Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start off today's show. It is Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I took the weekend off because I was wrapped up
Speaker 1: in WNBA history making. I am new to the WNBA
Speaker 1: as of probably a year or so ago. I've always
Speaker 1: liked sports. Got into watching the game because of my girlfriend,
Speaker 1: who has been a fan of the WNBA since it's
Speaker 1: inception in nineteen ninety seven, and friends of mine who
Speaker 1: were like, you need to watch this game. You need
Speaker 1: to watch like the competitive nature of these women and
Speaker 1: support women in sports. And so for the last year
Speaker 1: plus I have developed an absolute obsession and as you
Speaker 1: can see, my voice is horse obsession with the WNBA
Speaker 1: and particularly with the Liberty as Barclays is in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: and you know that that is where the Home Bunker is,
Speaker 1: so all things Brooklyn big up. But I am so
Speaker 1: excited for the Liberty win for the first time in
Speaker 1: their franchise history in twenty eight years, that they brought
Speaker 1: home the WNBA championship. The series was an absolute nail bier.
Speaker 1: It was the best in sports that I think people
Speaker 1: have ever seen games went into overtime. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talking about cranking out, grinding out these games with such mastery.
Speaker 1: And you know when I talk about it today, because
Speaker 1: you know, one, I was able to be at Game five,
Speaker 1: the finals and court side and it was just like extraordinary.
Speaker 1: And I've had the wonderful pleasure of being court side
Speaker 1: and a number of Liberty games and it is just incredible.
Speaker 1: The center is, you know, just like off the chains
Speaker 1: in terms of vibes. And you know what I love
Speaker 1: so much about the WNBA is the women who are
Speaker 1: committed to social justice. They're committed to change. They're fighting
Speaker 1: for increase pay for themselves, They're fighting for LGBTQ rights,
Speaker 1: they're fighting for you know, black lives. They are they
Speaker 1: put it all on the line, and I think what
Speaker 1: makes them exceptional is that they are largely a group
Speaker 1: of queer and black women right the marginalized of the marginalized,
Speaker 1: and they are just so fucking talented and incredible that
Speaker 1: to see the league row by leaps and bounds over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and see the investment being made,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you that what happens when
Speaker 1: investment is made. When people stop, when men, I'll say,
Speaker 1: stop making assumptions about what people will watch and what
Speaker 1: people will be interested in, and the you know, watching
Speaker 1: the WNBA and kind of you know, all of the
Speaker 1: pushback at the low salaries in these things. I'm like,
Speaker 1: women have been fighting for equal pay in this country,
Speaker 1: in all industries for so many fucking years, and I
Speaker 1: think that when you see it on a sports level,
Speaker 1: when you're watching men literally play the same game, the
Speaker 1: same sport and are paid astronomically higher and being told well,
Speaker 1: that's because you know people like watching men's sports, well,
Speaker 1: because you've never invested in building out the fan base
Speaker 1: and giving it the eyeballs and the attention and the
Speaker 1: kudos and all of these things that it is needed.
Speaker 1: And that's what's been happening with some of the extraordinary
Speaker 1: players over the last couple of years. So it's just
Speaker 1: been really dope to watch and be a part of.
Speaker 1: So I just say congrats to the WNBA champions, the
Speaker 1: New York Liberty, well deserved, hard fought and just exhilarating.
Speaker 1: I cannot like the countdown and now begins for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season, and I took a break, friends,
Speaker 1: because I, like I tell you all the time, take
Speaker 1: a break so that you do not have a breakdown
Speaker 1: following the polls that are coming out and following like
Speaker 1: everything is deadlocked and everything is you know, neck and neck.
