Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danny Almody, recording from the home bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: we have made it through another fucking treacherous week in
Speaker 1: these United States, and my god, I don't even know
Speaker 1: where to start on this fucking Friday. Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: My list is so fucking long, Like it's a list
Speaker 1: that I have here, And let me just start off
Speaker 1: with the obvious. For those of you who may be
Speaker 1: one of the one hundred million people that were affected
Speaker 1: this week by the wildfire, smog, smoke, hazardous, hazardous air
Speaker 1: that had blanketed New York City for two days in
Speaker 1: a row, making it the most hazardous air on the planet.
Speaker 1: To be briefing in, you know, I got to tell
Speaker 1: you that I have been having so many like outer
Speaker 1: body experiences. It feels like where I'm I'm like, is
Speaker 1: this a novel? Like I know that I say this
Speaker 1: often on the show. Are we the leftovers? Like did
Speaker 1: the rapture already happen? Because when the sky turned the
Speaker 1: apocalyptic shade of yellow that it did on Thursday and
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, I swear to god, I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is it like this is it, This is what
Speaker 1: the Bible had talked about, This is what like, you know,
Speaker 1: climate scientists had talked about, Like is this what the
Speaker 1: sky look like right before the dinosaurs became extinct? Like
Speaker 1: these are the things that are going through my mind
Speaker 1: and the minds of millions of Americans because frankly, you know,
Speaker 1: for those folks, and there were many that said, well,
Speaker 1: welcome to California. You know, California has been experiencing this,
Speaker 1: and I want people to understand that there is a
Speaker 1: big difference between what happens in California during wildfire season
Speaker 1: and what has been happening in New York and surrounding
Speaker 1: regions downwind of Canada. So when these fires happen in California, one,
Speaker 1: California is in some instances not into the extreme that
Speaker 1: the wildfires have been occurring earlier and lasting longer and
Speaker 1: coming into more populated areas, But in the mountainous regions,
Speaker 1: in the forest regions, like this is not new, and
Speaker 1: the issue is that the air quality was different and
Speaker 1: it also wasn't affecting as many people because as the
Speaker 1: wildfires were burning, they're kind of burning over less populous,
Speaker 1: less densely populated places. That is not the case for
Speaker 1: what we have experienced with the Canadian wildfires. One, it's
Speaker 1: happening in a completely different region of Canada than is
Speaker 1: used to having wildfires. Two, it's happening because Canada has
Speaker 1: experienced the hottest spring on record, creating the conditions for
Speaker 1: a very dry right foliage, very dry trees and ground,
Speaker 1: making it fertile ground right for fires that happen with
Speaker 1: lightning strikes that happen when it's too hot, and they're
Speaker 1: burning earlier and longer and completely out of control. So
Speaker 1: what has happened now because of the jet stream that
Speaker 1: is going on? And I'm getting a little meteorological for you.
Speaker 1: Did I say that word right? Probably not meteor Nope,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it because I can't say
Speaker 1: it quickly. But the reality is that because of the
Speaker 1: jet stream, because of climate change, because of the hotter weather,
Speaker 1: the warmer climate, we are locked in. Over one hundred
Speaker 1: million people are locked in to this pressure system that
Speaker 1: is not going to be lifting for a few days.
Speaker 1: And when folks are saying like, oh well, it's just
Speaker 1: like a fireplace burning, like it's not a big deal,
Speaker 1: it's just like a bonfire. Well, let me ask you something.
