Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy woke Wednesday. First of all, I kindot believe that
Speaker 1: the month of January is almost done. I just you know,
Speaker 1: how you ever see those pie charts on Instagram and
Speaker 1: it's all the months of the year, and they have
Speaker 1: like September through the end of the year is like
Speaker 1: always scrunched up into one thing. But January takes like
Speaker 1: most of the twelve month cake. That is not the
Speaker 1: case this year. And I had a feeling in my heart,
Speaker 1: and I've been saying this that twenty twenty four was
Speaker 1: going to speedby, that we were gonna blink. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be April. We're gonna blink again. It's gonna be September,
Speaker 1: and then it's going to be the election and then
Speaker 1: Lord only knows. And so I just want to take
Speaker 1: pause because I have been feeling a bit scattered as
Speaker 1: of late, and you know, let's just do a check
Speaker 1: in how are we actually feeling as this month is
Speaker 1: coming to an end. And by the time that you
Speaker 1: listen to this recording, the results from New Hampshire will
Speaker 1: be in. But prior to the results of New Hampshire
Speaker 1: being in, I'm sorry, who is going to be surprised
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is a Republican nominee. I mean, Nikki
Speaker 1: Haley can decide to stay in this bullshit for as
Speaker 1: long as she wants and think that she has a
Speaker 1: fighting chance. In hell, she doesn't. And the fact is
Speaker 1: that when I say to take a pause and check in,
Speaker 1: it's like I am unclear and uncertain with how things
Speaker 1: are going to shake out by the time that we
Speaker 1: get to November. And look, I know that for most people,
Speaker 1: for most Americans who were not woke as fuck, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to check in until sometime in September,
Speaker 1: which is terrifying, right, which is terrifying to think about.
Speaker 1: But the fact is that we knew from the beginning
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee, once
Speaker 1: he announced, and once I saw the first debate and
Speaker 1: realized that these people were not going to take him on.
Speaker 1: So if you're not going to take on the front
Speaker 1: runner of your party, then you're not serious about becoming president, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's just the thing. Like, if you're not in
Speaker 1: it to win then what are you in it for?
Speaker 1: But apparently all of those people that had were in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the Republican primary were clearly trying to
Speaker 1: run for vice president and I'm just like, that's not
Speaker 1: how any of this works. And so now Nikki Haley
Speaker 1: finds herself, you know, in a place where she finally
Speaker 1: wants to start calling out Donald Trump, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: it's too late, right, But I know that there are
Speaker 1: you know, billion billionaires that are backing her much in
Speaker 1: the same way that there are billionaires that are backing
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and they're just trying to you know, hedge
Speaker 1: their bets at the end of the day. But like,
Speaker 1: do we really think that a racist, misogynist party led
Speaker 1: by a racist and a misogynist is going to a
Speaker 1: like nominate an Indian American woman? Like, is Nicki Haley
Speaker 1: kidding herself? And the thing is is that her fucking
Speaker 1: foolishness around America has never been a racist country. But
Speaker 1: she changed her name and on different versions of Nikki
Speaker 1: Haley throughout her career has talked about the fact that
Speaker 1: her family and she have experienced racism living in South Carolina, Right, Like,
Speaker 1: people don't just up and change their name from a
Speaker 1: very ethnic name sounding name to a white euro name
Speaker 1: because all things have been well, no, that's actually not
Speaker 1: how it ever works. So Nimroda goes ahead and changes
Speaker 1: her name, and people are like pulling up their receipts
Speaker 1: of her talking about, you know, being a brown girl
Speaker 1: and a very black and white society and her father
Speaker 1: experiencing racism and this, that and the other thing, and
Speaker 1: then fast forward and she's just like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't worry. I you know, I won't talk about race.
Speaker 1: I won't talk about diversity, I won't talk about equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion. I'm just like you. I just want to
Speaker 1: tell all of these Republicans that are black, that are brown,
Speaker 1: that are queer, these people are never going to accept you.
Speaker 1: You are never getting into the club. Right. They may
Speaker 1: entertain one or two of you in order to continue
Speaker 1: upholding the lie that they're not all white supremacists and
Speaker 1: racist and blah blah, but you'll never be one of them.
Speaker 1: You will always be the person on the outside with
Speaker 1: your nose pressed up against the glass, hoping and praying
Speaker 1: for some closer proximity to their whiteness, power and privilege.
