Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I woke up earlier in the week to news that
Speaker 1: Mika Brazinski and Joe Scarsborough of Mourning Joe at MSNBC
Speaker 1: spent the weekend making a trip to mar A Lago
Speaker 1: to sit down and reconnect with Donald Trump. And you know,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I have never been a
Speaker 1: fan of Mourning Joe for this particular reason. I think
Speaker 1: that their coverage is softball. I think that they are opportunists.
Speaker 1: I think that they really work to sainwash Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and Republicans, because Scarsborough is a Republican. And you know
Speaker 1: what pisces me off about this is that cable news
Speaker 1: and MSNBC particularly is in a ratings downward spiral. They
Speaker 1: are in a just a tail spin because following the
Speaker 1: election two weeks ago, millions of people have tuned them out,
Speaker 1: and you are seeing that MSNBC's ratings are down by
Speaker 1: fifty percent, CNN's ratings down by thirty percent. And you know,
Speaker 1: many people are thinking that, well, maybe folks are just
Speaker 1: exhausted and they'll tune back in once the administration takes over.
Speaker 1: But what we are seeing by Amika and Joe is
Speaker 1: what folks who study dictatorships and a authoritarianism say not
Speaker 1: to do. Do not preemptively bend the knee, do not
Speaker 1: obey in advance. And what Mika and Joe have done
Speaker 1: by going over to mar Lago to sit down with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who is called Joe Scarsboa murderer, who has
Speaker 1: said awful, sexist, misogynistic things about Meka, is that, oh,
Speaker 1: the door is open, and we're willing to treat your
Speaker 1: appointees and treat this Trump regime as if it is
Speaker 1: just a normal function of our democracy and say wash
Speaker 1: it for the American people as a way to show that, oh,
Speaker 1: look at us, we exist in the middle. Look at us,
Speaker 1: we're objective. And the fact is is that this is
Speaker 1: as far from objective as you can possibly fucking get.
Speaker 1: They are not objective, right, They are in the business
Speaker 1: of cya covering their own asses. And so by virtue
Speaker 1: of seeing this, the leading show on MSM make this decision. Folks.
Speaker 1: You know where this is headed. You know that MSNBC
Speaker 1: is most likely going to make a hard pivot for
Speaker 1: the right. And this is what Democrats have done over
Speaker 1: the last decade. This is why you see that progressives
Speaker 1: have wanted to abandon this party, vote third party, or
Speaker 1: not vote at all. And it's because as Republicans became
Speaker 1: more and more radicalized, more and more extreme in their
Speaker 1: policy views, in their ideology, Democrats have just followed behind
Speaker 1: them at what they believe is a safe distance. But
Speaker 1: it actually hasn't been because it has compromised our democracy
Speaker 1: entirely as they continue to search for the white voter
Speaker 1: to come back to them. And so here you are
Speaker 1: right where I will tell you this. I do not
Speaker 1: think that after tuning out cable news for however many
Speaker 1: weeks that it's been right now about two weeks in time,
Speaker 1: that people are going to then say to themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready to ingest poison again. I think
Speaker 1: that what is ultimately going to happen is that those
Speaker 1: people in this interim have either just jumped ship altogether
Speaker 1: from ingesting the news, or they have found independent media
Speaker 1: outlets like podcasts, YouTube, where voices like mine and many
Speaker 1: others exist. Because we saw the writing on the wall
Speaker 1: for cable news a long time ago, and with now
Speaker 1: the announcement of a Brendan Carr taking over the FCC
Speaker 1: and saying that he is going to use the authority
Speaker 1: of the FCC not to increase broadband or increase speed
Speaker 1: or compete with other countries in terms of what it
Speaker 1: is that we're doing with telecommunications. No, he is going
Speaker 1: to go after networks and go after places and spaces
Speaker 1: that have elevated the voices of diverse people and underserved communities.
Speaker 1: And instead he's going to weaponize these agencies that want
Speaker 1: to be able to tell the truth about what is
Speaker 1: happening inside of this regime. He's going to take away licenses,
Speaker 1: he's going to bring lawsuits. And so again I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for how long, guys, that if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: were to ever sees power again, we would see the
Speaker 1: end of democracy as we know it. And that is
Speaker 1: exactly where we are. So I don't know why anybody,
Speaker 1: because there's all this outrage on the internet right now
Speaker 1: around Mika and Joe. How dare they? How could they?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, y'all run the tapes. They've been like this,
Speaker 1: they've been doing this. But what you were going to
Speaker 1: see is more capitulation, right, is more organizations, more networks,
Speaker 1: and more people who are going to turn their backs
Speaker 1: on the truth, who are going to turn their backs
Speaker 1: on their journalistic integrity, all for the sake of saving
Speaker 1: their own asses at the expense of educating the American public.
Speaker 1: And you know this is and I say this, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times, this is how democracies die.
