Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Bokay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to a new season right
Speaker 1: that we are in. It is called Fuck Around and
Speaker 1: find Out Season. If you were not aware of the
Speaker 1: beginning of that season, it happened on Sunday when Will
Speaker 1: Smith smacked the shit out of Chris Rock. Why do
Speaker 1: I say that, because, folks, we are in a wake
Speaker 1: up call moment, not because I condone violence, but because
Speaker 1: we are in a wake up call moment for Democrats,
Speaker 1: for the Party, for our democracy, for the upcoming midterms,
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty four election cycle. Now what has
Speaker 1: me in this Fuck Around and find Out Season? Well,
Speaker 1: when I saw the headline of a new pole in
Speaker 1: The Hill in the Hill dot com and the title
Speaker 1: read this pole Colin Trump leads Biden Harris in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four matchups. And here's what is said. Former President
Speaker 1: Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four matchup, according to a new Harvard Caps Harris poll
Speaker 1: surveyed released exclusively to The Hill. If the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four presidential election were held right now, The poll finds
Speaker 1: Trump getting forty seven percent compared to Biden's forty one percent.
Speaker 1: Twelve percent of voters are undecided now. Vice President Harris's
Speaker 1: performs even worse. In a hypothetical matchup with Trump, forty
Speaker 1: nine percent said that they would choose Trump, while thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent said that they would support Harris. The poll,
Speaker 1: while very early, pretends trouble for Democrats in twenty twenty four. So, folks,
Speaker 1: you have been watching me right and listening to me
Speaker 1: long enough to know that I don't necessarily put a
Speaker 1: lot of merit in polls. I say that they are
Speaker 1: like reading tea leaves right, that you can't definitively understand
Speaker 1: where people's mindset is. But it does provide a snapshot,
Speaker 1: and if the polls are not working in your favor,
Speaker 1: a window, right, a snapshot, and a window into some
Speaker 1: of the pivots and moves that need to be made
Speaker 1: in order for you not to careen off of a
Speaker 1: fucking cliff. Well, here's what I will say about this pole.
Speaker 1: This is a major fucking or should be should be
Speaker 1: a major fucking wake up call for Democrats. Why do
Speaker 1: I say that because last year, right in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: the election for Virginia's governor, many said, was going to
Speaker 1: be like a canary in the coal mine, right, Like
Speaker 1: a canary in the coal mine, that race in Virginia
Speaker 1: between Yuncan and Terry mccauloff was going to signal to
Speaker 1: Democrats one way or another what needs to be done.
Speaker 1: And what I realize about Democrats is they look at
Speaker 1: polling in the wrong way with Yuncan and mccauloff. They said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: here we have this white guy in a vest from Patagonia,
Speaker 1: so we'll get another white guy that has some name
Speaker 1: recognition in Virginia because he was already governor. But he
Speaker 1: was governor during a long begotten time, a long bygone time,
Speaker 1: right twenty fourteen, when the world was much different than
Speaker 1: it is right now. The thing that Democrats weren't paying
Speaker 1: attention to, however, was how critical race theory and quote
Speaker 1: unquote parental control was actually doing in the state of Virginia.
Speaker 1: Democrats scoffed, right, scoffed at the idea that book burning
Speaker 1: was going to return and that Yancan was going to
Speaker 1: be able to win on the idea of parental control
Speaker 1: and on this made up idea around critical race theory
Speaker 1: being taught in K through twelve schools. All he needed
Speaker 1: to do, right again, don't let the truth get in
Speaker 1: the way of a good story, is Republicans Moniker, because
Speaker 1: we know and they know that critical race theory is
Speaker 1: not taught in K through twelve schools. But the polling
Speaker 1: was showing that more and more parents, those that are
Speaker 1: quote unquote reasonable, we're going to be swayed by this
Speaker 1: messaging because there has always been a fear, whether whether
Speaker 1: you are a staunch conservative or some middle of the rotor,
Speaker 1: that public schools have the opportunity to quote unquote indoctrinate children. Well,
Speaker 1: you know me and I've said that absolutely, public education
Speaker 1: has all been about indoctrinization as well as gas lighting.
