Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I hope that you enjoyed Friday's show with my friend
Speaker 1: and friend of the show, the Reverend Mark Thompson, wanted
Speaker 1: to provide you with some more context to what has
Speaker 1: been going on on the ground on these college campuses
Speaker 1: as we are watching them being broken apart their peaceful
Speaker 1: protests with violent actions by militarized police. And the thing
Speaker 1: that I keep thinking about is that this is where
Speaker 1: our tax dollars go. They go to weaponize our police,
Speaker 1: who then use brutal, horrific tactics against us. Right and
Speaker 1: for those people who are like on social media talking
Speaker 1: about these kids are getting exactly what they deserve. Really,
Speaker 1: unarmed students who are speaking up against the genocide and
Speaker 1: being met with brutal force or getting exactly what they
Speaker 1: deserve because we have all forgotten the fact that America
Speaker 1: was founded on a bunch of rowdy white men who
Speaker 1: decided that they didn't want to pay taxes anymore and
Speaker 1: threw a bunch of fucking tea in the water and
Speaker 1: vandalize shit, Like do we forget that, or again, it's
Speaker 1: only okay when white men do it, like when they
Speaker 1: decide to take over the Capitol building and defecate in
Speaker 1: the halls of Congress, like that's acceptable, right, Like, give
Speaker 1: me a fucking break. I'm just so tired of the
Speaker 1: blatant hypocrisy. And I got to tell you, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, like I struggle with, honestly sometimes sharing my
Speaker 1: feelings because I feel so up and down.
Speaker 2: I feel so upside down most of these days.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you that the longer this
Speaker 1: war goes on, and I don't even know how you
Speaker 1: call it a war. And this is why people call
Speaker 1: it a genocide, because the Palestinian people have no weaponry, right,
Speaker 1: because that's who's being killed. They're not fucking killing Hamas.
Speaker 1: The goal was never to kill Hamas. The goal was
Speaker 1: to extinguish the Palestinian people, right, which our tax dollars
Speaker 1: are going to help do.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It isn't about defending fucking Israel, Like, no, defend against
Speaker 1: what right they're fucking dome that they have over their city,
Speaker 1: Like technology that we don't even have here in the
Speaker 1: United States, but we send billions so that they have
Speaker 1: the technology to protect themselves against aggressors. Look, folks, I
Speaker 1: just I got to tell you that the way that
Speaker 1: this horrific genocide is going on, the way that like
Speaker 1: our elected leaders are acting like the rest of us
Speaker 1: don't know what is at play here, that like these students,
Speaker 1: oh they don't know really know what's going on, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. They know what the fuck they see and
Speaker 1: that's actually enough, right, Like they know what they are seeing,
Speaker 1: they know what they are hearing, which is why there's
Speaker 1: this push to ban TikTok. It isn't about fucking China.
Speaker 1: It's about information. It's about access to information and being
Speaker 1: connected with people on the ground right in places where
Speaker 1: genocide in war is taking fucking place, and seeing and
Speaker 1: hearing with their own eyes instead of being filtered bullshit
Speaker 1: through mainstream media that is in kafuts. Right with the
Speaker 1: government in the same way to pacify.
Speaker 2: The mathis like this is that's the fucking game.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, you know, I'm struggling because as time
Speaker 1: goes on, y'all, I hate this fucking administration. I hate
Speaker 1: this administration for making me choose between the lesser of
Speaker 1: two evils. That's not motivating that's not inspiring. But that's
Speaker 1: where the fuck we are. Joe Biden wants to get
Speaker 1: up and talk about how you know you can have
Speaker 1: descend without disorder and bol blah, what the fuck are
Speaker 1: you talking.
Speaker 2: About, bro? Like, what are you even saying?