Speaker 1: You're a lawn ornament, do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: So it kills me when I see people of color
Speaker 1: do these types of mental gymnastics that Nikki Haley has
Speaker 1: been doing in vivek Ramaswami and you know, and Tim
Speaker 1: Scott and others have done to try and be liked
Speaker 1: by a party and then be shocked though, find themselves
Speaker 1: fucking shocked that these people are calling you everything outside
Speaker 1: of your name. But you want to spend your entire
Speaker 1: careers trying to convince the rest of us that this
Speaker 1: party isn't racist and they don't even fucking like you,
Speaker 1: but you're still left out there carrying their water. It
Speaker 1: makes no sense, and you just look foolish, to be honest.
Speaker 1: And so for me, you know, as I'm taking my
Speaker 1: pause and kind of looking out at the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks of January and looking out, you know, at
Speaker 1: the last couple of debates that we have seen at
Speaker 1: the end of last year and now this year, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, you know what it is too, folks. Republicans
Speaker 1: don't want any better for themselves, do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like they're happy with what it is that
Speaker 1: they have like they don't want And this is how
Speaker 1: you have to understand that racism has a chokehold over
Speaker 1: white America and will always have a choke hold over
Speaker 1: white America because they don't want any better. Right, And
Speaker 1: when I say white America, I'm talking specifically about quote
Speaker 1: unquote conservatives, but i'm talking about maga supremas. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about white quote unquote conservative Republicans, right and conservative, meaning
Speaker 1: that they don't like people of color, they don't like women,
Speaker 1: they don't want diversity, equity and inclusion, they don't want
Speaker 1: critical thought, right, they don't They want to be the
Speaker 1: only ones that have jobs that are successful. They don't
Speaker 1: want social services, and if they do, they only want
Speaker 1: to make sure that those social services go to other
Speaker 1: white people. Like that's who the fuck I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And so it's like they don't want any better because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is giving them everything that they've ever wanted, right,
Speaker 1: which is to enshrine whiteness, white supremacy, and Christo fascism
Speaker 1: into this country, no questions ask, right, Like, the only
Speaker 1: reason they believe is necessary to have people of color
Speaker 1: or women around is to be of service and indenture
Speaker 1: to them. Right when they say that they want to
Speaker 1: bring back the good old days. That's what the fuck
Speaker 1: they're talking about, This step and fetched days, the you
Speaker 1: know woman in the apron in the home type of
Speaker 1: days right where you don't how Republicans love to romance,
Speaker 1: you know, the bygone era where like, you know, the
Speaker 1: divorce rate was low and all of these things. You
Speaker 1: know why the divorce rate was low. I just love
Speaker 1: to remind people of this fact, because women didn't have
Speaker 1: any financial freedom. So if you weren't able to get
Speaker 1: a credit card until nineteen seventy four, and you weren't
Speaker 1: able to have any financial freedom outside of what allowance
Speaker 1: your daddy or your husband gave you, where the fuck
Speaker 1: were you going? Right? Like, divorce was for a lot
Speaker 1: of women a straight shot to like fucking poverty. Because
Speaker 1: you also weren't able to get employed in the jobs
Speaker 1: that would have you be able to function at a
Speaker 1: high economic level with children and be a successful single parent,
Speaker 1: Like that wasn't an option. And so when they want
Speaker 1: to toe the low divorce rate, what they are actually
Speaker 1: talking about is the trap, the patriarchal trap that society
Speaker 1: had set up for women to track them into marriage,
Speaker 1: strap them with children, and then in a form of
Speaker 1: gratitude in a lot of circumstances and abusive homes with
Speaker 1: men that they needed to get permission from to spend
Speaker 1: any amount of money. So those are the good old
Speaker 1: days that these fucking people are talking about. And so
Speaker 1: it's always a shock to me, not just that people
Speaker 1: of color and queer people could possibly be Republican, but
Speaker 1: it's a shock to me that women could be Republicans.
Speaker 1: But then you have to remind yourself that some people
Speaker 1: want safety more than they want freedom. Let me say
Speaker 1: that again, because sometimes we have to remind ourselves that
Speaker 1: some people want safety more than they want freedom, because
Speaker 1: safety right is staying in close proximity and in favor
Speaker 1: with white men for your protection and for your security,
Speaker 1: rather than going out on your own right and creating
Speaker 1: and living a life that is one based on autonomy.
