Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ookf Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: y'all praise him. Happy fucking Friday. We have made it
Speaker 1: to the end of yet another miserable fucking week in politics.
Speaker 1: You know, for the last couple of years, I swear
Speaker 1: to God that I have wanted a time machine so
Speaker 1: that I could go back and choose a different career,
Speaker 1: choose a different path, and just tell my younger self,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe public service, maybe educating the public, you know,
Speaker 1: being in politics, wanting to change policy and do all
Speaker 1: those things. Maybe don't do it. Maybe go make money,
Speaker 1: you know, because apparently greed is still fucking good right
Speaker 1: in this country. But seriously, the other day, I was
Speaker 1: in conversation as I normally am with, you know, I
Speaker 1: was hanging out with friends who are you know, civil
Speaker 1: rights leaders and activists and you know, and just talking
Speaker 1: about this moment, you know, and how we are finding
Speaker 1: ourselves in a place of just utter distress and despair.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of folks who are feeling
Speaker 1: utterly and completely burnt out and who are in the
Speaker 1: process of thinking about what's next. And I say that
Speaker 1: not to say, like, you know, just give up and quit,
Speaker 1: but I also do want to honor the fact that
Speaker 1: this work has become really horrible, like for mental health,
Speaker 1: the inundation of just bad news, regressive policies, ignorance, it's
Speaker 1: like the algorithm of anger, right, this hate wave that
Speaker 1: has taken the country by a chokehold. There was a
Speaker 1: show on NBC. I think it was NBC. I don't
Speaker 1: fucking know because I don't really watch TV, but there
Speaker 1: was a show that was called The Dome. I think
Speaker 1: you all will tell me in the comments section if
Speaker 1: I'm messing it up, But there was a show that
Speaker 1: was called like the Dome, and somehow there was like
Speaker 1: this sci fi show. There was this big dome that
Speaker 1: comes up over like the world or town. And that's
Speaker 1: how I feel about America right now, that there's like
Speaker 1: this hate dome, right, you know, when we're in those
Speaker 1: like horrible heat humidity indexes and they're just like, there's
Speaker 1: this heat dome over you know, the East Coast. I
Speaker 1: feel like there is a hate dome that is over
Speaker 1: the United States right now, and the heat and the
Speaker 1: pressure is just growing and mushrooming right in a way
Speaker 1: that like a nuclear bomb mushrooms right and goes off.
Speaker 1: And I am just at a space where I want
Speaker 1: everybody to put on their oxygen masks, but at the
Speaker 1: same time break out of this shit. And the only
Speaker 1: way that we break out right of this mushroom cloud
Speaker 1: of fucking hate is to activate ourselves in everyone around us,
Speaker 1: Like this shit is not going away, like the Canadian fire,
Speaker 1: fucking yellow sky that happened this time last year in
Speaker 1: New York City where by the way, I couldn't go
Speaker 1: outside without a mask on because the sky was fucking
Speaker 1: yellow and like polluted beyond belief, which is going to
Speaker 1: become our norm. Side note, because you know climate change
Speaker 1: and we're not doing anything about that. But this hate wave,
Speaker 1: this hate dome, is sucking all of the oxygen out
Speaker 1: of the room. It is making good people right rethink
Speaker 1: their careers and want to figure out what an exit
Speaker 1: strategy is. And I don't fault folks, because people who
Speaker 1: signed up to do policy work, to be in politics,
Speaker 1: to elect good people to office, to represent their districts
Speaker 1: or their states or their school board or what have you,
Speaker 1: didn't sign up to be harassed, didn't sign up for
Speaker 1: death threats. Didn't sign up for, you know, unrelenting hate mail.
Speaker 1: Didn't sign up to put their safety in the safety
Speaker 1: of their family, you know, at risk in order to
Speaker 1: do a public good. It's crazy, but that's the place
Speaker 1: that we find ourselves. I mean, you saw this this week, right,
Speaker 1: one of the stories that I didn't really bother covering,
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna make like a making a quick
Speaker 1: mention of it. But Marjorie Taylor Green right, and her
Speaker 1: utter and complete disfucking respect for doctor Fauci, I mean,
Speaker 1: she made a fool of herself, right, as she does
Speaker 1: because she's in Neanderthal. But like the fact that we're
Speaker 1: at a point in our politics where we can't even
Speaker 1: feign respect for people, right, Like, doctor Fauci is a doctor,
Speaker 1: whether or not you like his policies that kept Americans safe,
Speaker 1: while the president that you've pledged your allegiance to is
Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths of over five hundred thousand Americans.
