1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ookf Daily with me 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: y'all praise him. Happy fucking Friday. We have made it 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: to the end of yet another miserable fucking week in politics. 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: You know, for the last couple of years, I swear 6 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: to God that I have wanted a time machine so 7 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: that I could go back and choose a different career, 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: choose a different path, and just tell my younger self, 9 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: you know, maybe public service, maybe educating the public, you know, 10 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,639 Speaker 1: being in politics, wanting to change policy and do all 11 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: those things. Maybe don't do it. Maybe go make money, 12 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: you know, because apparently greed is still fucking good right 13 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: in this country. But seriously, the other day, I was 14 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: in conversation as I normally am with, you know, I 15 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: was hanging out with friends who are you know, civil 16 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: rights leaders and activists and you know, and just talking 17 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: about this moment, you know, and how we are finding 18 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: ourselves in a place of just utter distress and despair. 19 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: And there are a lot of folks who are feeling 20 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: utterly and completely burnt out and who are in the 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: process of thinking about what's next. And I say that 22 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: not to say, like, you know, just give up and quit, 23 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: but I also do want to honor the fact that 24 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: this work has become really horrible, like for mental health, 25 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 1: the inundation of just bad news, regressive policies, ignorance, it's 26 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: like the algorithm of anger, right, this hate wave that 27 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: has taken the country by a chokehold. There was a 28 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: show on NBC. I think it was NBC. I don't 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: fucking know because I don't really watch TV, but there 30 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: was a show that was called The Dome. I think 31 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: you all will tell me in the comments section if 32 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: I'm messing it up, But there was a show that 33 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: was called like the Dome, and somehow there was like 34 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: this sci fi show. There was this big dome that 35 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: comes up over like the world or town. And that's 36 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: how I feel about America right now, that there's like 37 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: this hate dome, right, you know, when we're in those 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: like horrible heat humidity indexes and they're just like, there's 39 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: this heat dome over you know, the East Coast. I 40 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: feel like there is a hate dome that is over 41 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: the United States right now, and the heat and the 42 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: pressure is just growing and mushrooming right in a way 43 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: that like a nuclear bomb mushrooms right and goes off. 44 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: And I am just at a space where I want 45 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: everybody to put on their oxygen masks, but at the 46 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: same time break out of this shit. And the only 47 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: way that we break out right of this mushroom cloud 48 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: of fucking hate is to activate ourselves in everyone around us, 49 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: Like this shit is not going away, like the Canadian fire, 50 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: fucking yellow sky that happened this time last year in 51 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: New York City where by the way, I couldn't go 52 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: outside without a mask on because the sky was fucking 53 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: yellow and like polluted beyond belief, which is going to 54 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: become our norm. Side note, because you know climate change 55 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: and we're not doing anything about that. But this hate wave, 56 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: this hate dome, is sucking all of the oxygen out 57 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: of the room. It is making good people right rethink 58 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: their careers and want to figure out what an exit 59 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: strategy is. And I don't fault folks, because people who 60 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: signed up to do policy work, to be in politics, 61 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: to elect good people to office, to represent their districts 62 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: or their states or their school board or what have you, 63 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: didn't sign up to be harassed, didn't sign up for 64 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: death threats. Didn't sign up for, you know, unrelenting hate mail. 65 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: Didn't sign up to put their safety in the safety 66 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: of their family, you know, at risk in order to 67 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: do a public good. It's crazy, but that's the place 68 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: that we find ourselves. I mean, you saw this this week, right, 69 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: one of the stories that I didn't really bother covering, 70 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: and it's just gonna make like a making a quick 71 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: mention of it. But Marjorie Taylor Green right, and her 72 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: utter and complete disfucking respect for doctor Fauci, I mean, 73 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: she made a fool of herself, right, as she does 74 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: because she's in Neanderthal. But like the fact that we're 75 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: at a point in our politics where we can't even 76 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: feign respect for people, right, Like, doctor Fauci is a doctor, 77 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: whether or not you like his policies that kept Americans safe, 78 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: while the president that you've pledged your allegiance to is 79 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths of over five hundred thousand Americans. 80 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: By the way, where the fuck are those hearings? Right? 81 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: If there had been a mask mandate that was put 82 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: in place, as was stated by doctors as necessary, do 83 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: you think that five hundred thousand Americans would have died 84 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: within a year. I don't think so. Right, do you 85 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: think that if we hadn't had a president that was 86 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: telling people to shoot up bleach and lights into their 87 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: ass that like that, many Americans would have died because 88 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: of utter fucking criminal negligence on the part of the 89 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: Trump administration. But again, no fucking hearings that are being 90 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: called on this, right, no investigations that are being called. 91 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: This was not an act of God. It was an 92 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: act of stupidity, right. It was an act of blatant negligence. 