Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: what a fucking week this has been. I mean, dear God,
Speaker 1: I sit here today absolutely exhausted, and I just came
Speaker 1: back from vacation, and my vacation feels like it happened
Speaker 1: at least two months ago, and it was literally a
Speaker 1: week ago, Folks. I can't express to you how this
Speaker 1: news cycle has completely and utterly gutted my belief that
Speaker 1: there is ever going to be any type of accountability,
Speaker 1: any type of you know, real conversations in journalism about
Speaker 1: the fall of our democracy. So let me start out
Speaker 1: by saying I wrote a piece another piece I was
Speaker 1: very hot with the words this week on medium, And
Speaker 1: if you don't follow me on medium, you totally should,
Speaker 1: because I post often. I post at least twice a
Speaker 1: month to different op eds. But this week I went
Speaker 1: in because there was just so much news, and so
Speaker 1: my latest piece, which I want to share a piece
Speaker 1: of it with you all because I'm outdone. I'm outdone
Speaker 1: by what the media decides to pay attention to and
Speaker 1: the reasons that they decide to pay attention to certain
Speaker 1: things versus others. When I woke up this morning, right,
Speaker 1: you would think that every major headline, every major headline,
Speaker 1: every major story would be directed at the fact that
Speaker 1: a sitting president of the United States during the insurrection,
Speaker 1: during an attack, an actual physical attack orchestrated by his followers,
Speaker 1: by himself. Donald Trump, himself, if you all do not remember,
Speaker 1: back in December of twenty twenty, said that January sixth
Speaker 1: was going to be wild. Right, Donald Trump was out
Speaker 1: there on Twitter before his dumbass got banned, telling his
Speaker 1: followers to head to Washington, DC have their voices heard,
Speaker 1: and that to stop the Steel rally was going to
Speaker 1: be wild. Donald Trump on that day got up on
Speaker 1: the diets along with many other of his followers, touting
Speaker 1: the lie, the big lie, about the election having been stolen.
Speaker 1: Right then, fast forward to over a year fucking later.
Speaker 1: The only people that have faced any type of charges,
Speaker 1: that have faced any type of quote unquote jail time,
Speaker 1: if you can count a couple of months for trying
Speaker 1: to overthrow the governments of the United States, if you
Speaker 1: can count that right as real time. The only people
Speaker 1: that have been held accountable are the people that have
Speaker 1: actually entered into right the Capitol Building, or encourage their
Speaker 1: followers like the leader of the Oath Keepers and the
Speaker 1: Proud Boys two get violent. Right, So we're seeing these
Speaker 1: people slapped with a couple of months here, a couple
Speaker 1: of months there, right, knowing, good, God damn well that
Speaker 1: these fucking people that march to the Capitol Building, built
Speaker 1: a guillotine, entered said Capitol building, stole property, abused and
Speaker 1: injured police officers get slaps on the wrist during that time. Though,
Speaker 1: as it as we come to find out, there's over
Speaker 1: seven hours missing in terms of White House phone lugs. Now,
Speaker 1: let me bring this into focus when Nixon was brought down,
Speaker 1: and by the way, we can account for the fact
Speaker 1: that accountability really doesn't ever happen in politics because Richard
Speaker 1: Nixon was able to resign. Richard Nixon was not removed
Speaker 1: from office, right, he was able to resign. Had we
Speaker 1: actually made an example of Richard Nixon and the eighteen
Speaker 1: minutes that were missing from the White House tapes, that
Speaker 1: would then show the cover up right of him trying
Speaker 1: to steal an election. Eighteen minutes we have so far
Speaker 1: as an entire fucking work day was missing from the
Speaker 1: White House phone logs. But that's not front page news. No.
Speaker 1: What is continuing to be part of conversation all week
Speaker 1: long is the slap that we saw on fucking Sunday
Speaker 1: by Will Smith against Chris Rock for his comments his
Speaker 1: joke I use in air quotes with regard to his wife,
Speaker 1: Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia autoimmune condition. Right you have madisone Cawthorne,
Speaker 1: whose dumbass finds himself in the press for a whole
Speaker 1: host as stupid shit that comes out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: But he decides to spill some tea with regard to
Speaker 1: being invited to a Washington political elite orgy right where
Speaker 1: people are just freely doing bumps of cocaine, or so
Speaker 1: he says. And then Hunter Biden's laptop. These are the
Speaker 1: three stories that have been dominating the news cycle this week.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here saying to myself self, how is
Speaker 1: it that Donald Trump covered up, erased lost seven hours
Speaker 1: worth of phone interaction during the historic violent event in
Speaker 1: America's modern day history? And that is not enough for headlines?
