Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikap Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording in a very interesting manner
Speaker 1: from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: This is my first woke Wednesday posts the Thanksgiving holiday
Speaker 1: break and with a couple of weeks until we enter
Speaker 1: into full thrust holiday season, and you know, about eleven
Speaker 1: and a half months or so until we meet the
Speaker 1: presidential election of twenty twenty four. And I have to
Speaker 1: tell you that I am absolutely and completely and totally
Speaker 1: fucking terrified. I have not felt this level of stress, concern,
Speaker 1: and worry in a very long time. Why is that, Well, one,
Speaker 1: because I've been focusing on self care and on meditation,
Speaker 1: and on exercise and on you know, a whole host
Speaker 1: of ways in order to keep myself grounded in a
Speaker 1: very important way, as I hope all of you are
Speaker 1: as well. I've also made it a point to not
Speaker 1: pay attention to polls this far out, you know, of
Speaker 1: a presidential election. That all being said, like you, I
Speaker 1: went home for the holidays, or maybe you had your
Speaker 1: family or friends or family come to you. And of course,
Speaker 1: probably since the beginning of the MAGA Trump error, you
Speaker 1: cannot like steer clear of politics. Thankfully, in my family
Speaker 1: we all share for the most part, the same political
Speaker 1: affiliation and party. So it's not about necesscessarily going into
Speaker 1: a dinner or conversation with your racist uncle or your
Speaker 1: you know, or your homophobic parents or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Like that's not my situation. However, I did engage in
Speaker 1: several conversations with friends who listen to my shows, who
Speaker 1: follow politics, who are extraordinarily, you know, highly educated by
Speaker 1: traditional standards of what education looks like. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you, dear fucking friends, that they don't want to
Speaker 1: vote for Biden in the next presidential election, that they
Speaker 1: in many ways are putting down their stake in the
Speaker 1: ground and saying that they are no longer going to
Speaker 1: be forced to vote by fear, that they are going
Speaker 1: to vote their values, and that they are not going
Speaker 1: to side with an administration and condone the policies out
Speaker 1: of an administration that is allowing for tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of Palestinian people to be murdered, half or more of
Speaker 1: those being children, on our watch, on our dime, on
Speaker 1: our time, And that you know many of the people,
Speaker 1: and that I am speaking with and have spoke to
Speaker 1: are saying, you know, things to the effect of, I'm
Speaker 1: going to vote my values. I'm going to vote my consciousness,
Speaker 1: and my conscious does not tell me to align myself
Speaker 1: with a supposed democratic party that condones and celebrates, you know, democracy.
Speaker 1: I guess for democracy ish to tag my other show
Speaker 1: on our soil right and not recognize or hold accountable
Speaker 1: this state of Israel from committing war cribs right and
Speaker 1: not upholding international law. You know, I was listening most
Speaker 1: recently to an anchor on MSNBC, and folks, I almost
Speaker 1: died because that anchor said, how, you know, how can Israel, like,
Speaker 1: should Israel essentially be expected to uphold international law when
Speaker 1: they're fighting against a horrific, you know, terrorist organization? The
Speaker 1: fuck you think international law was created? Right, It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that. Oh so I guess then when America said
Speaker 1: that it was fighting ISIS or al Qaeda, that then
Speaker 1: that is that what condones the level of force and
Speaker 1: violence and archaic right use of force because oh those
Speaker 1: people are terrorists. Let us understand, and I am not
Speaker 1: at all. Let me be very fucking clear. Condoning violence,
Speaker 1: condoning terrorism, condoning anything of that nature. But if those
Speaker 1: that are a part of let's say the United Nations,
Speaker 1: those that are a part of right, the foreign affairs, diplomacy,
Speaker 1: global relations community totally right disregard international law because of
Speaker 1: who they're fighting, and they're the ones that get to
Speaker 1: tell that, get to decide and get to define who
Speaker 1: those people are, then the rule of law right just
Speaker 1: false because the only way that the rule of law
Speaker 1: persists is if everyone who signed up in agreement to
Speaker 1: said law uphold it regardless of what they are faced with.
