WEBVTT - The New Dark Ages 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.320 me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker, Folks, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:24.120 I woke up earlier in the week to news that 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:30.840 Mika Brazinski and Joe Scarsborough of Mourning Joe at MSNBC 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.680 spent the weekend making a trip to mar A Lago 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:43.479 to sit down and reconnect with Donald Trump. And you know, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.000 I will tell you that I have never been a 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:52.360 fan of Mourning Joe for this particular reason. I think 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:57.920 that their coverage is softball. I think that they are opportunists. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:03.960 I think that they really work to sainwash Donald Trump 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:10.000 and Republicans, because Scarsborough is a Republican. And you know 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.600 what pisces me off about this is that cable news 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:21.119 and MSNBC particularly is in a ratings downward spiral. They 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.920 are in a just a tail spin because following the 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.400 election two weeks ago, millions of people have tuned them out, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.560 and you are seeing that MSNBC's ratings are down by 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:41.280 fifty percent, CNN's ratings down by thirty percent. And you know, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.560 many people are thinking that, well, maybe folks are just 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.520 exhausted and they'll tune back in once the administration takes over. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.360 But what we are seeing by Amika and Joe is 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:02.440 what folks who study dictatorships and a authoritarianism say not 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.480 to do. Do not preemptively bend the knee, do not 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.400 obey in advance. And what Mika and Joe have done 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.880 by going over to mar Lago to sit down with 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.320 Donald Trump, who is called Joe Scarsboa murderer, who has 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.079 said awful, sexist, misogynistic things about Meka, is that, oh, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.480 the door is open, and we're willing to treat your 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.400 appointees and treat this Trump regime as if it is 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.720 just a normal function of our democracy and say wash 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.239 it for the American people as a way to show that, oh, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.280 look at us, we exist in the middle. Look at us, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.560 we're objective. And the fact is is that this is 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.959 as far from objective as you can possibly fucking get. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.400 They are not objective, right, They are in the business 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:57.040 of cya covering their own asses. And so by virtue 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:03.840 of seeing this, the leading show on MSM make this decision. Folks. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.760 You know where this is headed. You know that MSNBC 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.000 is most likely going to make a hard pivot for 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.919 the right. And this is what Democrats have done over 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.200 the last decade. This is why you see that progressives 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.880 have wanted to abandon this party, vote third party, or 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.840 not vote at all. And it's because as Republicans became 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.399 more and more radicalized, more and more extreme in their 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.120 policy views, in their ideology, Democrats have just followed behind 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.320 them at what they believe is a safe distance. But 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.400 it actually hasn't been because it has compromised our democracy 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.120 entirely as they continue to search for the white voter 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.720 to come back to them. And so here you are 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.000 right where I will tell you this. I do not 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.840 think that after tuning out cable news for however many 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.880 weeks that it's been right now about two weeks in time, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.040 that people are going to then say to themselves, you know, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.080 I think I'm ready to ingest poison again. I think 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.760 that what is ultimately going to happen is that those 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:19.000 people in this interim have either just jumped ship altogether 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:24.040 from ingesting the news, or they have found independent media 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:29.320 outlets like podcasts, YouTube, where voices like mine and many 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.559 others exist. Because we saw the writing on the wall 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.880 for cable news a long time ago, and with now 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:43.120 the announcement of a Brendan Carr taking over the FCC 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.480 and saying that he is going to use the authority 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.000 of the FCC not to increase broadband or increase speed 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.240 or compete with other countries in terms of what it 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.119 is that we're doing with telecommunications. No, he is going 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.800 to go after networks and go after places and spaces 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:09.000 that have elevated the voices of diverse people and underserved communities. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.279 And instead he's going to weaponize these agencies that want 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.960 to be able to tell the truth about what is 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.200 happening inside of this regime. He's going to take away licenses, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.760 he's going to bring lawsuits. And so again I've been 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.360 saying this for how long, guys, that if Donald Trump 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.479 were to ever sees power again, we would see the 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.479 end of democracy as we know it. And that is 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.120 exactly where we are. So I don't know why anybody, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.080 because there's all this outrage on the internet right now 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.080 around Mika and Joe. How dare they? How could they? 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.000 And I'm like, y'all run the tapes. They've been like this, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.600 they've been doing this. But what you were going to 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:58.160 see is more capitulation, right, is more organizations, more networks, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.880 and more people who are going to turn their backs 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.080 on the truth, who are going to turn their backs 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.440 on their journalistic integrity, all for the sake of saving 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.760 their own asses at the expense of educating the American public. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.279 And you know this is and I say this, I 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.120 don't know how many times, this is how democracies die. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.400 And our democracy, for all intensive purposes, folks, is dead 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.120 right when you have the amount of voter suppression that 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.520 we've seen take place, the gutting of the Civil Rights Act, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.159 the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and now you 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.839 have all of these champions of extremism taking over some 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.560 of our most important agencies, Like what do we expect 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.080 is going to happen over the next four years? America 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.320 is being hollowed out by the inside out. The keys 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.080 of the kingdom have been given to Republican extremists, and 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.320 all we can do is basically hold on. But here's 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.880 the reality, and this is what we talked about last 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.960 week on wokef everybody's not making it so, whether it 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.280 be the deregulation that we are going to see at 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.120 the hands of the FDA and Health and Human services, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.320 that again is going to make America sicker. Whether it's 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.240 going to be at the hands of the National Intelligence Director, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.160 who is going to give our most intimate and deepest 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:31.080 secrets of American operations over to our biggest enemies right 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.680 in Tulca, Gabbard, whether we're going to see how again 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.040 the Department of Justice is not going to be looking 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.600 out for the American people. It is going to be 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:49.920 Donald Trump's legal arm for the folks that voted for disruption. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.320 They wanted to disrupt the status quo. And oh everything 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.360 was about the economy and Democrats just didn't speak to 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.280 the economy. Give me a fucking break, because what these 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.840 people are now getting is not going to be disruption 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.480 of the status quo. It is going to be a 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:13.280 destruction of our democracy, of our constitution, of our free 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:18.360 and fair society. That is what is happening. And you know, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.480 Americans are going to be sicker, They're going to be broke, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:29.240 They're going to be unhinged, a more violent because our 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.760 resources are going to dwindle, right, And so I'm just like, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.360 you know, and what's going to happen as what is 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.080 already evidence is that some people are waking up and 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.920 they're like, oh, man, I didn't vote for this, this 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.360 isn't what I wanted. Well, this is now what we're 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.680 all in for. And you know, I just it breaks 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.480 my heart because I had more faith in the American 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.040 people than I should have. I genuinely thought that there 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.319 were more good people, thoughtful people, strategic people, then there 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.160 were those that really just cared about themselves. Because at 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.400 the end of the day, it is selfishness that won 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.880 in this election, because if you were thinking collectively minded, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.560 then someone like Donald Trump would have never come into 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.160 your consciousness because he had already talked about attacking the 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.200 most vulnerable, he had already talked about attacking the most marginalized. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.480 He's made targets of every single community that is not white, right, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.719 and so just by that alone, America should have been like, no, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.120 we don't want this person. This is not who we 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.880 are and this is not who we want to be. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.320 But because Donald Trump said, don't worry, I'm just gonna 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.440 hurt the people that you don't like, Americans said, yeah, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.400 go do that. So here we are with you know, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.400 about two months until it is full steam ahead with 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:04.439 PROJECTI twenty twenty five becoming institutionalized across this country, where 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.160 no one will have any safety nets or outlets to 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.120 go to and look towards for their information, for their 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:16.360 health and well being. And you know, it's so frustrating 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.199 because it didn't have to be this way, and there 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.719 are so many millions of people are going to be 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.040 so harmed by this. Just thinking about Donald Trump saying 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.800 this week that he is going to utilize the US 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:37.160 military in order to deport eleven million Americans, and by 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.600 the way, that number continues to grow every time somebody 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.960 from his administration speaks, and they're going to utilize the 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.480 military and the National Guard, and he's going to declare 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.880 an emergency, and people are going to be scooped up 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.720 at schools and workplaces and churches and in the streets, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.600 and it will be a mix, right of those that 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.360 they want to denaturalize for this country. And people will say, oh, well, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.960 you know, I'm certain it will just be those that 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.199 have that you know, just got here and just got 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.439 their naturalization. No, it won't, folks. And again I've talked 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.359 about this on the Danielle Moody Show. I talked about 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:19.440 this horrible, disgusting operation that was called Operation wetback in 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:24.880 the nineteen fifties that rounded up a million Mexican migrants 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:31.440 and disappeared people. This is something that was done before, right, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.000 and you can see where the American mindset was just 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.880 by the title of the operation. So I continue to 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.000 say that Donald Trump is not doing anything new. He 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.839 is just resurrecting old laws that we actually never got 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.640 rid of, and we never put any safeguards into our 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.720 system to make sure that they couldn't be resurrected in 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.079 the first place. You know what I've learned over the 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:01.400 last decade of covering Trumps and the rise of MAGA 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:07.000 is that too many of what we thought were actual 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.520 laws in this country were just political norms that were 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.880 easily disrupted by someone that is criminally minded, somebody that 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.280 is only in it for themselves. Never before had we 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.440 seen a presidency that was totally in it for the grift, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.000 totally in it for the power over rather than the 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.920 power with. That is this sole difference between autocracies and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.840 democracies is that an autocrat wants power over right. In 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.200 a democracy, a president wants power with and sees their 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:49.960 role as protecting their constituents protecting the citizens of this country, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.160 all of them. But that's no longer where we are. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.559 And so when we're in this moment and we see 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.959 the writing on the wall, we know in many ways 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.320 how this story ends, right, And I have to tell 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.520 you that I cannot express it enough that people need 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:16.520 to fortify themselves. I am about to go through a 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:22.280 series of doctor's appointments because as an entrepreneur, I get 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:27.959 my healthcare through the marketplace in New York. And they 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.400 are going to eliminate the ACA, which means that people 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.120 like me, I am one of the twenty million or 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.760 twenty seven million Americans that will lose their healthcare right 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.600 when this trifecta of power that the Republicans now have 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.280 decide that they are going to repeal the ACA and 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.800 by the way, put nothing in its place, right, so 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.560 that is already going to ensure that tens of millions 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.560 of Americans are sick and will see the emergency room 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.280 as their primary care physician. Right on top of which 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:06.560 you were talking about raising of the retirement age, gutting 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:11.920 of Social Security, gutting of Medicaid, right creating the conditions 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:17.720 for absolute despair in this country. We've seen this done before, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.320 we just have not seen it done in America. Right now, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.880 they are talking about the fact that Russia is on 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.320 the verge of like an economic collapse because the price 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.400 of food has soared like twenty some odd percent over 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.600 the last year. No one can buy homes right, debt 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.120 has soared. And what does Putent care. He does not 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.640 care about his people. He cares about the oligarch. He 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.800 cares about his ability to continue to make money. He 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:54.160 cares about his ability to gobble up Europe and recreate 0:14:54.200 --> 0:15:00.000 the USSR. This is who American Republicans are modeling themselves after, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.160 a man that has completely and totally gutted his country. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.960 You know, the term eat the rich comes from when 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.040 the fat cats become so fucking greedy and there is 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.440 absolutely nothing for anyone else, and then the people turn 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.480 on them. And that's where I fear that America is headed. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.960 In this place that we have been told is so abundant, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.720 and yet we don't feed the poor, and yet we 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.360 don't take care of our most vulnerable. The people that 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.040 are going to make out the most in Donald Trump's regime, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.480 the prison industrial complex, because crime is going to soar 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.840 because when people have limited amount of resources, they will 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.760 resort to anything in order to provide for themselves, and 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.400 the media is just going to go along with it, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.920 right and say that this is normal. So, folks, what 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.920 I will tell you is make your doctor's appointments, make 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.360 arrangements for yourselves and your family. Right if you were 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.120 in a mixed status household, I told people, you know, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.080 contact an immigration attorney so that you understand or have 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.440 a plan of operation in place. If January twenty first, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.000 twenty twenty five, your loved ones are scooped up, right, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.760 so you know where to go and what to do. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.080 The road ahead is incredibly dark and incredibly bumpy, and 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.720 all we can do in the next two months is 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.280 try and prepare as much as possible for the next 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.600 iteration of the dark Ages. I don't know for how 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.760 long a free press is going to exist. I don't 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.080 know for how long free speech is going to exist. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.760 But these are the first things to go. And we've 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.560 already seen signs that our biggest agencies, this entire government 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.080 is going to be weaponized against the people of the 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:59.280 United States, And so you need to protect yourselves in 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.879 the best way possible. You know, the last thing that 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.919 I will say today is that over the weekend was 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.240 with my friends and their you know, very small children, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.880 and I'm looking at these, you know, three year olds, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.359 five year olds, and I'm just like, I'm scared for 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.080 them because the America that they're getting ready to grow 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:30.920 up in is light years away from what we all 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.119 grew up in and knowing this safety that we felt, 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.680 the security that we felt that came with being American. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.679 And I say this, folks, as a black queer person 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.240 that understands very much in the ways that government has 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.400 been weaponized against black people, against indigenous people, Like I 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.399 know all of these things to be true, but still, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:59.320 the possibility of America was greater than many of its missteps. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.639 But now the possibility is gone. And I don't know 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.480 how we exist in a space and in a country 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:13.840 where hopefulness is being squeezed out. So when I talk 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.480 about fortifying, I mean figuring out what resistance looks like 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.080 for you, looks like for your family. Right, if your 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.520 children are not going to be given the rigorous public 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.800 education that is going to allow them to be globally competitive, 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.200 then what are you doing? How are you supplementing their 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:39.160 education in your home? Right? Because everybody can't afford tutors. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.840 So the pain that we're in for in the next 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:49.320 four plus years is going to have generational impact. And 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.000 I don't yet think that Americans really understand and can 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.800 wrap their minds around where everything is headed in the 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.359 next two months. But it's extraordinary and all I can say, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:08.679 friends is fortify and buckle up. That is it for 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.399 me today here on wok F as always Power to 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.960 the people and to all the people. Power, get woke 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.920 and stay woke as fuck.