Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I need to say something, which is why I have
Speaker 1: so many podcasts. But the reality here is that I
Speaker 1: believe that people are not getting the situation that we're in.
Speaker 1: And when I say the situation that we're in.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that Biden is.
Speaker 1: Now fundraising behind Donald Trump. He is pulling behind Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: We are five months out from the election. Biden refuses
Speaker 1: to make a pivot on his quote unquote ironclad support
Speaker 1: for Israel. As they starve, blow up children, starve, millions
Speaker 1: of people, lie about all of their mistakes. The list
Speaker 1: goes on and on when it pertains to Israel and
Speaker 1: their fucking lies. We are becoming and by we, I
Speaker 1: mean America is beginning to become isolated on the world
Speaker 1: stage as more and more countries begin to recognize Palestine
Speaker 1: as a separate state. Belgium, as I've said earlier this week,
Speaker 1: has called for sanctions against Israel, and the growing outrage
Speaker 1: is falling on non listening ears when it pertains to
Speaker 1: the White House. Anthony Blincoln said recently, Oh the invasion
Speaker 1: of Rafa and blowing up babies did not cross the
Speaker 1: red line that folks are playing back the clip when
Speaker 1: Biden was on CNN with Aaron Burnett and said that
Speaker 1: RAFO would be the red line. So you're full of shit, right,
Speaker 1: And this is what people, and by people, I mean voters,
Speaker 1: are beginning two cents. And I reposted something in my
Speaker 1: stories yesterday that I've been seeing going around and it's
Speaker 1: mostly obviously my progressive, thoughtful friends that are reposting this message,
Speaker 1: and I want to read it to you because I
Speaker 1: feel like this is the urging that people are trying
Speaker 1: to do with the Biden administration that is seemingly becoming
Speaker 1: increasingly out of touch with their voters. And here it is.
Speaker 1: You were allowed to say, at any point I can't
Speaker 1: support this, even if you did, even if you were
Speaker 1: on sure, you can at any point say this has
Speaker 1: gone too far. And while the best time to say
Speaker 1: that was earlier, second best time is now. Biden believed,
Speaker 1: because of his forty plus years in government, that the
Speaker 1: preservation of the state of Israel was somehow the responsibility
Speaker 1: of the United States to not support Israel was to
Speaker 1: be anti Semitic, was to not stand with Israelis and
Speaker 1: those that practice Judaism. We have evolved from that place,
Speaker 1: and while the place that we are in now is
Speaker 1: huh tenuous at best, right, we are in a place
Speaker 1: where leaders as well as constituents are beginning to do
Speaker 1: the hard work of recognizing that to condemn the acts
Speaker 1: of Netanyahu, the IDF, and the government of Israel is
Speaker 1: not to condemn the Jewish faith. That it is the
Speaker 1: job and has been the job of our leaders to
Speaker 1: part and parcel that out. Just in the same way
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is not a representation of America and
Speaker 1: America's values, he represents thirty percent of the population. It
Speaker 1: is then fair to say that with all of the
Speaker 1: protests that you see in Tel Aviv by Israelis, by
Speaker 1: the families of the hostages, that they have had a
Speaker 1: f fucking enough. So are we to look at those
Speaker 1: protesters in Israel and say that they must be anti Semitic, right,
Speaker 1: because mainstream media isn't covering the fact that thousands upon
Speaker 1: thousands upon thousands of Israelis are in the streets on
Speaker 1: a regular fucking basis calling for the resignation of this murderous, fascist,
Speaker 1: lunatic so there does come a time when it is
Speaker 1: beyond important to recognize that you've.
Speaker 2: Made a mistake.
Speaker 1: That is what distinguishes to me true leadership right from authoritarianism.
