Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Closing out this god forsaken week,
Speaker 1: hoping and wishing for a peaceful weekend, a weekend where
Speaker 1: we don't hear reports about a massacre, death, despair, tragedy.
Speaker 1: As we continue to reel from all of the news
Speaker 1: reports that are coming out about Uvaldi, Texas. One of
Speaker 1: the most disturbing things, folks, I will say as I
Speaker 1: just jump into conversation with all of you today, is
Speaker 1: that the reports that are coming out with regard to
Speaker 1: according to the Wall Street Journal, parents and Uvaldi who
Speaker 1: rushed to the scene of Robe Elementary School being handcuffed
Speaker 1: by police, being detained by police as onlookers were begging,
Speaker 1: pleading with police officers to enter the building. Reports coming
Speaker 1: out and again by the time you listen to this,
Speaker 1: I'm certain that things will have changed, But initial reporting
Speaker 1: is saying that two officers arrived on the scene. Two
Speaker 1: officers we know mostly carry handguns nine millimeter guns. Bill,
Speaker 1: you've Aaldi shooter had an AAR fifteen, two AR fifteens
Speaker 1: with bump I believe bump capacity had three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty some odd rounds of ammunition. These are the things,
Speaker 1: these magazines that democrats gun rights rights advocates. Even gun
Speaker 1: rights advocates have said, you don't need to have magazine
Speaker 1: capacity that lets off hundreds of bullets in a fucking minute. So,
Speaker 1: if you are a police officer, and I just want
Speaker 1: you to think about this for a minute, because Greg Abbott,
Speaker 1: the piece of shit governor in Texas, instituted multiple policies
Speaker 1: to make Texas with over the last year, the easiest
Speaker 1: state to get a gun in, no background checks, no trainings,
Speaker 1: no certificate, no nothing, basically allowing people like the gunmen
Speaker 1: to essentially grab an a R fifteen the way that
Speaker 1: you would walk into seven eleven and grab a fucking surpie.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you that I have been and
Speaker 1: you all have watched, And again I want to thank
Speaker 1: each and every one one of you listeners and supporters
Speaker 1: who have DMed me, who have messaged me, who have
Speaker 1: tweeted at me, just with your thoughts and well wishes
Speaker 1: and your you know, directives of me taking needing to
Speaker 1: take a break and needing to you know, allow myself
Speaker 1: to grieve in this moment because what happened this week
Speaker 1: for me. It was a compilation of so many things
Speaker 1: right for all of us, just so many goddamn things.
Speaker 1: It feels in this country like we are consistently drinking
Speaker 1: through a fire hose that is filled with acid. Right.
Speaker 1: Nothing is easy. There are no easy moments, There are
Speaker 1: no easy days, There are no easy weeks. Think to yourself,
Speaker 1: the last time that you went through a week and
Speaker 1: you were like, it was a great week in America,
Speaker 1: we haven't had one. And that weighs on people. It
Speaker 1: weighs on me. I had somebody say to me recently,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that you do this, do these shows
Speaker 1: five days a week, You let off this type of
Speaker 1: passion and rage and frustration five days a week. And
Speaker 1: what happened this week is that I hit my breaking point.
