Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will Kate f Daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: we've made it to the end of yet another week,
Speaker 1: and bravo. Pat ourselves on the back, give yourself a hug,
Speaker 1: because it's a struggle. I mean, let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: There's an article that was in Politico this week referencing
Speaker 1: the fact that diplomats around the world are really concerned
Speaker 1: and lamenting partisan divides in the United States that are
Speaker 1: essentially making the world unsafe, right and destabilizing. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, I read this article and I thought to
Speaker 1: myself as I'm reading it, the fact is that while,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, diplomats, what was interesting about this
Speaker 1: is that diplomats don't usually wade into partisan politics or
Speaker 1: politics really at all. You know, like they are in
Speaker 1: you know, diplomats and ambassadors and they you know, represent
Speaker 1: their countries and you know, in foreign places to show
Speaker 1: alliance and allegiance and all of these things. And these
Speaker 1: folks who spoke to Politico did so under you know, anonymity,
Speaker 1: so that you know, they won't lose their jobs or
Speaker 1: spark you know, more outrage, but the collective feeling was
Speaker 1: the same that the United States and the far right
Speaker 1: and the Republican Maga supremacists are making the world and
Speaker 1: the country more and more unsafe, and that their actions
Speaker 1: are being celebrated by a thoranitarians like Putin, like Netan, Yahoo,
Speaker 1: like Urbon, and others around the world who will be
Speaker 1: served by a weekend the United States. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not too young to remember a time when while
Speaker 1: we had our differences, the political parties had our differences
Speaker 1: at home, that there was always a united front in
Speaker 1: terms of how we handled our allies and adversaries abroad.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump entirely changed that dynamic. He changed that dynamic
Speaker 1: for the worst when he just up and tore up
Speaker 1: the Iran deal that Barack Obama had put together in
Speaker 1: order to finally bring in aid, you know, relieve sanctions
Speaker 1: that went so far as not to provide the people
Speaker 1: of Iran with medical supplies, with medicines and the like.
Speaker 1: And so when he did that, it was a signal
Speaker 1: to the world, along with you know, walking away from
Speaker 1: the Paris Climate Agreement and other things, that the United
Speaker 1: States can no longer be trusted. Right, that literally how
Speaker 1: the United States is going to engage with the world
Speaker 1: will always depend on who is in office, and so
Speaker 1: every four years, the global you know world has to
Speaker 1: what like, hedge their bets. And what they were saying
Speaker 1: in this article is that there is absolutely no ability
Speaker 1: to be able to create then long term deals, knowing
Speaker 1: that depending on the move or who the president is
Speaker 1: that comes in, that deal can be ripped up. So basically,
Speaker 1: the United States and our partisan issues which are not
Speaker 1: even partisan issues, we have went from a two party
Speaker 1: system to a one party system where the other party
Speaker 1: are domestic terrorists, right, who don't believe in the constitution,
Speaker 1: who don't believe in the rule of law, who don't
Speaker 1: believe in precedent, and because of their desire to turn
Speaker 1: the United States into a white, evangelical, you know, Christian,
Speaker 1: white nationalist nation, the reverberations that are happening around the
Speaker 1: world are going to be catastrophic because whether or not
Speaker 1: we like it, and whether or not we believe that
Speaker 1: it should be. So, the United States has been the
Speaker 1: strongest poll to bring other people into the tent of democracy. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm very challenged in saying that because the
Speaker 1: more that you learn about our foreign policy, the more
Speaker 1: you learn about what the United States has done, the
Speaker 1: tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people that
Speaker 1: have been killed, the regimes that the United States has
Speaker 1: decided to either decimate or upholl depending on how much
Speaker 1: they can extract from whether it is Latin America or
Speaker 1: the continent of Africa. All of those things can be
Speaker 1: true at the same time. Right that the United States
Speaker 1: has the best pr as it pertains to democracy. Many
Speaker 1: of the diplomats and ambassadors were educated in our universities,
Speaker 1: and so they understand inside and out who this country
Speaker 1: is and who it has aspired to be with each
Speaker 1: given generation. And what they are seeing right now with