Speaker 1: Why do I say that, Well, because you have a
Speaker 1: very narrow story of America is that is taught through
Speaker 1: one specific lens, which is that of white America. They
Speaker 1: have set themselves up as the conqueror. They have set
Speaker 1: themselves up as the hero. They have set themselves up
Speaker 1: as you know, the strength and the power all by
Speaker 1: virtue of white men, the founding fathers. Right, Well, critical
Speaker 1: race theory in law school elective classes offers up theories
Speaker 1: that are through a non white lens right ideology and
Speaker 1: thinking and narrative that does not center white men and
Speaker 1: whiteness in the American story. It tells other stories. But
Speaker 1: when Pauling started to show that even the most reasonable
Speaker 1: person was saying, well, I don't want my child indoctrinated,
Speaker 1: and I should have the ability to say what should
Speaker 1: and should not be taught in my child's schools, I'm uncomfortable. Right.
Speaker 1: It goes back to how Virginia and Texas and Florida
Speaker 1: have been running in tandem with one another, which is
Speaker 1: about white comfort. Well, the reality is is that anybody
Speaker 1: with eyes in a brain could have seen that this
Speaker 1: was going to be the new rallying cry for Republicans.
Speaker 1: And if you didn't have eyes and ears and could
Speaker 1: interpret what was going on, Donald Trump once again said
Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud when he told his followers
Speaker 1: at a recent rally that they needed to quote lay
Speaker 1: down their lives for critical race theory, meaning that they
Speaker 1: need to show up at these school board meetings, They
Speaker 1: need to show up at their kids' school. They need
Speaker 1: to threaten these teachers and threaten the administration into continuing
Speaker 1: to brainwash their children into believing that whiteness is superior
Speaker 1: and that anything that deviates from that narrative is dangerous.
Speaker 1: Right that we don't want a society of critical thinkers? Right,
Speaker 1: what would that mean? What would that do? So we
Speaker 1: need to make sure that they continue the tradition of
Speaker 1: generational brainwashing and make that their rallying cry. Well, guess what, folks,
Speaker 1: it worked. And Democrats, throughout that entire campaign, when they
Speaker 1: could have used Virginia as a testing ground for messaging
Speaker 1: to see how it was going to land, decided to
Speaker 1: do what just completely ignore it, say that it was ridiculous, right,
Speaker 1: shrug and make jokes. Well, while we were busy as
Speaker 1: Democrats being glib and taking the quote unquote high road,
Speaker 1: those motherfuckers were in a belly crawl to call anything
Speaker 1: and anyone right racist and instead of us calling out
Speaker 1: the idea of white comfort above all else. And how
Speaker 1: it should not be that history is taught solely through
Speaker 1: the lens of the oppressor, but that the oppressed also
Speaker 1: have a narrative in this story of how America came
Speaker 1: to be and how many of the policies that marginalized
Speaker 1: communities endure today stem from the origination of America. But
Speaker 1: you see, you don't want people to connect those dots,
Speaker 1: so you continue to gaslight the public into believing that
Speaker 1: parental voices the way to go. And when you have
Speaker 1: no alternative narrative to go on, then you continue to
Speaker 1: do what my favorite movie, the American President said, in
Speaker 1: the absence, in the absence of substance, people will drink
Speaker 1: the fucking sand. So what the Republican Party offers to
Speaker 1: America is a mirage. It is a mirage of morality
Speaker 1: that is being offered to the public that they are
Speaker 1: couching in parental control. Right, you have the bill which
Speaker 1: was just signed into law in Florida that don't say
Speaker 1: gay bill that has you not speaking anything about gender,
Speaker 1: gender identity, right difference, LGBTQ, people, transfu, all of it.
