Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from Yes Still my
Speaker 1: COVID bunker, the Friends. I want to talk about a
Speaker 1: couple of things today that are just absolutely frustrating, annoying,
Speaker 1: but unsurprising, and I want to start out with the
Speaker 1: oath Keeper's story. Here's what has happened. So you all
Speaker 1: know who the Oathkeepers are, obviously because we've talked about
Speaker 1: it on woke F and you all watch the news,
Speaker 1: and we also remember when Donald Trump told them all
Speaker 1: to stand back and stand by. They were also the
Speaker 1: architects behind the siege on the Capitol Building and the
Speaker 1: Oathkeepers as well as the Proud Boys. I believe that
Speaker 1: both of their leaders are under indictment right for their
Speaker 1: attempt to overthrow the government violently. So as it turns out,
Speaker 1: the list, the membership list, and I'm checking out BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: News right now, their membership list of thirty eight thousand
Speaker 1: names has been leaked right and unsurprisingly, if you are
Speaker 1: a student of history and have ever paid attention to oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything that has to do with law enforcement,
Speaker 1: the military and the ideology thereof you know that it
Speaker 1: is not surprising that on this list there would be
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy current law enforcement officers, including sheriffs
Speaker 1: who lead actual police departments that are members. There would
Speaker 1: be one hundred active military personnel. There are eighty either
Speaker 1: serving currently in public office or are running for office
Speaker 1: that are on this list. And what is unsurprising is
Speaker 1: any of those things, because if you understand the history
Speaker 1: of white supremacy in this country, and you understand the
Speaker 1: history of police and law enforcement and military in this country,
Speaker 1: it is not surprising that it would be filled with
Speaker 1: a bunch of fucking white supremacis why else do we
Speaker 1: have so many unarmed black people that are murdered? Right?
Speaker 1: Why else do we have news stories that came out
Speaker 1: of Detroit with the boy Scouts who were on a
Speaker 1: field trip, and then it's reported that all of the
Speaker 1: targets that they see that the police officers used to
Speaker 1: quote unquote train are of black men. Right, it is
Speaker 1: unsurprising that when there was a big news story and
Speaker 1: it wasn't even that big, it kind of fluttered out
Speaker 1: that there were private chat rooms right with law enforcement,
Speaker 1: both current and retired, that we're using just the most
Speaker 1: disgusting racial slurs, misogyny, all of these things. We know
Speaker 1: this because every single time that there is an incident
Speaker 1: of police violence, of police brutality, of police overreach, that
Speaker 1: we're told that that individual is just a bad apple.
Speaker 1: But what we know to be fucking true, because we're
Speaker 1: not dumb, is that there are more Derek Chauvin's right
Speaker 1: and Joe R. Pios right, who Donald Trump pardoned, if
Speaker 1: you remember, for his lies and torture and schemes to
Speaker 1: brutalize and terrorize undocumented people when he was police chief
Speaker 1: in Arizona, and he was sent to jail for that.
Speaker 1: But of course Donald Trump pardoned him because he only
Speaker 1: surrounds himself with the best fucking people. Nonetheless, we also
Speaker 1: know that through the history of the KKK and why
Speaker 1: they wore their hoods and all and their sheets and
Speaker 1: all of that bullshit garb was because they wanted to
Speaker 1: hide their idea entities. Why because they were law enforcement,
Speaker 1: they were judges, teachers, doctors, right. What supremacy is pervasive
Speaker 1: in every single facet of life. What is troubling me
Speaker 1: about this story is one I've only seen it in print.
Speaker 1: I have not heard about it, talked about on mainstream
Speaker 1: cable news right, and I wonder why. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because I posted a video the other day on TikTok
Speaker 1: and folks in the comment section about this very story,
Speaker 1: and folks in the comment section, we're just like, of course,
Speaker 1: mainstream media is not going to cover it, because I
Speaker 1: bet some of their fucking names are on there too.
Speaker 1: Because when you think about the coverage or the lack
Speaker 1: of coverage that is actually good, that actually puts black
Speaker 1: and brown people in a positive light or in an
Speaker 1: empathetic light, we see those stories few and far in between.
