elon Musk, demanding that he censor Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: their upcoming interview the UN Warren's quote of legal obligations
Speaker 1: if Musk does not take action to prevent the spread
Speaker 1: of disinformation, I'll read you a part of of this letter.
Speaker 1: Dear mister Musk, I am writing to you in the
Speaker 1: context of recent events in the United Kingdom and in
Speaker 1: relation to the plan broadcast on your platform X of
Speaker 1: a live conversation between a US presidential candidate and yourself,
Speaker 1: which will also be accessible to users in the EU.
Speaker 1: I understand that you are currently doing a stress test
Speaker 1: of the platform. In this context, I am compelled to
Speaker 1: remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in
Speaker 1: the Digital Service Act DSA, as outlined in my previous letter.
Speaker 1: As the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over
Speaker 1: three hundred million users worldwide, of which one third in
Speaker 1: the EU, that has been designated a very large online platform,
Speaker 1: you have the legal obligation to ensure x's compliance with
Speaker 1: EU law and in particular the DSA In the EU.
Speaker 1: This notably means ensuring on one hand that freedom of
Speaker 1: expression and of information, including media freedom and pluralism, are
Speaker 1: effectively protected, and on the other hand, that all proportionate
Speaker 1: and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the
Speaker 1: amplification of harmful content and connection with relevant events including
Speaker 1: live streaming, which if unaddressed, might increase the risk profile
Speaker 1: of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and
Speaker 1: public security. This is important against the background of recent
Speaker 1: example of public unrest brought about by amplification of content
Speaker 1: that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances
Speaker 1: of disinformation. The letter continues, it also implies one informing
Speaker 1: EU judicial and administrative authorities without undue delay on the
Speaker 1: measures taken to address their orders against content considered illegal
Speaker 1: according to national and or EU law. Two taking timely, diligent,
Speaker 1: non arbitrary and objective action upon receipt of notices by
Speaker 1: users considering certain content illegal. Number three informing users concerning
Speaker 1: the measures taken upon receipt of the relevant notice, and
Speaker 1: number four publicly reporting about content moderation measures. In this respect,
Speaker 1: I note that the DSA obligations apply without exception or
Speaker 1: discrimination to the moderation of the whole user community and
Speaker 1: content of X, including yourself as a user with over
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety million followers, which is accessible to
Speaker 1: EU users and should be fulfilled in line with the
Speaker 1: risk based approach of the DSA, which requires greater due
Speaker 1: diligence in case a foreseeable increase of the risk profile.
Speaker 1: This is major, and this is major for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. One, the EU has sown themselves to have
Speaker 1: stricter laws than the United States, where in fact, we
Speaker 1: have continued to allow Donald Trump to spread his lies
Speaker 1: and not only continue, but networks have you know, stormed
Speaker 1: bar A Lago so that they can be front row
Speaker 1: to his stream of consciousness, his bullshit, and his oh
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. According to NPR one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 1: lies that he told at that quote unquote press conference
Speaker 1: that took place last week. That means, folks, by the way,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two lies that Donald Trump told
Speaker 1: at mar A Lago, that was two lies, two and
Speaker 1: a half lies. I'm sorry a minute. If that is
Speaker 1: not fucking compulsion and DSM five worthy, I don't know
Speaker 1: what is. Nonetheless, the EU ahead of this event that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is of course putting together because he himself
Speaker 1: is a effectual white supremacist, in cell transphobic piece of
Speaker 1: garbage that they're basically saying to him, you've been put
Speaker 1: on notice, right, So if you move forward with a
Speaker 1: man that you know is a known liar that stokes violence,
Speaker 1: that caused an insurrection inside of the United States and
Speaker 1: continues to fuel white supremacy and white Christian nationalists beliefs,
Speaker 1: then we are going to take action. And I only wish,
Speaker 1: dear friends, that the United States had a Congress that
Speaker 1: actually cared about the spread of disinformation, white supremacy, racism,
Speaker 1: and hatred, because if we did, then following the insurrection
Speaker 1: following January sixth, twenty twenty one, Congress would have sprung
Speaker 1: into action to ensure that our airwaves, our online social
Speaker 1: media platforms were safe spaces and devoid of content from
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his white supremacist militia that he called
Speaker 1: into action, but instead there is none. There has been
Speaker 1: no action that has been taken over the last few
Speaker 1: years since that devastating day in our country, and for
Speaker 1: folks that have been following what has been going on
Speaker 1: inside of the UK, it has been an absolute shit show,
Speaker 1: with Nazi groups and other white supremacist groups marching, vandalizing,
Speaker 1: burning buildings, setting fire to cars, terrorizing the migrant population,
Speaker 1: the Muslim population in these areas, which by way are deep.