93 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: And once, by the way, once that administration knew who 94 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: was being most adversely affected put in harm's way black 95 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: and brown people who were the essential workers, right I 96 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: use air quotes, then it was liberate Michigan and open 97 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: up Florida and open up these places because somehow white 98 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: people were going to be immune from COVID nineteen, which 99 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: was not the fucking case, particularly in rural areas. When 100 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: you look at how far we have fallen. I just 101 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: did an interview on my other podcast, The New Abnormal 102 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: with The Daily Beast, and I was interviewing my friend 103 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: and the CEO of the Misfoundation for Women, Teresa Younger, 104 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: and Teresa's whole point is about activating right, activating women 105 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: and girls and our allies to recognize that we are 106 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: at war right, that we are actually in the fight 107 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: for our lives. That while people think that civil wars 108 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: or wars in general are fought on a batter field 109 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: or with bombs and tanks, like what is happening in 110 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: Israel and Gaza, there are other wars, right wars around policy, wars, 111 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: around rights on equity and justice and liberation. And that 112 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: is what this Republican Party has been waging over the 113 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: last decade plus right, but certainly over the last ten years. 114 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: And so when you take a look at this and 115 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: then the shrugging that, I feel like the collective shrugging 116 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: because people are exhausted. And I'm not saying that you 117 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: don't have a right to be exhausted. We have been 118 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: living in a place of trauma. Right. Over a million 119 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: fucking people died of COVID and we pretend like it 120 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: didn't happen. We were forced into our homes right, whole 121 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: country shut down, and the trauma from that we don't 122 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: readily talk about. It's still in us. The fact that 123 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: anything can change at any fucking moment, and we have 124 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: absolutely no control over it. That the air being in 125 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: and the close proximity we are pack animals was dangerous. 126 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: And instead of us coming together as a country and 127 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: that being a point of pride, right helping and loving 128 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: thy neighbor, we turned on one another because of the 129 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: leadership that was put in place in this country. And 130 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: so when there is a time where we should be 131 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: reflecting on who we actually want to be and how 132 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: we actually want to show up, do you want that 133 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: four years of Donald Trump back and worse? You know, 134 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't think that people get what is happening and 135 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: what is at stake. And so I understand again when 136 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: folks are like, I'm done with this, but I'm so 137 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: grateful for people like Teresa Junger and the Misfoundation for 138 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: women because they're like, no, we continue to declare that 139 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: women and girls are our future and we are going 140 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: to invest in them whether or not. The US Circuit 141 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: Court of Appeals in the Eleventh District says that that 142 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: is discriminatory. They are using the language that we created 143 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: during the civil rights era in order to equal a 144 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: very unequal and white supremacist playing field against us. And 145 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: so I continue to say, use what they do and 146 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: do it better. These venture firms, these philanthropic organizations, they 147 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: say they fund everybody. We're about patriotism and liberty and justice. 148 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: They mean for white people that is the asterisk. They 149 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: mean for white men, that is the asterist. You can 150 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: apply to those venture firms, you can apply to those 151 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: you ain't going to get them right. And so I 152 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: need for people who have access to resource, write in 153 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: philanthropy or individual philanthropists to start moving the way that 154 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: white men have been moving in this country in a 155 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: self serving, fucking manner, and making sure right that your 156 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: descriptions are so broad, but that your fucking targets and 157 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: your strategy are clear, because these motherfuckers are coming for 158 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: every goddamn advancement that has been made in the twentieth century. 159 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: They want that mushroom cloud of hate to not only 160 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: take over the entire country, but take over the entire 161 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: world and link up with Russia, and link up with 162 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: fucking Hungry, and link up right with other dictators around 163 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: the world until we're all suffocating under their hate. And 164 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: in order for little SIPs of air, we have to 165 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: get rid of our values and our morals and conform 166 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,719 Speaker 1: to their hateful ideology just to survive. That's not the 167 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: kind of fucking world I want to live in, but 168 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: it is the world that we are headed to. You know, 169 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: every other week it feels like I'm seeing headlines where 170 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: people in France are out in the streets and fucking protesting. 171 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,599 Speaker 1: What was the last protest that we had in the 172 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 1: United States? The Senate Republicans this week blocked the right 173 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: to contraception. It is twenty twenty fucking four. They have 174 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: all the data and all the information, and you know 175 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: what it says to them, women were able to access 176 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: power and economic mobility outside of the confines of men 177 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: once they had bodily autonomy. While we celebrate that fact, right, 178 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 1: they have weaponized it and said we're putting women back 179 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: in their place. And the way that we do that 180 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: is to roll back abortion, roll back contraception, and roll 181 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: their asses right back into the kitchen, under lock and 182 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: key of men. Where's the outrage, folks, where's the bursting 183 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: into protest. I don't know what it's going to take 184 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: for people who continue to say that they can't stomach 185 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: voting for Joe Biden. Can you stomach living in the 186 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: nineteenth fucking century. Other news, Clarence Thomas recently said that 187 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: he would like to revisit Brown versus the Board of Education. 