Speaker 1: So from the court room to the police department, to
Speaker 1: the newsroom, to the classroom, to every other place that
Speaker 1: you can possibly find yourself in, we know that white
Speaker 1: supremacy exists. My fucking problem, though, is A, this is
Speaker 1: a major story, and B why the fuck do these
Speaker 1: people still have jobs? So here's what we have right here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to share this with you from BuzzFeed. The
Speaker 1: full report, if you want to see the list of names,
Speaker 1: was published by the Anti Defamation League earlier this week,
Speaker 1: and this is what BuzzFeed reports. The far right extremist
Speaker 1: organization rose to prominence after the insurrection for playing a
Speaker 1: key role in planning the insurrection at the Capitol. Many
Speaker 1: members have been arrested for taking part in the riot,
Speaker 1: and some, including the group's founder, facing charges of seditious conspiracy.
Speaker 1: The membership list, which was first published last year by
Speaker 1: the journalism collective distributed Denial of Sequences, demonstrates that the
Speaker 1: radical anti government group is far from fringe and in
Speaker 1: fact holds close ties to mainstream power. So this is
Speaker 1: the thing that I really want to talk about for
Speaker 1: a moment, because these are the distinctions that mainstream media
Speaker 1: would like to make, right just I would say in
Speaker 1: the same vein that Democrats like to make the distinction
Speaker 1: between maga Republicans and this mythical, magical unicorn of a
Speaker 1: good Republican that they often love to speak about. Oh,
Speaker 1: we've done some good work with these good Republicans, my man,
Speaker 1: you are talking about like two people. Okay, This is
Speaker 1: not the entire community of Republicans who have Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: back until that motherfucker goes off of a cliff, and
Speaker 1: even then they'll jump on it and hope that he
Speaker 1: turns into some type of magical bird that will carry
Speaker 1: their bullshit. Right. So here's the thing is, these lists
Speaker 1: are known, they are published, they don't get the NonStop
Speaker 1: news coverage that it should because we just shrug at
Speaker 1: it and we have believed, or maybe it makes us
Speaker 1: feel comfortable to be lied to by mainstream media when
Speaker 1: they tell us that these groups are just fringe groups, right.
Speaker 1: Just in the same way when these horrible racist police
Speaker 1: officers murder or brutalized black people and people of color,
Speaker 1: we say that that person is just a bad apple,
Speaker 1: because taking on the entire system of law enforcement right
Speaker 1: would just be too fucking much to do. How would
Speaker 1: one undertake getting rid of all of these police officers
Speaker 1: who are only on the job to be able to
Speaker 1: utilize their power to oppress, torture, humiliate, discriminate against other groups.
Speaker 1: This is the problem, because we have loved to believe.
Speaker 1: It's the same way that Donald Trump became president of
Speaker 1: the United States. The media sat around and they said, oh,
Speaker 1: he's just good for ratings, he's a clown. We'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and follow him. They followed it as every movements, right.
Speaker 1: They laughed at some of his fucking jokes. They gave
Speaker 1: him more coverage and more airtime because they said, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's just part of the fringe. Marjorie Taylor Green, same
Speaker 1: fucking sentiments, Lauren Bobert, Matt Gates, Josh Holly. We continue
Speaker 1: to say that these people are part of a fringe
Speaker 1: radical right, when in fact they are assuming and are
Speaker 1: already in positions of power. And maybe if we actually
Speaker 1: spoke about these people and their ideology with the attention
Speaker 1: and urgency that it deserves, then we would actually do
Speaker 1: something about it. But I don't think that we really
Speaker 1: want to. That's the thing is that you have a
Speaker 1: list of thirty eight thousand people. Right. We don't designate
Speaker 1: in the United States domestic organizations as terrorists organizations because
Speaker 1: we love to believe in America that terrorists are brown
Speaker 1: people that live in the Middle East, right, not fucking
Speaker 1: Bob and Jim and Chet that live in Idaho, Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and Kansas got together and then decided to show up
Speaker 1: at the Capitol Building with their fucking ar fifteens and
Speaker 1: their military gear and attempt to overthrow the government. We
Speaker 1: don't label these organizations outside of the klu Klux Klan,
Speaker 1: which took bombing of churches and killing of I don't
Speaker 1: know how many fucking black people to be designated a
Speaker 1: fucking hate group. When Donald Trump stood up on stage
Speaker 1: when he was asked directly to denounce white supremacy and
Speaker 1: didn't and instead incited a fucking insurrection, you would think
Speaker 1: that maybe the Department of Justice, and it's awful in
Speaker 1: its Office of Civil Rights, would decide, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe part of our problem is that we don't actually
Speaker 1: name the ship that is in front of us, and
Speaker 1: by not naming it, we allow it to be normalized.
