Speaker 1: Good morning, Keeve Sen. Welcome to WOKP Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks, Well, bravo.
Speaker 1: Cheers to all of us for making it through another
Speaker 1: week that comes at no great effort, right, Like, there's
Speaker 1: a considerable amount of effort that it takes to get
Speaker 1: through these weeks. And this week, you know, a mixed
Speaker 1: bag of I guess like good and horrific, which is
Speaker 1: just par for the course these days. But where do
Speaker 1: I want to begin? I want to begin at the
Speaker 1: latest mass shooting where you know, on one of my
Speaker 1: other pods we were debating about talking about it because
Speaker 1: you know, it was just like, well, they're thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, changing how they're counting mass shootings because there
Speaker 1: are just so many of them that this one may
Speaker 1: not qualify because only one person was killed, And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what fucking nightmare do we live in? Twenty
Speaker 1: two people were injured, and because twenty two people weren't
Speaker 1: fatally killed, like then that is not worthy of conversation
Speaker 1: these days, because there are so many mass shootings on
Speaker 1: a regular basis that now we don't need to change
Speaker 1: the policies that are causing the mass shootings. We need
Speaker 1: to change the way that we count them so that
Speaker 1: I guess that we can trick ourselves into believing that
Speaker 1: there's not as many as there are. Let that sink in. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: one person was fatally killed twenty two people shot at
Speaker 1: the Kandy City Chiefs super Bowl parade, right, which is
Speaker 1: filled with children and you know, and elders and you know,
Speaker 1: just people, right, People that you know wanted to enjoy
Speaker 1: a good time and celebrate their team and their cities win.
Speaker 1: And you can't do that. And you know, the funny
Speaker 1: thing is is that on the news you will listen
Speaker 1: to people pontificate on well, it was, you know, it
Speaker 1: was an argument, or it was this or that. Why
Speaker 1: the fuck do we have so many guns? Do you
Speaker 1: know what used to happen in arguments before you had
Speaker 1: access to, like, you know, so much weaponry. It would
Speaker 1: just be an argument between two people and maybe they'd
Speaker 1: throw hands, maybe there would be you know, some punches
Speaker 1: that were thrown, but everybody would just be able to
Speaker 1: walk away from that. You know, when people refer to
Speaker 1: the good old days, that's what the fuck. I'd like
Speaker 1: to go back to the good old days. Where everyone
Speaker 1: wasn't packing and so they weren't just one you know instance,
Speaker 1: one argument, one short temper, one moment away from committing
Speaker 1: mass murder or causing mass injury and trauma. Because what
Speaker 1: we don't talk about on a regular basis, what we
Speaker 1: don't talk about, is the trauma, the emotional trauma that
Speaker 1: is associated with being in a mass shooting. Now to date,
Speaker 1: right now, I don't have any firsthand knowledge of that,
Speaker 1: and I pray to fucking God that I don't. But
Speaker 1: the way that this country moves, we will all experience
Speaker 1: a mass shooting at one time or another and pray
Speaker 1: to God that we come out of it. But when
Speaker 1: I think about the school shootings, when I think about
Speaker 1: the grocery store shootings, and the synagogue shootings, and the
Speaker 1: you know, and the movie theater shootings, when I think
Speaker 1: about all of these things that have happened, and the
Speaker 1: churches and the Megas church that was just shot up
Speaker 1: the other day, it's this feeling of safety being robbed
Speaker 1: from you, and what do we call that? Terrorism? So
Speaker 1: these people, in my humble opinion, no longer need to
Speaker 1: have motivation, Like I don't give a fuck about their motivations.
