Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikf Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker votes.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday. We have made it to the end of
Speaker 1: this week. Happy November first, we have made it to
Speaker 1: the final stretch of this election cycle. There are four
Speaker 1: days to go until the final day to vote. This
Speaker 1: has been one of the most grueling presidential cycles. I
Speaker 1: think that this country has ever seen, at least in
Speaker 1: modern times. To show up each and every day, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take a personal note to show up each
Speaker 1: and every day. Over the last couple of years on
Speaker 1: WOKF has been hard, has been incredibly hard some days,
Speaker 1: because some days I have just wanted to stay in
Speaker 1: bed and cry at the state of this country. I
Speaker 1: believed four years ago that electing Joe Biden would put
Speaker 1: this country back on a path to democracy, back on
Speaker 1: a path to since, back in a place where we
Speaker 1: felt safe with a leader that we could trust and
Speaker 1: that we knew, and that we knew cared about America
Speaker 1: and shared a sense of responsibility and duty and accountability.
Speaker 1: And that person over the last four years has shown up.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, I think did the best that he could
Speaker 1: do with what he was given, which was a lot,
Speaker 1: because we have just been living in so much anxiety
Speaker 1: and despair. It's kind of a mind fuck to think
Speaker 1: back four years ago to the height of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: to think back to pre vaccine, to think that on
Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden was sworn in,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a vaccine. Thousands of people, tens hundreds,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people had died from COVID. We
Speaker 1: had come off of four years of Donald Trump that
Speaker 1: did not give a fuck about America, about COVID, about
Speaker 1: anyone other than himself. Donald Trump proved himself to be
Speaker 1: I think America's breaking point and a breaking point in
Speaker 1: the reality that we couldn't keep going on the way
Speaker 1: that we'd always gone.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump disrupted.
Speaker 1: That, and we believed that by electing Joe Biden we
Speaker 1: could get back to a place of normalcy. But I
Speaker 1: think that the reason we find ourselves here again with
Speaker 1: a third Trump election cycle, which is just like mind boggling,
Speaker 1: is because we believed that, you know, even after four
Speaker 1: years of Donald Trump, that he would do what other
Speaker 1: presidents have done when they've lost go away right, like
Speaker 1: go into your philanthropic endeavors, go into you know, back
Speaker 1: into your business.
Speaker 2: But that you would go away.
Speaker 1: And that was miscalculation on the part of Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: it was a miscalculation on the part of Merrick Garland,
Speaker 1: and it was a miscalculation on the part of the
Speaker 1: American people. So we find ourselves right now with four
Speaker 1: days to go, at yet another breaking point, and this
Speaker 1: time full fledgedley for our democracy and I think for
Speaker 1: a lot of people for their will and their faith
Speaker 1: in the American people. If we are able to pull
Speaker 1: off what seems almost impossible with the forces that are
Speaker 1: at play against us. I mean, you have multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar villains, you have a maggafied Supreme Court, you have
Speaker 1: you know, federal judges that were put in place to
Speaker 1: just do Trump's bidding. You have jerryman during off the
Speaker 1: fucking grid. You have you know, ballot boxes being burned,
Speaker 1: people being threatened. With Michelle yes, you have just insanity
Speaker 1: that has gripped this country. And if she's able to
Speaker 1: overcome all of that and win, I think faith in
Speaker 1: each other to a large degree will be restored. But
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump is able to do what he put
Speaker 1: the court, the federal bench, Republican governors in place to
Speaker 1: do and if they are able to pull off the
Speaker 1: ultimate heist of our democracy, friends, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to offer right like, it will be
Speaker 1: a brave new world. And so I just want to
Speaker 1: thank all of you for showing up every day and listening,
Speaker 1: showing up in geiveing me support, energy and air. Over
Speaker 1: the course of this election cycle, so many days I
Speaker 1: have wanted to quit, and then I'll get an amazing
Speaker 1: message from one of the listeners that just touches my
Speaker 1: heart and makes me and the work that I do
Speaker 1: feel seen. I don't know what is on the other
Speaker 1: side of this. No one knows, right we won't know
Speaker 1: until it's done. But I do know that I am
Speaker 1: deeply appreciative to all of you for being on this journey,
Speaker 1: for fighting the good fight, for voting, for registering folks
Speaker 1: to vote, for volunteering, for you know, standing up for
Speaker 1: equity and diversity and justice, for doing your part, you know,
Speaker 1: for sharing these episodes, for using the platforms that you
Speaker 1: have for good. And I just want to say that
Speaker 1: even if darkness prevails, we will have to find a
Speaker 1: way to make light. It is what our ancestors have done,
Speaker 1: it is what prior generations have done. America has seen dark,
Speaker 1: dark days before, some that lasted centuries. But it is
Speaker 1: always the people who come together. And as the Vice
Speaker 1: President of the United States said, it's those people that
Speaker 1: decide to stop pointing fingers and start linking arms. That
Speaker 1: are the ones that are the difference makers, that are
Speaker 1: the change makers that usher in a new day. And
Speaker 1: so regardless of the outcome, we have to be those people.
