Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to ok F Daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: it is fuck It Friday, and you know, usually on
Speaker 1: this day I go through and run down all of
Speaker 1: the things that I want to say fuck it to,
Speaker 1: you know, because essentially this day for me had traditionally
Speaker 1: been about just blowing off steam and getting things out
Speaker 1: and just all of the anger and frustration. Today, however,
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling the blow off steam so much as
Speaker 1: we're going to refer to today as feel it Friday,
Speaker 1: because I have a lot of feelings that have been
Speaker 1: coming up for quite some time, and I want to
Speaker 1: share them with all of you. So first off, let's
Speaker 1: start with the political stuff, and then I'll go into
Speaker 1: what is conjuring up these thoughts and these feelings that
Speaker 1: I'm having. But basically, so to provide a summary of
Speaker 1: the week, the Republicans have no idea what it is
Speaker 1: that they are doing right. They have no desire to
Speaker 1: actually lead this country. They have no desire to offer
Speaker 1: anything to the American people. You all know this. Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney has recently announced that he is not going to
Speaker 1: seek reelection and at the age of seventy six that
Speaker 1: he feels like it is time for him to move on,
Speaker 1: and signaling and stating that he believes the same should
Speaker 1: be true for both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, because
Speaker 1: they're not offering the American people anything, particularly as it
Speaker 1: comes to climate change, which is an issue that has
Speaker 1: become significantly important to the youth of this country. Gen
Speaker 1: Z and Alpha and others right that will come behind
Speaker 1: them because they're going to be the ones that deal
Speaker 1: with the fact that the older generations that are still
Speaker 1: in power, that refuse to give up power, who are Octinagerians,
Speaker 1: are not going to do anything about climate change. They
Speaker 1: actually don't care. And while I disagree strongly with Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney when it comes to Joe Biden, because I think
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden, I have no idea why this man
Speaker 1: wanted to be president of this nation. To be honest,
Speaker 1: he is a public servant to the core of his being.
Speaker 1: And to think that from the age of twenty nine
Speaker 1: until now as he is in I guess right he
Speaker 1: is like seventy nine or eighty that he still has
Speaker 1: a desire to put America first. And that's wild because
Speaker 1: I think that Honestly, Joe Biden is probably truly the
Speaker 1: last of the real statesmen. And it was funny because
Speaker 1: Joy Read the other day was showing clips of Biden
Speaker 1: throughout the years as we're also I'm going to pivot
Speaker 1: for a moment to the impeachment inquiry. Is that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden has lived his life in public service in front
Speaker 1: of cameras since he came, since he was sworn into
Speaker 1: the Senate. Joe Biden up until he got a book
Speaker 1: deal because he was vice president to the nation's first
Speaker 1: black president, had I think a net worth, she said
Speaker 1: of like thirty thousand dollars. Now it's fifteen million, because
Speaker 1: he was able to sign really lucrative book deals. Right,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, unlike Donald Trump, never used his position to
Speaker 1: grift to enrich himself or his family. He literally did
Speaker 1: the job because he cared about the people of Delaware
Speaker 1: and he cared about this country. It's why Barack Obama
Speaker 1: chose him to be vice president of the United States,
Speaker 1: because he was one of the last great statesmen. And
Speaker 1: there was this picture that she put up, and it
Speaker 1: was of a younger Biden sitting next to Ted Kennedy. Now,
Speaker 1: for those of you who you know, maybe too young
Speaker 1: to remember or you know have forgotten. Ted Kennedy was
Speaker 1: referred to and given the name of Lion of the Senate.
Speaker 1: I had, through the course of my career on Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill and in Washington, d C. Before his passing, had
Speaker 1: the incredible opportunity to listen to this man in real life,
Speaker 1: to shake his hand, to ask him questions. And Ted
Speaker 1: Kennedy was an incredible statesman who, while had a really wealthy,
Speaker 1: privileged upbringing in his youth right that you know was wayward,
Speaker 1: dedicated the rest of his life to democracy and doing right.
Speaker 1: And so when I saw this picture of the two
Speaker 1: of them side by side, I kind of got choked
Speaker 1: up because those days are so far gone, you know,
Speaker 1: of looking at people who hold the importance and the
Speaker 1: responsibility that they've been given to do right by this country.
