Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Wika f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, um,
Speaker 1: I want to start off this Monday with my reflections
Speaker 1: on attending the White House commemoration for our new America's
Speaker 1: new and first black woman Justice of the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: Katangi Brown Jackson. And if you all follow me on
Speaker 1: social media, which if you don't, you should on Instagram, Twitter,
Speaker 1: D two cents, d E, t w O c E,
Speaker 1: NTFU and now on TikTok as Danielle Moody underscore. I
Speaker 1: posted a lot of pictures, but I wanted to save
Speaker 1: kind of my in depth reflection for all of you,
Speaker 1: and I particularly you know, for the folks that asked
Speaker 1: to say, you know, they want to know how how
Speaker 1: it happened and you know how it felt. Um. I
Speaker 1: have to say that for folks that have been listening
Speaker 1: to woke fum you know over the years or have
Speaker 1: been following me, have known that you know, during the
Speaker 1: Obama years, I spent a lot of time at the
Speaker 1: White House. I did not work for the Obama administration,
Speaker 1: but by virtue of my role in lgbt Q politics,
Speaker 1: and in UM movement politics, I will say whether that
Speaker 1: is specifically on black you know, Black Americans, UM, the
Speaker 1: diaspora and people of color and social justice or you know,
Speaker 1: the intersections right of where marginalized people are. I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time at the White House, UH during
Speaker 1: the Obama years because I believe wholeheartedly in democracy. I
Speaker 1: believe wholeheartedly in our duty and responsibilities as citizens of
Speaker 1: this country to do what we can in order to
Speaker 1: preserve our democracy. It's something that I've never taken lightly.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with politics when I was in
Speaker 1: high school. When I was in high school, History and
Speaker 1: English were always, you know, the two subjects that I
Speaker 1: excelled at the most and the ones that I loved.
Speaker 1: But politics I got turned on to in my AP
Speaker 1: government in politics class. Because I could say this all
Speaker 1: the time. I believe that my teacher was a communist,
Speaker 1: and I believe that she had a very globalized view
Speaker 1: on politics, and you know, and on the people's ability
Speaker 1: if they were informed, if they were educated to really participate, right,
Speaker 1: that you don't have to be just a deposit to
Speaker 1: a deposit, right for whatever it is that the powers
Speaker 1: that be want that in order for government and democracy,
Speaker 1: I should say, in order for democracy to thrive, and
Speaker 1: then even in order for capitalism to exist, there has
Speaker 1: to be an agreement, right, And there was an agreement made.
Speaker 1: It was called the Constitution, right, and it was in
Speaker 1: agreement on how we were going to operate, how we
Speaker 1: were going to create government for and by the people.
Speaker 1: And as society evolved, so too, right did our laws
Speaker 1: and amendments. But what we didn't know, what we were
Speaker 1: not privy to, was a crystal ball in realizing what
Speaker 1: would happen if people stopped really paying attention, if people
Speaker 1: got complacent, because after the election of their first black president,
Speaker 1: they believed that all was well, that we were quote
Speaker 1: unquote post racial, and I you know, as and many
Speaker 1: people that I know that exist in different ways in
Speaker 1: the political sphere, we also got complacent, right, Like we
Speaker 1: thought that we had done the work and that now
Speaker 1: we were going to be reaping the benefits of what
Speaker 1: it was going to be like to continue right, bending
Speaker 1: this arc towards justice. That we thought, by virtue of
Speaker 1: the election of Barack Obama that Americans would have opened
Speaker 1: up their eyes to seeing what society can look like
Speaker 1: if you put it in the hands of people who
Speaker 1: are compassionate, who are smart, who are empathetic, who are strategic,
Speaker 1: and what that can look like. And you know, so
Speaker 1: over the course of the Obama years, I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time, you know, working with and around the
Speaker 1: Obama administration. And when Hilary Clinton was defeated, I was
Speaker 1: on air, right I was doing election night coverage in Canada,
Speaker 1: and that coverage that night went viral because I was
Speaker 1: absolutely beside myself. It took everything in me not to
Speaker 1: cry on national television. And you know, people always ask
Speaker 1: me why do I get so angry, right, Like, why
Speaker 1: do I have so much rage? Because I believe that
Speaker 1: much in democracy. I believe that much in our body
Speaker 1: politic and there is nothing more that can send me
Speaker 1: into a fucking tailspin of anger and rage. Then watching
Speaker 1: white mediocrity and white rage topple the progress that has
Speaker 1: been made in this country, the progress that my ancestors,
Speaker 1: for your ancestors fort for. And I took up the
Speaker 1: mantle in my own small way to be able to
Speaker 1: contribute to the progress of this nation. And when you
Speaker 1: see it being taken advantage of, when you see the
Speaker 1: toxicity when you see the racism, when you see the
Speaker 1: worst in us, having success after success after success, you
Speaker 1: become disillusioned. And so that brings me to Friday. On
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Like all of the fortunate people that were
Speaker 1: able to attend the White House event commemorating Judge Katangi
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson, I opened up my inbox and it was
Speaker 1: just like, hey, you're invited to attend history, right, And
Speaker 1: for me, you know, and a lot of people who
Speaker 1: spent years living you know, almost two decades or pretty
Speaker 1: much two decades living inside the Beltway, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of us moved right, like the Obamas were out
Speaker 1: and we were like sis, you know, it was the
Speaker 1: possibility of a Trump presidency, but never really truly deep down,
Speaker 1: I wanted to believe that America was better, but I
Speaker 1: was done and I wanted to move on to something else.
