Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OOKF Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, folks, folks,
Speaker 1: What a time I had? What a time I had
Speaker 1: in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention that took place
Speaker 1: last week. First of all, if y'all were following me
Speaker 1: on social media, you know that the journey to Chicago
Speaker 1: was not an easy one, as my flight was canceled
Speaker 1: because of weather, and then I was had like a
Speaker 1: five hour delay the next day when my flight was
Speaker 1: supposed to take off. But nonetheless, I landed in Chicago
Speaker 1: just in time to hear AOC's speech, to hear President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden speak on the first night of convention. I
Speaker 1: obviously did not get to go to the United Center
Speaker 1: that day because I think i'd landed. Man. I think
Speaker 1: that it was probably after ten thirty, because I know
Speaker 1: that for the East Coast, Joe Biden didn't go on
Speaker 1: till fucking midnight, which was crazy. But you know, I
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Speaker 1: I really do encourage you to. I'm really excited about
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Speaker 1: for folks, you know, I know that people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you go to so many different places. You're
Speaker 1: on this platform, you're on that platform, and the fact
Speaker 1: is that, you know, I go where the people are.
Speaker 1: And what I'm being told a lot is that, you know,
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is that a lot of
Speaker 1: people aren't abandoning mainstream media for a number of reasons, right,
Speaker 1: the reasons that I talk about on this show all
Speaker 1: the time. And so a lot of folks are getting
Speaker 1: their information from hosts and from channels that are available
Speaker 1: on YouTube or you know, podcasts. So I like to
Speaker 1: go where the people are and see what I can
Speaker 1: do in those spaces. So, if you were following along
Speaker 1: with me, you were following me on the Brokedown site
Speaker 1: Twitter as well as on my YouTube channel at Daniel
Speaker 1: Moody Underscore, which is my same handle on TikTok. It
Speaker 1: was God, how do I even encapsulated? I posted a
Speaker 1: lot of pictures and reels over on Instagram as well.
Speaker 1: Here's what I will say. It was so well done,
Speaker 1: from the major speeches that you saw during prime time
Speaker 1: to the role call of theleg which was done to
Speaker 1: a DJ and each state having a song and Little
Speaker 1: John coming out and the musical performances. The energy in
Speaker 1: the building was just electric, intoxicating, beautiful, joyful. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just feel like convention took you through all your
Speaker 1: emotions every day, all day, just up and down the stories. Honestly,
Speaker 1: and I've said this for a while now, I seated
Speaker 1: my patriotism, and I think a lot of us did
Speaker 1: to the right wing, you know, with their Donald Trump
Speaker 1: hugging fucking flags and they're, oh, we're the real America,
Speaker 1: and all of their rhetoric has kind of corroded my
Speaker 1: sensibility and my sense of where my place is, what
Speaker 1: my place is inside of this country that has had
Speaker 1: a really complex, violent, negative relationship with black people and
Speaker 1: people of color, and women and queer people, right and
Speaker 1: people of varying religions. If you're from a marginalized community,
Speaker 1: your relationship to America has been one that has been
Speaker 1: very layered, right and at times incredibly adversarial. You know,
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick was pushed out and blacklisted from his job
Speaker 1: for doing nothing more than taking a knee during the
Speaker 1: national anthem to draw attention to the unrelenting attacks on
Speaker 1: black bodies and the killings of black men, women, and
Speaker 1: children by police. The man is still blacklisted. Meanwhile, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has turned those that invaded Capital Building into patriots.
Speaker 1: So you can't take a knee and do so in
Speaker 1: a peaceful manner to utilize your platform to protest, but
Speaker 1: you can absolutely storm the Capitol and defecate in the
Speaker 1: halls of power so long as you're white, because that
Speaker 1: is your rightful position as an heir to what it
Speaker 1: means to be an American. And so when I tell
Speaker 1: you that I'd never waved a flag so emphatically, that
Speaker 1: I'd never with such joy chanted usay, usay outside of
Speaker 1: an Olympics, and so many other Democrats that I was
Speaker 1: sharing space with said the same exact thing. When was
Speaker 1: the last time you went to a political event and
Speaker 1: you were chanting usay and waving American flags and saying
Speaker 1: the pledge of allegiance with pride. There is something about
Speaker 1: the energy that the Harris Walls ticket has conjured in
Speaker 1: Democrats that has finally said to us, it's time to
Speaker 1: reclaim your patriotism. And I did a full video that
Speaker 1: is up at YouTube saying that very thing. It is
Speaker 1: something powerful in reclaiming what is rightfully ours. No one
Speaker 1: understands and is more patriotic than those that have had
Speaker 1: to fight with blood, sweat and tears for the ability
Speaker 1: to be full seen as full citizens in this country.