Speaker 1: They sign that shit into law. So when you have
Speaker 1: kids who are coming into the classroom that have two
Speaker 1: moms two dads, right, that have a trans DAT or
Speaker 1: a trans mom, that are not going to see themselves
Speaker 1: or hear themselves in the projects that are being done.
Speaker 1: Because what the Santists wants to do is to ensure
Speaker 1: that the mainstream that heteronormativity and that overt sexualization of
Speaker 1: children is okay so long as it is in hetero.
Speaker 1: It's steeped in heterosexuality. Because here's the thing that always
Speaker 1: gets me. And again, without pushback, they take this narrative
Speaker 1: and run. Why do I say the oversexualization of children? Well,
Speaker 1: because you can walk into any major big box store
Speaker 1: you're going to buy a gift for your friend or
Speaker 1: your friend or your sister or your family member's new child.
Speaker 1: You can walk into any store that sells baby clothing
Speaker 1: and you will come across onesies newborn clothing that says
Speaker 1: things like lady Killer right, that says things like you
Speaker 1: know heartbreaker right, that says things like you know Daddy's Princess. Right. Folks,
Speaker 1: We teach children before they are even able to hold
Speaker 1: their heads up what blue stands for, what pink stands for,
Speaker 1: what masculinity looks like, and what femininity should look like,
Speaker 1: and that you should not color outside those boxes are lines.
Speaker 1: And we tell little girls that when a boy likes you,
Speaker 1: he abuses you, he assaults you physically. All Look at Johnny,
Speaker 1: he hit Susie on the head. He must like her.
Speaker 1: You see, straight parents sit a baby boy and a
Speaker 1: baby girl on a blanket together, and people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at the cutest couple hashtag couple goals.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that shit is normal? Because in
Speaker 1: all honesty, when you look at it, when you pull
Speaker 1: yourself out and you zoom in and you're like, huh,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? That's what it means to
Speaker 1: begin to sexualize babies. But we think that what sexualizes
Speaker 1: them is to teach them that not everybody falls into
Speaker 1: these binaries. Right then, instead of having exploratory conversations, what
Speaker 1: the Descantises and the Trumps of the world and the
Speaker 1: Abbots of the world would rather you do is be
Speaker 1: threatened and pushed back into a closet to be feared, right,
Speaker 1: the fear of standing into your wholeness as a human being,
Speaker 1: because they have now set up legislation that makes you
Speaker 1: a target. And dare you be a teacher these days
Speaker 1: who is progressive or just believes that education is about
Speaker 1: critical thought and conversation, you can be sued. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how many times over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: whether it was from virtual schooling or now the threats
Speaker 1: of lawsuits in having open conversations, which is which is
Speaker 1: the point? Right should be the point of education that
Speaker 1: people are leaving the teaching profession in droves because one
Speaker 1: they're underresourced and overworked. And then thirdly, you can now
Speaker 1: be the target your school, your administration, your person of
Speaker 1: frivolous lawsuits because little kids will go home and say, oh,
Speaker 1: Johnny has two dads, Well, how did you learn about that?
Speaker 1: That's not what I sent you to school for, or
Speaker 1: send you to school to learn your ABC's folks. The
Speaker 1: fact is that anyone you do not have to be
Speaker 1: an analyst or a strategist for the Democratic Party to
Speaker 1: recognize that the creation of parental control and the boogeyman
Speaker 1: of critical race theory was going to be set up
Speaker 1: by Republicans to stir the pot, hype up their base,
Speaker 1: give them red meat to say that the Left has
Speaker 1: gone too far and now they want to indoctrinate your children.