Speaker 1: So the Justice Department now has finally announced that they
Speaker 1: are expanding their investigation into those that were not actually
Speaker 1: in the Capitol building. But they're expanding their investigation into
Speaker 1: the donors of said insurrection, right, And I know that
Speaker 1: before on this show, and so let me make it
Speaker 1: clear now. Before in this show, I have said that
Speaker 1: Jenny Thomas, Clarence Thomas's wife, funded buses for the insurrection.
Speaker 1: That has not been substantiated. But what has been substantiated
Speaker 1: about Jenny Thomas is that she was at the insurrection.
Speaker 1: She used her platform and her political clout to encourage
Speaker 1: other people to go to the insurrection, and then while
Speaker 1: there was an invasion in our Capitol building, she was
Speaker 1: on the phone with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief
Speaker 1: of staff. So here's the thing. What's so curious and
Speaker 1: interesting about this, which you think would be front page news,
Speaker 1: is that Jenny Thomas is married to Clarence Thomas, a
Speaker 1: sitting Supreme Court justice who was the sole dissenter on
Speaker 1: the case that would allow the House Select Committee who
Speaker 1: is investigating the insurrection to be able to have access
Speaker 1: to the phone logs. Now, the question we all need
Speaker 1: to ask ourselves is why was Clarence Thomas the sole dissenter? Right?
Speaker 1: What is it that Clarence Thomas knew and was he
Speaker 1: concerned that when those phone numbers, when that information would
Speaker 1: be released, that he would have to then explain to
Speaker 1: the public why his wife's phone number was showing up.
Speaker 1: But get this, because it gets even better than that.
Speaker 1: And you would think in a country that it loves salaciousness, right,
Speaker 1: we love reality TV, we love gossip, we love trash,
Speaker 1: that you would think that this story, which pretty much
Speaker 1: reads like a fucking episode of Bridgeton combined with an
Speaker 1: episode of gossip Girl wrapped in your favorite soap opera, right,
Speaker 1: all my children, as the world turns, you would think
Speaker 1: that this would make news. Well, here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: John Eastman, Trump Attorney, I just discovered, like Columbus was
Speaker 1: an actual clerk for Justice Thomas. So there's a relationship there.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me, let's all connect these beautiful dots
Speaker 1: sitting Supreme Court justice has a wife that attended the insurrection,
Speaker 1: was in regular contact with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, stiff
Speaker 1: chief of staff on the day of the insurrection, also
Speaker 1: has a connection to the man that wrote the power
Speaker 1: point slide presentation about the insurrection, John Eastman, and no
Speaker 1: one except for a handful of Democrats are currently calling
Speaker 1: for an investigation into Clarence Thomas to see whether or
Speaker 1: not what we see with our own two eyes is
Speaker 1: actually what it is, which is a compromised Supreme Court justice. How?
Speaker 1: How sway? How? How is no one talking about this?
Speaker 1: How is this not the story of all stories? You know?
Speaker 1: You go back to the days right of fucking deep throat,
Speaker 1: You go back to the days of the I gotcha stories?
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, isn't this like a slam dunk too?
Speaker 1: At the bare minimum, open up an investigation into Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas and start to ask questions about what he knew
Speaker 1: and when he knew it. Isn't this wouldn't this be
Speaker 1: the opportunity and the time for Democrats to take off
Speaker 1: the kid gloves and actually get serious about the courts
Speaker 1: and realize that not only did we have a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court seat stolen by Mitch McConnell, did we have over
Speaker 1: three hundred federal judges put in place by Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump, but that the ones that they actually
Speaker 1: have are deeply in their pockets. Folks, Come on, right,
Speaker 1: so let me read you the opening to my piece,
Speaker 1: which I entitled a slap an orgy and a laptop
Speaker 1: that is up at medium right now. Quote. There is
Speaker 1: an old saying in media, if it bleeds, it leads,
Speaker 1: meaning that stories that are the most salacious and horrific
Speaker 1: drive the most traffic are the ones media outlets will push.
Speaker 1: In the advent of social media and our capitalistic clickbait
Speaker 1: society we live in now, ratings and eyeballs equal money,
Speaker 1: and where there is money to be made and power
Speaker 1: to covet, morality dare not enter. Currently, there are three
Speaker 1: stories that the media can't get enough of, and not
Speaker 1: one of them has to do with the America's impending
Speaker 1: nosedive into the arms of anti democratic forces that are
Speaker 1: hell bent on ripping up our constitution, destroying what's left
Speaker 1: of our political norms, and tap dancing their way into authoritarianism.
