Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wok AP Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy woke Wednesday. You know, it's been an interesting week,
Speaker 1: a fairly dare I say, slowish newsweek, but there's still
Speaker 1: a lot poppin. But I want to start today on
Speaker 1: this woke Wednesday with the eclipse. Did you see it?
Speaker 1: Did you take a moment to take in the universe's awe.
Speaker 1: What I'll say about this and like the coverage and
Speaker 1: everything like that leading up to it, is, you know,
Speaker 1: I love astronomy. I love astrology, I love you know,
Speaker 1: science fiction. I love science. I love the natural world.
Speaker 1: And so so for me to take a moment to
Speaker 1: go outside to be in awe and collective wonder of
Speaker 1: the fact that we are really just specs in the universe,
Speaker 1: that there are forces and things that move and shift,
Speaker 1: and you know, to just pause for a moment and
Speaker 1: to think about that and to learn more about that
Speaker 1: was so exciting, you know. And I went with my
Speaker 1: girlfriend and a friend of ours down to our park.
Speaker 1: We had the glasses, we had a blanket laid out
Speaker 1: and just you know, talked and you know, took in
Speaker 1: this moment and I realized just how nice it is
Speaker 1: to take a pause to have collective awe and wonder
Speaker 1: and realizing that that is something that is missing a
Speaker 1: lot from our lives these days, is that we are
Speaker 1: you know, we're back in many ways to the hustle
Speaker 1: and bustle of pre COVID and really are living life
Speaker 1: in a way that does not make room for wonder,
Speaker 1: awe and adventure and to make room for conversation speculation
Speaker 1: on you know, how we exist, how we're moving. You know,
Speaker 1: it just feels like we're always in some type of race.
Speaker 1: Like right now, everything is AI, everything is our artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: Everything is about robots and delivering your groceries. Everything is
Speaker 1: about like this rush to you know, be living in
Speaker 1: the future. But yet we don't have any real contemplation
Speaker 1: about the fact that we are on this spinning rock
Speaker 1: that we're not treating very well, that is changing right
Speaker 1: before our eyes, and shouldn't we have more conversation about that? Right?
Speaker 1: So I really loved this moment. This week. I loved,
Speaker 1: you know, most of the coverage that I was seeing
Speaker 1: because I thought that, you know, it was a time
Speaker 1: to be like yeah, we live on this planet called
Speaker 1: Earth that has you know, one sun and one moon,
Speaker 1: and in spectacular moments, you know, they cross paths and
Speaker 1: like this is this is one of those moments. And
Speaker 1: it's a generational moment, right because you won't see another
Speaker 1: eclipse with this kind of path and trajectory for another
Speaker 1: twenty years, and a total eclipse I won't ever probably
Speaker 1: see in my lifetime. I think the next time I'll
Speaker 1: be like one hundred. So you know, to pause, to
Speaker 1: take a moment to ooh and ah and revel in it.
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed so much, and I hope that you
Speaker 1: all did too. Speaking of things shifting and changing, you know,
Speaker 1: I was also in conversation with a friend about experiencing
Speaker 1: the earthquake that happened in New Jersey and we felt
Speaker 1: it here in New York last week. And you know, I,
Speaker 1: like I said before, I did not feel the earthquake
Speaker 1: because I was like out and about and moving and
Speaker 1: just where I was, I didn't feel it, but other
Speaker 1: people around me did. And you know this, one friend said,
Speaker 1: you know, like an earthquake in New York City, Like
Speaker 1: that's just fucking insane, Like do we even understand that
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be happening, right, And also things are changing
Speaker 1: and moving so quickly that we really need to take
Speaker 1: stock in our lives how we are living, because like
Speaker 1: anything can change in a blink of an eye and
Speaker 1: the fun you know, I was saying, Look, New York
Speaker 1: City is set up for a lot of things. Earthquake
Speaker 1: ain't one of them. You know, It's barely set up
Speaker 1: for a torrential downpour, right, Like if you are in
Speaker 1: New York's city when there is a torrential and I
Speaker 1: mean like monsoon type weather, which is what we've had
Speaker 1: a lot of this spring, the subways might as well
Speaker 1: be a canal. Is kind of like where we look
Speaker 1: at the infrastructure and where like this doesn't feel sound
Speaker 1: and or safe. So now thinking about that and thinking
Speaker 1: about an earthquake that is of any grand level, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're pretty much fucked, do you know. And so now
Speaker 1: while people make jokes and all of these things, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: we're really in danger and not prepared for the way
Speaker 1: in which our climate and our planet is shifting at all,
Speaker 1: And we're just kind of making the assumption that I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe we'll run out the clock. We won't
Speaker 1: be here, so it won't be our problem. But it's
Speaker 1: happening right before us, and it's happening fast. You know,
Speaker 1: last year it was a yellow sky because of wildfires.
Speaker 1: Wildfire has been happening. Never seen the sky turn yellow though,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying? Never have been forced
Speaker 1: inside because of that? Right? That was last year. This
Speaker 1: year it's an earthquake. What the fuck will next year? Bring?