Speaker 1: We have to stand up for what is right, understand
Speaker 1: that that is our work, it isn't somebody else's job.
Speaker 1: And I think that that is what the biggest lesson,
Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway is from the twenty twenty presidential race.
Speaker 1: Prior to Donald Trump twenty sixteen, we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll vote for these people. We don't really have a
Speaker 1: lot of enthusiasm, we don't really do what needs to
Speaker 1: be done, and we all know how that turns out.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty, we're hanging on literally for dear life and
Speaker 1: just needing to get rid of the demon, to exercise
Speaker 1: the demon, and we do. And I think that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four is really about who do we want to be. Now,
Speaker 1: how do we take the responsibility of rebuilding this nation
Speaker 1: in the way that it should have been created in
Speaker 1: the first place, for all people, right, Not all men,
Speaker 1: not all white men, not all straight people, not all
Speaker 1: sis people, but for all people, for the varied, deep,
Speaker 1: beautiful tapestry that makes up America. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's what I saw in front of the Ellipses. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago was America. It was inspiring.
Speaker 1: I just came back from DC. I wasn't there for
Speaker 1: the Vice President's speech, but I went the next day.
Speaker 1: And you know, I am a very sentimental person. I
Speaker 1: lived in DC for nearly twenty years because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a public servant. I wanted to help. I
Speaker 1: wanted to help this country that helped my family build
Speaker 1: a life after leaving Jamaica and moving to the United States.
Speaker 1: And when I see the Capitol Building, when I see
Speaker 1: the Washington Monument, when I drive past the White House,
Speaker 1: it still brings me pride and a deep sense of joy,
Speaker 1: and I don't want that taken away. And it was
Speaker 1: for those four years of Donald Trump, when I would
Speaker 1: go down to DC, it was a shell of itself.
Speaker 1: But what Kamala Harris reminded us of with that speech,
Speaker 1: with that gathering of seventy five thousand plus people, is
Speaker 1: who we can be when we decide to link arms,
Speaker 1: who we can be when we recognize our power. We
Speaker 1: are so much better than what Donald Trump showed us
Speaker 1: that Medicine Square garden. We are so much better than
Speaker 1: the hate that came out of Rudy Giuliani's mouth about immigrants.
Speaker 1: We are so much better than the whack ass comedian
Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliff. We are so much brighter than the Stephen
Speaker 1: Millers and the Steve Bannons of the world. They are
Speaker 1: but a small fraction. They may be loud, but they
Speaker 1: are not the entirety of America. And we have to
Speaker 1: remember that. I don't believe that fifty percent of America
Speaker 1: is with Donald Trump. I don't believe that for a
Speaker 1: fucking second. I do believe that since the beginning of
Speaker 1: this country, there's always been thirty percent of the population
Speaker 1: that is vile. There was thirty percent of the population
Speaker 1: that wanted to side with the Nazis during World War Two.
