Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Long
Speaker 1: Island bunker. Democrats are acting like people give a fuck
Speaker 1: about the policies that they put out. Democrats are acting
Speaker 1: as if you know, free and fair elections are just
Speaker 1: assumed and not necessarily things that need to be safeguarded
Speaker 1: and are for you know, I tweeted over the weekend
Speaker 1: because I woke up in the morning to my sister
Speaker 1: sending me the Bill Mahr clip, and then I tweeted
Speaker 1: over the weekend and I said, you know, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is a thing that is incredibly troubling to me.
Speaker 1: Is this Joe Biden has been so focused on being
Speaker 1: the comforter in chief, on showing that he is a
Speaker 1: statesman and can deal with the toughness on the right
Speaker 1: as well as the infighting within his own party. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is a president for a different time. Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is a great presidential choice for a time when we
Speaker 1: had two political parties that adhered two laws and a constitution,
Speaker 1: that believed in the oaths that they took, that came
Speaker 1: together in order to create or perfect our most imperfect union,
Speaker 1: and that we believed that the Senate was the deliberative body,
Speaker 1: not a pollssy graveyard that Mitch McConnell has turned it into.
Speaker 1: You see, Joe Biden would be a great president for
Speaker 1: the early aughts. He would have been a really great
Speaker 1: president for the late nineties. But now after four years
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, after a successful coup, one that is
Speaker 1: gaining more momentum and force as the days and weeks
Speaker 1: go on, where we are still waiting on multiple hearings
Speaker 1: by the Insurrection Committee, where we are not seeing the
Speaker 1: full force of Congress's power to be able to enforce
Speaker 1: subpoenas that Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Cashpital and others have
Speaker 1: just shrugged at and are looking at it as if
Speaker 1: they have the choice whether to RSVP for the party
Speaker 1: or not. You have Democrats talking about the cost of
Speaker 1: a three point five trillion dollar plan to actually build
Speaker 1: America back, but not having any of the messaging available
Speaker 1: or understanding how to message the contents of said plan.
Speaker 1: You have two Democrats who are really just Republicans in
Speaker 1: DEM's clothing that are more concerned with their own greed,
Speaker 1: their own pockets, and their own names and lights than
Speaker 1: they are about preserving our democracy. So this is the
Speaker 1: thing that I tweeted over the weekend. What do you
Speaker 1: think would happen if at Potus began to ring the
Speaker 1: alarm on our democracy instead of telling us we can
Speaker 1: build back better? What would happen if Democrats began to
Speaker 1: talk about the constitutional crisis we are in rather than
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with traders. You see, as I'm here
Speaker 1: on Long Island this weekend, I've been in conversation with
Speaker 1: both of my parents about the current state of affairs.
Speaker 1: And you know, my mother said to me something that
Speaker 1: I say on air often. She goes, you know, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the news as we're sitting here, and
Speaker 1: this is one thing that I know to be true.
Speaker 1: And I said what, And she says, Democrats have no
Speaker 1: idea how to message. She's like, they are literally failing
Speaker 1: at something that should be very easy. Why can't they
Speaker 1: coalesce around one message in the way that Republicans do?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, because Democrats love to be full
Speaker 1: of excuses, and one of those excuses are the fact
Speaker 1: that we have such a big tent with so many
Speaker 1: diverse views and opinions that it's very difficult to coalesce
Speaker 1: around one particular issue when each faction has its own priorities.
Speaker 1: That's the lie that is told. There is only one
Speaker 1: priority that this administration and this Congress should have had
Speaker 1: from jump, and the insurrection days before the inauguration should
Speaker 1: have solidified what the fuck that priority was, But here
Speaker 1: we are nine months in and it isn't. The one
Speaker 1: priority should have been to preserve and strengthen our democracy
Speaker 1: by any fucking means necessary. It should have been to
Speaker 1: paint Republicans not as their friends from across the aisle,
Speaker 1: not as in a actual political party, but as in
Speaker 1: a group of elected insurrectionists that are interested in only
Speaker 1: one thing, power for powers sake, and the ushering in
Speaker 1: of authoritarianism, and that every strategic move that was going
Speaker 1: to be made between inauguration day and the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two midterms should have been about getting one fucking thing done,
Speaker 1: a comprehensive and thorough piece of voting rights legislation that
Speaker 1: would not only safeguard our ability to elect our officials
Speaker 1: and have them beholden to we the people, but to
Speaker 1: also expand and make those quote unquote political norms, actual
Speaker 1: laws on the books. Everything else comes after that. Because
Speaker 1: you cannot fight climate change, you cannot build infrastructure. You
Speaker 1: can and not strengthen our public school systems, our healthcare system.
