Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me El Danielle Moody, Delusional and recording from the home bunker.
Speaker 1: I can't express to you how fucking tired I am
Speaker 1: right now and how many fucking shows I have recorded
Speaker 1: in such a short timeframe in order to just take
Speaker 1: a couple of days off, But not from this show,
Speaker 1: one of my other ones. Nonetheless, folks, I am recording
Speaker 1: this before the debates happen, so this is not going
Speaker 1: to be a debate show. But I do tell you
Speaker 1: to head over to The New Abnormal, my show with
Speaker 1: Andy Levy, where we are going to talk about what
Speaker 1: we saw in the debates. So if you don't already
Speaker 1: listen to The New Abnormal, which you totally should and
Speaker 1: can get anywhere you get your podcasts, that show I will.
Speaker 1: You will get my immediate reactions to what we saw. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I want to talk today, on this fucking Friday, about
Speaker 1: the decisions that have come out of this Supreme Court
Speaker 1: this week. And they're not done. They're not done fucking
Speaker 1: up this country yet, because they still coming for us
Speaker 1: on Monday with more hot shit. But folks, you know
Speaker 1: I continue to say this and I've said it so
Speaker 1: many times on social media that if you are not
Speaker 1: a person that has been anxious with knots in your stomach,
Speaker 1: waiting on opinions for the Supreme Court to decide whether
Speaker 1: or not you live or die, whether or not your
Speaker 1: marriage is still valid, whether or not you know you're
Speaker 1: able to sue those that do harm like you were
Speaker 1: part of the very privileged class right because for the
Speaker 1: rest of us, watching this weaponized, radicalized right wing, fucking
Speaker 1: chrysto fascist Supreme Court is terrifying. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: a little tidbit. I went to a new dentist this week.
Speaker 1: And I go to the dentist and you know, on one
Speaker 1: of the forums, they're like, oh, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you do for a living? Right, like what's your employment?
Speaker 1: And I put down political strategists, And I have to
Speaker 1: remind myself I need to change it to something else
Speaker 1: when I go, because when I do that and actually
Speaker 1: say what it is that I do, as opposed to
Speaker 1: like podcaster or like whatever. When I say the fullness
Speaker 1: of what I do a political strategist, people want to
Speaker 1: have conversations. And so my dentist was like, oh, political
Speaker 1: strategists say, how are you feeling? Like blah blah. He's like,
Speaker 1: cause I'm fucking terrified. And so we started talking about
Speaker 1: the decisions coming down from the Supreme Court and all
Speaker 1: of these things. And you know, when I tell you that,
Speaker 1: I am talking to so many different kinds of people,
Speaker 1: so many different groups of people, and there is not
Speaker 1: one group that is saying like, oh, don't worry. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel really good about where we are and I
Speaker 1: feel good about our chances. Not one fucking person do
Speaker 1: I talk to that. That is their response. I told
Speaker 1: you about going to the White House this week, right
Speaker 1: to celebrate pride, and my issue and feelings about doing
Speaker 1: that of feeling you know, very conflicted. Right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm there, and I'm at the White House and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing lots of old friends and colleagues and you know,
Speaker 1: talking to folks, and there was this air of both
Speaker 1: I don't know, I would say, happiness and joy, you know,
Speaker 1: to celebrate pride in this big manner at the White House.
