Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your Girl, Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy brigin Friday. I swear to God, I know that
Speaker 1: I've said this so many times, but there just comes
Speaker 1: a point where you're just so grateful that you made
Speaker 1: it to Friday because so many things have careeamed off
Speaker 1: of a cliff this week where you're just like, what
Speaker 1: are we as the time of this recording eleven days
Speaker 1: away from the election, and I have to steal stomach
Speaker 1: bullshit from Dana Bash, like Vice President Kamala Harris didn't
Speaker 1: seal the deal in her latest town hall with CNN,
Speaker 1: Dana Bash, like, you are an embarrassment to the field
Speaker 1: of journalism in all honesty, And I will give this
Speaker 1: to Jake Tapper, and I said this yesterday on Mary
Speaker 1: Trump's show, which is that he said, you know, these
Speaker 1: are two completely different campaigns in two completely different universes
Speaker 1: where you are judging Kamala Harris as if this is
Speaker 1: a normal election and a normal candidate, and yet not
Speaker 1: judging Donald Trump for the existential threat that he actually is.
Speaker 1: Like you want to critique Dana Bash and Hallie Jackson
Speaker 1: and all of these, like, particularly these white women journalists
Speaker 1: want to frankly critique Kamala Harris as if the difference
Speaker 1: between a Democrat and a Republican losing this election isn't
Speaker 1: the end of democracy. Isn't the fact that if Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Jade Vance get into the actual White House,
Speaker 1: that they will be policing women's bodies across this country,
Speaker 1: that they want to have women essentially have to register
Speaker 1: if you are pregnant or not before leaving the state, right, like,
Speaker 1: this is what America is in for. But Dana Bash
Speaker 1: and Harley Jackson, in their recent you know, interactions with
Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States, would have you
Speaker 1: believed that, like, oh, if we lose this election, it's
Speaker 1: just like losing to Romney or even like George W.
Speaker 1: Bush for that fucking matter, and that motherfucker took us
Speaker 1: into a war. So you know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: it's eleven days to go, and I'm still lam bassing
Speaker 1: against you know, corporate media and journalists. But I honestly,
Speaker 1: I really thought that at some point during this election cycle,
Speaker 1: at some point that folks would recognize what a dangerous
Speaker 1: situation that we're in and that they would look to
Speaker 1: themselves and look to history and say, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Hitler came about largely right because people didn't believe what
Speaker 1: he was saying, because the media was too busy doing
Speaker 1: puff pieces on his garden and not the fact that
Speaker 1: he was setting up concentration camps, right like, it's always, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we should have known there were signs, like how many
Speaker 1: more signs do you need? From Donald Trump? Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has since twenty fifteen, he's talked about sexually assaulting women,
Speaker 1: and he has been convicted of doing so. He has
Speaker 1: invited white supremacists to dinner. He has championed white supremacists.
Speaker 1: He refers to the insurrectionists as we. He plays their
Speaker 1: January sixth national anthem as opposed to America's national anthem.
Speaker 1: He has talked about wanting generals like those that Hitler.
Speaker 1: He has said Hitler has done some quote good things.
Speaker 1: He is called white supremacists good people. He has referred
Speaker 1: to African nations as shithole countries. When talking about a
Speaker 1: young private, Vanessa Gillion, that was murdered at Fort Hood
Speaker 1: and the response to the fee for her burial, he
Speaker 1: said it doesn't cost sixty thousand dollars to bury an
Speaker 1: effing Mexican. Meanwhile, you have the likes of at Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson at a rally saying some of the most vile
Speaker 1: shit that I've heard in a long time, talking about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump being America's daddy and America needing a spanking.
Speaker 1: They're like weird twisted sexual fantasies like come to life
Speaker 1: in their policies of control and paternalism and patriarchy is
Speaker 1: on full display. So how do we not have headlines
Speaker 1: that conveyed the seriousness of this moment? How do we
Speaker 1: have outlets like the La Times that for the first
Speaker 1: time refuse to endorse a presidential candidate, Like, do people
Speaker 1: really think that their neutrality quote unquote neutrality in this
Speaker 1: moment is going to save them down the road in
Speaker 1: an authoritarian regime. I'm just so fucking confused. One of
Speaker 1: the great things that Kamala Harris said at our town
Speaker 1: hall was that on day one, if Donald Trump is elected,
Speaker 1: He's going to be sitting down in the Oval office
Speaker 1: making a list of all of his enemies so that
Speaker 1: he can seek retribution on them. She, however, is going
Speaker 1: to be working on America's to do list? Do you
Speaker 1: want a president that speaks more about themselves and their
Speaker 1: own problems rather than concentrate and trying to fix any
Speaker 1: of yours things that have happened this week, two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty psychiatrists came out and said that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is unstable and that his brain is basically deteriorating right now.