Speaker 1: Lord only knows. That's kind of where my mind has
Speaker 1: been in terms of like climate the universe. There's also
Speaker 1: side note, really great show three Problem Body on Netflix.
Speaker 1: If you all like sci fi, get into that. It
Speaker 1: is a limited series. I believe it was like eight episodes,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty wild. I don't want to give it away,
Speaker 1: but check it out if you like sci fi. So
Speaker 1: now to my least favorite topic, Donald Trump. So apparently
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is now pro choice for a hot minute,
Speaker 1: that he needs it to be politically expedient, that he
Speaker 1: believes that abortion should be left up to the States,
Speaker 1: doesn't believe in a national abortion ban, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: It's all bullshit, right, Like, let's understand that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: will do and say anything in order to get elected
Speaker 1: because it's only his last ditch effort at a gut
Speaker 1: out of jail free card. It is how he makes
Speaker 1: every single case go away is by becoming president. If
Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not become president of the United States,
Speaker 1: that man is in a world of fucking trouble. And
Speaker 1: I know that I have said this so many times before,
Speaker 1: and this is just why I don't have stock in
Speaker 1: any of the court cases. And I continue to say that,
Speaker 1: but somehow I continue to muster faith in the American people.
Speaker 1: But you know, then the American people show their ass,
Speaker 1: and you know I'm left with egg on my face
Speaker 1: this time around. However, Joe Biden recently put out an
Speaker 1: ad that I think is one of the best ads
Speaker 1: that I have seen, and he uses a story of
Speaker 1: a white couple in Texas where the woman who was
Speaker 1: pregnant with a non viable fetus denied an abortion, had
Speaker 1: to wait until she basically went into sepsis, and then
Speaker 1: was able to get the abortion, but now, because of
Speaker 1: the damage that was done, may never be able to
Speaker 1: get pregnant again. Joe Biden ran this ad this week
Speaker 1: and the ending said Trump did this, and I thought, finally,
Speaker 1: of fucking you know mantra and tagline that I can
Speaker 1: get behind with this administration. Trump did this. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: wants to pretend to both say in private and at
Speaker 1: times in public that he's the one, He's the reason
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade was overturned, and then at the same
Speaker 1: time be like, oh, but but I meant it to
Speaker 1: be up to the states because that's what people should
Speaker 1: have the decision, and blah blahlah blah. No, sir, what
Speaker 1: you have done is created a patchwork of protections for
Speaker 1: women and people with uteruses. What you have done is
Speaker 1: created a extraordinarily dangerous situation for women and people with
Speaker 1: uteruses in these very red states that either criminalize them
Speaker 1: or allow them to die or get close to death
Speaker 1: in order to provide care. And that is something that
Speaker 1: you were saying that you were proud of. So to
Speaker 1: continually remind people, no, Trump did this, right, I'm like
Speaker 1: put that tagline on everything, run every commercial that has
Speaker 1: to do with oh, I don't know the fact that
Speaker 1: billionaires and millionaires got extraordinary tax breaks during this tax season, right.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is committed to extending the Trump tax cuts,
Speaker 1: which is why billionaires want him to be in the
Speaker 1: White House because guess what they are fucking disgustingly greedy, right.
Speaker 1: They don't want to pay their fair share. They are
Speaker 1: not interested in America and being a participating part of
Speaker 1: America by paying taxes as a citizen. No, they want
Speaker 1: all of the breaks so that they can cord all
Speaker 1: of the money and it falls on the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, run ads about that as well and
Speaker 1: say Trump did this, right. I think that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the most dangerous human being on the planet right now.
Speaker 1: And that's saying a lot, because Netanyahu exists. But I
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump and what he represents to both
Speaker 1: our domestic life as well as globally is nothing but
Speaker 1: danger everywhere that you will look. So the more that
Speaker 1: Biden can run ads like the one that is out
Speaker 1: this week and make Trump the villain very clearly that
Speaker 1: we know that he is. But without Donald Trump electing
Speaker 1: three lying ass conservatives who said that they believed in
Speaker 1: precedent but then turned around and did not, we would
Speaker 1: still have Roe v. Wade, We'd still have affirmative Action.
Speaker 1: So it is important that people really understand where we
Speaker 1: are and how we got here. And it is the
Speaker 1: job of the Biden campaign to make it expressly so,
Speaker 1: because the majority of Americans do not pay attention to
Speaker 1: news in the way that those inside the beltwayh do
Speaker 1: right the way that I do, the way that you do.
Speaker 1: And so how do you get to and connect with
Speaker 1: the average American voter who is not going to be
Speaker 1: tuned in most likely until around oh, I don't know, September.
Speaker 1: But how do you start planting those seeds now? And
Speaker 1: I think that this ad was a really good representation
Speaker 1: of what they need to do more of and continue.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I will say, I don't know
Speaker 1: how the media doesn't cover racism and call it racism
Speaker 1: in this day and age. I just don't get it.
