Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OK UP Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been thinking and as we're all watching
Speaker 1: the devastating videos coming out once again out of Texas
Speaker 1: of a yet another climate change environmental disaster. Folks, Within
Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours, as the news is reporting
Speaker 1: a summer meeting, two months worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again, within less than twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: a summer's worth of rain fell in Dallas, Texas, causing
Speaker 1: immense flash floods. People. There are videos of people literally
Speaker 1: swimming out of their cars too safety. And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to myself self, maybe it would be something if Greg
Speaker 1: Abbot's dumbass would spend just maybe half the time that
Speaker 1: he spends on persecuting drag queens and the LGBTQ community
Speaker 1: and trans kids and their families for you know, seeking
Speaker 1: medical treatment for them and maybe criminalizing you know, abortion,
Speaker 1: that maybe if he took half the fucking effort that
Speaker 1: he puts into discrimination right and creating a hellish environment
Speaker 1: for marginalized communities in Texas and actually put it into
Speaker 1: dealing with the issues that Texans are actually needing him
Speaker 1: to focus on, like the fucking power grid that keeps
Speaker 1: going out when it's too fucking hot there, or these
Speaker 1: flash floods, and creating infrastructure that is going to be
Speaker 1: compatible with the climate crisis that is increasing in this
Speaker 1: country and around the globe. Maybe you know, he could
Speaker 1: actually do something the thing that governors are supposed to do,
Speaker 1: which is care for their citizens. But instead, no, he's
Speaker 1: a Republican governor, which means that he's going to invent
Speaker 1: crises as opposed to dealing with the ones that are
Speaker 1: in front of him. But let me tell you, folks
Speaker 1: that you know, the other day, I'm finally out of
Speaker 1: the boot. So I'm slowly, literally very slowly getting back
Speaker 1: into my regular cadence of walking. And I for the
Speaker 1: first time I couldn't even remember I was saying to
Speaker 1: my mother the last time that I was caught outside
Speaker 1: in the rain, because you all know, I'm here in
Speaker 1: New York and not in the same with the same
Speaker 1: kind of devastation that California is being met with with
Speaker 1: regard to their drought. But New York is in a
Speaker 1: drought as well. Every day it says it's going to
Speaker 1: rain forty percent chance of rain. It never rains. But
Speaker 1: the other day I was actually caught in a rainstorm,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, what's happening here is so
Speaker 1: severe and so fast. But climate scientists have been warning
Speaker 1: about what was going to happen for the last thirty years,
Speaker 1: and no one paid attention because of why greed, because
Speaker 1: of the desire to continue to make money, to fill
Speaker 1: up the air with you know, co two emissions, for
Speaker 1: celebrities to be able to take fifteen minute trips on
Speaker 1: you know, their private jets that are akin to having
Speaker 1: you know, millions of cars on the road that they
Speaker 1: just spew out in fifteen minutes. Maybe if we had
Speaker 1: taken action, if we realize that true wealth isn't really
Speaker 1: about how much you can consume, but about the way
Speaker 1: that you live and about being able to, you know,
Speaker 1: breathe fresh air and drink clean water and go out
Speaker 1: in the summertime and not feel like the people did
Speaker 1: in India when the temperatures this spring hit a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two degrees and they said that being in
Speaker 1: the sun, if you were in it too long, felt
Speaker 1: like somebody was placing a laser over your skin. Right,
Speaker 1: this is the climate crisis. It's not thirty years down
Speaker 1: the road. It's fucking here. So you have parts of
Speaker 1: the country that are either up in flames or dry
Speaker 1: as dust, which means that what our food costs are
Speaker 1: going up, not just because of inflation, because we can't
Speaker 1: make the same type of produce, because we can no
Speaker 1: longer predict the type of weather that we're going to have.