Speaker 1: And our democracy, for all intensive purposes, folks, is dead
Speaker 1: right when you have the amount of voter suppression that
Speaker 1: we've seen take place, the gutting of the Civil Rights Act,
Speaker 1: the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and now you
Speaker 1: have all of these champions of extremism taking over some
Speaker 1: of our most important agencies, Like what do we expect
Speaker 1: is going to happen over the next four years? America
Speaker 1: is being hollowed out by the inside out. The keys
Speaker 1: of the kingdom have been given to Republican extremists, and
Speaker 1: all we can do is basically hold on. But here's
Speaker 1: the reality, and this is what we talked about last
Speaker 1: week on wokef everybody's not making it so, whether it
Speaker 1: be the deregulation that we are going to see at
Speaker 1: the hands of the FDA and Health and Human services,
Speaker 1: that again is going to make America sicker. Whether it's
Speaker 1: going to be at the hands of the National Intelligence Director,
Speaker 1: who is going to give our most intimate and deepest
Speaker 1: secrets of American operations over to our biggest enemies right
Speaker 1: in Tulca, Gabbard, whether we're going to see how again
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice is not going to be looking
Speaker 1: out for the American people. It is going to be
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's legal arm for the folks that voted for disruption.
Speaker 1: They wanted to disrupt the status quo. And oh everything
Speaker 1: was about the economy and Democrats just didn't speak to
Speaker 1: the economy. Give me a fucking break, because what these
Speaker 1: people are now getting is not going to be disruption
Speaker 1: of the status quo. It is going to be a
Speaker 1: destruction of our democracy, of our constitution, of our free
Speaker 1: and fair society. That is what is happening. And you know,
Speaker 1: Americans are going to be sicker, They're going to be broke,
Speaker 1: They're going to be unhinged, a more violent because our
Speaker 1: resources are going to dwindle, right, And so I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, and what's going to happen as what is
Speaker 1: already evidence is that some people are waking up and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, man, I didn't vote for this, this
Speaker 1: isn't what I wanted. Well, this is now what we're
Speaker 1: all in for. And you know, I just it breaks
Speaker 1: my heart because I had more faith in the American
Speaker 1: people than I should have. I genuinely thought that there
Speaker 1: were more good people, thoughtful people, strategic people, then there
Speaker 1: were those that really just cared about themselves. Because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it is selfishness that won
Speaker 1: in this election, because if you were thinking collectively minded,
Speaker 1: then someone like Donald Trump would have never come into
Speaker 1: your consciousness because he had already talked about attacking the
Speaker 1: most vulnerable, he had already talked about attacking the most marginalized.
Speaker 1: He's made targets of every single community that is not white, right,
Speaker 1: and so just by that alone, America should have been like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want this person. This is not who we
Speaker 1: are and this is not who we want to be.
Speaker 1: But because Donald Trump said, don't worry, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: hurt the people that you don't like, Americans said, yeah,
Speaker 1: go do that. So here we are with you know,
Speaker 1: about two months until it is full steam ahead with
Speaker 1: PROJECTI twenty twenty five becoming institutionalized across this country, where
Speaker 1: no one will have any safety nets or outlets to
Speaker 1: go to and look towards for their information, for their
Speaker 1: health and well being. And you know, it's so frustrating
Speaker 1: because it didn't have to be this way, and there
Speaker 1: are so many millions of people are going to be
Speaker 1: so harmed by this. Just thinking about Donald Trump saying
Speaker 1: this week that he is going to utilize the US
Speaker 1: military in order to deport eleven million Americans, and by
Speaker 1: the way, that number continues to grow every time somebody
Speaker 1: from his administration speaks, and they're going to utilize the
Speaker 1: military and the National Guard, and he's going to declare
Speaker 1: an emergency, and people are going to be scooped up
Speaker 1: at schools and workplaces and churches and in the streets,
Speaker 1: and it will be a mix, right of those that
Speaker 1: they want to denaturalize for this country. And people will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm certain it will just be those that
Speaker 1: have that you know, just got here and just got
Speaker 1: their naturalization. No, it won't, folks. And again I've talked
Speaker 1: about this on the Danielle Moody Show. I talked about
Speaker 1: this horrible, disgusting operation that was called Operation wetback in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties that rounded up a million Mexican migrants
Speaker 1: and disappeared people. This is something that was done before, right,
Speaker 1: and you can see where the American mindset was just
Speaker 1: by the title of the operation. So I continue to
Speaker 1: say that Donald Trump is not doing anything new. He
Speaker 1: is just resurrecting old laws that we actually never got
Speaker 1: rid of, and we never put any safeguards into our
Speaker 1: system to make sure that they couldn't be resurrected in
Speaker 1: the first place. You know what I've learned over the
Speaker 1: last decade of covering Trumps and the rise of MAGA
Speaker 1: is that too many of what we thought were actual
Speaker 1: laws in this country were just political norms that were
Speaker 1: easily disrupted by someone that is criminally minded, somebody that
Speaker 1: is only in it for themselves. Never before had we
Speaker 1: seen a presidency that was totally in it for the grift,
Speaker 1: totally in it for the power over rather than the
Speaker 1: power with. That is this sole difference between autocracies and
Speaker 1: democracies is that an autocrat wants power over right. In
Speaker 1: a democracy, a president wants power with and sees their
Speaker 1: role as protecting their constituents protecting the citizens of this country,
Speaker 1: all of them. But that's no longer where we are.