Speaker 1: No one understands the value that America offers more than
Speaker 1: an immigrant to this country that comes here for no
Speaker 1: other reason than to make a better life. Kamala Harris's
Speaker 1: story of a Jamai father and an Indian mother traveling
Speaker 1: across oceans to find each other in the United States,
Speaker 1: in the midst of enhancing their education and in the
Speaker 1: midst of protest to find each other is a story
Speaker 1: that is uniquely American. And you heard it over and
Speaker 1: over again from her family members, to her colleagues, to
Speaker 1: the former First Lady and President Obama Secretary of State
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, Like you heard this over and over again.
Speaker 1: And the four days of convention were an absolute reminder
Speaker 1: of the beauty that this country does hold. But all
Speaker 1: we've been fed over eight and nine years is everything
Speaker 1: that is fucking wrong with this place, Oh, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and MAGA has offered over the last eight years, is
Speaker 1: how broken America is, how there's carnage in the streets.
Speaker 1: What a shitthold this place is blop up up, up,
Speaker 1: up up up, None of it inducing a sense of
Speaker 1: pride and commitment and responsibility in wanting to make this
Speaker 1: country any better than it is. It's like when you
Speaker 1: keep hearing that you're worthless over and over again every
Speaker 1: single day. Guess what, you start to believe it, and
Speaker 1: you start to believe, well, I guess that's just the
Speaker 1: way that it is. And there is no getting out,
Speaker 1: There is no pivoting, there is no moving forward, there
Speaker 1: is no future. That has been the major weapon of
Speaker 1: the MAGA movement is convincing Americans that their way is
Speaker 1: the only way, and unless you align with white supremacy
Speaker 1: and white Christian nationalism, you in fact have no future.
Speaker 1: And not only do you have no future here, you
Speaker 1: should get the fuck out. And so the last week
Speaker 1: of hearing the stories of union workers, hearing the stories
Speaker 1: of survivors of gun violence, of sexual assault, even through
Speaker 1: their pain and tragedy, their commitment to ensuring that other
Speaker 1: people don't go through the pains in which they have experienced,
Speaker 1: and their commitment to working with A. Harris Wall's administration
Speaker 1: to strengthen this country and policy measures, around gun reform,
Speaker 1: around economic viability, around sexual assault and violence against women.
Speaker 1: I mean, inspiring is not even the right word, because
Speaker 1: it's tears that came down my eyes as I'm listening
Speaker 1: to brave women talk about the loss of their children,
Speaker 1: the young woman who spoke about carrying her father's child
Speaker 1: and how having an abortion gave her her life back.
Speaker 1: These are real people, and what the DNC was able
Speaker 1: to do was to make the statistics into real people
Speaker 1: with real stories, matching the headlines that are nameless and faceless,
Speaker 1: with the spirit of persistence and thriving that these people embodied.
Speaker 1: You know, we just came off of the amazing two
Speaker 1: weeks that were the Olympics, which really, again was another jolt,
Speaker 1: another shot of patriotism, recognizing that we as a nation
Speaker 1: have needed desperately something to unite around, and that's what
Speaker 1: these extraordinary athletes gave us. Common cause, common language, you know,
Speaker 1: let us applaud and lift up and share the exceptionalism
Speaker 1: that we all got to witness together. Because MAGA doesn't
Speaker 1: offer community, it doesn't offer connectivity, because it can only
Speaker 1: thrive and gather strength if, in fact, we are separated
Speaker 1: and see each other as enemies. The DNC offered the
Speaker 1: American people another story. We don't have to succumb to
Speaker 1: the darkness, that we can in fact be joyful warriors.
Speaker 1: Dancing is in fact a part of the revolution, that
Speaker 1: we do not have to succumb to the darkness, to
Speaker 1: the anger, to the hate, and acquiesce to an American
Speaker 1: fascist takeover. But that by moving people from a place
Speaker 1: of joy, from a place of possibility, is actually how
Speaker 1: you win. Because I've been sitting here, folks, for how
Speaker 1: long now talking about Project twenty twenty five, talking about
Speaker 1: the evils of Donald Trump, trying to wring the alarm
Speaker 1: of this emergency, and guess what, I've gotten more feedback
Speaker 1: over the last month in terms of a joyful focus
Speaker 1: and one that has led through a place of promise
Speaker 1: that I have over the last year plus from a
Speaker 1: place of fear and rage. This has been an eye
Speaker 1: opening experience for me the last month of the Harris
Speaker 1: Walls ticket. It's only been a month, by the way.