Speaker 1: By the way, where the fuck are those hearings? Right?
Speaker 1: If there had been a mask mandate that was put
Speaker 1: in place, as was stated by doctors as necessary, do
Speaker 1: you think that five hundred thousand Americans would have died
Speaker 1: within a year. I don't think so. Right, do you
Speaker 1: think that if we hadn't had a president that was
Speaker 1: telling people to shoot up bleach and lights into their
Speaker 1: ass that like that, many Americans would have died because
Speaker 1: of utter fucking criminal negligence on the part of the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. But again, no fucking hearings that are being
Speaker 1: called on this, right, no investigations that are being called.
Speaker 1: This was not an act of God. It was an
Speaker 1: act of stupidity, right. It was an act of blatant negligence.
Speaker 1: And once, by the way, once that administration knew who
Speaker 1: was being most adversely affected put in harm's way black
Speaker 1: and brown people who were the essential workers, right I
Speaker 1: use air quotes, then it was liberate Michigan and open
Speaker 1: up Florida and open up these places because somehow white
Speaker 1: people were going to be immune from COVID nineteen, which
Speaker 1: was not the fucking case, particularly in rural areas. When
Speaker 1: you look at how far we have fallen. I just
Speaker 1: did an interview on my other podcast, The New Abnormal
Speaker 1: with The Daily Beast, and I was interviewing my friend
Speaker 1: and the CEO of the Misfoundation for Women, Teresa Younger,
Speaker 1: and Teresa's whole point is about activating right, activating women
Speaker 1: and girls and our allies to recognize that we are
Speaker 1: at war right, that we are actually in the fight
Speaker 1: for our lives. That while people think that civil wars
Speaker 1: or wars in general are fought on a batter field
Speaker 1: or with bombs and tanks, like what is happening in
Speaker 1: Israel and Gaza, there are other wars, right wars around policy, wars,
Speaker 1: around rights on equity and justice and liberation. And that
Speaker 1: is what this Republican Party has been waging over the
Speaker 1: last decade plus right, but certainly over the last ten years.
Speaker 1: And so when you take a look at this and
Speaker 1: then the shrugging that, I feel like the collective shrugging
Speaker 1: because people are exhausted. And I'm not saying that you
Speaker 1: don't have a right to be exhausted. We have been
Speaker 1: living in a place of trauma. Right. Over a million
Speaker 1: fucking people died of COVID and we pretend like it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. We were forced into our homes right, whole
Speaker 1: country shut down, and the trauma from that we don't
Speaker 1: readily talk about. It's still in us. The fact that
Speaker 1: anything can change at any fucking moment, and we have
Speaker 1: absolutely no control over it. That the air being in
Speaker 1: and the close proximity we are pack animals was dangerous.
Speaker 1: And instead of us coming together as a country and
Speaker 1: that being a point of pride, right helping and loving
Speaker 1: thy neighbor, we turned on one another because of the
Speaker 1: leadership that was put in place in this country. And
Speaker 1: so when there is a time where we should be
Speaker 1: reflecting on who we actually want to be and how
Speaker 1: we actually want to show up, do you want that
Speaker 1: four years of Donald Trump back and worse? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that people get what is happening and
Speaker 1: what is at stake. And so I understand again when
Speaker 1: folks are like, I'm done with this, but I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful for people like Teresa Junger and the Misfoundation for
Speaker 1: women because they're like, no, we continue to declare that
Speaker 1: women and girls are our future and we are going
Speaker 1: to invest in them whether or not. The US Circuit
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals in the Eleventh District says that that
Speaker 1: is discriminatory. They are using the language that we created
Speaker 1: during the civil rights era in order to equal a
Speaker 1: very unequal and white supremacist playing field against us. And
Speaker 1: so I continue to say, use what they do and
Speaker 1: do it better. These venture firms, these philanthropic organizations, they
Speaker 1: say they fund everybody. We're about patriotism and liberty and justice.
