Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay Up Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker
Speaker 1: for folks. Yesterday a slew of horrific breaking news came
Speaker 1: in and I'm going to go over each and every
Speaker 1: single one of the topics that came in over the wire,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that there are days
Speaker 1: where I have reached where I reach not have reached
Speaker 1: where I reach a level of rage that I need
Speaker 1: to kind of sit still, turn off everything everyone and
Speaker 1: remind myself why I do the work that I do,
Speaker 1: and to remind myself that this too shell pass, that
Speaker 1: we will continue to fight and move forward. But there
Speaker 1: are days, and yesterday was that day. So what happened.
Speaker 1: New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was appointed as to
Speaker 1: succeed Sivance and Sivance's name, you know, because we have
Speaker 1: talked about it with our friend Glenn Kirshner and others,
Speaker 1: had a impaneled a grand jury, let me say, impaneled
Speaker 1: the grand jury to do deep dive investigation into what
Speaker 1: we know to be fraud that Donald Trump and his
Speaker 1: associates have been accompanied to to inflate the prices that
Speaker 1: inflate their assets, and then drop their assets to lie
Speaker 1: about their accounting right through their accounting from maraz and
Speaker 1: the impaneled grand jury that was brought in was brought
Speaker 1: in for the longer than six week time because there
Speaker 1: was so much fucking evidence and they didn't want to
Speaker 1: have the normal six weeks switch up. Okay, so that
Speaker 1: happens in the fall elections happen. Sivance is gone, and
Speaker 1: now Alvin Bragg comes in. A black man is a
Speaker 1: Manhattan da Well fucking bombshell, I guess we learn once
Speaker 1: again not all skin folk are kinfolk. And so here's
Speaker 1: where we stand. Two of the prosecutors, two of the
Speaker 1: lead prosecutors in the case. This is according to the
Speaker 1: New York Times. So let me say this, and if
Speaker 1: you watched Woke Wednesday yesterday, then you heard this accounting.
Speaker 1: But let me say it again. According to the New
Speaker 1: York Times, the two prosecutors leading the Manhattan District Attorney's
Speaker 1: investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practice
Speaker 1: abruptly resigned yesterday amid a month long, one month long pause.
Speaker 1: And let me make things clear. We've learned a lot
Speaker 1: about grand juries. Right. Over the course of the last
Speaker 1: two years, we've learned a lot thanks to our friend
Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner that comes on every week. And what we
Speaker 1: do know is that you have a finite amount of
Speaker 1: time to be able to present evidence, right, to then
Speaker 1: have a judge or to present evidence to decide whether
Speaker 1: or not there is enough there to indict. Right. So
Speaker 1: one would think that when sid vance right in panels
Speaker 1: a grand jury for an extended period of time, that
Speaker 1: we would assume, given all that we fucking know about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, that an indictment would be soon following. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks Alvin Bragg, you just gave Republicans their best advertisement,
Speaker 1: their best fucking get out of any type of jail card.
Speaker 1: Why because basically the resignations by the two prosecutors carry
Speaker 1: are done and Mark F. Pomerants right after their resignations. Basically,
Speaker 1: what Republicans and what Donald Trump can now say is
Speaker 1: that according to Alvin Bragg, oh, he has doubts about
Speaker 1: moving forward. And they're like, what the fuck have we
Speaker 1: been doing for the past couple of years, Because I
Speaker 1: understand these investigations have been going on for years, okay,
Speaker 1: and every time that people tell us Oh, justice is slow,
Speaker 1: but it'll come. It'll come. Just wait, be patient. Our
Speaker 1: legal system is slow, but it'll come. It'll come. Well, now,
Speaker 1: these two resignations point to the fact that once again,
Speaker 1: a Democrat that is in charge of actually seeking justice
Speaker 1: right against Donald Trump is once again gonna miss the
Speaker 1: fucking mark and fail and fail and fail and fail,
Speaker 1: and remind you right that it is. It is a
Speaker 1: Democrat that decided, right, Merrick Garland decided not to take
Speaker 1: up for a Gene Carroll, the woman who accused one
Speaker 1: of the twenty some odd women that accused Donald Trump
Speaker 1: of sexual assault right in a Manhattan department store, who
Speaker 1: then sued him for libel right and defamation. And it
Speaker 1: was Merrick Garland and Joe Biden's Department of Justice that
Speaker 1: decided that they would defend Donald Trump in that case.
