WEBVTT - Biden's Pill is Harder to Swallow 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.040 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.040 I hope that you enjoyed Friday's show with my friend 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.880 and friend of the show, the Reverend Mark Thompson, wanted 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.240 to provide you with some more context to what has 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.040 been going on on the ground on these college campuses 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.479 as we are watching them being broken apart their peaceful 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.879 protests with violent actions by militarized police. And the thing 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:50.040 that I keep thinking about is that this is where 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:56.959 our tax dollars go. They go to weaponize our police, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:05.800 who then use brutal, horrific tactics against us. Right and 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.400 for those people who are like on social media talking 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.800 about these kids are getting exactly what they deserve. Really, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.720 unarmed students who are speaking up against the genocide and 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.720 being met with brutal force or getting exactly what they 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.960 deserve because we have all forgotten the fact that America 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.840 was founded on a bunch of rowdy white men who 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.640 decided that they didn't want to pay taxes anymore and 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.360 threw a bunch of fucking tea in the water and 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.320 vandalize shit, Like do we forget that, or again, it's 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.000 only okay when white men do it, like when they 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.480 decide to take over the Capitol building and defecate in 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.039 the halls of Congress, like that's acceptable, right, Like, give 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.840 me a fucking break. I'm just so tired of the 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.760 blatant hypocrisy. And I got to tell you, and I, 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.840 you know, like I struggle with, honestly sometimes sharing my 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.080 feelings because I feel so up and down. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.600 I feel so upside down most of these days. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.400 But I got to tell you that the longer this 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.680 war goes on, and I don't even know how you 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.480 call it a war. And this is why people call 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:15.280 it a genocide, because the Palestinian people have no weaponry, right, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.200 because that's who's being killed. They're not fucking killing Hamas. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.360 The goal was never to kill Hamas. The goal was 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:26.399 to extinguish the Palestinian people, right, which our tax dollars 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.760 are going to help do. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:29.320 Right. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.600 It isn't about defending fucking Israel, Like, no, defend against 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:38.560 what right they're fucking dome that they have over their city, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.960 Like technology that we don't even have here in the 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.240 United States, but we send billions so that they have 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.440 the technology to protect themselves against aggressors. Look, folks, I 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.320 just I got to tell you that the way that 0:02:53.400 --> 0:03:02.960 this horrific genocide is going on, the way that like 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.359 our elected leaders are acting like the rest of us 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.799 don't know what is at play here, that like these students, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.119 oh they don't know really know what's going on, blah 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.560 blah blah. They know what the fuck they see and 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.000 that's actually enough, right, Like they know what they are seeing, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.040 they know what they are hearing, which is why there's 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.240 this push to ban TikTok. It isn't about fucking China. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.440 It's about information. It's about access to information and being 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.880 connected with people on the ground right in places where 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.480 genocide in war is taking fucking place, and seeing and 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.160 hearing with their own eyes instead of being filtered bullshit 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.800 through mainstream media that is in kafuts. Right with the 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.880 government in the same way to pacify. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.080 The mathis like this is that's the fucking game. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:04:00.480 So I'm like, you know, I'm struggling because as time 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:07.720 goes on, y'all, I hate this fucking administration. I hate 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:13.720 this administration for making me choose between the lesser of 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:19.120 two evils. That's not motivating that's not inspiring. But that's 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.240 where the fuck we are. Joe Biden wants to get 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.680 up and talk about how you know you can have 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.520 descend without disorder and bol blah, what the fuck are 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.360 you talking. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.760 About, bro? Like, what are you even saying? 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:40.159 The core purpose of protests right is to disrupt this 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.719 status quo. You don't do that by being quiet. You 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.760 don't do that by being orderly. You do that by 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:55.839 making a fucking scene and letting it be known that 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.840 you understand that the people that are have the power 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.120 to make a real difference refuse to do so. Tell 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.359 me right now, after forty thousand plus people, half of 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:15.200 which are children, have been killed, do you continue to 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:20.120 say that Israel has the right to defend itself against toddlers, 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:21.800 against six year olds. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:29.000 You had fucking Casey Hunt on air talking about, oh. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.440 They named Hamilton Hall on Columbia University when they when 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.839 the protesters took it over after a woman who was 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.640 killed in Gaza. It wasn't a woman, it was a 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.119 fucking six year old girl. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.600 Baby. But this is what they do. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.119 Those that are in power get to decide whose life 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:56.200 actually matters. It's why in the middle of a pandemic. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.840 People left their homes to chant that black lives matter 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.719 because we know that in this country he does not. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.200 It isn't just young people that are looking over to 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.839 the Middle East and saying what the fuck. It's everyone 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.839 from a marginalized community that knows what it's like to 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:18.520 be invisibilized and having it be done with our own money. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:29.880 It's just becoming too much right, too much to push down, 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.839 too much to ignore and say full with a full 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.679 throat chest and heart to go and vote for Joe Biden. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.440 And I know what the alternative is. I know that 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.280 it's the choice that I am going to make. I 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.279 am going to vote for Joe Biden. But I don't, honestly, y'all, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.400 with good conscious, I don't know how I tell you 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.760 to do the same. What I'm gonna start telling people 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.680 is like, you need to vote with your heart. You know, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.760 you need to vote with your future and future generations 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.080 in mind. And if that leads you in a different direction, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.680 then so be it. You just need to make decisions 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.240 that you're going to be able to live with. But 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:18.600 I am struggling to advocate and tell people that although 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.440 you're looking around and you're seeing the rise of fascism 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:26.080 and the militarization of our police, and the weaponization of 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.640 like our rights, and a Supreme Court that is ripping 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.440 them away in states, overturning bodily autonomy. I mean, I 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.240 don't know how you then tell people, oh, but it 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.440 will get worse. I know that it will. I know 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.640 that a majority of people listening to this show know 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.200 that it will get worse if Donald Trump is president. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:55.080 But when you're starting now to compare really bad and 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.960 terrible and horrible with not so bad but also bad, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.200 like you know what I'm saying, the distinctions start to 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:09.440 become really fuzzy. This is somebody who knows. I know 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:16.320 that Donald Trump will be an absolute catastrophe and will 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.120 mark the end of democracy as we know it. I 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:26.880 know that, and yet I am struggling to tell people 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.240 that they need to be okay with a genocide, That 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.720 they need to be okay with the fact that if 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.640 Joe Biden wins, and if for some strike of fucking luck, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.200 we're able to hold on to the Senate and regain 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.000 the House, you know that there still may not be 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:55.040 enough right in order to restore Roe v. Wade inside 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.720 of the constitution, right, because there are Democrats that function 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:04.080 like fucking Republicans, So there are people willing to sell 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:10.040 you out regardless, Like every election, we have work to 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.120 save this country after twenty sixteen, and look where the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:19.840 fuck we are. So it's hard to be sitting in 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:26.199 a pile of shit and then being told that, oh, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.120 it doesn't smell that bad, right, hold, just keep holding 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:41.120 your nose. So you know, I I am in a 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:47.320 deep place of struggle, particularly now that news has come 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.680 out from the Hill dot com that came out on 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:55.600 Friday of last week that Chuck Schumer is gonna link 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:00.480 arms with Speaker Mike Johnson and inviting net Yahoo to 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:08.040 address Congress. It's like, it's like they don't want to win, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.640 do you know what I'm saying. It's like I don't 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:17.719 know who the fuck is sitting at Biden's campaign headquarters 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:25.680 and saying, you know, let's just throw the whole thing out. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.000 You know, we don't really have to work that hard. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.520 The polls tell us that we're winning, so we'll be fine. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.120 Everyone hates Donald Trump, but sir, they're actually starting to 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:40.400 hate you too. And this is the real talk that 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:46.600 like apparently people aren't giving Joe Biden that you can 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.280 do your little moves of student loan debt relief and 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:55.160 rescheduling marijuana. And you're thinking that what these young people 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.720 didn't just hear you call them a group of thugs. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.000 The least you can do is not call in the 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.760 National Guard. But you're not telling the governors to stand down. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.320 You're not telling the mayors of these cities to stand down. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.440 You didn't direct young people and say, you know what, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.920 I want to invite some of these folks to the 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:24.400 White House. I want to hear them out. I want 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.880 to create a town hall moment so that we can 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.920 use this moment of friction and conflict in our country 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:37.920 as a teachable moment. It's just like, oh, just ignore 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.240 these ah, these kids, they don't know what they're doing. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.040 They're not kids. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:48.000 They're your fucking constituents. They're the future of this goddamn country. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.240 And not only have we not done anything to make 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:59.000 their lives better or safer, we've actually done the opposite 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.880 generations is grown up with mass shootings. They don't know 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.959 a world without it. Some of them, at this point 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:12.960 in time, have been involved in multiple from middle school, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:20.840 high school, college, out shopping. Oh, just stop eating avocado 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:27.600 toast and you can buy a home. How when corporate 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:35.520 greed wright has slowed down wages for the last several decades. Oh, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.920 and boomers are still in their fucking jobs because some 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.640 of them now can't afford to retire. Because every other 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.400 day we hear about social security going away and Medicaid 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:51.760 going away? 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.360 So where is the room for generation Z? 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.520 You're old of you all? When I was your age, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.360 I had this, this, this, and this. Yeah, because that's 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.800 when the government actually still. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:03.080 Gave a shit. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.840 I'm just so over it. And I know that it's Monday, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.760 all and I need to come in here with some 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.240 more hopefulness and energy that it's like we can do this. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:26.520 But honestly, I don't know. I don't know. You know. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.680 I pray to God every single day that I am wrong, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.720 that somehow a miracle will overtake us, and you know, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.440 we'll be able to save democracy. We'll be able to 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:43.720 stop a genocide, We'll be able to restore grow v wade, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.800 We'll be able to restore firmative action, We'll be able 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.360 to restore voting rights. You know, we'll be able to 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.679 patch up this democracy. And have it look like something resembling, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:14:00.000 you know, a real democracy and not democracy fucking ish. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:05.080 But I don't know, you know, so I don't know 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:10.679 how to convince people to swallow this really hard, sharp 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.760 pill that feels like a piece of fucking glass and 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.200 just having the repeated narrative of oh, Donald Trump will 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:25.120 be worse. It's like, okay, now, I know for people 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.400 like me. By worse, we mean that he will create 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:35.320 minigazzas all over this country. He will round people up, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.080 take away their rights, label them as enemies of the state, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:51.520 pillage this country to enrich himself, sell out our secrets. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.360 Also that he can what die on a gold toilet, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.880 but that's what he'll do. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.160 And worse. We know this. I've been laying it out. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.400 Project twenty twenty five lays it out right on a 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.640 heritage dot org's page nine hundred pages if you want 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.960 to get into it. Their vision of America is a 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.280 healthscape for everyone that is not white, straight, cis and male, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.880 an absolute fucking healscape, something that we can't even fathom 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.760 and imagine because we've never experienced it. Where we are 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.840 right now is a slow burn, the slow death, the 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:33.160 death by a thousand cuts. As our democracy is crumbling falling. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.760 You know, there are some people that are just like, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.600 fuck it, let it all burn down. But I want 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.200 folks to also recognize that the actions that we are 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 seeing take place on these college campuses that will be 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:55.880 the norm everywhere. Cops are a bunch of legalized fucking thugs, right, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.840 been saying that when Donald Trump taught them back in 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.840 twenty seventeen on Long Island where I'm from. Ah, it'll 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.640 be so nice. You can rough them up a bit, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:14.400 and all those cops laughed and chuckled. They'll do whatever 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.600 the hell they want to whomever they want. And we 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.000 know that the police force is filled with a bunch 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.960 of fucking bigots. It doesn't matter what state you're in. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.200 So with a president that gives them the green light 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.560 to beat the shit out of whomever they want to 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:35.080 start disappearing folks, they'll do it because they get to 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:41.320 live out their fantasies and their dreams. The stories that, 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.960 let me tell you something, in New York, the stories 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:50.160 that black men, Latino men can tell you about being 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.480 ruffed up by police starting at the age of like ten. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.920 But they don't cover that on the news. Right, because 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:06.879 those are those bad neighborhoods that will be everywhere. It 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.960 will be a license to harass, to torture, to beat, 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:18.040 to abuse, and there will be no recourse because, as 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.040 we've seen, Donald Trump and Maga own the courts, all 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.640 of them. So I just I tell you, I paint 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.800 the picture because I can no longer tell people, like 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.320 I'm saying in good consciousness, to go ahead and vote 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.160 for Joe Biden. But what I can do is continue 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.720 to lay out the picture of where we are and 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:44.080 what it will look like. You know, some people are 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.600 willing to roll the dice. I'm not a fucking gambler, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:55.320 and I would rather have an administration that I think 0:17:55.400 --> 0:18:02.399 can be moved and befind trying to activate people under 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:08.920 that administration than under a Trump regime that could cost 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.960 more people their lives. These are our choices, and they're 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.760 not fucking great. They really are not. And you know, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.560 as I sit here at the beginning of this week, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.120 not knowing what this week has in store, it is 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.439 just it's like holding your breath, you know. And I 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.000 tell us that, like breathing, is the most important thing 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.000 that we can do, because if we hold our breath, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:38.760 our muscles clench, you know, and we produce disease, which 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:47.119 produces disease. But it's wild to me that Congress people 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.879 think that right now the best thing to do for 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.960 America is to bring net in Yahoo here. All you're 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:01.879 going to do is trigger god willing inshallah, like some 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:07.000 of the biggest protests that we have seen. And then 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:12.359 what do you do tell us that we're all crazy? Say, oh, 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.120 it's all just a bunch of what hamas lovers? 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:18.560 Me tell you something. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.120 You know, you live long enough, you see things repeat 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.720 and as people say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:35.280 That's where we are. And honestly, I don't know how 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.919 we see ourselves out of this, and I don't know, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.200 you know, I know that I'm not the only one 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.840 that is talking to people and listening to friends and 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:50.360 family question whether or not they're going to show up 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:55.200 on November fifth and vote for Joe Biden. So many 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.760 people saying he's lost my vote? How can I blame them? 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.320 I can't shame them. All I can do is continue 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.919 to say, well, you know, as bad as things are, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.080 and they are really fucking bad, trust me that they 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:12.040 can get worse. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:15.240 It's not enough. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.080 That's not a winning argument, and that's the argument that 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.360 the Biden campaign is trying to make, and it's not sticking. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.679 Hold on, folks. That's all I have to keep saying 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.200 is continue to hold on, to breathe, to take care 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.720 of yourselves, to take care of those around you, to 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:41.520 find respite because we're in for a bumpy fucking ride. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.399 That is it for me today, Dear friends on wokef 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.200 as always, Power to the people and to all the people. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.080 Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.