WEBVTT - Trump is Everything Wrong With America 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.560 me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.919 I'm going to start off today's show. It is Tuesday. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:29.840 I took the weekend off because I was wrapped up 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:35.839 in WNBA history making. I am new to the WNBA 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:41.200 as of probably a year or so ago. I've always 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:47.440 liked sports. Got into watching the game because of my girlfriend, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.920 who has been a fan of the WNBA since it's 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:56.000 inception in nineteen ninety seven, and friends of mine who 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.600 were like, you need to watch this game. You need 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.320 to watch like the competitive nature of these women and 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.840 support women in sports. And so for the last year 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:12.319 plus I have developed an absolute obsession and as you 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.360 can see, my voice is horse obsession with the WNBA 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.000 and particularly with the Liberty as Barclays is in Brooklyn, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.880 and you know that that is where the Home Bunker is, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.000 so all things Brooklyn big up. But I am so 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.920 excited for the Liberty win for the first time in 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.119 their franchise history in twenty eight years, that they brought 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:44.040 home the WNBA championship. The series was an absolute nail bier. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.199 It was the best in sports that I think people 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.800 have ever seen games went into overtime. I mean, you're 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:57.120 talking about cranking out, grinding out these games with such mastery. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.760 And you know when I talk about it today, because 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.280 you know, one, I was able to be at Game five, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.399 the finals and court side and it was just like extraordinary. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.600 And I've had the wonderful pleasure of being court side 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.120 and a number of Liberty games and it is just incredible. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.520 The center is, you know, just like off the chains 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.079 in terms of vibes. And you know what I love 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.440 so much about the WNBA is the women who are 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.720 committed to social justice. They're committed to change. They're fighting 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.680 for increase pay for themselves, They're fighting for LGBTQ rights, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.440 they're fighting for you know, black lives. They are they 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.520 put it all on the line, and I think what 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.720 makes them exceptional is that they are largely a group 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.600 of queer and black women right the marginalized of the marginalized, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.600 and they are just so fucking talented and incredible that 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.079 to see the league row by leaps and bounds over 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.800 the last couple of years and see the investment being made, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.919 it just goes to show you that what happens when 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.640 investment is made. When people stop, when men, I'll say, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.400 stop making assumptions about what people will watch and what 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.960 people will be interested in, and the you know, watching 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.640 the WNBA and kind of you know, all of the 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.280 pushback at the low salaries in these things. I'm like, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.000 women have been fighting for equal pay in this country, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.120 in all industries for so many fucking years, and I 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.200 think that when you see it on a sports level, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.920 when you're watching men literally play the same game, the 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:45.760 same sport and are paid astronomically higher and being told well, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.760 that's because you know people like watching men's sports, well, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.000 because you've never invested in building out the fan base 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.440 and giving it the eyeballs and the attention and the 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.720 kudos and all of these things that it is needed. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.240 And that's what's been happening with some of the extraordinary 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.520 players over the last couple of years. So it's just 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.320 been really dope to watch and be a part of. 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:12.760 So I just say congrats to the WNBA champions, the 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:19.080 New York Liberty, well deserved, hard fought and just exhilarating. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 I cannot like the countdown and now begins for the 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.000 twenty twenty five season, and I took a break, friends, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.840 because I, like I tell you all the time, take 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:31.960 a break so that you do not have a breakdown 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:38.000 following the polls that are coming out and following like 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.440 everything is deadlocked and everything is you know, neck and neck. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.599 And I think that for some people it can work 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.000 in one way, which is it implores people to keep 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.080 putting the pedal to the metal to keep pushing things out, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.640 to keep you know, getting out the vote. And for 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.280 other people, I think that it is completely totally disheartening 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.760 because did you listen to top fucking Donald Trump over 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.839 the weekend. Did you listen to him go off about 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:11.480 a man's genitalia for twelve minutes and like people applauding 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.760 and clapping like mindless fucking seals, no insult to seals, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.880 but like it is astonishing that this man can put 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.640 on a fucking apron for a stage photo op and 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:30.920 the media foams at the mouth over this bullshit, and 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.719 it's just like how many times do you have to 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.479 be fooled? How many times does Donald Trump have to like, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:45.800 you know, dictate the coverage before these people are like, oh, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.880 maybe this isn't good, maybe it's not helpful. It's so infuriating, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.640 and I'm just you know, every once in a while, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.320 I need a break. And the thing is is that 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.719 much in the same way that the WNBA and women's 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:05.560 sports is indicative of the way that women across industries 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.760 are underpaid and undervalued. You look at what is happening 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.640 on the main stage, on the main political