Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your Girl, daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: I was on the phone friends earlier this week with
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, and I'm going to pull up
Speaker 1: the question that my friend asked me and see if
Speaker 1: you all know what the answer is, because I don't know.
Speaker 1: But what I do know is this description is exactly
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling. My friend says to me, Danielle, what
Speaker 1: is in between catastrophizing and PTSD, because that's where we
Speaker 1: are are We just experiencing like this uninterrupted loop of trauma,
Speaker 1: And so my thoughts were or you know, for those
Speaker 1: of you who have ever listened to Brene Brown or
Speaker 1: ever read any of her books, catastrophizing is where I,
Speaker 1: at least I heard it for the first time from
Speaker 1: Brene Brown. I don't know if she coined the term,
Speaker 1: but I heard it and read it in one of
Speaker 1: her books and listen to it on one of her
Speaker 1: podcasts where she talked about how we our minds like
Speaker 1: to dress rehearsul catastrophe right, that there are instances where
Speaker 1: we do this and we think that we are preparing
Speaker 1: ourselves for whatever outcome could possibly unfold. But the reality
Speaker 1: is is that by catastrophizing, this what I call future casting,
Speaker 1: is robbing us of present joy. But what my friend
Speaker 1: and I were talking about is catastrophizing is about making
Speaker 1: up bad things that are happening right or making up
Speaker 1: these different scenarios and kind of workshopping in them in
Speaker 1: our brains, and that is what distracts us or takes
Speaker 1: us away from our living inside of the present. But
Speaker 1: what the fuck happens and what do you call it
Speaker 1: when you're not making shit up where it actually just
Speaker 1: is as bad as you are witnessing and experiencing. It's
Speaker 1: also not post traumatic stress, because post would give us
Speaker 1: the idea that the stressor or the trauma is now
Speaker 1: behind us. Our stress and trauma is right the fuck
Speaker 1: in front of us. So where are we. We're in
Speaker 1: this very tortured in between space where our worst fears
Speaker 1: are being actualized every single day. The last two weeks
Speaker 1: in this country have been absolutely fucking brutal. That's the
Speaker 1: only way that I can articulate it. What words do
Speaker 1: you guys use? But for me, brutal is what comes up.
Speaker 1: July has been one fucking horrific headline disaster after the other.
Speaker 1: It began with the Supreme Court on July first, which
Speaker 1: everyone has forgotten about, giving Donald Trump complete and total immunity,
Speaker 1: wiping away two hundred and forty eight years of democracy,
Speaker 1: and handing over the Kingdom of America to a serial
Speaker 1: criminal should he become president again. Then the two weeks
Speaker 1: of debate Gate and all of the calls for Joe
Speaker 1: Biden to step aside and step back, and all of
Speaker 1: them coming from wealthy white men with nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: A media hasn't been stuck in one news cycle except
Speaker 1: for but her emails, and we see how well that
Speaker 1: turned out. Then you have this shooting that takes place
Speaker 1: at a Trump rally, where, contrary to what representative asshole
Speaker 1: Mike Collins uttered, was not an order by Biden was
Speaker 1: not as JD. Vance, the now vice presidential pick next
Speaker 1: up to the gallows, Vance has said that all of
Speaker 1: this came because of Democrats rhetoric. Do you think we're stupid?
Speaker 1: I mean, mainstream media is, but do you think that
Speaker 1: the rest of us are fucking dumb? Young white guy
Speaker 1: with a fascination for guns, that's who pulled the trigger
Speaker 1: killing a Trump rally goer and then being taken down himself.
Speaker 1: That's all that's happened in the last two weeks. I
Speaker 1: know I'm missing things because I can't keep them straight. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry forgot the other thing, Aileen Cannon throwing out
Speaker 1: the document's case the strongest case against Donald Trump. Oh
Speaker 1: and by the way, the man who stole the documents
Speaker 1: so that he could sell the documents is now getting
Speaker 1: intelligence briefings again. You know, the man who told his
Speaker 1: sycophant violent followers to go storm the castle. He's getting
Speaker 1: intelligence briefings again. Because we got to stick with tradition, right,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the fucking facts in front of
Speaker 1: our face show us. We got to pretend that all
Speaker 1: is okay, just like the fucking mainstream media is doing
Speaker 1: as they're covering what can only be called a White
Speaker 1: Supremact rally aka the RNC with their fists in the
Speaker 1: air fight fight fight. So what is this in between places? Hell?