Speaker 1: What happened this week is that I just there was
Speaker 1: just not enough time between these two historic tragic events,
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Uvaldi, and then the shootings, the sentencing of
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin hate crime, the white man who threw acid
Speaker 1: on a Latino man talking about replace me, the shooting
Speaker 1: and killing of four teenagers in South Carolina, all of
Speaker 1: this sandwiched into less than two weeks, Less than two
Speaker 1: weeks and when you think about what has transpired before Buffalo, folks,
Speaker 1: it's just exhausting, it's just too fucking much. But listening
Speaker 1: to the reporting, the initial reporting coming out with parents
Speaker 1: begging these officers to enter the building waiting sixty minutes
Speaker 1: an hour, what would be the reason for that? And
Speaker 1: as many people in the community are saying that are
Speaker 1: being interviewed on cable news, you can listen in their
Speaker 1: voice that they don't want to go against the police
Speaker 1: in this small town, right, Because if you're living in
Speaker 1: this small time, chances are you know them, right, you
Speaker 1: know somebody that is on the force. One, you don't
Speaker 1: want to make a target of yourself because I have
Speaker 1: said many a times over that police operate like an
Speaker 1: organized gang, right the blue wall of silence, the way
Speaker 1: that they stick up for each other even when and
Speaker 1: especially when not even when, especially when criminal activity has
Speaker 1: taken place, they cover. But when you think about the
Speaker 1: fact that even police officers in the state of Texas
Speaker 1: said to Greg Gabbott, this is not a good fucking
Speaker 1: law because we are not going to be able to
Speaker 1: combat the ability of people carrying ar fifteens and hundreds
Speaker 1: of rounds of ammunition and being able to do so
Speaker 1: without a waiting period, without a background check, without anything,
Speaker 1: And so here it plays out, Greg Gabbott, it is
Speaker 1: bullshit press conference that thankfully Beto O'Rourke interrupted said, Oh,
Speaker 1: the school just needed to have more doors. That's your
Speaker 1: solution to a gunman being able to access two AAR
Speaker 1: fifteens and three hundred and sixty three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six rounds of ammunition. Your feeling is that, Ted Cruz,
Speaker 1: we need to arm teachers. You don't pay teachers enough
Speaker 1: to do what the fuck they do right now, Teachers
Speaker 1: out here doing bake sales and using their own small
Speaker 1: salaries to be able to supplement the fucking school supplies
Speaker 1: that the schools can afford, because our Congress would rather
Speaker 1: send billions of dollars to Ukraine, billions of dollars to
Speaker 1: the fucking Pentagon, but not billions of dollars to our
Speaker 1: public education system. So now you want to turn around
Speaker 1: after villainizing teachers by the way, during COVID who were
Speaker 1: staging fucking walkouts and saying you don't have COVID protocols
Speaker 1: to have us go back into the classroom. This is
Speaker 1: before there were vaccinations and you have governors like Abbot
Speaker 1: and Descantists telling people, open up, open up, open up,
Speaker 1: but you're not providing sanitizer, mass ventilation systems anything, and
Speaker 1: then turn around and villainize teachers for not wanting to
Speaker 1: put their lives on the line for the small salaries
Speaker 1: that they have in order to teach children. So now
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz's response and Republicans responses, let's give them guns.
Speaker 1: Are we also going to provide hazard pay because now
Speaker 1: you're getting a degree in education and you need to
Speaker 1: have what military combat training as well as is bootcamp
Speaker 1: going to be a part of how elementary and secondary
Speaker 1: school teachers are supposed to be entering America's classrooms? And
Speaker 1: our members of Congress think that that is a justifiable
Speaker 1: fucking response to the second historic elementary school shooting in
Speaker 1: this country. I listened to a reporter and I don't
Speaker 1: know where he's from. I can tell you that he
Speaker 1: had an accent, so I can assume, and a British accent,
Speaker 1: I believe, so I can assume that he was not
Speaker 1: from the United States. And I say that because a
Speaker 1: reporter from the United States, because he was saying specifically,
Speaker 1: people around the world, right and we know that America
Speaker 1: is very American centered. But he said to Ted Cruise,
Speaker 1: people around the world want to understand how this kind
Speaker 1: of massacre, these kinds of school shootings are uniquely American.
Speaker 1: Is this what American exceptionalism looks like? Because it's not great.
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise then has the audacy to delay his hands
Speaker 1: on this reporter and says, well, clearly you have a
Speaker 1: political agenda. He said, no, I don't. I just want
Speaker 1: to understand why you can be so calm massacre after
Speaker 1: massacre and offer no solutions. Ted Cruze says, we don't
Speaker 1: need to politicize this moment. He said, this is not politics.