Speaker 1: True leadership in a democracy is about recognizing that you
Speaker 1: don't have all the answers and that there is room
Speaker 1: to grow to learn. So this art and support hurt
Speaker 1: that comes with no formulation of ideas around new information,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, seems very trumpish to me, right
Speaker 1: if you're not willing to take new information and formulate
Speaker 1: a new strategy. And I'm wondering if the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: if the campaign thinks that the donors that they may
Speaker 1: upset are enough to get them elected, because I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, I don't fucking think so. Because if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a handful of donors versus the millions of
Speaker 1: people that are beginning to turn their back not only
Speaker 1: on this administration, but on the campaign, on the possibility
Speaker 1: of voting altogether because they can't stomach what they are seeing,
Speaker 1: you're telling me that the handful of donors that's what's
Speaker 1: going to carry you to victory, because it's not. You
Speaker 1: have to in this moment, the Biden campaign has got
Speaker 1: to have more faith in the fucking people of this
Speaker 1: country than the pocketbooks of a select amount of donors.
Speaker 1: He has got to get out of that fucking bubble
Speaker 1: of a campaign and that bubble of a White House
Speaker 1: and start taking the temperature of people who are pissed,
Speaker 1: who are angry, who are beside themselves. He's doing the
Speaker 1: work around trying to alleviate student loan debt, He's doing
Speaker 1: the work of trying to, you know, work around this
Speaker 1: right wing, rabid Supreme Court. But the work that he's
Speaker 1: not doing is really listening to the people.
Speaker 2: That are.
Speaker 1: So disgusted, so grief stricken by what they are seeing
Speaker 1: across their screens on a regular basis, And for his
Speaker 1: Secretary of State, blinking to have the audacity to say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know, we don't know if we can validate
Speaker 1: these numbers. What are you talking about? Do you think
Speaker 1: we're dumb. It's difficult, right, We all know this. It's
Speaker 1: difficult to admit when you've made a mistake. But being
Speaker 1: able to make that mistake, take responsibility and accountability for
Speaker 1: that mistake, and learn from it so as not to
Speaker 1: make the same mistake again is what builds character, and frankly,
Speaker 1: is what allows us to function as a democracy.
Speaker 2: When you know better, you do better.
Speaker 1: But what we are seeing with this campaign is that
Speaker 1: they're they're fucking lying to themselves in the hopes that
Speaker 1: if you tell yourself enough lies, then eventually you'll believe it.
Speaker 1: But the problem is is if you tell yourself enough lies, right,
Speaker 1: you become so disillusioned from the reality the rest of
Speaker 1: us are operating it. So when I see articles like
Speaker 1: the one that came out at the beginning of this
Speaker 1: week in Politico entitled Dems in full blown freak out
Speaker 1: over Biden, right, all of these people quoted but speaking
Speaker 1: on the flex of anonymity, and I call it flex.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that tongue in cheek because you don't
Speaker 1: have a spine. No one wants to be on the
Speaker 1: record saying that the campaign is doing something wrong. No,
Speaker 1: let's just do a post mortem after from our fucking
Speaker 1: cells in Guantanamo. I'm trying to express to people that
Speaker 1: this election is not about one issue. It is about
Speaker 1: every fucking issue. You have Fucking Nikki Haley signing bombs
Speaker 1: that are tearing apart people's bodies. That's what the fuck
Speaker 1: the Republican Party thinks about what is happening in Gaza
Speaker 1: and in Rafa. They think that it's a moment for glee.
Speaker 1: What do you think that they will unleash when they
Speaker 1: have the power to do so domestically? You don't have
Speaker 1: to wonder, because they tell you. In Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is telling us in every fucking incoherent rally
Speaker 1: that he gives there will be no protests, there will
Speaker 1: be no voting, there will be no institutions, that they
Speaker 1: will not gut. This country will become a shell of itself.
Speaker 1: And if you think that it's bad now, I want
Speaker 1: you to think about how bad it is is, how
Speaker 1: desperate you.
Speaker 2: Feel, and then multiply that by a million.
Speaker 1: So when I see posts like one that I saw
Speaker 1: yesterday on Instagram, you know, folks, I oftentimes get really frustrated, right,
Speaker 1: I get really frustrated by outlets that are not political,
Speaker 1: outlets that are providing really poor advice to their followers.