Speaker 1: So you I have Texas saying, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: need water, we need water, and then they have record
Speaker 1: breaking floods. The earth is so fucking dry, like all
Speaker 1: it does is bubble up. Everything has become so extreme
Speaker 1: in this country, in this world, not just our politics,
Speaker 1: but our environment and the way that we're living. And
Speaker 1: what is it all about. It's about our treatment, our
Speaker 1: treatment of one another, and our treatment of this one
Speaker 1: earth that we are living on. We look around and
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, as I was walking home in
Speaker 1: the rain the other day, there were reports that came
Speaker 1: out that were saying that rainwater is no longer say,
Speaker 1: I don't know when it was, because I didn't do
Speaker 1: this as a kid, but maybe some of you all did.
Speaker 1: It's no longer safe to drink right that rainwater is
Speaker 1: actually so polluted, right that it is no longer safe
Speaker 1: to drink. And there is a book, the book that
Speaker 1: I talk about often poarable of the sower, Octavia Butler,
Speaker 1: where it never rained right in her futuristic version of America,
Speaker 1: which is basically the America that we're living in now,
Speaker 1: it never rains. Water has become one of the hottest commodities.
Speaker 1: And as I was walking home in the rain, I said, well,
Speaker 1: either one of two things are going to happen. Rain
Speaker 1: is just going to turn into acid and we will
Speaker 1: never be outdoors when it rains in future, in future years,
Speaker 1: or it's just going to stop raining all together. You
Speaker 1: had reports coming out that I saw that people are
Speaker 1: getting violations in California, a lot of celebrities, including the
Speaker 1: Kardashian Clan, for not adhering to the water restriction laws,
Speaker 1: right like, oh, fountains and pools and this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing, and not really giving a fuck and
Speaker 1: thinking that, oh, well, it comes from a host, so
Speaker 1: it's going to be plentiful. It's not right. I can
Speaker 1: actually remember the rapper Most Deaf formerly known as most
Speaker 1: deaf who created a song. When was it? I want
Speaker 1: to say that it was early two thousands that was
Speaker 1: called Worldwide Water and it was about how water, which
Speaker 1: was abundant, was going to become the more expensive than gold.
Speaker 1: And as I'm watching these crises unfold, one city after
Speaker 1: the other, I'm thinking to myself, oh my god, he,
Speaker 1: much like all of the climate scientists, were completely right.
Speaker 1: And I keep thinking with each and every headline that
Speaker 1: just gets worse and worse about our climate conditions. You
Speaker 1: know how long we actually really have before there is
Speaker 1: no point of that we've gone past the point of
Speaker 1: no return. I think that we're here because while I
Speaker 1: applaud tremendously the Biden administration for passing significant climate legislation,
Speaker 1: it still doesn't go far enough not to deal with
Speaker 1: these fucking type of crises that we have right now.
Speaker 1: And so you wonder, is incrementation, incremental change really what
Speaker 1: it is that we need right now, not facing the
Speaker 1: kind of consistent tragedies that we are seeing. So I
Speaker 1: just don't know, like when the masses are going to
Speaker 1: make the connection between what is happening. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I want to talk about today as well, is,
Speaker 1: you know, a conversation that I've had on here many times,
Speaker 1: and a conversation that continues to come up when I
Speaker 1: go and make cable news appearances, and it's this, Danielle,
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to be most important
Speaker 1: at the polls and during midterms? Is it going to
Speaker 1: be abortion or is it going to be kitchen table issues?
Speaker 1: And I literally listened to a pundant the other day
Speaker 1: say that, you know, it's going to be really exciting
Speaker 1: to see what the biggest issue is for mid terms,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, can we stop siloing these issues out
Speaker 1: or compartmentalizing them as if somehow they're not all interconnected?
Speaker 1: How do you still not see abortion in this day
Speaker 1: and age as a kitchen table issue when you can't
Speaker 1: actually feed all of the fucking mouths that are at
Speaker 1: your kitchen table, and then you now have a pregnancy
Speaker 1: that you're being forced to carry. And by the way,
Speaker 1: there was a report that came out and Google this
Speaker 1: because I don't remember where it came from, but I
Speaker 1: saw it on CNN that said, do you know how
Speaker 1: much it costs to raise a child in these United States?