Speaker 1: Maga supremists, the fact that you can barely get this
Speaker 1: Congress to elect a fucking speaker, let alone like past policy,
Speaker 1: to provide aid to let say Ukraine, and to do
Speaker 1: the bare minimum of passing a budget so that the
Speaker 1: government doesn't shut down. So when you take all of
Speaker 1: these things into consideration and we have an election that
Speaker 1: is coming up in ten months, you know, I continue
Speaker 1: to say, like, it don't look good, right, Like it
Speaker 1: doesn't look good. It doesn't look good for us here right,
Speaker 1: who are going to live with the fallout, But then
Speaker 1: also understanding that we're not the only ones that are
Speaker 1: going to be living with the fallout, that the world
Speaker 1: is going to reorder, and America is not going to
Speaker 1: be on the side that it has been on, which
Speaker 1: has been the side of promoting and establishing democracy around
Speaker 1: the world. So then what happens, Well, what these diplomats
Speaker 1: were saying is what is going to happen is what
Speaker 1: they are seeing happen, which is that these alternatives pop up,
Speaker 1: these alternative allegiances, right, these alternative ties, and that what
Speaker 1: is going to end up happening is that the relationship
Speaker 1: that other nations have to the United States will no
Speaker 1: longer be one of a strong allyship. It will just
Speaker 1: be transactional. So, folks, the consequences of this upcoming election
Speaker 1: aren't just about our lives. It's about global safety and stability,
Speaker 1: which is all at stake and all on the ballot.
Speaker 1: I keep saying to myself, like, why am I so tired?
Speaker 1: Why am I, you know, so stressed? You know, it's
Speaker 1: just roughly, you know what, two weeks into this new year,
Speaker 1: and I am struggling to get out of bed, like
Speaker 1: I'm not hitting you. I'm struggling to get out of bed,
Speaker 1: I'm struggling to sleep, and I'm saying to my friends
Speaker 1: and family, like I don't know how I'm going to
Speaker 1: get through the next ten months, right like, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about myself, but like when I say, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we are going to get through the
Speaker 1: next ten months because so much is at stake, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's like one of those things you know
Speaker 1: when you have like your to do list and you
Speaker 1: have so much to do and you're so overwhelmed by
Speaker 1: all of the things that you have to do, so
Speaker 1: you end up doing nothing. That's how I feel where
Speaker 1: I feel like the United States has so much to do.
Speaker 1: The people of this country. There is so much waking
Speaker 1: up to do. There is so much like energy that
Speaker 1: needs to be put in to getting people to recognize
Speaker 1: that we're not voting for Joe Biden. Like, let's just
Speaker 1: set that aside. We're not voting for Joe Biden. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be telling you for the next ten
Speaker 1: months that Joe Biden is my guy and that like
Speaker 1: you you know, we got to go all in for
Speaker 1: him because he's great and like and all of these things. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be doing that because it's not
Speaker 1: how I feel. I feel like the choice we have
Speaker 1: very stark decisions with really poor choices to make those decisions.
Speaker 1: But the fact is is that if your issue is
Speaker 1: what is happening in Gaza right now with a genocide
Speaker 1: and murder spree that is taking place being funded by
Speaker 1: our government, if you think that that gets better or
Speaker 1: changes if Donald Trump becomes president of the United States,
Speaker 1: and because you're saying, well, I'm just gonna opt out,
Speaker 1: if you give a fuck, then we need to actually
Speaker 1: work with what we have right and the current set
Speaker 1: of rights that we still have WOHILD is to protest
Speaker 1: and pressure the current administration that actually gives a shit
Speaker 1: about what the people think and what the people say
Speaker 1: and do. You have to work with what you have
Speaker 1: where you have it. And so if your issue is well,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is a warmongerer and genocide Joe, I will
Speaker 1: tell you that if you think for a fucking minute
Speaker 1: that anything will get better in that country if Donald
Speaker 1: Trump becomes president again, and you are fucking kidding yourself,
Speaker 1: and you're also setting up those people for their end
Speaker 1: right which they're already being pushed towards. If they are
Speaker 1: going to have a chance, it is going to be
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden to recognize that he is losing the
Speaker 1: electorate because of his allegiance to Netanyahu, who by the way,
Speaker 1: doesn't fucking like him and does not want him to win.
