Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danny Almody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy woke Wednesday. I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 1: am just dying to barrel towards this holiday weekend, and
Speaker 1: I wish that there was no news to report. You know,
Speaker 1: I missed the days when things used to slow down?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? I don't even know when that was.
Speaker 1: Was it twenty fifteen? Was it twenty fourteen? Where you
Speaker 1: could predict the patterns of our politics? And I knew when,
Speaker 1: you know, I could take a break versus when I
Speaker 1: could not. And oh, it's going to be the holiday,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be slow. No, none of that
Speaker 1: is happening and hasn't happened in quite some fucking time.
Speaker 1: So let's get into it with some of the stories
Speaker 1: of this week. So, the defense has rested in Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's electoral interference case aka the hush money case. They
Speaker 1: provided two witnesses, and now after the Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 1: we will begin closing arguments. You know, I'm being asked,
Speaker 1: do I think that Donald Trump is going to go
Speaker 1: to jail? No, folks, I don't I don't ever think
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is going to go to jail. I
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump could commit murder in front of
Speaker 1: you know, eleven thousand cameras, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would go to jail. When Donald Trump said
Speaker 1: so many moons ago that he could kill somebody in
Speaker 1: the middle of Fifth Avenue and watch his poll numbers rise, yeah,
Speaker 1: we all laughed at it. It was fucking true. So
Speaker 1: what do I think the outcome of this case is
Speaker 1: going to be. I have no idea. I have faith
Speaker 1: in New Yorkers above all other people in the country
Speaker 1: because I am one, but you know, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I hope that the prosecution can lay out a very
Speaker 1: clear closing argument, kind of set it up in the
Speaker 1: way of a series finale of a show and connecting
Speaker 1: all of the dots and dotting all of their eyes
Speaker 1: and crossing all of their te's to make the jury
Speaker 1: aware of what this case has always been about, which
Speaker 1: is the fact not that Donald Trump fucked a porn star.
Speaker 1: I could care less right whether he did or did not,
Speaker 1: not whether he had an affair or not, whether he
Speaker 1: lied to his wife. But the fact is is that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump lied, used campaign finance money in order to
Speaker 1: cover up said lie. And he wasn't lying to protect
Speaker 1: his wife because who gives a fuck about her. He
Speaker 1: was lying so that the American public would not see
Speaker 1: a pattern of behavior following the Access Hollywood tape. That's
Speaker 1: what the fuck he was doing. And So if we
Speaker 1: bring ourselves back to twenty sixteen and how close that
Speaker 1: election was, do we think that learning more about who
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is what he had done in order to
Speaker 1: get into the position that he then would later arrive
Speaker 1: in as president of the United States? Would he have
Speaker 1: had that ability if we had all known the truth. Now,
Speaker 1: while I believe that the Access Hollywood tape should have
Speaker 1: been a fuck enough to debt his entire campaign and
Speaker 1: his presidential prospects, America thought otherwise. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that what is important for the prosecution to do
Speaker 1: when they come back for oral arguments is to wrap
Speaker 1: this up the way that fucking Shonda Rhimes did Scandal,
Speaker 1: so that it's clear, you know what happened, you know
Speaker 1: why it happens, and you have no other choice but
Speaker 1: to convict, right, because anything less than a guilty verdict
Speaker 1: in this case, which we know Donald Trump will appeal
Speaker 1: at nauseum, but anything less than a guilty verdict is
Speaker 1: going to be spun into a win for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So that's what folks need to be taking into consideration.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the fuck this goes, because I'm
Speaker 1: not a fortune teller and I can't read the tea leaves,
Speaker 1: and every time I try, you know what, fate would
Speaker 1: have it, things go in another direction. Speaking of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and his campaign. So there's a story right now
Speaker 1: that is going around that both the Biden campaign is
Speaker 1: trying to take advantage of as well as mainstream media
Speaker 1: is finally paying attention to it, which is the fact
Speaker 1: that on his broke down social media platform that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump retweeted a video that was done about how Maga
Speaker 1: is gonna make the world better again. There'll be no war,
Speaker 1: They'll be you know, economic relief, there'll be a deportation
Speaker 1: of fifteen million undocumented people, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: It'll just be you know, amazing in America again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: read the fine print. If you're white, if you're straight,
Speaker 1: if you're sis, if you're a man, you know all
Speaker 1: of those things. And if you're wealthy, right, everyone else
Speaker 1: dot dot dot nonetheless, in this fucking video that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would find himself fucking resharing. It talks about America
Speaker 1: not just being great again, but being under a united Reich.