Speaker 1: How do we know how to fight friends, if we
Speaker 1: don't even know who our true enemies are? Because right now,
Speaker 1: neither Alvin Bragg or Merrick Garland look like they are
Speaker 1: actually for the people. And if I hear one more
Speaker 1: fucking Democrat want to get on television to tell me,
Speaker 1: to tell the rest of us that all we need
Speaker 1: to be patient, but no man is above the law.
Speaker 1: Go fuck yourself, Go actually fuck yourself, because I am done.
Speaker 1: So here's the continuation of this right. According to The
Speaker 1: New York Times, without mister Bragg's commitment to move forward,
Speaker 1: the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question
Speaker 1: at least one witness before the grand jury. One of
Speaker 1: the people said they have not questioned any witnesses in
Speaker 1: front of the grand jury for more than a month,
Speaker 1: essentially pausing their investigation into whether mister Trump inflated the
Speaker 1: value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks.
Speaker 1: The precise reasons for mister Bragg's pullback are, of course unknown,
Speaker 1: And what I have to say to folks, and this
Speaker 1: is what I said yesterday on Woke on Woke Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The pullback isn't unknown. What I will
Speaker 1: say to everyone that will listen is follow the fucking money.
Speaker 1: Who supported Alvin bragg campaign. Who are his biggest donors?
Speaker 1: What are their ties to Donald Trump, the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: the Trump organization, the Trump net worth of wealth. Right,
Speaker 1: go and find that information and then you can figure
Speaker 1: out why there has been a pullback over a course
Speaker 1: of a month. And nothing going on. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something that stinks, the fucking lies and the fact
Speaker 1: that no one, no one with power, or with money
Speaker 1: or with access, is ever going to do what is
Speaker 1: right because each and every single one of those motherfucker's
Speaker 1: hands are dirty. And that's what we know. We've had
Speaker 1: our friend Jennifer Tobb on the show all the time.
Speaker 1: Jennifer has come on to talk about her book Dirty
Speaker 1: Money and white collar Criminals and the reason why they're
Speaker 1: allowed to defraud. You know, millions of people get away
Speaker 1: with it like those fucking bumps on Wall Street did,
Speaker 1: but no one sees jail time. No, we bail out
Speaker 1: the banks when they defraud Americans, We bail out the
Speaker 1: Wall Street executives when they defraud Americans. Nobody goes to jail.
Speaker 1: So why is Donald Trump any different? I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the only truth, the only truth that Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: tell is when he stood up at one of his
Speaker 1: fucking Maga hate rallies and said that he could shoot
Speaker 1: somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would
Speaker 1: watch his poll numbers go off. There is a reason
Speaker 1: why that man has received the name teflon Don in
Speaker 1: New York City because everyone knows he's a fucking crook.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that he's slippery and slimy. But until he
Speaker 1: ran for president, he used to give money to everybody,
Speaker 1: as mobsters do, so that regardless of who has the gavel,
Speaker 1: regardless of who is in office at the time that
Speaker 1: you may be doing your latest deal, that if you
Speaker 1: give them enough money, then of course they're going to
Speaker 1: do your bidding, or better yet, look the other way,
Speaker 1: because that's actually all you really need. So no one
Speaker 1: is This is a thing that I think that we
Speaker 1: all need to begin to wrap our minds around, is
Speaker 1: that no one is good, No one in power is good, right,
Speaker 1: and so our choice as voters is to find the
Speaker 1: least bad, the least sleazy among the pile of assholes
Speaker 1: that we are handed every single day. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: know Alvin Bragg, right, I don't know anything about him,
Speaker 1: but what I do know is that he ain't shit
Speaker 1: for this fucking move that he just made. That he
Speaker 1: has now become one of my biggest targets on this
Speaker 1: fucking show because I absolutely right want to do my
Speaker 1: due diligence and start to do my own research, you know,
Speaker 1: as they say on the right to figure out exactly
Speaker 1: why Alvin Bragg decided that he was going to pivot
Speaker 1: from his predecessors desires right and pinpoint this investigation around
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and decide that, you know what, I doubt
Speaker 1: we're going to move forward. The world is watching this case.
Speaker 1: The world is watching America. The world is waiting around
Speaker 1: to see exactly what is going to be done, if
Speaker 1: anything about Donald Trump. And I'll tell you, we know
Speaker 1: that he was in charge of the insurrection. We know
Speaker 1: that he's broken multiple emolument's clause. We know that he
Speaker 1: tried to bribe the president of Ukraine. We know that
Speaker 1: he tried to bribe the fucking Secretary of State in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and find me eleven seven hundred and forty
Speaker 1: six votes though, right, we know all of these things.
