Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ook F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. First, folks,
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Speaker 1: over a month to go until the election, folks, and
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Speaker 1: today five pm Eastern, We're kicking off the Danielle Moody Show. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, my dear dear friends. Wow, it's not
Speaker 1: even October. I keep saying this, you know, because like
Speaker 1: in politics, they're always like before the election, the October
Speaker 1: Surprise and what happens, And it's like, without bail, something happens.
Speaker 1: But it feels like, I mean, I don't know, folks,
Speaker 1: haven't we been living inside of like a seven year
Speaker 1: October surprise where like every day something seems to pop
Speaker 1: off and we're just like, oh my god, wow, crazy,
Speaker 1: And then the next day it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: wow crazier to the point where check this out, to
Speaker 1: the point where this because I wasn't even going to
Speaker 1: bring this up today and so now I need to
Speaker 1: pull it up as I'm talking. But did you all
Speaker 1: hear that Kamala Harris's one of her offices were shot
Speaker 1: at so a couple of days ago. This is now
Speaker 1: last week at this point, harris campaign office in Arizona
Speaker 1: damaged by a parent gunfire is what the headline at
Speaker 1: ABC News was. And apparently the same office was shot
Speaker 1: out a week prior, and there are pictures of bullet
Speaker 1: holes in the glass and glass shattering. And would you
Speaker 1: understand that this hasn't even broken through like news news
Speaker 1: like disrupted cable news to where we're having wallda wall
Speaker 1: coverage about shit like this. And I'm just mentioning it
Speaker 1: now because it just popped into my mind that I
Speaker 1: hadn't brought it up. I don't think on any of
Speaker 1: my shows because it hasn't taken hold, right, And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what does that mean? What does it mean
Speaker 1: that we are living in political times where people, buildings,
Speaker 1: things get shot up, that that has become like what
Speaker 1: so commonplace that we just shrug our shoulders at it.
Speaker 1: It's it's so fucking wild. So thank god obviously no
Speaker 1: one was hurt, because I think that if somebody had
Speaker 1: been hurt, if somebody had been shot, then you know,
Speaker 1: it would make bigger news. But I think that that
Speaker 1: that's the problem, right, And you know the problem is
Speaker 1: that political violence since Donald Trump came down that escalator
Speaker 1: has just become normalized. Right, Stochastic terrorism is just like
Speaker 1: another Monday or a day that ends in Why because
Speaker 1: we have representatives like Clay Higgins who took to his
Speaker 1: social media last week to disparage and threaten the Haitian
Speaker 1: community in this country and then you know, oh, takes
Speaker 1: the post down, but then goes on cable news and says,
Speaker 1: I can say whatever the fuck I want. These people
Speaker 1: do not give a fuck the laws, political news, they
Speaker 1: don't matter. You know, even when the Fisher Price speaker,
Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson, was asked about, you know, Clay Higgins's remarks
Speaker 1: with regard to the Haitian people, he rolled his eyes
Speaker 1: and said, oh, he's just outspoken, and you know he's
Speaker 1: a decent man and a gentleman, and he went and
Speaker 1: prayed on it and then took it down after he
Speaker 1: was confronted on the floor. Don't talk to me, don't
Speaker 1: use the fucking term gentleman and say that somebody who
Speaker 1: is literally a rabid racist is just outspoken. Like that's
Speaker 1: the thing. That's the gas lighting that the Republican Party
Speaker 1: has been using, that mainstream media has now incorporated into
Speaker 1: their coverage that oh, we are supposed to applaud brash,
Speaker 1: authentic speak right, so to speak, because there are no
Speaker 1: norms with what kind of language is acceptable in public discourse, right.
Speaker 1: And it seems to me that the only way that
Speaker 1: somebody is actually referred to as a racist is if
Speaker 1: they won self identify and then two if they just
Speaker 1: happen to use the N word. But everything else is
Speaker 1: pretty much fair game. That's that's what our mainstream corporate
Speaker 1: media has taught people over the last over the last
Speaker 1: almost eight to ten years under Donald Trump. And so
Speaker 1: this story you know, was buried right in Tempe, Arizona,
Speaker 1: was just did not come above the fold or ring
Speaker 1: alarms to any real pips. And so I'm bringing it
Speaker 1: to you because I think that it's important for us
Speaker 1: to recognize where we are. It's the same thing that
Speaker 1: happens with shootings these days. If it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: four is the barometer apparently, or I think they might
Speaker 1: have raised it for what is considered a mass shooting.