Speaker 1: You cannot target programs to end poverty, you cannot strengthen
Speaker 1: our nation's HBCUs. You cannot do any of these things
Speaker 1: if we the people are unable to fucking vote. But
Speaker 1: the one thing, the one thing that should have been
Speaker 1: what all Democrats, progressives and these quote unquote fucking moderates
Speaker 1: to coalesce around, was to ensure that a figure like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump A could never run for president again because
Speaker 1: he would be in an orange fucking jumpsuit, because we
Speaker 1: would have a Department of Justice that actually had a
Speaker 1: backbone and teeth that would be going after those that
Speaker 1: were responsible and accountable for the insurrection that took place,
Speaker 1: that were responsible for the over one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: police officers who were attacked, harmed, a few of which
Speaker 1: committed suicide, and those of which we have resigned their
Speaker 1: positions because of trauma. They would have made it their
Speaker 1: number one mission to make sure that America would never
Speaker 1: forget this day. They would have made it the rallying
Speaker 1: cry not for just Democrats, but for Republicans and independents
Speaker 1: who believed in upholding our democracy, whether or not you
Speaker 1: liked the current occupant of the White House or not.
Speaker 1: When you look at the pieces of this memo that
Speaker 1: John Eastman put together, and I'm telling you it is
Speaker 1: actually quite significant, right, And again, we're really not having
Speaker 1: these conversations right now. This came out why because of
Speaker 1: the book peril, because of Bob Woodward, right, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he was very privy to the inside conversations
Speaker 1: that were happening to the memos that we're going out,
Speaker 1: And the only reason why we're talking about it is
Speaker 1: because of that motherfucker's book tour, right, and the promotion
Speaker 1: of his book tour. But as soon as that has
Speaker 1: faded into the distance, we seem not to be continuing
Speaker 1: this conversation in mainstream media. Our friend who was on
Speaker 1: the show last week, washahat Ali, tweeted over the weekend
Speaker 1: and said, it is evident that many people in mainstream
Speaker 1: media want Donald Trump to become president again, want him
Speaker 1: to actively begin running for reelection in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: because it's good for ratings and ratings equal money, And
Speaker 1: I said, in a response to that very clear and
Speaker 1: very correct statement, that capitalism is going to be our downfall.
Speaker 1: That it isn't going to be aliens coming in from
Speaker 1: out of space, that it isn't going to be quote
Speaker 1: unquote foreign terrorists. No, it is going to be greed
Speaker 1: coupled with racism, coupled with apathy. That will be our downfall.
Speaker 1: Because you see, folks, when you look around right now,
Speaker 1: when you look around at all of the things, all
Speaker 1: of the ills that America is dealing with, with an
Speaker 1: unstable economy, jobless numbers that are quite high, the lie
Speaker 1: that employers got to bread within this administration that we
Speaker 1: needed to, you know, end jobless benefits because you know,
Speaker 1: people were just collecting checks at home, which was bullshit. Right.
Speaker 1: They wanted to tell you that, oh, twelve hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: you've had an extraordinarily difficult nineteen plus months living in
Speaker 1: this global health pandemic that is never going to go away.
Speaker 1: So here's twelve hundred dollars that should do you, right?
Speaker 1: What is that giving me two three dollars a day?
Speaker 1: What are jobless benefits doing, unemployment benefits doing making sure
Speaker 1: that you don't lose the roof over your head. But
Speaker 1: the purpose here was to force people back into the
Speaker 1: grind of a capitalist structure that would have them just
Speaker 1: be grateful for less than minimum wage. Just be grateful
Speaker 1: that they can put some food on their table. Who
Speaker 1: cares if they have healthcare benefits? Who cares if they
Speaker 1: are unable to organize and sue their employer for better
Speaker 1: working conditions. Workers should just be grateful for having a job.