Speaker 1: Right now? And I don't know what they mean by
Speaker 1: raise a child is the cut off eighteen because frankly,
Speaker 1: you have people that are living at home with their
Speaker 1: parents well into their late twenties because things have become
Speaker 1: just that unaffordable. Three hundred thousand dollars. And I looked
Speaker 1: at my sister was here visiting with me, and I
Speaker 1: looked at her, and I was like, it costs three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to raise a child. And I was like, Nicole,
Speaker 1: look up and tell me what the average salary in
Speaker 1: the United States is. Do you guys know what the
Speaker 1: average salary is in the United States? And it depends
Speaker 1: on what you you know. Most recent numbers are from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. Folks, the average salary in
Speaker 1: these United States is less than sixty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: And I actually think that it was really about fifty seven.
Speaker 1: How are you making fifty seven thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: and are able to afford the cost of a child
Speaker 1: that we just learned was three hundred thousand dollars. And
Speaker 1: now you're being forced into a situation where you don't
Speaker 1: get to choose if, when, and how you create a family.
Speaker 1: And so now not only are you being forced to
Speaker 1: birth a child. But ain't nobody come into your aid
Speaker 1: to actually help you. Right, You're not getting child tax credits,
Speaker 1: You're not getting a universal pre K paid for by
Speaker 1: the state or by the federal government. None of those
Speaker 1: things are happening. We don't even give fucking paternity and
Speaker 1: maternity leave right in a way that makes sense. Most
Speaker 1: people have to go back to work after three to
Speaker 1: six weeks of having a child, not because they want to,
Speaker 1: but because they can't afford to stay home any longer,
Speaker 1: or the policies at their jobs say that a either
Speaker 1: you take disability and take half, maybe maybe half of
Speaker 1: your salary home, or you get back to work. So
Speaker 1: how is it then that you have pundits and you
Speaker 1: have hosts that are still framing the conversation around abortion
Speaker 1: as if it doesn't have anything to do with fucking money,
Speaker 1: Because that, to me, is just a really intellectually dishonest
Speaker 1: conversation to be having. It isn't one or the other,
Speaker 1: they are both connected, because I don't know where the
Speaker 1: fuck you were raising kids these days, not out in
Speaker 1: the wild, right, So it costs money, And if you
Speaker 1: don't have money, how is that not your kitchen table issue.
Speaker 1: So I really wish that we would stop siloing out
Speaker 1: these conversations, says if it needs to be one driving
Speaker 1: thing to get people to the polls, because frankly, if
Speaker 1: you are not voting, then you are just not paying
Speaker 1: attention and you think that all is going to be okay.
Speaker 1: And trust me, if you're paying attention to the goddamn headlines,
Speaker 1: you realize every single day ain't nothing going to be okay.
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Speaker 1: to watch And I just want to let you all
Speaker 1: know that if you choose not to watch it, it
Speaker 1: is okay. That does not make you a bad person,
Speaker 1: It does not make you not in solidarity. Horrific video
Speaker 1: has come out three police officers in Arkansas beating the
Speaker 1: shit out of a suspect at three officers are on
Speaker 1: top of kicking the suspect in the head, in the
Speaker 1: body as they are putting on handcuffs, and we have
Speaker 1: the governor talking about bad apples once again, because this
Speaker 1: is the favorite, favorite fucking thing to say after every
Speaker 1: single police video of violence comes out. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what state you're in, doesn't matter what city or township
Speaker 1: that you're in, It is the same police chief and
Speaker 1: the same fucking governor and the same district attorneys saying
Speaker 1: the same fucking things. We love law enforcement. Most of
Speaker 1: our cops are out there brave and doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: But there are a few quotes say it with me,
Speaker 1: bad apples, And this is what I say to that
Speaker 1: how many bad apples does it take to create a
Speaker 1: poisoned orchard? Right? Because it seems to me that from
Speaker 1: New York City to Ferguson right to Arkansas, to all
Speaker 1: of these places, to Louisville right to Atlanta, it seems
Speaker 1: to me to be a lot of motherfucking bad apples.