Speaker 1: The core purpose of protests right is to disrupt this
Speaker 1: status quo. You don't do that by being quiet. You
Speaker 1: don't do that by being orderly. You do that by
Speaker 1: making a fucking scene and letting it be known that
Speaker 1: you understand that the people that are have the power
Speaker 1: to make a real difference refuse to do so. Tell
Speaker 1: me right now, after forty thousand plus people, half of
Speaker 1: which are children, have been killed, do you continue to
Speaker 1: say that Israel has the right to defend itself against toddlers,
Speaker 1: against six year olds.
Speaker 2: You had fucking Casey Hunt on air talking about, oh.
Speaker 1: They named Hamilton Hall on Columbia University when they when
Speaker 1: the protesters took it over after a woman who was
Speaker 1: killed in Gaza. It wasn't a woman, it was a
Speaker 1: fucking six year old girl.
Speaker 2: Baby. But this is what they do.
Speaker 1: Those that are in power get to decide whose life
Speaker 1: actually matters. It's why in the middle of a pandemic.
Speaker 1: People left their homes to chant that black lives matter
Speaker 1: because we know that in this country he does not.
Speaker 1: It isn't just young people that are looking over to
Speaker 1: the Middle East and saying what the fuck. It's everyone
Speaker 1: from a marginalized community that knows what it's like to
Speaker 1: be invisibilized and having it be done with our own money.
Speaker 1: It's just becoming too much right, too much to push down,
Speaker 1: too much to ignore and say full with a full
Speaker 1: throat chest and heart to go and vote for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: And I know what the alternative is. I know that
Speaker 1: it's the choice that I am going to make. I
Speaker 1: am going to vote for Joe Biden. But I don't, honestly, y'all,
Speaker 1: with good conscious, I don't know how I tell you
Speaker 1: to do the same. What I'm gonna start telling people
Speaker 1: is like, you need to vote with your heart. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to vote with your future and future generations
Speaker 1: in mind. And if that leads you in a different direction,
Speaker 1: then so be it. You just need to make decisions
Speaker 1: that you're going to be able to live with. But
Speaker 1: I am struggling to advocate and tell people that although
Speaker 1: you're looking around and you're seeing the rise of fascism
Speaker 1: and the militarization of our police, and the weaponization of
Speaker 1: like our rights, and a Supreme Court that is ripping
Speaker 1: them away in states, overturning bodily autonomy. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you then tell people, oh, but it
Speaker 1: will get worse. I know that it will. I know
Speaker 1: that a majority of people listening to this show know
Speaker 1: that it will get worse if Donald Trump is president.
Speaker 1: But when you're starting now to compare really bad and
Speaker 1: terrible and horrible with not so bad but also bad,
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, the distinctions start to
Speaker 1: become really fuzzy. This is somebody who knows. I know
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump will be an absolute catastrophe and will
Speaker 1: mark the end of democracy as we know it. I
Speaker 1: know that, and yet I am struggling to tell people
Speaker 1: that they need to be okay with a genocide, That
Speaker 1: they need to be okay with the fact that if
Speaker 1: Joe Biden wins, and if for some strike of fucking luck,
Speaker 1: we're able to hold on to the Senate and regain
Speaker 1: the House, you know that there still may not be
Speaker 1: enough right in order to restore Roe v. Wade inside
Speaker 1: of the constitution, right, because there are Democrats that function
Speaker 1: like fucking Republicans, So there are people willing to sell
Speaker 1: you out regardless, Like every election, we have work to
Speaker 1: save this country after twenty sixteen, and look where the
Speaker 1: fuck we are. So it's hard to be sitting in
Speaker 1: a pile of shit and then being told that, oh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't smell that bad, right, hold, just keep holding
Speaker 1: your nose. So you know, I I am in a
Speaker 1: deep place of struggle, particularly now that news has come
Speaker 1: out from the Hill dot com that came out on
Speaker 1: Friday of last week that Chuck Schumer is gonna link
Speaker 1: arms with Speaker Mike Johnson and inviting net Yahoo to
Speaker 1: address Congress. It's like, it's like they don't want to win,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying. It's like I don't
Speaker 1: know who the fuck is sitting at Biden's campaign headquarters
Speaker 1: and saying, you know, let's just throw the whole thing out.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't really have to work that hard.