Speaker 1: And for all of the deep wounds and pain that
Speaker 1: we experience regularly racism, sexism, white supremacy, capitalism, right greed,
Speaker 1: what has always made America has been the will and
Speaker 1: the passion of a few right names that you know
Speaker 1: as household names, and others you will never know, who
Speaker 1: dedicated their lives to working behind the scenes in order
Speaker 1: to try and perfect this union. And so when Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney comes out and says something so blatantly false about
Speaker 1: a man that has dedicated his life to public service
Speaker 1: and in his last years is not thinking about sitting
Speaker 1: up in his home in Delaware and being able to enjoy, frankly,
Speaker 1: the fruits of his labor. No, instead, he is using
Speaker 1: his last breaths and days or years in trying to
Speaker 1: restore America to what it once was. And that, I
Speaker 1: think is something that we just kind of gloss over
Speaker 1: because we've been so deeply scarred over the last several
Speaker 1: years in believing that those that are in these positions,
Speaker 1: whether they be at the state, local, or national level,
Speaker 1: whether they bear the title of senator or representative or
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice, that they're just in it for the grift,
Speaker 1: that they're just in it for their own egos and
Speaker 1: self interest. And the fact is is that that didn't
Speaker 1: used to be the case, right Like it wasn't. You
Speaker 1: didn't enter into public service to get rich, right Like
Speaker 1: everybody fucking knows that. Trust me, if I knew, if
Speaker 1: I could, right, I don't have many regrets in my life.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be really honest, I don't have many
Speaker 1: regrets in my life up until this point, thank God. Right, However,
Speaker 1: if I could do things a bit differently career wise,
Speaker 1: I would tell you that I would have spent my
Speaker 1: formative professional years in corporate America making money, and my
Speaker 1: later years right turning to the public good. Because knowing
Speaker 1: just how your voice is elevated, progress can be accelerated,
Speaker 1: and you can get into rooms and spaces that you
Speaker 1: would never have been able to without that certain level
Speaker 1: of wealth. I absolutely would have made different choices, right,
Speaker 1: And I have no I know many people who have
Speaker 1: spent the last twenty some odd years of their lives
Speaker 1: working in corporate settings, making as much money as possible,
Speaker 1: being financially stable in a way that has afforded them
Speaker 1: buying homes and all of these things. And instead, for me,
Speaker 1: the goal had never been to be wealthy. I was
Speaker 1: just like, I'm working for the public good. You know,
Speaker 1: I am working on Capitol Hill. I'm working as a
Speaker 1: lobbyist for nonprofit organizations, not like fucking you know BP oil,
Speaker 1: right Like I'm working in this as a teacher. I'm
Speaker 1: doing education policy. I'm not doing the sexy like you
Speaker 1: know grift of it all, And so you can forget,
Speaker 1: given where we have been over the last several years,
Speaker 1: that that's not why people entered into public service. It
Speaker 1: hasn't honestly been until Donald Trump, right like. Sure, you
Speaker 1: have those legacy candidates like the Bushes, right who that's
Speaker 1: just your birthright because your daddy was president, you should
Speaker 1: be president too. But all in all, it was people,
Speaker 1: largely men, right all men. Yes, we have had women
Speaker 1: fight for the presidency, but none yet have won. So
Speaker 1: you've had these men that came from legacy families and
Speaker 1: some using their privilege, their name, and their wealth to
Speaker 1: advance equity, not going into the job as a cya,
Speaker 1: as a coverer ass And so when I think about,
Speaker 1: you know, my feelings around Mitt Romney's announcement are that
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney has been part of the problem for so long.