Speaker 1: Because you see, the only way that you can actually
Speaker 1: get rid of something is if you name it. This
Speaker 1: is the thing that I have been saying about Joe
Speaker 1: Biden before he gave his speech about the soul of
Speaker 1: the nation. I said, if you are not being specific
Speaker 1: with the American people and pointing to the villain and
Speaker 1: saying this is who is the problem is the group
Speaker 1: that is standing between you and your right to vote,
Speaker 1: between you and bodily autonomy, between you and your ability
Speaker 1: to marry who you love, between you and your ability
Speaker 1: to be relieved of student debt, between you and clean
Speaker 1: drinking water. If you are not naming these people and
Speaker 1: you're still congratulating them and calling them over as your colleague,
Speaker 1: then how were people to understand that there really is
Speaker 1: a distinction, a sharp and fucking clear distinction between the
Speaker 1: two parties. It's the same way that I feel about
Speaker 1: the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and the other
Speaker 1: two hundred some odd fucking white supremacist organizations in this country.
Speaker 1: If you are not naming them as hate groups, if
Speaker 1: you are not whole them to the standard that you
Speaker 1: would other terrorist seals and organizations, if you were not
Speaker 1: working to infiltrate them and take them down, then what
Speaker 1: you were doing is readily allowing them to spread like
Speaker 1: a cancer across this fucking country, which they've done. We
Speaker 1: are at a point right now where things have gotten
Speaker 1: so fucking out of hand because we ignored the elephant
Speaker 1: and pun intended in the fucking room. We ignored Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's misogyny, we ignored Donald Trump's racism, we ignored the
Speaker 1: Islamophobia because democrats that are impowering. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: we the people, because we the people fucking saw it.
Speaker 1: We the people showed up in twenty twenty, and that
Speaker 1: not on my watch, but when those motherfuckers decided to
Speaker 1: infiltrate Congress in very aggressive ways Democrats were nowhere to
Speaker 1: be naming these motherfuckers as who they are, said, oh,
Speaker 1: let's try and work with them. How are you trying
Speaker 1: to work with somebody that is literally gave insurrectionists a
Speaker 1: map to your office to have you killed. How are
Speaker 1: you working with people who have put your name and
Speaker 1: face up on their websites in crosshairs? How are you
Speaker 1: working with people who turned you into a graphic video
Speaker 1: game showcasing your murder. You don't. It's simple, you don't.
Speaker 1: What you do instead is every day, with every breath
Speaker 1: that you have and every micro phone that you are
Speaker 1: in front of, then every screen that you can tweak from,
Speaker 1: is that you consistently tell the American people who the
Speaker 1: fuck they are and what they're doing. You don't give
Speaker 1: them credit for saying thank you to the Republicans for
Speaker 1: helping us pass infrastructure, because then what you're signaling to
Speaker 1: the American public is that, oh, these motherfuckers still are
Speaker 1: working for us, even though they're rapid racists and white
Speaker 1: supremacists and misogynistic pigs. This is not even about playing dirty.
Speaker 1: It's about just telling the fucking truth. So if they're
Speaker 1: eighty motherfucking elected officials that are on this list, and
Speaker 1: I don't even care if they are dog catcher in
Speaker 1: their fucking town. If you are holding elected office and
Speaker 1: you are a part of a designated white supremacist group.