Speaker 1: None of these are his actual doctors. But Donald Trump also,
Speaker 1: much like his taxes, won't release his medical records. But
Speaker 1: we have listened to him mix up Biden and Obama
Speaker 1: now on a number of occasions, not knowing who he's
Speaker 1: actually running against. We have watched him refer to different
Speaker 1: cities that he's in. We also listen to him tell
Speaker 1: people to go vote on January fifth. We learned this
Speaker 1: week that in a sham set up at a barber
Speaker 1: shop where he's supposedly speaking to black and Latino men.
Speaker 1: We heard that Fox News edited out all of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's meandering and rambling. CNN got a hold of it
Speaker 1: and posted it like I just I feel like this
Speaker 1: week and the next couple of weeks are really going
Speaker 1: to test us, test our will, test our faith, test
Speaker 1: our emotional capacity, test our health and well being because
Speaker 1: the fuckery knows no bounce, and the fact that I
Speaker 1: can't confidently say that, guess what, folks, in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, we are going to have an amazing new
Speaker 1: president and a new era that it's going to take
Speaker 1: this country forward, and that we don't have to worry
Speaker 1: anymore about saving democracy, that we will have done it
Speaker 1: in this election, and then hopefully in the four years
Speaker 1: of the Harris Walls administration, Donald Trump will end up
Speaker 1: penniless or in jail. Those are the two things that
Speaker 1: I'm going after. But we can't say that with confidence
Speaker 1: because of the electoral college, because I know and you
Speaker 1: know that if it were up to one person, one vote,
Speaker 1: much in the way that Donald Trump had his hat
Speaker 1: handed to him in twenty twenty, it would happen again.
Speaker 1: Why is it that we live inside of a democracy
Speaker 1: where all of our votes don't count equally. I don't
Speaker 1: want a handful of fucking people in the Midwest deciding
Speaker 1: this election. I want all of us having a say
Speaker 1: and who is going to lead this country because guess what,
Speaker 1: they're not just going to be the president for the Midwest.
Speaker 1: They're going to be a president for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: So why shouldn't our voices count just as much? But
Speaker 1: that is again the electoral college being one of many
Speaker 1: relics still in operation from the Transatlantic slave trade. You know, folks,
Speaker 1: as we in shout the rest of this election cycle,
Speaker 1: I pray that we make it to the other side
Speaker 1: of this. I pray for all of us in this
Speaker 1: country that we make it to the other side of
Speaker 1: trump Ism. Now, as I have said before, trump Ism
Speaker 1: is never going to go away. I don't think I
Speaker 1: think that it will reinvent itself. If in fact Donald
Speaker 1: Trump loses, I think it'll reinvent itself. Find a young, slicker,
Speaker 1: more articulate, saner white supremacists to run for office again
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight, same proposal, same people, just a
Speaker 1: different package. And that's the thing that people need to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, is that Donald Trump broke open Pandora's
Speaker 1: white supremact box, and it is going to take a
Speaker 1: lot a lot to close it. But Republicans won't learn
Speaker 1: their lesson. There won't be like a moratorium. There won't
Speaker 1: be a going back to the Bushes and the Romneys
Speaker 1: and the mccains of their party. Even with the over
Speaker 1: two hundred Republicans that have now come out and said
Speaker 1: that they are voting for Kamala Harris. These are two
Speaker 1: hundred people who formerly worked for Trump, McCain, Romney, Bush's
Speaker 1: You know what I find really interesting And people keep
Speaker 1: saying this is that, like, why is George W. Bush
Speaker 1: so silent? Because, folks, do we really need him to
Speaker 1: weigh in? Do we think that this version of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, if they don't give a damn about what
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney of all people is saying, who
Speaker 1: was the real mastermind behind the w administration? Do we
Speaker 1: think that they give a shit about what George Bush
Speaker 1: would say? But it says a lot that his vice
Speaker 1: president would come out and with no equivocation say Donald
Speaker 1: Trump cannot be president. And it is just I mean,
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney's the reason why we went to war after
Speaker 1: nine to eleven with the wrong country, right weapons of
Speaker 1: mass destruction. That was all Cheney. And for him to
Speaker 1: look at Donald Trump and say that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a threat is like wild. But also the moment that
Speaker 1: we are in, folks, it is it's sad, it is frustrating,
Speaker 1: it is disgusting, it's all of the things. I will
Speaker 1: say this, though, what is really important is for us
Speaker 1: to recognize that either way, if Donald Trump somehow is
Speaker 1: able to steal this election, we're going to have the
Speaker 1: fight of our lives on our hand. Literally. If Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is able to win, we're going to have so
Speaker 1: much work ahead of us to try and rebuild this country.