Speaker 1: The polls tell us that we're winning, so we'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Everyone hates Donald Trump, but sir, they're actually starting to
Speaker 1: hate you too. And this is the real talk that
Speaker 1: like apparently people aren't giving Joe Biden that you can
Speaker 1: do your little moves of student loan debt relief and
Speaker 1: rescheduling marijuana. And you're thinking that what these young people
Speaker 1: didn't just hear you call them a group of thugs.
Speaker 1: The least you can do is not call in the
Speaker 1: National Guard. But you're not telling the governors to stand down.
Speaker 1: You're not telling the mayors of these cities to stand down.
Speaker 1: You didn't direct young people and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to invite some of these folks to the
Speaker 1: White House. I want to hear them out. I want
Speaker 1: to create a town hall moment so that we can
Speaker 1: use this moment of friction and conflict in our country
Speaker 1: as a teachable moment. It's just like, oh, just ignore
Speaker 1: these ah, these kids, they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They're not kids.
Speaker 1: They're your fucking constituents. They're the future of this goddamn country.
Speaker 1: And not only have we not done anything to make
Speaker 1: their lives better or safer, we've actually done the opposite
Speaker 1: generations is grown up with mass shootings. They don't know
Speaker 1: a world without it. Some of them, at this point
Speaker 1: in time, have been involved in multiple from middle school,
Speaker 1: high school, college, out shopping. Oh, just stop eating avocado
Speaker 1: toast and you can buy a home. How when corporate
Speaker 1: greed wright has slowed down wages for the last several decades. Oh,
Speaker 1: and boomers are still in their fucking jobs because some
Speaker 1: of them now can't afford to retire. Because every other
Speaker 1: day we hear about social security going away and Medicaid
Speaker 1: going away?
Speaker 2: So where is the room for generation Z?
Speaker 1: You're old of you all? When I was your age,
Speaker 1: I had this, this, this, and this. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: when the government actually still.
Speaker 2: Gave a shit.
Speaker 1: I'm just so over it. And I know that it's Monday,
Speaker 1: all and I need to come in here with some
Speaker 1: more hopefulness and energy that it's like we can do this.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I don't know. I don't know. You know.
Speaker 1: I pray to God every single day that I am wrong,
Speaker 1: that somehow a miracle will overtake us, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to save democracy. We'll be able to
Speaker 1: stop a genocide, We'll be able to restore grow v wade,
Speaker 1: We'll be able to restore firmative action, We'll be able
Speaker 1: to restore voting rights. You know, we'll be able to
Speaker 1: patch up this democracy. And have it look like something resembling,
Speaker 1: you know, a real democracy and not democracy fucking ish.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, you know, so I don't know
Speaker 1: how to convince people to swallow this really hard, sharp
Speaker 1: pill that feels like a piece of fucking glass and
Speaker 1: just having the repeated narrative of oh, Donald Trump will
Speaker 1: be worse. It's like, okay, now, I know for people
Speaker 1: like me. By worse, we mean that he will create
Speaker 1: minigazzas all over this country. He will round people up,
Speaker 1: take away their rights, label them as enemies of the state,
Speaker 1: pillage this country to enrich himself, sell out our secrets.
Speaker 1: Also that he can what die on a gold toilet,
Speaker 1: but that's what he'll do.
Speaker 2: And worse. We know this. I've been laying it out.
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five lays it out right on a
Speaker 1: heritage dot org's page nine hundred pages if you want
Speaker 1: to get into it. Their vision of America is a
Speaker 1: healthscape for everyone that is not white, straight, cis and male,
Speaker 1: an absolute fucking healscape, something that we can't even fathom
Speaker 1: and imagine because we've never experienced it. Where we are
Speaker 1: right now is a slow burn, the slow death, the
Speaker 1: death by a thousand cuts. As our democracy is crumbling falling.
