1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikf Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker votes. 3 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: Happy Friday. We have made it to the end of 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: this week. Happy November first, we have made it to 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: the final stretch of this election cycle. There are four 6 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: days to go until the final day to vote. This 7 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: has been one of the most grueling presidential cycles. I 8 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: think that this country has ever seen, at least in 9 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: modern times. To show up each and every day, I'm 10 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: going to take a personal note to show up each 11 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: and every day. Over the last couple of years on 12 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 1: WOKF has been hard, has been incredibly hard some days, 13 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: because some days I have just wanted to stay in 14 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: bed and cry at the state of this country. I 15 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: believed four years ago that electing Joe Biden would put 16 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: this country back on a path to democracy, back on 17 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: a path to since, back in a place where we 18 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: felt safe with a leader that we could trust and 19 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: that we knew, and that we knew cared about America 20 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: and shared a sense of responsibility and duty and accountability. 21 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: And that person over the last four years has shown up. 22 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, I think did the best that he could 23 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: do with what he was given, which was a lot, 24 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: because we have just been living in so much anxiety 25 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: and despair. It's kind of a mind fuck to think 26 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: back four years ago to the height of the pandemic, 27 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: to think back to pre vaccine, to think that on 28 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden was sworn in, 29 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: we didn't have a vaccine. Thousands of people, tens hundreds, 30 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people had died from COVID. We 31 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: had come off of four years of Donald Trump that 32 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: did not give a fuck about America, about COVID, about 33 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: anyone other than himself. Donald Trump proved himself to be 34 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: I think America's breaking point and a breaking point in 35 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: the reality that we couldn't keep going on the way 36 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: that we'd always gone. 37 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 2: Donald Trump disrupted. 38 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: That, and we believed that by electing Joe Biden we 39 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: could get back to a place of normalcy. But I 40 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: think that the reason we find ourselves here again with 41 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: a third Trump election cycle, which is just like mind boggling, 42 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: is because we believed that, you know, even after four 43 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: years of Donald Trump, that he would do what other 44 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: presidents have done when they've lost go away right, like 45 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: go into your philanthropic endeavors, go into you know, back 46 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: into your business. 47 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 2: But that you would go away. 48 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: And that was miscalculation on the part of Joe Biden, 49 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: it was a miscalculation on the part of Merrick Garland, 50 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: and it was a miscalculation on the part of the 51 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: American people. So we find ourselves right now with four 52 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: days to go, at yet another breaking point, and this 53 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: time full fledgedley for our democracy and I think for 54 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: a lot of people for their will and their faith 55 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: in the American people. If we are able to pull 56 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: off what seems almost impossible with the forces that are 57 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: at play against us. I mean, you have multi billion 58 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: dollar villains, you have a maggafied Supreme Court, you have 59 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: you know, federal judges that were put in place to 60 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: just do Trump's bidding. You have jerryman during off the 61 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: fucking grid. You have you know, ballot boxes being burned, 62 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: people being threatened. With Michelle yes, you have just insanity 63 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: that has gripped this country. And if she's able to 64 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 1: overcome all of that and win, I think faith in 65 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: each other to a large degree will be restored. But 66 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: if Donald Trump is able to do what he put 67 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: the court, the federal bench, Republican governors in place to 68 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: do and if they are able to pull off the 69 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: ultimate heist of our democracy, friends, I don't know. I 70 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: don't know what to offer right like, it will be 71 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: a brave new world. And so I just want to 72 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: thank all of you for showing up every day and listening, 73 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: showing up in geiveing me support, energy and air. Over 74 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: the course of this election cycle, so many days I 75 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: have wanted to quit, and then I'll get an amazing 76 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: message from one of the listeners that just touches my 77 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: heart and makes me and the work that I do 78 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: feel seen. I don't know what is on the other 79 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: side of this. No one knows, right we won't know 80 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: until it's done. But I do know that I am 81 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: deeply appreciative to all of you for being on this journey, 82 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: for fighting the good fight, for voting, for registering folks 83 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: to vote, for volunteering, for you know, standing up for 84 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: equity and diversity and justice, for doing your part, you know, 85 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: for sharing these episodes, for using the platforms that you 86 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: have for good. And I just want to say that 87 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: even if darkness prevails, we will have to find a 88 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: way to make light. It is what our ancestors have done, 89 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: it is what prior generations have done. America has seen dark, 90 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: dark days before, some that lasted centuries. But it is 91 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: always the people who come together. And as the Vice 92 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: President of the United States said, it's those people that 93 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: decide to stop pointing fingers and start linking arms. That 94 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: are the ones that are the difference makers, that are 95 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: the change makers that usher in a new day. And 96 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: so regardless of the outcome, we have to be those people. 97 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: We have to stand up for what is right, understand 98 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: that that is our work, it isn't somebody else's job. 99 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: And I think that that is what the biggest lesson, 100 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway is from the twenty twenty presidential race. 101 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: Prior to Donald Trump twenty sixteen, we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 102 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: we'll vote for these people. We don't really have a 103 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: lot of enthusiasm, we don't really do what needs to 104 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: be done, and we all know how that turns out. 105 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty, we're hanging on literally for dear life and 106 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: just needing to get rid of the demon, to exercise 107 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: the demon, and we do. And I think that twenty 108 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: twenty four is really about who do we want to be. Now, 109 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: how do we take the responsibility of rebuilding this nation 110 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: in the way that it should have been created in 111 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: the first place, for all people, right, Not all men, 112 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: not all white men, not all straight people, not all 113 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: sis people, but for all people, for the varied, deep, 114 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: beautiful tapestry that makes up America. And I think that 115 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: that's what I saw in front of the Ellipses. You know, 116 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago was America. It was inspiring. 