Speaker 1: Is what it is? Insane fuckery. I am exhausted, as
Speaker 1: I know so many of you are. Why because you're
Speaker 1: doing your best to pay attention, You're doing your best
Speaker 1: to be a responsible citizen of these United states, which
Speaker 1: means to be informed. But what do we do when
Speaker 1: all of the information starts to become a challenge to
Speaker 1: our mental health? Then what do we do? I tell
Speaker 1: people to take breaks so that you don't have a breakdown.
Speaker 1: One of my friend's other friends asked me, like, are
Speaker 1: you taking breaks? Like when was the last time you
Speaker 1: took a break from the news, And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea because it's been NonStop,
Speaker 1: and my feeling, friends, is that it's going to get worse.
Speaker 1: It is about the inindation of horrific thing after horrific thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at what the media did this week,
Speaker 1: corporate media poll Morning Joe. Now most people know I
Speaker 1: don't even like that fucking show, right, I think they're useless. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: why were their voices silenced by the powers that be
Speaker 1: and also their speaking out about it? They were told
Speaker 1: that there was going to be one news feed that
Speaker 1: was going to be going from you know, on NBC
Speaker 1: on all of their networks and stations, right consistency. That's
Speaker 1: not what ended up happening at all. So they were
Speaker 1: also lied to. Joe Scarsbough said, you know the next
Speaker 1: time that I'm told that, oh we can't do our
Speaker 1: regular show, then I'm damn sure going to be a
Speaker 1: part of whatever fucking breaking news coverage there's going to be,
Speaker 1: because I don't trust what just happened. Everyone who has
Speaker 1: done the historical research and work on fascism and authoritarianism
Speaker 1: will tell you, do not comply early. And yet that
Speaker 1: is exactly what corporate media has decided to do. They've
Speaker 1: decided that the event vents that took place at Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's rally somehow erase the last eight years, somehow erace
Speaker 1: him saying to white supremacists to stand back and stand by.
Speaker 1: Somehow a race house Republicans removing their flag pins and
Speaker 1: replacing them with AR fifteen's, the very weapon that was
Speaker 1: used and is always used, the weapon of choice for
Speaker 1: mass shooters, the same weapon that Clarence Thomas on the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court said, what he's now allowed bump stocks to
Speaker 1: go back into fashion. Oh, they don't really do anything
Speaker 1: right except, you know, increase your ability to kill one
Speaker 1: hundred people in sixty seconds instead of maybe fifty. Somehow
Speaker 1: recent events at Donald Trump's rally erased the fact that
Speaker 1: he sat three Supreme Court justices that took away abortion rights,
Speaker 1: that took away affirmative action. Somehow, these recent events erase
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five and their blueprint to reimagine America
Speaker 1: through the lens of white supremacy and patriarchy, their ability
Speaker 1: to weaponize our government to cause as much harm as
Speaker 1: possible for those that actually believe in freedom and justice.
Speaker 1: So somehow we're supposed to now pivot and use our
Speaker 1: platforms to condemn violence and to praise and wish Donald
Speaker 1: Trump well. I, for one, am a person that believes
Speaker 1: in matching energy. So you show up with your energy
Speaker 1: and mine will be a reflection of yours. So I
Speaker 1: am offering the same amount of empathy sympathy to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm a matching it with the same amount that he
Speaker 1: offered to Paul Pelosi, the same amount that he offered
Speaker 1: to Governor Whitmer, the same amount that he offered two
Speaker 1: children of mass shootings when he said, get over it.
Speaker 1: Be the bigger person, miss me. With that bullshit, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has been stoking violence and calling for violence in
Speaker 1: this country for the last eight years. We have seen
Speaker 1: a rise in political violence over the last eight years,
Speaker 1: a rise in white supremacy over the last eight years coincidence.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Donald Trump is paid out several
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in Judge Merschawan's court. Why is that? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, because he was threatening the judge, threatening the clerk,
Speaker 1: having his army of red tie white supremacists come down
Speaker 1: stand in front of the courtroom and threaten the jurors.
Speaker 1: When he was gagged, so he passed the buck. It's
Speaker 1: like a relay race of hate. So you somehow, now
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to turn around, and we in independent media
Speaker 1: are supposed to turn around and say, what a tragedy
Speaker 1: We've been witnessing a tragedy unfold for the last eight years.
