Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wik F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: As I was getting ready to come on to record
Speaker 1: today's episode, which as you know, I'm doing in advance
Speaker 1: for this holiday week, Jack Smith has announced, as I'm
Speaker 1: sure you'll all know now, that he is dropping all
Speaker 1: of the charges against Donald Trump for the January sixth insurrection,
Speaker 1: along with Donald Trump never going to see sentencing happening
Speaker 1: in New York for his thirty four felony count. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and MAGA has won. We all knew, those of
Speaker 1: us that were paying attention, those of you who have
Speaker 1: been listening to this show have known that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was only running for president to get out of jail.
Speaker 1: And now that is for certain. He will never be
Speaker 1: held responsible for anything that he has done to this
Speaker 1: country the first time around, so this time he can
Speaker 1: just finish the job. You hear in my voice a
Speaker 1: sound of It's not even resignation. It is just I
Speaker 1: think at this current moment, I have lost the ability
Speaker 1: to give a fuck, and the reason for that is
Speaker 1: so many Americans sat home in this election, and at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, I don't really know, if it
Speaker 1: matters who you blame, right, you want to blame Vice
Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris for doing what in one hundred and
Speaker 1: seven days, she gave this country a sense of hope
Speaker 1: and faith that we had long lost. She tried her
Speaker 1: best to unify in terms of bringing you know, Republicans
Speaker 1: into the fold and showing that there was going to
Speaker 1: be an opportunity for us to be able to rebuild
Speaker 1: and work together on things that we actually agree on,
Speaker 1: like democracy. She offered up student loan relief and lower
Speaker 1: drug prescription drug costs, and you know, different programs that
Speaker 1: she wanted to roll out for black men and Latino
Speaker 1: men and et cetera, et cetera. You know, there were
Speaker 1: countless calls that were done by every fucking affinity group
Speaker 1: that you could imagine on the face of the planet
Speaker 1: did a zoom call. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: America failed to rise to this moment because frankly, they
Speaker 1: didn't want to. And in some ways I've been trying
Speaker 1: to reframe my thinking around this election as I still
Speaker 1: process through the grief of it all, is that I
Speaker 1: am now convinced that America needs Donald Trump, that this
Speaker 1: country does not learn anything the easy way, that progress
Speaker 1: is not always forward moving. In any time of progress,
Speaker 1: there is always deep regress. Right, you had the Civil War,
Speaker 1: and then you had reconstruction, and then guess what a
Speaker 1: century of Jim Crow. This country is only really known
Speaker 1: democracy from nineteen sixty five until what twenty twenty or
Speaker 1: whenever the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act overturn
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade. You know, we've had democracy for less
Speaker 1: than sixty years. So that being said, I think that
Speaker 1: we're at a place and at a point where apparently
Speaker 1: everything does need to be lost, everything does need to
Speaker 1: be ruined. Millions of peaceeople apparently do have to die
Speaker 1: in order for people to recognize that your participation matters
Speaker 1: in this country. But I think that for far too
Speaker 1: long we have continued to try and put fresh paint
Speaker 1: on a rotting house. I think for far too long
Speaker 1: we have been lulled into a place of complacency and
Speaker 1: incremental change. Being enough that we have believed Democrats when
Speaker 1: they said that they were a party for and by
Speaker 1: the people, and yet when they're in control, while the
Speaker 1: economy may not fall off of a cliff, that they
Speaker 1: don't really ever do anything that is full chested, full
Speaker 1: throated in terms of rooting out white supremacy, in terms
Speaker 1: of really creating policies that are about trying to write
Speaker 1: what has been wronged in this country to black people,
Speaker 1: to indigenous people. Everything is incremental and everything, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, is also about money. So when
Speaker 1: people look at the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
Speaker 1: and they say, well, what's the difference between them, and
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, well, one believes in fascism and
Speaker 1: one believes in democracy. One believes that women are actually people,
Speaker 1: and the other one believes that women are property. That's
Speaker 1: not enough. And what I realize is every single leader
Speaker 1: and every single institution has failed. When fucking Democrats had
Speaker 1: the audacity to say when Joe Biden was elected that,
Speaker 1: oh the institutions held, No, it didn't. It did not.
