WEBVTT - Pandora's White Supremacist Box 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.600 me your Girl, Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks, 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.320 Happy brigin Friday. I swear to God, I know that 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.520 I've said this so many times, but there just comes 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.520 a point where you're just so grateful that you made 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.400 it to Friday because so many things have careeamed off 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.239 of a cliff this week where you're just like, what 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.320 are we as the time of this recording eleven days 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.400 away from the election, and I have to steal stomach 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:51.400 bullshit from Dana Bash, like Vice President Kamala Harris didn't 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.720 seal the deal in her latest town hall with CNN, 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.160 Dana Bash, like, you are an embarrassment to the field 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.080 of journalism in all honesty, And I will give this 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.559 to Jake Tapper, and I said this yesterday on Mary 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.759 Trump's show, which is that he said, you know, these 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.640 are two completely different campaigns in two completely different universes 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:20.480 where you are judging Kamala Harris as if this is 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.160 a normal election and a normal candidate, and yet not 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.880 judging Donald Trump for the existential threat that he actually is. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.080 Like you want to critique Dana Bash and Hallie Jackson 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.480 and all of these, like, particularly these white women journalists 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:42.120 want to frankly critique Kamala Harris as if the difference 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.640 between a Democrat and a Republican losing this election isn't 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.120 the end of democracy. Isn't the fact that if Donald 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.960 Trump and Jade Vance get into the actual White House, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.880 that they will be policing women's bodies across this country, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:06.440 that they want to have women essentially have to register 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.800 if you are pregnant or not before leaving the state, right, like, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.960 this is what America is in for. But Dana Bash 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.720 and Harley Jackson, in their recent you know, interactions with 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.040 the Vice President of the United States, would have you 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.000 believed that, like, oh, if we lose this election, it's 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.639 just like losing to Romney or even like George W. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.320 Bush for that fucking matter, and that motherfucker took us 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.960 into a war. So you know, I know, I know, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.200 it's eleven days to go, and I'm still lam bassing 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.799 against you know, corporate media and journalists. But I honestly, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.280 I really thought that at some point during this election cycle, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:53.720 at some point that folks would recognize what a dangerous 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.800 situation that we're in and that they would look to 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.160 themselves and look to history and say, you know, you know, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:06.120 Hitler came about largely right because people didn't believe what 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.560 he was saying, because the media was too busy doing 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:14.000 puff pieces on his garden and not the fact that 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.359 he was setting up concentration camps, right like, it's always, oh, well, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.600 we should have known there were signs, like how many 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.120 more signs do you need? From Donald Trump? Donald Trump 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:31.440 has since twenty fifteen, he's talked about sexually assaulting women, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.880 and he has been convicted of doing so. He has 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:41.200 invited white supremacists to dinner. He has championed white supremacists. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:47.080 He refers to the insurrectionists as we. He plays their 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:54.000 January sixth national anthem as opposed to America's national anthem. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.960 He has talked about wanting generals like those that Hitler. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.200 He has said Hitler has done some quote good things. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.360 He is called white supremacists good people. He has referred 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:13.200 to African nations as shithole countries. When talking about a 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:17.560 young private, Vanessa Gillion, that was murdered at Fort Hood 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.000 and the response to the fee for her burial, he 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.960 said it doesn't cost sixty thousand dollars to bury an 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.400 effing Mexican. Meanwhile, you have the likes of at Tucker 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.880 Carlson at a rally saying some of the most vile 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.960 shit that I've heard in a long time, talking about 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.360 Donald Trump being America's daddy and America needing a spanking. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:53.800 They're like weird twisted sexual fantasies like come to life 0:04:54.400 --> 0:05:00.720 in their policies of control and paternalism and patriarchy is 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.000 on full display. So how do we not have headlines 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.120 that conveyed the seriousness of this moment? How do we 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.880 have outlets like the La Times that for the first 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.760 time refuse to endorse a presidential candidate, Like, do people 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.880 really think that their neutrality quote unquote neutrality in this 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.359 moment is going to save them down the road in 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:30.680 an authoritarian regime. I'm just so fucking confused. One of 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.719 the great things that Kamala Harris said at our town 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.880 hall was that on day one, if Donald Trump is elected, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.480 He's going to be sitting down in the Oval office 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.159 making a list of all of his enemies so that 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.880 he can seek retribution on them. She, however, is going 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.719 to be working on America's to do list? Do you 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.760 want a president that speaks more about themselves and their 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:02.479 own problems rather than concentrate and trying to fix any 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.120 of yours things that have happened this week, two hundred 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.159 and thirty psychiatrists came out and said that Donald Trump 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:16.400 is unstable and that his brain is basically deteriorating right now. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.679 None of these are his actual doctors. But Donald Trump also, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:24.279 much like his taxes, won't release his medical records. But 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.839 we have listened to him mix up Biden and Obama 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.880 now on a number of occasions, not knowing who he's 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.520 actually running against. We have watched him refer to different 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.640 cities that he's in. We also listen to him tell 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.560 people to go vote on January fifth. We learned this 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.400 week that in a sham set up at a barber 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.000 shop where he's supposedly speaking to black and Latino men. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:55.360 We heard that Fox News edited out all of Donald 0:06:55.400 --> 0:07:00.200 Trump's meandering and rambling. CNN got a hold of it 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:06.360 and posted it like I just I feel like this 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.240 week and the next couple of weeks are really going 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.800 to test us, test our will, test our faith, test 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.880 our emotional capacity, test our health and well being because 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.560 the fuckery knows no bounce, and the fact that I 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:31.960 can't confidently say that, guess what, folks, in a couple 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.720 of weeks, we are going to have an amazing new 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.800 president and a new era that it's going to take 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.000 this country forward, and that we don't have to worry 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.480 anymore about saving democracy, that we will have done it 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.680 in this election, and then hopefully in the four years 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.400 of the Harris Walls administration, Donald Trump will end up 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.320 penniless or in jail. Those are the two things that 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.040 I'm going after. But we can't say that with confidence 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.040 because of the electoral college, because I know and you 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.560 know that if it were up to one person, one vote, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.840 much in the way that Donald Trump had his hat 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.160 handed to him in twenty twenty, it would happen again. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.960 Why is it that we live inside of a democracy 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.440 where all of our votes don't count equally. I don't 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.120 want a handful of fucking people in the Midwest deciding 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.440 this election. I want all of us having a say 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.800 and who is going to lead this country because guess what, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.479 they're not just going to be the president for the Midwest. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.680 They're going to be a president for the rest of us. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.720 So why shouldn't our voices count just as much? But 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:50.320 that is again the electoral college being one of many 0:08:51.160 --> 0:09:01.040 relics still in operation from the Transatlantic slave trade. You know, folks, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.560 as we in shout the rest of this election cycle, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.959 I pray that we make it to the other side 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.680 of this. I pray for all of us in this 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.760 country that we make it to the other side of 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:20.520 trump Ism. Now, as I have said before, trump Ism 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.840 is never going to go away. I don't think I 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.160 think that it will reinvent itself. If in fact Donald 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:33.319 Trump loses, I think it'll reinvent itself. Find a young, slicker, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.480 more articulate, saner white supremacists to run for office again 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.920 in twenty twenty eight, same proposal, same people, just a 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.040 different package. And that's the thing that people need to 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.120 keep in mind, is that Donald Trump broke open Pandora's 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.000 white supremact box, and it is going to take a 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.760 lot a lot to close it. But Republicans won't learn 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.000 their lesson. There won't be like a moratorium. There won't 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.120 be a going back to the Bushes and the Romneys 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.560 and the mccains of their party. Even with the over 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.240 two hundred Republicans that have now come out and said 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.800 that they are voting for Kamala Harris. These are two 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:25.880 hundred people who formerly worked for Trump, McCain, Romney, Bush's 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.080 You know what I find really interesting And people keep 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.679 saying this is that, like, why is George W. Bush 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.520 so silent? Because, folks, do we really need him to 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.520 weigh in? Do we think that this version of the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.280 Republican Party, if they don't give a damn about what 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.320 Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney of all people is saying, who 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:55.360 was the real mastermind behind the w administration? Do we 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.880 think that they give a shit about what George Bush 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.880 would say? But it says a lot that his vice 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:06.680 president would come out and with no equivocation say Donald 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.440 Trump cannot be president. And it is just I mean, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.760 Dick Cheney's the reason why we went to war after 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.760 nine to eleven with the wrong country, right weapons of 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.000 mass destruction. That was all Cheney. And for him to 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.360 look at Donald Trump and say that Donald Trump is 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.040 a threat is like wild. But also the moment that 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:31.000 we are in, folks, it is it's sad, it is frustrating, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:36.680 it is disgusting, it's all of the things. I will 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.520 say this, though, what is really important is for us 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:47.080 to recognize that either way, if Donald Trump somehow is 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.960 able to steal this election, we're going to have the 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.199 fight of our lives on our hand. Literally. If Kamala 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.760 Harris is able to win, we're going to have so 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.000 much work ahead of us to try and rebuild this country. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:06.319 So either way, our job is not going to be done. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.200 I will say this that never again can we have 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:14.280 an election like this happen again. Like I said that, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.800 there is going to be so much work to do, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.760 But never again are we just going to be able 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.640 to sit back and think that our democracy is just 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.000 going to work right, the way that you don't have 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.760 to think about your breath or you don't have to 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:33.160 think about your heart beating right, it just does. That's 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:40.200 not the way that democracy stay healthy or stay functioning, right, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.440 Because what we know now and what I hope that 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.880 we remember from this moment, is that, frankly, folks, that 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.439 democracy is something that needs tending to. Like a garden. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:58.760 Democracy is something that needs watering and sunshine and people 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.720 that are engaged and activated all the time, not just 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.320 every four years, not just every two years, but every 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:13.760 year because Republicans are like termites looking for inns in 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.760 the wall. They're looking for weak spots, right, and if 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:24.080 we allow our guard to drop right, then they enter 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:29.280 and the rot begins. We can't have that happen. And 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.400 I think that if there is anything that we have 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:37.440 learned in this time is how precious this democracy is, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.000 even as imperfect as it is. I will be the 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.880 first to tell you I've been taking the bind administration 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.640 to task for things that they had not done. I said, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.760 you know, spoke out when I thought that Obama could 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.920 have been doing things that are better. Right. The reality 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.400 is is that when we are up against an existential threat, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.679 that's where all our focus needs to go. Once that 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.960 threat is removed, then we can begin to assess the 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.280 damage and how we don't allow something like that to 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.400 ever happen again. And so I believe that we begin 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.120 to do that with the election of Kamala Harris and 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.840 Tim Walls. We do that by figuring out what were 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:27.040 these giant loopholes that have allowed a character a moral 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.960 less figure like Donald Trump to even ascend to the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.040 presidency in the first place, and let us put in 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.600 those significant guardrails, those breaks, those checks and balances and 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.800 strengthen them and understand that like without our attention, without 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.800 our persistence, this will happen again, and we can never 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:57.800 let that be. So, you know, folks, I also know 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:05.520 that for places like Texas, unless we are able to 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.920 regain Roe v. Wade, which I don't necessarily see happening 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:16.640 in our lifetime, unfortunately, people like the folks in Texas 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:21.280 in Florida will need our help. And I want to 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.840 raise up organizations because people always ask what are the 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:31.600 places that we can you know, help, And some of 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.720 them are this Fund, Texas Choice, an organization that has 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:44.000 been funding transportation for people, Texas Equal Access Fund, another 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:49.479 organization that is funding aid for pregnant people and reproductive 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:55.040 care in Texas, and then Lilith Fund. Folks check out 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.360 these places because these are places when folks are just 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:59.760 like I don't know what to do, I don't know 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.720 to donate, where to give my money, where to help out. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:09.200 Go to these red red states and put in reproductive 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.200 care groups. Of course, make sure that they are actually 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.680 reproductive care groups and not just some Christian group that 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.560 is using language to like rope people in and put 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.600 you into a registry. But the three organizations that I 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.640 named in Texas are ones that are doing incredible work 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.480 and need funding, need support because they are being criminalized 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.440 and you know, may not be able to operate anymore 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.040 because of the Supreme Court decision. But we know that 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.520 people are not going to stop having children, right, They're 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.200 just going to stop being able to live once they 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.040 are pregnant and if something goes wrong. So please consider 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:54.520 joining forces and taking action with organizations like Fund Texas Choice, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.120 which is at Fund Texaschoice dot org, Texas Equal Access 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:05.639 Fund which is at Tteafund dot org, and then Lilithfund 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.600 which is at lilithfund dot org. Consider getting involved. If 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.880 you have the treasure, consider donating. It doesn't matter whether 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.440 or not you live in Texas because things like this 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.520 can and will be nationalized if we do not keep 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:26.320 our eye on our democracy. That is it for me today, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.439 Dear friends on Woke af as always power to the 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.000 people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.560 stay woke as fuck.