Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Chicago Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: it has been an absolute insane time here in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'm recording this before tonight's finale of the acceptance speech
Speaker 1: by Vice President Kamala Harris of the party's nomination. What
Speaker 1: I will say preceding that about the last few days
Speaker 1: here at convention have just, you know, been extraordinarily inspiring,
Speaker 1: has been fucking exhausting. I have been going to sleep
Speaker 1: at like one third getting back to my hotel I
Speaker 1: should say, at roughly one point thirty one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, which is actually two o'clock Eastern Standard time,
Speaker 1: which is where my body still is. But there's just
Speaker 1: so much excitement, so much energy. You don't really realize
Speaker 1: it until, of course you sit down or lay down,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh fuck, I'm exhausted and I
Speaker 1: may not make it. The entire convention has been done
Speaker 1: so incredibly well, from the musical guests, from the musical
Speaker 1: roll call of the States, from the comedic skits. I
Speaker 1: thought that Keenan Thompson's Project twenty twenty five skit yesterday
Speaker 1: was extraordinary. For so long, folks, we have been talking
Speaker 1: about Project twenty twenty five in really catastrophic existential terms,
Speaker 1: and all of those things are true. I don't take
Speaker 1: back any of the things that I've ever said with
Speaker 1: regard to the sea giousness and the threats that Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five poses. However, what I will say is
Speaker 1: that this campaign has been absolutely brilliant in their ability
Speaker 1: to turn this Republican Party and their ideas into a joke.
Speaker 1: And I feel like you diffuse the power of a
Speaker 1: bully when you laugh in their faces instead of talking
Speaker 1: about these people as if they are master minds, as
Speaker 1: if they are you know, the titans of the universe
Speaker 1: that are moving this country with just their whims and
Speaker 1: their egos. Instead, you look at what they're offering and
Speaker 1: what they're saying, and you turn it into a fucking joke.
Speaker 1: And so I think that it is really amazing the
Speaker 1: ways that they have been able to use the last
Speaker 1: couple of days to frame up not only the start
Speaker 1: contrast in vision, an idea, in energy and in vibe
Speaker 1: between the Democrats and the Republican Party, but how they
Speaker 1: have also been able to turn Donald Trump, JD. Vance
Speaker 1: and the Republicans into the jokers that they are, and
Speaker 1: to me, that has been something that has been missing.
Speaker 1: They're not worthy of our fear, They're worthy of our
Speaker 1: ridicule and of our laughter. And so I think that
Speaker 1: the last couple of days have been really amazing, and
Speaker 1: I want to turn now to last night's speeches and
Speaker 1: the ones that really stood out to me. First off,
Speaker 1: what I love so much about convention is the way
Speaker 1: in which we're able to profile the depth of our
Speaker 1: talent and bench in the Democratic Party. When you compare
Speaker 1: that to the people that were on the stage at
Speaker 1: the RNC, they look like fucking clowns. They look like
Speaker 1: toddlers that were caught with their hands in the cookie
Speaker 1: jar or playing in the mud, or like eating paste.
Speaker 1: Is essentially what the Republican National Convention look like. And
Speaker 1: I think that looking at our bench and the talent
Speaker 1: and the brilliance that we have again just restores my
Speaker 1: faith in the Democratic Party. So some of the speeches
Speaker 1: that stood out to me, like, first off, Hakeem Jeffries,
Speaker 1: who God willing in seventy five days will be made
Speaker 1: Speaker Jeffries because Democrats will take back the House and
Speaker 1: take back the Senate as well as taking the White House.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, Hakeem Jeff Freeze talking
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump as that boyfriend that you broke up
Speaker 1: with but won't fucking go away and keep spinning the block,
Speaker 1: which is a very Brooklyn, New York term, was just fantastic.
Speaker 1: I love Hakeem's delivery. He's so punchy and just funny
Speaker 1: and very New York and you know, I love it.
Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey, I thought was really brilliant yesterday. And here's
Speaker 1: what I will say about Oprah. First off, did you
Speaker 1: all know that she was a registered independent? Because I
Speaker 1: did not. So like, she's, you know, talking about herself
Speaker 1: as a registered independent and being there to talk to
Speaker 1: other independents, and I'm like, how did I miss this?
Speaker 1: But apparently a lot of people that I talked to
Speaker 1: did not know that she was an independent. You know.