Speaker 1: If you've ever lit a fireplace or have a fireplace
Speaker 1: in your home, and one you check to make sure
Speaker 1: that the shoot is actually cleaned out right, because why
Speaker 1: you don't want that backed up smoke to be coming
Speaker 1: inside of your house. You want it to be leaving
Speaker 1: and going out of the house through the chimney. Well,
Speaker 1: if that smoke were to come inside of the house,
Speaker 1: what are you going to be doing. You're going to
Speaker 1: open up windows, right, You're going to potentially leave, depending
Speaker 1: on how much smoke is there. And with chimneys that
Speaker 1: is burning wood. When we're talking about wildfires, you're talking
Speaker 1: about pesticides, you're talking about chemicals, you're talking about rubber.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a whole bunch of fucking particles going
Speaker 1: into the air that get into our lungs and our
Speaker 1: bloodstream that aren't good for our body. Just like you
Speaker 1: wouldn't sit inside of a burning house and say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's warm in here, you don't sit outside during a
Speaker 1: time when the air quality index is reporting unhealthy and
Speaker 1: or hazardous, And it doesn't matter whether or not you
Speaker 1: have underlying conditions. They have told us that when the
Speaker 1: air Index says unhealthy or hazardous. It is bad for everybody,
Speaker 1: not just people with underlying conditions. And the worst part, folks,
Speaker 1: is that the masks that we have, unless you have
Speaker 1: a cane nineten five mask, are not helpful right for
Speaker 1: the outdoors. And so I just want people to understand
Speaker 1: that this actually is a big deal, right, that it
Speaker 1: isn't something to laugh out. And I think that a
Speaker 1: lot of us laugh because we're scared because we don't
Speaker 1: actually know what the fuck else to do when the
Speaker 1: sky turns orange and it feels like we are on
Speaker 1: Mars and not on Earth. And in the conversations that
Speaker 1: I've had as of late with climatologists and environmental scientists
Speaker 1: and what have you, is the question that I'm asking,
Speaker 1: is this going to be our new normal? Like are
Speaker 1: we going to be entering into seasons in areas, geographical
Speaker 1: locations of the country that don't normally experience these things
Speaker 1: where we're going to be forced indoors because the air
Speaker 1: is going to be that unsafe. And their response was yes,
Speaker 1: And we don't know how long it will last, We
Speaker 1: don't know when it will happen. It's not like there
Speaker 1: were predictors for this, you're literally following the wind. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, just this experience over the last couple of
Speaker 1: days had led me to my feelings around my first fucket,
Speaker 1: which is, fuck it to the Republican Party, fuck it
Speaker 1: to these politicians that are making drag queens and trans
Speaker 1: athletes a priority and not the fucking air we breathe
Speaker 1: like you know all I imagine, And somebody had posted
Speaker 1: this underneath the TikTok video that I did the other day,
Speaker 1: when they said, you know, they won't do anything. They'll
Speaker 1: just hand out respiratory mass, but only right to their donors,
Speaker 1: that's what it will look like. And the rest of us,
Speaker 1: they'll say, let them eat cake, let them chew the air,
Speaker 1: and send them off to work, right because the economy.
Speaker 1: So it's just a wild fucking place that we are.
Speaker 1: When I was reading and read sci fi novels and
Speaker 1: you know, watch sci fi movies, and I think to myself, well,
Speaker 1: in reality, that would never happen because politicians and the
Speaker 1: president and people would totally intervene in you know, before
Speaker 1: we got to parable of the sower levels where it
Speaker 1: never rains anymore, where like water is a commodity, and
Speaker 1: you know where you have to go indoors certain times
Speaker 1: of the day because of the sun, because of the heat,
Speaker 1: because it's piercing. It's not just like oh, sun tanning weather.
Speaker 1: It's like you're skin could actually bubble up. I folks,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you some days it hits me worse
Speaker 1: than others when I realize how far we have fallen,
Speaker 1: just how much of a dystopia America has become because
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, and until enough of us decide
Speaker 1: that this is not how we want to live, right,
Speaker 1: like this is preventable. You can say, like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: forest fires happen, and wild fires happen. Uhah, yeah they do,
Speaker 1: but they don't spread as quickly, they don't burn as long,
Speaker 1: and they don't happen as early as they do now
Speaker 1: because of our warming fucking climate. And I just want
Speaker 1: to take again New York City as a microcosm because
Speaker 1: I'm living here. You saw airport delayge, you saw school closures,
Speaker 1: you saw games canceled, and consistent amount of reports coming
Speaker 1: in to urge people to stay inside. Talk about what happens, right,
Speaker 1: if you only care about the fucking economy, talk about
Speaker 1: what happens when that becomes the norm, when travel becomes
Speaker 1: almost impossible because you can't predict the type of turbulence
Speaker 1: that is going to take a plane down because of
Speaker 1: the jet streams that have gotten crazier, right, and more
Speaker 1: unpredictable because of climate change, because of the heat. Now,
Speaker 1: scientists have been saying air travel is going to get
Speaker 1: increasingly dangerous because of what we are seeing. So this
Speaker 1: is going to affect everyone, everyone, and everything. Kids are
Speaker 1: not going to be able to go to school. It's
Speaker 1: not even going to be about oh well, no outside activities.