Speaker 1: That is the attitude of employers, That is the attitude
Speaker 1: of the one percent. There's a reason why, in particular
Speaker 1: in this country, we don't teach financial literacy, right, we
Speaker 1: don't teach young people in school that's not a mandatory class.
Speaker 1: Why because everybody is in on the predatory loans. Because
Speaker 1: schools receive kickbacks. These businesses receive kickbacks, and so much
Speaker 1: in the same way of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies that
Speaker 1: there is no money in a cure, There is no
Speaker 1: money in prevention. That they need to keep you sick
Speaker 1: so that you can remain a part of the machine
Speaker 1: that is grinding you to a pulpe. So you look
Speaker 1: at these things that are happening, folks, and you think
Speaker 1: to yourself, oh, well, this is just entertainment. We are
Speaker 1: the entertainment for the rich. Our struggles are the entertainment
Speaker 1: for them. Everything that we see is essentially Maria Antoinette
Speaker 1: telling us let them eat cake, the bottom of the band,
Speaker 1: the crumbs, because we equate worth with wealth, and if
Speaker 1: you don't have that, well, than you are not worthy
Speaker 1: of anything. You shouldn't be supported, you shouldn't have social
Speaker 1: safety nets. Your current economic state is measured by how
Speaker 1: hard you're willing to work. We read bullshit success stories
Speaker 1: from the ultrawealthy, from the CEOs and the shareholders, from
Speaker 1: the philanthropists, who leave out of their stories of hard
Speaker 1: work and just waking up and having passion and all
Speaker 1: of those things about the loans that their families were
Speaker 1: able to give them, about the hand up that they
Speaker 1: were born into, about how they were able to build
Speaker 1: wealth because they have teams of lawyers and accountants that
Speaker 1: help them navigate the major loopholes that were created for
Speaker 1: their success. The Pandora papers that were released that showed
Speaker 1: the ways that legally from royalty to our own politicians
Speaker 1: and celebrities are using tax shelters as a way not
Speaker 1: to pay their fair share, but they're not really breaking
Speaker 1: the law, they're using it to their advantage. And we
Speaker 1: don't have politicians that are interested in fixing those laws
Speaker 1: because those loopholes help fund their fucking packs. And then
Speaker 1: they're not beholden to you, their constituents, they're beholden to
Speaker 1: the donors. We've been having this conversation, friends, for decades,
Speaker 1: except we're getting to the place, the moment in the
Speaker 1: story where everyone is looking around and they're like, fuck,
Speaker 1: this really is not working. We're out here campaigning for
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour thinking that that's going to solve
Speaker 1: every fucking problem. How is that when gas right now
Speaker 1: in many places is above three dollars an hour. When
Speaker 1: I just read another report in the New York Times
Speaker 1: that tells me that a majority of Americans are paying
Speaker 1: more in childcare double what their mortgages are. But right now,
Speaker 1: Republicans and Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion don't want a
Speaker 1: human infrastructure bill that would help level out childcare payments
Speaker 1: to be only seven percent of your income as opposed
Speaker 1: to damn near fucking half, if not more. Those decisions
Speaker 1: that then force women, not men, in heterosexual dynamics out
Speaker 1: of the workforce. And on top of that, dear friends,
Speaker 1: while they are making sure that they do everything in
Speaker 1: their power to weaken what is left of our social
Speaker 1: safety nets, then on the other hand, they're rolling out
Speaker 1: anti choice, anti abortion policies that will all but drive
Speaker 1: women out of the workforce, creating room in their minds
Speaker 1: for the white aggrieved men who don't want women there
Speaker 1: in the first place. And what this does it doesn't
Speaker 1: harm wealthy white women or middle class, white suburban women.
Speaker 1: Know the punishment alone will fall on the backs of
Speaker 1: the low income and the black and brown who aren't
Speaker 1: able to afford the flights and the two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty some odd miles to drive in order to be
Speaker 1: able to create an economic future for themselves by being
Speaker 1: able to decide when and how and if they start
Speaker 1: a family. Every single thing right now is at play
Speaker 1: in our real world, real life squid game. The decisions
Speaker 1: that are being made right now are in fact about
Speaker 1: life or death. Except it's not schoolyard games that we
Speaker 1: are playing. We are the pawns in the much bigger
Speaker 1: game that has been at play for decades. These things
Speaker 1: are not happening by accident or in silos. But you see,
Speaker 1: that's the way that we cover them. We allow mainstream
Speaker 1: media to create a false dichotomy, a false set of choices.