Speaker 1: But because so many you know, h one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four people are being shot these days that they want
Speaker 1: to raise it so that we're not always talking about
Speaker 1: mass shootings. Is that not insane? So raise the threshold
Speaker 1: so that it doesn't seem like it's happening all the time,
Speaker 1: But it is happening all the time. But now we
Speaker 1: just want to make it so if it's five or more,
Speaker 1: ten or more people that are shot and killed, and
Speaker 1: then we cover the story. I tell you, folks, it
Speaker 1: is we living in wild times. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: literally inside of the wild, wild West. And I will
Speaker 1: say this, you know, as we're watching the poles, which
Speaker 1: I tell you all to take with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1: What is just still so shocking to me. And I
Speaker 1: talked about this last week as well, is the poll
Speaker 1: numbers for white women and the fact that like they're
Speaker 1: not quitting on Donald Trump. I talked about this on
Speaker 1: Friday on Democracy Ish when I went live, like they
Speaker 1: fifty percent, fifty percent of white women are still voting
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. And by the way, I don't need
Speaker 1: a bunch of white women in the comments telling me
Speaker 1: it's not me. It's not me, it's somebody, y'all. And
Speaker 1: if it's not you, then go get your friends, go
Speaker 1: get your family members, right. Host some parties, host some zooms,
Speaker 1: host some conversations, because if it's not you, then you
Speaker 1: need to check on who the fuck is in your circle,
Speaker 1: because it can't be fifty percent that y'all don't know.
Speaker 1: And it's not every other group's responsibility to try and
Speaker 1: wake these women up. That's why I keep saying that
Speaker 1: it's everyone's responsibilities. As we barreled down to the last
Speaker 1: days of this campaign, folks like this shit is razor thin,
Speaker 1: and it is terrifying. It is terrifying that JD. Van's
Speaker 1: a man that thinks so fucking little of women outside
Speaker 1: of us being incubators for patriarchy and for white women
Speaker 1: to be incubators for white supremacy, that like this man
Speaker 1: could be a heartbeat away from the white from the
Speaker 1: becoming president, and Donald Trump only stays eating McDonald. So
Speaker 1: like him dropping dead is not, you know, something that's
Speaker 1: impossible to occur. And it's one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I believe that JD. Vans was placed in that position,
Speaker 1: because you know this dot c A was released and
Speaker 1: you can see from the jump that JD. Vans never
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump. He likes money and he likes power,
Speaker 1: both of which he got from Peter Thiel. And then
Speaker 1: you hook up with the folks at the Heritage Foundation,
Speaker 1: he's the one that's writing the forward of Project twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. They knew what they were doing. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is their whale. He's the one that brings in, right,
Speaker 1: the quote unquote thing jd. Vance doesn't have a personality,
Speaker 1: has a personality of a communion fucking wafer that you
Speaker 1: want to choke on. So you have Donald Trump be
Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle, right that then ushers in this Christian fundamentalist,
Speaker 1: white supremaist ideology that then becomes like the law of
Speaker 1: the land, folks, we got a fifty to fifty chance
Speaker 1: that their warped vision of America doesn't become our norm,
Speaker 1: peeling away one right after the other, turning this place
Speaker 1: into a just dystopia. So you know, for those women
Speaker 1: who you know continually want to say to me, not
Speaker 1: this white woman, I say, go get your people, Go
Speaker 1: get your people, because they're the ones that are clearly
Speaker 1: you know, need a talking to, need a kind ear
Speaker 1: or shoulder to be able to get through to them,
Speaker 1: because apparently taking away abortion is not enough, taking away
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy is not enough. So maybe when they're also
Speaker 1: not allowed to work, not allowed to vote, and then
Speaker 1: it's too late, that then maybe some action will be taken,
Speaker 1: but you know, by then it'll be too late. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I look at these stories that are coming up,
Speaker 1: and I am trying to keep my spirits up because
Speaker 1: I believe that the work that the Democratic Party has
Speaker 1: been doing since July, since this change, has been what
Speaker 1: I have been waiting on for so many years. The fight,
Speaker 1: the energy right, the recognition that money actually needs to
Speaker 1: go to down ballot seats, that this election isn't just
Speaker 1: about the presidency. It is about who is at the
Speaker 1: school board, the city council, in the state houses, you know,
Speaker 1: like it is about those positions, because what the maga
Speaker 1: verse has been doing is infiltrating all of these smaller offices,
Speaker 1: wielding power and reshaping this country town by town, city
Speaker 1: by city, and as Steve Bannon said, village by village.
Speaker 1: Their agenda, folks, is so big, so audacious, and they
Speaker 1: implement it bite by bite. And so if we are
Speaker 1: just consistently focused on the top of the ticket, then
Speaker 1: we're missing the opportunity. So the fact that while the
Speaker 1: RNC is paying money for Laura Trump to believe that
Speaker 1: she's going to be the next American idol, that the
Speaker 1: Democrats are doing what they need to do in order
Speaker 1: to flip the seats that we need. And the thing
Speaker 1: that I want folks to understand too, as we make
Speaker 1: our way through this election. Much in the same way
Speaker 1: that I think that we wanted to believe that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty we were going to get rid of Trump, We're
Speaker 1: going to sigh, you know, this big relief, and then
Speaker 1: we were going to go back to life as normal.