Speaker 1: That was the thing that was blowing my mind in
Speaker 1: Chicago is that all of us who have spent our
Speaker 1: lives and dedicated our lives in some form of fashion
Speaker 1: to public service to advocating and whether it is on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill as a lobbyist in nonprofit organizations, as a
Speaker 1: media personality advancing the cause of America and democracy. Where like,
Speaker 1: it's been a month and it has felt like both
Speaker 1: a month and a decade all in one, because time
Speaker 1: is both moving super fast with just ten weeks until
Speaker 1: the election, and super slow, because I feel like we've
Speaker 1: been living under the knee of trump Ism for it's
Speaker 1: been almost a decade, but it's felt like two. This
Speaker 1: campaign and this time in Chicago renewed for me this
Speaker 1: belief that I don't have to move through rage in
Speaker 1: order to be and be seen as committed to our democracy.
Speaker 1: I can't express to you how exhausting it has been,
Speaker 1: folks that on a day to day basis, on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis, that I have wanted so many times to
Speaker 1: come on this microphone and quit and be like I'm done.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in me anymore. And I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you would be supportive of that. You'd
Speaker 1: be disappointed, but you would get it, And so you know.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that my standout speech, aside from
Speaker 1: the Vice President's acceptance speech, was Michelle Obama as so
Speaker 1: many people had said, Michelle Obama took do Donald Trump
Speaker 1: to fucking school and drag that motherfucker in a way
Speaker 1: that I believe she had been waiting for since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: The hell that that man and this movement put her
Speaker 1: and her family through, the questioning of Barack Obama's legitimacy
Speaker 1: as this nation's first black president, the disgusting, fucking slurs
Speaker 1: that she was called, But the elegance and the razor
Speaker 1: sharp wit that I'm like, that is my role model.
Speaker 1: That is how I want to learn how to slice
Speaker 1: and dice. Sure, I love an F bomb and an
Speaker 1: M and F bomb with the best of them, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, the ability to cause that kind of lethal
Speaker 1: damage and not curse is a skill that I hope
Speaker 1: to learn. Because, let me tell you something, Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: called Donald Trump basically everything but a child of God.
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama basically said that Donald Trump is a small, narrow,
Speaker 1: thoughtless man who is not worthy of the office of
Speaker 1: the presidency. He is not worthy of our time. Right
Speaker 1: when she said, who going to tell him that the
Speaker 1: job that he's going after is a black job? Let
Speaker 1: me tell you that inside that arena we were gagging, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I cannot believe that she just said that.
Speaker 1: There were so many ways that she just laid bare
Speaker 1: who like, you don't need to be afraid of these people.
Speaker 1: These people are small, right, They're so beneath us. Right,
Speaker 1: they don't care about America. They care about themselves. The
Speaker 1: only person Donald Trump has ever served as himself. And
Speaker 1: I'm like the way that she read this man was
Speaker 1: breath taking because there was not one lie, There was
Speaker 1: not one even fabrication. She just opened up her bag,
Speaker 1: took out a mirror and put it up to Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and to Maga, and she said, go ahead and look,
Speaker 1: tell me something different. They're playing the same old song,
Speaker 1: the same old shit that they've been doing since twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: since before that when they were lying about my husband
Speaker 1: and lying about me. And what she reminded us and
Speaker 1: said was that you know the tricks that they are
Speaker 1: going to pull, and so when they do that, don't
Speaker 1: get into the Goldilock's sensibility of everything has to be
Speaker 1: just right. Do something when you know that a lie
Speaker 1: will take hold because it does, do something right, like
Speaker 1: this energy of this is not an election where we
Speaker 1: are going to sit on the sidelines where we are
Speaker 1: just gonna hope our way there. No, we are going
Speaker 1: to turn that hope into action because she said we
Speaker 1: need numbers in this election that cannot be questioned, because
Speaker 1: we know that they are not going to accept the
Speaker 1: results of this election, because Donald Trump, Fox News and
Speaker 1: MAGA are already planting the seeds that something must be awry, because,
Speaker 1: as Joe Biden said in his speech, you cannot only
Speaker 1: love America when you win. It does not work that way.