Speaker 1: And the biggest fear of any white evangelical Christian is homosexuality,
Speaker 1: is being transgender, is any of these wild things. Because
Speaker 1: instead of actually learning from and speaking two members of
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus community, instead of having conversations about how
Speaker 1: we hyper genderize and hyper sexualize our children before they're
Speaker 1: able to actually roll over in the onesie that we
Speaker 1: bought that says lady killer and man crusher, right before
Speaker 1: they're able to even do that. We have now shut
Speaker 1: down the ability to have conversation about it. We saw
Speaker 1: this coming a mile away, but Democrats in charge, we're
Speaker 1: caught with there what heads down, hands in their pockets. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe if I don't see it, maybe if
Speaker 1: I pretend, it'll go away. And it didn't, it morphed
Speaker 1: into something bigger. I say this because in my mind,
Speaker 1: certainly we are a couple of years away from the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential race. But folks, we are only
Speaker 1: a couple of months away from midterms. And like I
Speaker 1: continue to say, this administration has no wins right. The
Speaker 1: only thing that they are fucking winning on is their
Speaker 1: funding of Ukraine. That's where they're putting all of their energy,
Speaker 1: their talking points, and their resources. Biden yesterday announced that, oh,
Speaker 1: we really need Congress to fund COVID nineteen because we
Speaker 1: are entering a new season of this pandemic which will
Speaker 1: never go away. Where be a point to the subvariant
Speaker 1: of omicron is now is now the dominant strand in
Speaker 1: the US at a time when you have states that
Speaker 1: are suing the CDC to roll back public transportation mask mandates.
Speaker 1: It's like we live in fucking crazy town. But instead
Speaker 1: of being able to preempt to preempt what we already
Speaker 1: know Republicans are going to use to attack us, and
Speaker 1: instead use their same methods to spread truth the way
Speaker 1: that they spread lies. We sit around and we come
Speaker 1: up with no defense whatsoever because we think that that's
Speaker 1: taking the fucking high road. Well, let me be then
Speaker 1: the first to sound the alarm the same way that
Speaker 1: I read you all the quotes from Alexandria Ocasio Quartez.
Speaker 1: Democrats are in fucking trouble. And given what the Biden
Speaker 1: administration walked into in January twenty twenty one, post the
Speaker 1: fucking insurrection, you would think that Americans never in their
Speaker 1: wildest dreams would give a gabble or the Oval Office
Speaker 1: back to Republicans. But here the fuck we are and
Speaker 1: why is that it isn't enough to just say that
Speaker 1: it is easier for Republicans to spread lies than it
Speaker 1: is for us to tell the truth, That it is
Speaker 1: easier to unite under a monolith than it is with
Speaker 1: such a diverse and big tent. That is the same
Speaker 1: excuse I have heard Democrats make for decades. And guess what,
Speaker 1: the size of the tent and the diversity of the
Speaker 1: tent isn't changing. Right, The desire to pander two white
Speaker 1: America is not going to get them to vote Democrat.
Speaker 1: So it's best then that you would focus on the
Speaker 1: growing numbers of people of color in this country who
Speaker 1: have told you, in no uncertain harms, what the fuck
Speaker 1: they need? Voting rights, police reform, universal healthcare, relief in
Speaker 1: student loan debt, dealing with the climate crisis, a living wage.
Speaker 1: These are all things that Alexandro Alcasio Cortez had laid
Speaker 1: out and said, Look, you have margins in the Senate
Speaker 1: that are way too close. In order for Biden's agenda
Speaker 1: to actually have gotten done right, we would have needed
Speaker 1: a sixty threshold, right, meaning that there were the Senate
Speaker 1: was divided with sixty Democrats and forty Republicans. And even
Speaker 1: still then, folks, I don't trust fucking Joe Mansion or
Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema, So you really need to have the safety
Speaker 1: of about sixty three so that those two motherfucker's votes
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter if they decided to jump ship like they
Speaker 1: normally do and walk themselves over to the Republican tent.