Speaker 1: America is captivated by the slap scene round the world,
Speaker 1: Representative Madison Cawthorne's claim of cocaine and orgies running amuck
Speaker 1: in Washington's elite political circles, and Hunter Biden's laptop. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the real political orgy that everyone needs to be paying
Speaker 1: attention to is happening between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 1: his wife Jinny, former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows,
Speaker 1: and former Clerk to Justice Thomas, an architect of the insurrection,
Speaker 1: John Eastman. And yet, folks, why isn't the news cycle
Speaker 1: focused on this? Well, let me tell you. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you why I think that the news cycle is
Speaker 1: not focused on this because recent hirings and also the
Speaker 1: admission of the co president from CBS should tell us
Speaker 1: the real truth. We don't have to guess because what
Speaker 1: was said by CBS's news co president Naraj Kelimani is
Speaker 1: this quote. If you look at some of the people
Speaker 1: that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able
Speaker 1: to make sure that we are getting access to both
Speaker 1: sides of the aisle is a priority because we know
Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to take over, most likely in
Speaker 1: the midterms. So you see here, folks, what does this
Speaker 1: spell out to you? Its spell out that journalism right
Speaker 1: in this day and age, isn't about integrity. It isn't
Speaker 1: about breaking the news to the American public. It isn't
Speaker 1: about educating this citizenury about their responsibility in this democracy. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: It is about making sure that you are doing the
Speaker 1: bidding of the people whose company you would like to keep.
Speaker 1: So would it make sense for say, CBS and other
Speaker 1: news outlets to decide to run segments and stories on
Speaker 1: really diving into and continuing to run it over and
Speaker 1: over again, the way that they did Hillary Clinton's fucking
Speaker 1: email story or Hunter Biden's laptop story. Right, think about
Speaker 1: the ways in which Hillary Clinton's candidacy in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: was tanked. It wasn't tanked just because Hilary didn't go
Speaker 1: to Michigan. It wasn't tanked just because the American people
Speaker 1: don't like her, or fifty two percent of white women
Speaker 1: decided that they would rather have their pussies grabbed by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump than to have a woman that looks like
Speaker 1: them sit in the Oval office. No, it wasn't just that.
Speaker 1: It was the consistent feeding to America that you should
Speaker 1: be suspicious of Hillary Clinton because she used a private server.
Speaker 1: And if she's going to use a private server in
Speaker 1: private emails, then what else could she possibly been hiding?
Speaker 1: Could she be hiding horns underneath or blonde you know,
Speaker 1: bouquet of hair, right? Could she be hiding some evil
Speaker 1: armor underneath her pantsuits? All they needed to do with
Speaker 1: the constant barrage in print, on TV, on radio, and
Speaker 1: everywhere else, was plant the seeds of something suspicious happening
Speaker 1: and let the American people's imagination run wild, and then
Speaker 1: when it would abate, continue to feed them a little
Speaker 1: bit more and a little bit more. So the question
Speaker 1: that I have is, then, when you have a story
Speaker 1: like that of a sitting Supreme Court justice, his wife,
Speaker 1: chief of staff to former twice impeach disgrace president of
Speaker 1: the United States, and then a former Justice Thomas Clark,
Speaker 1: entangled in the biggest political orgy of all time, a
Speaker 1: desire and an attempt to overthrow an election, how the
Speaker 1: fuck do you cover anything else? Well, it's as if
Speaker 1: you don't see that telling the truth and potentially smearing
Speaker 1: said Republican party that you believe is going to return
Speaker 1: to power in a few months would be good for
Speaker 1: your bottom line. So fuck integrity, right, fuck education. We'll
Speaker 1: bury that. We'll cover it so that folks can say, oh, no, no,
Speaker 1: we did a story. It just won't be a one
Speaker 1: above the fold. And it is not enough to say, well,
Speaker 1: there's just so much news that is happening, because folks,
Speaker 1: there's been so much news happening since twenty fifteen, since
Speaker 1: Donald Trump descended on those fucking escalators. There's been news
Speaker 1: happening over and over and over again. But it is
Speaker 1: those that are sitting in the newsroom c suites that
Speaker 1: are deciding what it is that they believe that the
Speaker 1: public should know. So wouldn't it be better if we
Speaker 1: stir up some drama, some made up drama for the
Speaker 1: bidens the current sitting administration that we believe has already
Speaker 1: neutered itself. And then we show favor and fancy to
Speaker 1: the ones that we believe are actually going to get
Speaker 1: into power, and then right they'll see us as friends
Speaker 1: and they won't attack us so much, and then we'll
Speaker 1: be able to get our one on ones and our
Speaker 1: sit down meetings. It's all a game. And the more
Speaker 1: that I become aware of the more dots that are connected,
Speaker 1: the more disgusted I am, because, folks, in all honesty,
Speaker 1: there is no where to look. There's no where to look.