Speaker 1: And when you think of Reich ore Ei c h.
Speaker 1: What does that conjure memories of Oh, I will tell
Speaker 1: you at Conjure's memories Hitler and the Third Reich, you know,
Speaker 1: their final order of business, where the Germans were going
Speaker 1: to hold power for thousands and thousands of years. This
Speaker 1: is what Donald Trump has re shared. And when his
Speaker 1: campaign was met with some questions about, you know, his
Speaker 1: allegiance to Nazism and white supremacy, they say, oh, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump didn't post this, It was posted by his staffer.
Speaker 1: And even though again it was brought to their attention
Speaker 1: how this was very reminiscent of Hitler, they kept up
Speaker 1: the post until just recently on his social media page.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to alert people to. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is not hinting at being like Hitler. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: like Hitler. Right, Donald Trump is not pretending to tell
Speaker 1: his white supremacist people to stand back and stand by.
Speaker 1: He is directing them to do so. Right. When Donald
Speaker 1: Trump says that he wants to be a dictator on
Speaker 1: day one. It's not a joke. He actually will be
Speaker 1: a dictator on day It will be the last election
Speaker 1: that we have when his former you know, greasy fucking
Speaker 1: attorney's attorneys tell the truth and say, yeah, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: talks about, you know, brags about you being able to
Speaker 1: use the FBI as his own gestapo, right to investigate
Speaker 1: his political opponents, throw people that he doesn't like in jail. Right, Again,
Speaker 1: these are not jokes. It is laid out by Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five how they will gut these government agencies
Speaker 1: of career policy folks, right of career public servants in
Speaker 1: order to put in their groups of sycophants twenty thousand.
Speaker 1: I've so far signed up for this task. And so
Speaker 1: when he says that he's going to use right the
Speaker 1: FBI as his gestapo or the Department of Justice as
Speaker 1: his own political weapon, and you think, oh, well, that
Speaker 1: could never happen. The only reason why Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: enabled to shoot protests in Lafayette Square during the uprisings
Speaker 1: that followed the killing of George Floyd was because there
Speaker 1: were people there that stopped him. Those people will be
Speaker 1: long gone and are not coming back to Trump's fear
Speaker 1: at this moment in time. So the only people that
Speaker 1: are going to be around Donald Trump are those people
Speaker 1: that will just say, yes, right, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it breaks the law, because if your president, according to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, nothing that you do right
Speaker 1: could possibly be breaking the law. And if the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court hands him, you know, a win in the immunity case,
Speaker 1: which the forty four presidents that came before him didn't
Speaker 1: have and managed to do their jobs without it, then
Speaker 1: we're just spopped. Because Donald Trump can decide that he's
Speaker 1: going to kill Joe Biden, he can decide to assassinate
Speaker 1: Barack Obama, he can decide to jail any journalists that
Speaker 1: he wants and guess what, it will be legal, much
Speaker 1: in the same way that the Holocaust was legal, much
Speaker 1: in the same way that Jim Crow was legal, much
Speaker 1: in the same way that the genocide that is taking
Speaker 1: place in Israel is legal. Right. So the fact is,
Speaker 1: folks like take Donald Trump at his actual word, he
Speaker 1: lies a lot, but he also has doubled down and
Speaker 1: tripled down when he was president of the United States
Speaker 1: on the things that he said that he would do.