Speaker 1: But that's the fucking problem. You see where we get here,
Speaker 1: because we can see, oh, it's an extremist group, but
Speaker 1: they're not designated as a white supremacist group. They're not
Speaker 1: designated akin to the KKK, And we need to get
Speaker 1: that image out of our heads because these motherfuckers are
Speaker 1: shopping at the Gap, wearing tan pants and going to
Speaker 1: party the party store and getting their tiki torches. They
Speaker 1: don't look they don't have the look of the hate
Speaker 1: mongers from yesteryear, but that doesn't mean that they're not
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Speaker 1: another story, and I want to tell you that partisanship
Speaker 1: here doesn't even fucking matter right with this story, because
Speaker 1: evidently this story involves political violence that took place earlier
Speaker 1: this month at the hands of a Democratic, a local
Speaker 1: Democratic official, and a reporter. And then I'm going to
Speaker 1: tie together how all of these things are coming into clear,
Speaker 1: clear focus about just how dangerous of a time we
Speaker 1: are living in. And oh, that's also cemented by the
Speaker 1: fact that the Supreme Court said everybody and anyone could
Speaker 1: have a fucking gun, right, So we know that everyone
Speaker 1: is filled with the most disgusting amount of hate for
Speaker 1: people that they don't know, but who Donald Trump told
Speaker 1: them is stealing their lot in life, coming in and
Speaker 1: taking their jobs and caravans and this, that and the
Speaker 1: other thing. I've never seen people with so much privilege
Speaker 1: wine so fucking much than the Republican Party. But I digress.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you about this story because when
Speaker 1: I saw it, I was absolutely shocked. Las Vegas Police.
Speaker 1: This is in the Los Angeles Times, The La Times.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas investigative reporter was killed over critical stories. Robert
Speaker 1: Tells Is to appear on a homicide charge in Nevada,
Speaker 1: six days after investigative reporter Jeff German was stabbed to
Speaker 1: death outside of his home. Las Vegas police alleged Thursday
Speaker 1: that a top local official killed investigative reporter Jeff German
Speaker 1: because of critical stories the journalists had written, as well
Speaker 1: as a new piece he was planning to write. Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Metro police arrested Nevada elected official Robert Tellis on
Speaker 1: suspicion of murder of the Las Vegas Review Journal reporter
Speaker 1: German after recovering items worn by the killer from the
Speaker 1: Clark County Public Administrator's home. Authority said. Police said they
Speaker 1: also tied him to a vehicle he drove to the
Speaker 1: scene of the crime and found his DNA at the
Speaker 1: scene of the fatal stabbing. So here's what it goes
Speaker 1: on to say, tell Us was upset about articles that
Speaker 1: were being written by German as an investigative journalist that
Speaker 1: exposed potential wrongdoing, and tell Us had publicly expressed his
Speaker 1: issues with that reporting. This is according to the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Metro Police Captain Dorry Coreyn, and then ultimately tell
Speaker 1: Us was also upset from what he found out later
Speaker 1: that there were additional reportings that was pending. Folks, this man,
Speaker 1: this elected official, apparently he's a Democrat. The funny thing
Speaker 1: about this story, there's nothing actually funny. I don't mean funny,
Speaker 1: ha ha. The funny thing about this story is that
Speaker 1: Democrats right now are not saying that the police department
Speaker 1: is corrupt. They're not calling for a more increased political violence,
Speaker 1: which is what we know would happen if this were
Speaker 1: a Republican We know exactly the tactics that they would
Speaker 1: use to ratchet up the fear, the hate, and the anxiety,
Speaker 1: because that helps them win. We are at a place
Speaker 1: in this goddamn country where it is so unrecognizable that
Speaker 1: an investigative journalist can't do their job. This man went
Speaker 1: to his home and stabbed him to death outside because
Speaker 1: of stories that he had written, because he's reporting the truth. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to think about this, and I want
Speaker 1: you to think about Jamal Kashogi, who was dismembered and
Speaker 1: murdered by Mohammed bin Salam in Saudi Arabia. When we
Speaker 1: hear those stories and it's in another country, namely one
Speaker 1: that is in the Middle East, we say, oh those people,
Speaker 1: my god. Right, we have no problem equating viciousness, right
Speaker 1: and barbarianism to brown people or black people. This shit.
Speaker 1: There is no fucking difference except this man is going
Speaker 1: to go to jail. This is the thing that is
Speaker 1: separating us from dictatorships and authoritarianism is the ability to
Speaker 1: have accountability through the press. I read you my piece yesterday.
Speaker 1: The fourth estate is crumbling. What do you think will
Speaker 1: happen to journalism if things like this become the norm.