Speaker 1: And one of the other things that I heard in
Speaker 1: the press conference that was done was talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that this is not what police officers are trained
Speaker 1: to do. Well, what are they trained to do? Because
Speaker 1: I also alerted you all to the story that came
Speaker 1: out of Detroit where that little Boy Scout group was
Speaker 1: on a field trip and then what they saw in
Speaker 1: the shooting range were all black men in hoodies. So
Speaker 1: you don't actually know what is happening in quote unquote
Speaker 1: police training. But what I do know is that it
Speaker 1: is the perpetuation of white supremacy which is steeped in
Speaker 1: fucking violence, and that there really is no different between
Speaker 1: the proud boys and the oath keepers and the motherfucking
Speaker 1: police that you see on the street. Because one of
Speaker 1: these Arkansas officers, by the way, had been written up before.
Speaker 1: But guess what, just like Derek Chauvin, he stayed on
Speaker 1: the motherfucking job because we always protect the blue So
Speaker 1: bad apples or a fucking gang, you tell me what
Speaker 1: the difference is. But I know that we have a
Speaker 1: continuation of police violence in this country because the police
Speaker 1: are never held accountable or responsible. Do you think that
Speaker 1: if we finally were to ever create Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that magical George Floyd bill that you know, Corey Booker
Speaker 1: and you know, and others threw up their hands on
Speaker 1: because they couldn't come into agreement right with Republicans because
Speaker 1: what Republicans are not going to agree to get rid
Speaker 1: of qualified immunity because they want as many Bipop people
Speaker 1: to be beat shot, and killed by police as possible. Right,
Speaker 1: because that's why the police force was created in the
Speaker 1: first place. You all know this, well, maybe you don't,
Speaker 1: because we don't teach history in America, do we. But
Speaker 1: those slave catcher patrols are what eventually grew into the
Speaker 1: modern day police force. So there, you know, you put
Speaker 1: together slave catcher patrol in order to catch enslaved African
Speaker 1: people who were running for freedom, running for their lives,
Speaker 1: and bring them back to be tortured and abused by
Speaker 1: their masters so that you can make a buck. Tell
Speaker 1: me the difference between that and what most municipalities have
Speaker 1: would share quotas for their police officers to make by
Speaker 1: ticketing people and then throwing them in jail when they
Speaker 1: rack up too many tickets. That's how the Ferguson Police
Speaker 1: department where Mike Brown was murdered back in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: that's what they were doing, right, They were just making
Speaker 1: money off of poor people that weren't able to pay
Speaker 1: tickets and just throwing them in jail. Tell me the
Speaker 1: difference there right, because you're still using people who are
Speaker 1: part of vulnerable populations and using them as your little
Speaker 1: cat nip so that you can get a kickback, just
Speaker 1: like the slave patrol catchers did. Here's your, you know,
Speaker 1: hundred dollar reward. I'm just so sick to death of
Speaker 1: these conversations and the same people coming across my screens
Speaker 1: talking about we need accountability and justice, knowing that we
Speaker 1: ain't ever gonna get it. It doesn't matter whether or
Speaker 1: not it's on video, It doesn't matter whether or not
Speaker 1: you know, because all people want to say, and I
Speaker 1: listen to the reporting is as we can see from
Speaker 1: this angle, And I'm like, how many fucking angles do
Speaker 1: you need to see in order to realize that three
Speaker 1: men are taken down what looks like one slight man
Speaker 1: of color and he is already hand and cuffed and
Speaker 1: you're beating the shit out of him. What other vantage
Speaker 1: point do I need? What do I need to have
Speaker 1: seen right to proceed that to justify those acts of
Speaker 1: brutality and violence at the hands of police who ride
Speaker 1: around in cars that say protect and serve, It makes
Speaker 1: no goddamn sense to me. But here we are, once again,
Speaker 1: another person thankfully this one is alive. Right, But we
Speaker 1: only have, you know, probably just a couple of days
Speaker 1: until yet another story of an unarmed black person or
Speaker 1: person of color being killed by police, and then we'll
Speaker 1: have this conversation recycled all over again. I don't even
Speaker 1: think that people do any research anymore. I think they
Speaker 1: just regurgitate the same talking points, right, because nothing actually
Speaker 1: ever changes. We all watch George Floyd be murdered, had
Speaker 1: the life sucked out of him right by Derek Schaubn.