Speaker 1: And what do I mean by life as normal? Meaning
Speaker 1: that you could not utter the president's name every other
Speaker 1: second of the day, you could not have your phone
Speaker 1: glued to the alerts on social media to make sure
Speaker 1: that they hadn't tweeted us into World War three, or
Speaker 1: that you know, there weren't some other type of subterfuge
Speaker 1: or attacks that were happening, or the alerts about how
Speaker 1: many you know, trials Donald Trump is gonna be facing,
Speaker 1: and all of these things. It's been exhausting, we know this,
Speaker 1: and so this belief that if we just vote this
Speaker 1: time that it all goes away. I think that we
Speaker 1: need to divorce ourselves from that dream. It's not true.
Speaker 1: We're going to need to remain vigilant, not on edge.
Speaker 1: Right if Kamala Harris is able to win, but we're
Speaker 1: going to need to remain vigilant. We're going to need
Speaker 1: to remain tapped in because Project twenty twenty five will
Speaker 1: turn into Project twenty twenty six, twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 1: eight and onward. That if they lose this time, it's
Speaker 1: not as if they're gonna go lick their wounds and
Speaker 1: go back to their you know, Reaganesque beliefs, which were
Speaker 1: also terrible, but at least they weren't anti democratic. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna do that, folks. They're going to polish off
Speaker 1: a younger, sharper version of Donald Trump and put that
Speaker 1: in America's face and say we can't all be fascist. Look,
Speaker 1: this one wears a sweater vest like they fucking did
Speaker 1: with Youngkin in Virginia. You know, they speak in complete
Speaker 1: sentences so they can handle everything. No, they have sworn
Speaker 1: their allegiance not to the Constitution of these United States
Speaker 1: and not to the flag, but to a party. They
Speaker 1: believe in party over everything, and so Republicans cannot be trusted,
Speaker 1: not now, not ever. And it's going to be up
Speaker 1: to us, all of us again, to keep eyes wide
Speaker 1: open and make sure that we are engaged not just
Speaker 1: every four years, not just every two years, but every year,
Speaker 1: making sure that we know what are our kids learning,
Speaker 1: what books are allowed inside of their schools, what program
Speaker 1: who's sitting on what boards in my town? Are there vacancies?
Speaker 1: Because I got time and can run. If we are
Speaker 1: going to reimagine America and to create the multiracial democracy
Speaker 1: that we deserve, it isn't going to be one and
Speaker 1: done after November fifth. It can't be because what is
Speaker 1: scary to me is that it took Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: company four years to undo two hundred and forty eight
Speaker 1: two one hundred and forty eight years took Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in company four to place the right wing justices, to
Speaker 1: remake the federal benches, to instill religious zealous and white supremacists,
Speaker 1: to undo the last sixty years of liberation movements in
Speaker 1: this country. So it is going to take us a
Speaker 1: considerable amount of time to put this country back together again,
Speaker 1: fortify our democracy, and then only then be able to
Speaker 1: forge a new path forward. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: we understand the work that is going to go into
Speaker 1: needing to fortify our democracy so that the likes of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump the likes of Maga, Republicans are not able
Speaker 1: once again to slip through the cracks that we will
Speaker 1: have lived through the worst and so now have the
Speaker 1: sense to create the guard rails and the breaks and
Speaker 1: the checks and the real balances so that it never
Speaker 1: happens again. That's what I want to see Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and Tim Walls become president and Vice president. I want
Speaker 1: to see the first four years about fortifying our democracy.
Speaker 1: I want to see I don't care if like I
Speaker 1: don't want them to be concerned about the next four years.
Speaker 1: I want them to be concerned about the four years
Speaker 1: that they are in and doing whatever it is that
Speaker 1: is possible in order to fortify our democracy and continue
Speaker 1: to have conversations about what that looks like. Bring the
Speaker 1: American people in and make them part of the process.
Speaker 1: So much work needs to be done, and we all
Speaker 1: have roles in the work that needs to be done.
Speaker 1: It isn't just the job of the president or the
Speaker 1: vice president or those that live inside of the Beltway
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. It's not just the bureaucrats jobs. It's
Speaker 1: our jobs as citizens. Because we have elected some of
Speaker 1: the most craven, disgraceful disingenuous, disgusting people into office, and
Speaker 1: they have weaponized our exhaustion and ignorance and turn democracy
Speaker 1: on its head. And the only way that we turn
Speaker 1: it right side back up or right side up is
Speaker 1: by staying focused, staying connected, staying engaged, staying hopeful, staying positive,
Speaker 1: staying in a place of dreaming so that we can
Speaker 1: reimagine this country and all of its potential. That's the
Speaker 1: work ahead. That is it for me today, dear friends
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Speaker 1: dear friends, Power to the people and to all the
Speaker 1: people power, get woke, and stay woke as fuck.