Speaker 1: The first public candidate that she ever came out for,
Speaker 1: and we all know this was Barack Obama in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. I don't remember, and that I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because of the vortex that we've lived
Speaker 1: in for the past eight years. I don't remember if
Speaker 1: she came out and endorsed Hillary Clinton. But I do
Speaker 1: know that her first ever political endorsement was for Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, I was in conversation with
Speaker 1: a couple of friends of mine and they were saying,
Speaker 1: you know, it honestly makes sense, right, for the role
Speaker 1: that Oprah has played in media and in America kind
Speaker 1: of being like America's talk show host, it makes sense
Speaker 1: that she wouldn't want to pick one side or the
Speaker 1: other and kind of be you know, Switzerland in that way,
Speaker 1: but then really use her power and her platform both
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight and now to you know,
Speaker 1: stand with people whose values align with her own. What
Speaker 1: I also thought was really great is that Oprah Winfrey
Speaker 1: is the very person that Jadie Vance is telling us
Speaker 1: is unworthy of having a voice, is unworthy of having
Speaker 1: a vote, and it is just unworthy of existing. Right.
Speaker 1: Winfrey is a postmenopausal which you know became a term
Speaker 1: because of JD. Vance and that podcast that he was on,
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, she is a postmenopausal, childless woman,
Speaker 1: not a cat lady, because she famously has a bunch
Speaker 1: of dogs and is famously unmarried. Right, And we see
Speaker 1: who the fuck Oprah is, right and who she has
Speaker 1: been for decades, and that is the very image of
Speaker 1: the person that JD. Vance tells us is unworthy, this brilliant,
Speaker 1: multi billionaire philanthropist and media giant. So I thought that
Speaker 1: her digs at him and at the Republican Party were great.
Speaker 1: I thought that her story with regard to integration and
Speaker 1: the journey of America was breathtaking, because if there is
Speaker 1: nothing else, you know, she is extraordinary. So I think
Speaker 1: that there are just so many ways that Democrats have
Speaker 1: showcased how important this election is, how important this moment is,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, how incredible of an opportunity that we have,
Speaker 1: because again, I think that instead of framing this election
Speaker 1: through the lens of fear, which I myself have been doing,
Speaker 1: because I have been, you know, prior to the last month,
Speaker 1: very honest about my fear, very honest about my grief
Speaker 1: and anxiety that all of us have been experiencing over
Speaker 1: the last year, but particularly over the course of this
Speaker 1: presidential cycle. And so the ability to now in such
Speaker 1: a short period of time, because folks, again it has
Speaker 1: only been a month, it has only been a month,
Speaker 1: to frame this now in not us voting from fear,
Speaker 1: but voting from a place of possibility and opportunity that
Speaker 1: the country has. That we have is the greatest pivot
Speaker 1: that I have ever seen a party make. And again
Speaker 1: we have to give credit where credit is due, which
Speaker 1: is to Joe Biden. Which is why we continue to
Speaker 1: hear throughout this week the chance of thank you Joe,
Speaker 1: because without that man doing what is just unthinkable, giving
Speaker 1: up power, putting aside ego, showing what it means to
Speaker 1: truly be a patriot and put country over party or
Speaker 1: self interest and desire, we wouldn't be in this place right.
Speaker 1: We would still be hanging on for dear life, where
Speaker 1: now we have a fighting chance, like a real chance
Speaker 1: to win. And so I will say that it feels
Speaker 1: really fucking good, and you know, shout out to all
Speaker 1: of the people too who are getting at me on
Speaker 1: social media and saying that it's wonderful to see me
Speaker 1: in a place of joy and just happiness, because y'all
Speaker 1: have been listening, following, you know, for a long time,
Speaker 1: and you know, like I'm real, I'm a real person.