Speaker 1: When Donald Trump also said things at his dinner like oh,
Speaker 1: I want immigrants, but I want them from nice countries
Speaker 1: like Denmark. Why the media then doesn't have a headline
Speaker 1: that says Donald Trump only wants immigrants from largely white nations.
Speaker 1: What does that say to you? I don't know why
Speaker 1: they don't run that and then run the clip of
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, when he's
Speaker 1: talking about denying people access to America that are Muslim,
Speaker 1: denying people access to America that are Latin X, denying
Speaker 1: people access to America that are from black countries, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who they think that they are benefiting
Speaker 1: by not telling the truth. And like, that's to me
Speaker 1: is where I get incredible frustrated in covering Donald trumple
Speaker 1: like I have to on a regular basis because I
Speaker 1: see very rarely where people get it right, you know,
Speaker 1: and where it isn't just being covered still like clickbait,
Speaker 1: like a horse race, like a joke, you know, as
Speaker 1: if like, oh, well, we live through this one time,
Speaker 1: so we can make it through the next time. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much more someone has to tell you
Speaker 1: what their plans are. I've told you. If you haven't
Speaker 1: read Project twenty twenty five, go ahead and head over
Speaker 1: to the Heritage Foundation dot org. Right, they're not hiding
Speaker 1: what they are doing. And so for people to continue
Speaker 1: to play games, it doesn't make sense to me, and
Speaker 1: it's dangerous. And what I will say, you know, as
Speaker 1: we continue to reel from the attack that happened by
Speaker 1: Israel on the World Central Kitchen aid workers that killed
Speaker 1: seven workers. To date, it's been close to two hundred
Speaker 1: humanitarians that have been killed, not to mention the journalists,
Speaker 1: the nurses, the doctors, you know, plus the oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, thirty two thousand plus Palestinians, largely children, that
Speaker 1: have been murdered. I believe that people have a right
Speaker 1: to protest. I believe that people have a right to
Speaker 1: have their voices heard, which many have done during the
Speaker 1: primaries by voting for undecided or no candidate. I agree
Speaker 1: with your ability to do that. However, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the general election in November, we do not have
Speaker 1: time to play games. I said it last week on
Speaker 1: Tavis Smiley's show when he asked me, Denielle, let me
Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate. What do you say to these people
Speaker 1: who are just like you know, when are we going
Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to finally have our issues heard?
Speaker 1: I said, Look, some elections are just about holding on,
Speaker 1: and that's what this election is. We are trying to
Speaker 1: hold on with our fingernails to democracy. Once we have
Speaker 1: secured that we can have larger conversation. And for those
Speaker 1: people that are just like well, it always seems like
Speaker 1: it's never going to happen, Well, I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: it will never happen. Which is, if there is a
Speaker 1: dictator or an authoritarian that becomes president for life of
Speaker 1: the United States, then you're never going to have that
Speaker 1: happen because what you think and what you want won't matter.
Speaker 1: So the time for protest is during the primaries, is
Speaker 1: on social media. We are seven months away from the election,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to November, people need to get
Speaker 1: really crystal clear about the kind of country and world
Speaker 1: that they want to live in because it will be gone.
Speaker 1: And I can't express that enough. The other thing that
Speaker 1: I will say is I think that the student loan
Speaker 1: debt relief that is being done is smart, is strategic,
Speaker 1: and needs to be lifted up. It's not happening for everybody,
Speaker 1: but it's happening for a lot of people. It was
Speaker 1: a campaign promise and it is one that, even barring
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court denying Biden the ability to provide relief
Speaker 1: to all people because you know, we only want to
Speaker 1: provide relief for billionaires, that he is continuing to get
Speaker 1: that job done, and get done in a very real,
Speaker 1: real way. Jobs numbers came out, you know, consistent consistently
Speaker 1: adding jobs, consistently doing well. These are things that on
Speaker 1: top of what Trump has done that this is what
Speaker 1: Biden has done, right, and those conversations needing to happen
Speaker 1: as well. Democrats are set to spend one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty six million dollars out of one PAP to win
Speaker 1: back the House. There is a four seat majority that
Speaker 1: Republicans hold right now, and so Democrats are concentrating on
Speaker 1: vulnerable seats in Republican districts in New York and in California,
Speaker 1: which is where they are going to be putting this money.
Speaker 1: Incredibly important because it isn't just about again, it isn't
Speaker 1: just about who is inside of the White House. It
Speaker 1: is about, well, who is in Congress, and we need
Speaker 1: to take out the trash in more ways than one.
Speaker 1: The place is embarrassing. Congress is embarrassing. And you know
Speaker 1: my hope and prayer, as is I know many of you,
Speaker 1: that we legitimately take this country back from the grips
Speaker 1: of despair and white supremacy, misogyny, and patriarchy. And once
Speaker 1: we have it, we are in a position to rebuild.
Speaker 1: But in order to rebuild, we have to have control.
Speaker 1: And in order to have control, we have to regain power.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't happen overnight. That is it for me today.
Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke a f as always, Power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.