188 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: For those of you tuning in from home, Brown versus 189 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: the Board of Education was the case that outlawed segregation 190 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: in schools, that integrated schools. You know the picture of 191 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: Ruby Bridges, who by the way, is only sixty something 192 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: years old right now, being ushered into school by the 193 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: National Guard. That was the decision that began to integrate 194 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: schools that Clarence Thomas would like to revisit just the 195 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: same way that they revisited Roe v. Wade, the same 196 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: way that they revisited affirmative action. So when we are 197 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: saying Joe Biden's too old, I don't like his policies 198 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: in Gaza, let me tell you something. I know. Joe 199 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: Biden is old, and I don't like his policies that 200 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: he's doing in Gaza. I don't like where our tax 201 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: dollars are going, and I don't like what it's going 202 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: to fun. But what I fucking do know for sure 203 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: is that I am not trying to relive or recreate 204 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: the fucking nineteenth century and see how well I'll do 205 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: as a black queer woman in fucking America not trying 206 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: to have it. Actually, So for all of you that 207 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: are willing to gamble, do you think that it's gonna 208 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: look like Bridgerton, Because I'm gonna tell you it's fucking not. 209 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: It's not gonna be cute and romand and like look 210 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: at our outfits and this that. No, it's gonna be 211 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: brutal and nasty and dark and dystopian, just like Donald 212 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration speech back in twenty seventeen. American carnage. Blood 213 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: in the streets January sixth was a warm up because 214 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: what they are unable to do electorally, they're gonna do militarily, 215 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: trust and fucking believe. And I'm like, how many times 216 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: do these motherfuckers need to show you who they are 217 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: before we all recognize that we are at war and 218 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: under attack. That they're not moving within the confines of 219 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: precedent and shared values around law and order and policies 220 00:15:55,480 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: around human rights and dignity. They have an agenda that 221 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: they are operationalizing at warp fucking speed. The rest of 222 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: us is still sitting around in shock. How could this 223 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: be happening? It is happening. Why because of complacency and neglect. 224 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: You see, we assumed that once rights were won, that 225 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: then they were, I don't know, somehow etched into marble, 226 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: never to be removed. That's not the case. Mitch McConnell 227 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: knew this when he began stacking the courts. He knew 228 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: this when he denied Barack Obama to see the Supreme 229 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: Court justice right. So, folks, I don't know how to 230 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: ring an alarm any louder than the one that I've 231 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: been trying to ring every day since Okay f Daily 232 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: came on the air in twenty seventeen. The whole premise 233 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: behind this show was like, how the fuck did this 234 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: country go from Barack Obama to Donald Trump? But not 235 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: only that, how did we live through a Trump four 236 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: year administration where we saw Donald Trump court and celebrate 237 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: white supremacists, lock children in cages and go to court 238 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: to deny them basic hygiene by providing soap and toothpaste 239 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: and shelter and food. He denied people the right to 240 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: protest and unleashed the police on them. But not on 241 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: January sixth, just when they're protesting the brutal murder of 242 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: George Floyd that we all watch while sitting at home 243 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: in quarantine, where Donald Trump told us not to wear 244 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: a mask and to light ourselves up with bleach. How 245 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: do you look at this and there are people that 246 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: are willing to say those were good times and I 247 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: want to go back. The country was better. Look, those 248 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: thirty percent of Americans are in a fucking cult. They 249 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: are locked and loaded in. To deny Donald Trump now 250 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: would to be to admit that they have been had, 251 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: that they have been bamboozled, that they have been fucking fools. 252 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 1: Their pride and ego is not going to allow them 253 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 1: to do that, so they're going to continue to double 254 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: and triple down. I still believe that we are the majority. 255 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: I still believe that there are more of us than 256 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: there are of them. They're just louder. So where is 257 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: our voice? Where is our power? Where is our presence? 258 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: We cannot continue to just show up every two and 259 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: four years and think that we're gonna hold on to 260 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: this thing called democracy. Not when these motherfuckers are going 261 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: full throttle warp speed on regression every fucking day. We 262 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: got to show up and be better, be sharper, be louder, 263 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: and be more strategic than they are, because this is 264 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: not going to stop. There is not going to be 265 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: another election where we get to vote and then dust 266 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: their hands off and go back to sticking our heads 267 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: in the fucking sand and thinking that somehow somebody's daddy 268 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: got it. We have got to understand that from this 269 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: moment on, the security of our democracy is our responsibility, 270 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: and that means either deciding to run for office your 271 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: goddamn self at local, state and federal level, supporting those 272 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: that have shared values with you at the local, state 273 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: and federal level. That means that putting in judges and 274 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: fucking das that we now understand are critical to our 275 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: progress and critical to accountability. We have got to make 276 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: the time because let me tell you something, the fucking 277 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: gop oh, they got time, and right now it's on 278 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: their side. That is it for me today, dear friends, 279 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: on this fucking Friday, I pray that you all are 280 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: finding rest, are finding joy, are gardening, walking, dancing, spending 281 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: time building community, doing the most to take care of 282 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: your mental health. Because we are in this for the 283 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: long haul. We cannot have people be burning out and quitting, 284 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: so do what is necessary to keep yourselves in this fight. Also, remember, folks, 285 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: the damn shop is indeed open at Daniellemoody dot com. 286 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: Do go over and get yourself some summer swag. The 287 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: future is woke t shirts, toads, stickers, and more. And 288 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: when you make your purchase and get your delivery, take 289 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: a picture, post it, tag me so that other people 290 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: can see just how good you look. As always, power 291 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 292 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.