1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OOKF Daily with me 2 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, folks, folks, 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: What a time I had? What a time I had 4 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention that took place 5 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: last week. First of all, if y'all were following me 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: on social media, you know that the journey to Chicago 7 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: was not an easy one, as my flight was canceled 8 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: because of weather, and then I was had like a 9 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: five hour delay the next day when my flight was 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: supposed to take off. But nonetheless, I landed in Chicago 11 00:00:54,680 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: just in time to hear AOC's speech, to hear President 12 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden speak on the first night of convention. I 13 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: obviously did not get to go to the United Center 14 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: that day because I think i'd landed. Man. I think 15 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: that it was probably after ten thirty, because I know 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: that for the East Coast, Joe Biden didn't go on 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: till fucking midnight, which was crazy. But you know, I 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: want to provide for you. If you're following me, and 19 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: if you have yet to subscribe to my new YouTube channel, 20 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: I really do encourage you to. I'm really excited about 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: bringing more video content and just exploring another platform. And 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: for folks, you know, I know that people are like, oh, 23 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: you know, you go to so many different places. You're 24 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: on this platform, you're on that platform, and the fact 25 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: is that, you know, I go where the people are. 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: And what I'm being told a lot is that, you know, 27 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is that a lot of 28 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: people aren't abandoning mainstream media for a number of reasons, right, 29 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: the reasons that I talk about on this show all 30 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: the time. And so a lot of folks are getting 31 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: their information from hosts and from channels that are available 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: on YouTube or you know, podcasts. So I like to 33 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: go where the people are and see what I can 34 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: do in those spaces. So, if you were following along 35 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: with me, you were following me on the Brokedown site 36 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: Twitter as well as on my YouTube channel at Daniel 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: Moody Underscore, which is my same handle on TikTok. It 38 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: was God, how do I even encapsulated? I posted a 39 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: lot of pictures and reels over on Instagram as well. 40 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: Here's what I will say. It was so well done, 41 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: from the major speeches that you saw during prime time 42 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: to the role call of theleg which was done to 43 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: a DJ and each state having a song and Little 44 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: John coming out and the musical performances. The energy in 45 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: the building was just electric, intoxicating, beautiful, joyful. I mean, 46 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: I just feel like convention took you through all your 47 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: emotions every day, all day, just up and down the stories. Honestly, 48 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: and I've said this for a while now, I seated 49 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: my patriotism, and I think a lot of us did 50 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: to the right wing, you know, with their Donald Trump 51 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: hugging fucking flags and they're, oh, we're the real America, 52 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: and all of their rhetoric has kind of corroded my 53 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: sensibility and my sense of where my place is, what 54 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: my place is inside of this country that has had 55 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: a really complex, violent, negative relationship with black people and 56 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: people of color, and women and queer people, right and 57 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: people of varying religions. If you're from a marginalized community, 58 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: your relationship to America has been one that has been 59 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: very layered, right and at times incredibly adversarial. You know, 60 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick was pushed out and blacklisted from his job 61 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: for doing nothing more than taking a knee during the 62 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: national anthem to draw attention to the unrelenting attacks on 63 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: black bodies and the killings of black men, women, and 64 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: children by police. The man is still blacklisted. Meanwhile, Donald 65 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: Trump has turned those that invaded Capital Building into patriots. 66 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: So you can't take a knee and do so in 67 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: a peaceful manner to utilize your platform to protest, but 68 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: you can absolutely storm the Capitol and defecate in the 69 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: halls of power so long as you're white, because that 70 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: is your rightful position as an heir to what it 71 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: means to be an American. And so when I tell 72 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: you that I'd never waved a flag so emphatically, that 73 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: I'd never with such joy chanted usay, usay outside of 74 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: an Olympics, and so many other Democrats that I was 75 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: sharing space with said the same exact thing. When was 76 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: the last time you went to a political event and 77 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: you were chanting usay and waving American flags and saying 78 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: the pledge of allegiance with pride. There is something about 79 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: the energy that the Harris Walls ticket has conjured in 80 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: Democrats that has finally said to us, it's time to 81 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: reclaim your patriotism. And I did a full video that 82 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: is up at YouTube saying that very thing. It is 83 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: something powerful in reclaiming what is rightfully ours. No one 84 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: understands and is more patriotic than those that have had 85 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: to fight with blood, sweat and tears for the ability 86 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: to be full seen as full citizens in this country. 