Speaker 1: People around the world, and particularly in your country, want
Speaker 1: to know what you were going to do to keep
Speaker 1: children safe. Ted Cruz walks off and goes ahead and
Speaker 1: shakes hands with police officers. This is a motherfucker who
Speaker 1: decided that to look like a man, he was going
Speaker 1: to cook bacon on the end of his AR fifteen
Speaker 1: Look at me. Let me tell you something that seems
Speaker 1: to be small dick energy. And yes, I said, what
Speaker 1: the fuck? I said? These white siths, fundamentalist Christian men
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about families. They don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about children, because there is no way that in
Speaker 1: a country that is industrialized, in a country that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be quote unquote free, that you have nineteen
Speaker 1: children grades two through four go to school on a
Speaker 1: motherfucking Tuesday and then not be able to come home.
Speaker 1: Not because there was some natural disaster, some act of God. No,
Speaker 1: it is the inaction of Congress. It is the inaction
Speaker 1: of our politicians that allows for our children to consistently
Speaker 1: be mowed down in their classrooms. They haven't even reached
Speaker 1: their prime. So I can't say, oh, they've mowed down,
Speaker 1: lost their lives in their prime. No, because we're talking
Speaker 1: about fucking seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven year olds. Picture
Speaker 1: after picture that I see being put up on cable
Speaker 1: news and going around social media showing these beautiful children's faces.
Speaker 1: And what I said, and I stand by it, is
Speaker 1: that until we have one of these parents right from
Speaker 1: new Town to Uvaldi, to Columbine to Parkland and all over,
Speaker 1: because there have been too many, decide that they're going
Speaker 1: to do what Mammy Till did in nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 1: which is show the world what an AAR fifteen does
Speaker 1: to the human body, does to a child's body, and
Speaker 1: then you allow these politicians to sit around and tell
Speaker 1: you that they can't do anything. This is what I want.
Speaker 1: I want an open goddamn casket. I want them to
Speaker 1: see that these parents are being forced to get dental
Speaker 1: records to identify their children because the flesh has been
Speaker 1: ripped off of their bones because of an AAR fifteen.
Speaker 1: There is no other place on this planet where this
Speaker 1: is justifiable. I watched a TikTok video where they said,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a school shooting in Scotland once
Speaker 1: they banned assault rifles. There was a mass shooting in
Speaker 1: New Zealand once they banned assault rifles. Because you see,
Speaker 1: you can own a gun, right, it's in the constitution,
Speaker 1: but you don't need to own a weapon of war
Speaker 1: that's not in the Constitution. Because, frankly, if we want
Speaker 1: to go back to as Justice Alito wants to do
Speaker 1: with fucking overturning Roe v of way, if we want
Speaker 1: to go back to what is foundational to the Constitution,
Speaker 1: then let us make it legal for you to have
Speaker 1: the musket that they were fucking using when the Constitution
Speaker 1: was written, because they weren't slinging AAR fifteens able to
Speaker 1: shoot a hundred bullets in less than a minute. That's
Speaker 1: not what they said, Oh, the right to bear arms.
Speaker 1: They were talking about fucking bayonets and muskets that you
Speaker 1: have to stop and then stuff the bullets in and
Speaker 1: pack it right and then crank it and then let off. So,
Speaker 1: if we want to be constitutionalists, as a Supreme Court
Speaker 1: now decides that they want to be, then let them
Speaker 1: use the weapons that existed during that time. You still
Speaker 1: have your right to bear arms, which you do not
Speaker 1: have the right to declare war on the nation's children.
Speaker 1: New report came out in Axios to say that now
Speaker 1: the number one cause of death of children ages one
Speaker 1: and up gun violence. Gun violence, not cancer, not heart attacks,
Speaker 1: not heart disease, not diabetes, No gun violence. But Republicans
Speaker 1: would have you believe that that's necessary. That's what freedom
Speaker 1: looks like. It looks like the freedom to murder. It
Speaker 1: looks like the freedom for people to be able to
Speaker 1: access weapons of mass destruction and open fire in grocery stores,
Speaker 1: open fire in school buildings, open fire at churches, synagogues.