Speaker 1: It was on the South Lawn, huge guests and just
Speaker 1: like lots of kids running around and hot dogs. It's
Speaker 1: just like one big family picnic, is the way that
Speaker 1: they do lgbtqwo pride at the White House these days,
Speaker 1: and it's wonderful, right, it's a beautiful experience. But a
Speaker 1: lot of us attended with our conflicts, and we attended
Speaker 1: because many people were saying that this could in fact
Speaker 1: be the last pride that we ever see at the
Speaker 1: White House ever again. And so to see the images
Speaker 1: of the columns of the White House covered in rainbow flags,
Speaker 1: to see you know, the full inclusive LGBTQ flag flying
Speaker 1: right on government buildings all around DC, like you realize
Speaker 1: that this can all go away? Why because it did before,
Speaker 1: right they took down the LGBTQ site on white House
Speaker 1: dot gov. When Donald Trump was in there, there were
Speaker 1: no celebrations that were at the White House for different
Speaker 1: communities at all. You know, for every month there is
Speaker 1: a series of celeb whether it is Black History Month,
Speaker 1: whether it is Asian Pacific Islander Month, whether it's women's
Speaker 1: you know, like there are always celebrations, right to recognize
Speaker 1: different groups and to have, you know, to give them
Speaker 1: an opportunity to feel right like, this White House is
Speaker 1: actually the people's house, all people's homes. So when you
Speaker 1: look at the ways in which this Supreme Court and
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is working over time to ensure that
Speaker 1: we know in no uncertain terms that this country is
Speaker 1: for white men only, and that everything that they are doing,
Speaker 1: whether it is the attacks on DEI, the attacks on
Speaker 1: trans youth, the attacks on LGBTQ people, the attacks on women,
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, is to make it very
Speaker 1: apparent that if you do not fall into their protected
Speaker 1: class of being wealthy, powerful, sis, hetero white Christian quote
Speaker 1: unquote men, then you do not belong. I was listening
Speaker 1: the other fucking day to a clip of Jesse Waters,
Speaker 1: that fucking dingbat motherfucker who sits on Fox News and
Speaker 1: runs off his mouth about a whole host of things
Speaker 1: that he doesn't know about, doesn't understand, but gets paid
Speaker 1: millions of dollars to lie to millions of people on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Refer to Vice President Kamala Harris and
Speaker 1: the Biden administration as a DEI administration. And I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you because they use the word DEI right, like
Speaker 1: that acronym as a replacement for what they really want
Speaker 1: to say, which is the N word. And I'm like, say,
Speaker 1: what's your fucking chest? If that is what you want
Speaker 1: to say you don't need to use dog whistles anymore,
Speaker 1: because the hoods are often we know who the fuck
Speaker 1: you are, right and how you all are re maneuvering.
Speaker 1: You don't want black people, women, queer people, or anyone
Speaker 1: that is getting even an inch closer to having a
Speaker 1: seat at the fucking table of this country, and in
Speaker 1: any decision making power, you want it ripped away. And
Speaker 1: so your code for that is DEI because you believe
Speaker 1: that the only people that should ever have power, that
Speaker 1: should ever have authority, and that quote unquote earned it
Speaker 1: is white men. Let me tell you about a group
Speaker 1: that I know that hasn't earned a fucking thing. And
Speaker 1: I say that and I mean it because without the obstacles,
Speaker 1: without the gate keeping right, I would like to see
Speaker 1: exactly how competitive white men in this country would be,
Speaker 1: because every other group has had to climb over obstacle
Speaker 1: after obstacle, basically run a fucking steeplechase just to survive.
Speaker 1: And the people that have been making the laws since
Speaker 1: the beginning of time have been white men who own property,
Speaker 1: whether that property was people, enslaved people, their wives right,
Speaker 1: or actual what we consider in modern times, property, but
Speaker 1: without the ability to bar other people from opportunities for generations,
Speaker 1: where would white men be. It's a real fucking question, right,
Speaker 1: if having to compete on merit alone, No lies about
Speaker 1: who invented what right, No blocking women and black people
Speaker 1: and people of color from universities, barring them from voting.
Speaker 1: This is the question that we never ask because they're
Speaker 1: too busy covering up and lying about the dirt that
Speaker 1: has been done so that they can stay on top
Speaker 1: of the pyramid. Because what they don't want is for
Speaker 1: you to peel back the layers and to ask those
Speaker 1: critical questions. So what do they do They get rid
Speaker 1: of critical thought? Oh that's banned, right, This is damn
Speaker 1: near nineteen eighty four. Up in this bitch with the
Speaker 1: thought police. You think it too much, you're out of here.
Speaker 1: Just keep your head down, your mouth closed, and your
Speaker 1: eyes closed. Right will tell you where to go. And
Speaker 1: so I say that very real because I want people
Speaker 1: to really consider. Right, you have white supremacist men like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Donald Trump talking about DEI talking about this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing, and people who are undeserving.