Speaker 1: And I will say now that Joe Biden, with his
Speaker 1: appointment of Merrick Garland, which we all thought was oh,
Speaker 1: poetic justice, and as it turns out, was probably the
Speaker 1: death knew the final nail in the coffin of our
Speaker 1: democracy was Merrick Garland. And that is what Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is going to be remembered. For I posted on Blue
Speaker 1: Sky over the weekend, what do you think that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's legacy is going to be? And I said, in
Speaker 1: all honesty, his legacy is going to be that he
Speaker 1: failed to meet the moment. Sure, did Joe Biden put
Speaker 1: forth policy measures such as you know, student loan debt relief,
Speaker 1: such as rolling out the vaccine and getting shots in
Speaker 1: arms when people were still dying by the thousands every
Speaker 1: day from COVID, Yes, But did Joe Biden do everything
Speaker 1: that he could to make sure that a Donald Trump
Speaker 1: could never run for office again, or that anyone like
Speaker 1: him could never run for office again. No, he just
Speaker 1: wanted to turn the page and pretend that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: never happened. And that's the same thing Merrick Garland wanted
Speaker 1: to do. And it was this failure, failure, fucking failure
Speaker 1: of imagination that has us where we are right now.
Speaker 1: Just imagine if Joe Biden had picked a US Attorney
Speaker 1: general like a Tish James, like a Fannie Willis, like
Speaker 1: an Alvin Bragg, like any of the people that were
Speaker 1: actually prosecuting Donald Trump for his crimes. If you had
Speaker 1: picked any of those people, or just anyone that showed that,
Speaker 1: you know, what is going to restore faith in our government,
Speaker 1: faith in our systems is not pretending that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: didn't happen, but making sure that he never happens again.
Speaker 1: And so I'm tired. I'm tired of the Pelosis and
Speaker 1: the Bidens and the Schumers. I'm tired of these monuments
Speaker 1: right of what the yester year of politics look like,
Speaker 1: still being in charge of what our future looks like,
Speaker 1: when they haven't been connected and had their ear to
Speaker 1: the ground and understand what real people are dealing with
Speaker 1: in decades. You know what Biggie used to say when
Speaker 1: he was rapping, don't get high on your own supply.
Speaker 1: Democrats have been so fucking high on their own bullshit,
Speaker 1: believing that all they had to do was pretend to
Speaker 1: be the adult in the room, being the ones that
Speaker 1: are so stuck up on their high horse, right, the
Speaker 1: elitists of democracy. Oh, the people will just follow us
Speaker 1: because we're right and they believe their own bullshit. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone wants to talk about again what Kamala Harris could
Speaker 1: have done better, blah blah blah ba bop fuck that
Speaker 1: she had one hundred and seven days tell me what
Speaker 1: the fuck was being done prior, what was being done
Speaker 1: during Donald Trump's presidency, What was being done right when
Speaker 1: Joe Biden stepped foot in office, other than pretending that
Speaker 1: he didn't elect the first woman and first black woman
Speaker 1: an Asian woman to be vice president of the United States,
Speaker 1: So he went ahead and hid her right until he realized, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I can't actually get the job done, so now
Speaker 1: I need to bring her out front and center, when
Speaker 1: for three years we hadn't seen her, They hadn't been
Speaker 1: operating like partners in the way that Barack Obama was
Speaker 1: sure to operate with Joe Biden, given how racist this
Speaker 1: country is. So you know, I know when people are like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: America gets what it deserves. But no, like because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be a part of the find out
Speaker 1: of the fuck around. And I know that you didn't either,
Speaker 1: because y'all already knew. But the fact is is that
Speaker 1: maybe it takes a destroyer like Donald Trump for us
Speaker 1: to realize that the systems that he's getting ready to
Speaker 1: blow up were never working for all of us anyway.
Speaker 1: They actually only were working for white Americans. And maybe
Speaker 1: if we found our ways through the cracks and got
Speaker 1: a little bit of crumbs. We were piecing that together
Speaker 1: and calling that a full fucking meal. It wasn't. It's
Speaker 1: not so. As one of my good friends, doctor Christina Greer,
Speaker 1: has said, she does not want this country to be
Speaker 1: burnt down, because then you're burning down all of the work, blood,
Speaker 1: sweat and tears in life that our ancestors gave into
Speaker 1: this country. That if we're not going to be willing
Speaker 1: to excavate the foundation of this country, then the house
Speaker 1: burning actually doesn't matter. And when I'm saying is that
Speaker 1: we are in a moment of deep excavation, of recognizing
Speaker 1: that this entire country has been built on a faulty foundation.