Speaker 1: He would appoint justices that would overturn roeby Wade, they did,
Speaker 1: as well as affirmative action, as well as gun control
Speaker 1: in the States, as well as, you know, any other
Speaker 1: thing that we think can't possibly be overturned, like Brown
Speaker 1: versus the Board of Education, same sex marriage, you know,
Speaker 1: just name it. Because what I want folks to understand
Speaker 1: is that the rights that we enjoy, or some of
Speaker 1: the ones that are still left that we enjoy in
Speaker 1: this country came through the courts. They did not come
Speaker 1: through policy. And guess what Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: made sure that they owned during the during his four
Speaker 1: years in the presidency, all of those vacancies that were
Speaker 1: on the courts are filled by right wing radicals as
Speaker 1: well as as sixty three Supreme Court right now, that's
Speaker 1: filled with fucking rifters and liars. So when I continue
Speaker 1: to say the folks that the last defense that we
Speaker 1: have as a country against Donald Trump and trump Ism
Speaker 1: is our vote, like this is what the fuck that
Speaker 1: I am saying? But Donald Trump is being very clear
Speaker 1: about what he plans to do, right, Like, he's not
Speaker 1: mincing words, So folks can't turn around and be like,
Speaker 1: I'm shocked, right when all of a sudden, your neighbors
Speaker 1: start disappearing, and all of a sudden, your friends start disappearing,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, public schools start being shut
Speaker 1: down and gutted, and religious charter schools are popping up
Speaker 1: in their place, and that there's no social safety nets
Speaker 1: and your aged parents or your poor family member have
Speaker 1: no recourse when you start to see an overflux of homelessness.
Speaker 1: But then they just throw those people in jail right
Speaker 1: to get them out of your vision. Like, folks, I
Speaker 1: want to understand that as bad as things are, and
Speaker 1: I don't argue that they are not bad, right, everything
Speaker 1: can always get worse. Let me do an honorable mention
Speaker 1: for this fucking idiot that some of you may know
Speaker 1: but other people may not, which is amber Rose. For
Speaker 1: those that are not invested in hip hop culture, let
Speaker 1: me just give you a little primer into who amber
Speaker 1: Rose is. Amber Rose at one time was dating Kanye West,
Speaker 1: was dogged out by Kanye West when he decided to
Speaker 1: leave her and then get into a relationship with Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1: Gamber Rose also has a child by rapper Tiger. Tiger
Speaker 1: was dating Kim Kardashian's sister Kylie Jenner when he was
Speaker 1: twenty something years old and she was sixteen. But that's
Speaker 1: besides the point. Here's the thing. Amber Rose, who has famously,
Speaker 1: you know, talked about women's rights, has done a quote
Speaker 1: unquote slut walk right to try and lift the stereotypes
Speaker 1: of you know, sexually active women, women who choose to
Speaker 1: own their bodies and enjoy sex and pleasure and talk
Speaker 1: about these things. And so for quite some time, you know,
Speaker 1: she has tried to do a rebrand of sorts, and
Speaker 1: most recently, you know, her next level of rebrand has
Speaker 1: been to say that she is now supporting Donald Trump. Right. Mind,
Speaker 1: you the woman has a black son. She's biracial, and
Speaker 1: she has a son with a black man. So she
Speaker 1: has a black son, and she has decided to come
Speaker 1: out and say that she is going to support Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: that you know, Donald Trump is about freedom and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. Well, let me just say this,
Speaker 1: if you're taking political advice from Amber Rose, you have
Speaker 1: bigger problems. But what I want to lift up here
Speaker 1: is the trend that is happening inside of hip hop
Speaker 1: where you have Ice Cube and Amber Rose and others
Speaker 1: that are you know, not above the grift, I guess, right,
Speaker 1: And you know this is a way. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, what is lucrative if you ever listen to
Speaker 1: democracy Ishahod and I talk about this all the time,
Speaker 1: which is that to be a right wing puppet pundit
Speaker 1: or what have you is to make a lot of
Speaker 1: money in being wrong and on the wrong side of