Speaker 1: But that's never gonna happen. And why is that never
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Oh, I don't know, because we put no
Speaker 1: effort into trying to gain ground over years right into
Speaker 1: harder to win redder states by seeding them decades in
Speaker 1: the making, the way that Republicans have always played the
Speaker 1: long game. They are getting ready to celebrate a victory
Speaker 1: that they have been fighting for for fifty years, which
Speaker 1: is the rollback of Roe v. Wade. Fifty years they
Speaker 1: have been working on this, and for fifty years we
Speaker 1: have told ourselves the lie Roe v. Wade is codified
Speaker 1: and it's never going to go anywhere. But we did
Speaker 1: no work in the courts to make sure that that
Speaker 1: was the case. And even even as Mitch McConnell during
Speaker 1: the Obama years again said the quiet part out loud,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you a one term president. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hold this Supreme Court seat hostage, which had never been done.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, I you know what I
Speaker 1: think it is akin to, It's akin to dating somebody, right,
Speaker 1: being in a new relationship, and you seeing red flag
Speaker 1: after red flag after red flag after red flag, but
Speaker 1: you keep telling yourself, oh, no, they're good. You know
Speaker 1: they have a good heart. They mean well, red flag,
Speaker 1: red flag, red flag. Oh you know, they don't really
Speaker 1: mean it right until then there's a huge blow up,
Speaker 1: and then you want to say, oh, I was caught
Speaker 1: off guard. I don't know where this came from. It
Speaker 1: came out of the blue. Why, because you didn't pay
Speaker 1: attention to the series of red flags that were going
Speaker 1: up in front of you. That's why you're caught off guard.
Speaker 1: That person had been showing you who they were, but
Speaker 1: you decided to write a new story about their truth
Speaker 1: other than the truth that they were showing you. That's
Speaker 1: what we do as democrats with the Republicans. They continue
Speaker 1: to tell us Democrats, you ain't shit. You're a bunch
Speaker 1: of socialists, right, You're a bunch of lgbt Q loving
Speaker 1: Muslim huggin, tree hugging liars that all belong in jail,
Speaker 1: that are throwing orgies and sniffing cocaine. According to Representative Cawthorne. Right,
Speaker 1: So they tell you what they believe and think about
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. But we continue, as a Cassier Cortez said,
Speaker 1: to believe that we are dealing with a political landscape
Speaker 1: that only requires two glasses of bourbon and a shared cigar.
Speaker 1: We are so far removed from that reality. And frankly,
Speaker 1: that reality should have never existed. It should have never
Speaker 1: existed that two white men walk into a room, which
Speaker 1: sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, and
Speaker 1: come out with some compromise. But always the compromise is
Speaker 1: always on black people and women's backs. That's always the
Speaker 1: compromise because they don't care. So when I see these
Speaker 1: initial polling reports coming out, I want to ring an
Speaker 1: alarm for every single Democrat, and people want to say
Speaker 1: to me, as I posted it on Twitter, oh that
Speaker 1: poll is bullshit, and oh blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be who's getting pulled. Yes, those are all
Speaker 1: the right questions to ask, but it doesn't make this
Speaker 1: any less truthful. Joe Biden. Joe Biden's approval ratings folks
Speaker 1: have sunk below Trump's lowest. That motherfucker put kids in cages, right,
Speaker 1: told people that he can grab women by the pussy
Speaker 1: called the marchers in Charlottesville that killed a woman good people,
Speaker 1: that told the Proud Boys and the oath keepers to
Speaker 1: stand back and stand by, that orchestrated an insurrection that
Speaker 1: cost people police officers who they say that they care about,
Speaker 1: cost them their lives with hundreds more injured, and Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is polling below Donald Trump. Now you can tell me, oh, Danielle, well,
Speaker 1: we have more time to get things done, and what
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you is that we don't. I want
Speaker 1: to hear from those of you in wokaf Nation who
Speaker 1: live in Red states, and I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me what you were seeing in terms of commercials right
Speaker 1: on television, and what you were hearing in terms of
Speaker 1: commercials whether they be on your podcast or your radio
Speaker 1: stations with regard to the upcoming midterms. I want you
Speaker 1: to tell me what you're seeing in your local newspapers
Speaker 1: in these red states, because what I am saying to