Speaker 1: It's going to be about you can't leave your home
Speaker 1: because it is that unsafe. Like imagine instead of tornado
Speaker 1: alerts or hurricane alerts that it's telling you, guess what,
Speaker 1: you're locked inside. We're on quote unquote lockdown again, quarantining
Speaker 1: inside for days, weeks on hand until the air changes
Speaker 1: and is safe for people to go outside. Folks, it's
Speaker 1: not a joke, and I know that those of you
Speaker 1: that listen to the show and follow me recognize that.
Speaker 1: But I just want you to feel less alone if
Speaker 1: you're the one in your family or in your home
Speaker 1: that's like, don't go outside, wear a mask, like, you know,
Speaker 1: let's be safe, and everyone else is looking at you like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Next up on my list of fuck it's Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike Pence's announcement for president, shall we?
Speaker 1: First of all, the man makes communion wafers look delicious
Speaker 1: and exciting, and that's saying a lot. And he goes
Speaker 1: and does his town hall after his horrible press conference
Speaker 1: and his bullshit video that he puts out where he
Speaker 1: has headlines attacking drag and trans people and talking about
Speaker 1: a return to traditional values and what God wants. And
Speaker 1: I believe that this United States were founded on, Oh
Speaker 1: I don't know, religious freedom, not their freedom to oppress
Speaker 1: other people with your Bible and your verses, but the
Speaker 1: freedom for all people to live how they would like
Speaker 1: to live. Right, that's not at all what Mike Pence's
Speaker 1: understanding is of the constitution or of the values of
Speaker 1: this country. And that was evident, and it was even
Speaker 1: made clearer in his conversation with Dana Bash on CNN
Speaker 1: where CNNs decided to platform all of these Republicans, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, there is really no difference between them
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump, not even they can discern what the
Speaker 1: difference is between them and Donald Trump, except for the
Speaker 1: fact that maybe they're not under indictment. Dana Bash asked,
Speaker 1: you know, as Mike Pence is trying to distinguish himself
Speaker 1: from his former boss, the man who tried to have
Speaker 1: him killed by the constituents that Mike Pence now finds
Speaker 1: himself trying to court. She says, well, if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: becomes the nominee, even though you're saying here right now
Speaker 1: that no one that puts himself above the Constitution or
Speaker 1: ask somebody else to put themselves above the Constitution, should
Speaker 1: ever be able to be president again. If he's in
Speaker 1: fact the nominee, are you supporting him? And Pence was like, yes,
Speaker 1: because I'll support the Republican nominee. So you've made you
Speaker 1: opened up your entire presidential run on the fact that
Speaker 1: you quote unquote kept your oath, but you're willing to
Speaker 1: once again swear allegiance to a man that you're saying
Speaker 1: broke his oath to the Constitution and to the American
Speaker 1: people because he has an R after his name. So
Speaker 1: that is what you call leadership, sir. I don't fucking
Speaker 1: think so. And it's just like, it's amazing to me
Speaker 1: when you look at the field of Nicki Haley, who
Speaker 1: is a transphobe and a hate mongerer and a liar
Speaker 1: in her town hall where she made up lies about
Speaker 1: cisteen girls suicide rates having something to do with trans students,
Speaker 1: when in fact, there are about one hundred transathletes in
Speaker 1: the entire fucking country and somehow that's what's sending sis
Speaker 1: teen girls suicide rates through the roof. It's not. And
Speaker 1: let us be clear, and we've talked about it on
Speaker 1: this show that teen emotional health and well being is
Speaker 1: actually declining at an alarming rate and is the silent
Speaker 1: pandemic that we're not talking about. And so it's a
Speaker 1: real issue. And the fact that Nicki Haley would use
Speaker 1: her ninety minutes of fame to make up a lie
Speaker 1: about something that is very real just shows you again
Speaker 1: the character of these people. There is no daylight between
Speaker 1: them and Donald Trump. So when the mainstream media wants
Speaker 1: to say that a Chris Christie, who has shown the
Speaker 1: only backbone so far in the bunch that is willing
Speaker 1: to actually call Donald Trump by his name and call
Speaker 1: him out when they say that, oh, these are the moderates.