Speaker 1: I don't perform all I do that's different from my
Speaker 1: day to day life and the time that I spend
Speaker 1: interviewing and recording shows is turn on a microphone. But
Speaker 1: how I am on this mic is how I am
Speaker 1: in life, with my friends and with my family, and
Speaker 1: so I don't pretend. So the joy that you were
Speaker 1: sensing for me is fucking real. And it's not to
Speaker 1: say that again, I don't know what is at stake
Speaker 1: and at risk. You all know that I do. But
Speaker 1: by this joyful warrior spirit being modeled for all of
Speaker 1: us through this campaign, it's just given us another way
Speaker 1: to fight, another way to look at the playing field
Speaker 1: that we are on. And you know, there is no
Speaker 1: better person to be honest than coach Walls, who last night,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how you could listen to that man,
Speaker 1: watch those videos, see his family and not love that
Speaker 1: man and not want that man to be our vice
Speaker 1: president of the United States. Listen to his former you know,
Speaker 1: students and the kids on his team who are now
Speaker 1: obviously grown men, but wow, you know, and the ending
Speaker 1: of his speech in you know, giving everything football metaphors
Speaker 1: and coaching us through like I feel his energy and
Speaker 1: it's like I want to run through a wall for
Speaker 1: this ticket because I believe that if we are able
Speaker 1: to make it possible for them to govern, that the
Speaker 1: future of America is going to be so bright that,
Speaker 1: of course there will be disagreements. Of course there will
Speaker 1: be mistakes that are made, as our Forever Flowtus beautifully stated.
Speaker 1: But the fact is is that I think that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris and Tim Walls are exactly the shot of hopefulness, energy,
Speaker 1: good spiritedness that this country has desperately been starved of.
Speaker 1: And I say that not because the Biden Harris ticket
Speaker 1: haven't tried to do their best, but I mean, folks,
Speaker 1: when you're coming into office with over five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: Americans dead and thousands three thousand, If you guys, remember
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was sworn in after the insurrection, after
Speaker 1: in an attempt to overthrow our government and our democracy
Speaker 1: in our election, that three thousand plus Americans were dying
Speaker 1: a day a day from COVID, and you had one
Speaker 1: party that was telling us that's no big deal, who cares,
Speaker 1: didn't matter that we were living in cities and towns
Speaker 1: where there were medical ships that were pulled up to
Speaker 1: port in New York because we didn't have enough hospital
Speaker 1: beds that our dead loved ones were being stored in
Speaker 1: refrigerator trucks in our neighborhoods, where lines for food banks
Speaker 1: were miles long. Folks like, there was hope on the
Speaker 1: way in terms of the distribution of millions of shots
Speaker 1: in arms to stop the death. But as you know,
Speaker 1: barely see now because mainstream corporate media doesn't want you
Speaker 1: to see, people are still being hospitalized because of COVID
Speaker 1: and people are living with the effects of long COVID.
Speaker 1: There was just I just saw right before I came
Speaker 1: on air. You know, the next round of vaccines are
Speaker 1: available for those sixty five and older and those with
Speaker 1: high risk. All of that was made possible by the
Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration, and so there wasn't a time for
Speaker 1: jubulation when we were just trying to hold on the
Speaker 1: last four years. So that's why this moment feels so needed,
Speaker 1: so necessary, because we want to be able to move
Speaker 1: from a place of surviving to thriving. And the only
Speaker 1: way that we do that is if we do every
Speaker 1: fucking thing that we can to get Kamala Harris and
Speaker 1: Tim Walls through that finish line. Because it is going
Speaker 1: to take action every single day of registering people to vote, donating,
Speaker 1: holding house parties, persuading people, getting people to the polls.
Speaker 1: Early voting will start in just a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: in some places. So as Tim Walls has been saying,
Speaker 1: we will sleep when we're dead, but we have to
Speaker 1: run through the tape on this one. Then numbers have
Speaker 1: to be so overwhelming that they cannot be disputed. And
Speaker 1: if each of us commits to that work, we will
Speaker 1: get this done, and we will be victorious, and we
Speaker 1: will begin to put this country back on a path
Speaker 1: of progression and thriving. So I'm excited about listening to
Speaker 1: the Vice President. I am excited about the close out
Speaker 1: of the DNC, and you will hear my thoughts on
Speaker 1: that on Monday's show. And you know, I just I
Speaker 1: wish for all of us the continued energy and determination
Speaker 1: persistence to get this job done, because it is not
Speaker 1: somebody else's job. It is all of our jobs to
Speaker 1: get this done. That is it for me today from Chicago.
Speaker 1: It has been an extraordinary time and an experience and
Speaker 1: a privilege to be a part a small part of
Speaker 1: the history that is being made. And I am so optimistic,
Speaker 1: so hopeful about what could possibly come next, and I
Speaker 1: hope you all are as well. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on wokef As always, power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.