Speaker 1: We have tribunals right for a fucking reason. And what
Speaker 1: people are seeing now, folks and what like we can't
Speaker 1: continue to ignore is that you can't. And I just
Speaker 1: reread President Biden's op ed in the New York Times
Speaker 1: that came out about eleven days ago. By the time
Speaker 1: that you listen to this, and I encourage you, if
Speaker 1: you haven't read it, to read it, where he conflates
Speaker 1: the cause of US defending US meeting US the large
Speaker 1: usus A defending the Ukrainian people right and providing them
Speaker 1: with weapons to be able to combat Putin, and US
Speaker 1: using those same weapons to help Israel defend itself. These
Speaker 1: two situations are not the fucking same. And whoever okayed
Speaker 1: that op ed pooh pooh on you, because you clearly
Speaker 1: do not have the basic contextualized understanding of foreign affairs
Speaker 1: if you're putting those two crises in the same bucket. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand for political reasons why Joe Biden did that,
Speaker 1: because he's dealing with a House of Representatives being led
Speaker 1: by a right wing, rabid, fucking lunatic right Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: who said that he is not going to provide funds
Speaker 1: to continue the defense of the Ukrainian people right, because
Speaker 1: we know that the Republican Party is in the pocket
Speaker 1: of Putin right. Who Donald Trump is in the pocket
Speaker 1: of Putin right. So we get here when Mike Johnson said, well,
Speaker 1: we'll provide aid to Israel, right and let us all
Speaker 1: like this is also fucked up too, because we also
Speaker 1: know the Republican Party is filled with a bunch of
Speaker 1: anti Semits. And there is a larger reason as to
Speaker 1: why there's a Christo fascist reason as to why all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they want to come to the aid
Speaker 1: of Israel, right. And I want folks to like do
Speaker 1: some research about that, but it basically has to do
Speaker 1: with the creation of Israel in the first place, and
Speaker 1: the believing that like the second Coming of Christ, will
Speaker 1: come through there. Right, Like it is when I say
Speaker 1: that Mike Johnson and the Mike Pences and the Mitch
Speaker 1: when I say that these motherfuckers are nuts, this is
Speaker 1: the type of shit that I'm talking about. Nonetheless, in
Speaker 1: this op ed, Joe Biden conflates these two causes as
Speaker 1: a way right to say that if you're not gonna okay,
Speaker 1: the fun like these two issues without the United States leadership, right,
Speaker 1: we are creating a vacuum for authoritarianism and terror in
Speaker 1: the world. Now, folks, these two things are not the
Speaker 1: fucking same. Right, On one hand, you have Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: who is held them on rebuilding the USSR. Right, this
Speaker 1: is the Ukraine is a crown jewel, not only for
Speaker 1: their uranium and their oil reserves, huge in terms of
Speaker 1: money and power and access. Right, So we understand that,
Speaker 1: but also right that if you can take them, then
Speaker 1: you can begin right to fill up your side of
Speaker 1: the chessboard, okay, and then you will be able to
Speaker 1: have the power right to align with for a function
Speaker 1: of a massive global takeover with China and other folks
Speaker 1: that you share interest in, which is what is that
Speaker 1: shared interest? A weakened or demolished United States, which Putin
Speaker 1: had already begun with the installation of a Donald Trump. Right,
Speaker 1: follow me, Okay, this is not the same as a
Speaker 1: seventy five year occupation that has been going on in Israel, right,
Speaker 1: an occupation of the Palestinian people. What people are waking
Speaker 1: up to now which they haven't known? Right? And why
Speaker 1: haven't they known this? Not through any fault of their own.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, right, like we don't do we barely
Speaker 1: do fucking domestic policy and civics in school, let alone
Speaker 1: global Right Americans don't we always say in media, Americans
Speaker 1: don't care about what is happening elsewhere because it doesn't
Speaker 1: have any general or deep implications in their day to
Speaker 1: day lives. Right, And what you hear often is why
Speaker 1: are we sending so much money overseas when we don't
Speaker 1: invest in our own social safety nets and domestic policies
Speaker 1: in a way that help better the lives of the
Speaker 1: American people. I digress, fast forward right to America's hand
Speaker 1: in the creation of Israel, and fast forward to our
Speaker 1: continual financial support in the billions of dollars a year,
Speaker 1: not a billion billions of dollars a year for Israel
Speaker 1: to be able to have get this, you know, free
Speaker 1: healthcare for people israelis, but for people inside of Israel,
Speaker 1: right and beyond, right and beyond other measures that you know,
Speaker 1: we're told that we can't have here in the United
Speaker 1: States because apparently we can't handle nice things. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but our own tax dollars go to ensure that other
Speaker 1: people have nice things. I digress. The fact is that
Speaker 1: where did Israel get the idea for their type of
Speaker 1: occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, Because if there
Speaker 1: is a united Palestine, then Israel will cease to exist.