Speaker 1: The thing that I'm watching as you have hosts of
Speaker 1: television shows and shout out to the Miami Heat and
Speaker 1: the announcer at the game this week, who through the
Speaker 1: moment of silence on the jumbotront as they are going
Speaker 1: through the pictures of the slain children. They said, right
Speaker 1: before they started the game, put up the number to
Speaker 1: Congress on the JumboTron and said, call your senators because
Speaker 1: this has got to end now. To me, NBA, NFL, NHL,
Speaker 1: soccer leagues, all of the major sports, this is all
Speaker 1: that they should do. They should take each and every game,
Speaker 1: take five minutes and do the same thing that the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat announcer did every single show. Take five minutes
Speaker 1: at the beginning and run the faces of the slain victims,
Speaker 1: not just of Vivaldi, but start with Columbine and go
Speaker 1: over the last What is it now close to thirty
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Speaker 1: This country is in so many crises, so many crises,
Speaker 1: and this week for me, it was too much. At
Speaker 1: some point in the coming weeks, I will be taking
Speaker 1: a break. And the reality is that, through conversations with
Speaker 1: my therapist, with my friends and family, is that as
Speaker 1: an EmPATH, as a person who, as I said on
Speaker 1: Woke Wednesday, has dedicated their lives to democracy, to our
Speaker 1: functioning government, to educating the citizenury, whether it was as
Speaker 1: a classroom teacher at the beginning of my career, as
Speaker 1: an education lobbyist, right as an activist, as an LGBTQ activist,
Speaker 1: as a writer, as a communications person, all of it,
Speaker 1: I have dedicated to making this country a better, safer
Speaker 1: place to exist in. And when you wake up and
Speaker 1: you realize that everything is crumbling around you, everything that
Speaker 1: you have taken to heart, to know to be true
Speaker 1: is crumbling around you. Some days I can't breathe. Some
Speaker 1: days I question abandoning all of this and finding something else.
Speaker 1: But you see, when you have a calling, you don't
Speaker 1: just turn off that message, you don't just stop hearing it.
Speaker 1: It is something that pulls at you, that says, for me,
Speaker 1: your voice matters, your voice is needed. I don't care
Speaker 1: if one person listens to the show or one million
Speaker 1: people listen. The fact is, I do believe that a
Speaker 1: small group of people can make considerable change an impact
Speaker 1: in this country. But it has to be consistent. We
Speaker 1: have to have discipline, we have to have focus because
Speaker 1: the reality, the reality is that our tension spans because
Speaker 1: we are so overwhelmed with so much right now, are
Speaker 1: that of a gnat? How do you keep track of
Speaker 1: everything when it is one fucking crisis after another. We're
Speaker 1: dealing with another uptick in COVID and at the same time,
Speaker 1: fucking monkey pocks. You are grieving the hate crime that
Speaker 1: happened in and Buffalo, and now the news has completely
Speaker 1: shifted to another fucking massacre in Uvaldi. Once you get
Speaker 1: over one hump and you think, oh god, there lies
Speaker 1: the oasis, No it's not. It is a mirage. People
Speaker 1: have said to me so many times. Your safety is
Speaker 1: in fact an illusion, and it is It's a necessary illusion,
Speaker 1: because if we all operated from a place of fear
Speaker 1: and anxiety, we would never leave our homes. So we
Speaker 1: have to we have to believe, even if we are
Speaker 1: lying to ourselves that no, it is safe for me
Speaker 1: to go to the grocery store. It's safe for me
Speaker 1: to go and worship at my house of worship. It's
Speaker 1: safe for me to send my kids to school, because
Speaker 1: what is the alternative, first all, to become reclusive. The
Speaker 1: fact that's the thing that scares me is at the
Speaker 1: only time then where we were all collectively safe was
Speaker 1: in COVID, in quarantine at the beginning of COVID, And
Speaker 1: even during that time, they didn't stop killing Black people.
Speaker 1: Amand Aubrey was murdered in February of twenty twenty, George
Speaker 1: Floyd was murdered in May of twenty twenty, Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: was murdered Rachiard Brooks. There are so many fucking people
Speaker 1: black people that were murdered. That's why folks left their
Speaker 1: homes with masks on to take to the streets in
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty, because not even during that
Speaker 1: time could black people exist and live free. But it
Speaker 1: was the only time since Columbine that we hadn't heard
Speaker 1: a series of school shootings because school was at a session.