Speaker 1: There was thirty percent of the population that believe that
Speaker 1: Hitler was doing something good. There was thirty percent of
Speaker 1: the population that wanted to continue the transatlantic slave trade.
Speaker 1: There's always been that group. But in the absence of
Speaker 1: our voices, in the absence of our own community building,
Speaker 1: in the absence of building infrastructure and a pipeline of
Speaker 1: the kind of America that we want to see, they
Speaker 1: seem big and loud. That Madison Square garden stunt was
Speaker 1: just that. It was a fucking stunt. I'm certain that
Speaker 1: if we went through, it's like, how many of those
Speaker 1: people were paid to be there? Right?
Speaker 2: Did Elon Musk flip the bill?
Speaker 1: The man who threw a bunch of black door knockers
Speaker 1: into a back of a U haul right like that?
Speaker 2: We just learned.
Speaker 1: Of course, nothing will happen to him, because nothing ever will,
Speaker 1: because he's the richest man in the world that refuses
Speaker 1: to pay taxes. We lose when we allow their narrative
Speaker 1: to become our mirror. And what they project isn't real.
Speaker 1: Their hate is real, sure, but how big their group
Speaker 1: is no. But what I do know is that if
Speaker 1: the vice president does win, we have got to be
Speaker 1: think Thanking ten, twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty A century
Speaker 1: down the road, because that is how Republicans got here.
Speaker 2: After Roe v. Wade was passed.
Speaker 1: They didn't say, oh, we're going to have it overturned tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They worked on it for fifty years. So if we
Speaker 1: believe in a multiracial democracy, we can't think that one
Speaker 1: election is going to do that. We can't think that
Speaker 1: the president of the United States has a magic wand
Speaker 1: and can just poof make things happen. It is a
Speaker 1: long term project that requires all of us. I pray
Speaker 1: that the results of this election are resounding in a
Speaker 1: positive way, that it sends a deep and loud message
Speaker 1: not only across this country but around the world that
Speaker 1: America will not stand for fascism, we will not fall
Speaker 1: for authoritarianism, and we will grow stronger from this. That
Speaker 1: is what I do believe. If Kamala Harris is elected,
Speaker 1: that we will learn from this moment, from this time,
Speaker 1: from this decade, and throw out the book of trump Ism. So,
Speaker 1: dear friends, with four days to go, I will offer
Speaker 1: you what I said on the Danielle Moody Show on
Speaker 1: YouTube earlier this week, which is, don't spend election night alone.
Speaker 1: Gather with your people, with your community. If it's one
Speaker 1: other person, two other people, your children, your pets, gather though.
Speaker 1: We are stronger and better when we are together, and
Speaker 1: this is going to be a monumental time. We will
Speaker 1: not know, most likely who is one on election night,
Speaker 1: but take this time to really gather with your people
Speaker 1: and to set intentions about the kind of country that
Speaker 1: you want to live in, the kind of community that
Speaker 1: you want to build, because I think that that is
Speaker 1: how we start creating the country that we want is
Speaker 1: by talking and gathering and connecting with one another. The
Speaker 1: days ahead, dear friends, are going to be hard, to
Speaker 1: say the least, but I know that we will get
Speaker 1: through it, as we have all of our most difficult
Speaker 1: days until now. So light your sage, your candles, your incense,
Speaker 1: a joint, poor glass, meditate, prey, stretch, walk, do whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you need to do to fill your
Speaker 1: spirit and continue to fill your own spirits so that
Speaker 1: you can fill those around you as well. We will
Speaker 1: get through this. We will meet on the other side
Speaker 1: of whatever this is. But I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you all of you for showing up here, for supporting me,
Speaker 1: for supporting independent media, and I'll be.
Speaker 2: Back here on Monday.
Speaker 1: Have a full and beautiful and RESTful weekend. That is
Speaker 1: it for me on wokef as always, dear friends, Power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.