Speaker 1: There is no night coming to save America. There is
Speaker 1: no Captain America that's going to rush in and make
Speaker 1: everything right. Because everybody that has a responsibility to do
Speaker 1: something or the power to do something, even if it's
Speaker 1: just to plant some seeds and shift shift some hearts
Speaker 1: and minds. They are actively choosing not to because it
Speaker 1: doesn't work or mesh with their bottom line. Our democracy,
Speaker 1: dear friends, has been sold. And so when we turn
Speaker 1: around and we say to ourselves, well, it's all Republicans
Speaker 1: and their misgivings and their bad doings. Of course those
Speaker 1: things are absolutely true, but they also have help. They've
Speaker 1: been enabled by mainstream media, right. And the thing is
Speaker 1: because I have conversations with my friends in media all
Speaker 1: the time, and I have been telling them it is
Speaker 1: not enough for us any longer to just be talking
Speaker 1: withinside inside of our own echo chambers. It's not enough.
Speaker 1: We have got to find a way to penetrate and
Speaker 1: get our words and thoughts out to the masses because,
Speaker 1: dear friends, because mainstream media ain't gonna fucking cover it.
Speaker 1: So you have to rely on information that is coming
Speaker 1: to you by people who are not bought and sold,
Speaker 1: you know, surely. Chisholm the first African American woman, the
Speaker 1: first black woman to run for the presidency in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nineteen seventy two. Her moniker that she used was
Speaker 1: Unboston unbothered, Right, unbought, Unboston unbothered. I think was the
Speaker 1: whole of it. And I think about how bold that
Speaker 1: was in nineteen seventy two to say that, but that
Speaker 1: it is even bolder to say that today, because there's
Speaker 1: a reason why Republicans and Democrats both have allowed so
Speaker 1: much money to be in politics, because it suits their
Speaker 1: personal bottom line. There's a reason why there's always been
Speaker 1: a campaign against the Elizabeth Warrens and the Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: of the world who want to call out corporate misgivings
Speaker 1: and wrongdoings. Right, But there's a reason why they're allowed
Speaker 1: to do that shit, And it isn't just one party's fault.
Speaker 1: When everything revolves around capitalism, and everything revolves around those
Speaker 1: with the most get to decide and delineate to the least,
Speaker 1: you are going to make sure, above all else that
Speaker 1: you stay at the top. So you are going to
Speaker 1: get in bed with people that you should have no
Speaker 1: business being in bed with. So when people say to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't trust the news, I don't trust
Speaker 1: this paper, I don't trust this outlet, I don't trust
Speaker 1: this network. Now I am beginning to understand why not
Speaker 1: even beginning to understand, because I fucking knew it was
Speaker 1: why I was fired from Serious because you tell people
Speaker 1: the absolute truth and they don't want that. It's why, folks,
Speaker 1: you don't see me regularly anymore on cable news, because
Speaker 1: you continue to tell the truth and call people out
Speaker 1: and guess what they don't want that. They don't want
Speaker 1: that at all, because it's too much. The reason why
Speaker 1: I became an entrepreneur and the reason why I am
Speaker 1: on independent channels as an independent podcaster is because I
Speaker 1: don't want anybody telling me what I can and cannot do,
Speaker 1: and I don't want anybody deciding what is going to
Speaker 1: drive my voice, and it certainly is going to be
Speaker 1: anybody else's fucking bottom line. I tell you that. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the quotes that I pulled up in this
Speaker 1: piece sits so heavy with me now as somebody who
Speaker 1: has done public relations and spin and crisis communications for
Speaker 1: part of my living, right, George Orwell said, this journalism
Speaker 1: is printing what someone else does not want published. Everything
Speaker 1: else is public relations. That couldn't be more true. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at the fluff pieces right that were
Speaker 1: written about Amy Covid, Barrett. Right. You look at the
Speaker 1: car rich of her confirmation, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, right, and
Speaker 1: look at that of Judge Katangi Brown Jackson. See who
Speaker 1: it benefits? Right? And why when you see people on
Speaker 1: television saying a lot of hot shit or saying nothing
Speaker 1: at all. Oh, they don't want to upset the apple cart.