Speaker 1: you is that Republicans never stop campaigning, that they find
Speaker 1: their latest thing to scare the shit out of white
Speaker 1: people and get them wrapped up into a tizzy feeling like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we're gonna lose our power. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we got to do something with these darkies and these
Speaker 1: gays and these trans folks. And there's no pushback until when,
Speaker 1: until what September October? And people will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: most people don't dial into midterms until, you know, right
Speaker 1: when they're getting ready to walk into the booth. And
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you is, no, they are fucking
Speaker 1: tapped in. They're tapped into areas that Democrats are not
Speaker 1: playing in. One of the reasons, folks, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: I've gone on TikTok right after my protest against TikTok
Speaker 1: and feeling too old and this is for young people,
Speaker 1: and what am I going to go on there and
Speaker 1: do some dances? Well, guess what the reality is is
Speaker 1: that the attention span, right, our attention span as humans
Speaker 1: has shrunk, right. I used to make the joke that
Speaker 1: people don't want to read. People don't want to read,
Speaker 1: so you need to if you are writing writing an
Speaker 1: opinion piece, it needs to be six hundred words are less,
Speaker 1: which is pretty much impossible when you're actually trying to
Speaker 1: dive into layered and complex issues. Six hundred words is
Speaker 1: not a lot of space. Then they'll tell you Okay,
Speaker 1: well launch a podcast, right, so you do that, then
Speaker 1: they tell you, well, people don't really listen for longer
Speaker 1: than thirty minutes, right, So then okay, well we have Twitter,
Speaker 1: so we'll give hot takes. Ooh, character count doesn't seem right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so then we'll do We'll go live, We'll go on
Speaker 1: Instagram reels. Oh, sixty s and TikTok's and now sixty
Speaker 1: second tiktoks are being cut into like fifteen second tiktoks,
Speaker 1: three second tiktoks because that's how long you can hold
Speaker 1: people's attention for. So tell me how you convey to
Speaker 1: people that democracy is dying right in front of your
Speaker 1: very eyes while you're busy changing avatars to the Ukraine flag, right,
Speaker 1: that we got American oligarchs here that are going unchecked.
Speaker 1: Why we're fighting for other people's democracy, which is necessary.
Speaker 1: We have decided that we don't need to fight for
Speaker 1: our own at home, and in that time spent, people's
Speaker 1: attention span is shrinking. I went on TikTok because I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, so what do you do? Okay? You
Speaker 1: write for the people who still want to read, which
Speaker 1: is a shrinking number. You do long form audio right,
Speaker 1: then they tell you, no, you got to do video
Speaker 1: because people need to see. Then they tell you, oh,
Speaker 1: it's too long. But for those that are successful, they
Speaker 1: continue to adapt. Republicans have always adapted. They've always found
Speaker 1: a way to spread their lies far and wide. They
Speaker 1: got the best celebrity endorser of their bullshit, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Because what do Americans love above everything else? Wealthy people.
Speaker 1: We want to be them and we want to hate them, right,
Speaker 1: We want to know what it's like to walk through
Speaker 1: life and have people open doors for us and never
Speaker 1: have to lift a finger, don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: a resume because the nepotism will catapult you anywhere that
Speaker 1: you need to go. Or your complexion because you have
Speaker 1: the bank account to match, will get you into wherever
Speaker 1: you go. There is We are so enthralled, right, we
Speaker 1: are enthralled. Enchanted with wealth in this country and celebrity.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what would it be like to have
Speaker 1: millions of people, millions of adoring fans, millions of people
Speaker 1: walking into a stadium chanting your name, so we deitize them. Well,
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, the Republicans got all of the things
Speaker 1: that Americans love and love to hate rolled into one
Speaker 1: disgusting orange package. What do democrats counter with another septanagarian
Speaker 1: that's on their way to being an octanagarian that has
Speaker 1: trouble connecting with people through communication. And this is not
Speaker 1: let me let me just stop right there, because this
Speaker 1: is not a slight or a disc at anybody's speaking impediments.
Speaker 1: I'm saying as the ability to gain energy for folks.