Speaker 1: I will say that it did warm my heart to
Speaker 1: see the thousands of anti racist protesters that have flooded
Speaker 1: the UK in recent weeks as a pushback to what
Speaker 1: has been going on at the hands of these white
Speaker 1: supremist fascists. But clearly the EU is incredibly concerned with
Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump's rhetoric cause and effect leads
Speaker 1: to increase in violence, and they are already dealing with
Speaker 1: a volatile and violent situation. So you know, my whole
Speaker 1: thing is that we know where Elon Musk stands. We
Speaker 1: know that Elon Musk fired the entire department that was
Speaker 1: monitoring hate speech and language on the Internet that as
Speaker 1: soon as he took it over, there has been a
Speaker 1: flood of bots and hatred and violent language, misogyny and
Speaker 1: racism that has taken over Twitter. That nothing good has
Speaker 1: actually come out of Elon Musk taking over this platform,
Speaker 1: and they're aware of it, and he has weaponized it
Speaker 1: against various communities that he does not like and wants
Speaker 1: to see decimated. The fact that Elon Musk is allowed
Speaker 1: to continue on knowing exactly what he has done to
Speaker 1: this site and what a danger it causes to the
Speaker 1: public is beyond me. But the reality here is that, look,
Speaker 1: the EU is saying what we all know and what
Speaker 1: we've been saying about Donald Trump, that he is a
Speaker 1: violent figure, that his entire rhetoric is about causing pain,
Speaker 1: causing disorder, and sowing chaos. That's the goal. That's the goal.
Speaker 1: There is no part of anything that Donald Trump said
Speaker 1: during that diatribe Stream of Consciousness like just bullshit that
Speaker 1: said to us, Oh yeah, this man is serious. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been on Donald Trump to become serious since he
Speaker 1: came down the escalator referring to Mexicans as rapists and murderers.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting for Donald Trump to get serious when
Speaker 1: he referred to African nations as shithole countries. We've been
Speaker 1: waiting for Donald Trump to get serious when he was
Speaker 1: mocking people with disabilities and mocking veterans who were taken prisoner,
Speaker 1: when he has put a target on the backs of
Speaker 1: women and people who do not agree with him, when
Speaker 1: he has called for violence against the judges that are
Speaker 1: overseeing his cases. Folks, the list goes on and fucking on,
Speaker 1: and yet he continues as of this recording, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is back on Twitter. And why is Donald Trump back
Speaker 1: on Twitter? Well, one nobody goes on his broke down,
Speaker 1: fucking social media platform. He's the only one that uses it,
Speaker 1: and so he comes on to the place that has
Speaker 1: three hundred million users. Right, even though millions of people
Speaker 1: have left Twitter, I still remain on because I go on,
Speaker 1: I post content, and I pretty much leave right. I
Speaker 1: no longer there are no longer conversations to involve yourself
Speaker 1: in or things to connect with, because it has become
Speaker 1: such a degraded place that you just don't want to spend.
Speaker 1: Like do you think to yourself, let me go swim
Speaker 1: in that refreshing, beautiful lake, or let me go and
Speaker 1: swim in a sewer. I mean, the choice seems to
Speaker 1: be obvious. What I also want us to think about
Speaker 1: as Donald Trump's rhetoric begins to increase and become increasingly erratic,
Speaker 1: are a couple of things. One, there is recent conversation that,
Speaker 1: of course is led by Donald Trump and his lies,
Speaker 1: that Kamala Harris's rallies where she is getting ten twelve
Speaker 1: thousand and just you know, thousands of people waiting in
Speaker 1: line and showing up to be a part of history,
Speaker 1: they have been, according to Donald Trump aied and that
Speaker 1: they are fake. Well, for once, The New York Times
Speaker 1: actually has a headline worth note, which is that Trump
Speaker 1: falsely claims that the crowd scene at Harris's rallies are fake.