Speaker 1: history and on the wrong side of like facts. But regardless,
Speaker 1: if you have no morals right and no values, then
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good grift, right, you can make millions
Speaker 1: of dollars. And so I look at the move that
Speaker 1: Amber Rose is making and I was just like, you know,
Speaker 1: there were lots of people that called this woman out
Speaker 1: years ago talking about the way that she's only black
Speaker 1: when it suits her, but otherwise she leans on her
Speaker 1: white presenting self as as a mode of privilege. And
Speaker 1: this is just to me another case of her doing
Speaker 1: the most with knowing the least. But I think that
Speaker 1: the trend in and of itself, to me inside of
Speaker 1: hip hop culture is really problematic right now because it
Speaker 1: goes along this idea that Donald Trump is going to
Speaker 1: be able to peel off enough black votes, enough Latin
Speaker 1: X votes for it to hurt Joe Biden and for
Speaker 1: him to be able to win. All I want to say,
Speaker 1: you know and provide for you, because I know none
Speaker 1: of those motherfuckers listening to my show. But what I
Speaker 1: will say to folks who do have these types of
Speaker 1: people in your life is you know, all you can
Speaker 1: do is try and remind them that like Donald Trump
Speaker 1: hates women overturned Roe V. Wade, Donald Trump hates people
Speaker 1: of color, and his justices overturned affirmative action. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: told police officers to you know, rough people up when
Speaker 1: he was arresting them. He wanted to shoot protesters in
Speaker 1: the legs. So he doesn't believe in the freedom of speech.
Speaker 1: And he has called those that come from African nations
Speaker 1: shithole countries. He has said that the only good people
Speaker 1: are those that come from places like Norway and Finland
Speaker 1: aka white. Donald Trump has done everything to insult the
Speaker 1: disabled community, to harm women, to harm black people, to
Speaker 1: say that he's too smart to pay taxes, which makes
Speaker 1: the rest of us just a bunch of idiots. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is a terrible fucking person right on top of
Speaker 1: being a criminal. And so for anyone to say that
Speaker 1: he is going to be better for the black community,
Speaker 1: or better for any community other than white supremacs is
Speaker 1: wild to me. It just means that you're not paying attention,
Speaker 1: or you're so deep in your delusion right that you
Speaker 1: can't find your way out. So, you know, my whole
Speaker 1: thing with Amber Rose ice Cube and other people like them,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the god who wants to, for whatever reason, bring
Speaker 1: on Republican apologists to his show and then offer them
Speaker 1: softball questions, knowing that these very people and their rhetoric
Speaker 1: has harmed the Black community, the community that he relies
Speaker 1: on for his paycheck and his fame, is wild to me.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me. But then again, I'm a person
Speaker 1: with integrity, right, and so it is wild to me
Speaker 1: the way in which people will abandon any sense of
Speaker 1: morality and values in order to make a buck. You know,
Speaker 1: But what do I know. I'm not rich, nor do
Speaker 1: I aspire to wealth. That has me let go of
Speaker 1: my scrupuls. So let me put that out there. I
Speaker 1: think that as the months go on, what I want
Speaker 1: for Democrats to do is to not go to war
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump and not make this election a binary
Speaker 1: choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I want this
Speaker 1: to be an election and a referendum against the entire
Speaker 1: Republican Party. Right now, you have the Senate right in
Speaker 1: the state of North Carolina that is voted to make
Speaker 1: it illegal for people to wear masks in public for protection. Right,
Speaker 1: What about though, I don't even have to go down
Speaker 1: the list if I want to put a mask on
Speaker 1: my own fucking face. What the fuck does that have
Speaker 1: to do with you? It doesn't, right. And if you're
Speaker 1: saying like, oh, it's about safety, it's about this then
Speaker 1: and the other thing, then do what TSA does when
Speaker 1: people roll up to the airport with a mask on.