stage, the 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.559 world stage, with our election, and you look at Donald Trump, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.200 who is a fucking bumbling idiot, who is a Cretan, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.760 who is a sexual assaulter, who is a felon, who 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.400 is a grifter, who is a liar, who is no 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.279 one that anyone who cares about their kids or the 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.840 future of this country should look to that man and say, oh, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.240 I would like my child to emulate him. Presidents and 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.960 vice presidents and elected officials used to be held to 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:48.360 a certain standard, a certain kind of dignity and morals 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.440 and values. It's not to say that we haven't had 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.599 throughout time people who have been arrested or people who 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.560 have abused their power, like Nixon, But never in our 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.320 fucking lives, in the history of this country, have we 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.880 seen anything so goddamn offensive as Donald fucking Trump. And 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.200 when you compare him to Kamala Harris, who is a 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.480 woman that is actually worked for a living, that actually 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:24.160 built an impressive career as a prosecutor, as an attorney general, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.320 then as a senator, then as a vice president of 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.040 the United States, and I'm certain I'm missing things in 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:37.440 between there, but like crawled and created and built who 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.920 she is. Donald Trump had his whole life fucking handed 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.440 to him on a plate and still managed to go 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.800 fucking bankrupt multiple times over. But he's white, and he's 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:54.880 a man, and he is famous, so therefore he warrants 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:02.160 the opportunity to become president again. So when you look 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:08.160 at it, I know, like most people, you feel absolutely 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.000 fucking disgusted, because I don't know how else we're supposed 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.040 to feel. But when after taking a break for two 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.080 days to come back to hear that Donald Trump went 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.480 on a twelve minute rant about another man's genitalia to 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.600 people's fucking applause, and that was like a story. But 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.720 the most important story for the media was his fucking 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:38.160 apron at a McDonald's. Folks. Oh my god, oh my god. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.880 It literally makes me want to change careers, you know, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.120 And if Donald Trump is elected, understand that I will 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.160 have to because Donald Trump not only did he say 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.240 last week that he's going to shut down the Department 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.920 of Education, he also plans on shutting down the media. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.360 He also plans on using the military on Americans who 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.840 don't agree with him. The way that America will turn 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.520 fully into a fucking authoritarian regime, the way that this 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:15.080 country will be dictated to by these religious, white supremacist zealots, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.520 and the fact that we are quote unquote neck and 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:26.760 neck right now is so serious and so infuriating. Infuriating 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.680 is the only word that I can use, because I 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.320 got to tell you, folks, you know, just kind of 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:39.240 looking at what's happening right now. You have Elon Musk 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.679 that is doling out million dollar cash prizes as if 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.280 our election is some type of fucking game show like 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.480 The Apprentice two point zero, saying I'll give you a 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.880 million dollars if you sign this pledge and you do 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.600 this thing, just literally selling our democracy off to whomever. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:03.040 Pouring seventy five million dollar into Donald Trump's campaign. And 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.760 I'm looking around wondering where the fuck Merrick Garland is, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.640 But you know, he's where he's always been, probably hiding 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.440 under a desk somewhere with his head in the fucking sand, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.040 just hoping that the building that he's in doesn't come 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.280 crashing and crumbling around him, because he hasn't done anything 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.880 to fortify our democracy or our justice system in the 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.680 last four goddamn years. How it occurs to me is 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.600 that Merrick Garland could very well be the last Attorney 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.520 General of these United States. And do you think that 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.240 he used his last four years in any type of 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:41.080 way that would strengthen our democracy, that would pursue just 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.320 this in the face of criminality. No, he's actually done 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:49.079 quite the fucking opposite. So you know, folks, it makes 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:55.000 me so angry that things could be neck and neck 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.439 that we know that if we just got rid of 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.600 the fucking electoral college and let every person's vote count 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.880 the same, one person, one vote, and everybody counts the same, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.520 it doesn't matter whether you're in Nevada or New York, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.520 whether you're in California or Tennessee, and the person that 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.120 wins the most votes wins. But that's not how this 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.960 plays out because of the racist electoral college. Because the 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:25.240 electoral college was created to give these rural states the 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.959 same amount of weight as these larger states that had 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.760 people of color that were enslaved, right black people, and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.600 so we can't really count them towards the population because 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.280 we don't count them as humans. Like anything that is 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.120 based on the fucking Atlantic slave the Transatlantic slave trade, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.880 do you think that we could get rid of in 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.480 the twenty first century. No, we continue to honor that shit, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.080 create marble statues out of all of it. So you know, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.520 today when I tap back in, I was just like 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:05.120 so completely and totally outdone, just kind of like over 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.360 the United States at this point, and really just