Speaker 1: He wants Trump to win. So that should be all
Speaker 1: you need to know about that. If climate change is
Speaker 1: your issue, and you think for any small measure that
Speaker 1: a climate denier going into the White House at a
Speaker 1: critical time in the world where we are in every
Speaker 1: season every year witnessing the hottest summers, the coldest winters,
Speaker 1: polar var Texas, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, fire, seasons that are
Speaker 1: all quote unquote historic and the worst we've ever seen
Speaker 1: every year. Donald Trump is not gonna solve that. Maga's
Speaker 1: supremacts are not gonna solve that. Right, They're not gonna
Speaker 1: help you with your utility bills or the ability to
Speaker 1: rebuild your home. Okay, So if that's your issue, sitting
Speaker 1: this one out, ain't it. If your issue is abortion
Speaker 1: and that's the thing that is driving you to the polls,
Speaker 1: and you just see that the Supreme Court just upheld
Speaker 1: one of the strictest abortion measures in Idaho, which states
Speaker 1: that even in the case of an emergency, when the
Speaker 1: life of the pregnant person and woman is at stake,
Speaker 1: no abortion for you. You can die along with that fetus.
Speaker 1: They upheld it in Texas, they upheld it in Idaho.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump becomes president, which, by the way, he is
Speaker 1: going on the campaign trail saying I'm the one that
Speaker 1: got you abortion. And that's all fucking white evangelical Christians
Speaker 1: give a fuck about. Oh, that and white supremacy. So
Speaker 1: if that's your issue, you want what is happening in
Speaker 1: Idaho and in Texas and in all of these other
Speaker 1: red states and Midwestern states. You want that shit nationalized,
Speaker 1: because that is also what is gonna happen. You know,
Speaker 1: people tell me, Danielle, you need to just stop spreading fear,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, oh, I'm not gonna listen, and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, I don't give a fuck about you.
Speaker 1: Just don't come crying to me. Well, you won't be
Speaker 1: able to because you'll be in a fucking camp. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll be jobless and homeless on the street, and guess what,
Speaker 1: there'll be no safety nets. And why do I say
Speaker 1: jobless and homeless, Because when these white supremaists get in,
Speaker 1: they've already overturned affirmative action. When you're racist, white bosses
Speaker 1: decide that they want to fire you or not hire you,
Speaker 1: or pay you less, you have no recourse to go
Speaker 1: to the courts because they can do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: they want. Right. So, when you realize that you're nothing
Speaker 1: more than an indentured servant, right with no one who
Speaker 1: gives a fuck about how you're able to put food
Speaker 1: on your table or if you're able to do so,
Speaker 1: and then you take whatever job that you can get
Speaker 1: which will exploit you and then throw you away. So, folks,
Speaker 1: there isn't a choice in this upcoming election. I'm not
Speaker 1: voting for Joe Biden. I'm voting for myself. I'm voting
Speaker 1: for my family. I'm voting for my friends. I'm voting
Speaker 1: for all of you to be able to have self determination,
Speaker 1: to still have some rights, and to still muster the
Speaker 1: energy in order to fight back against people who want
Speaker 1: to reinstate Jim Crow and an apartheid worse than anything
Speaker 1: that we saw in the twentieth century. Folks, wake up,
Speaker 1: rite and shake the shit out of the people around you.