Speaker 1: You have pulled us so far to the fucking right
Speaker 1: that you think that Mike Pence is a fucking moderate?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You think that Nikki Haley is
Speaker 1: a moderate? Are you fucking dumb? These people were inside
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration support every single Trump policy, are
Speaker 1: using right the copycat terms of being anti woke and
Speaker 1: having a war on wokeism, and can't fucking define it.
Speaker 1: They are all right this same version of each other.
Speaker 1: There is no one that is moderate in this bunch
Speaker 1: because they would not make it. And many of these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers are not even going to make it to debates
Speaker 1: stage because they're in single digits. Right. The only person
Speaker 1: that may in fact have some place to challenge Donald
Speaker 1: Trump for real for the Republican nomination is rond De Santis,
Speaker 1: and stories just broke this week that he is fucking
Speaker 1: trailing in the polls. Since his announcement, his poll numbers
Speaker 1: have taken a fucking nosedive over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's not what people want when they announce for president.
Speaker 1: It is probably the highest that your poll numbers will
Speaker 1: be because people are now excited about what it is
Speaker 1: that you have to offer. That's not the case for
Speaker 1: Rond De Santis, who Donald Trump is leading by I
Speaker 1: don't know thirty fucking points. So the only thing that
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers can pray for at this point is that
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice does drop their indictments and that
Speaker 1: we see justice a lot quicker than the Republican nomination process.
Speaker 1: So for that, I say fuck it to Mike Pennce,
Speaker 1: fuck it to the entire Republican primary field, because you're
Speaker 1: the same fucking clown right. You just don't have the
Speaker 1: temerity to actually take on Donald Trump to his face
Speaker 1: because your chicken shit of his fucking vile and violent supporters,
Speaker 1: and you're worried about what they will do to you
Speaker 1: if you go after their fucking king, which says more
Speaker 1: about you, and it says a lot about the people
Speaker 1: that you have been gassing up over the last seven
Speaker 1: years to do your bidding. So for that, fuck it
Speaker 1: to the entire Republican field. Next up, folks, I also
Speaker 1: want to talk about, first of all, the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court has come back with the decision
Speaker 1: this week where they surprised everyone in holding up this
Speaker 1: status quo. So again from mainstream media that wants to
Speaker 1: hail this as a victory for the Voting Rights Act,
Speaker 1: which they completely and totally hobbled right with gutting preclearance
Speaker 1: in saying Chief Justice John Roberts saying that you know,
Speaker 1: America is passed preclearance and apparently pass racism. And then
Speaker 1: the minute that that came out, every single racist state
Speaker 1: that was required to get pre clearance before creating new
Speaker 1: voting rights laws, right went straight back to racism in
Speaker 1: the blink of a fucking eye. So fuck you, Chief
Speaker 1: Justice John Roberts, all the way to hell for that
Speaker 1: and so many other fucking things that you've done during
Speaker 1: your tenure. But more importantly, in this case that was
Speaker 1: brought up by went through the lower courts in Alabama
Speaker 1: because Alabama decided to change and jerry mander their congressional maps,
Speaker 1: taking those seats for Democrats from to one and condensing
Speaker 1: all black voters essentially into having one representative, essentially erasing
Speaker 1: their voice and their power in the body politic. And
Speaker 1: so this case was brought by the NAACP, LDF and
Speaker 1: others right and basically stating that the decision was racist
Speaker 1: and that it robs black people of their vote and
Speaker 1: of their power. So, in a surprise five to four decision,
Speaker 1: with Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts siding with the progressive
Speaker 1: side of the bench, they decided to uphold the lower
Speaker 1: court's decision and basically tell Alabama you need to go back,
Speaker 1: literally to the drawing board and try and leave your
Speaker 1: racism and the wide out out. And so people are
Speaker 1: hailing this like, oh my god, this is so wonderful. Folks,
Speaker 1: don't fall for the fucking ropodote. Why do you think
Speaker 1: that Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts decided to side
Speaker 1: with the liberal side of the court. Maybe it has
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that their poll numbers and
Speaker 1: people's you know, sense of the Supreme Court is in
Speaker 1: the fucking toilet. Maybe it's because every time that we
Speaker 1: have uttered the word the Supreme Court these days, and
Speaker 1: it's followed by Arence Thomas, and we're thinking about just
Speaker 1: how fucking criminal and grifting that court is and how
Speaker 1: it has been bought and sold by Republican and conservative
Speaker 1: billionaires over the last few decades, and that there is
Speaker 1: no check and balance for the court. And so guess
Speaker 1: what in the perception of the people's eyes in this country.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court no longer should have the kind of
Speaker 1: power that it does. And so in order to do
Speaker 1: a little pr spin and give the perception, not the reality,
Speaker 1: that this court is being dictated by the law and
Speaker 1: the law alone, I think that Chief Justice Roberts and
Speaker 1: Justice Kavanaugh decided to throw the American people a bone.