Speaker 1: We knew it from when the Mulla report came up. Right.
Speaker 1: Here are the ten ways in which Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: obstructed the law. And once Donald Trump walked out of
Speaker 1: the White House and was no longer President of the
Speaker 1: United States, all any attorney with any fucking backbone had
Speaker 1: to do was that bring those ten fucking charges, right,
Speaker 1: those ten examples that the Mulla Report detailed out to
Speaker 1: the world and bring a case. But they didn't. And
Speaker 1: the question that we need to start asking ourselves is
Speaker 1: why why won't anybody do anything? The same reason why
Speaker 1: you know, you sit around, and I'm gonna do a
Speaker 1: real big comparison. You sit around and you wonder, huh,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking girls for how long to how
Speaker 1: many different people? How many different people were on that
Speaker 1: disgusting island, on his disgusting private jet, at his disgusting parties,
Speaker 1: including Donald Trump, including Bill Clinton, including Prince Andrew, including
Speaker 1: Mohammed bin Salam. You see what all of those men
Speaker 1: have in common wealth and power and connections and access.
Speaker 1: And they were all connected to Jeffrey Epstein. So you
Speaker 1: think that these people weren't aware of the fact that
Speaker 1: he was a sex trafficker. You think that they had
Speaker 1: no idea what was going on. You think that they
Speaker 1: didn't spend decades looking the other fucking way. All of
Speaker 1: these it's an incestuous cesspool of greed and power that
Speaker 1: all commingle. It doesn't. This is where party doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: Green does, capitalism does. That is their master. And when
Speaker 1: you have that kind of power, when you have that
Speaker 1: kind of access and wealth. You will do whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck you want to whomever you want, whenever you want,
Speaker 1: because you got DA's in your pocket, you got senators
Speaker 1: in your pocket, you got presidents in your pocket. We
Speaker 1: sit around and we wonder, like, why won't Democrats do anything?
Speaker 1: Why won't they stand up? Why did they continue to
Speaker 1: fucking act as if they have no power whatsoever? This, again, friends,
Speaker 1: is what winning looks like. We have all the branches.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, except for the judiciary, right, we got Congress,
Speaker 1: we have the White House. But this is what winning
Speaker 1: feels like. So you begin to wonder and ask yourself
Speaker 1: these questions. Who is actually making these deals? You know,
Speaker 1: Democrats want to put on a good show, like every
Speaker 1: single time that Republicans do the same thing that they've
Speaker 1: been doing for the last four decades, they want a
Speaker 1: feign shock. They want to say, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: have no idea where this came from. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It came from nineteen fifty two, it came from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight, it came from this year, and this year
Speaker 1: and this year. You know, all of the decades that
Speaker 1: they've been doing the same things, using the same people
Speaker 1: as their culprit and their battering rams right, making the
Speaker 1: same attempts to make sure that America becomes the beacon
Speaker 1: of white evangelical christiandom right, and that everybody who is
Speaker 1: not white, who is not wealthy, who is not straight,
Speaker 1: who is not Christian has no power. And not only
Speaker 1: do you not have any power, they want to ensure
Speaker 1: that you live in fear. This is what folks are
Speaker 1: not getting right now, is that I believe and I'm
Speaker 1: beginning to believe, and there me because people say, Danielle,
Speaker 1: you sound like a conspiracy theorist. But do I Because
Speaker 1: if you have the power to actually stop atrocious things
Speaker 1: from happening, if you had the power to hauld Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in and the entire Trump administration in before an inquiry,
Speaker 1: if you had the power to say to your Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, I'm going to move out of your way.
Speaker 1: But here is the thing, by virtue of who I
Speaker 1: am appointing to lead our US Department of Justice, I
Speaker 1: am going to make sure that when we say that
Speaker 1: nobody is above the law, that nobody is actually above
Speaker 1: the law. Why is it that Democrats are so quick,
Speaker 1: just like Republicans to want to turn the page right,
Speaker 1: there's about a handful of fighters in the Democrats within
Speaker 1: the party, but I'll tell you that the entirety, the
Speaker 1: actual establishment seems really to look like a bunch of
Speaker 1: Republicans in sheep's clothing. Because you see, this is the
Speaker 1: thing that I'm starting to piece together. And I gotta admit,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna listen to democracy issue this morning, I
Speaker 1: set it on there, so I want to say it
Speaker 1: on here. I believe that Democrats are the biggest grifters.