Speaker 1: The man is so fucking spineless, right like. And the
Speaker 1: fact is, if you ever watched the documentary which I
Speaker 1: highly encourage people to watch the documentary mit on Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney and his failed bid in twenty twelve for the presidency,
Speaker 1: he didn't have what it takes to be president, nor
Speaker 1: did he actually really want to be and when he
Speaker 1: had the opportunity time and time again to really like
Speaker 1: be a force and use his power, he was very
Speaker 1: milk toast about it all. So for the you know
Speaker 1: the audacity of him to come out now and put
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the same boat and say, oh,
Speaker 1: you're old and you should retire because you're not doing
Speaker 1: anything worthwhile, I'm like, have you been paying attention to
Speaker 1: what your party has been doing or no? And the
Speaker 1: reason that you're running not running for reelection, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it is not just because, oh, you've decided that you're
Speaker 1: too old. It's the fact that you'd no longer share
Speaker 1: the same ideals and values of the Republican Party. And
Speaker 1: I would have thought more of his statement about his
Speaker 1: you know, not seeking reelection if he were to tell
Speaker 1: the truth about why he's not seeking reelection. So Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney missed me with it. As it pertains to this
Speaker 1: sham uh impeachment trial, it's not even an impeachment trial
Speaker 1: because let me let me pass. Let me restate this,
Speaker 1: the sham impeachment that is being led by Marjory Taylor
Speaker 1: Green and others is nothing more than a sham. And
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy did nothing more than succumb to the whims
Speaker 1: of the people that are actually controlling the speakership. Matt
Speaker 1: Gates recently this week did MSNBC and join Ari Melbourn's
Speaker 1: show to essentially trash Kevin McCarthy, and it's probably the
Speaker 1: most honest statement that he's ever said, where he was
Speaker 1: just like, Kevin McCarthy has no power and he's not
Speaker 1: really the speaker and you know, let me tell you
Speaker 1: all of the reasons why. And so he can't even
Speaker 1: pull together a vote, which is what normally would happen
Speaker 1: in these type of proceedings because it would fail. So
Speaker 1: he's just directing his committees to go on a wild
Speaker 1: goose chase because guess what. There have been multiple investigations
Speaker 1: into the bidens at the behest of Donald Trump when
Speaker 1: he was President of the United States, and guess what
Speaker 1: they came up with nothing? Right, So you want to
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, nonsense and watch the corporate media
Speaker 1: followed the same you know, rabbit hole path that they
Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen and in twenty twenty, you know,
Speaker 1: great Kristen Welker, Kristen Welker, who is now the new
Speaker 1: host of Meet the Press has decided that her first
Speaker 1: interview is going to be with the twice impeached sexual
Speaker 1: assaulter facing four indictment charge four indictments and ninety one charges.
Speaker 1: That that's going to be her first interview to what
Speaker 1: give Donald Trump another legitimized space so that he can
Speaker 1: spread lies? Miss me with it, right, it's a ratings grab,
Speaker 1: that's what you want. You don't care truly about democracy.
Speaker 1: And if you think that you're going to be the
Speaker 1: reporter of all reporters that's going to get Donald Trump
Speaker 1: to tell me the truth, move your ego aside, and actually,
Speaker 1: you know, clear out your rose colored eyeglasses because that's
Speaker 1: never going to happen. So, folks, I come to the
Speaker 1: reason why today for me is not fucking Friday, because
Speaker 1: I'm really starting, you know, down a path and a
Speaker 1: journey of what is actually helpful in this moment, in
Speaker 1: this time. You know, I started WOKF six years ago
Speaker 1: because of the rage and the anger I felt and
Speaker 1: the betrayal that I felt at the hands of white
Speaker 1: Americans that voted for Donald Trump in the first place.
Speaker 1: It was a huge for me, kick in the gut
Speaker 1: and like knife through the heart the morning of the
Speaker 1: realization around that election in twenty sixteen, and ever since then,
Speaker 1: I have been spending every day screaming into a microphone,
Speaker 1: trying to desperately wake people up to their power and
Speaker 1: their purpose and create a space for just shared rage
Speaker 1: and grief. And what I realize is that, like while
Speaker 1: six years ago that was incredibly needed, it was needed
Speaker 1: for me. I needed the release, frankly, uh when I
Speaker 1: started the show because I needed to feel like I
Speaker 1: wasn't crazy and that I wasn't alone in my grief
Speaker 1: at how this country just continues to just show itself,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's disappointing when you come from a
Speaker 1: place of wanting to be of service, of wanting to
Speaker 1: pick up you know, the mantle, the baton and you know,
Speaker 1: use your life as an opportunity to advance justice and equity.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you that, like, I'm at
Speaker 1: a stage in my life where I am doing a
Speaker 1: deep reflection on what my purpose is right because rage,
Speaker 1: raging at the machine day in and day out can't
Speaker 1: be it. Because if this is the end of the
Speaker 1: American project right as we know it, if we are
Speaker 1: just you know, finding ourselves kind of searching through the
Speaker 1: rubbles of what we thought this country was. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be standing in the middle of the mess.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be putting a lens on
Speaker 1: what we already know is really horrific, right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm at a place truly where I'm trying to have
Speaker 1: deep reflection about what my offering is in this moment.