Speaker 1: That's it. It's not that hard to say Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is lying and then say what Donald Trump is lying about,
Speaker 1: as opposed to say Donald Trump calls into question whether
Speaker 1: or not Kamala Harris's crowd size is true. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not it at all, because that would have to
Speaker 1: put her campaign on the defense of something that we're
Speaker 1: all seeing with our eyes. And so this is according
Speaker 1: to Shane Goldmeacker at the New York Times. Former President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump has taken his obsession with the large
Speaker 1: crowds that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing at her
Speaker 1: rallies to New Heights, falsely declaring in a series of
Speaker 1: social media posts over the weekend that she had used
Speaker 1: quote artificial intelligence to create images and videos of fake crowds.
Speaker 1: Now here's what we know to be true. The only
Speaker 1: person who creates fake crowds by oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: paying people to show up is Donald Trump. And we
Speaker 1: know this because former disgruntled staff of Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: said us much. You see the people, the white folks
Speaker 1: that readily rock blacks for Trump or Trump for blacks,
Speaker 1: so whatever the fuck those stupid shirts say. And we
Speaker 1: see that the people that are in those audiences, and
Speaker 1: we always later find out that they are paid, right,
Speaker 1: because guess what, no one wants to show up at
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's rallies anymore because they get there and this
Speaker 1: man just dribbles on for you know, could be out
Speaker 1: on end, like he did at the Republican National Convention.
Speaker 1: So this writer goes on to say that the crowds
Speaker 1: at miss Harris's events, including one in Detroit outside an
Speaker 1: airplane hangar, which is the one that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: claiming was quote unquote ai'ed, were witnessed by thousands of
Speaker 1: people and news outlets including the New York Times, and
Speaker 1: the number of attendees claimed by her campaign is in
Speaker 1: line with what was visible on the ground. Mister Trump
Speaker 1: falsely wrote on social media site truth Social that there
Speaker 1: was nobody at the plane and she aied it. A
Speaker 1: spokesman for Trump campaign did not respond for a quest
Speaker 1: for comment, because what are they gonna say. You even
Speaker 1: have people like the friggin' boot liquor himself, the vek
Speaker 1: Ramaswami posting on Twitter that Yeah, the crowd sizes are
Speaker 1: real and why are we focusing on that as opposed
Speaker 1: to focusing on her quote unquote bad policies. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: does not have the right people around him. That was
Speaker 1: a summary of the vexaries in tweet. And so even
Speaker 1: his own people who have debased themselves for this man,
Speaker 1: who have bended the knee, who have kissed the ring
Speaker 1: and the ass of Donald Trump, can't go along with
Speaker 1: what he is trying to formulate in his latest Scooby
Speaker 1: Doo plan, which is to create some type of narrative
Speaker 1: that these crowds are fake. Well, guess what, as was
Speaker 1: reported by the New York Times, not only are news
Speaker 1: outlets there on the ground with their own eyes and ears,
Speaker 1: but thousands of people are there and are taken to
Speaker 1: their social media and posting. So it's just like this
Speaker 1: weird universe that we find ourselves in where this obsession
Speaker 1: by the way of Donald Trump, this happened years ago.
Speaker 1: It began with his inauguration. It began with the fact
Speaker 1: that like, guess what, he did not have the same
Speaker 1: crowds and size as a Barack Obama because guess what,
Speaker 1: he ain't the same man. He has nothing to offer.
Speaker 1: And I would argue, and look, I have said this before,
Speaker 1: and I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I do
Speaker 1: not believe that Donald Trump won in twenty sixteen. I
Speaker 1: do believe that the Democrats just assumed that what they
Speaker 1: saw was what they saw and he won readily, as
Speaker 1: opposed to maybe we should have done some investigation into
Speaker 1: the man with ties to Putin and to other dictators,
Speaker 1: and you know, the troll machine and farm that Putin
Speaker 1: used to spread this information, Like, maybe we should have
Speaker 1: checked things out right, But you just assumed that you
Speaker 1: take the results on their face, because why would you
Speaker 1: ever question it? And you keep it moving. I beg
Speaker 1: to differ. Nonetheless, that is water underneath the bridge. But
Speaker 1: the reason why these lies, friends, are so incredibly insidious,
Speaker 1: is because Donald Trump is currently planting the seeds and
Speaker 1: has never right stopped planting the seeds of disbelief to
Speaker 1: his followers so that we can have a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: reducs where they do not accept the results of an election.