Speaker 1: You see, we're not that bad. We won't gut everything
Speaker 1: because now people are hipped to their fucking tricks. So
Speaker 1: if we think that somebody had a change of heart
Speaker 1: or that this is signaling a new path for the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, wake the fuck up. That ain't it. This
Speaker 1: was a cya move right and so so, as Melissa
Speaker 1: Murray said to me on Twitter, and you see her
Speaker 1: as an MSNBC legal analyst and has joined this program
Speaker 1: many times, she said that we shouldn't have to settle
Speaker 1: for shards of freedom, right, we shouldn't have to settle
Speaker 1: for chards of justice. And that is exactly what the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court just doled out. So for them, and for
Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts and all of the grifting motherfuckers that
Speaker 1: are on the bench, I say fuck you and fuck
Speaker 1: them for this week. To round it out, my dear friends,
Speaker 1: let's turn to sports for a minute, which I never
Speaker 1: really talked about on this show at all, unless it
Speaker 1: has to do with politics, which in this case, of course,
Speaker 1: it does. Saudi Arabia, a Saudi backed sports company, Live,
Speaker 1: has decided to merge with the PGA, and there was
Speaker 1: incredible backlash to that on social media that the PGA
Speaker 1: would dare to enter into a partnership with this authoritarian
Speaker 1: and fascist regime that we know, you know, kills journalists
Speaker 1: like Jamal Kashogi, you know, Rob's women of their bodily autonomy,
Speaker 1: civil liberties, and you know, hates the gays, and the
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on. But you know,
Speaker 1: their pockets are deep, so our values go out the
Speaker 1: window because we're capitalists and fucking greedy. So the PGA
Speaker 1: is now linking arms. And you know, all I can
Speaker 1: say is, you know all of the things that I
Speaker 1: listed out, and the human rights violations and the murders
Speaker 1: of journalists, and you know all of those things. I
Speaker 1: think that the Saudis not only are playing the long
Speaker 1: political game in the United States, I also think that
Speaker 1: they no longer see the United States. I think that,
Speaker 1: based on the movements of the Republican Party, that they
Speaker 1: see America these days more aligned with their values than
Speaker 1: with our founding values. Right, we are sitting around here
Speaker 1: persecuting gay people, criminalizing transgender folks, erasing black people, taking
Speaker 1: away the body, the autonomy of women and people with uteruses,
Speaker 1: overturning voting rights, instituting fascist book bands. We have more
Speaker 1: in common with our supposed enemies in terms of how
Speaker 1: our policy and our politics have been moving, then we
Speaker 1: have differences. And I think that the Saudis see that
Speaker 1: if they come in and they start to buy up wrestling,
Speaker 1: buy up golf, and probably buy up you know, the
Speaker 1: NFL and other American pastimes, then they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to, little by little, right gain real clause into
Speaker 1: our political system, into our American system, right by using
Speaker 1: sports as a way to sports wash their fucking bad policies.
Speaker 1: But again, their policies seem more aligned with today's Republican
Speaker 1: Party and what they're doing around a majority of the
Speaker 1: country than anything else, and that should scare the shit
Speaker 1: out of us. So it is a long list this
Speaker 1: week of my fuckets I want to hear from you,
Speaker 1: So do tweet me out at d two cent dee
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Speaker 1: At the end of this week and friends, just a
Speaker 1: quick note that I did launch a new website during
Speaker 1: this wonderful Pride month. It is Daniellemoody dot com. You
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Speaker 1: Friends on this woke af as always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.