Speaker 1: Do you know why they don't want to upset the
Speaker 1: apple cart? Because they don't know who's going to own
Speaker 1: that apple cart at the end of the week. So
Speaker 1: it's best to have this perceived notion that is false
Speaker 1: of somebody's neutrality. News is not neutral. None of these
Speaker 1: fucking outlets are. Every single one of these people that
Speaker 1: are sitting up in the c suites that get to
Speaker 1: decide what it is you ingest on a regular basis
Speaker 1: have political affiliation, but their ultimate affiliation is to money,
Speaker 1: and money ain't got no morals. And so every time
Speaker 1: that Democrats are trying to appeal to people's better angels,
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you dumb? Right? Like, seriously, are you dumb?
Speaker 1: Do you not get it that everybody is in it
Speaker 1: to win it right, to get as rich as possible.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the American dream, right, It isn't just
Speaker 1: the house and the pick offense. No, no, no. If
Speaker 1: you look on Netflix right now, if you look on
Speaker 1: Amazon primacy, all of the stories right that are on
Speaker 1: top right now are about how people became multibillionaires, or
Speaker 1: it is about the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Speaker 1: Because we are addicted, addicted to wealth, and it is
Speaker 1: to us in all of these different ways. And so
Speaker 1: if you are given the opportunity, we all would love
Speaker 1: to believe that, we would say no, no, I have morals, right.
Speaker 1: I actually am one of those people, which is why
Speaker 1: I broadcast to you from my apartment and not my mansion,
Speaker 1: because I entered into a profession that if you wanted
Speaker 1: to get rich, right, you could, but you need to
Speaker 1: also be able to swallow a lot of hot shit.
Speaker 1: You need to be able to divorce yourself from your values. Right.
Speaker 1: You need to make compromises. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: all compromises are bad. They absolutely are not. And I'm
Speaker 1: also not saying that everybody that is on television is bad.
Speaker 1: They absolutely are not. But every single one of them
Speaker 1: has had to compromise. And I'll tell you that the
Speaker 1: people of color and the women have had to compromise
Speaker 1: the most. And so when I see and I listen
Speaker 1: to people like the co president at CBS, and then
Speaker 1: you know, uncovered tapes of of Nunez, the former disgraced
Speaker 1: president of CBS, right, who had to step down because
Speaker 1: of you know, somebody's affair or whatever. It was, some
Speaker 1: type of sexual indiscretion. Lee Moons, he said the same thing, said, yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump may be mad, maybe bad for the country, but
Speaker 1: he's good for ratings. I can tell you how many
Speaker 1: times that I heard that in the halls of MSNBC. Right,
Speaker 1: everybody knows, everybody knew that Trump was terrible for the country,
Speaker 1: but oh my god, he's fucking making it rain. I
Speaker 1: remember sitting in the chair at MSNBC and I was
Speaker 1: posted be on a segment. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Danielle, we're canceled for the day because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to be landing in some place
Speaker 1: giving some type of hate speech. And do you know
Speaker 1: what every single cable news station did. They had a
Speaker 1: live feed going of a tarmac just waiting for Trump's
Speaker 1: plane to land, and that was the whole conversation four hours.
Speaker 1: What will Trump say this is what he said last time.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what do you think the plane is
Speaker 1: going to come in? What is he going to be wearing?
Speaker 1: What's Ivanka going to be doing? It was free press,
Speaker 1: it was free advertisement at a time when political ads,
Speaker 1: by the way that you see on television costs millions.
Speaker 1: The last couple of presidential races have been in the
Speaker 1: billions in terms of how much it actually costs to
Speaker 1: run for president. We have seen some of the most
Speaker 1: expensive Senate races ten hundreds of millions of dollars that
Speaker 1: they have cost. But every single news outlet in twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty sixteen gave Trump free coverage because people
Speaker 1: couldn't take their eyes off of the fucking circus. So
Speaker 1: when I say, you have a story like this political
Speaker 1: orgy that is literally unfolding in front of us, that
Speaker 1: has some key players from the Supreme Court to the
Speaker 1: White House right all the way around, and I'm asking,
Speaker 1: why the fuck is the lead story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden ain't in the fucking White House, not in
Speaker 1: the way that the fucking Trump spawn were with senior
Speaker 1: titles and all access passes, Like it's fucking political lallapalooza.