Speaker 1: I've been addicted to these grifters shows. Over the holiday weekend,
Speaker 1: I watched Inventing Anna, the Shonda Rhimes creation based on
Speaker 1: the real story of the fake German heiress who essentially
Speaker 1: fooled everyone into believing that she was an heiress, and
Speaker 1: she came, as they said, dangerously close to being able
Speaker 1: to essentially defraud one of the major investment banks in
Speaker 1: the city in the world. Right. And then I watched
Speaker 1: the Tinder Swindler, right, the guy who went around defrauding
Speaker 1: a bunch of women out of their wealth, putting them
Speaker 1: into debts so that he could create this Ponzi scheme
Speaker 1: around women paying for other paying for his lavish lifestyle
Speaker 1: and I started to think about grifting. Well. One I
Speaker 1: also started to think about I went into the wrong
Speaker 1: profession that clearly I should have been smarter, and I
Speaker 1: should have been like these people who can set up
Speaker 1: these kinds of schemes and for a fairly long time
Speaker 1: get away with them, right, and live high on the hog.
Speaker 1: But I digress. Democrats are grifters. Why because they steal
Speaker 1: your money. No, it's because they steal your votes. And
Speaker 1: why do I use the words steal well, because Democrats,
Speaker 1: much in the way that ANNADELVI and the Tindler swindler,
Speaker 1: they put together this brand, right, this this idea that
Speaker 1: they are for the people, that they are the ones
Speaker 1: that will march with you, that they are the ones
Speaker 1: that are for LGBTQ equality, for voting rights for black people. Right.
Speaker 1: You know, they tell you, they feed you these lines, right,
Speaker 1: and yet and yet when they actually are in a
Speaker 1: position to do anything about it, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: their hands become tied. All of a sudden, they have
Speaker 1: no backbone. All of a sudden, there are so many
Speaker 1: different rules and maneuvers that they need to follow, and
Speaker 1: now they're constructed, right, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: people whose communities that they went to go tap dance
Speaker 1: and do a jig for their vote. Once they got it,
Speaker 1: they turn around and all of a sudden they don't
Speaker 1: answer your calls. All of a sudden, they don't know
Speaker 1: who you are. Right and then right, like any good grifter,
Speaker 1: when you call them out on their bullshit, when you
Speaker 1: want to bring the heat down on them, they turn
Speaker 1: it into being your fault. While I never told you
Speaker 1: I was this wealthy, you just assumed I didn't try
Speaker 1: and defraud you. You just really also liked the lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1: So with Democrats, it's like them saying, well, we never
Speaker 1: told you. We said that the John Lewis ritzack had
Speaker 1: a nice ring to it. We didn't say we were
Speaker 1: going to get it past. We said providing a child
Speaker 1: tax credit could possibly keep families out of poverty. That
Speaker 1: providing this could potentially keep children out of poverty. That
Speaker 1: sounded nice. We didn't say we were actually gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Who told you that? We said that we would do
Speaker 1: our best to get the job done. We said that
Speaker 1: no person was above the law. We didn't actually say
Speaker 1: that we were going to bring the law to them.
Speaker 1: They're grifters. They will do and say whatever it is
Speaker 1: that they need to do and say in order to
Speaker 1: get your vote. And when you are a person of color, right,
Speaker 1: when you are a black or brown person, or an
Speaker 1: LGBTQ person, or a Muslim person, or you know, anyone
Speaker 1: who lives within within the identities of any of these marginalized,
Speaker 1: marginalized communities or at the intersection thereof what is your alternative, Right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go and you're gonna go sit at the
Speaker 1: Republicans table because they don't want to sit with you, right,
Speaker 1: they'd rather burn the entire table down and not eat themselves,
Speaker 1: starve themselves than allow you to come sit over there.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to come sit the Democrats, Well, they
Speaker 1: actually keep moving their table, right, and you don't really
Speaker 1: know which one there's is, but they keep waving you over.