Speaker 1: It was the only time that we hadn't heard about
Speaker 1: a mass shooting at a concert or a grocery store.
Speaker 1: Parties or wherever because people were inside. But you see here,
Speaker 1: people are not the problem, as Republicans would love to
Speaker 1: tell you, Oh, it's you just need a good person
Speaker 1: with a gun to battle the bad person with a
Speaker 1: gun because we all want to live in the wild,
Speaker 1: wild West. I know, I fucking don't, folks. I will
Speaker 1: tell you that today's show is going to be a
Speaker 1: short one. And why is that? Because I have felt unwell.
Speaker 1: I have felt unwell, and I have been pushing myself
Speaker 1: to continue to do the most and realizing that when
Speaker 1: I spent an entire day in tears, that I was
Speaker 1: not well and it was time for me to admit
Speaker 1: that to myself that my work was making me sick.
Speaker 1: And it's not really my work. It's the country and
Speaker 1: my job is to cover, to have deep analysis, to
Speaker 1: have thoughtful perspectives, to provide solutions and pathways, and I
Speaker 1: opening analysis to wake people up. But to be at
Speaker 1: that level of high alert all the time, to never
Speaker 1: put my phone down, to never close a computer screen,
Speaker 1: and even when I do, I still get dms and
Speaker 1: texts and tweets about things and stories that I've missed.
Speaker 1: And so on this Friday, I'm giving myself a break,
Speaker 1: and I want, what would be the initial time for
Speaker 1: the show, for you all to do something for yourselves.
Speaker 1: Call your strong friends, right, they always say, check on
Speaker 1: your strong friends. You know, the ones that seem to
Speaker 1: always have it together, that seem to always be able
Speaker 1: to power through and plow through. Check on them, make
Speaker 1: sure that they are actually okay. And if they are not,
Speaker 1: and you are that strong friend, then just sit with them,
Speaker 1: whether it's on FaceTime in a park. Check on your family. Right.
Speaker 1: We need to build up our sense of community and
Speaker 1: togetherness and thoughtfulness with one another because things are just
Speaker 1: so dreadful. They're just so fucking awful. So if you
Speaker 1: are not actively daily, multiple times a day, seeking out
Speaker 1: those pockets of joy, connecting with your friends, your family,
Speaker 1: your children, if you're an auntie in, an uncle right,
Speaker 1: a godparent, a caregiver, say a prayer, a meditation, a
Speaker 1: moment of silence for all of these fucking families man,
Speaker 1: who are only at the beginning of trying to put
Speaker 1: together the pieces of a life that is now shattered
Speaker 1: and didn't need to be. No one, not the families
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, not the families in Uvaldi, not the families
Speaker 1: in Parkland, not the families in Newtown, not the families
Speaker 1: in Columbine, not the families in al Paso, not the
Speaker 1: families of the Pulse nightclub victims in Florida, not the
Speaker 1: families in South Carolina, not the families from Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Nobody should have to figure out how to put the
Speaker 1: pieces of their lives and their heart back together because
Speaker 1: of gun violence. We shouldn't have to live like this. Hey,
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Speaker 1: on your friends, on your family, on your community. Figure
Speaker 1: out how you can get involved and just feel connection.
Speaker 1: Whether it's through a community garden, if it's through religious services,
Speaker 1: if it's through volunteers, just a kind smile to somebody
Speaker 1: on the street, Be a light. Be a light because
Speaker 1: there is just too much darkness. That's what I wish
Speaker 1: for all of you as we head into this weekend
Speaker 1: and God knows what will unfold, but what I will
Speaker 1: say to you is that we all have the capacity
Speaker 1: to be a light for ourselves and for those around us.
Speaker 1: It is the only way, the only way that we
Speaker 1: are going to make it through this darkness. I thank
Speaker 1: you all again, so so very much for your support,
Speaker 1: your encouragement, your patronage, empathy, your strength. We'll continue to
Speaker 1: move through this, whatever this is, dear friends, together as always,
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