Speaker 1: It's like munch House in Syndrome. Okay, So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this, you know, and again, by the time that
Speaker 1: you all watch this, we will know that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the nominee. And even if Nikki Haley is still
Speaker 1: in the race, because apparently right now as I'm recording this,
Speaker 1: she still has planned events in South Carolina, she gonna
Speaker 1: lose her home state, right and if you can't like
Speaker 1: guarantee a win in your home state, like, all that
Speaker 1: does is signal to the rest of the country that
Speaker 1: your own home state don't fuck with you. So why
Speaker 1: would we fuck with you? I you know, I have
Speaker 1: wondered this, folks. I will never know, right, and we'll
Speaker 1: never know, or maybe we do know, which is what
Speaker 1: would have happened, right Donald Trump announced super early? Why
Speaker 1: did Donald Trump announce early that he was gonna run
Speaker 1: again for the presidency, because then he could be able
Speaker 1: to use the line of every case that was coming
Speaker 1: up against him as a witch hunt, right as political prosecution.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that I honestly believe that
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump hadn't have declared and said publicly that
Speaker 1: he was not going to be seeking to run for reelection,
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't have been prosecuted, even though he's guilty
Speaker 1: of a whole host of crimes. Right. So it like
Speaker 1: a part of me is just like I sometimes wish
Speaker 1: that the Department of Justice or whomever that was able
Speaker 1: to like atch out a deal said if you don't
Speaker 1: run publicly state and sign this paper and say that
Speaker 1: you will not run or seek public office for the
Speaker 1: presidency or anywhere. Ever. Again, we won't bring lawsuits against you.
Speaker 1: You're a criminal, but we won't bring any lawsuits against you.
Speaker 1: Would Donald Trump have taken that deal, Probably not, you know,
Speaker 1: but it would have been the best deal for the country,
Speaker 1: to be honest, because will the uber rich, powerful white
Speaker 1: man ever go to jail. No, because you see the
Speaker 1: tricks that he's pulling in Georgia with Fannie Willis, who
Speaker 1: will probably lose her job. The case will be thrown
Speaker 1: out on all of these bullshit technicalities of oh, she
Speaker 1: had an affair or she had this. What the fuck
Speaker 1: does that have to do with going after Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It's just another form of a distraction and
Speaker 1: the perfection necessary for women and for people of color
Speaker 1: in order to get right the ability and the power
Speaker 1: to bring accountability to the doorsteps of rich, white, powerful men.
Speaker 1: It's all fucking exhausting, right, which is why I find
Speaker 1: myself right now taking a bit of a pause, because
Speaker 1: it really is like your head will just stay on
Speaker 1: a fucking swivel if you try and keep up with
Speaker 1: all of the bullshit that is coming out. And that's
Speaker 1: why I say, like, the time is gonna fly this
Speaker 1: year because this Republican Party Trump, They're gonna throw everything
Speaker 1: at the American people. And by the time that we
Speaker 1: get to November, if you're not taking breaks, if you're
Speaker 1: not like staying mentally, physically, spiritually fit, you're gonna be careening,
Speaker 1: you know, towards a cliff by the time we get
Speaker 1: to the election and just want to be done with it,
Speaker 1: which will not vode well for Biden, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: just to remind folks, we are voting for democracy. We
Speaker 1: are voting for our rights, what is left of them.
Speaker 1: We are not voting for Joe Biden. Okay, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is not a great candidate, and if I had it
Speaker 1: my way, he wouldn't be running, right, But neither would
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And if I had it my way, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't even be in this predicament because Americans would have
Speaker 1: chosen the woman. They would have chosen Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and not Donald Trump. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that America didn't choose her. I'm convinced
Speaker 1: that the election in twenty sixteen was the actual election
Speaker 1: that was stolen, that we didn't investigate. I don't know, folks,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I continue to be really worried, very
Speaker 1: concerned with all of the ways that this current administration
Speaker 1: seems to be out of touch with how angry people are,
Speaker 1: and taking for granted the fact that everyone thinks that,
Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump is the devil reincarnate and so
Speaker 1: they have no choice, and the fact is that we
Speaker 1: always have choices, not always right like after this election
Speaker 1: donald Trump becomes president again, we actually have no choices,
Speaker 1: particularly black people, brown people, people of color, queer people,
Speaker 1: you know, women, the disabled, like you know, the list
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on and on and on.