Speaker 1: But then you get close and the table's gone. So
Speaker 1: when I'm saying that we are fighting two wars here,
Speaker 1: the real war that is about holding onto our democracy
Speaker 1: at the face of in the face of the rise
Speaker 1: of fascism that is not just happening in this country,
Speaker 1: but is happening around the world. That there is a
Speaker 1: realignment that is happening, except it's like the realignment in
Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone, where at one time we used to
Speaker 1: refer to these dictators and these authoritarian regimes as the
Speaker 1: axis of evil, right, But now Republicans are rooting for
Speaker 1: Putin downing their own president, and you're seeing the Fox
Speaker 1: news is of the war world, the fascists of the
Speaker 1: world takeover, move their ways into other countries that who's
Speaker 1: also on shaky ground. So we have the real war
Speaker 1: that we're fighting with the Republicans, we have a shadow
Speaker 1: war that we're fighting with spineless democrats. And the only
Speaker 1: ones that are going to get hurt are us. So
Speaker 1: I say that if we're going to get hurt anyway,
Speaker 1: right then we might as well fucking go down swinging
Speaker 1: and let them know that we fucking see them for
Speaker 1: who they are, that we see them, that they're not
Speaker 1: going to get away with lying to us, with telling
Speaker 1: us that they are for us. And then I can
Speaker 1: point to several places, several policies over decades where they
Speaker 1: have destroyed communities of color, where they have left women hanging,
Speaker 1: hoping that they would renew the Violence Against Women Act.
Speaker 1: They don't care, folks, They just pretend to and the
Speaker 1: ones who are actual fighters are the ones that the
Speaker 1: establishment will throw under the bus and already have. The
Speaker 1: anger that I am feeling these days is like you
Speaker 1: know when you eat something that is so hot that
Speaker 1: even after you douse yourself with water or eat bread
Speaker 1: or drink milk, like it's still the fire is still burning.
Speaker 1: That's how I felt after reading every single bit of
Speaker 1: breaking news. I'm gonna move on to the next story,
Speaker 1: which is just as repulsive as the last one. A
Speaker 1: while ago on Twitter, I kind of put my own
Speaker 1: stamp on Martin Neo Mueller's poem first they came for
Speaker 1: and when I did so, it went kind of mini
Speaker 1: viral with like, you know, fifteen thousand retweets or something.
Speaker 1: And what I wrote was, first they came for women's rights,
Speaker 1: but you weren't a woman or a person with the uterus,
Speaker 1: so you didn't care. Then they came for voting rights,
Speaker 1: but because you were still able to vote, you did
Speaker 1: nothing about it. Then they came for LGBTQ rights, but
Speaker 1: you weren't queer, and you don't know anybody that's queer,
Speaker 1: so you didn't care. And then they came for you,
Speaker 1: and there was no one left to fight for you.
Speaker 1: What did they come for? First, reproductive rights, the same
Speaker 1: thing that they have been coming for since nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 1: started in Texas and has expanded like a cancer around
Speaker 1: the country to eventually reaching the Supreme Court, who will
Speaker 1: make the final decision in June. And we already know
Speaker 1: what that decision is going to be. Roe will stand
Speaker 1: in name only, an abortion will become a thing of
Speaker 1: the past, forty six, forty seventy years, close to damn
Speaker 1: near fifty years. But Democrats didn't stay vigilant, right, They
Speaker 1: kept saying ROE is codified, it's a law of the land.
Speaker 1: Nothing is the law of the land. You are one
Speaker 1: election cycle away from losing everything. But Democrats didn't tell
Speaker 1: you that in twenty sixteen. Right. They were more concerned
Speaker 1: with whether or not the media was more concerned with
Speaker 1: whether or not Hillary was going to wear a flannel, right,
Speaker 1: more concerned with whether or not she could shed a tear.