Speaker 1: But when you receive a message from the White House,
Speaker 1: you attend. And that's what happened on Thursday evening. And
Speaker 1: so I would find myself Friday morning on a six
Speaker 1: am train to Washington, d C. It was going to
Speaker 1: be my first time going to the White House in
Speaker 1: you know, what would be five years, and I'm getting
Speaker 1: emotional now because the last day, my last day celebrating
Speaker 1: at the White House with my friends and colleagues. You know,
Speaker 1: we cried because we didn't know what was coming. And
Speaker 1: I think that those tiers weren't just like the end
Speaker 1: of this Golden Error, but it was a fear of
Speaker 1: what was coming, what could potentially come if we lost.
Speaker 1: And then to live through that, to see our White
Speaker 1: House destroyed, the sanctity of it, the beauty of it,
Speaker 1: the prestige of it, To see the Capitol Building, a
Speaker 1: place of such pride as a child of immigrants who
Speaker 1: walked those halls and worked in those halls four years,
Speaker 1: for years, to watch it desecrated. This is why it
Speaker 1: isn't just white privilege, it isn't just white supremacy. It
Speaker 1: isn't all of these things. It's the demeaning of what
Speaker 1: enslaved Africans built and where we were able to have
Speaker 1: this amazing full circle moment with the Obamas, and so
Speaker 1: to be back there after four horrific years under Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: two years of a fucking global health pandemic, and having
Speaker 1: left the firms that I've worked for the institutions and
Speaker 1: be an independent voice and not tied to any institution,
Speaker 1: and to be invited back to witness this history and
Speaker 1: have front row, have a front row seat to history
Speaker 1: was it was the honor of my career to this point.
Speaker 1: And I hadn't expected to be emotional because for some
Speaker 1: people that were in attendance, it was there very first time.
Speaker 1: And so being with people who it was their very
Speaker 1: first time attending a White House event, attending a major event,
Speaker 1: and then but then being on the South Lawn with
Speaker 1: friends and colleagues who you haven't seen in five years,
Speaker 1: it felt like, you know, a family reunion, right, like
Speaker 1: a family picnic um outside as we're all greeting and
Speaker 1: hugging and just can't believe that we're we're back because
Speaker 1: we never expected to be back. Um, having dropped everything,
Speaker 1: uh that you had ever planned to do on that Friday, Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, and and head back right and be
Speaker 1: to be to quote Hamilton, to be in the room
Speaker 1: where it happened, to be on the lawn where history
Speaker 1: was being made, and so to listen to Judge Jackson,
Speaker 1: to listen to the Vice President, to listen to Biden,
Speaker 1: and you know, and folks know, like I made the
Speaker 1: joke while I was there that I was surprised that
Speaker 1: I was invited back because I don't give this administration
Speaker 1: a pass. I don't give anybody a pass, frankly, like,
Speaker 1: because our democracy is too fucking important to hurt people
Speaker 1: to be concerned about hurting motherfucker's feelings, right, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: not concerned about people's feelings. I'm concerned about fascism, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about making friends. I'm concerned about authoritarianism
Speaker 1: and how quickly, how quickly our democratic norms fell and
Speaker 1: are falling, and faith in institution and agencies that have
Speaker 1: been built up over two hundred and thirty some odd
Speaker 1: years is terrifying. So to have this brief moment in
Speaker 1: the midst of Mayhem, to be able to celebrate this
Speaker 1: extraordinary human being and listen to her quote, my Angelou,
Speaker 1: it sent me over. I was in tears, and so
Speaker 1: many people around, you know, because if you ever have
Speaker 1: the privilege of being able to attend an event or
Speaker 1: events at the White House, like the energy when you're
Speaker 1: at a White House that you know isn't run by
Speaker 1: a criminal enterprise, the energy is just so beautiful because
Speaker 1: we've all spent our lives and our careers, working in
Speaker 1: this space, trying to make the world better in our
Speaker 1: small part and place, and then you get to go
Speaker 1: and be at in the seats of power. And it's humbling.
