WEBVTT - Racism isn't a Dirty Word 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ook F Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.840 me your Girl Daniel Moody. Pre recorded from the Long 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.479 Island Bunker. Folks, I am taking a bit of a 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.000 respite as things begin to heat up even more in 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.800 this election cycle, so it is really important to take 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.680 breaks when I can, But as always I will leave 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.640 you with great episodes and guests that will keep you know, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.720 our wheels turn in and keep the conversation going. And 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.800 today I am so excited to welcome back on to 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.000 OKF my friend and co host of Democracy Ishaha hot 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.840 Al Li Wash and I get into a conversation about 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.600 how race and racism are playing in this election and 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.080 how the mainstream corporate media continues to fuck fail because 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.720 that's what they do well. And we also talk about 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.440 our predictions on how this cycle is going to go 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.040 and what is signaling to us where the wind is. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:19.120 That conversation is coming up next, folks. Whenever I have 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.399 the opportunity to get a hold of my dear co 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.840 host of Democracy ish juajahat Ali and bring him over 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.399 to WOKF, I am always thrilled. You know him as 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.480 an author of Go Back to Where You Came From, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:37.560 which is pretty much you know, the Maga mantra. So 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.560 waj let's start off today. For the last two weeks 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.600 or so, we have actually had good news since the 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.920 switch up in the presidential race. Kamala Harris is really 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.560 just riding on a wave of energy right now. We 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.920 saw it coming out of her rally in Atlanta. We're 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.440 watching it with a dozen phone calls every single week, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.040 organized calls to get people to donate from you know, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.040 all different demographic groups. But Donald Trump still is starved 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.240 for attention, and the media loves to give it to him, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.680 even when it's bad media. So I want to get 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.359 your reactions first to when he appeared at the National 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.120 Association of Black Journalists, the disrespect, the misogyny, the racism, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.720 but then the headlines that came after that, which was 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.440 again centering Donald Trump. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.359 I will gladly answer that question, but first you have 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.600 to tell me when you turned black, Danielle. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.360 I thought I would imagine the Earth, but I think, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.679 like the Hulk or like Spider Man, there must have 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.520 been some incident that happened. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.160 Well, there a black spider that beat you at puberty, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.720 and then all of a sudden, your blackness got activated. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.880 That's probably what happened to Kamala because apparently, even though 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.520 she was the daughter of an Indian woman and a 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.280 black man, and even though for the rest of us 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.000 who've been following her career, because you know, I'm born, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.800 raised in the Bayry, California, moved here to Virginia ten 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:02.960 years ago from my wife because I'm married up, all 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.360 of us knew she claimed black Indian. All of us 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.639 knew that her mother was Indian. All of us saw 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.280 her migdozas with Mindy Kaling. All of us are aware 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.160 because maybe we grew up in the Bay Area, this 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.400 magical unicorn fantasy land where there's a lot of biracial 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.760 folk that you can claim two identities and be celebrated 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.080 as such and still be black, to the point where, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.840 if you're Kamala Harris, you go to historically black college 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.320 Howard and pledge at a black sorority, you know, and 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:35.040 also wear Saudi's and eat you know, rice with your hands, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.440 and you know you have a niece, Mina who also 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.040 wears Saudis and claims all these different identities. Look what 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.040 it shows is the following. And I'm going to say 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.440 this very slowly because I'm about to drop a huge, huge, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.080 verbal hammers. It's going to be very very, you know, controversial. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.640 Donald Trump is a racist. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.640 Oh my god, I know. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.000 I was waiting for nine years, but folks, I think 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.560 I've seen enough. He is a racist. When you act 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.160 like a racist, behave like a racist, talk like a racist, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:16.320 engage in racist behavior. Support racists are endorsed by racists, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.679 have thirty years of a brilliant racist track record. Maybe, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.520 just maybe you are a racist. And what infuriates me 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.359 is in the year twenty twenty four of our lord, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:35.680 who is white, very white. Apparently, corporate media has been 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.960 incapable and unwilling to confront reality and say the truth 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.400 for sake of maintaining a bullshit fantasy of both sides 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.320 and an asymmetry where they have lowered the bar for 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.400 Donald Trump and Omega and now the bar is in 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.520 hell in order to whitewash his sins and somehow make 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.000 him presentable. This is who he has always been. Danielle 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.479 and I saw that thirty five minute press conference shit show, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.200 which was supposed to last an hour, but then his 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.880 drum campaign was like, no, this is a disastrous I 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.640 saw it. Lie. I was not shocked because I expected this, Danielle. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.360 You and I talked about this. This is who he is. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.039 He survived an assassination attempt, and you know, before I 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.479 hand the baton back to you, you and I kept 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.360 saying he will not change. In many of our colleagues 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.680 who said that he was serene, pensive, a unifier. You 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.679 need to resign. You have money, you come from money, 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.640 you have access to money. Resign. This job isn't for 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.800 you. You're not built for this. You're not made for this. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.400 Go do something else. This is who he is, Danielle. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.200 This is who he has always been. But the differences, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.120 and I think this is the pivot. This the year 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.000 is twenty twenty four. We're not gonna sit there and 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.480 allow you to mock and ridicule and shame a black 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.640 person like you did Obama comedy. Harris isn't gonna give 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.320 you her birth certificate like Obama had to, which is 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.880 so friggin' humiliating to this day I think about it. It 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.000 makes me so pissed off. We're not here for it. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.599 That's the past. We're moving forward. And Kamala Harris that 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.880 she did exactly. She goes, I'm not wasting my time because, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.360 as Tony Morrison says, racism is a distrastraction, and she says, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.599 I don't have time for this. We're moving forward. So 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.880 that's the pivot, and I think that's where we are. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.680 And I think this week in particular, which is felt 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.000 like a year with Kamala Harris saying say to my face, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.120 with Megan the stallion, with that energy and momentum compared 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.280 and contrasted to this. If she wins, there's still a 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.520 long time to go, folks, Right, this will be the 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.159 pivot moment in my opinion. I'm sorry, I had a 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:36.599 lot to say. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.839 No, no, no, I think that it's right. I think 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.160 that Look, the mainstream media is still stuck in this 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.520 place that doesn't exist, like you said, the both sides ism, 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.400 this idea that like, oh, we have to give the 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.599 mic and headlines to each group, which they don't do 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.520 equally regardless. Right, So what made me really pissed off, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.840 even though the Washington Post has since, you know, as 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:04.560 you said, change their headline is that when a person 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.480 of color is attacked by a racist, somehow it becomes 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.640 a pivotal moment for us, Like, how does that even 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.240 make sense? 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.400 I'm gonna quote the headline. This was the headline yesterday, folks. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.880 I caught it before it trended and they changed the headline. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.320 Me and a few others jumped on immediately. It was 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.920 the following I'm not making this up after everything that 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.920 we just said. This is how Washington Post ran with 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.960 that batchit crazy racist, unhinged Trump rant and humiliation. I 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.120 should add of the black women who were moderating the panel, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:41.160 this is quote. Harris faces a pivotal moment as Trump 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.720 questions her identity. The first black and Asian woman to 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.800 be a major party presidential nominie, confronts her opponent's comments 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.440 that she quote became a black person. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.400 It is just I mean you, honestly, you can't make 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.080 this shut up, like you really can't. And for somebody 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.480 to have written thatdline and said, oh yeah, we're gonna 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.760 run with this because now he's a racist. But she 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.440 needs to be on the defensive to somehow defend her identity, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.840 which she has talked about ad nauseum when she was 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.640 ag when she's a senator, when she's a vice president 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.920 of the United States, like this is not news. And 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.320 the fact that Donald Trump and white supremacists can't allow 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.520 people to hold multiple identities right at one time. Again, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.320 is just the narrowness and the ignorance of their entire movement, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.320 right Like he thought that in that moment that he 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.640 had a yogatcha moment where what he's going to try 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.360 and pin the Indian population against the black population because 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.880 we don't all know that we can embody multiple identities 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:44.560 at one time. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.319 Can I tell you what New York Times did before 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.360 they changed it? This was the New York Times before 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.679 they updated it. Here we go, Trump says, Harris quote 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.880 became a black person only recently. That was what they 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.200 led with, and then they finally had to change it. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:07.280 They change it finally to this, Trump falsely questions Harris's 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.240 identity as a black woman. We're recording this on Thursday, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.079 and they still haven't used the r word racist. And 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.640 I want to tell everyone, I've tweeted this three times now, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.280 and even before I just jumped on your show, I 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.840 tweeted again. I said, friends and colleagues in corporate media, 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.240 the water is warm, jump in join me and Danielle. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.480 You can call him racist. You can use the racist word. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:36.480 You can racially changed, not racially highlighted, not racially shaded. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.480 Just racist racial flareup. Remember that one. It's like herpes, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.920 it just flaw. Just what's the medicine for racial flarup? 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.240 It's interesting, I have to wash cream. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.240 Yeah, whatever it is, it's white, and whatever it is, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:51.240 it involves a hood. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.040 Okay, I say this is speaking of a hood. Scott Jennings, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.920 the human Abiba on CNN, who's now the resident token 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.920 right wing guy, even he admitted yesterday, almost couting of verbatim, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.800 that Donald Trump craped the bed and he has to 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.199 change the sheets. And I said, yep, those sheets will 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.160 still be white with holes and it'll be worn as 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:09.520 a hood. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:17.480 Unbelievable other than Amber Rose, who watched that interview and 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.200 said that she thought it was amazing and that he 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.000 did such a great job. And then everybody's just like, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.280 were you watching the same interview the rest of us did, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.000 like on Planet Earth or no, I want to get 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.440 your thoughts was on. We see what the media is doing, right, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.199 We actually see that us calling them out in social 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.240 media is showing signs of working with the pivots that 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:45.360 they're making. Yeah, but their initial desire to just go 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.439 with Trump and lean into racism. Seems to not have 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.920 changed or pivoted at all since two thousand and eight 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.719 with birtherism till now birthaism wash was sixteen years ago. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.200 Sixteen years years ago is when Donald Trump became the 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:07.280 face of birtherism, and the media still hasn't learned shit. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.000 Not just even birtherism. If you remember, I'm going to 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.280 New York Times a couple of years ago did a 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.360 profile of the Tea Party, I think the tenth anniversary 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.719 of the Tea Party, and if you recall, they had 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.839 to update the content in the article because they initially 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:28.480 did not include the tea parties racism, which was a 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.640 fundamental part of the Tea Party that you you know. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.160 I remember when I was asked about on NPR years ago, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.240 I mentioned this. I said, you know, because I was 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.040 researching it and plus you know, I have eyes, and 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.480 I was like, this is the fundamental part of it. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.640 And the Republican was brought on and goes, we're not 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.520 against Obama because there's just a few of us. I'm like, no, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.520 this is part and parcel of the unquote economic anxiety 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.600 that has riled up the quote unquote cultural anxiety of 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.400 the Tea Party that later became what MAGA, that later 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:02.520 what took over the Republican Party. And speaking of economic anxiety, Danielle, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.080 let's take it back to twenty sixteen. Oh no, no, no, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.440 it wasn't racism. It was the economic anxiety of these 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.880 blue collar workers in the rust belt. Right, And so okay, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.920 let's say, maybe you are allowed to be fooled by 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.040 that narrative. I get it. Even though all the data, folks, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.200 and all the studies, numerous studies have shown it's important 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:27.160 to mention this. It was wait for it, cultural anxiety 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.040 that made Barack Obama voters turn to Trump, the fear 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.600 of being wait for it replaced by people who look 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.640 like me and Danielle. All right, so let's fast forward. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.120 Let's be generous. It's no longer twenty sixteen, Danielle, it 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:45.000 is twenty twenty four. Donald told white supremacists to stand 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.800 back and stand by. He dined with Nick Fuentez, a 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.640 white supremacist to this day has refused to condemn him. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.200 Says that black people come from shithole countries. Why can't 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.920 people come from Norway? I've been to Norway, great country. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.640 White as hell, it's so white it made my teeth white. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.640 So he's a person who just last night, yet again, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.600 called Chuck Schumer a Palestinian, used Palestinian as a slur 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.640 against a Jewish a senator. Right, he's a person who 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.480 said Kung flu in China flu, which inspired hate against 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.560 Asian Americans, innocent Asian Americans who were just walking by. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.439 But people said Jim a punch of the face killed. Right. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:26.280 Misogynist mocked black journalist, mocked black cities, you know, chaos, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.360 urban crime, told women of color, the squad congressman of 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.840 color to go back to their country even though they're 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.600 US congressman. This is just the top of my head, Danielle. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.560 I didn't prepare for this. This is just me keeping receipts. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.600 And then, as you said yesterday thirty five minutes off 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:49.360 the bat mocks, ridicules, humiliates a Rachel Scott ABC News 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.719 anchor who did a great job under fire. She was 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.680 put in a terrible position, calls and news, fake news, mocks. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:00.400 DII Hires says Kamala turned black, lied about being the 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.600 best president for black people since Lincoln. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:03.640 Abraham Lincoln. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.480 Mm hmm. I think he's freed the slaves. Oh yeah, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.800 and then also LBJ did something called the Civil Rights Act. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.960 But what do I know, I'm just a DEI hire. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.040 And so Danielle like, I'm sitting here thinking to myself 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:21.360 after all of this and quoting Hitler, what look, does 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.400 he need to wear a hood? 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:23.640 He needs to wear a hood. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.040 He needs to wear a hood, and he needs to 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.440 self identify as a racist. Just how Josh Hawley self 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.680 identified as a Christian nationalist. And then it's like, oh, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.720 I'm a Christian nationalist because he says so It's like, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.560 it doesn't the evidence that you just laid out is 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.440 decades long, right, that was off the dome. He has 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.800 all but he has all but used the N word, right, 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:54.360 and that is their barometer for finally called I don't 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.800 know if journalists have ever have ever called anybody a 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.320 racist that is a race that wasn't like directly involved 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.560 in the klu Klux Klan or the White Citizens Council 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.000 in the nineteen sixties. And so it's always like, well, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.120 we don't really know what's inside their hearts, and I'm like, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.880 but I know what's coming out of his fucking mouth, right, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.400 So if I know what's coming out of his mouth? 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.840 Then I have listening ears, Then what am I supposed 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.880 to to doce from the evidence that is presented, your. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.880 Ears are better than Donald who couldn't listen. Apparently yesterday 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.160 at the NEABJ, you know, I asked my wife, who's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.280 a doctor, is there a racist bone, because again I'm 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.760 just a DEI hire and a recovering attorney and she's 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.440 a doctor. And she said, there is not a racist 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.440 bone in the body. And then I asked my brother 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.960 in law, who's a cardiologist, and I said, is there 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:44.520 something as a racist aorta or a racist vein in 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.560 the heart? And he said no. So again, Danielle, I 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.640 don't know about people's hearts. I'm not Ben Carson. I 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.800 don't know about racist bones. I judge people by their 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.160 repeated behaviors and actions. And what did Maya Angelous say? 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:04.400 When people show you they are, believe them. So I'm 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.440 not quite sure what else mainstream corporate media needs to see. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.680 But I'm pretty sure and this is my theory. Wah. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.120 I know that the road ahead to the election is 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.280 one that is going to be filled with obstacles. I 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.880 know that people are feeling excited now, but momentum, you know, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.600 ebbs and flows, and I hope that we can persist. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.840 I hope that these organizing calls and the volunteerism like 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.800 continues at a fever pitch, and these endorsements continue to 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.880 roll in in the way that they are. But I 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:40.000 think that Donald Trump is going to have a fucking meltdown. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.480 I think that what is going to happen, and what 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.440 has already begun to happen, is that he's losing the 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.240 attention from the media, is losing the spotlight. The poll 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.040 numbers are showing that the gaps are being closed, and 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:00.160 the thought and the idea of him losing to this 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:04.400 black woman mm hmm on the national stage, I think 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.440 is going to send him into the types of tie 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.560 raids that like we haven't really seen yet. Like I 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.760 think he's gonna let it all hang out before the election. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:16.520 What do you think? 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.440 I think that's in astute observation, because look, just look 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.919 at this list lot this week. Right, he realizes Kamalize 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.560 now either tied or advanced in the polls. He realizes 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.800 the pick of JD. Vance, who loves couches, has been disastrous. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.040 He's got JD. Vance has the lowest favorability of any 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.560 VP candidate in our lifetime. He's actually gone from like 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.360 negative three to negative fifteen, which means in one week 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.520 he's gone even worse. And so he realizes, I've lost 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.720 the momentum. I picked this friggin lump of coal as 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.240 my VP. I don't have the energy. I thought I 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.600 could ride my bandaged ear to the presidency after I 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.639 sat there and the honestly, that's what he thought. I 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.320 survived in an assassination attempt. I got up, I said fight, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.159 I'm against old man Biden's I could golf, and now 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.439 he's like, crap, I have to actually work and I 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.240 have to go to the rallies. And this is where 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.800 Republicans on the DL are horrified. And the reason why 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.960 they're horrified is they realize the more Donald speaks, the 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.800 more people remember how and who he is, and the 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.959 fact that he's not agile. He cannot evolve, he cannot pivot. 