Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen. Welcome to will g F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to start off this week with kind of
Speaker 1: giving a recap to the healthscape that Republicans are creating
Speaker 1: for Americans. What's troubling to me at this time, as
Speaker 1: we are just a hand hand full of weeks, like
Speaker 1: two weeks until the midterm elections, is that Democrats once
Speaker 1: again are not doing the type of loud, microphone, megaphone,
Speaker 1: fucking burn the house down messaging that needs to happen
Speaker 1: in order to really signal and identify to the American
Speaker 1: people what it is that Republicans want to do in
Speaker 1: this country. And so today I kind of want to
Speaker 1: stick with a couple of points that are happening right
Speaker 1: now that are happening underneath the radar, folks are not
Speaker 1: paying attention to. I'm doing multiple videos screaming from the
Speaker 1: rooftops every week. So here we go. First off, I
Speaker 1: want to bring your attention to what the Texas Public
Speaker 1: School Board is doing. So last week they announced that
Speaker 1: they were going to be mailing home in Texas DNA
Speaker 1: kits two parents and caregivers so that they could identify
Speaker 1: their children in the event of an emergency. Now I
Speaker 1: want to pause for one second and say, what in
Speaker 1: the entire fuck this is so problematic on a number
Speaker 1: of levels, But let's just start with level one. Level
Speaker 1: one being that instead of creating gun safety measures in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas, which Greg Abbott, the governor, has decided,
Speaker 1: oh to hell with, you know, will erase the age requirement,
Speaker 1: will allow anyone to get a gun with absolutely no
Speaker 1: waiting period whatsoever, because you know, the more guns the better.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that you had nineteen children gun down in
Speaker 1: their classroom. It doesn't matter that store shoppers who are
Speaker 1: a gun down in El Paso. It doesn't matter any
Speaker 1: any of the fucking violence and mass shootings that have
Speaker 1: happened in Texas to get this governor to think to himself,
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe we don't take people's guns away, but
Speaker 1: maybe we make it a little bit more difficult for
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers to get a gun than it is to
Speaker 1: get a slurpee from seven to eleven. I digress. The
Speaker 1: reality here, though, for parents basically is what the State
Speaker 1: of Texas is signaling is just like, we're not going
Speaker 1: to do anything. Right, you are basically ending your children
Speaker 1: to school on a hope and a prayer that they
Speaker 1: will return alive at the end of the school day. Right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fucking roll the dice, and on top of
Speaker 1: doing so, because we know the ways in which aar
Speaker 1: fifteens rip through bodies and essentially render them unrecognizable. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna give you this little kid that you can
Speaker 1: swab in your kids and send it off to some
Speaker 1: fucking lab in Texas and then you'll be able to
Speaker 1: identify them later. What that's level one. Let me bring
Speaker 1: you to level two. Level two is who the fuck
Speaker 1: is going to be in control of that DNA, because
Speaker 1: I sure as hell don't want anyone in Texas being
Speaker 1: in control of my DNA right because they have a
Speaker 1: funny way of you know, using it to arrest people,
Speaker 1: to drop DNA at crime scenes, to I don't know,
Speaker 1: search and find people that are documented and then ship
Speaker 1: them off. I have no idea, but you think the
Speaker 1: worst of it, and that's probably what is happening in Texas.
Speaker 1: In no way, shape or form does it make sense
Speaker 1: for this state to be asking parents and caregivers for
Speaker 1: DNA samples. No way, No way does that assuage the
Speaker 1: fear and anxiety that parents already have in sending their
Speaker 1: kids to school knowing that they may not come home.
Speaker 1: No way does it feel safe or good to have
Speaker 1: the state of Texas that has, you know, this desire
Speaker 1: to lock up as many black and brown people as possible,
Speaker 1: having your DNA that they can again put anywhere, do
Speaker 1: anything with. So if you are living in Texas, my
Speaker 1: advice to you do not give them your DNA, your
Speaker 1: child's DNA, don't give them your fucking cat or dog's DNA,
Speaker 1: because this is the beginning of some bizarre, fucking nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four black mirror future that we don't want. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's the first story that is like, oh my god, hey,
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Speaker 1: John Dickerson, Emily Bathalona and I decipher the headlines, break
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Speaker 1: let me bring your attention back to it is that
Speaker 1: House Republicans are doing. And again we talked about this
Speaker 1: last week Friday, which is that media once again is
Speaker 1: portraying the midterm elections as some type of horse race,
Speaker 1: some type of sporting event, as opposed to the existential
Speaker 1: crisis that it is for our democracy. You know, I
Speaker 1: can recall sitting in my middle school auditorium, all gathered
Speaker 1: in to watch Schindler's List, and I remember watching this
Speaker 1: film with my classmates and thinking to myself, how could
Speaker 1: this possibly happen? It's just the question that kept going
Speaker 1: through my head. How do you allow your neighbors, store clerks,
Speaker 1: friends to be carted off and murdered by the state.