Speaker 1: I'm just as angry, frustrated, depleted as everybody else is.
Speaker 1: And you hear me on this show, go for my
Speaker 1: ups and my downs and my ups and my downs,
Speaker 1: and were going to be on this ride together until November.
Speaker 1: But there is one thing that I will tell you
Speaker 1: for certain is that I will absolutely fucking vote, and
Speaker 1: I will vote for my fucking life. I'm not votevoting
Speaker 1: for a person. So what kind of life do you want?
Speaker 1: Right with the limited amount of time that we're all
Speaker 1: given on this earth? What kind of life do you want?
Speaker 1: That's what you're voting for. Do you want to life
Speaker 1: filled with some choices or none at all? Because that's
Speaker 1: where we are. You know, my friend Rashad Robinson, who
Speaker 1: is the president and CEO of Color of Change, the
Speaker 1: largest online civil rights organization, he said this, He goes
Speaker 1: some elections are about pushing forward for progress. Other elections
Speaker 1: are just about holding the fuck on. That's what this
Speaker 1: election is buying us some time for these lawsuits to
Speaker 1: play out, for us to overturn MAGA supremacy, for us
Speaker 1: to be able to have a Department of Justice that
Speaker 1: can do its job and go after those that continue
Speaker 1: to want to thwart not only our democracy but the
Speaker 1: rule of law. We need more fucking time. So for
Speaker 1: everybody around you, whether it is your your kids, your nieces,
Speaker 1: your nephews, your students, right your community members that are
Speaker 1: throwing up their hands in the air, tell them that
Speaker 1: they are not voting for Joe Biden. Nobody's asking them
Speaker 1: to wear a fucking T shirt or pin okay and
Speaker 1: rah rah rah at every rally like he's the second Coming.
Speaker 1: He is not. But I know what he is not,
Speaker 1: which is the devil reincarnate. I know what he is not,
Speaker 1: which is a man that believes that people, right, all
Speaker 1: people in this country should have access to the American dream,
Speaker 1: whatever that looks like for them. I know that he's
Speaker 1: not a white supremacist. I know that he's not a misogynist,
Speaker 1: and I know that he's not a rapist. And I
Speaker 1: know that that makes the bar really fucking low. But
Speaker 1: that's where we are. We're in the gutter, and so
Speaker 1: to crawl our ways back up top. We got to
Speaker 1: figure this shit out, and it is not going to
Speaker 1: be pretty and we're not going to feel good about it.
Speaker 1: Not every decision that we have to make do we
Speaker 1: have to feel good about And I say this to
Speaker 1: you because you guys get it, but I want you
Speaker 1: to tell the people that are around you who don't,
Speaker 1: using whatever platform you have, whatever voice, you have, to
Speaker 1: let people fucking know everything is at stake in this election,
Speaker 1: not just for us, but for everyone around the world.
Speaker 1: In order for there to be global stability, we need
Speaker 1: a strong United States. That is just the facts, right
Speaker 1: the fuck now. So I'm not willing. There are days,
Speaker 1: trust me, and I had some of them this week
Speaker 1: where I said, fuck it, let this place go up
Speaker 1: in flames. But the reality is that there is nowhere
Speaker 1: else to go because everywhere you go there we are.
Speaker 1: So if we want a future that has some type
Speaker 1: of hope for your children, for your grandchildren, for those
Speaker 1: children in Gaza, then my god, there isn't a choice
Speaker 1: to be made. We're not voting for a person, We're
Speaker 1: voting against fashion. And this election is going to be
Speaker 1: the most uncomfortable one that we've had because we don't
Speaker 1: get to feel good about it. Not every decision that
Speaker 1: we make do we get to feel good about. Some
Speaker 1: decisions just have to be fucking made. This is one
Speaker 1: of them that is it for me today? Dear friends
Speaker 1: on Woke a f as always, power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.