Speaker 1: I can think of no other group of people that
Speaker 1: is undeserving than those that have made their wealth their
Speaker 1: name off of the backs of other people. So without
Speaker 1: being handed everything, where would these men be, without having
Speaker 1: the ability to manipulate laws to protect their greed, Where
Speaker 1: would they be? I can tell you where I believe
Speaker 1: that the rest of us would be. With the ability
Speaker 1: to afford homes right, having built up communities that weren't
Speaker 1: burned to the ground by crazed white mobs, black people
Speaker 1: would have had generational wealth, right, But with generational wealth
Speaker 1: comes actual power, and they did not want us to
Speaker 1: have that. People always say, well, why can't black people
Speaker 1: do for themselves? Oh no, no, no, they fucking did,
Speaker 1: and they build grocery stores and barbershops and businesses throughout
Speaker 1: this country, and they were terrorized and lynched and beaten
Speaker 1: and dismembered and run out of town because of it.
Speaker 1: The very last survivors of the Tulsa massacre were just
Speaker 1: denied the hearing of a case. These one hundred year
Speaker 1: old people, the least surviving witnesses to the atrocities that
Speaker 1: were hidden for generations, were denied their hearing to call
Speaker 1: for reparations. So the question has always been, oh, what
Speaker 1: do these communities do for themselves? Oh? No, There are
Speaker 1: fucking books upon books upon books upon books that can
Speaker 1: lift up the work that black people had done and
Speaker 1: have continued to do to build out their communities into
Speaker 1: thriving spaces until the klu Klux Klan, the White Citizens'
Speaker 1: Council and craze white mobs who did not want to
Speaker 1: compete murdered them and ran them out of town. These
Speaker 1: are the histories that they do not want you to
Speaker 1: know because it doesn't fit into the narrative of laziness
Speaker 1: of racial superiority. So what this Supreme Court is doing
Speaker 1: is what has always been done, the protection of white, rich,
Speaker 1: cis hetero men and their property and the stripping away
Speaker 1: from those that they don't believe are deserving because you see,
Speaker 1: affirmative action and all of these other laws that were
Speaker 1: put into place were to combat the generations of laws
Speaker 1: that have been on the fucking books that disallowed people
Speaker 1: the autonomy to create the American dream for themselves. Instead
Speaker 1: of reparations, it was affirmative action that was put in
Speaker 1: place to allow access to higher educations and employment. And
Speaker 1: so then when black people wanted to create their own
Speaker 1: schools and do their own thing, those were torched and
Speaker 1: bombed too. You see the point of white supremacies for
Speaker 1: black people not to exist, and if they do exist,
Speaker 1: it is to exist only to be in service to
Speaker 1: and of whiteness. Anything outside of that they want to
Speaker 1: be illegal, and they are doing it one decision at
Speaker 1: a time and with their lap dog Clarence Thomas leading
Speaker 1: the way. The other decision that came out was Mtala
Speaker 1: case that went through the court coming from Idaho. Idaho
Speaker 1: has a total abortion ban or a nearer total abortion ban.
Speaker 1: The federal government sued and said that we have provisions
Speaker 1: in m Tala in emergency cases to preserve the health
Speaker 1: and well being of a pregnant person. So they sued
Speaker 1: the Sate of Idaho. And let me just tell you
Speaker 1: that who I appreciate right now in one of the
Speaker 1: decisions in the Amtala case that came down was Katanji
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, and what she said,
Speaker 1: because what they did decide in some halfway was that oh,
Speaker 1: for right now, pregnant people in Idaho get to live
Speaker 1: for right now. But they didn't actually decide the merits
Speaker 1: of the case. And I want to read to you
Speaker 1: a piece of her descent So to be clear, today's
Speaker 1: decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho.