Speaker 1: And I think that Donald Trump's regime is the nuke, right,
Speaker 1: It is the bomb that is going to be dropped
Speaker 1: on America that is going to have generational damage. And
Speaker 1: at some point, in some way in that rubble, hopefully
Speaker 1: there will be people still that can put together the truth,
Speaker 1: that can put together and move the rubble and find
Speaker 1: and create a better and more sustainable path. But not
Speaker 1: only is this destruction imminent, I think now that it
Speaker 1: is necessary, and I keep telling folks, you know, I
Speaker 1: will continue to do this work, to be a narrator
Speaker 1: on our social discourse for as long as it is
Speaker 1: safe and it is legal. And that to me, folks,
Speaker 1: I don't really know how long that is going to be.
Speaker 1: I don't because we can see from the latest Attorney
Speaker 1: general nomination that Donald Trump is putting up like these
Speaker 1: people are are ready and willing to build the camps,
Speaker 1: to put their enemies in them, to clamp down on
Speaker 1: free speech, on free press. And folks say, oh, but
Speaker 1: we have a constitution. What the fuck does the constitution
Speaker 1: have to do with any of the executive orders or
Speaker 1: any of the policies that this trifecta win is getting
Speaker 1: ready to put into place. We're at war. MAGA has
Speaker 1: been at war with American democracy for nearly a decade now.
Speaker 1: And so at what point do you put down the
Speaker 1: pen right and pick up a sword. At what point
Speaker 1: do we recognize that a two party system is not
Speaker 1: the future of these United States? One of them is
Speaker 1: wildly and effective and the other one is fascist. So
Speaker 1: it leaves us to recognize that no one is coming
Speaker 1: to save us. Merrit Garland didn't do his fucking job.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden didn't do his fucking job. The Democratic establishment
Speaker 1: didn't do its fucking job right. So we're here now.
Speaker 1: We're here now and working to figure out as we're
Speaker 1: dealing with this very real grief that we seriously do
Speaker 1: need to process what the future looks like. And to me,
Speaker 1: the future looks like a robust multi party system because
Speaker 1: I don't want to put any stock and faith in
Speaker 1: Democrats moving forward. I really don't. And this is why
Speaker 1: you have heard over and over again black women saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, y'all got this, We're tapping out. We're
Speaker 1: going to protect ourselves, our sanity, and our communities. Y'all
Speaker 1: got next. Because no one has faith that this party,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, will actually learn anything. And if anything,
Speaker 1: we're just seeing a further chasing of the Republican Party
Speaker 1: that is already extremist and right that they're just dragging
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party along to the right with them. If
Speaker 1: you want to ask me why people stayed home, it's
Speaker 1: because they really could not find the difference, because progressive
Speaker 1: ideas weren't being beamed out to people on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: It was like, no, let us find common ground, let
Speaker 1: us be centrists again, there is no center. I'm at
Speaker 1: a place as we wind down this year where I
Speaker 1: need to rest, and we all need to rest, and
Speaker 1: we all need to really process what has happened and
Speaker 1: how each of us, individually and collectively plan on moving forward.
Speaker 1: And that's how I'm going to spend the last several
Speaker 1: weeks of this year is figuring out moving through the
Speaker 1: pain and figuring out for me what it looks like
Speaker 1: to be on the other side of it, because my
Speaker 1: resistance is not going to look like it did in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, or look like it did in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: because frankly, folks, I just don't have the same level
Speaker 1: of energy and I don't think that those strategies that
Speaker 1: we were accessing at those different time points worked. So
Speaker 1: it is time for something new, and for me that
Speaker 1: what is what comes next only comes when I've had
Speaker 1: time to decompress, when I've had time to rest, and
Speaker 1: then I can get into an imagined scape. So my
Speaker 1: offering to all of you as we close out this
Speaker 1: year is to really figure out what restoration will look
Speaker 1: like for you, and do that and do it well,
Speaker 1: because you know, beginning January twentieth, we are in an
Speaker 1: entirely new world and it's not a good one, it
Speaker 1: is a new one. And like I've been saying that,
Speaker 1: with every obstacle that is presented, there are opportunities that
Speaker 1: lie inside of them. But we have to be in
Speaker 1: a creative and imaginative and RESTful state and order for
Speaker 1: that conjuring to happen. A change is coming and we
Speaker 1: need to be ready. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: dear friends on wokef as always, Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.