Speaker 1: Democrats didn't come out swinging in twenty sixteen and tell
Speaker 1: you that you were one election cycle away from losing
Speaker 1: everything that you thought was codified. Right, but her emails, Now,
Speaker 1: what are they coming for next? Because they never they
Speaker 1: never don't come for black people, right. We know that
Speaker 1: we're the persistent and consistent target of Republicans and conservatives right,
Speaker 1: and Democrats serve us up on a platter all the
Speaker 1: time because it's easy, right and because you know, as
Speaker 1: they believe, they don't really need us. We're only thirteen
Speaker 1: percent of the population. It's always about cording Chad and
Speaker 1: Karen back over right, who haven't voted for them or
Speaker 1: with them in four or five decades. So they came
Speaker 1: for uteruses consistently come in for black folks, with police brutality,
Speaker 1: voting restrictions, economic disparities, all of these things. Well, now
Speaker 1: Abbot in Texas has decided what's next. According to Vogue,
Speaker 1: the latest in a long line of attacks on the existence, freedom,
Speaker 1: and dignity of LGBTQ plus individuals in the United States
Speaker 1: was waged on Wednesday, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially
Speaker 1: officially directed agencies to investigate gender affirming care for trans
Speaker 1: youth as child abuse. In a letter to the States
Speaker 1: Apartment of Family and Protective Services, Abbott define gender affirming
Speaker 1: treatments for transgender children, including gender reassignment surgery, as puberty
Speaker 1: and puberty blocking medications as quote abusive procedures. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something about how I feel when I read that,
Speaker 1: When I saw that come across Twitter. LGBTQ youth make
Speaker 1: up the largest number of homeless youth in America. LGBTQ
Speaker 1: youth make up most attempted suicides in the United States.
Speaker 1: Lgbt Q youth are the most vulnerable children in our society.
Speaker 1: Do you know what abuse looks like? It looks like
Speaker 1: actions that Abbott just took. It looks like telling LGBTQ
Speaker 1: youth that you don't fucking matter. It looks like not
Speaker 1: investigating real child abusers, right, But those that actually care
Speaker 1: enough and listen to children and believe them when they
Speaker 1: say who I am does not match the body that
Speaker 1: I am in. You cannot imagine the pain I cannot
Speaker 1: as a black queer siss woman, imagine the horror that
Speaker 1: trans children and trans adults go through. You know who's
Speaker 1: most likely to be murdered in this country, black trans women.
Speaker 1: Do you know who doesn't care about their murder? Everyone
Speaker 1: this message that Abbot just sent and descantists will follow in.
Speaker 1: All of these dirt, bad pieces of shit who want
Speaker 1: to tell you about their Christian fucking values. But they
Speaker 1: don't give a damn about anybody's sentity of life. They
Speaker 1: don't give a damn about children, but want to tell
Speaker 1: you that they are the party of family values. This
Speaker 1: is how you value children, This is how you value
Speaker 1: life by taking measures that save their lives and telling
Speaker 1: them that that is abuse. And then what throwing the
Speaker 1: people that do those procedures or the families that allow
Speaker 1: for these life saving measures. You're going to throw them
Speaker 1: in jail along with the people who try and vote.
Speaker 1: Go fuck yourself. It is not enough for us to
Speaker 1: sit around and say, oh, well, I don't live in Florida,
Speaker 1: I don't live in Texas. I don't know why people
Speaker 1: live there. These are our kids, this is our life,
Speaker 1: and they are trying to take it away from us.
Speaker 1: They are not just trying to roll back rights. This
Speaker 1: is what I want everybody to understand. They don't want
Speaker 1: to just roll back rights. They want to codify white supremacy,
Speaker 1: heterosexuality into law, Christianity right, bring back prayer in schools,
Speaker 1: Erase any mention of civil rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights,
Speaker 1: the Native American quest for rights gone. You will be
Speaker 1: praying to that flag, you will be monitored. We are
Speaker 1: not just going back to Jim Crow. This is McCarthyism,
Speaker 1: Jim Crowe, Trumpism all rolled up into one and then
Speaker 1: with the dabs of apartheide. They will not stop until
Speaker 1: those of us who do not look like them, pray
Speaker 1: like them, love like them, and show up like them.
Speaker 1: Are afraid for our lives. With each measure, they are
Speaker 1: doing their damnedest to force us back into closets, right,
Speaker 1: to force black folks to keep your head down, move
Speaker 1: off the sidewalk, yes, ma'am, no sir, to just be
Speaker 1: thankful that we're allowed to exist. But they will make
Speaker 1: sure that that existence is painful so that we all
Speaker 1: stay in line. This is where America is headed. And
Speaker 1: the said fucking thing about it is that no one
Speaker 1: is going to stop them. No one. No one is coming,
Speaker 1: not the people that we voted for to keep in power.
Speaker 1: And people want to say, oh, Joe Biden, he's a
Speaker 1: nice guy, you know, he came in with a lot
Speaker 1: going on. I don't give a fuck, because let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, if you have one shot at something,
Speaker 1: you got one shot, leave it all on the fucking table.
Speaker 1: If you care so much about your legacy. Then you
Speaker 1: do whatever it fucking takes for people to tell you
Speaker 1: that you went down, but you went down as a warrior.
