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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wika F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the home bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've done a just one

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Speaker 1: on one with all of you, and this is what

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Speaker 1: this episode is going to be because I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: have you've been watching any of my videos on TikTok

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Speaker 1: Danielle Moody underscore on TikTok that I also repost on

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Speaker 1: my Instagram. I'm getting to a place, y'all, just a

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Speaker 1: fucking place of frustration and aggravation with this horse race

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Speaker 1: that the media has turned the most consequential midterm elections

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Speaker 1: that this country is ever going to face. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's be really clear about what is at stake. And

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Speaker 1: I know that you all know because you listen to

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Speaker 1: Woke a F and you listen to Democracy Ish and

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Speaker 1: you listen to other shows and watch cable news all

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Speaker 1: the time and you're tapped in. But I want this

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Speaker 1: message to really seep in for you so that you

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Speaker 1: can share it with your friends, your colleagues, your family members,

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Speaker 1: those people your kids you know who are eighteen and

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Speaker 1: older who this may be the first selection that they're

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Speaker 1: going to vote in or should be voting in. So

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Speaker 1: I want to make very clear what is at stake.

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Speaker 1: This country is in complete and total disarray. And while

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Speaker 1: I don't believe in polls, I don't hold poles up

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Speaker 1: to be the end all be all, as some other

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Speaker 1: politicals do, because look, you know, if the polls really held,

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Speaker 1: then we would never have experienced Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: would have been president, and you know we would be

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Speaker 1: in the midst of her second term. God, I can't.

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Speaker 1: Let's just pause to think about what that would be.

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Speaker 1: But I don't want to pause too long because I'm

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Speaker 1: going to break down in tears. But here we are,

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Speaker 1: where the polls are saying that seventy one percent of

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Speaker 1: Americans right now believe that democracy is at risk. If

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Speaker 1: that question were to have even been asked, folks just

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Speaker 1: like I don't know in twenty seventeen, after the march

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Speaker 1: by white supremaist fascists in Charlottesville, maybe we would be

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Speaker 1: in a different place. Maybe if we had more conversations

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Speaker 1: about the health of our democracy and the fact that

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Speaker 1: things don't just persist without people who are vigilant, without

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Speaker 1: people who are at the ready to make sure that

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Speaker 1: if they see any cracks, if they see any breaks,

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Speaker 1: that they do and make the necessary adjustments so that

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Speaker 1: all doesn't fall apart. That is how and why it

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Speaker 1: is important to vote. How we vote is about how

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Speaker 1: much attention we are paying to not only our community,

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Speaker 1: but to the entire country. Who is the party that

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Speaker 1: does that policy resonate with my day to day life,

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Speaker 1: How does it affect me one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: For far too long, people in this country because we've

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Speaker 1: never had one hundred percent voting, We've never even had

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Speaker 1: was the highest vote to turnout in the history of

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Speaker 1: this country, and it was above sixty percent. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason for that, and I always will go back to

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Speaker 1: public education and the fact that we do not teach

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Speaker 1: civics in the way that we should. It is not

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Speaker 1: mandatory that people understand how government works at the state, local,

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Speaker 1: That is happening at public schools for those that are

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Speaker 1: on college campuses. Some college campuses do, but again it's

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Speaker 1: these things are not mandatory. And so when we find

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. And that's exactly what Republicans have wanted

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Speaker 1: us to be. Disillusioned, detached, right, neglectful, because you see,

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Speaker 1: when we're busy, as I've always said, trying to get

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Speaker 1: our basic needs met, food, shelter, and clothing, and it

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Speaker 1: is a struggle to get those three basic things done.

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Speaker 1: How do you have the time and the bandwidth to

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Speaker 1: be able to pay attention to people that are literally

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Speaker 1: trying to make your lives harder. See, this is a

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Speaker 1: not even they're white Evangelical Christians that they love and

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Speaker 1: talked about in his book Dying of Whiteness. It's what

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party. So when I see poll numbers that

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Speaker 1: another poll people are saying seventy one percent believe that

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Speaker 1: democracy is at risk, I say to myself, who the

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Speaker 1: fuck is asking these questions? That's number one? But number

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Speaker 1: two is how do you have a healthy economy without

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Speaker 1: a democracy. That's a real fucking follow up question, because

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Speaker 1: here's the thing that happens in authoritarian and dictatorships is

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Speaker 1: that the money, the little money that you are making,

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Speaker 1: longer will be funneled into your communities, no longer will

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Speaker 1: be funneled into the collective. Now, while many people right

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Speaker 1: you know all too well that basically we all pay

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Speaker 1: into a system that never pays us back, right, like

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Speaker 1: now the robber barons are even more brazen because they

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Speaker 1: it is not thy neighbor, it is my enemy, because

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Speaker 1: the top one percent, by the American oligarchs, by the

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Speaker 1: a recipe for a fucking disaster or a revolution, because

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Speaker 1: is that too slowly. Unfortunately, people are starting to get

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Speaker 1: they're because the idea of losing democracy is such a

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Speaker 1: them out next time. Oh, we could never happen that

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Speaker 1: never happen. We won't let that happen. Well, how do

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Speaker 1: You vote. It's why they're trying to steal your vote.

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Speaker 1: Because if the elections are legitimate and what they are,

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Speaker 1: the results thereof are that they are no longer going

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Speaker 1: logical recourse would be for them to actually work for

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Speaker 1: But you see, they've long long since let go of that.

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Speaker 1: They're not interested in competing. They're not interested in offering

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, which was, oh my god, what if

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Speaker 1: Then I said on Canadian national television that it would

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Speaker 1: be white supremacies last stand. What I did not say

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Speaker 1: now that Lee Zeldon, that rabid fucking Republican that is

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Speaker 1: they are going to federalize. They are oppression. There will

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke

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Speaker 1: f as always, Power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power. Get woke, and please please please stay

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