Speaker 1: There's a commercial that plays to promote Rachel Nadow's Monday
Speaker 1: Night show on MSNBC, and in the commercial it's a
Speaker 1: clip obviously, it's a mashup of clips from her show
Speaker 1: and on our show. She said it should not take
Speaker 1: bravery to be a poll worker. You shouldn't have to
Speaker 1: be looked at as courageous, she says, to be an epidemiologist.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't take bravery to be an investigative reporter, unless,
Speaker 1: of course, you're on the battlefield in a war zone,
Speaker 1: not if you're reporting in your hometown. It is. When
Speaker 1: I saw this story, I didn't even look up the
Speaker 1: political affiliation of the murder suspect because I didn't care,
Speaker 1: because it didn't matter to me one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But what matters is the environment, the toxic, dangerous, violent
Speaker 1: environment that has been created in this country in our
Speaker 1: politics because of the likes of Donald Trump and what
Speaker 1: has been permitted because we refuse to name things as
Speaker 1: they fucking are when we see them. Motherfucker's knew Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was a racist and a misogynist and a sexual
Speaker 1: assaulter and a crook, but they didn't want to name it.
Speaker 1: God forbid, for neutrality's sake. We don't want to seem
Speaker 1: like what we're telling the fucking truth. So we play
Speaker 1: both sides. In countless rallies, you hear Republicans in particular
Speaker 1: ratcheting up their calls for political violence. You heard Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham say that about even the appearance of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: being held accountable, there's gonna be riots in the streets.
Speaker 1: What that rhetoric and the media's placating to this bullshit
Speaker 1: is what leads here. Now people will tell you, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't connect those dots, like this is a standalone thing.
Speaker 1: It's a lone wolf case. This isn't part of the norm.
Speaker 1: Who were we kidding again, It's the same thing we
Speaker 1: say about police officers and the killings of unarmed black
Speaker 1: people and people of color. It's always an isolated fucking
Speaker 1: incident and not a pattern of violent behavior and white supremacy.
Speaker 1: You have got to name things if you want to
Speaker 1: change things. James Baldwin said, you cannot change things that
Speaker 1: you refuse to face. We walk around with blinders on
Speaker 1: thinking that rhetoric, thinking that words don't have power. If
Speaker 1: they didn't, then we wouldn't have the First Amendment that
Speaker 1: has protected speech. If we didn't believe that words had power.
Speaker 1: This politician, a democrat, didn't like what was being said
Speaker 1: about him, didn't like what was being written about him,
Speaker 1: and hopped up on the world's bullshit, went and stabbed
Speaker 1: another man to death for words that he put in
Speaker 1: the newspaper. What message is that sending? I will say this.
Speaker 1: This is from the statement. This is a statement from
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Review Journal newsroom. The arrest of Robert
Speaker 1: tell Us is at once an enormous release and an
Speaker 1: outrage for the Review Journal newsroom. We are relieved tell
Speaker 1: Us is in custody and outraged that a colleague appears
Speaker 1: to have been killed for reporting on an elected official.
Speaker 1: Journalist can't do the important work our communities require if
Speaker 1: they are afraid a presentation of facts could lead to
Speaker 1: violent retribution. This is the world that we are living
Speaker 1: and now where it has become commonplace that doctors and
Speaker 1: nurses are threatened for trying to save people's lives from
Speaker 1: a killer virus. We live in a world where teachers
Speaker 1: and school administrators are threatened for having the audacity to
Speaker 1: want to teach children the truth and not give them
Speaker 1: a bunch of bedtime stories that white supremacists think that
Speaker 1: they should learn This country was founded on violence, and
Speaker 1: all of these fucking roosters are coming home. And we
Speaker 1: do ourselves and every single person around us a disservice
Speaker 1: when we make excuses and use euphemisms for things that
Speaker 1: we know are fucking wrong. I wish that we lived
Speaker 1: in a society where news actually worked to connect the dots,
Speaker 1: to deliver the truth, to enlighten the public, to engage
Speaker 1: them so that they want to show up and be
Speaker 1: responsible citizens. But we don't. Capitalism rules the day. Click
Speaker 1: bait is what brings in ad dollars. Everything is about
Speaker 1: the bottom line. But the bottom line is this, for ends,
Speaker 1: we are living in the most dangerous times. I think
Speaker 1: that any of us who were not alive during the
Speaker 1: Civil Rights movement has ever seen And my fear is
Speaker 1: that stories like this one, stories like the oath keepers list,
Speaker 1: are going to become more commonplace, just like mass shootings
Speaker 1: that unless you know five or more people are killed,
Speaker 1: we just go on about our day. This shit is
Speaker 1: not right and it should never be. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, Dear friends on wokeay f as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power
Speaker 1: at woke and stay woke as fuck.