Speaker 1: How do you honestly just go about your day and
Speaker 1: think that this isn't absolutely crazy and outrageous. There was
Speaker 1: a scene in Schindler's List that I remember so vividly
Speaker 1: because I only watched that film once. This was not
Speaker 1: something that much like Roots, much like other really gut
Speaker 1: wrenching stories about world history, violence, pain that like I
Speaker 1: can only stomach so much as a deep EmPATH. But
Speaker 1: there was a scene that I remember which was people
Speaker 1: walking around the streets of Germany and there was flakes
Speaker 1: coming down from the sky, and initially people thought that
Speaker 1: it was snow. It wasn't. It was the ashes coming
Speaker 1: from the crematoriums and the gas chambers that the Germans
Speaker 1: were using to murder six million Jews. It was this
Speaker 1: scene where you saw people kind of going about their
Speaker 1: day to day and then you see all of these
Speaker 1: flakes that are coming down, but you see they weren't
Speaker 1: melting when they were hitting the ground because it was ashes,
Speaker 1: human ashes that were coming down from the sky. So
Speaker 1: as I'm watching the scene as a young person again,
Speaker 1: the question in my head that no teacher could ever
Speaker 1: answer was how did this country allow this to happen? Well,
Speaker 1: how do you allow things to happen? Well, you don't
Speaker 1: make a big deal of it. It isn't a headline, right,
Speaker 1: It's just casual headlines about Germany and about Hitler taking
Speaker 1: over this country and the troops moving in here. But
Speaker 1: it isn't constant headlines about the threat, the violence, the terror,
Speaker 1: the killings, the rapes, the murders of babies that are
Speaker 1: happening each and every day. No, those weren't in the headlines.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, as Hitler was extinguishing the
Speaker 1: fucking Jewish population and the population of also academics and
Speaker 1: other undesirables, the New York Times was doing a fucking
Speaker 1: home and garden tour with Hitler. He likes long walks,
Speaker 1: he likes plants. That's how they were talking about him
Speaker 1: in American press and media as he was over in
Speaker 1: Germany setting up concentration camps. So how does this happen, Well,
Speaker 1: the media has to be complicit, That's how it happens.
Speaker 1: While Germany decided after World War Two to have to
Speaker 1: conduct the Nuremberg Trials and to embed in their history
Speaker 1: this obscene point in time where heinous crimes against humanity
Speaker 1: were committed, that they embedded this in the history of
Speaker 1: the nation so as never to repeat it. There are
Speaker 1: monuments all over Germany to the Holocaust as a consistent reminder. Well,
Speaker 1: as we watch our democracy die, as we wake up
Speaker 1: every day to headlines that do not convey the gravity
Speaker 1: of the situation that the United States, and by virtue,
Speaker 1: the world, is in because I continue to say, and
Speaker 1: I tweet and I record this. Has anybody thought about
Speaker 1: what happens when Republicans not only take over Congress, but
Speaker 1: take over the presidency, and that the United States is
Speaker 1: no longer a democracy but realigned in this new formulated
Speaker 1: access of evil with Russia, with Hungary, with the fucking
Speaker 1: Mussolini light over in Italy. Has anybody thought about what
Speaker 1: would have happened in World War Two had the United
Speaker 1: States been forced into war in order to stop Hitler.