Speaker 1: Afropunk is an outlet that has produced a myriad of
Speaker 1: cultural events that move outside of the stereotypes and scope
Speaker 1: of what we think black culture black music is. They
Speaker 1: stand for, you know, humanity and progress and equity and justice.
Speaker 1: And I respect their lens. But what I do not
Speaker 1: fucking respect is a recent post that I came across
Speaker 1: where they write independent presidential candidates for twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: We don't need to settle for the lesser of two evils.
Speaker 1: Swipe through to meet the independent candidates who bring unique
Speaker 1: perspectives and fresh ideas to the election. They go on
Speaker 1: to say this election is particularly challenging. Many voters are
Speaker 1: reluctant to support Biden due to his administration's backing of
Speaker 1: Israel's ongoing attack on Palestine. Conversely, some see Biden as
Speaker 1: the only viable option to prevent Trump's return to power.
Speaker 1: Key voter concerns include international relations, particularly with Israel, student loans, immigration, homelessness, taxes, inflation,
Speaker 1: and public health. These issues are driving the urgency and
Speaker 1: the intensity of decisions this election season. Then they go
Speaker 1: on to list these fucking independent candidates. And here is
Speaker 1: what I wrote in response. I said, quote, let me
Speaker 1: be clear, if you vote third party in this election,
Speaker 1: you are voting for Trump. Jill Stein helped to upset
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's campaign in twenty sixteen. Imagine where we would
Speaker 1: be right now where the courts would be. Do not
Speaker 1: promote this bs unless you have an exit strategy in place.
Speaker 1: I urge everyone to understand and read Project twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five on the Heritage Foundation's website. It provides the Republican's entire, dark,
Speaker 1: dystopian future for decades and decades to come. This election
Speaker 1: isn't about one issue, It's about everything. Do not throw
Speaker 1: away your vote in protest. Look, I understand that for
Speaker 1: years we have been telling people in every presidential election,
Speaker 1: every midterm election, that this is the most consequential election
Speaker 1: of your lifetime. And the reality is, folks, it fucking
Speaker 1: has been. And why do I say that, Because what
Speaker 1: we watched at the beginning of this new century was
Speaker 1: a hardening of the Republican Party and the rise of
Speaker 1: their fascistic fantasies that were once on the margins in
Speaker 1: the Tea Party and in Birtherism, and that have now
Speaker 1: become central tenants of their policy and their ideology. They
Speaker 1: want to roll this country back to the nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: In the nineteenth century, only white men had the right
Speaker 1: to vote, women did not have bodily autonomy, Black people
Speaker 1: were still enslaved, Queer people were thrown in jail. The
Speaker 1: economy was not in a great fucking place. They want
Speaker 1: to go back to the nineteenth century, right to the
Speaker 1: times of these fucking hoarding, greedy ass titans, titans of
Speaker 1: industry that possessed and awarded all of the wealth and
Speaker 1: also all of the power. The twentieth century brought a
Speaker 1: social revolution where in the span of fifty some odd
Speaker 1: years we saw women, people of color, queer people access
Speaker 1: the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship through the courts.
Speaker 1: And now those very same courts that are packed with
Speaker 1: right wing judges are rolling back and peeling back every
Speaker 1: bit of progress in the twentieth century. You know, I
Speaker 1: was reading the other day. It was actually funny Women's
Speaker 1: Health magazine reading this article about how women are choosing
Speaker 1: not to have kids and it's becoming less and less
Speaker 1: of a stigma. And in the article they talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that childless couples in twenty twenty one, when polled,
Speaker 1: rose seven percent in this country, And I think about, like, oh, amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, people recognize that they have choices. Women in
Speaker 1: particular recognize that they have choices. They don't have to
Speaker 1: just choose the path that everyone else has been on,
Speaker 1: they can choose something else, right, And then it'd occurred
Speaker 1: to me as I'm reading this article that these are
Speaker 1: the same studies that have prompted the Republicans backlash against
Speaker 1: reproductive freedom. Now, don't get it twisted. They have been
Speaker 1: hammering against reproductive freedom ever since Roe v. Wade became
Speaker 1: the law of the land in nineteen seventy four. But
Speaker 1: the reality is that there is less couples that are
Speaker 1: getting married, less people that are having children, and in
Speaker 1: their eyes, that means that the browning of this country
Speaker 1: accelerates because white people, wealthy white folks not having as
Speaker 1: many fucking kids, or having kids at all.