Speaker 1: Let them say decades later, Oh, America wasn't ready, but
Speaker 1: they came with the fire, instead of pandering, instead of summits,
Speaker 1: with fucking Joe Manchin and Kursten cinema, so that you
Speaker 1: can trade voting rights. You can trade the rights of
Speaker 1: black people, of brown, people of LGBTQ, people of those
Speaker 1: of us who are both and think that we're gonna
Speaker 1: what come and give you our votes. You already left
Speaker 1: us alone, right. Oh you want to tell us that
Speaker 1: things can get worse, we fucking know, but you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do dick about it. Black man was murdered in
Speaker 1: the goddamn street. We can't get police reform. How many
Speaker 1: murders have happened since that one, but we can't get
Speaker 1: police reform. It's too much, it's too woke. We are
Speaker 1: moving into this phase of America, the dark ages that
Speaker 1: I need everybody to wrap their minds around and not
Speaker 1: lie to yourselves and say, oh, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: that bad. Oh, this will never happen. Because I want you,
Speaker 1: I want us to stop using the word never, because
Speaker 1: we are living inside of one of those nevers right now.
Speaker 1: I never thought that there would be a global health
Speaker 1: pandemic that would shut down cities and shut down borders
Speaker 1: and countries, that then entire political parties across the world
Speaker 1: would just say is over and then that means it's over,
Speaker 1: and not give a fuck about public health and be
Speaker 1: so fucking bold and honest about it. No. I never
Speaker 1: thought that the world would turn into an Orwellian fucking
Speaker 1: Butler mash up. And yet here we are, and yet
Speaker 1: here we are. So everything that we think could never happen,
Speaker 1: you should now know is possible. Everything that we believed.
Speaker 1: Oh well, they can't bring back segregation. Why not? It
Speaker 1: was decided by this Preme Court. When Amy Covid Barrett
Speaker 1: was asked about whether or not the Brown versus the
Speaker 1: Board of Education was settled law, she didn't give a
Speaker 1: straight answer. So, once they're done with Roe, they will
Speaker 1: go to Brown. Once they're done with Brown, they will
Speaker 1: go to Windsor once they're done with Windsor, they'll go
Speaker 1: to Plessy. Right, Like, I want folks to recognize that
Speaker 1: all of the rights that you believe that you have
Speaker 1: right now didn't come through acts of Congress. They came
Speaker 1: through the courts. Mitch McConnell stacked those courts. We have
Speaker 1: a six to three Supreme Court, and we have three
Speaker 1: hundred federal judges on the bench that don't deserve to
Speaker 1: be there, according to the American Bar Associate, and some
Speaker 1: of them are as young as thirty five years old.
Speaker 1: So in this moment, remind yourself that the Holocaust was legal,
Speaker 1: Slavery was legal, Apartheide was legal. What is legal and
Speaker 1: illegal is not a matter of law. It is a
Speaker 1: matter of power. And we have seeded all of that
Speaker 1: power to the Republican Party, to a fascist regime. And
Speaker 1: each and every single day that Republicans come up with
Speaker 1: excuses instead of actions, that come up with more fucking
Speaker 1: empty metaphors right and niceties instead of strategy, they are
Speaker 1: seeding your life, the life of your children, your grandchildren,
Speaker 1: your great grandchildren to the oppressor. They are not even
Speaker 1: waiting for twenty twenty four. They don't have to because
Speaker 1: Democrats haven't even shown up to the battle. You know,
Speaker 1: when folks say, oh, they brought a butter knife to
Speaker 1: a gunfight, Democrats didn't even show up. They were too
Speaker 1: chicken shit. All we have are ourselves. All we have
Speaker 1: is each other. And if we aren't sharing this message,
Speaker 1: if we aren't ringing the alarm, if we aren't saying
Speaker 1: of folks, Hey, you see what they're doing to these
Speaker 1: LGBTQ people in Texas. You see what they're doing. This
Speaker 1: is a testing ground. I have heard so many times
Speaker 1: friends of mine say, well, thank god we live in
Speaker 1: New York. As if New York is some type of
Speaker 1: fortress with a mode of sharks and crocodiles in it,
Speaker 1: As if no one is going to be able to
Speaker 1: get to you because you're in New York or you're
Speaker 1: in California. These are the times when I start to
Speaker 1: really ask myself what does it mean to be safe?
