WEBVTT - New New Deal 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.480 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.000 Bunker today. You know, I want to take a moment 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.720 to talk about Labor Day and the fact that we 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.680 as a nation just celebrated or honored recognized this holiday 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.519 and the fact that it's supposed to What have us 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:40.120 put eyes on and give respect to workers? Right? All 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.159 of us are workers. If you are employed, you are 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.400 a worker that helps this country and this economy move. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:52.400 And I think that what is oftentimes lost on all 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.160 of us, and what is shifting right now in a 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.560 lot of industries and in a lot of spaces is 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.000 the power that workers have. Now. When this country was 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.640 moving through its industrial age, we needed to create unions 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.560 and hr and different types of protections for workers. Because 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.840 without these protections, without government intervention, without agencies that would 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.440 look after the safety and the well being for workers, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.119 you have what is pretty much going on with Amazon 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.600 around the country. You have people unable to take bathroom breaks. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.600 There is right now a piece of legislation that is 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:43.720 going through the California legislature to ensure that production numbers 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:49.480 remain reasonable at the behemoths like Amazon, so that workers 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.640 who are on the line putting together your packages, our 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.520 packages that we so desperately need, can take a bathroom break. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.280 It's crazy to me to think that in the twenty 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.320 first century, after we have gone through so many different 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.239 points of work, revolution and expansion in this country, that 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.000 in so many ways we are going back to the beginning, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.000 whether it is with fucking abortion, whether it's with voter suppression. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.600 But it seems like America's civil rights and liberties, and 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.440 workers rights and liberties and women's rights and liberties are 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:34.320 somehow boomeranging back to pre industrial times right where we 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.840 are needing to make explicitly clear the protections that workers 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.400 are guaranteed, the protections that women are guaranteed. And we 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.079 have a very tepid government right now that is being 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.440 run by Democrats who we gave power to, but not 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.480 in large enough numbers that they're able to maneuver on 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:59.679 their own. Now, I say this though, that this problem, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.240 this juggernaut that we have right now that is happening 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.560 in our government is not the people's problem. It is 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.200 our politicians problem. It is Republicans problem, and the reality 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.200 that Democrats do not show to the public that Republicans 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.919 want to do nothing for Americans, right, that Republicans see 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.520 Americans as the problem, and they see corporations as the 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.240 savior to America. That government is not supposed to intervene. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.600 Government is not supposed to make sure that you have 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:36.400 bathroom breaks at work, that you are given healthcare, that 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.960 you are have childcare, That that's not government's problem. That 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.080 if you cannot afford those things on your own, well, 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.240 then too bad, right, And that if you need to 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.920 be worked above, well above forty hours a week, if 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.920 you need to have multiple jobs so that you can 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.360 put food on the table and take care of your kids, again, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.680 that is your problem. And what we are seeing with 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.680 another move being made by this administration. And again, you know, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.360 a part of me does not know whether or not 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.520 the moves that are being made in terms of these 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.600 behemoth pieces of legislation. Because here's the thing. What we 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.440 also need to recognize is that we are living in 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.160 a time not unlike when the New Deal was rolled out, right, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.880 which was after wartime. Recognizing that we need to provide 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:32.120 American families, American people, American workers right with the ability 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.080 to fend for themselves, but that because there has been 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.560 so much economic devastation due to COVID, due to mass layoffs, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.760 because there has been so much economic devastation due to 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.479 the fact that people had to be working from home, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.120 that two million women left the workforce, and probably at 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.720 this time more than that, right, two million women left 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.600 the workforce because we know that, even though we want 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.839 to believe that we are living in modern times, that 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.480 childcare will majority of the time fall on women. So 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:13.960 this administration has now created another behemoth of a piece 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.479 of legislation, and according to Politico, they're like, we don't 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.599 really know what the fuck to call it. They're like, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.279 is it a job's package, a human infrastructure bill, a 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.359 climate bill, a social welfare legislation? We don't know. But 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.640 essentially what it is looking at and what it is 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.839 being referred to by Jonathan Weissman of The New York 