Speaker 1: It is delay. While this court dawdles and the country waits,
Speaker 1: pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position,
Speaker 1: as their doctors are kept in the dark about what
Speaker 1: the law requires. This court had a chance to bring
Speaker 1: clarity and certainty to this tragic situation, and we have
Speaker 1: squandered it. And for as long as we refuse to
Speaker 1: declare what the law requires, pregnant patients in Idaho, Texas
Speaker 1: and elsewhere will be paying the price because we owe
Speaker 1: them and the nation an answer to the straightforward preemption
Speaker 1: question presented in these cases. I respectfully dissent in Layman's terms.
Speaker 1: These motherfuckers are out here playing games. They're out here
Speaker 1: playing games with people's lives, whether those people be bleeding
Speaker 1: out in an emergency room. They're playing games with doctors'
Speaker 1: lives who don't know whether to save a patient, which
Speaker 1: is the oath that they took, or to save themselves
Speaker 1: from prosecution. Therefore, I can't express to you what a
Speaker 1: place of discovers we are in in this country, what
Speaker 1: a place of just absolute embarrassment. What I posted on
Speaker 1: social media following the decision, which was this, we live
Speaker 1: in a country where a pregnancy isn't a blessing or
Speaker 1: a miracle, but a potential death sentence or jail time,
Speaker 1: all depending on the whims of nine black robes. It's
Speaker 1: really sick. The women in Idaho get to live for
Speaker 1: the moment. How nice. The last thing I will say today,
Speaker 1: on this fucking Friday, is that there is an ad
Speaker 1: that is going around on social media and frankly it
Speaker 1: needs to be everywhere. It is so I don't think
Speaker 1: folks that people get what is happening. But the ad,
Speaker 1: which is done so beautifully and I shared it, and
Speaker 1: it's from Way to Win, which is a national strategy tank.
Speaker 1: And in the ad you have this straight couple that
Speaker 1: is in a car and they're making out, you know,
Speaker 1: and then the guy says, hey, they're in front of
Speaker 1: a convenience store. I'll be right back, I'll be quick.
Speaker 1: Girl's like, okay, she's fixing her, you know, our lipstick.
Speaker 1: And he runs into the store and he picks up
Speaker 1: at the front of the counter a pack of condoms
Speaker 1: and one of those rose roses in a rose in
Speaker 1: plastic and he puts it down on the counter, and
Speaker 1: the woman behind the counter says, do you have ID?
Speaker 1: And so he's like, you need ID to buy condoms now,
Speaker 1: and the woman says yeah, Republicans have passed legislation that
Speaker 1: voted against the Right to Contraception Act. And she's like,
Speaker 1: I don't make the rules. So then she takes out
Speaker 1: a clipboard. The woman the sales clerk. She starts asking
Speaker 1: a lot of questions. Are these cond for use with
Speaker 1: a spouse? Are you in a committed relationship? Is that
Speaker 1: relationship monogamous? Is it a heterosexual relationship? And then ask
Speaker 1: something about Taylor Swift? Right? Do you listen to Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1: And then she goes down to listen. She says, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're not eligible to buy condoms. And he's
Speaker 1: like what, and she's like, yeah, I don't make the rules.
Speaker 1: You're not eligible to buy condoms right now, But do
Speaker 1: you want the rose? And the ad ends with the
Speaker 1: black screen that says they haven't come for condoms yet,
Speaker 1: but they are definitely coming for contraception IVF birth control,
Speaker 1: and they said, you want to preserve your rights and
Speaker 1: your privacy and your future vote Democrats. That is an
Speaker 1: ad that needs to play on every billboard, on every
Speaker 1: social media platform, on every television station from now until
Speaker 1: the election. But of course to do so costs money.
Speaker 1: But this is what people have to understand. Your lives
Speaker 1: will change like that if Donald Trump is reelected, if
Speaker 1: these Republicans gain any more power, and there will be
Speaker 1: no recourse, much like we are learning with the decisions
Speaker 1: that are coming down from the Supreme Court for generations
Speaker 1: to come. If this fucking country does not get its
Speaker 1: shit together and recognize the existential threat that we are facing,
Speaker 1: we will be fucked for generations. That's it. So are
Speaker 1: you a gambling person or not? That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on woke a app as always, Power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.