Speaker 1: The tragedy of a backsliding democracy, the tragedy of bodily
Speaker 1: autonomy being taken away from women and people with uteruses,
Speaker 1: the tragedy of LGBTQ youth no longer having a safe
Speaker 1: space in their schools if they are in Florida and
Speaker 1: Mississippi and Alabama and Texas and Tennessee. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about tragedy. Uvaldi was a tragedy. Was a tragedy.
Speaker 1: New Town was a tragedy, A tragedy that continues to
Speaker 1: unfold because the Republicans in Congress are not going to
Speaker 1: do a goddamn thing about gun reform. So tell me
Speaker 1: again why I why anyone should be bending over backwards. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, has Donald Trump called the family of
Speaker 1: the victim who was killed at is rally? No, we
Speaker 1: as not. Do you know who did call Joe Biden?
Speaker 1: But they didn't accept his call? And they think that
Speaker 1: somehow that shows how big and bad and tough they are.
Speaker 1: But the man that they were standing out there for,
Speaker 1: like sitting fucking ducks, couldn't be bothered to pick up
Speaker 1: the fucking phone. Folks. I feel like we are in
Speaker 1: some type of simulation, like we are in the phone
Speaker 1: matrix right now. The courts are on Donald Trump's side,
Speaker 1: the media is on Donald Trump's side, business is on
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's side. No one is coming to save us.
Speaker 1: So what do we do? We organize? We fight, We
Speaker 1: organize inside of our communities. We phone bank, we text bank,
Speaker 1: we donate, we volunteer to be poll workers. We do
Speaker 1: what So many people that built this democracy, so many
Speaker 1: black women and black people that put their fucking lives
Speaker 1: on the line to build out this democracy, and this
Speaker 1: thing called the vote, who risk their lives to go
Speaker 1: to the polls. This is it, This is all we have.
Speaker 1: So am I tired, AM I exhausted, AM I deflated?
Speaker 1: I am all of those things and more. But folks,
Speaker 1: this is where we dig the fuck down. This is
Speaker 1: where we stare those motherfuckers in the face and we
Speaker 1: say not today, not on our watch, not now. As
Speaker 1: has always been said, we did not come this far
Speaker 1: to only get this fucking far for them to knock
Speaker 1: us back into the nineteenth century. We did not come
Speaker 1: this far to spit in the face of people who
Speaker 1: risk their lives and their livelihoods to make America into
Speaker 1: a place of possibility. I don't give a fuck how
Speaker 1: many of those white supremacists are inside of that stadium.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn how many of them march
Speaker 1: down main streets across this country. There are more of
Speaker 1: us than there are of them. And it is our responsibility,
Speaker 1: every single person that is listening to me right now,
Speaker 1: it is your responsibility to do what you can where
Speaker 1: you are, because when November six comes, you need to
Speaker 1: say I did everything that I could. You need to
Speaker 1: wake up that day or maybe not have ever gone
Speaker 1: to sleep, because you were still phone banking, you were
Speaker 1: still donating, you were still marching, you were still sharing
Speaker 1: and tweeting and posting. That is our work. People always
Speaker 1: ask me, Danielle, how come your videos don't go viral.
Speaker 1: My videos can only go viral if the people decide
Speaker 1: to share them. If each and every person that listened
Speaker 1: to this show, listen to any of my shows, went
Speaker 1: on their social media platforms multiple times a week and
Speaker 1: shared with ten people, and then ask those ten people
Speaker 1: to share with ten people. That's why I say power
Speaker 1: to the people, because I trust the people to get
Speaker 1: the message out. But we have got to rev ourselves up, folks.
Speaker 1: We have got to recognize that we are not in
Speaker 1: a position anymore to pump the brake. It is full
Speaker 1: fucking steam ahead because they are not slowing down. They
Speaker 1: are picking up the pace. And why because they are
Speaker 1: picking up fucking wins. We got one last chance, one
Speaker 1: last opportunity, and until I am horse, until the last
Speaker 1: fucking ballot is counted, I will be in motherfucker's faces
Speaker 1: telling the truth. What we know is that there is
Speaker 1: a natural succession plan in line. You don't need to
Speaker 1: be concerned with fucking Joe Biden's age. We know how
Speaker 1: old that motherfucker is. We also know that he is
Speaker 1: a young, ready and capable vice president. Circle the wagons, folks,
Speaker 1: amplify the message. Get to fucking work where all we got.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on this
Speaker 1: woke af as always, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.
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