87 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: No one understands the value that America offers more than 88 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: an immigrant to this country that comes here for no 89 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: other reason than to make a better life. Kamala Harris's 90 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: story of a Jamai father and an Indian mother traveling 91 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: across oceans to find each other in the United States, 92 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: in the midst of enhancing their education and in the 93 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: midst of protest to find each other is a story 94 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: that is uniquely American. And you heard it over and 95 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: over again from her family members, to her colleagues, to 96 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: the former First Lady and President Obama Secretary of State 97 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, Like you heard this over and over again. 98 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: And the four days of convention were an absolute reminder 99 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: of the beauty that this country does hold. But all 100 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: we've been fed over eight and nine years is everything 101 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: that is fucking wrong with this place, Oh, Donald Trump 102 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: and MAGA has offered over the last eight years, is 103 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: how broken America is, how there's carnage in the streets. 104 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: What a shitthold this place is blop up up, up, 105 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: up up up, None of it inducing a sense of 106 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: pride and commitment and responsibility in wanting to make this 107 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: country any better than it is. It's like when you 108 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: keep hearing that you're worthless over and over again every 109 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: single day. Guess what, you start to believe it, and 110 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: you start to believe, well, I guess that's just the 111 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: way that it is. And there is no getting out, 112 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: There is no pivoting, there is no moving forward, there 113 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: is no future. That has been the major weapon of 114 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: the MAGA movement is convincing Americans that their way is 115 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,599 Speaker 1: the only way, and unless you align with white supremacy 116 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: and white Christian nationalism, you in fact have no future. 117 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: And not only do you have no future here, you 118 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: should get the fuck out. And so the last week 119 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: of hearing the stories of union workers, hearing the stories 120 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: of survivors of gun violence, of sexual assault, even through 121 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: their pain and tragedy, their commitment to ensuring that other 122 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: people don't go through the pains in which they have experienced, 123 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 1: and their commitment to working with A. Harris Wall's administration 124 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: to strengthen this country and policy measures, around gun reform, 125 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: around economic viability, around sexual assault and violence against women. 126 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: I mean, inspiring is not even the right word, because 127 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: it's tears that came down my eyes as I'm listening 128 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: to brave women talk about the loss of their children, 129 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: the young woman who spoke about carrying her father's child 130 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: and how having an abortion gave her her life back. 131 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: These are real people, and what the DNC was able 132 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: to do was to make the statistics into real people 133 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: with real stories, matching the headlines that are nameless and faceless, 134 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: with the spirit of persistence and thriving that these people embodied. 135 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: You know, we just came off of the amazing two 136 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: weeks that were the Olympics, which really, again was another jolt, 137 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 1: another shot of patriotism, recognizing that we as a nation 138 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: have needed desperately something to unite around, and that's what 139 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: these extraordinary athletes gave us. Common cause, common language, you know, 140 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: let us applaud and lift up and share the exceptionalism 141 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: that we all got to witness together. Because MAGA doesn't 142 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: offer community, it doesn't offer connectivity, because it can only 143 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: thrive and gather strength if, in fact, we are separated 144 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: and see each other as enemies. The DNC offered the 145 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: American people another story. We don't have to succumb to 146 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: the darkness, that we can in fact be joyful warriors. 