Speaker 1: And I think that for some people it can work
Speaker 1: in one way, which is it implores people to keep
Speaker 1: putting the pedal to the metal to keep pushing things out,
Speaker 1: to keep you know, getting out the vote. And for
Speaker 1: other people, I think that it is completely totally disheartening
Speaker 1: because did you listen to top fucking Donald Trump over
Speaker 1: the weekend. Did you listen to him go off about
Speaker 1: a man's genitalia for twelve minutes and like people applauding
Speaker 1: and clapping like mindless fucking seals, no insult to seals,
Speaker 1: but like it is astonishing that this man can put
Speaker 1: on a fucking apron for a stage photo op and
Speaker 1: the media foams at the mouth over this bullshit, and
Speaker 1: it's just like how many times do you have to
Speaker 1: be fooled? How many times does Donald Trump have to like,
Speaker 1: you know, dictate the coverage before these people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't good, maybe it's not helpful. It's so infuriating,
Speaker 1: and I'm just you know, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: I need a break. And the thing is is that
Speaker 1: much in the same way that the WNBA and women's
Speaker 1: sports is indicative of the way that women across industries
Speaker 1: are underpaid and undervalued. You look at what is happening
Speaker 1: on the main stage, on the main political stage, the
Speaker 1: world stage, with our election, and you look at Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who is a fucking bumbling idiot, who is a Cretan,
Speaker 1: who is a sexual assaulter, who is a felon, who
Speaker 1: is a grifter, who is a liar, who is no
Speaker 1: one that anyone who cares about their kids or the
Speaker 1: future of this country should look to that man and say, oh,
Speaker 1: I would like my child to emulate him. Presidents and
Speaker 1: vice presidents and elected officials used to be held to
Speaker 1: a certain standard, a certain kind of dignity and morals
Speaker 1: and values. It's not to say that we haven't had
Speaker 1: throughout time people who have been arrested or people who
Speaker 1: have abused their power, like Nixon, But never in our
Speaker 1: fucking lives, in the history of this country, have we
Speaker 1: seen anything so goddamn offensive as Donald fucking Trump. And
Speaker 1: when you compare him to Kamala Harris, who is a
Speaker 1: woman that is actually worked for a living, that actually
Speaker 1: built an impressive career as a prosecutor, as an attorney general,
Speaker 1: then as a senator, then as a vice president of
Speaker 1: the United States, and I'm certain I'm missing things in
Speaker 1: between there, but like crawled and created and built who
Speaker 1: she is. Donald Trump had his whole life fucking handed
Speaker 1: to him on a plate and still managed to go
Speaker 1: fucking bankrupt multiple times over. But he's white, and he's
Speaker 1: a man, and he is famous, so therefore he warrants
Speaker 1: the opportunity to become president again. So when you look
Speaker 1: at it, I know, like most people, you feel absolutely
Speaker 1: fucking disgusted, because I don't know how else we're supposed
Speaker 1: to feel. But when after taking a break for two
Speaker 1: days to come back to hear that Donald Trump went
Speaker 1: on a twelve minute rant about another man's genitalia to
Speaker 1: people's fucking applause, and that was like a story. But
Speaker 1: the most important story for the media was his fucking
Speaker 1: apron at a McDonald's. Folks. Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It literally makes me want to change careers, you know,
Speaker 1: And if Donald Trump is elected, understand that I will
Speaker 1: have to because Donald Trump not only did he say
Speaker 1: last week that he's going to shut down the Department
Speaker 1: of Education, he also plans on shutting down the media.
Speaker 1: He also plans on using the military on Americans who
Speaker 1: don't agree with him. The way that America will turn
Speaker 1: fully into a fucking authoritarian regime, the way that this
Speaker 1: country will be dictated to by these religious, white supremacist zealots,
Speaker 1: and the fact that we are quote unquote neck and
Speaker 1: neck right now is so serious and so infuriating. Infuriating
Speaker 1: is the only word that I can use, because I
Speaker 1: got to tell you, folks, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: looking at what's happening right now. You have Elon Musk
Speaker 1: that is doling out million dollar cash prizes as if
Speaker 1: our election is some type of fucking game show like
Speaker 1: The Apprentice two point zero, saying I'll give you a
Speaker 1: million dollars if you sign this pledge and you do
Speaker 1: this thing, just literally selling our democracy off to whomever.
Speaker 1: Pouring seventy five million dollar into Donald Trump's campaign. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking around wondering where the fuck Merrick Garland is,
Speaker 1: But you know, he's where he's always been, probably hiding
Speaker 1: under a desk somewhere with his head in the fucking sand,
Speaker 1: just hoping that the building that he's in doesn't come
Speaker 1: crashing and crumbling around him, because he hasn't done anything
Speaker 1: to fortify our democracy or our justice system in the
Speaker 1: last four goddamn years. How it occurs to me is
Speaker 1: that Merrick Garland could very well be the last Attorney
Speaker 1: General of these United States. And do you think that
Speaker 1: he used his last four years in any type of
Speaker 1: way that would strengthen our democracy, that would pursue just
Speaker 1: this in the face of criminality. No, he's actually done
Speaker 1: quite the fucking opposite. So you know, folks, it makes
Speaker 1: me so angry that things could be neck and neck
Speaker 1: that we know that if we just got rid of
Speaker 1: the fucking electoral college and let every person's vote count
Speaker 1: the same, one person, one vote, and everybody counts the same,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter whether you're in Nevada or New York,
Speaker 1: whether you're in California or Tennessee, and the person that
Speaker 1: wins the most votes wins. But that's not how this
Speaker 1: plays out because of the racist electoral college. Because the
Speaker 1: electoral college was created to give these rural states the
Speaker 1: same amount of weight as these larger states that had
Speaker 1: people of color that were enslaved, right black people, and
Speaker 1: so we can't really count them towards the population because
Speaker 1: we don't count them as humans. Like anything that is
Speaker 1: based on the fucking Atlantic slave the Transatlantic slave trade,
Speaker 1: do you think that we could get rid of in
Speaker 1: the twenty first century. No, we continue to honor that shit,
Speaker 1: create marble statues out of all of it. So you know,
Speaker 1: today when I tap back in, I was just like
Speaker 1: so completely and totally outdone, just kind of like over
Speaker 1: the United States at this point, and really just like
Speaker 1: over the people right like over the racism, I should say,
Speaker 1: not over the people that are standing in line, that
Speaker 1: are early voting at breaking records of their states and
Speaker 1: doing the most, but much in the same way that
Speaker 1: people were forced out in a pandemic to fight for
Speaker 1: their rights as well as trying to fight for their life,
Speaker 1: as well as trying to cast the ballot with a
Speaker 1: person that you know was urging on lies and ceding
Speaker 1: lies about the election, knowing that his numbers were not
Speaker 1: looking good, and then ended up leading an insurrection following
Speaker 1: the election. The fact that this man is running, folks
Speaker 1: is wild to me. The fact that one in five
Speaker 1: Republicans want Trump to call the election election invallid if
Speaker 1: he loses. It's just like everything that is wrong with
Speaker 1: America is what Trump embodies and what he has given
Speaker 1: people permission to just spew. Like I've seen some of
Speaker 1: these videos by some of these Trump supporters, and it's
Speaker 1: just like, folks will be We'll post these videos of
Speaker 1: these angry white people just screaming, yelling, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, are you okay? Like are you okay?