like 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.280 over the people right like over the racism, I should say, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.760 not over the people that are standing in line, that 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.840 are early voting at breaking records of their states and 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.840 doing the most, but much in the same way that 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.120 people were forced out in a pandemic to fight for 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.079 their rights as well as trying to fight for their life, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.480 as well as trying to cast the ballot with a 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:40.040 person that you know was urging on lies and ceding 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.480 lies about the election, knowing that his numbers were not 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.680 looking good, and then ended up leading an insurrection following 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.240 the election. The fact that this man is running, folks 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.600 is wild to me. The fact that one in five 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.520 Republicans want Trump to call the election election invallid if 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.960 he loses. It's just like everything that is wrong with 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.720 America is what Trump embodies and what he has given 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.200 people permission to just spew. Like I've seen some of 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.120 these videos by some of these Trump supporters, and it's 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.880 just like, folks will be We'll post these videos of 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.719 these angry white people just screaming, yelling, blah blah blah, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.920 and it's just like, are you okay? Like are you okay? 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.240 How does a gay person getting married have anything to 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.080 do with how you're showing up in your life? How 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.920 does a child learning about the real founding of this 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.880 country do anything other that make us proud about how 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.480 far we've come and how far we've yet to go? Like, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.560 why is it that white people always think that like 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.160 their children will identify with the worst. That says much 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:57.040 more about your parenting than it does our democracy. You know, folks, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:02.440 we are two weeks away from this election's final day, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.080 and I've never wanted anything to be finished more And 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.840 kind of part of what scares me right now is 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.400 the fact that we are two weeks away and it's 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.959 a toss up about whether America will hold on to 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.440 democracy for four more years or we're just over it, or, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.000 as I should say, the white masses are over democracy 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.040 because it no longer works for them in the way 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:37.240 that white supremacy will. I want us to stay extraordinarily hopeful. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.360 I want us to continue to do all that we 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:45.080 can in these final weeks. I encourage folks to early vote. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.960 In New York where I am, early voting will start 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.680 at the end of this week. I for the first time, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.240 will be voting early, as opposed to on election day, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.000 because I'm going to be so busy on election day 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.840 and probably entrance for part of it, so I want 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.760 to make sure that you know I go early and 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.360 get it done. I would love to go back to 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.160 the times when elections were joyous, when it was just 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.800 exciting and going to a watch party and you could 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:20.840 enjoy being a part of the democratic process. I don't 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.240 know if we will ever get back to that place, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.760 and maybe we will, but just not in my lifetime. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.800 Because if Kamala Harris, if democracy is able to win, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.440 we are going to be just as fractured as we 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.480 were on November fifth, on the day that the election 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:43.400 is actually decided, So yes, we will have. If she's 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.440 able to eke out a win, we're able to kind 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.440 of move forward with clear heads, and finally, God willing 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.200 get rid of Donald Trump once and for fucking all, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.120 and then he can deal with the cadre of lawsuits 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.920 that we'll be waiting for him now that he's no 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.760 longer the Republican candidate for president. But if she doesn't 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.320 and it's close enough for them to steal it, I 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.000 don't know, folks, I'm not going to really allow that 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.560 thought to really fully enter into my mind because it's 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.520 not productive. Because as I told my sister one day 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.240 when she was feeling really low about the election, and 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.720 I said, it takes just as much energy to be 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.400 hopeful as it does to wallow in despair. And so 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.320 I'm going to put my energy towards being hopeful and 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.800 energizing all of you as well as myself to do 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.760 what needs to be done because I still believe that 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.760 we can win. I say, fuck all the polls that 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.080 you're reading, even though I go over polls because I 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.480 have to, but I constantly say take them with a 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.560 grain of fucking salt, because you can get them to 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.880 say whatever you want them to say. The polls that 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.480 I care about right now are the early voting polls. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.360 Are the ones that tell me that places like North 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.119 Carolina and Georgia are breaking records. The places that are 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.760 telling me that early voting in Pennsylvania and other battleground 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.240 areas are breaking records from twenty twenty. That's what matters 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.719 to me. Everything else is conjecture until it's done. So 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.560 with that said, my dear friends, keep your head held up, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:28.520 keep working, keep donating, keep canvassing, keep talking to people, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.199 keep getting out the vote, because that that is what 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:38.439 is going to be the difference maker. That is it 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.919 for me today, dear friends on wokef as always power 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.440 to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.680 woke and stay woke as fuck.