Speaker 1: But home, I wonder what's on that laptop? Mmm? Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's still going around saying hmm, you know, Zelinski should
Speaker 1: really open up an investigation. Who cares that his entire
Speaker 1: country is being bombed to smithereens? But oh, if he
Speaker 1: had only opened up an investigation, it's fucking wild. It
Speaker 1: is honestly really wild. On a day today, we're unlike,
Speaker 1: how how are these stories? Seven hours? Folks? Over seven
Speaker 1: hours of tapes are missing on accounted for. There is
Speaker 1: nothing that is there. How it is the White House.
Speaker 1: There are calls coming in all day, all the time.
Speaker 1: So the only way that you have that fucking day
Speaker 1: long gap is if somebody was being really mindful about
Speaker 1: making sure not to leave any evidence behind. And if
Speaker 1: you don't want to leave any evidence behind, sounds to
Speaker 1: me like you're in the midst of committing somebody's fucking crime,
Speaker 1: because who else would be picking up other phones and
Speaker 1: using different phones other than the one that is stationed
Speaker 1: on your desk in the fucking Oval office. Oh, let
Speaker 1: me let me use your phone, Mark, Mark Meadows, Hey,
Speaker 1: let me use that phone right quick? Hey of uncle,
Speaker 1: let me let me let me use your phone, right quick, bitch,
Speaker 1: where's your phone? It makes no sense, But the only
Speaker 1: sense that it does make is that everybody's in on it.
Speaker 1: And this is why I say, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be cheering Merritt Garland right now for his
Speaker 1: Department of Justice announcing that they are widening their probe.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be applauding that because I want
Speaker 1: to know if it's actual pr Right. We just need
Speaker 1: to have the perception that work is being done so
Speaker 1: that Democrats don't come through with a full on media onsought,
Speaker 1: which we know that they wouldn't fucking do anyway. I
Speaker 1: need to know that whether or not right this overt
Speaker 1: you know, window, this overt expression of the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice saying oh, we've hired all these people and we're
Speaker 1: doing all of these things, if it isn't about the
Speaker 1: appearance of justice and accountability, or if it is actually happening.
Speaker 1: So I will hold my breath, I will wait because
Speaker 1: I know good pr spin when I fucking see it.
Speaker 1: So I want perp walks. I want indictments reigning down.
Speaker 1: I want an investigation by this Department of Justice into
Speaker 1: Alvin Brad the Manhattan District Attorney to figure out why
Speaker 1: he decided not to continue on with his investigation into
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, right. I want an investigation into Clarence Thomas
Speaker 1: opened up by the Department of Justice to figure out
Speaker 1: whether or not we have a compromised sitting Supreme Court
Speaker 1: justice that is about to rule against Rovie Wade, not
Speaker 1: to mention a whole other series of important laws that
Speaker 1: are about to be overturned because we have a six
Speaker 1: to three court. I would like to know if one
Speaker 1: of those nine justices is bought. We folks are in
Speaker 1: a whole lot of motherfucking trouble. There really is no
Speaker 1: way around it. And I know you're tired. You're tired.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm tired of seeing this shit and being
Speaker 1: like staying in my head running the same record over again.
Speaker 1: Imagine if this were Baroque, Imagine if this were Hilary.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what Republicans would be doing. Do you
Speaker 1: know that Democrats much in the same way that they
Speaker 1: have done in the past to their own The first
Speaker 1: time that Republicans throw any type of fucking grenade, Democrats
Speaker 1: get in line behind them and say, we don't like
Speaker 1: that person either, and they should resign. So you think
Speaker 1: that if the shoe were on the other foot, and
Speaker 1: what Clarence Thomas did say, oh, I don't know Sonia
Speaker 1: Sotomayor had done right, or Briar had done or anybody
Speaker 1: that was appointed, anybody that's left that was appointed by
Speaker 1: a Democrat had done you think that this ship would
Speaker 1: be okay, That Republicans would just be allowing this to
Speaker 1: roll off their backs and then say some shit like
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer said, like, oh, well, maybe there should be
Speaker 1: some type of ethics rules for people with lifetime appointments.
Speaker 1: I think that somebody that has a lifetime appointment to
Speaker 1: the bench is worthy of some type of fucking scrutiny
Speaker 1: when it seems very obvious that something don't smell right.
Speaker 1: But alas, alas, dear friends, you would have to have
Speaker 1: some type of kutspa right, some type of gravitas in
Speaker 1: order to get that done and see that through. And
Speaker 1: we know, good god damn well that if we are
Speaker 1: looking for those two things from this Democratic Party, y'all,
Speaker 1: you better look elsewhere. Here's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: also want to talk about. So this week, this week,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden signed into law the anti lynching bill. Right.