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.880 Times is that the breath of this legislation is basically 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:45.279 has cradle to grave qualities, and it would affect how people, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.800 how we all see ourselves in relation to the federal 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.440 government and the federal government's responsibility to help us in 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.119 some of the most desperate times. Now, the New Deal, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.520 if you remember was a sweeping piece of legislation that 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.480 was part infrastructure, a part building infrastructure, part human infrastructure, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.279 housing jobs, all of these things. Right, But we also 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.000 know that there were carved outs in order to get 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.160 the Southerners on board to make sure that people of 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.640 color and women were not included, right, Because that's always 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.440 the mainstay that government is great to work for the 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.760 people is so long as those people are white, and 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.480 so long as those people are male. But if they are, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.120 as anybody else that government is going to be working for, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.920 then you know, then it's about welfare. Like that's essentially 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:37.719 always where we go here. So in this legislation, this 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.600 is what is being said. Consider a life from conception 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.000 to death. This is according to Jonathan Weisman of The 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.720 New York Times and his review. Democrats intend to fund 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.839 paid family and medical leave to allow a parent to 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.159 take some time off during pregnancy and after a child's birth. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.240 When that parent is ready to return to work, Expended 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.760 funding for childcare would kick in to help cover their 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.599 daycare costs when that child turns three. Another part of 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.400 the bill, universal kindergarten. Pre kindergarten, would ensure public education 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.360 can begin at an earlier age, regardless of where that 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:20.400 child lives. Then we move on. Most families with children 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.960 would continue to receive federal income supplements each month in 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.600 the form of an expanded child tax credit, and at 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.960 high school graduation, most students would be guaranteed two years 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.400 of higher education through expanded federal financial aid geared toward 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:42.240 community colleges. Even after that, income supplements and generous workforce 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.440 training programs, including specific efforts to train home health and 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.040 elder care workers, would keep the government present in many 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.640 adult lives. In old age, people would be helped by 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.360 tax credits to offset the cost of elder care and 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:02.520 buy an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:08.240 vision services. Even this description doesn't capture the bill's ambitions 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.040 when it comes to policies on taxes, climate, and immigration, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.160 emphasizing the government part. So they're what they're saying too, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.920 is this is that for the longest time, right, what 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.080 is the biggest and most negative moniker that Republicans have 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.840 with regard to democrats agendas to help Americans where they 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.040 know that help is desperately needed. They call them socialists. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.920 They say that you are a socialist that where this 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.160 is a communist agenda, and that this is not what 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.160 government should be doing. Government should not be a part 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.960 of every aspect of your life, and that people need 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.920 to have personal responsibility and I'm not going to be 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.760 dictated to and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.800 Because here's the thing what Democrats don't do as a 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.720 rebuttal and don't say as a rebuttal about Republican pushback 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.520 against any kind of government aid to those that are 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.320 in need, which is at this point pretty much a 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:11.360 majority of Americans, is that Republicans don't want government to 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.920 help you because they want to privatize everything. Right. They 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.880 want to make sure that every part of your life 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.440 is being hit by and controlled by capitalism, and in 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.280 doing so, right, then people are making a buck off 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.160 of their ability to quote unquote help you. And then 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.080 there are no regulations around how right, how these companies 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.440 are dictating your life. And so we'll privatize everything, and 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.240 government isn't responsible for a thing, and nothing is going 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.960 to come to you for free, right. And so instead 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.120 of us having this consistent conversation with regard to what 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.120 Republicans are trying to do. It's always Republicans coming back 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.920 with their feeling that Americans are undeserving. It's very easy, right, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.640 and I don't understand every time time why it's so 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.240 fucking difficult to just say that Republicans believe that Americans 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.319 are undeserving. They don't believe that you should be supported, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.040 they don't believe that your family should be cared for. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.040 So while they want to ensure that a woman has 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.600 no control over her body, that essentially women are just 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.520 baby making factories, right that have to that are forced 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.800 to stay at home because they have no support in 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.320 the home, and they have no support in terms of 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.360 childcare because they can't afford it outside of the home. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.320 So once again, men, white men in particular, are the 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.640 ones that are the heads of the households, the ones 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.640 that are sitting in the business chairs, in the conference rooms, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.960 in the c suites because the little woman is stuck 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.640 at home as a baby making factory, because there is 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.960 nowhere and no ability to fucking plan because we've taken 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.720 an option, a healthcare option, off of the table. And 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.199 we started this in Texas, but you have seen since 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.320 last week how all of these things are becoming a 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.000 domino effect across some of the most disgusting red states 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:16.080 in this country. So again here's the messaging. Republicans don't 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.960 give a fuck about your family. They don't give a 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:23.320 fuck about your children. They care about fetuses, but once 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.960 that fetus turns into a baby and comes out of 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.480 your fucking womb, they want to do nothing to ensure 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.320 that that child is educated, that that child is healthy, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.720 that that child is set up to be a productive 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.959 citizen in this country. They sure as fuck don't want 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.760 you to have a quality public education that learns anything 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.280 right that is outside of the scope of oh, white 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.440 America is excellent. They sure as fuck don't want to 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.880 give you the tools to be able to go through 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.920 higher education, which you need to get any type of 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.960 job that is going to turn into some type of 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.800 possible career. But they don't want to alleviate the debt 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.560 of doing something that now has become a necessity, which 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:12.600 is a college education. So when I say, when we 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.480 look at the things that Democrats are rolling out and 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.600 we're saying, well, this is historic, well this is big. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.520 So are our fucking problems. But I would argue that 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.800 our biggest problem are the Republicans are the domestic terrorists 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.520 that we continue to try and collaborate with to get 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.240 anything done for the American people that frankly, they want 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.920 to ensure have no power because they sure as fuck 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 don't trust your ability to vote, and we know that 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.800 they don't trust women, and we know that they don't 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.320 like black, Indigenous people of color of BIPOC folks. So 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:52.400 why not just say that so that the American people 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.360 can have a very clear picture of where they are 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.800 right now. So if you are jobless, and you're joblessness 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:08.720 benefits are expiring, right, we already had have an issue 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.120 that at the end of October, right, the evictions are 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:19.600 going to begin again, the moratorium will have expired. Right, So, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.600 in no way, shape or form do Republicans set Americans 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.160 up to live a full and complete life. In no 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.880 uncertain terms, do Republicans care about your ability to pursue 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:40.640 the American dream, about your ability to pursue a decent 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.280 quality of life. They don't even want to give you 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:51.239 a basic living wage. So instead of us right constantly 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.679 rolling out all of these big projects, which again are important, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.520 but rolling them out in a way where we are 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:02.360 not drawing a deep line in the sand between the 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:08.240 difference between what Republicans want to deny Americans versus what 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:15.160 it is that Democrats want to provide for Americans. Because 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.560 at the end of the day, Republicans want to get 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.040 on these soap boxes and talk about all the ways 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.320 in which Democrats want to take things away from you. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.320 And funny enough, I have seen not one piece of 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.760 legislation ever be rolled out under a Democrat that is 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.200 about taking away your stupid fucking guns or taking away 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:37.520 your ability to pray. Right, But that's always the go 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.360 to for Republicans. They're going to knock door to door 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.920 and take everything away from you. When has there ever 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.000 been a piece of legislation to do that? Tell me? 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:54.280 But everything that Republicans put out is actually, in reality 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.040 taking something away. But according to the messaging that comes 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.120 out of any Democrats' mouth, you don't fucking hear that. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.480 There is not a piece of legislation that Republicans have 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.720 rolled out over the past fucking year at the state 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.120 and local level that is not about denying an American something, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:21.760 whether it is denying a woman's right to choose, whether 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.000 it is denying your access to the ballot, whether it 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:30.240 is denying healthcare, whether it is denying school boards ability 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.280 to keep your children safe in schools. Think about all 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.960 of the things that Republicans have rolled out to deny you, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:46.880 your liberty and your freedom. That is it for Today's Woke, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.600 a f daily podcast. 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