Speaker 1: What does safety look like when the people that are
Speaker 1: supposed to protect you are also your biggest enemies, When
Speaker 1: the people that you elect to represent you or the
Speaker 1: reason for your demise, then what is safety? The only
Speaker 1: way to secure safety is through power, and no one
Speaker 1: gives up power, not willingly. And that's the real thing
Speaker 1: that we need to start really thinking about and strategizing about.
Speaker 1: This is an entire white supremist power grab that is
Speaker 1: happening at America. America is going to be the leader
Speaker 1: of the axis of evil? Do you get that? Do
Speaker 1: we understand that? And no one is standing in their way?
Speaker 1: You still have Joe Biden referring to Mitch McConnell, the
Speaker 1: architect of the fall of the courts to Republicans, as
Speaker 1: his friend, And I'm like, motherfucker, do you get it?
Speaker 1: And what I realize day in and day out is
Speaker 1: that they don't fucking get it. They don't get it,
Speaker 1: but we do. And the question that is going to
Speaker 1: keep rolling around in my brain is what are we
Speaker 1: going to do about it? Because I'm about ready to
Speaker 1: put the screws to somebody, and it's sure is not
Speaker 1: going to be my own fucking head, That's for goddamn sure,
Speaker 1: because if I'm going down, oh I'm going down fighting,
Speaker 1: But I'm going to make sure that everybody knows who
Speaker 1: exactly was against us always because at my time, when
Speaker 1: my time comes, oh, I'm going to make sure that
Speaker 1: there is enough information, there are enough of my own
Speaker 1: words out there that no one will be able to
Speaker 1: twist them or erase them or rewrite them. So make
Speaker 1: sure right that the actions that you take right that
Speaker 1: remember at one point in time, at some point, you
Speaker 1: will be an ancestor will people be proud or will
Speaker 1: they be embarrassed. That's the question that Democrats should be
Speaker 1: asking themselves, because this isn't about morality anymore. We know
Speaker 1: that they don't have any If it's not shame, if
Speaker 1: it's not hope, then it's got to be fear. So
Speaker 1: how do we put the fear of God into Democrats
Speaker 1: to do what is right for the majority, because that
Speaker 1: is exactly who we are. And now, dear friends, for
Speaker 1: your woke moment of wellness. You know, during yesterday's Woke Wednesday,
Speaker 1: my mother texts me and she says, Danielle, I want
Speaker 1: you after the show to go out onto your balcony
Speaker 1: and take ten deep breaths. Mommy loves you. This is
Speaker 1: what she says to me in my text. I'm very
Speaker 1: lucky and fortunate, and I realize it is so important
Speaker 1: that when you feel the rage creeping in, when it
Speaker 1: feels like it is going to consume you. If you
Speaker 1: are laying down, if you're walking, stop ground your feet right,
Speaker 1: put your ten toes into the ground, like feel it through.
Speaker 1: If you are a barefoot great if you are not,
Speaker 1: if you're in shoes, press them down, strengthen up your back,
Speaker 1: shoulders down, close your eyes and take in three because
Speaker 1: you know we're all busy. Deep breaths in on the
Speaker 1: count of four, and out on the same count of four.
Speaker 1: There is something about stopping, grounding and breathing, but it
Speaker 1: is a grounding that happens in yoga and yoga if
Speaker 1: you've ever taken a class, this is the posture mountain pose.
Speaker 1: Mountain pose is when you really are grounding through your feet,
Speaker 1: like acting as if you were growing roots, and then
Speaker 1: through that root growing down. It's actually stretching the top
Speaker 1: of you up, like feeling as if you were pulling
Speaker 1: from the tops of your head while the bottom of
Speaker 1: your feet are grounding. So there's this lengthening, as my
Speaker 1: mother says, it's lengthening that is happening. And then you
Speaker 1: put your hands down right and you have this straining
Speaker 1: posture and your feet are grounded and your head is
Speaker 1: up and you're just pulling right in both directions and breathe.
Speaker 1: Breathe in deep, counting to four, our exhale out counting
Speaker 1: to four, and do if you can do ten rounds
Speaker 1: of that brilliant. If you can do three rounds of
Speaker 1: that perfection, then afterwards just sit, just stand and see
Speaker 1: if you feel a difference. It's that grounding that ensures
Speaker 1: that we don't get blown around with all of their
Speaker 1: hot air and all of their bullshit. That, friends, is
Speaker 1: your woke moment of wellness. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Friends on Woke A app as always power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.