147 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: Dancing is in fact a part of the revolution, that 148 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: we do not have to succumb to the darkness, to 149 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: the anger, to the hate, and acquiesce to an American 150 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: fascist takeover. But that by moving people from a place 151 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: of joy, from a place of possibility, is actually how 152 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: you win. Because I've been sitting here, folks, for how 153 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: long now talking about Project twenty twenty five, talking about 154 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: the evils of Donald Trump, trying to wring the alarm 155 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: of this emergency, and guess what, I've gotten more feedback 156 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: over the last month in terms of a joyful focus 157 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: and one that has led through a place of promise 158 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: that I have over the last year plus from a 159 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: place of fear and rage. This has been an eye 160 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: opening experience for me the last month of the Harris 161 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: Walls ticket. It's only been a month, by the way. 162 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: That was the thing that was blowing my mind in 163 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: Chicago is that all of us who have spent our 164 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: lives and dedicated our lives in some form of fashion 165 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: to public service to advocating and whether it is on 166 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill as a lobbyist in nonprofit organizations, as a 167 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: media personality advancing the cause of America and democracy. Where like, 168 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: it's been a month and it has felt like both 169 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: a month and a decade all in one, because time 170 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: is both moving super fast with just ten weeks until 171 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: the election, and super slow, because I feel like we've 172 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: been living under the knee of trump Ism for it's 173 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: been almost a decade, but it's felt like two. This 174 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: campaign and this time in Chicago renewed for me this 175 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: belief that I don't have to move through rage in 176 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: order to be and be seen as committed to our democracy. 177 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: I can't express to you how exhausting it has been, 178 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: folks that on a day to day basis, on a 179 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: weekly basis, that I have wanted so many times to 180 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: come on this microphone and quit and be like I'm done. 181 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: I don't have it in me anymore. And I know 182 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: a lot of you would be supportive of that. You'd 183 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: be disappointed, but you would get it, And so you know. 184 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: I will tell you that my standout speech, aside from 185 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: the Vice President's acceptance speech, was Michelle Obama as so 186 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: many people had said, Michelle Obama took do Donald Trump 187 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: to fucking school and drag that motherfucker in a way 188 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: that I believe she had been waiting for since twenty seventeen. 189 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: The hell that that man and this movement put her 190 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:19,359 Speaker 1: and her family through, the questioning of Barack Obama's legitimacy 191 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: as this nation's first black president, the disgusting, fucking slurs 192 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: that she was called, But the elegance and the razor 193 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: sharp wit that I'm like, that is my role model. 194 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: That is how I want to learn how to slice 195 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: and dice. Sure, I love an F bomb and an 196 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: M and F bomb with the best of them, but 197 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, the ability to cause that kind of lethal 198 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: damage and not curse is a skill that I hope 199 00:15:54,440 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: to learn. Because, let me tell you something, Michelle Obama 200 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: called Donald Trump basically everything but a child of God. 201 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama basically said that Donald Trump is a small, narrow, 202 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: thoughtless man who is not worthy of the office of 203 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: the presidency. He is not worthy of our time. Right 204 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: when she said, who going to tell him that the 205 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: job that he's going after is a black job? Let 206 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: me tell you that inside that arena we were gagging, like, 207 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: oh my god, I cannot believe that she just said that. 208 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: There were so many ways that she just laid bare 209 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: who like, you don't need to be afraid of these people. 210 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: These people are small, right, They're so beneath us. Right, 211 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: they don't care about America. They care about themselves. The 212 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: only person Donald Trump has ever served as himself. And 213 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: I'm like the way that she read this man was 214 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: breath taking because there was not one lie, There was 215 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: not one even fabrication. She just opened up her bag, 216 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: took out a mirror and put it up to Donald 217 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: Trump and to Maga, and she said, go ahead and look, 218 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: tell me something different. They're playing the same old song, 219 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: the same old shit that they've been doing since twenty sixteen, 220 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: since before that when they were lying about my husband 221 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: and lying about me. And what she reminded us and 222 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: said was that you know the tricks that they are 223 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: going to pull, and so when they do that, don't 224 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: get into the Goldilock's sensibility of everything has to be 225 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: just right. Do something when you know that a lie 226 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: will take hold because it does, do something right, like 227 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: this energy of this is not an election where we 228 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: are going to sit on the sidelines where we are 229 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: just gonna hope our way there. No, we are going 230 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: to turn that hope into action because she said we 231 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: need numbers in this election that cannot be questioned, because 232 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: we know that they are not going to accept the 233 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: results of this election, because Donald Trump, Fox News and 234 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: MAGA are already planting the seeds that something must be awry, because, 235 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: as Joe Biden said in his speech, you cannot only 236 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: love America when you win. It does not work that way. 237 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: The DNC pose such a stark contrast to what the 238 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: art and see was. First of all, in the room 239 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: was America gay straight by trans, black, White, Asian, Indian 240 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: Latino Like. It was absolutely beautiful. You could see yourself everywhere. 