Speaker 1: You can stutter, you can do all of these things,
Speaker 1: but if you don't know how to collect, you're connect right,
Speaker 1: If you don't know how to connect with people, and
Speaker 1: you're still using words like malarkey, which is from like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the fuck error that is from,
Speaker 1: to be honest, is it the swing error? I have
Speaker 1: no idea, But again, the beautiful thing and and and
Speaker 1: here's here's where one of our many problems came in
Speaker 1: to play, is that why was Obama so successful? Right?
Speaker 1: This man who had the name nobody could pronounce the
Speaker 1: middle name that's spelled terrorism for most Americans of a
Speaker 1: certain age. Who's saying, right? Who was black? Right? Which
Speaker 1: we know a majority of Americans hate by virtue of
Speaker 1: the anti blackness that we see run rampant in this
Speaker 1: country every single day, all day long. Why was he
Speaker 1: so successful because he was able to connect because he
Speaker 1: knew and he built a team and an engine of
Speaker 1: people that knew how to engage in culture, how to
Speaker 1: engage in conversation, how to bring people along, make them
Speaker 1: part of community, make them want to feel like they
Speaker 1: are a part of something that is bigger than themselves.
Speaker 1: But we allowed that to be wrapped up in one
Speaker 1: person and one family and one moment, and then eight
Speaker 1: years and it's gone. It's like it never happened. Because
Speaker 1: instead of Democrats using this incredible energy and person and
Speaker 1: turning it into their ideology, understanding how to utilize whatever
Speaker 1: new platforms are gonna be popping up for people to connect.
Speaker 1: It isn't just enough right to take one clip over
Speaker 1: here and put it on a platform. No anyone will
Speaker 1: tell you that who understands social media or at least
Speaker 1: tries to understand social media like I do, Because it
Speaker 1: is about how are people creating community, how are they
Speaker 1: connecting through conversation? What does that look like? These are
Speaker 1: the questions that Democrats don't ask and Republicans have figured out,
Speaker 1: how do they build their community? Through hate? How do
Speaker 1: they drive their voters to the poll through fear? What
Speaker 1: did Trump tap into that white people are pissed about
Speaker 1: the demographic shift, that white people feel like the more
Speaker 1: folks that are allowed equity in this country, the lesser
Speaker 1: of the pie that they get because they work from
Speaker 1: a scarcity ideology, and instead of us realizing that is true,
Speaker 1: democrats lie to themselves and say, no, where are people
Speaker 1: of great abundance? Know the fuck we're not? Actually where
Speaker 1: the pull them up by the bootstraps, folks? Where the
Speaker 1: I did it on my own folks. There was no
Speaker 1: village behind me. I'm great because I'm great, As Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said, I alone can fix this toxic masculinity mixed
Speaker 1: with white supremacy, which is with the sprinkling right of
Speaker 1: misogyny and a dollop of racism because they own stand
Speaker 1: their audience. And that is the key to success pretty
Speaker 1: much in anything that you were trying to sell, And
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. If you are in politics, you
Speaker 1: are a fucking salesperson. You are trying to sell your ideas,
Speaker 1: You're trying to sell your policies, You're trying to sell
Speaker 1: your ideology. And if you do not know what makes
Speaker 1: people click yes, add to cart, what makes them say
Speaker 1: I like this and now I want to comment and share.