Speaker 1: We think, oh my god, here we have justice because
Speaker 1: Eric Chauvin is in jail. But that didn't set up
Speaker 1: any precedent to make sure that kind of heinous police
Speaker 1: behavior never happens again. Right you. Now, finally, after a
Speaker 1: couple of years of Brianna Taylor being murdered in her sleep,
Speaker 1: that you have those police officers facing federal crime charges.
Speaker 1: But again, justice delayed because it doesn't go any further
Speaker 1: in creating policy that blankets and says that not even
Speaker 1: police officers are above the law. Do you think that
Speaker 1: we would have so many goddamn shootings at the hands
Speaker 1: of police if they knew that they could be held
Speaker 1: criminally liable. I think that they would think twice before
Speaker 1: they shot. I just, you know, I get exhausted. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I don't watch these videos anymore because
Speaker 1: they tear out your soul. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: you need to watch the video in order to empathize
Speaker 1: or to feel sickened by what you're seeing. But what happens,
Speaker 1: I think too often, is that these videos circulate and
Speaker 1: we all just become desensitized to what it is that
Speaker 1: we're seeing. Oh, it's just another you know, person being beaten.
Speaker 1: It's just another person being shot. And do we just
Speaker 1: they lose the sense of humanity, and police lose the
Speaker 1: sense of responsibility that they are supposed to have. I'm
Speaker 1: just so sick to I'm just I become continually, continually exhausted.
Speaker 1: Let's switch gears to where we are with Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and the search at mar Lago. So right now there
Speaker 1: is all this bullshit happening with the federal judge over
Speaker 1: the case because folks want the Affidavid's released. The judge
Speaker 1: said that the Department of Justice can redact whatever they
Speaker 1: believe is going to put the criminal case that they
Speaker 1: are putting together, which we know that they are putting
Speaker 1: together against potentially, let me say that, against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: They do not want this to be hindered by releasing
Speaker 1: too much information into the public. The judge has come
Speaker 1: back and said, by what he has already seen that, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice should not really like, we're not
Speaker 1: going to see an unredacted version of that Affidavid most
Speaker 1: likely ever, and we won't really learn more until there
Speaker 1: are indictments that come out. But what the judge has
Speaker 1: said is that he believes that not one, not two,
Speaker 1: but multiple federal crimes we're happening at Mara Lago, and
Speaker 1: therefore the search and seizure that was was necessary for
Speaker 1: the preservation of you know, our democracy, because as the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice has come out and said, oh, we
Speaker 1: have concerns around the Espionage Act. Now if you're only
Speaker 1: watching Fox News, which I know none of you do,
Speaker 1: or maybe you do just for you know, to see
Speaker 1: what the other side is doing. But basically where we
Speaker 1: are is that you have Republicans calling on the defunding
Speaker 1: of the FBI, which is law enforcement, which you know
Speaker 1: they only give a shit about when they are again
Speaker 1: squeezing the life out of or shooting the life out
Speaker 1: of Black people and people of color. But when in
Speaker 1: fact you're just you know, applying the law to everybody,
Speaker 1: including the former twice impeached disgrace president of the United States,
Speaker 1: you then somehow feel like, oh, well, he's above the
Speaker 1: law and this was illegal and it was unprecedented. But
Speaker 1: let's just be clear that Donald Trump's whole reign as
Speaker 1: fucking precedent of these United States was unprecedented. That a
Speaker 1: man like him should have never had access to the
Speaker 1: nuclear fucking codes, should have never had access to any
Speaker 1: fucking classified documents that this motherfucker could turn around and
Speaker 1: sell to the highest bidder to bring his broke ass
Speaker 1: out of debt, because that's exactly what we know Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would be doing. So there is an article in the
Speaker 1: the New York Times that came out that talks about
Speaker 1: the fact that you know who else is responsible for
Speaker 1: these boxes, right, these two dozen boxes that ended up
Speaker 1: in a fucking Marilago basement is Mark Meadows, right, because
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows. First of all, Trump had no confidence in
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows towards the end, and that Mark Meadows was
Speaker 1: of staff, which means that he knew what was leaving
Speaker 1: the White House when and how, and Mark Meadows, former
Speaker 1: member of Congress. I'm pretty sure understood or knew the protocol.