Speaker 1: It's easier to just say that if you're not a man,
Speaker 1: you're not sis, you're not Christian, and you're not white,
Speaker 1: you will be fucked. Right. It just may take a
Speaker 1: little longer to get to you, but you will be fucked.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know that we need to take breaks,
Speaker 1: and I know that we need to kind of take
Speaker 1: this year in many bite sizes, right, like you take
Speaker 1: a bite, you sit, you let it digest, and then
Speaker 1: like you go back for another bite. It is running
Speaker 1: a marathon, except I'm saying you run for maybe twenty
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. You take a break, it's ingest some water, right,
Speaker 1: you sit, if you stretch, and then you get back
Speaker 1: in the race. Like, that's the way that we're going
Speaker 1: to get through this for the long haul is to
Speaker 1: do it bit by bit, bite by bite, moment by moment,
Speaker 1: with lots of rest and hydration in between. Because you know,
Speaker 1: it's January twenty fourth, just a handful of days until February,
Speaker 1: and I am already over it. And every day I
Speaker 1: say to myself, I'm really not sure how I'm getting
Speaker 1: to November. But I'm pretty sure that I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to sleep and I'm going to wake up and
Speaker 1: it's going to be November, and I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: feel sick. So let me tell you a little trick
Speaker 1: that I'm doing. With a few minutes that I have
Speaker 1: left a couple of things that I'm doing, let's transition
Speaker 1: now from Wednesday to wellness Wednesday for a hot minute.
Speaker 1: The stress is really getting to me, and so I
Speaker 1: have just decided to invest in a workout plan in
Speaker 1: regimen because what happens when I am stressed and I
Speaker 1: don't sleep well and I just revert back to bad
Speaker 1: habits and I start to put on a lot of weight,
Speaker 1: which is what has happened. So I have found a
Speaker 1: new workout program I'm pretty psyched about. I can afford it,
Speaker 1: and so I'm doing it and I'm starting a little
Speaker 1: challenge that they're doing in February, and so I've decided
Speaker 1: to kind of put my energy towards that, not treating
Speaker 1: my body like a machine, because we're not, but like
Speaker 1: treating my body in a loving and caring way and
Speaker 1: knowing that I Am not going to have the strength
Speaker 1: and the energy to get through the next several months
Speaker 1: if I'm not taking care of myself. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two is that I'm coming up with little ways
Speaker 1: to reward myself for keeping up with my health, with
Speaker 1: my meditations, with my workout you know, fitness regimes, and
Speaker 1: like what does that look like? You know? What are
Speaker 1: those little things that I can plant throughout the year
Speaker 1: that will give me something to look forward to and
Speaker 1: give me some excitement about anticipating them coming. So those
Speaker 1: are the things, you know. So I'm you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about what's a mini trip that I can take that
Speaker 1: could be you know, good, get me some you know,
Speaker 1: vitamin D and some sand and just you know, be
Speaker 1: by salt water, which is incredibly healing for me and
Speaker 1: just most people. So when can I do that, you know,
Speaker 1: and still record the show or just take a little break, right,
Speaker 1: So I encourage all of you to think out your year,
Speaker 1: think out the next couple of months, and what are
Speaker 1: the little seeds of joy that you are on a
Speaker 1: regular basis that allows you to have some excitement and
Speaker 1: some anticipation around their blooming. You know, what are the
Speaker 1: things that you are investing in that bring you joy
Speaker 1: and ease, that help you to develop the strength to
Speaker 1: keep going. Those are the things that I want us
Speaker 1: to really be thinking about, because again, this year is
Speaker 1: going to go really fast, and I think that we
Speaker 1: are all going to need to be able to slow
Speaker 1: ourselves down in order to catch our breath in order
Speaker 1: to focus on what matters and what is important. And
Speaker 1: we can only do that when we are working at
Speaker 1: a pace that makes sense for us. So that is
Speaker 1: some of the wellness that I am going to be
Speaker 1: doing over the next couple of months. And I will
Speaker 1: check in with all of you and let you know
Speaker 1: how things are going. But do the same with me
Speaker 1: in the comment section. If you're on Patreon and watching
Speaker 1: this video, you know, and hit me up on threads
Speaker 1: or on ig if you're listening to the audio. Also
Speaker 1: coming in February, so in a few weeks, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have some new tiers within Patreon and exciting new
Speaker 1: incentives for you all that I hope that folks will
Speaker 1: be excited about. All right, dear friends, that is it
Speaker 1: for me today on this Woke Wednesday. As always, power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fun