Speaker 1: How does a gay person getting married have anything to
Speaker 1: do with how you're showing up in your life? How
Speaker 1: does a child learning about the real founding of this
Speaker 1: country do anything other that make us proud about how
Speaker 1: far we've come and how far we've yet to go? Like,
Speaker 1: why is it that white people always think that like
Speaker 1: their children will identify with the worst. That says much
Speaker 1: more about your parenting than it does our democracy. You know, folks,
Speaker 1: we are two weeks away from this election's final day,
Speaker 1: and I've never wanted anything to be finished more And
Speaker 1: kind of part of what scares me right now is
Speaker 1: the fact that we are two weeks away and it's
Speaker 1: a toss up about whether America will hold on to
Speaker 1: democracy for four more years or we're just over it, or,
Speaker 1: as I should say, the white masses are over democracy
Speaker 1: because it no longer works for them in the way
Speaker 1: that white supremacy will. I want us to stay extraordinarily hopeful.
Speaker 1: I want us to continue to do all that we
Speaker 1: can in these final weeks. I encourage folks to early vote.
Speaker 1: In New York where I am, early voting will start
Speaker 1: at the end of this week. I for the first time,
Speaker 1: will be voting early, as opposed to on election day,
Speaker 1: because I'm going to be so busy on election day
Speaker 1: and probably entrance for part of it, so I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you know I go early and
Speaker 1: get it done. I would love to go back to
Speaker 1: the times when elections were joyous, when it was just
Speaker 1: exciting and going to a watch party and you could
Speaker 1: enjoy being a part of the democratic process. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we will ever get back to that place,
Speaker 1: and maybe we will, but just not in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: Because if Kamala Harris, if democracy is able to win,
Speaker 1: we are going to be just as fractured as we
Speaker 1: were on November fifth, on the day that the election
Speaker 1: is actually decided, So yes, we will have. If she's
Speaker 1: able to eke out a win, we're able to kind
Speaker 1: of move forward with clear heads, and finally, God willing
Speaker 1: get rid of Donald Trump once and for fucking all,
Speaker 1: and then he can deal with the cadre of lawsuits
Speaker 1: that we'll be waiting for him now that he's no
Speaker 1: longer the Republican candidate for president. But if she doesn't
Speaker 1: and it's close enough for them to steal it, I
Speaker 1: don't know, folks, I'm not going to really allow that
Speaker 1: thought to really fully enter into my mind because it's
Speaker 1: not productive. Because as I told my sister one day
Speaker 1: when she was feeling really low about the election, and
Speaker 1: I said, it takes just as much energy to be
Speaker 1: hopeful as it does to wallow in despair. And so
Speaker 1: I'm going to put my energy towards being hopeful and
Speaker 1: energizing all of you as well as myself to do
Speaker 1: what needs to be done because I still believe that
Speaker 1: we can win. I say, fuck all the polls that
Speaker 1: you're reading, even though I go over polls because I
Speaker 1: have to, but I constantly say take them with a
Speaker 1: grain of fucking salt, because you can get them to
Speaker 1: say whatever you want them to say. The polls that
Speaker 1: I care about right now are the early voting polls.
Speaker 1: Are the ones that tell me that places like North
Speaker 1: Carolina and Georgia are breaking records. The places that are
Speaker 1: telling me that early voting in Pennsylvania and other battleground
Speaker 1: areas are breaking records from twenty twenty. That's what matters
Speaker 1: to me. Everything else is conjecture until it's done. So
Speaker 1: with that said, my dear friends, keep your head held up,
Speaker 1: keep working, keep donating, keep canvassing, keep talking to people,
Speaker 1: keep getting out the vote, because that that is what
Speaker 1: is going to be the difference maker. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on wokef as always power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.