Speaker 1: Whose motivations I actually care about are the motivations of
Speaker 1: the Republican politicians that continue to pass legislation that makes
Speaker 1: it easier for people to obtain a fucking gun. That's
Speaker 1: whose motivations we should be talking about on a regular
Speaker 1: fucking basis. I don't give a fuck nowadays about whether
Speaker 1: or not the shooter had a manifesto, whether or not
Speaker 1: they were a Trump supporter, whether or not like it
Speaker 1: was an argument, or they were bullied at school, or
Speaker 1: what difference does it make. The common denominator is the
Speaker 1: access to guns. When I interview Jonathan you Know, at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the month for his new book, what
Speaker 1: We've become, the entire conversation and narrative change that he's
Speaker 1: talking about in his book is moving from this idea
Speaker 1: of a health pandemic and moving toward a place of
Speaker 1: power and how we who want to be able to pray,
Speaker 1: send their kids to school, shop walk, you know, fellowship
Speaker 1: with our neighbors without fear of death, and that that
Speaker 1: is about voting in the people and the judges and
Speaker 1: the representatives that are going to give a fuck about
Speaker 1: whether or not you live and die. We are at
Speaker 1: a place where the number one killer of kids is
Speaker 1: not a disease that we're still trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to cure. No, it is not cancer. It is guns,
Speaker 1: and still we do nothing. So for people that cover
Speaker 1: the news on a regular basis, there comes a time
Speaker 1: when you're just like, oh, I guess this story isn't
Speaker 1: enough to cover for me. Oh I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: covering the shootings until they stop. Until they stop, because
Speaker 1: we need to know about all of them. As a
Speaker 1: clear reminder that our politicians are bought and sold by
Speaker 1: the NRA and gun manufacturers and whomever else profits from
Speaker 1: continued terrorism and violence right and fear, because people make
Speaker 1: money off of this, just like they make money off
Speaker 1: of war. So it's asking ourselves the question, well, who
Speaker 1: is making money from this? Who is profiting off of
Speaker 1: these consistent acts of domestic terrorism. You know, just recently
Speaker 1: you had the parents of a shooter go on trial, right,
Speaker 1: the mother has gone on trial, not the father yet
Speaker 1: and found guilty, right for the first time ever. And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, these are the types of cases that matter,
Speaker 1: These are the things that we need to figure out
Speaker 1: because you know, who made it so that you can't
Speaker 1: sue gun manufacturers Congress right the same way that they
Speaker 1: made it so that you can't sue the police, so
Speaker 1: that they just can, you know, because it'd be too
Speaker 1: complicated for them to do their jobs and just not
Speaker 1: be able to shoot and kill whomever they want or
Speaker 1: suffocate and choke whomever they want. It's wild, you know,
Speaker 1: it's wild. So that is unfortunately how the week began
Speaker 1: right after the super Bowl, and then we move into
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to once again be standing trial
Speaker 1: for the hush money fraud case, not to be confused
Speaker 1: with all the other fraudulent cases that he has, and
Speaker 1: you know, the judge Manhattan has decided he's going to
Speaker 1: stand trial the data set from March twenty fifth on
Speaker 1: the Stormy Daniels hush money case, which feels like that
Speaker 1: was like one hundred years ago that we heard about
Speaker 1: that case. And it just you know, folks, I know
Speaker 1: that I should be holding on to some semblance of hope,
Speaker 1: but at this point, it's like you lose track of
Speaker 1: the amount of cases, you lose track of the amount
Speaker 1: of appeals, and we're just numb and desensitized to it
Speaker 1: because guess who's still running for president Donald Trump? Guess
Speaker 1: who has a fifty to fifty chance of winning the
Speaker 1: presidency Donald Trump. Right, We're more concerned with who Fannie
Speaker 1: Willis is fucking in Georgia, right than the two years
Speaker 1: worth of investigations that she did. Now, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, I'm gonna be one of the first people
Speaker 1: to be like, what the fuck were you thinking. Black
Speaker 1: people are taught from the beginning that you need to
Speaker 1: be twice as good to get half as fucking much,
Speaker 1: So why you would take any type of fucking risk
Speaker 1: that could potentially jeopardize one of the most important fucking trials.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I do know that if
Speaker 1: she were a white man, that this would just be like,
Speaker 1: oh well and move on. But because she is a
Speaker 1: black woman that had the audacity to take on a
Speaker 1: bunch of powerful white men, oh they're gonna come for her,
Speaker 1: and that case is going to fucking disappear. So it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, it's exhausting, all of it. Keeping up with
Speaker 1: all of it is exhausting. It is just like, at
Speaker 1: this point, what does actually matter? You know, as it
Speaker 1: pertains to all of the trials, Because you know, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump can appeal, he can appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal,
Speaker 1: until the cows come home. The Supreme Court are also
Speaker 1: bought and sold right by right wing billionaires, So there's
Speaker 1: actually no judgment that we're waiting on here that is
Speaker 1: going to lead to any type of justice happening. We
Speaker 1: already know the outcome. So it's just like a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 1: And this is what I keep saying. The only thing
Speaker 1: that we are going to be able to rely on,
Speaker 1: the only thing that we have control over is our vote.
Speaker 1: That's it. The courts are not going to save us, right,
Speaker 1: So that's it. And if Donald Trump becomes president again
Speaker 1: and you know, begins his campaign as dictator like he's
Speaker 1: saying that he's going to do, and I'm just so
Speaker 1: confused why motherfuckers don't believe what he's saying. He said
Speaker 1: that when he came into office the first time, he
Speaker 1: was going to institute a Muslim ban. That is exactly
Speaker 1: what he did. Sure was rejected by the courts, and
Speaker 1: then he found a way to do it. He said
Speaker 1: that he was going to make you know, migrants and
Speaker 1: immigrants suffer. He threw their babies in k and they
Speaker 1: still haven't been reunited, all of them with their families. Right,
Speaker 1: So at this stage in the game, folks, it's like
Speaker 1: the only thing that is standing between us and the
Speaker 1: end of democracy is us. We're the ones that we
Speaker 1: are waiting for sure as fuck. Is not Merrick Garland,
Speaker 1: it's not you know, the Special Council, right, it's not
Speaker 1: any of the judges, it's not Judge Chunkin, it's not
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. It's us. We're it. So the fact
Speaker 1: is that people telling me that they can't stomach Biden.