Speaker 2: So a way to.
Speaker 1: Keep their numbers in their mind was roll back abortion,
Speaker 1: go after no fault divorce, put women back in the
Speaker 1: shackles of the nineteenth century where they had no power,
Speaker 1: no voice, no bodily autonomy. White men controlled everything. Now
Speaker 1: there are some women, like the fucking tried wives that
Speaker 1: you see on TikTok that love this idea. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to worry about that little thing
Speaker 1: called thinking. Though, for the rest of us that are
Speaker 1: not being fitted currently for our handmaid's tail cloaks are
Speaker 1: seeing very transparently through these actions, get women out of
Speaker 1: the workforce, because if they're fucking up to their necks
Speaker 1: with a bunch of babies that they can't afford. We
Speaker 1: saw what happened during COVID. They're the first to have
Speaker 1: to leave the workforce to care for the children at home,
Speaker 1: which then what gives a wide runway back to white
Speaker 1: men so that they can reclaim their power. But you
Speaker 1: see the reason for this is that rather than actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know, learning new skills, are trying or having
Speaker 1: to compete like the rest of us have, what they
Speaker 1: are doing is clearing the run way. We'll get rid
Speaker 1: of affirmative action right that gave equity and opportunity to
Speaker 1: people of color to access the same I don't know, jobs, positions, colleges,
Speaker 1: you name it.
Speaker 2: That's wiped away, will take away.
Speaker 1: Women's bodily autonomy, and lo and behold, twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: turns into nineteen twenty four. So while we applaud the
Speaker 1: progress that this country has made over the last two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight years, Republicans see that progress as
Speaker 1: a threat, and right now they are in the position
Speaker 1: of power to ensure that that threat is snuffed out
Speaker 1: for good for multiple generations to come. The final lynchpin
Speaker 1: in their fucking evil scheme is the White House that
Speaker 1: they will never give up again. So what is it
Speaker 1: going to be. What are we willing to stomach? What
Speaker 1: are we willing to.
Speaker 2: Push through in order to ensure that this is not.
Speaker 1: The last year of democracy in America? Because that's what
Speaker 1: the fuck this is about. Democracy is not perfect. This
Speaker 1: country is far from perfect, and what we're learning more
Speaker 1: and more, it's far from exceptional. But the reality is
Speaker 1: is that we can push more and do more with
Speaker 1: a democratically minded president than with a fucking fascist to
Speaker 1: lot easier to fight for your freedom when you're not
Speaker 1: in prison. And I want people to hold on to
Speaker 1: that fucking truth as we battle through the next five months,
Speaker 1: because this will not be done in November. Even if
Speaker 1: Joe Biden wins, It's never going to be done. So
Speaker 1: this idea that things are going to go back to
Speaker 1: normal and things are going to be easy again, it's not.
Speaker 1: This country is in the same position as other countries
Speaker 1: have been for decades.
Speaker 2: Fighting for your freedom.
Speaker 1: Is a part of the process of holding onto democracy
Speaker 1: and once we are stabilized, then we can have conversations
Speaker 1: about expanding the court, about a multi party system.
Speaker 2: But how do we have that.
Speaker 1: When the threat that is looming overhead is so fucking dangerous?
Speaker 1: Now is not the time? And I know that they'll
Speaker 1: people say, well, it's never the time, It's never the time. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're a gambler, you tell me how much are
Speaker 1: you willing to risk? And if you have children, or
Speaker 1: you're an auntie or an uncle, I want you to
Speaker 1: look at the young children, if you have any in
Speaker 1: your life, or you're a teacher, and you look at
Speaker 1: your students, how much is their future worth? Because the
Speaker 1: GOP already put a price tag on it. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on wokef as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people.
Speaker 2: Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.