Speaker 1: And I know that the twenty twenty four election cycle
Speaker 1: is going to be probably the most excruciating, devastating, heartbreaking
Speaker 1: and violent times in modern history that we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And I state that, and I know that it's true,
Speaker 1: and I'm scared, you know, frankly, and I'm not too
Speaker 1: you know, like a shamed to say, so, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: I'm scared. For like, the other day, there were, you know,
Speaker 1: sounds going off outside of my window, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, it's not the fourth of July, it's past
Speaker 1: Labor Day, Like, what are these sounds? And you know,
Speaker 1: of course it ended up being fireworks, but that for
Speaker 1: a moment, I'm just like, is this an attack? And
Speaker 1: if it is, where the fuck am I going? Right?
Speaker 1: And how quickly am I getting there? My family lives
Speaker 1: on an island right like, and so are they coming in?
Speaker 1: Am I going like, just all of these thoughts started
Speaker 1: going through my head and again thinking about how these
Speaker 1: things can change in the blink of an eye, and
Speaker 1: none of us, no matter how educated we believe ourselves
Speaker 1: to be, are prepared emotionally, mentally or physically for what
Speaker 1: I believe are extraordinary shifts that have been happening that
Speaker 1: are going to continue and accelerate over the next year.
Speaker 1: So again I say to you that I have a
Speaker 1: lot of feelings on this Friday, and a lot of
Speaker 1: deep reflection and work that I am doing internally to
Speaker 1: really understand what this next year, how I want to
Speaker 1: be of service right, and what I intend to offer
Speaker 1: you all of you, all of you that are watching
Speaker 1: this video and listening to the show and share it
Speaker 1: and repost. But I will tell you that I'm currently reading,
Speaker 1: because I am reading like eighty six books right now.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a person that reads multiple books at
Speaker 1: one time, and I'm reading the book called The Four Pivots,
Speaker 1: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Sean A. I believe it's
Speaker 1: gin Right, doctor Ginright, and I got hip to him
Speaker 1: through Brene Brown's podcast that she ended called Unlocking Us.
Speaker 1: And because I'm still going through episodes that I did
Speaker 1: not listen to because I started the podcast her podcast
Speaker 1: series after it ended, and there's so many great people
Speaker 1: who she interviewed on there, just people that I would
Speaker 1: have never known. And I'm just started reading this book,
Speaker 1: and you know, I encourage you all if you want
Speaker 1: to join me in reading it. It's really incredible. I'm
Speaker 1: just like forty pages into this two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: page book, but it's really eye opening, and it is
Speaker 1: in fact serving as a mirror to where I find
Speaker 1: myself in this moment of rage. Can't be the answer
Speaker 1: because it's not. It's not sustainable. And so the question
Speaker 1: then is then what right? Then? What and how and
Speaker 1: where and with whom? So you'll hear me over the
Speaker 1: course of you know, the weeks, the months, the year,
Speaker 1: sharing with you the reflections that I'm having and taking
Speaker 1: in because we're being challenged in so many ways. And
Speaker 1: what I know for my own mental health and emotional
Speaker 1: wellbeing is that the kind of anger, rage and grief
Speaker 1: that we all share is not sustainable. Right. And if
Speaker 1: rage and grief and anger alone were the emotions that
Speaker 1: were necessary for change, then we would have changed a
Speaker 1: long time ago. And so the question that I'm asking
Speaker 1: myself and I'm asking all of you to reflect on
Speaker 1: it is if it's not that, then what is it right? Then?
Speaker 1: Where are we landing? And how can we get there together?
Speaker 1: So that is it, my dear friends, for me on
Speaker 1: this Friday, this feel it Friday, as opposed to a
Speaker 1: bucket Friday. Tell me how you're feeling and reflecting on
Speaker 1: this conversation and if you find yourself in the same
Speaker 1: space where you're just you've exhausted yourself and your level
Speaker 1: of rage and outrage and just ability to be moved
Speaker 1: in that kind of way, and what you may be
Speaker 1: thinking about in terms of how you want to engage
Speaker 1: in this next cycle that we're going to be in,
Speaker 1: and how you're feeling about this moment. So, if you're
Speaker 1: watching this as one of my amazing Patreon supporters, do
Speaker 1: comment under the video. For everyone else, hit me up
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Speaker 1: Both as always power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people power, get woke, and stay woke as fuck.