Speaker 1: What would have happened. It wouldn't have been six million,
Speaker 1: Maybe it would have been twelve. Maybe they would have
Speaker 1: never stopped. Maybe there would be no Jewish person right
Speaker 1: living today, which is what Hitler wanted, if there had
Speaker 1: been no United States to gather up our fun and
Speaker 1: allies and take that motherfucker out. Has anybody thought about
Speaker 1: what it looks like when America is no longer in
Speaker 1: the game of democracy and human decency and human rights,
Speaker 1: when we're actually the ones that are setting the pace
Speaker 1: for just how many rights that you can take away,
Speaker 1: just how you can utilize your military in a way
Speaker 1: to beat back dissension, and that they are taking the
Speaker 1: pages from the books of China and Iran and other
Speaker 1: places to oppress people and depress people in a way
Speaker 1: that we no longer cease to be a nation of
Speaker 1: liberty and freedom. And look, you think I don't know
Speaker 1: that America is imperfect beyond imperfect. I'm a black, queer
Speaker 1: woman in America. I know all too well. But the
Speaker 1: reality is is that we are the closest in the
Speaker 1: world to that idea of democracy that we try and
Speaker 1: perfect with each and every generation. So how is it
Speaker 1: that at this point in time, seventy percent of Americans
Speaker 1: believe that our democracy is at stake? We've been identified
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one for the first time in the
Speaker 1: history of the United States since backsliding democracies have been identified,
Speaker 1: that we are now a backsliding democracy. But then sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the countries looking around and saying, ah, but
Speaker 1: gas prices are too high and the cost of food
Speaker 1: is too high. So I'm gonna go with Republicans that
Speaker 1: do what exactly, not a fucking thing to help you,
Speaker 1: and never have. But instead of once again identifying the
Speaker 1: villain for what the villain is trying to do, you
Speaker 1: have democrats stumbling fumbling the fucking ball that was given
Speaker 1: to them literally by Republicans when they decided to overturn
Speaker 1: fifty year fucking precedent with Roe v. Wade. Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, white women are like, well, I guess
Speaker 1: taken away my rights to an abortion and bodily autonomy
Speaker 1: is not so bad because my gas prices are so high.
Speaker 1: I think that that's more important, And that's the way
Speaker 1: that I'm going to fucking vote. You know what I
Speaker 1: need right now? I need white Americans to vote in
Speaker 1: a way that isn't so goddamn self centered and think
Speaker 1: that they are going to be protected by virtue of
Speaker 1: their whiteness. I guess so if you do what millions
Speaker 1: of Germans did, which was just you know, close your mouth,
Speaker 1: close your eyes, and align yourself with Hitler in order
Speaker 1: to protect your own ass, I guess that that will
Speaker 1: be the way until all of a sudden, you're some
Speaker 1: high identified by a neighbor, by a friend, by a
Speaker 1: family member that says no, no, no, right. I saw
Speaker 1: them sending a letter to this person, I saw them
Speaker 1: giving money to this person. They're the enemy of the state,
Speaker 1: and then they come and lock your ass up as
Speaker 1: well or worse, what Republicans are coming after right now
Speaker 1: is low hanging fruit fruit that they think that nobody
Speaker 1: gives a fuck about. That's how they start until they
Speaker 1: get to the place where they're coming for you, Martin Namoller, Folks,
Speaker 1: the poem first they came for. So here's the thing
Speaker 1: that Republicans are doing right now that again is not
Speaker 1: getting the national attention that it needs because the fucking
Speaker 1: media just follows the bouncing ball that Republicans throw out. Oh,
Speaker 1: Democrats don't want Biden on the trail, Let's do eighty
Speaker 1: five stories about that, as opposed to all of the
Speaker 1: fucking anti LGBT, ant high women, anti black, fucking bills
Speaker 1: that Republicans are putting out. Let's talk about whether or
Speaker 1: not Democrats like Biden. Are you fucking dumb? So here
Speaker 1: we are. House Republicans have introduced legislation and this I
Speaker 1: am reading from MPR that some critics are describing as
Speaker 1: a quote national don't say gay bill, And this is
Speaker 1: what they are seeking to do. The measure was introduced
Speaker 1: by Representative Mike Johnson from Louisiana, has thirty two Republican
Speaker 1: co sponsors, and this is what this piece of shit says.
Speaker 1: Quote the Democratic Party and their cultural allies are on
Speaker 1: a misguided crusade to immerse young children in sexual imagery
Speaker 1: and radical gender ideology. The bill, called the Stop the
Speaker 1: Sexualization of Children Act, aims to prohibit the use of
Speaker 1: federal funds to develop, implement, facilitate, or fund any sexual
Speaker 1: orientated program, event, or literature for children under the age
Speaker 1: of ten, and for other purposes. But listen to this.