Speaker 1: Has always been the belief of the far right right,
Speaker 1: which now occupies the Knesset and holds a sea slip
Speaker 1: of the tongue there Net Nyahu's be to the fire. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the United States continues to uphold this idea of
Speaker 1: Israel being the only democracy in the Middle East, when
Speaker 1: in fact they're not actually a democracy, okay. And that's
Speaker 1: what people are becoming aware of now. We use a
Speaker 1: lot of rhetoric and words in the United States liberty, freedom, justice,
Speaker 1: all of these things that make us believe that any
Speaker 1: time that the United States walks out into the world,
Speaker 1: that it is because of this idea of the preservation
Speaker 1: of global democracies. What we don't know is how Israel,
Speaker 1: to the extent that it is a democracy, is in
Speaker 1: name only and only for israelis because the Palestinian people
Speaker 1: have a whole other set of rules and laws that
Speaker 1: they must abide by that are completely and totally different
Speaker 1: from the state of Israel. Okay, where do they get
Speaker 1: this idea from? Let me think about it. Can we say,
Speaker 1: Jim Crow? Right? Can we talk about American segregation? Can
Speaker 1: we talk about where did the idea around apartheid come from?
Speaker 1: Maybe America. We don't just export weapons, we export ideology
Speaker 1: as well. So what we through fighting, protesting, people dying,
Speaker 1: being assassinated through the courts, were able right to do
Speaker 1: away with Jim Crow and really institute quote unquote democracy
Speaker 1: in the United States. But truly not until nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: five in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. While
Speaker 1: we were busy trying to institute democracy here, we kept
Speaker 1: saying that Israel was also this democracy, but it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Why are people so angry right now because they recognize
Speaker 1: and are becoming hip to the fact that their money
Speaker 1: is being used to kill tens of thousands of people,
Speaker 1: namely children, in their name and in the name of democracy.
Speaker 1: When we write at are continuing to be at war
Speaker 1: right at home and ideological war that we are losing
Speaker 1: with the Republican Party that wants to institute chrysto fascism here.
Speaker 1: So they are looking at Israel and not in Yahoo's
Speaker 1: power to destroy Gaza and this menace of a population
Speaker 1: and saying, hmm, that looks nice. When we're in power,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to create two sets of laws, three
Speaker 1: sets of laws, or however many, and we'll control all
Speaker 1: of the branches and mechanisms of power to uphold our
Speaker 1: chrysto fascist ideology. You see their stakes here. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem. Biden and the Biden administration ain't getting it
Speaker 1: that a lot of their base is viewing their policy
Speaker 1: in Israel right and Palestine through a social justice and
Speaker 1: racial justice lens. And what they are seeing and what
Speaker 1: they are fearing is that if we continue to support
Speaker 1: this administration and this horrific, horrific, murderous rampage that has
Speaker 1: been going on for the last seven weeks. If we
Speaker 1: can ignore what is happening in Palestine, then when it
Speaker 1: comes to us, those that are not white cis straight, men,
Speaker 1: right and Christian in the United States, what's to stop
Speaker 1: Who is going to stop this from happening to us?