241 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't manufacture the spirit and the joy 242 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: that was inside of the United Center. And so many 243 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 1: of my friends and family said that they were dancing 244 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: around their living rooms, that they literally felt the spirit. 245 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: And I say, I'm not a religious person, but a 246 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: lot of people have said that it felt like a revival. 247 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: You had testimonials, you had music, You had this sense 248 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: of possibility and this renewed sense of faith. I talk 249 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: about my mustard seed of hope, and how that blossomed 250 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: into a deep, rich, vibrant, fertile meadow in Chicago. I 251 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: believe now more than ever that we are going to 252 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: win because I believe in the power of people. I 253 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: believe in the power of hope. I believe that when 254 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: I'm seeing and hearing that there are hundreds of thousands 255 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: of volunteers around the country, that people are phone banking 256 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: and text banking, that people are organizing house parties, that 257 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: people are continuing to do zooms, that people are raising 258 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: money and raising awareness, that everyone is getting activated because 259 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: they are seeing what the future can possibly look like. 260 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: And maybe, just maybe America will once again do the 261 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: impossible and show the world what democracy looks like and 262 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: fight back this and beat back this white supremist fascist 263 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: once and for all. But the thing that we have 264 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: to understand is that the closer Donald Trump gets to losing, 265 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: the more dangerous hem and his ilk are going to become. 266 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: January sixth was a dress rehearsal, So we cannot also 267 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: pretend right that he is going to go quietly into 268 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: the cold, dark night. He is not. He is one 269 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: of those people that if he's gonna go out, he's 270 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: going to try and do cause as much damage as 271 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: possible on his way out. So we have to remain vigilant, 272 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: we have to remain conscious, we have to remain woke. 273 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: But I have never felt so possible. And this goes 274 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: well beyond two thousand and eight, it goes well beyond 275 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. There is something, as Hillary Clinton said when 276 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: she was on the stage, something is happening, and you 277 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: cannot manufacture that. You cannot make this shit up, you 278 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: cannot focus group this shit. So while the poll numbers 279 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: are looking good in our direction right now, I say, 280 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: don't pay attention to the polls that they're showing you 281 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,959 Speaker 1: on television. Pay attention to the only poll that matters, 282 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 1: which is the poll booth that you walk into on 283 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: November fifth, or the early voting that you do. Right 284 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: in New York, the deadline for voter registration is October 285 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: twenty six. Look up and see where the deadline to 286 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: register to vote is. Because I just learned most recently 287 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: that in New York State you can register a sixteen 288 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: and a seventeen year old to vote, so that by 289 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: the time that they're eighteen, they don't have to register. 290 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: Check your voter registration. Make sure, particularly if you're living 291 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: in a red state, that your name is still on 292 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: the rolls so that you are not surprised come election day. 293 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: So check now and make sure am I registered to vote? 294 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: If I'm not? Are my family members registered to vote? 295 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: Are the young people in my life registered to vote? 296 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: What is your voting plan? Are you early voting? Are 297 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: you voting on election day? Are you doing a mail lan? 298 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: What are the deadlines for these things? Because folks, we 299 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: have but ten weeks to go. We are coming to 300 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: the final lapse of this marathon and we need to 301 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: run through the fucking tape on this. So I encourage everyone, 302 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: it is not just about you. It is about bringing 303 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: five people with you to that voting booth. It is 304 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: about making sure that you and another five people in 305 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: your life are good to go, and then challenging them 306 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: to make sure that another five people are good to go. 307 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: That is how we are going to win. This is 308 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 1: gonna happen from the grass roots all the way to 309 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: the grass tops. But we have a responsibility, as Michelle 310 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: Obama said, to do some thing that is your call 311 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: to action. That is it for me today, dear friends 312 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: on woke A f as always power to the people 313 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay 314 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.