Speaker 1: And so when we're in this moment and we see
Speaker 1: the writing on the wall, we know in many ways
Speaker 1: how this story ends, right, And I have to tell
Speaker 1: you that I cannot express it enough that people need
Speaker 1: to fortify themselves. I am about to go through a
Speaker 1: series of doctor's appointments because as an entrepreneur, I get
Speaker 1: my healthcare through the marketplace in New York. And they
Speaker 1: are going to eliminate the ACA, which means that people
Speaker 1: like me, I am one of the twenty million or
Speaker 1: twenty seven million Americans that will lose their healthcare right
Speaker 1: when this trifecta of power that the Republicans now have
Speaker 1: decide that they are going to repeal the ACA and
Speaker 1: by the way, put nothing in its place, right, so
Speaker 1: that is already going to ensure that tens of millions
Speaker 1: of Americans are sick and will see the emergency room
Speaker 1: as their primary care physician. Right on top of which
Speaker 1: you were talking about raising of the retirement age, gutting
Speaker 1: of Social Security, gutting of Medicaid, right creating the conditions
Speaker 1: for absolute despair in this country. We've seen this done before,
Speaker 1: we just have not seen it done in America. Right now,
Speaker 1: they are talking about the fact that Russia is on
Speaker 1: the verge of like an economic collapse because the price
Speaker 1: of food has soared like twenty some odd percent over
Speaker 1: the last year. No one can buy homes right, debt
Speaker 1: has soared. And what does Putent care. He does not
Speaker 1: care about his people. He cares about the oligarch. He
Speaker 1: cares about his ability to continue to make money. He
Speaker 1: cares about his ability to gobble up Europe and recreate
Speaker 1: the USSR. This is who American Republicans are modeling themselves after,
Speaker 1: a man that has completely and totally gutted his country.
Speaker 1: You know, the term eat the rich comes from when
Speaker 1: the fat cats become so fucking greedy and there is
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing for anyone else, and then the people turn
Speaker 1: on them. And that's where I fear that America is headed.
Speaker 1: In this place that we have been told is so abundant,
Speaker 1: and yet we don't feed the poor, and yet we
Speaker 1: don't take care of our most vulnerable. The people that
Speaker 1: are going to make out the most in Donald Trump's regime,
Speaker 1: the prison industrial complex, because crime is going to soar
Speaker 1: because when people have limited amount of resources, they will
Speaker 1: resort to anything in order to provide for themselves, and
Speaker 1: the media is just going to go along with it,
Speaker 1: right and say that this is normal. So, folks, what
Speaker 1: I will tell you is make your doctor's appointments, make
Speaker 1: arrangements for yourselves and your family. Right if you were
Speaker 1: in a mixed status household, I told people, you know,
Speaker 1: contact an immigration attorney so that you understand or have
Speaker 1: a plan of operation in place. If January twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, your loved ones are scooped up, right,
Speaker 1: so you know where to go and what to do.
Speaker 1: The road ahead is incredibly dark and incredibly bumpy, and
Speaker 1: all we can do in the next two months is
Speaker 1: try and prepare as much as possible for the next
Speaker 1: iteration of the dark Ages. I don't know for how
Speaker 1: long a free press is going to exist. I don't
Speaker 1: know for how long free speech is going to exist.
Speaker 1: But these are the first things to go. And we've
Speaker 1: already seen signs that our biggest agencies, this entire government
Speaker 1: is going to be weaponized against the people of the
Speaker 1: United States, And so you need to protect yourselves in
Speaker 1: the best way possible. You know, the last thing that
Speaker 1: I will say today is that over the weekend was
Speaker 1: with my friends and their you know, very small children,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at these, you know, three year olds,
Speaker 1: five year olds, and I'm just like, I'm scared for
Speaker 1: them because the America that they're getting ready to grow
Speaker 1: up in is light years away from what we all
Speaker 1: grew up in and knowing this safety that we felt,
Speaker 1: the security that we felt that came with being American.
Speaker 1: And I say this, folks, as a black queer person
Speaker 1: that understands very much in the ways that government has
Speaker 1: been weaponized against black people, against indigenous people, Like I
Speaker 1: know all of these things to be true, but still,
Speaker 1: the possibility of America was greater than many of its missteps.
Speaker 1: But now the possibility is gone. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how we exist in a space and in a country
Speaker 1: where hopefulness is being squeezed out. So when I talk
Speaker 1: about fortifying, I mean figuring out what resistance looks like
Speaker 1: for you, looks like for your family. Right, if your
Speaker 1: children are not going to be given the rigorous public
Speaker 1: education that is going to allow them to be globally competitive,
Speaker 1: then what are you doing? How are you supplementing their
Speaker 1: education in your home? Right? Because everybody can't afford tutors.
Speaker 1: So the pain that we're in for in the next
Speaker 1: four plus years is going to have generational impact. And
Speaker 1: I don't yet think that Americans really understand and can
Speaker 1: wrap their minds around where everything is headed in the
Speaker 1: next two months. But it's extraordinary and all I can say,
Speaker 1: friends is fortify and buckle up. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today here on wok F as always Power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.