117 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: I just came back from DC. I wasn't there for 118 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: the Vice President's speech, but I went the next day. 119 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: And you know, I am a very sentimental person. I 120 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: lived in DC for nearly twenty years because I wanted 121 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: to be a public servant. I wanted to help. I 122 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: wanted to help this country that helped my family build 123 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,359 Speaker 1: a life after leaving Jamaica and moving to the United States. 124 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: And when I see the Capitol Building, when I see 125 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: the Washington Monument, when I drive past the White House, 126 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: it still brings me pride and a deep sense of joy, 127 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: and I don't want that taken away. And it was 128 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: for those four years of Donald Trump, when I would 129 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: go down to DC, it was a shell of itself. 130 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: But what Kamala Harris reminded us of with that speech, 131 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: with that gathering of seventy five thousand plus people, is 132 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: who we can be when we decide to link arms, 133 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: who we can be when we recognize our power. We 134 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: are so much better than what Donald Trump showed us 135 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: that Medicine Square garden. We are so much better than 136 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: the hate that came out of Rudy Giuliani's mouth about immigrants. 137 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: We are so much better than the whack ass comedian 138 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliff. We are so much brighter than the Stephen 139 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: Millers and the Steve Bannons of the world. They are 140 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: but a small fraction. They may be loud, but they 141 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: are not the entirety of America. And we have to 142 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: remember that. I don't believe that fifty percent of America 143 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: is with Donald Trump. I don't believe that for a 144 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: fucking second. I do believe that since the beginning of 145 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: this country, there's always been thirty percent of the population 146 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: that is vile. There was thirty percent of the population 147 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: that wanted to side with the Nazis during World War Two. 148 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: There was thirty percent of the population that believe that 149 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: Hitler was doing something good. There was thirty percent of 150 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: the population that wanted to continue the transatlantic slave trade. 151 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: There's always been that group. But in the absence of 152 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: our voices, in the absence of our own community building, 153 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: in the absence of building infrastructure and a pipeline of 154 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: the kind of America that we want to see, they 155 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: seem big and loud. That Madison Square garden stunt was 156 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: just that. It was a fucking stunt. I'm certain that 157 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: if we went through, it's like, how many of those 158 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: people were paid to be there? Right? 159 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 2: Did Elon Musk flip the bill? 160 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: The man who threw a bunch of black door knockers 161 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: into a back of a U haul right like that? 162 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: We just learned. 163 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: Of course, nothing will happen to him, because nothing ever will, 164 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: because he's the richest man in the world that refuses 165 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: to pay taxes. We lose when we allow their narrative 166 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: to become our mirror. And what they project isn't real. 167 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: Their hate is real, sure, but how big their group 168 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: is no. But what I do know is that if 169 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: the vice president does win, we have got to be 170 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: think Thanking ten, twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty A century 171 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: down the road, because that is how Republicans got here. 172 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: After Roe v. Wade was passed. 173 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: They didn't say, oh, we're going to have it overturned tomorrow. 174 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: They worked on it for fifty years. So if we 175 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 1: believe in a multiracial democracy, we can't think that one 176 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: election is going to do that. We can't think that 177 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: the president of the United States has a magic wand 178 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: and can just poof make things happen. It is a 179 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: long term project that requires all of us. I pray 180 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: that the results of this election are resounding in a 181 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: positive way, that it sends a deep and loud message 182 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: not only across this country but around the world that 183 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: America will not stand for fascism, we will not fall 184 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: for authoritarianism, and we will grow stronger from this. That 185 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: is what I do believe. If Kamala Harris is elected, 186 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: that we will learn from this moment, from this time, 187 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: from this decade, and throw out the book of trump Ism. So, 188 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: dear friends, with four days to go, I will offer 189 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: you what I said on the Danielle Moody Show on 190 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: YouTube earlier this week, which is, don't spend election night alone. 191 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: Gather with your people, with your community. If it's one 192 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: other person, two other people, your children, your pets, gather though. 193 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: We are stronger and better when we are together, and 194 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: this is going to be a monumental time. We will 195 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: not know, most likely who is one on election night, 196 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: but take this time to really gather with your people 197 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: and to set intentions about the kind of country that 198 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: you want to live in, the kind of community that 199 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: you want to build, because I think that that is 200 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: how we start creating the country that we want is 201 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: by talking and gathering and connecting with one another. The 202 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: days ahead, dear friends, are going to be hard, to 203 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: say the least, but I know that we will get 204 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: through it, as we have all of our most difficult 205 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: days until now. So light your sage, your candles, your incense, 206 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: a joint, poor glass, meditate, prey, stretch, walk, do whatever 207 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: it is that you need to do to fill your 208 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: spirit and continue to fill your own spirits so that 209 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: you can fill those around you as well. We will 210 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: get through this. We will meet on the other side 211 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: of whatever this is. But I just want to thank 212 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: you all of you for showing up here, for supporting me, 213 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: for supporting independent media, and I'll be. 214 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 2: Back here on Monday. 215 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: Have a full and beautiful and RESTful weekend. That is 216 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: it for me on wokef as always, dear friends, Power 217 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get 218 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.