Speaker 1: If you don't understand how people tick, how can you
Speaker 1: sell to them? You can't. And it isn't enough, folks
Speaker 1: to put people in. You know, back in the day,
Speaker 1: in the beginning of my communications career, focus groups were
Speaker 1: like a big thing, right, and politicians, particularly those that
Speaker 1: are from marginalized communities and I mean women, I mean
Speaker 1: people of color, I mean queer people, and anyone that
Speaker 1: has overlapping identities, people with disabilities, and anyone with overlapping
Speaker 1: identities rely on these focus groups where you pick a
Speaker 1: bunch of people from Middle America or real Americas as
Speaker 1: folks like to say, because apparently the rest of us
Speaker 1: that live on the coast that fund Real America don't
Speaker 1: get to be called actual Americans. I digress. We give
Speaker 1: them a bunch of questions and then we tell them
Speaker 1: to give us our opinion, give us their opinion. They
Speaker 1: provide their opinion, and then we take that information and
Speaker 1: we put together right like mister and missus and the
Speaker 1: potato person. We put together a candidate right based on
Speaker 1: what this select group of people says about this, we
Speaker 1: don't allow it to be nimble, to be malleable. We
Speaker 1: take it as gospel. And I say that those focus
Speaker 1: groups only matter, right if you are focusing all around
Speaker 1: different places, because people think differently, have different perspectives, if
Speaker 1: you're coming from multi backgrounds. So if you don't know
Speaker 1: what is getting people to add to cart, to like,
Speaker 1: to share, to show up to the polls, how do
Speaker 1: you message to them? You think that just shaming and
Speaker 1: blaming is going to do it, It doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: You think that taking the moral high ground is going
Speaker 1: to do it, It won't. And I'm not saying. You know,
Speaker 1: the funniest thing. If you guys ever want a funny
Speaker 1: Instagram account to follow, you should follow actress Gabrielle Union
Speaker 1: and former NBA star player Duane Wade's daughter, Kasia James,
Speaker 1: who I think is like three years old right now,
Speaker 1: and her her name, They referred to her as a
Speaker 1: shady baby because this little girl gives looks and shade
Speaker 1: and at it and it's just the funniest fucking thing
Speaker 1: since birth. And she's the one that came up with
Speaker 1: the when they go, when they go low, we belly
Speaker 1: crawl right, and it was like a funny thing to say,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of the mouth of a baby,
Speaker 1: right like, And I gotta tell you that's how I feel.
Speaker 1: I remember when Michelle Obama said, when they go low,
Speaker 1: we go high. The higher road, without informed calculation and
Speaker 1: a good understanding of who your audience is is not
Speaker 1: necessarily the road that you should be fucking taking. It
Speaker 1: just really isn't if you see the things that are
Speaker 1: trending right now, it is not niceties. So every single
Speaker 1: time that Joe Biden wants to refer to Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: as his friend, every single time right that Democrats want
Speaker 1: to refer to Republicans that literally would call you everything
Speaker 1: but a child of God as your friend, you are
Speaker 1: telling on yourself. You are telling the public that you
Speaker 1: do not know who your real enemy is. And if
Speaker 1: you don't know who your enemy is and you're the
Speaker 1: one on the battlefield, how the fuck am I supposed
Speaker 1: to know what makes you any different from the other guy.
Speaker 1: If this person is still your friend and they're doing
Speaker 1: all of this hot shit, then what you're telling me
Speaker 1: is that there's no real difference between you two. We
Speaker 1: have to tell the truth, and we have to figure
Speaker 1: out how to message that truth in a variety of
Speaker 1: packages for people to consume. And what the recent polling
Speaker 1: shows me about where Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris are right now should scare the shit out of
Speaker 1: everyone who gives a fuck about democracy. Now. I have
Speaker 1: said before I don't believe that Donald Trump will run.
Speaker 1: But if Donald Trump is pumped up enough, right, if
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice continues to be missing on a
Speaker 1: milk carton, if there are no indictments that come down
Speaker 1: between now and midterms, between now and twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: Democrats are fucked. Are fucked in a I mean, it
Speaker 1: is incomprehensible. There will be no return from this because,
Speaker 1: like I've said before, when Republicans get the gavel back,
Speaker 1: they are going to break it and burn the Constitution
Speaker 1: in a fucking bonfire at one of their rallies. That's
Speaker 1: what will happen. They are telling you right now they
Speaker 1: want a Putin like figure to be their last and
Speaker 1: final president of these United States. So we do our
Speaker 1: damnedest to pay attention to all of the fucking sirens
Speaker 1: that are going off before it is too late. That
Speaker 1: is it for me today. Folks on woke f as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.