Speaker 1: They mean for white people that is the asterisk. They
Speaker 1: mean for white men, that is the asterist. You can
Speaker 1: apply to those venture firms, you can apply to those
Speaker 1: you ain't going to get them right. And so I
Speaker 1: need for people who have access to resource, write in
Speaker 1: philanthropy or individual philanthropists to start moving the way that
Speaker 1: white men have been moving in this country in a
Speaker 1: self serving, fucking manner, and making sure right that your
Speaker 1: descriptions are so broad, but that your fucking targets and
Speaker 1: your strategy are clear, because these motherfuckers are coming for
Speaker 1: every goddamn advancement that has been made in the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: They want that mushroom cloud of hate to not only
Speaker 1: take over the entire country, but take over the entire
Speaker 1: world and link up with Russia, and link up with
Speaker 1: fucking Hungry, and link up right with other dictators around
Speaker 1: the world until we're all suffocating under their hate. And
Speaker 1: in order for little SIPs of air, we have to
Speaker 1: get rid of our values and our morals and conform
Speaker 1: to their hateful ideology just to survive. That's not the
Speaker 1: kind of fucking world I want to live in, but
Speaker 1: it is the world that we are headed to. You know,
Speaker 1: every other week it feels like I'm seeing headlines where
Speaker 1: people in France are out in the streets and fucking protesting.
Speaker 1: What was the last protest that we had in the
Speaker 1: United States? The Senate Republicans this week blocked the right
Speaker 1: to contraception. It is twenty twenty fucking four. They have
Speaker 1: all the data and all the information, and you know
Speaker 1: what it says to them, women were able to access
Speaker 1: power and economic mobility outside of the confines of men
Speaker 1: once they had bodily autonomy. While we celebrate that fact, right,
Speaker 1: they have weaponized it and said we're putting women back
Speaker 1: in their place. And the way that we do that
Speaker 1: is to roll back abortion, roll back contraception, and roll
Speaker 1: their asses right back into the kitchen, under lock and
Speaker 1: key of men. Where's the outrage, folks, where's the bursting
Speaker 1: into protest. I don't know what it's going to take
Speaker 1: for people who continue to say that they can't stomach
Speaker 1: voting for Joe Biden. Can you stomach living in the
Speaker 1: nineteenth fucking century. Other news, Clarence Thomas recently said that
Speaker 1: he would like to revisit Brown versus the Board of Education.
Speaker 1: For those of you tuning in from home, Brown versus
Speaker 1: the Board of Education was the case that outlawed segregation
Speaker 1: in schools, that integrated schools. You know the picture of
Speaker 1: Ruby Bridges, who by the way, is only sixty something
Speaker 1: years old right now, being ushered into school by the
Speaker 1: National Guard. That was the decision that began to integrate
Speaker 1: schools that Clarence Thomas would like to revisit just the
Speaker 1: same way that they revisited Roe v. Wade, the same
Speaker 1: way that they revisited affirmative action. So when we are
Speaker 1: saying Joe Biden's too old, I don't like his policies
Speaker 1: in Gaza, let me tell you something. I know. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is old, and I don't like his policies that
Speaker 1: he's doing in Gaza. I don't like where our tax
Speaker 1: dollars are going, and I don't like what it's going
Speaker 1: to fun. But what I fucking do know for sure
Speaker 1: is that I am not trying to relive or recreate
Speaker 1: the fucking nineteenth century and see how well I'll do
Speaker 1: as a black queer woman in fucking America not trying
Speaker 1: to have it. Actually, So for all of you that
Speaker 1: are willing to gamble, do you think that it's gonna
Speaker 1: look like Bridgerton, Because I'm gonna tell you it's fucking not.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be cute and romand and like look
Speaker 1: at our outfits and this that. No, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: brutal and nasty and dark and dystopian, just like Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration speech back in twenty seventeen. American carnage. Blood
Speaker 1: in the streets January sixth was a warm up because
Speaker 1: what they are unable to do electorally, they're gonna do militarily,
Speaker 1: trust and fucking believe. And I'm like, how many times
Speaker 1: do these motherfuckers need to show you who they are
Speaker 1: before we all recognize that we are at war and
Speaker 1: under attack. That they're not moving within the confines of
Speaker 1: precedent and shared values around law and order and policies
Speaker 1: around human rights and dignity. They have an agenda that
Speaker 1: they are operationalizing at warp fucking speed. The rest of
Speaker 1: us is still sitting around in shock. How could this
Speaker 1: be happening? It is happening. Why because of complacency and neglect.