Speaker 1: The language in the proposed legislation lumps together topics of
Speaker 1: sexual orientation and gender identity with sexual content such as
Speaker 1: pornography and stripping. Because you see what Republicans have always
Speaker 1: thought of the LGBTQ community and why their fucking savior
Speaker 1: Reagan decided to, let you know, tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: gay people die in the nineteen eighties from the HIV
Speaker 1: AID crisis, is that they've always thought that we are
Speaker 1: somehow marked by the devil, that we are just in
Speaker 1: one big sexual cabal trying to take up children, steal
Speaker 1: them from their parents, and turn them gay. Funny enough,
Speaker 1: the same motherfuckers are the ones that didn't do dick
Speaker 1: when it came to the Catholic Church and them actually
Speaker 1: sexualizing tens of thousands of children over the course of years.
Speaker 1: They don't pay fucking taxes, right, religiously exempt, and have
Speaker 1: all the good will in order to be able to
Speaker 1: perversely brutalize and abuse your fucking children. Tell me when
Speaker 1: there has been a case right where there has been oh,
Speaker 1: a drag queen reading a story to your children that
Speaker 1: has somehow turned into abuse. No, it has been at
Speaker 1: the hands of these organizations that are lifted up by
Speaker 1: conservatives that somehow, somehow end up in sexual abuse scandals.
Speaker 1: Looking at you, boy Scouts, and you see the foolishness,
Speaker 1: the fuckery that is inside of the Republican brain would
Speaker 1: have you believe that if you are sexualizing children of
Speaker 1: the same sex and somehow you are gay, No, you
Speaker 1: are not. You are a fucking predator. Right, much in
Speaker 1: the same way that they don't know how a woman's
Speaker 1: body works or how pregnancy works, they actually don't know
Speaker 1: how fucking predators work, which they should because their entire
Speaker 1: fucking party is filled with them. The bill complains that
Speaker 1: some school districts have implemented sex ed programming for kids
Speaker 1: under ten, and that many newly implemented sexual education curriculums
Speaker 1: encourage discussion of sexuality, sexual orientation, transgenderism, and gender ideology
Speaker 1: as early as kindergarten. Let me tell you something. Books,
Speaker 1: literature that talks about different types of families, that talk
Speaker 1: about different types of feelings, that allow children at an
Speaker 1: age appropriate reading to understand themselves and the world around them,
Speaker 1: is not sexualized. Do you know what is sexualized? Fucking
Speaker 1: baby onesies in stores that say lady killer right, the
Speaker 1: oppressed of nature that heteronormativity places in our shopping aisles,
Speaker 1: in our school system. What we are looking to do,
Speaker 1: those that believe in equity and justice, is to create
Speaker 1: a society where all people are accepted as they are,
Speaker 1: not as you perceive them to be or as you
Speaker 1: tell them that they should be. It is about dignity
Speaker 1: and fucking respect. Gagging children, however, and telling them that
Speaker 1: they can't talk about who their families are or who
Speaker 1: they are as they identify, and criminalizing them because of
Speaker 1: it is what actual abuse fucking looks like. When we
Speaker 1: see the numbers of LGBTQ suicides going through the roof,
Speaker 1: which they have always been higher than the national average,
Speaker 1: that is what fucking child abuse looks like. Denying children
Speaker 1: gender affirming care, healthcare and recognition of who they are.
Speaker 1: That is what abuse looks like. Throwing parents in jail
Speaker 1: for wanting to affirm and love their children for who
Speaker 1: they are and not who you want them to be.
Speaker 1: That is what child abuse looks like. We're enrolling your
Speaker 1: child in a church program that would beat the gay
Speaker 1: out of them and tell them that they are worthless
Speaker 1: if they don't embrace heteronormativity is what the fuck abuse
Speaker 1: looks like. Allowing administrators and teachers to discriminate and demean
Speaker 1: children who are asking for dignity and respecting the classroom
Speaker 1: by virtue of identifying them by the pronouns that they
Speaker 1: use is what abuse looks like. So you tell me
Speaker 1: why the fuck Democrats just can't say that, here's what
Speaker 1: abuse looks like and list out all of the ways
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party is not only harming LGBTQ children,
Speaker 1: but you know, instead of giving them I don't know,
Speaker 1: gun safety policy, we're giving you DNA kids. You want
Speaker 1: to talk about the party of child abuse, look no
Speaker 1: further than the Republican Party and all of the sex
Speaker 1: traffickers and offenders that they wrap their arms around. Fundamentally,
Speaker 1: we are trying to create a society that respects and
Speaker 1: shows dignity for all people, not just the people you
Speaker 1: fucking like. So the fact that we cannot articulate that
Speaker 1: truth to the American public very clearly. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, I am not in the business of
Speaker 1: not all Republicans. If you are identify with today's Republican Party,
Speaker 1: if you proudly rock that ard, then you are a
Speaker 1: fucking racist. You are a homophobe, You are a transphobe,
Speaker 1: you are an islamophobe. You are not a patriot. You
Speaker 1: are a white nationalist, period point fucking black. Because I
Speaker 1: don't see Marjory tailor Green or these other motherfuckers part
Speaker 1: and parceling and saying not all Democrats know when they
Speaker 1: get up on a microphone they say that Democrats are
Speaker 1: trying to kill us. Funny because they're the only ones
Speaker 1: that are putting crosshairs over the faces of their Democratic opponents.