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's too much money to invest in the
Speaker 1: American people, but they have no problem investing in war.
Speaker 1: Billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan for failed attempt at
Speaker 1: the creation of a democracy in a land whose culture
Speaker 1: you don't fucking understand and whose history you don't care about,
Speaker 1: modeling after the false idea of what democracy is, in
Speaker 1: a country where women don't make equal pay, where black
Speaker 1: people are still being murdered in the street, where a
Speaker 1: majority of Americans can't afford a four hundred dollar bill
Speaker 1: that would come up, where inflation is not on pace
Speaker 1: with income, where climate change is not oh, in our future,
Speaker 1: but in our now. It's no wonder that when people
Speaker 1: are pulled right now on what direction they think that
Speaker 1: the country is headed in, that a majority of Americans,
Speaker 1: regardless of party, are saying, yeah, we're not headed in
Speaker 1: the right direction. We can't tackle any one of these
Speaker 1: issues because we don't tell the fucking truth about the
Speaker 1: plan that is in place to keep people in their place.
Speaker 1: We don't have an actual cast system in these United States. No,
Speaker 1: we love to uphold those that are able to break
Speaker 1: out of the confines of the economic systems that they
Speaker 1: have been born into, about the racist structures that they
Speaker 1: have been forced to abide by. But we love to
Speaker 1: hold up these people as if they've won the lottery
Speaker 1: of life, recognizing that if we were to actually build
Speaker 1: systems for the benefit of all people, there wouldn't just
Speaker 1: be a handful To point too, we are living in
Speaker 1: a zero sum reality right now. I spend time each
Speaker 1: and every day of my career to try and ring
Speaker 1: the alarm to wake people up, recognizing that many Americans
Speaker 1: are forced into a predicament where they don't even have
Speaker 1: the time or the space to worry about anything other
Speaker 1: than their immediate needs. You see, that is also how
Speaker 1: they keep you stuck. Because this country, the wealthiest, one
Speaker 1: of the wealthiest nations in the world, has more than
Speaker 1: enough to provide for people's basic needs so that they
Speaker 1: can grow from there. But we don't want to because
Speaker 1: how dare the working class, the low income class believe
Speaker 1: that they can aspire to be anything else? Let them
Speaker 1: blame each other, let them fight for the scrap apps,
Speaker 1: because time is a privilege. I recognize that I have
Speaker 1: time each and every day to read multiple news reports,
Speaker 1: to watch and research and interview and talk to people
Speaker 1: about the direction that we are headed in. Well, guess
Speaker 1: what if I'm pushing out an eighty hour workweek on
Speaker 1: multiple jobs because one is not enough for me to
Speaker 1: pay for childcare as well as put food on the table,
Speaker 1: as well as pay my mortgage and my rent and
Speaker 1: my car note and my utilities and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day put food on the table. If I'm
Speaker 1: running from job to job to job, do you think
Speaker 1: I have time to see or point the real fingers
Speaker 1: at who is bamboozling me. No, I'm going to make
Speaker 1: the assumption that they are smarter, they are better, they
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. So when they tell me instead
Speaker 1: to point the finger on my neighbor down the street
Speaker 1: as to the reason why I'm living in such despair them,
Speaker 1: I can touch and feel and hurt and put pressure
Speaker 1: points on. Not the people that are up in their
Speaker 1: ivory towers like in squid games, putting pawns on the
Speaker 1: board and moving them around for their own fucking enjoyment
Speaker 1: and wealth building. We should be scared. We should be
Speaker 1: scared right now because those that are in power that
Speaker 1: we elected in twenty twenty are not woke, They are
Speaker 1: not conscious, they are anything. But they are trying to
Speaker 1: sing song America to sleep with a bunch of fucking
Speaker 1: nursery rhymes. But if you actually pay attention and understand
Speaker 1: where nursery rhymes actually come from, right, there's songs about despair,
Speaker 1: There's songs about the troubled times, but they lull us
Speaker 1: because they have a soothing beat behind them. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden keeps saying we'll build back together as his
Speaker 1: approval numbers fall into the basement. This is not who
Speaker 1: we are, says Vice President Kamala Harris. We're better than this.