Speaker 1: You see, we assumed that once rights were won, that
Speaker 1: then they were, I don't know, somehow etched into marble,
Speaker 1: never to be removed. That's not the case. Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: knew this when he began stacking the courts. He knew
Speaker 1: this when he denied Barack Obama to see the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice right. So, folks, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: ring an alarm any louder than the one that I've
Speaker 1: been trying to ring every day since Okay f Daily
Speaker 1: came on the air in twenty seventeen. The whole premise
Speaker 1: behind this show was like, how the fuck did this
Speaker 1: country go from Barack Obama to Donald Trump? But not
Speaker 1: only that, how did we live through a Trump four
Speaker 1: year administration where we saw Donald Trump court and celebrate
Speaker 1: white supremacists, lock children in cages and go to court
Speaker 1: to deny them basic hygiene by providing soap and toothpaste
Speaker 1: and shelter and food. He denied people the right to
Speaker 1: protest and unleashed the police on them. But not on
Speaker 1: January sixth, just when they're protesting the brutal murder of
Speaker 1: George Floyd that we all watch while sitting at home
Speaker 1: in quarantine, where Donald Trump told us not to wear
Speaker 1: a mask and to light ourselves up with bleach. How
Speaker 1: do you look at this and there are people that
Speaker 1: are willing to say those were good times and I
Speaker 1: want to go back. The country was better. Look, those
Speaker 1: thirty percent of Americans are in a fucking cult. They
Speaker 1: are locked and loaded in. To deny Donald Trump now
Speaker 1: would to be to admit that they have been had,
Speaker 1: that they have been bamboozled, that they have been fucking fools.
Speaker 1: Their pride and ego is not going to allow them
Speaker 1: to do that, so they're going to continue to double
Speaker 1: and triple down. I still believe that we are the majority.
Speaker 1: I still believe that there are more of us than
Speaker 1: there are of them. They're just louder. So where is
Speaker 1: our voice? Where is our power? Where is our presence?
Speaker 1: We cannot continue to just show up every two and
Speaker 1: four years and think that we're gonna hold on to
Speaker 1: this thing called democracy. Not when these motherfuckers are going
Speaker 1: full throttle warp speed on regression every fucking day. We
Speaker 1: got to show up and be better, be sharper, be louder,
Speaker 1: and be more strategic than they are, because this is
Speaker 1: not going to stop. There is not going to be
Speaker 1: another election where we get to vote and then dust
Speaker 1: their hands off and go back to sticking our heads
Speaker 1: in the fucking sand and thinking that somehow somebody's daddy
Speaker 1: got it. We have got to understand that from this
Speaker 1: moment on, the security of our democracy is our responsibility,
Speaker 1: and that means either deciding to run for office your
Speaker 1: goddamn self at local, state and federal level, supporting those
Speaker 1: that have shared values with you at the local, state
Speaker 1: and federal level. That means that putting in judges and
Speaker 1: fucking das that we now understand are critical to our
Speaker 1: progress and critical to accountability. We have got to make
Speaker 1: the time because let me tell you something, the fucking
Speaker 1: gop oh, they got time, and right now it's on
Speaker 1: their side. That is it for me today, dear friends,
Speaker 1: on this fucking Friday, I pray that you all are
Speaker 1: finding rest, are finding joy, are gardening, walking, dancing, spending
Speaker 1: time building community, doing the most to take care of
Speaker 1: your mental health. Because we are in this for the
Speaker 1: long haul. We cannot have people be burning out and quitting,
Speaker 1: so do what is necessary to keep yourselves in this fight. Also, remember, folks,
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