Speaker 1: I can't really stomach what Biden is doing in Gaza
Speaker 1: and Israel. I can't stomach the fact that, like the
Speaker 1: Associated Press can't manage to say that thirteen thousand children
Speaker 1: have been killed murdered, right instead they say minors. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine what it is like to live in constant fary,
Speaker 1: you know. The other day, I'm thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 1: where do you go when you have nowhere to go?
Speaker 1: What do you take? How do you keep moving? And
Speaker 1: these are the thoughts that I have that keep me
Speaker 1: up at night, that have me lose sleep. And then
Speaker 1: I think to myself, like I can't get stuck in
Speaker 1: that cycle of thinking because these people, those people are
Speaker 1: relying on us to hold on to something, right, because
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump becomes president, what the fuck do you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen in Ukraine, in Gaza, around
Speaker 1: the fucking globe? There will be no intervention, right, so
Speaker 1: we won't have to worry about our worst imagination's coming
Speaker 1: true and whether or not they will, because he's telling you,
Speaker 1: They are telling you they got billions of dollars funding it.
Speaker 1: So if you can't stomach what you are seeing elsewhere,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna be able to deal with it
Speaker 1: in the United States? Because that's what's coming here. I
Speaker 1: just I don't get how you think that losing how
Speaker 1: people think losing democracy here is somehow going to ensure
Speaker 1: democracy elsewhere? And do I know how fucked up our
Speaker 1: democracy is. I am a black queer woman in America.
Speaker 1: Yes I'm very well aware, But I also know that
Speaker 1: what we are dealing with right now is still better
Speaker 1: than what the people are dealing with and facing day
Speaker 1: in and day out, with being bombarded with bombs, with
Speaker 1: being picked off of the street, young boys as young
Speaker 1: you know, under the age of ten, being stripped and
Speaker 1: thrown into the back of vehicles, never to be seen
Speaker 1: or heard from again. Because you know who's searching for them. Family,
Speaker 1: community gone wiped out. You know, it's just like I
Speaker 1: tell you that some it just makes me think that
Speaker 1: our laws are just so fucked up that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is even a possibility. Shows you all of the ways
Speaker 1: that white supremacy exists, that patriarchy exists, right, like there
Speaker 1: is no middle ground or oh well, maybe it's like no.
Speaker 1: A man convicted of sexual assault, a man that is
Speaker 1: referred to Mexicans as rapists and murderers, that is referred
Speaker 1: to African nations as shithole countries, that has said that
Speaker 1: members of his own party do not have the complexion
Speaker 1: to be his running mate. A man that says that
Speaker 1: he's going to be a dictator on day one. A
Speaker 1: person who is completely and totally grifted off of every
Speaker 1: aspect of being president of the United States, that has
Speaker 1: played foot seas with dictators, that almost took us into
Speaker 1: nuclear war via Twitter. This is the man that people
Speaker 1: are considering to have another term, like they think that
Speaker 1: that is going to be the last term. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck, It's like, I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: why I appreciate you all for sending me, you know,
Speaker 1: DMS and messages and commenting, you know, for my patrons
Speaker 1: who comment under the videos and send me notes, because
Speaker 1: I tell you that most weeks, I feel like I
Speaker 1: am screaming into a void and that no one hears.
Speaker 1: And worse yet, people here they just don't care. And
Speaker 1: that is a hard thing to deal with on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. Right that you are trying to do your
Speaker 1: best to help in the ways that you can, people
Speaker 1: are just like, yeah, no, I'm good. I know that
Speaker 1: people are hurting. I am hurting. I know that people
Speaker 1: are exhausted. I'm exhausted. Look at me. I mean the
Speaker 1: fucking you know, I could I could pack, you know,
Speaker 1: fill up the bags under my eyes right with clothing,
Speaker 1: like that's how big they are. But we are just
Speaker 1: we don't have an alternative. And the idea that some
Speaker 1: alternative for the Democratic nominee is going to somehow present
Speaker 1: itself and then we were all gonna be well is
Speaker 1: a lie. It is a fantasy. So I'm like, sometimes
Speaker 1: you just gotta deal with the cards that you're dealt, Like,
Speaker 1: you don't just get to flip the table like this
Speaker 1: is a reality TV show and walk away because the
Speaker 1: consequences are just too fucking stark and too real. So
Speaker 1: I pray what I ask of all of you is
Speaker 1: to continue in the conversations with friends, colleagues, loved ones,
Speaker 1: you know, children that are going to be a voting age,
Speaker 1: and like lay it out, you know, tell them that
Speaker 1: you hear them, that you hear and you share in
Speaker 1: their frustration, but that they don't know what they are
Speaker 1: getting ready for. If they choose to not vote, they
Speaker 1: better be prepared to live with the consequences, not for
Speaker 1: four years, but for four generations. You know, post the
Speaker 1: Civil War reconstruction only lasted twelve years, and then following
Speaker 1: that one hundred years of Jim Crow. You think it
Speaker 1: can happen again, It can, it will, and it is.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke
Speaker 1: a f as always, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as
Speaker 1: fun