Speaker 1: Now you will say, well, Danielle, if people don't vote,
Speaker 1: that is like voting for Trump. And guess what. I
Speaker 1: fucking agree with you, and you are absolutely right, But
Speaker 1: guess what matters messaging. Guess what matters even more your
Speaker 1: policy matching your messaging. So you cannot call us again
Speaker 1: and say that you are fighting for the soul of
Speaker 1: America and fighting for democracy while funding the complete opposite
Speaker 1: someplace else with our money. You cannot tell us right
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is the best alternative when he seems
Speaker 1: to be completely tone fucking death with regards to what
Speaker 1: is happening on the ground in the United States. So
Speaker 1: why am I filled if it's such panic and fucking
Speaker 1: dread eleven and a half months ahead of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four election, Because I see no fucking pivot in sight.
Speaker 1: They think that they're doing a great job, and the
Speaker 1: Republican Party pretty much just has to sit by and
Speaker 1: continues stacking fucking money like they're doing at the Heritage Foundation,
Speaker 1: which is put together their twenty twenty five takeover fucking plan.
Speaker 1: When I tell you that we are in fucking trouble,
Speaker 1: believe me, because while you all know that I am
Speaker 1: not the one to feign, you know, optimism, that I
Speaker 1: hold on to my mustard seed of hope, I am
Speaker 1: holding on so fucking hard I may crush it right now.
Speaker 1: That's how terrified I am becoming of the numbers that
Speaker 1: we are seeing. Because what happens right when people decide
Speaker 1: that not only are they going to vote, but they're
Speaker 1: also not going to help get out the vote. Right,
Speaker 1: we need as much enthusiasm as possible, and that is
Speaker 1: dwindling by the fucking minute. We have absolutely no time,
Speaker 1: eleven and a half months in this fucking day, and
Speaker 1: age goes by like that. So I am becoming increasingly
Speaker 1: worried about this organization, this organization, and I mean this administration,
Speaker 1: like and all of the organizations that are pro democracy,
Speaker 1: pro social justice, pro civil rights, being able to continue
Speaker 1: to feed people not just oh I'm not Trump, but
Speaker 1: to feed them some type of hopefulness and you can't
Speaker 1: feed hope when all we're fucking scrolling through is just instruction, devastation,
Speaker 1: and death. So, folks, on this woke Wednesday, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you all. I need you to start doing informal polls, right.
Speaker 1: I need you to start pulling together focus groups with
Speaker 1: your people, your friends, your colleagues. Start taking folks as
Speaker 1: temperature on where they are right now in terms of
Speaker 1: how they are thinking about twenty twenty four, if they're
Speaker 1: thinking about it at all, which I know that a
Speaker 1: majority of you who listen to me absolutely are. But
Speaker 1: are your people? And then tell me in the content
Speaker 1: section what folks are saying, because then you will start
Speaker 1: to maybe get the same feeling or maybe you have
Speaker 1: better news for me. Right, tell me what state you
Speaker 1: were listening from, right, tell me you know what you
Speaker 1: were seeing in terms of ads and on the TV
Speaker 1: and rumblings at your schools and your ptas and your
Speaker 1: you know, board meetings or what have you. Because folks
Speaker 1: need a better picture of what the fuck is happening
Speaker 1: because what I am seeing, what I am hearing is
Speaker 1: not great. Right, And as somebody with fifty eleven fucking podcasts,
Speaker 1: we gotta ship the messaging and it's gotta happen soon.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke
Speaker 1: af AS always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and pray to God we
Speaker 1: all stay woke as fuck.