Speaker 1: When she's given a plate of issues to deal with
Speaker 1: that are not set up for her success, as is
Speaker 1: the case with most black women that are placed in power,
Speaker 1: no one is being set up for success. But so
Speaker 1: long as you are given somebody else to point out
Speaker 1: and blame and say, if we were to just get
Speaker 1: rid of them, then everything would be okay. If we
Speaker 1: just bury our heads in the sand and don't teach
Speaker 1: our kids about America's past or America's present, then we
Speaker 1: can continue living in this haze, living in this dreamscape,
Speaker 1: pretending that there are just a few bad actors, as
Speaker 1: opposed to the fact that this is actually who we are,
Speaker 1: that America has been built on violence and lies and bloodshed,
Speaker 1: that it is economic beneficial for a few that we
Speaker 1: stay at each other's throats and create factions, breeding right
Speaker 1: and harboring the energy of hate that just is bubbling up.
Speaker 1: You think that we're not being set up right now
Speaker 1: when you're seeing literal fights, fist fights break out at
Speaker 1: school board meetings, where you're seeing Republican legislators sweep in
Speaker 1: and assume control over your school boards, screaming on one
Speaker 1: hand that any talk about race or racism is indoctrinating
Speaker 1: their children to what hate themselves, when in reality, it
Speaker 1: is setting them up to be critical thinkers about the
Speaker 1: kind of world that they want to live in and
Speaker 1: how they can be a force for change in it.
Speaker 1: The same people that try to keep black and brown
Speaker 1: people out of integrating their schools are the same people now.
Speaker 1: The children are those people that were shouting down, spitting down,
Speaker 1: and beating black people. Now they don't want you to
Speaker 1: know what their parents and their grandparents did. I watched
Speaker 1: as a Trumper said, our ware of our way of
Speaker 1: life is slipping away. Gotald Trump is the only person
Speaker 1: that can save us, save you from what the fact
Speaker 1: that you have been under educated, the fact that you
Speaker 1: have been told a lie your entire life that you
Speaker 1: don't need an education, but somehow you'll be able to
Speaker 1: afford a house, in a car, and vacations and do
Speaker 1: all of these things on your fucking factory job, when
Speaker 1: you yourself have decided to vote to disband labor unions
Speaker 1: that would give you the protections, the healthcare benefits and
Speaker 1: a living wage, just so you can feel really good
Speaker 1: that you're in all white spaces where you're all broken,
Speaker 1: miserable together. But you know what, at least, at least
Speaker 1: I'm better than that negro down the street. To say
Speaker 1: that America is in the danger zone would be a euphemism.
Speaker 1: To say that the upcoming midterms are consequential would be
Speaker 1: the understatement of the year. To believe even in the
Speaker 1: fact that our election right now isn't already decided is
Speaker 1: to live inside of a fairy tale. We are not
Speaker 1: prepared for this moment. We don't have elected officials that
Speaker 1: are prepared for this moment. Our forefathers, those slaveholding, rapist, misogynist,
Speaker 1: racist pigs, could only see but so far into the future.
Speaker 1: The assumption that they had is that in each decade
Speaker 1: that we would get better, that we would get stronger.
Speaker 1: They didn't think about the rollback, the pushback. We believed,
Speaker 1: and we the people, we believed that that little grace
Speaker 1: period called the Obama era was going to be our
Speaker 1: future instead of a glimpse. We believe that democracies just exist,
Speaker 1: that you don't actually have to work for them, or
Speaker 1: fight for them, or reinforce them. We are, dear friend,
Speaker 1: living in a dream world, and we like to stay
Speaker 1: in this place and watch these shows and tune out
Speaker 1: in lying to ourselves, well, at least we're not that
Speaker 1: bad or that's so crazy that could never happen. It
Speaker 1: is all a distraction from the fact that we are
Speaker 1: already in that game. But whether or not we understand
Speaker 1: the rules know how to play is an entirely different story.
Speaker 1: But it helps when you're put in these life or
Speaker 1: death games to recognize that you haven't been set up
Speaker 1: for success. You are a pawn, and recognizing that and
Speaker 1: being able to plan from there is the first fucking step.
Speaker 1: But friends, my fear is we've run at a time.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today on Woke af AS
Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.