Speaker 1: Just like right now, he is also throwing doubt on
Speaker 1: the polls that show a seismic shift that has happened
Speaker 1: where guess who is trailing in the polls, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I say this, friends, not because I want us to
Speaker 1: lose sight of goal at hand, which is this, We
Speaker 1: need Kamala Harris not only to win, but we need
Speaker 1: a fucking landslide. We need her to win so big
Speaker 1: and so boldly that there is no question. I don't
Speaker 1: want there to be even a margin. I don't want
Speaker 1: her winning by just a thousand votes or ten thousand votes.
Speaker 1: I want it to be a fucking blowout. And the
Speaker 1: only way that that happens is if we continue this
Speaker 1: enthusiasm all the way to November fifth. We have currently,
Speaker 1: as of the time of this recording, eighty three days
Speaker 1: until the election. And if we can keep this enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: these zoom calls, this energy, the donations coming in, then
Speaker 1: we are ensured that we will win. But let us
Speaker 1: not count our chickens before they hatch and just take
Speaker 1: for granted these polls and take our foot off the gas,
Speaker 1: because if you remember, those very same poles told us
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen that Hillary Clinton was certain to win.
Speaker 1: And how that could be, I don't fucking know, being
Speaker 1: as how she didn't really go to battleground states or
Speaker 1: what have you like. I'm not saying that they ran
Speaker 1: a perfect campaign. They did not. But what I am
Speaker 1: saying is that we know what is at stake, and
Speaker 1: we cannot take our eyes off of the ball for
Speaker 1: one fucking second here and assume that everyone else around
Speaker 1: us is going to be doing the work. Because the
Speaker 1: polls tell us that things are moving in our direction.
Speaker 1: That is not how we win. We win by staying focused.
Speaker 1: We win by digging in. We win by pushing past
Speaker 1: the finish line. That's how we win. But what I
Speaker 1: do know to be true is that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: in the midst of a tailspin and a fucking meltdown,
Speaker 1: and that meltdown will only get worse and more dangerous
Speaker 1: as we get closer to election day. So these are
Speaker 1: not just you know lies to shrug off for these
Speaker 1: you know claims that he's trying to get his folks
Speaker 1: to pick up and run with and they're not doing it.
Speaker 1: They are part of the larger stop the steal two
Speaker 1: point zero strategy by calling her a cheater, by saying
Speaker 1: that she's cheating by creating AI images, knowing good goddamn
Speaker 1: well that what he is seeing is real, and that
Speaker 1: is exactly why he is flipping out about it. We
Speaker 1: have momentum on our side as we head into convention.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has peaked and plateaued. But you never count
Speaker 1: that fucking gremlin out right, because every time that we
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump is gone, that we think that
Speaker 1: he's beat, that we think that the courts got him
Speaker 1: on the ropes, that we think that you know so
Speaker 1: and so got him on the ropes, turns around, man
Speaker 1: is fucking teplon. So the only thing that we will
Speaker 1: know for sure is if thousands upon thousands upon millions
Speaker 1: upon millions of Americans show up and vote for Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris on November fifth and get us over the finish line.
Speaker 1: Anything other than that, friends, doesn't matter. We need a landslide,
Speaker 1: and that is what we should be looking to from
Speaker 1: the top of the ticket all the way down. Let's
Speaker 1: give Kamala Harris the Congress that she needs to restore
Speaker 1: Roe V. Wade, to restore voting rights, to restore affirmative action,
Speaker 1: to better our healthcare system. Let her get the Congress
Speaker 1: that she needs to transform this kind into a place
Speaker 1: that we all can be proud of like we have
Speaker 1: been over the last two weeks of watching the brilliant
Speaker 1: athletes of the Olympics. Time magazine has her on the
Speaker 1: cover with the title that says her moment, and I
Speaker 1: would argue that it is America's moment. It is America's
Speaker 1: moment to reclaim and fortify our democracy for generations to come.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke
Speaker 1: af as always, Power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.