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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,

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Speaker 1: A couple of things I want to bring to your

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Speaker 1: attention today. I'm just so tired. I'm so tired of

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Speaker 1: mainstream media. And I know that I spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of time like bashing mainstream media. And it's all justified

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Speaker 1: because you know, at the end of last week, you

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Speaker 1: had special counsel that Merrick Garland, who should not have

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Speaker 1: the job of Attorney General in this moment, appoint you know,

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Speaker 1: special counsel her to over or see the investigation into

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Speaker 1: Biden's documents, and in his report, which should have only

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Speaker 1: been about the fact that there's nothing to see here

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Speaker 1: because he didn't do anything illegal, he didn't obstruct the

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Speaker 1: Justice Departments, he returned the documents once he realized that

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Speaker 1: he had them. Instead, her decided to attack Biden's age

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Speaker 1: and his mental fitness. And this is a sycophant of

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Speaker 1: Trump that you served as counsel in the Trump administration,

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Speaker 1: and it's a holdover. And I just for the life

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Speaker 1: of me can't figure out why fucking Democrats bend themselves

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Speaker 1: over backwards to try and appease the monster that is

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Speaker 1: Maga Republicans. I just, for the love of fucking God

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Speaker 1: cannot figure it out and think that somehow you're going

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Speaker 1: to satiate this insatiable beast that wants to destroy democracy,

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Speaker 1: and the way that they do that is by sowing

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Speaker 1: doubt about Joe Biden's capabilities. Now, we can talk about

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Speaker 1: our feelings about Joe Biden, frankly, which there are many

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Speaker 1: that I have that I know many of you have.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, the fucking false

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Speaker 1: equivalency that is put up in the media at a

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Speaker 1: time when we actually need people to be as informed

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Speaker 1: as they can be is just like, oh God, folks,

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Speaker 1: I I'm just so angry. I'm just so angry. I'm

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Speaker 1: angry that Merrick Garland is the Attorney General of the

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Speaker 1: United States. The man is so fucking weak and lacks

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Speaker 1: the integrity intensity fortitude that it takes to maneuver this

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Speaker 1: Justice Department through the domestic terrorism that we are experiencing

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Speaker 1: and have continued to experience since the beginning of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's presidency that has just gotten worse. We're in this

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Speaker 1: fucking run up against the clock with cases that Merrick

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Speaker 1: Garland could have brought the day that he was fucking

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Speaker 1: sworn in, but didn't. He sat on his fucking hands

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Speaker 1: for over a year. Had he brought this case when

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Speaker 1: Donald trump let office assigned a special prosecutor the moment

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was on that helicopter, we wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: pushing up against an election, and there would have been

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Speaker 1: more than enough time, and Donald Trump probably would not

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Speaker 1: have announced right his bid, so wouldn't have seemed like

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Speaker 1: a political fucking attack. And which hunt that he lies about.

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Speaker 1: So Merrick Garland has no business being Attorney General and

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Speaker 1: then appointing a Republican to oversee an investigation into Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: as if somehow this is the fucking nineties, Like are

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Speaker 1: we dumb here or do you just not fucking get it?

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Speaker 1: Like which one is it? Are you incompetent or are

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Speaker 1: you stupid? And so I just, you know, find myself

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Speaker 1: consistently shaking my head realizing that, you know, folks, fucking

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Speaker 1: February is halfway done. We are just like racing towards

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Speaker 1: this election that I think is going to be devastating

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Speaker 1: unless some miracle happens. Devastating for this country, devastating for

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Speaker 1: all of us who are not part of MAGA, who

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Speaker 1: still having to convince people that the threats that we

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Speaker 1: because apparently we have to convince fucking Merit Garland that

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Speaker 1: you're unbiased, So you're going to pretend that the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party isn't at the root of the cancer that is

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Speaker 1: eating away at our democracy. I tell you that the

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Speaker 1: politicians of yesteryear do not have the ability to deal

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Speaker 1: with what is when they are still nostalgic for what