Speaker 1: The DNC pose such a stark contrast to what the
Speaker 1: art and see was. First of all, in the room
Speaker 1: was America gay straight by trans, black, White, Asian, Indian
Speaker 1: Latino Like. It was absolutely beautiful. You could see yourself everywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't manufacture the spirit and the joy
Speaker 1: that was inside of the United Center. And so many
Speaker 1: of my friends and family said that they were dancing
Speaker 1: around their living rooms, that they literally felt the spirit.
Speaker 1: And I say, I'm not a religious person, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people have said that it felt like a revival.
Speaker 1: You had testimonials, you had music, You had this sense
Speaker 1: of possibility and this renewed sense of faith. I talk
Speaker 1: about my mustard seed of hope, and how that blossomed
Speaker 1: into a deep, rich, vibrant, fertile meadow in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: believe now more than ever that we are going to
Speaker 1: win because I believe in the power of people. I
Speaker 1: believe in the power of hope. I believe that when
Speaker 1: I'm seeing and hearing that there are hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of volunteers around the country, that people are phone banking
Speaker 1: and text banking, that people are organizing house parties, that
Speaker 1: people are continuing to do zooms, that people are raising
Speaker 1: money and raising awareness, that everyone is getting activated because
Speaker 1: they are seeing what the future can possibly look like.
Speaker 1: And maybe, just maybe America will once again do the
Speaker 1: impossible and show the world what democracy looks like and
Speaker 1: fight back this and beat back this white supremist fascist
Speaker 1: once and for all. But the thing that we have
Speaker 1: to understand is that the closer Donald Trump gets to losing,
Speaker 1: the more dangerous hem and his ilk are going to become.
Speaker 1: January sixth was a dress rehearsal, So we cannot also
Speaker 1: pretend right that he is going to go quietly into
Speaker 1: the cold, dark night. He is not. He is one
Speaker 1: of those people that if he's gonna go out, he's
Speaker 1: going to try and do cause as much damage as
Speaker 1: possible on his way out. So we have to remain vigilant,
Speaker 1: we have to remain conscious, we have to remain woke.
Speaker 1: But I have never felt so possible. And this goes
Speaker 1: well beyond two thousand and eight, it goes well beyond
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. There is something, as Hillary Clinton said when
Speaker 1: she was on the stage, something is happening, and you
Speaker 1: cannot manufacture that. You cannot make this shit up, you
Speaker 1: cannot focus group this shit. So while the poll numbers
Speaker 1: are looking good in our direction right now, I say,
Speaker 1: don't pay attention to the polls that they're showing you
Speaker 1: on television. Pay attention to the only poll that matters,
Speaker 1: which is the poll booth that you walk into on
Speaker 1: November fifth, or the early voting that you do. Right
Speaker 1: in New York, the deadline for voter registration is October
Speaker 1: twenty six. Look up and see where the deadline to
Speaker 1: register to vote is. Because I just learned most recently
Speaker 1: that in New York State you can register a sixteen
Speaker 1: and a seventeen year old to vote, so that by
Speaker 1: the time that they're eighteen, they don't have to register.
Speaker 1: Check your voter registration. Make sure, particularly if you're living
Speaker 1: in a red state, that your name is still on
Speaker 1: the rolls so that you are not surprised come election day.
Speaker 1: So check now and make sure am I registered to vote?
Speaker 1: If I'm not? Are my family members registered to vote?
Speaker 1: Are the young people in my life registered to vote?
Speaker 1: What is your voting plan? Are you early voting? Are
Speaker 1: you voting on election day? Are you doing a mail lan?
Speaker 1: What are the deadlines for these things? Because folks, we
Speaker 1: have but ten weeks to go. We are coming to
Speaker 1: the final lapse of this marathon and we need to
Speaker 1: run through the fucking tape on this. So I encourage everyone,
Speaker 1: it is not just about you. It is about bringing
Speaker 1: five people with you to that voting booth. It is
Speaker 1: about making sure that you and another five people in
Speaker 1: your life are good to go, and then challenging them
Speaker 1: to make sure that another five people are good to go.
Speaker 1: That is how we are going to win. This is
Speaker 1: gonna happen from the grass roots all the way to
Speaker 1: the grass tops. But we have a responsibility, as Michelle
Speaker 1: Obama said, to do some thing that is your call
Speaker 1: to action. That is it for me today, dear friends
Speaker 1: on woke A f as always power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.