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.960 He's like an eighties band who has one He's a 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:33.760 one hit wonder. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:34.720 One hit hit. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.040 Yeah, And so is he changed no? Can he change no? 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.520 Has he ever changed? No? And now he's older, and 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.520 now you have this dynamic, attractive, energetic black Indian woman 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.520 who smiles and mocks him and wears a blue pastel 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.560 power suit and has got Megan the stallion and now 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.159 has a momentum and has zoom calls that are raising 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.439 more money than actual fundraisers. And he's slipping now in 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.439 Arizona and Nevada and North Carolina is in play, and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.200 there's a sentencing coming up, and he realizes he peaked. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.479 He'll never have that glorious week where Biden leffed up 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.639 in the debates and there was a mutiny and there 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.320 were calls for him to dropout, and he's survived in 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.960 an assassination attempt and he had the photopos and he 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.480 had the RNC. That's all gone, Danielle, that's all gone. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.480 He has peaked, and he has plateaued. And I think 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.960 he's sinking, especially with the sentencing coming up and well 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.760 the hearing and guess what, folks, Kamala Harris has not 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.359 chosen her VP and has not had the DNC. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:46.320 Yeah, and to be honest, we haven't started. Look, I 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.520 think that Donald Trump doesn't rise again. And I think 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.480 that because of that, I think that he sinks to 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.840 New lows and I don't know. I mean, look, his 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.440 scapins are going to be sick offense, his cult followers 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.560 are going to be his cult followers. But what I 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.840 do know is that you need more than that to 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.119 win an election. The last question I want to ask you, though, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.960 this came from one of my followers who said that 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.920 she really thinks that because the energy and the vibe 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.919 has shifted, that Republicans are going to shift towards criminality 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.160 even more in terms of stealing this election. What are 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:27.680 your thoughts about that? 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.280 Two things as we move forward, Three things. First to 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.000 all going to your points. Number one, Trump will triple 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.720 down on the racism. He has nothing left. And after 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.000 the NABJ conference, I want to remind people that the 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.520 entire Trump campaign thought this would be the winning ticket, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.520 and they mocked her at his rally and they had 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.960 a big poster of her on the screen headline first 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.000 Indian American Senator wins and they thought, ah see you, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.479 we'll get her. So they going to change, Daniel, It's 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.520 going to get more nasty, more ugly, more racist. Number two, 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.280 I agree with you. We're dealing with a violent insurrection 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.639 which has never ended, and the first coup attempt was 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.240 a dress rehearsal. Expect them to get more desperate, more nasty, 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.880 more ugly, more criminal, more violent. And number three though, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.520 and this is where I think is the positive pivot 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.359 as of this recording. Just about two hours ago, the 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:25.080 former Republican governor of Illinois just formally endorsed Kamala Harris. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.800 You have seen CEOs more CEOs come out this week 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.880 endorsing Kamala Harris. You saw President Biden and Kamala Harris 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.399 in a historic active diplomacy work with several nations to 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:44.120 release sixteen prisoners. Not just there were four Americans, three 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:45.720 Americans and is one with the green card, but there 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:50.080 were Germans there and Russian dissidents. And so that to me, Danielle, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:54.040 the fact that Putin gave Biden that win and Harris 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.879 that win, because the reporting has come out that the 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.720 Biden administration said Kamala Harris was pivotal in this, That 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.800 to me is Putin saying Donald, you are no longer 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.480 my reek. I think you're gonna lose because Donald kept 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.600 saying alone, I'm gonna be doing it. And if Putin 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.560 really wanted to help Donald, he would have waited. 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:15.040 He would have waited yep. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.920 And so that to me is a sign. All these 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.040 are signs that people kind of know where the wind 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.240 is and they're like, I think people are done with 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:28.120 Donald But look, folks, this election is gonna come down 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.960 to six states, yep, and it's gonna be it's it's scary, Like, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.119 I think she's gonna win the popular vote, Democrats win 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.880 the popular vote. I think it's gonna be historic turnout. 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.679 You don't know. It literally comes down to six to 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.879 the point where if Trump wins Pennsylvania, there are several 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:50.440 paths to victory, but it becomes dicey. If he loses Pennsylvania, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.040 his path becomes very hard. That's literally it's like down 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.919 to three states, folks. That's that's how absurd it is 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.560 so pedal to the medal. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.840 Well, my friend Waja hot Dei Ali, thank you so 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.680 much for making the time for me and wok F 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:09.959