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Speaker 1: was that is never returning. So I'm angry, and I'm tired,

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Speaker 1: and I'm also tired of being angry. So it's, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like, where do we go from here? Not to

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Speaker 1: mention that by the time that you're listening to this,

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Speaker 1: all of you are more than aware of the absolutely

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Speaker 1: brutal bombings and attacks that Rafa, an area that was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be designated as safe for Palestinian civilians to

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 1: I am grateful for the time that I spent in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans for the Creating Change Conference, where I got

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Speaker 1: to sit down with queer folks in battleground states that

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 1: In today's conversation, which these Queer the Vote conversations will

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Speaker 1: be happening on WOLLKF over the next two weeks, where

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be playing for you pre recorded conversations

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Speaker 1: that happened while I was live in New Orleans. Today's

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Speaker 1: conversation is with Andrea Monthenez talking about, you know, what

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Speaker 1: it means to be trans and try to create safety

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Speaker 1: for other trans people in these red states and what

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Speaker 1: is needed and required you know, And I will tell

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Speaker 1: blue states until if and when Donald Trump becomes president

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Speaker 1: again and makes these states an absolute hell right what

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Speaker 1: it is like to be queer in a state that

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Speaker 1: you are made a target of, And so these conversations,

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Speaker 1: I hope give us a lens into what that is

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Speaker 1: like and the fact that everybody doesn't have the means

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Speaker 1: to leave, and that we don't want everybody to leave

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Speaker 1: because if they do, nothing ever changes. And so these

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Speaker 1: are some of the bravest people that I've had the

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Speaker 1: coming up next. I'm really excited folks to welcome to

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Speaker 1: wok F Daily Andrea Montanez from the Hope Community Center,

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Speaker 1: who works on how to include trans people into the

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Speaker 1: immigration conversation. We talk about immigration a lot on this show.

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Speaker 1: I have never Andrea talked about it from the lens

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Speaker 1: very grateful that we are meeting here at Creating Change,

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Speaker 1: the LGBTQ Task Force Conference to discuss twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election, which is going to be immigration.

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Speaker 1: Andrew talk to me about the Whole Community Center and

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Speaker 1: about your role.

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Speaker 2: Thank you and thank you to be here. Really important

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Speaker 2: to be talking about these topics. Intersectionality between the LGBTQ

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Speaker 2: does mean intersectionality Whole Community Center, my role in there,

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Speaker 2: and the LGBTQ immigration organizer. That's my position. My position

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Speaker 2: is too working in the intersectionality between what is immigration

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Speaker 2: trans community in this case Hope. What's created to be

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Speaker 2: short stories. It is located in a Podca, Florida, a

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Speaker 2: Orland is the bubble of the only city protected in Florida.

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Speaker 2: I can say that Aportica is so conservative and we

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Speaker 2: ago for four Catholic nons. That's an interesting historian. They

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Speaker 2: So when they come in here, they working with that

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Speaker 2: is still working with that, supporting the documentary. The hard

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just to remind folks, the Pulse night club shooting

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Speaker 1: It was I believe black and like LATINX night at

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Yes was the Latin black community and the

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Speaker 2: Immigration is the big probably EveryWare and that include us.

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Speaker 2: So that movement was incredible. So I started moving organization,

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Speaker 2: You know, So that's that's that's, that's proof we are together.

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Speaker 2: Is the more hard work? You say that, I guess

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Speaker 2: you explain me this? So I opened open doors. It's

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Speaker 1: To know, but you're you're right through slowly through conversations,

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Speaker 2: This is a locking, difficult process. This is my lie completely.

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Speaker 2: I think you can, Well, you can find us and

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Speaker 2: if we were so because we're doing a lot of work.

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Speaker 2: The immigrants are part of the solution, yep. And the

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Speaker 2: So looking for that, looking for you, looking for the immigrations.

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Speaker 2: so please support us, we assist.

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Speaker 1: Amazing Andrew, thank you so much for making the time

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke

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Speaker 1: a f as always Power to the people and to

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Speaker 1: all the people power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.