Speaker 1: But what they were saying was that because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was so delusional about him leaving the White House and
Speaker 1: not being president anymore, that he felt that those boxes
Speaker 1: were his folks. Let's be clear, No, he didn't. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump knew exactly what the fuck he was doing. And
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't about love letters to Kim John
Speaker 1: un right or Mohammed bin salam right. This is about
Speaker 1: the potential identification of intelligence agents that are actively in
Speaker 1: the field and being able to sell that right to
Speaker 1: our quote unquote enemies four billions of dollars, right. I
Speaker 1: just the fact that you have Republicans acting as if
Speaker 1: this is no big deal. I actually heard one of
Speaker 1: them say on some show, maybe it was Meet the Press, that, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no more information in there about nuclear or weapons
Speaker 1: or codes than you can't get on your iPhone just
Speaker 1: by googling. Do they listen to themselves? Do you think
Speaker 1: that they listen back to themselves and think, my god,
Speaker 1: how fucking stupid do I sound. It's wild, it's wild.
Speaker 1: But you know, whenever you think that we've reached the
Speaker 1: point of no return when oh my god, they can't possibly,
Speaker 1: can't possibly defend this, this is indefensible. Oh no, they
Speaker 1: find a way to defend Donald Trump until the ends
Speaker 1: of the earth. Because I'm pretty sure what else was
Speaker 1: in that safe right, are probably dossiers on every publican, governors,
Speaker 1: members of Congress, you know, ags and everything, because that's
Speaker 1: what mobsters do. But that doesn't absolve these people of
Speaker 1: their oath that they took to the Constitution or to
Speaker 1: the republic. Right. But clearly there is nothing that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump can do. And like he said during the campaign,
Speaker 1: he can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he would
Speaker 1: watch his poll numbers arise. And I believe that to
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent true. You know, folks, Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: was interviewed the other day. I hate that man so much.
Speaker 1: I digress, but he said that our democracy is in
Speaker 1: our stake, Our democracy is solid. Sir, Where are you
Speaker 1: looking what exactly are you looking at and listening to?
Speaker 1: You know, almost eighteen nineteen months after an attempt to
Speaker 1: violently overthrow the government, when you are seeing and hearing
Speaker 1: about reports of rise in political violence, when you have
Speaker 1: people who are being shot in front of FBI buildings,
Speaker 1: When you have bomb threats that are going into hospitals
Speaker 1: because of the care that they are giving to transgender children,
Speaker 1: what part of any of this means to you that
Speaker 1: our democracy is strong? I mean that is like the
Speaker 1: gaslight of all gaslights, because their own Republican base is
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that they believe that a civil
Speaker 1: war is coming, that a majority of them believe that
Speaker 1: a civil war is coming, and I believe that a
Speaker 1: majority of them are hoping and rooting for a civil
Speaker 1: war to come so that they can utilize their stockpile
Speaker 1: of ammunition and guns that they have. Let's not pretend, right,
Speaker 1: Let's not just lie for the sake of fucking lying.
Speaker 1: You know, we can actually tell the truth, and maybe
Speaker 1: if we did, things would begin to change, just you know,
Speaker 1: maybe here's hoping. That is it for me today, Dear
Speaker 1: friends on woke f as always, Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.