Speaker 1: Take it down very briefly. Okay, great, see your face,
Speaker 1: got it, keep it moving. What does this have to
Speaker 1: do with you? This party that is about freedom, that
Speaker 1: keeps wanting to restrict your freedom to care for yourself
Speaker 1: in any which way that you deem necessary. So just
Speaker 1: take a look at what they're doing in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Then go up to Virginia and see what Governor Ynkin
Speaker 1: is doing there where he just vetoed. I mean a
Speaker 1: massive amount of legislation, but one in particular that stands
Speaker 1: out is the right for people to have contraception because
Speaker 1: he doesn't want it to get in the way of
Speaker 1: other people's religious freedom. What does me putting a pill
Speaker 1: in my mouth have anything to do with you? It doesn't, right,
Speaker 1: and so your religion may restrict you, but your religion
Speaker 1: should not have the ability to restrict me. That's what
Speaker 1: it means to live in a country that doesn't abide
Speaker 1: by the Bible, but abides by the Constitution. And what
Speaker 1: the Republicans want to do is to throw out the
Speaker 1: Constitution in lieu of their interpretation, their warped interpretation of
Speaker 1: the Bible. So I need folks to see very clearly
Speaker 1: what is happening when you have the ability to criminally
Speaker 1: charge doctors for wanting to provide healthcare in the form
Speaker 1: of an abortion to people with uteruses and pregnant women
Speaker 1: in emergency situations that are willing to do what the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court did a couple of weeks ago, which is
Speaker 1: to debate how much blood a woman can lose right
Speaker 1: how close to death, how many organs need to be
Speaker 1: failing before a doctor does something to help save them
Speaker 1: all because of somebody else's religious values and morals, Like
Speaker 1: my life has to be put on the line. I
Speaker 1: was talking to a woman the other day that was
Speaker 1: telling me about a friend of hers that is getting,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get pregnant through ivf right, and
Speaker 1: it's now terrified that when she becomes pregnant, because she
Speaker 1: has to travel for work a lot, what if something
Speaker 1: happens if she lands or is having a layover in
Speaker 1: a state that criminalizes women in their uteruses and she's
Speaker 1: in the midst of a medical emergency. She doesn't live
Speaker 1: in that state, but she will need to get care.
Speaker 1: These are the types of thinking, the types of ways
Speaker 1: that women are having to think about their safety in
Speaker 1: this country. She's not talking about what happens if I
Speaker 1: fly abroad. She's talking about what happens if I fly
Speaker 1: from New York and have to connect through fucking Georgia. So, folks,
Speaker 1: this election is not just between two people that you
Speaker 1: may like or not like. It is about what kind
Speaker 1: of life do you want? Because trust and believe that
Speaker 1: people who believe that politics have no effect on their
Speaker 1: lives need to look around and ask themselves how they've
Speaker 1: been the last nine years. Talk to people that are
Speaker 1: in states like Louisiana and Tennessee and Alabama and Florida
Speaker 1: and Texas, you want that shit nationalized. So whether or
Speaker 1: not you think that Joe Biden needs to be the
Speaker 1: fucking savior and write on all things, he absolutely is
Speaker 1: not right on all things, but you know what, he
Speaker 1: is right on the Constitution. And so I'd rather have
Speaker 1: a president that I can fight with without penalty and
Speaker 1: fight for a better country without fear of jail, deportation
Speaker 1: or worse than whatever the fuck Donald Trump has in store.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we know what he has in
Speaker 1: store because he's said it in explicit terms. So you know,
Speaker 1: I urge people, as we continue to make this march
Speaker 1: towards you know, the fucking election, right that this is
Speaker 1: so much bigger, right than these two fucking people who,
Speaker 1: by the way, right like their lives won't change much
Speaker 1: because they're both white, and they're both wealthy, and they're
Speaker 1: both men. It is about who has the best policies
Speaker 1: for your life, the life of your family moving forward.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna take a guess that the one that
Speaker 1: has mind com you know as bedtime reading, ain't it.
Speaker 1: But that's just me. That is it for me today,
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