Speaker 1: And you know, this, as I've said earlier this week,
Speaker 1: is an important piece of legislation. It should have been signed. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe sixty years ago when Emmitt Till
Speaker 1: was killed, you know, um, and when it was found
Speaker 1: out that the white woman who said that she that
Speaker 1: he whistled at her, right m was a fucking liar,
Speaker 1: that maybe, you know, the murder and torture of a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old boy would have urged the public to
Speaker 1: really look at racism, at their anti blackness, at the
Speaker 1: domestic terrorism that was happening at the hands of white people.
Speaker 1: But no, we want to pat ourselves on the back
Speaker 1: for shit that is happening now sixty years later, six
Speaker 1: decades later. Right. And here's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: will say about this. Do you know did you know what?
Speaker 1: I was trying to find it but I can't. Did
Speaker 1: you know that it wasn't a unanimous vote, an anti
Speaker 1: lynching bill in twenty motherfucking twenty two not passed unanimously.
Speaker 1: That there were not one, not two, but three fucking
Speaker 1: Republicans that voted against it. Three three Republicans came out
Speaker 1: and actually actually went on record to vote against it,
Speaker 1: and here here, here's who they are, thankfully for bearing
Speaker 1: with me. I found it Representative Andrew Clyde Republican Georgia,
Speaker 1: Thomas Massey, Republican Kentucky, and Chip Roy, Republican Texas. Now
Speaker 1: let me just make mention of Chip Roy. And I
Speaker 1: learned about this through Joy Reid Joy Reid's Instagram because
Speaker 1: I thought that it was unanimous, right. I thought that
Speaker 1: this was why there was so much celebration because for
Speaker 1: the first time in sixty fucking years and two hundred
Speaker 1: attempts at passing an anti lynching bill in this country
Speaker 1: that white people love to say isn't innately racist and
Speaker 1: that we don't actually need to teach anything about differences,
Speaker 1: because you know, all is good in a country that
Speaker 1: couldn't bear to pass an anti lynching bill even right,
Speaker 1: and we're still we're holding our breath after we watched
Speaker 1: George Floyd be lynched in twenty twenty, Chip Roy was
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna mess up his exact quote, but he
Speaker 1: said that lynching was a form of justice and that's
Speaker 1: how they do things down in Texas. He said that
Speaker 1: in the last few years. So what I have said
Speaker 1: is that these people are not Republicans. They are not
Speaker 1: and not just these three that I called out, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the entire party. They are white nationalists. This
Speaker 1: is a white nationalist party. They are a white nationalist cult.
Speaker 1: And when we continue, even myself, because I slip to
Speaker 1: refer to these people as Republicans, we are legitimizing them.
Speaker 1: We are legitimizing their hateful ideology as if it is
Speaker 1: an acceptable alternative to life in America. When we have
Speaker 1: the CBSS and the CNNs and the Fox news Is
Speaker 1: decide to hire known liars and avid white supremacy, we
Speaker 1: are allowing them to tell us that white supremacy and
Speaker 1: white nationalism is a legitimate ideology that is worthy of
Speaker 1: conversation and being heard. And until we say no, no more,
Speaker 1: until we actually use our collective power and voices to
Speaker 1: whether it is to fucking boycott the CBS's of the world,
Speaker 1: whether it is to boycott, you know, the Fox news
Speaker 1: Is of the world, to call the FCC on a
Speaker 1: regular basis and say why is it not why are
Speaker 1: there no disclaimers for Tucker Carlson and its hateful, violent
Speaker 1: speech the way that you see on every fucking show
Speaker 1: that you turn on. Oh, this shows nudity and foul language,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Why is the same not done
Speaker 1: for our political discourse, because it should be. It would
Speaker 1: have people think differently about how and where they are
Speaker 1: consuming the information that they need to make informed decisions
Speaker 1: about their lives. But that's just it. We don't want
Speaker 1: an informed citizenjury. Those in power don't want you to
Speaker 1: be informed because then you will question. And if you
Speaker 1: begin to question them, the question that you're going to
Speaker 1: ask is why are they in power? Why are they
Speaker 1: the chosen ones to make decisions for the rest of us?
Speaker 1: And then they will have to be accountable to you.
Speaker 1: So the goal has never been education. The goal has
Speaker 1: always been disinformation and the gaslight. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today on this woke af on this good good Friday, folks.