Speaker 1: So either way, our job is not going to be done.
Speaker 1: I will say this that never again can we have
Speaker 1: an election like this happen again. Like I said that,
Speaker 1: there is going to be so much work to do,
Speaker 1: But never again are we just going to be able
Speaker 1: to sit back and think that our democracy is just
Speaker 1: going to work right, the way that you don't have
Speaker 1: to think about your breath or you don't have to
Speaker 1: think about your heart beating right, it just does. That's
Speaker 1: not the way that democracy stay healthy or stay functioning, right,
Speaker 1: Because what we know now and what I hope that
Speaker 1: we remember from this moment, is that, frankly, folks, that
Speaker 1: democracy is something that needs tending to. Like a garden.
Speaker 1: Democracy is something that needs watering and sunshine and people
Speaker 1: that are engaged and activated all the time, not just
Speaker 1: every four years, not just every two years, but every
Speaker 1: year because Republicans are like termites looking for inns in
Speaker 1: the wall. They're looking for weak spots, right, and if
Speaker 1: we allow our guard to drop right, then they enter
Speaker 1: and the rot begins. We can't have that happen. And
Speaker 1: I think that if there is anything that we have
Speaker 1: learned in this time is how precious this democracy is,
Speaker 1: even as imperfect as it is. I will be the
Speaker 1: first to tell you I've been taking the bind administration
Speaker 1: to task for things that they had not done. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, spoke out when I thought that Obama could
Speaker 1: have been doing things that are better. Right. The reality
Speaker 1: is is that when we are up against an existential threat,
Speaker 1: that's where all our focus needs to go. Once that
Speaker 1: threat is removed, then we can begin to assess the
Speaker 1: damage and how we don't allow something like that to
Speaker 1: ever happen again. And so I believe that we begin
Speaker 1: to do that with the election of Kamala Harris and
Speaker 1: Tim Walls. We do that by figuring out what were
Speaker 1: these giant loopholes that have allowed a character a moral
Speaker 1: less figure like Donald Trump to even ascend to the
Speaker 1: presidency in the first place, and let us put in
Speaker 1: those significant guardrails, those breaks, those checks and balances and
Speaker 1: strengthen them and understand that like without our attention, without
Speaker 1: our persistence, this will happen again, and we can never
Speaker 1: let that be. So, you know, folks, I also know
Speaker 1: that for places like Texas, unless we are able to
Speaker 1: regain Roe v. Wade, which I don't necessarily see happening
Speaker 1: in our lifetime, unfortunately, people like the folks in Texas
Speaker 1: in Florida will need our help. And I want to
Speaker 1: raise up organizations because people always ask what are the
Speaker 1: places that we can you know, help, And some of
Speaker 1: them are this Fund, Texas Choice, an organization that has
Speaker 1: been funding transportation for people, Texas Equal Access Fund, another
Speaker 1: organization that is funding aid for pregnant people and reproductive
Speaker 1: care in Texas, and then Lilith Fund. Folks check out
Speaker 1: these places because these are places when folks are just
Speaker 1: like I don't know what to do, I don't know
Speaker 1: to donate, where to give my money, where to help out.
Speaker 1: Go to these red red states and put in reproductive
Speaker 1: care groups. Of course, make sure that they are actually
Speaker 1: reproductive care groups and not just some Christian group that
Speaker 1: is using language to like rope people in and put
Speaker 1: you into a registry. But the three organizations that I
Speaker 1: named in Texas are ones that are doing incredible work
Speaker 1: and need funding, need support because they are being criminalized
Speaker 1: and you know, may not be able to operate anymore
Speaker 1: because of the Supreme Court decision. But we know that
Speaker 1: people are not going to stop having children, right, They're
Speaker 1: just going to stop being able to live once they
Speaker 1: are pregnant and if something goes wrong. So please consider
Speaker 1: joining forces and taking action with organizations like Fund Texas Choice,
Speaker 1: which is at Fund Texaschoice dot org, Texas Equal Access
Speaker 1: Fund which is at Tteafund dot org, and then Lilithfund
Speaker 1: which is at lilithfund dot org. Consider getting involved. If
Speaker 1: you have the treasure, consider donating. It doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: or not you live in Texas because things like this
Speaker 1: can and will be nationalized if we do not keep
Speaker 1: our eye on our democracy. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke af as always power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.