Speaker 1: I don't see any language or hear any language that
Speaker 1: Democrats use that look to paint their Republican opponents as
Speaker 1: their enemy at war. I see only one fucking party
Speaker 1: doing that. So let's just tell the truth. I say
Speaker 1: this all the goddamn time. It's not that hard. Do
Speaker 1: not waste your time contorting yourself into a place to
Speaker 1: say not all Republicans and there are some good Republicans, No,
Speaker 1: there are not. They are all part of the same
Speaker 1: fucking poisoned orchard that when they have their way, this
Speaker 1: country will look worse than it did in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1: They are trying to create a climate of desperation that
Speaker 1: will turn neighbor against neighbor in order to be able
Speaker 1: to pick up the little crumbs that the one percent
Speaker 1: will leave behind. This is not the fucking country that
Speaker 1: we want, and it's only heading in one direction, and
Speaker 1: it's because of the Republican Party. So if you are
Speaker 1: not identifying them as the villains, as the enemies of democracy,
Speaker 1: the enemies of progress, the enemies of family, of freedom,
Speaker 1: and of love, then what are you doing. You're wasting
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Speaker 1: not in a good place. We haven't been in a
Speaker 1: good place probably since Obama left office. Right, let's all
Speaker 1: just be clear. But the problem of the Obama presidency
Speaker 1: is this. We didn't create the pipeline, the megaphone. We
Speaker 1: didn't start to institutionalize the ideas of progress and justice
Speaker 1: for all. We didn't tell people to go run at
Speaker 1: the school board level, to go run at the city
Speaker 1: council level. Right. We made Democrats made folks believe that, oh,
Speaker 1: everything happens at the national level. No, if we had
Speaker 1: it in our mind to have the national type of
Speaker 1: takeover that Republicans are instituting now and have been doing
Speaker 1: blanketing the country oh the last couple of decades. If
Speaker 1: we use the power and the megaphone that Obama had
Speaker 1: while we were in office to get good people to
Speaker 1: run for office at the state and local level, to
Speaker 1: introduce curriculum and policies right that couldn't be stripped away.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't be here right now. But we were too
Speaker 1: busy patting ourselves on the back in the early two
Speaker 1: thousand saying, oh, we're post racial, Oh we did it.
Speaker 1: We didn't, And now we're in the fight for our
Speaker 1: fucking lives. So my call to action to all of you.
Speaker 1: I know that you are registered to vote. I know
Speaker 1: many of you have probably already early voted in your states.
Speaker 1: What I need you to do with the time, the treasure,
Speaker 1: and the treasure and the talent that you have is
Speaker 1: get as many young people to vote in this midterm election.
Speaker 1: Get your kids to call their friends, get them to
Speaker 1: do tiktoks about it, get them to connect. I need
Speaker 1: as many older people right to tell them that Republicans
Speaker 1: take over power. And guess what, you're losing Social Security
Speaker 1: and Medicaid because those are the two big entitlements that
Speaker 1: they are coming for. They're telling you that you're too expensive,
Speaker 1: that the years in decades that you poured into our
Speaker 1: economy you're never going to get back. They're gonna pocket it. Instead,
Speaker 1: wake people up. Do what you can with what it
Speaker 1: is that you have. If we all did that, then
Speaker 1: we stand a fighting chance. And right now that's what
Speaker 1: we need. Fighters, warriors for justice, reminding ourselves that we,
Speaker 1: dear friends, are the real patriots. We are the ones
Speaker 1: that are defending democracy, that are defending this country. But
Speaker 1: we can't do it with lip service alone. We need
Speaker 1: to put action behind our words. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, dear friends, on woke f as always power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.