Speaker 1: You know, I will say this, it is very difficult
Speaker 1: from me on a regular basis to keep up with
Speaker 1: the woke moment of wellness. And I say that in
Speaker 1: all honesty and transparency, because I am just filled with
Speaker 1: anger and rage all of the time, and there are
Speaker 1: so much news to cover and so many things that
Speaker 1: are just exasperating that I forget and so I am
Speaker 1: going to challenge myself to make it a point because
Speaker 1: I know that by virtue of me doing this, it
Speaker 1: will allow you all to pause and to think about
Speaker 1: your wellness in the midst of all of the crazy.
Speaker 1: So for this Friday, woke moment of wellness. What I
Speaker 1: discovered while I was on while I was on vacation
Speaker 1: is how important yoga is to my body. And you
Speaker 1: guys know because my mother owns a yoga studio, is
Speaker 1: an avid yogi, so is my sister, and I am
Speaker 1: not that has never been really my chosen form of
Speaker 1: exercise because I like more aggressive exercise, no surprise to
Speaker 1: anyone who listens to me or knows me. But what
Speaker 1: I realized on vacation is how important it is to
Speaker 1: listen to our bodies. And sometimes what our minds want
Speaker 1: us to do is not actually what our body needs.
Speaker 1: And while I was on vacation and I limited the
Speaker 1: amount of noise that I was taking in on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, I realized that I would wake up. On
Speaker 1: my first couple of days in Panama, I woke up
Speaker 1: and I was very very stiff. My body, my joints ached,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just you know, the travel to my destination,
Speaker 1: which was a part of it, but it was also
Speaker 1: the weight of all of the things that I was carrying.
Speaker 1: So I challenged myself to do yoga the entire time
Speaker 1: that I was on vacation, and I would say I
Speaker 1: did it a majority of the time. I was gone
Speaker 1: for eight days, and I did it for at least
Speaker 1: six of them. But I also did something else for myself.
Speaker 1: I got a massage. I got two because they were
Speaker 1: cheap and I could afford to get two in a week.
Speaker 1: And I want to share with you what happened during
Speaker 1: my first massage. I had the good fortune of being
Speaker 1: with an incredible healer and wellness expert in you know,
Speaker 1: skilled in Swedish and time massage, and during you know,
Speaker 1: our session, I started to cry. I started to seriously
Speaker 1: just I mean tears rolling down my face because as
Speaker 1: I was laying there and having my body twisted and
Speaker 1: worked and not you know, rolled out and you know,
Speaker 1: joined stretched and just taking this time to be still
Speaker 1: but also be cared for by other hands, I started
Speaker 1: to think about my ancestors, actual family members, and then
Speaker 1: the enslaved Africans whose perseverance through so much torture, so
Speaker 1: much pain allows me to exist, and how they never
Speaker 1: got to rest, how they never were able to relax,
Speaker 1: and how their sacrifice should be honored through how each
Speaker 1: and every one of us choose to care for ourselves
Speaker 1: and the people around us. I thought about my grandparents,
Speaker 1: and how I can't think about, you know, aside from
Speaker 1: their joy of you know, planning parties with family and
Speaker 1: you know, and their trips back and forth from the
Speaker 1: United States to Jamaica, had they ever indulged in a
Speaker 1: massage in a sauna, in a steam room, in some
Speaker 1: yoga that was just about stretching their body and nourishing it. Right,
Speaker 1: we are always doing and there are some of us
Speaker 1: who never ever had a choice as to whether or
Speaker 1: not they could just be, even just for a moment,
Speaker 1: because they were seen right as the machines, as the chattel.
Speaker 1: And so I realized, as I was laying on that
Speaker 1: table that I my body, our bodies hold so much.
Speaker 1: As my mother says, we have so many issues in
Speaker 1: our tissues, and that the needing that we need to
Speaker 1: do in order to get that energy out is so
Speaker 1: critical to our health and to our well being. And
Speaker 1: so the tears that I wept during that massage. We're
Speaker 1: not sadness in grief. It was deep relief and gratitude
Speaker 1: and the gratitude that I had to be able to
Speaker 1: experience this moment but also experience it for those that
Speaker 1: never never did And how necessary rest is to the
Speaker 1: revolution that we are in. And so, folks, you know,
Speaker 1: listen to your body, allow it to lead you right
Speaker 1: into places and spaces that you may not think that
Speaker 1: you quote unquote deserve right because we always are on this.
Speaker 1: I have to earn this. I have to earn my rest.
Speaker 1: You do not. You do not by virtue of being
Speaker 1: human and needing to sleep. That is it, kneading downtime,
Speaker 1: that is it. You don't have to prove your value
Speaker 1: in order to rest. That, friends, is your woke moment
Speaker 1: of wellness. As always, power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power. Get woke and stay woke as fuck.
Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. Have a wonderful, RESTful weekend.