Speaker 1: You know, there are some people that are just like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, let it all burn down. But I want
Speaker 1: folks to also recognize that the actions that we are
Speaker 1: seeing take place on these college campuses that will be
Speaker 1: the norm everywhere. Cops are a bunch of legalized fucking thugs, right,
Speaker 1: been saying that when Donald Trump taught them back in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen on Long Island where I'm from. Ah, it'll
Speaker 1: be so nice. You can rough them up a bit,
Speaker 1: and all those cops laughed and chuckled. They'll do whatever
Speaker 1: the hell they want to whomever they want. And we
Speaker 1: know that the police force is filled with a bunch
Speaker 1: of fucking bigots. It doesn't matter what state you're in.
Speaker 1: So with a president that gives them the green light
Speaker 1: to beat the shit out of whomever they want to
Speaker 1: start disappearing folks, they'll do it because they get to
Speaker 1: live out their fantasies and their dreams. The stories that,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, in New York, the stories
Speaker 1: that black men, Latino men can tell you about being
Speaker 1: ruffed up by police starting at the age of like ten.
Speaker 1: But they don't cover that on the news. Right, because
Speaker 1: those are those bad neighborhoods that will be everywhere. It
Speaker 1: will be a license to harass, to torture, to beat,
Speaker 1: to abuse, and there will be no recourse because, as
Speaker 1: we've seen, Donald Trump and Maga own the courts, all
Speaker 1: of them. So I just I tell you, I paint
Speaker 1: the picture because I can no longer tell people, like
Speaker 1: I'm saying in good consciousness, to go ahead and vote
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden. But what I can do is continue
Speaker 1: to lay out the picture of where we are and
Speaker 1: what it will look like. You know, some people are
Speaker 1: willing to roll the dice. I'm not a fucking gambler,
Speaker 1: and I would rather have an administration that I think
Speaker 1: can be moved and befind trying to activate people under
Speaker 1: that administration than under a Trump regime that could cost
Speaker 1: more people their lives. These are our choices, and they're
Speaker 1: not fucking great. They really are not. And you know,
Speaker 1: as I sit here at the beginning of this week,
Speaker 1: not knowing what this week has in store, it is
Speaker 1: just it's like holding your breath, you know. And I
Speaker 1: tell us that, like breathing, is the most important thing
Speaker 1: that we can do, because if we hold our breath,
Speaker 1: our muscles clench, you know, and we produce disease, which
Speaker 1: produces disease. But it's wild to me that Congress people
Speaker 1: think that right now the best thing to do for
Speaker 1: America is to bring net in Yahoo here. All you're
Speaker 1: going to do is trigger god willing inshallah, like some
Speaker 1: of the biggest protests that we have seen. And then
Speaker 1: what do you do tell us that we're all crazy? Say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's all just a bunch of what hamas lovers?
Speaker 2: Me tell you something.
Speaker 1: You know, you live long enough, you see things repeat
Speaker 1: and as people say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Speaker 1: That's where we are. And honestly, I don't know how
Speaker 1: we see ourselves out of this, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I know that I'm not the only one
Speaker 1: that is talking to people and listening to friends and
Speaker 1: family question whether or not they're going to show up
Speaker 1: on November fifth and vote for Joe Biden. So many
Speaker 1: people saying he's lost my vote? How can I blame them?
Speaker 1: I can't shame them. All I can do is continue
Speaker 1: to say, well, you know, as bad as things are,
Speaker 1: and they are really fucking bad, trust me that they
Speaker 1: can get worse.
Speaker 2: It's not enough.
Speaker 1: That's not a winning argument, and that's the argument that
Speaker 1: the Biden campaign is trying to make, and it's not sticking.
Speaker 1: Hold on, folks. That's all I have to keep saying
Speaker 1: is continue to hold on, to breathe, to take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves, to take care of those around you, to
Speaker 1: find respite because we're in for a bumpy fucking ride.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on wokef
Speaker 1: as always, Power to the people and to all the people.
Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.