Speaker 1: That's the only word that I can say. That it's
Speaker 1: humbling um to experience and for me to remember like
Speaker 1: this long forgotten time which feels like one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1: And I noticed some people like five years. You know,
Speaker 1: there are people that have never been to the White House.
Speaker 1: There are people that and I trust me, I get
Speaker 1: how how it can land. But that that's my truth.
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's it's the space that I have
Speaker 1: been in and worked in and put in time in
Speaker 1: for you know, for a really long time. So it
Speaker 1: was incredibly humbling and beautiful. It was a beautiful day.
Speaker 1: There was you know, white, huge puffy clouds in the
Speaker 1: sky and the sun was beaming down and you know,
Speaker 1: the garden, the White House gardens, you know, look beautiful
Speaker 1: and UM, it was just so joyous and it was
Speaker 1: so joyous to see um, to be able to see
Speaker 1: Reverend Jesse Jesse Jackson who is ailing um from Parkinson's
Speaker 1: but was present. And this man has fought his entire life.
Speaker 1: You know and has gotten to see these moments that
Speaker 1: they couldn't have even have dreamt of. You know, when
Speaker 1: they're battling against police batons and hoses, um, and you
Speaker 1: know in cradling, uh, you know Martin Luther King as
Speaker 1: he died in their arms, the promise of the future
Speaker 1: to see him. And you know Reverend Al Sharpton, who
Speaker 1: over the years I have gotten to know just by
Speaker 1: virtue of going on tv UM to see them there
Speaker 1: and to watch their faces as they are listening to
Speaker 1: Judge Jackson soon to be Justice Jackson. Once Briar officially
Speaker 1: resigns in June. It was extraordinary. It was a day
Speaker 1: for black women, I think, everywhere in every industry to
Speaker 1: know that we are overqualified most times for the things
Speaker 1: that we are doing, and largely overlooked. And on Friday,
Speaker 1: the spotlight was on the extraordinary grace, brilliance, perseverance, fortitude
Speaker 1: of this extraordinary black woman. And what I really appreciated
Speaker 1: as well was Biden being honest about how disgusting and
Speaker 1: despicable her confirmation hearing was and how it was an
Speaker 1: insult not only to her to black people, but to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, and that Republicans showed their whole ass right.
Speaker 1: They showed exactly who they are, what they stand for,
Speaker 1: as if anybody had any fucking doubts in their mind.
Speaker 1: But they're always those motherfuckers that want to consider themselves undecided.
Speaker 1: I just say that they're desperate for attention. But those
Speaker 1: that love to believe that they're undecided or independent, you know,
Speaker 1: need constant reminders of the vitriol, of the racism, of
Speaker 1: the hatred that Republicans embody. And because of that and
Speaker 1: the handling that this beautiful soul showed the world during
Speaker 1: her confirmation hearing, she went into her commemoration with the
Speaker 1: highest approval rating of any justice. It took two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three years for a black woman to sit
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court, for a black woman in an
Speaker 1: Asian Pacific islander to be vice President of the United States.
Speaker 1: Centuries so to be able to sit and watch and
Speaker 1: applaud and scream and then drink copious amounts of champagne
Speaker 1: with friends, to celebrate, to celebrate the day, to celebrate
Speaker 1: this history, just for a moment, right to really be
Speaker 1: present in joy and present in this space was a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. If you haven't already,
Speaker 1: you can check out some of the photos and videos
Speaker 1: that I took on my Instagram at D two cents
Speaker 1: and on Twitter, which I tweeted out over the weekend
Speaker 1: as well. But it was truly truly day to remember
Speaker 1: and one that I will cherish and remember for, you know,
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. And I am just
Speaker 1: so incredibly grateful. And it was a reminder too as
Speaker 1: well that there is still so much goddamn work to
Speaker 1: be done, because I hope that we don't have to
Speaker 1: wait another two hundred and thirty years for a second
Speaker 1: black woman to be on the Supreme Court, or the
Speaker 1: first Asian woman to be on the Supreme Court, or
Speaker 1: for the third black man to be on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: That's only if you count Clarence Thomas. So with that said, folks,
Speaker 1: I am going to switch gears and get into the
Speaker 1: news of the day. Over the weekend, multiple stories in
Speaker 1: the New York Times sent my blood absolutely boiling. But
Speaker 1: one of the first that I want to get into
Speaker 1: is actually coming out of Texas, and it is a
Speaker 1: despicable story that I'm certain many of you have heard,
Speaker 1: and if not, then let me enlighten you. Twenty six
Speaker 1: years Twenty six year old Lizzelle Herrera was in custody
Speaker 1: last week being held on five hundred thousand dollar bond
Speaker 1: for performing a self induced abortion. Now we know that
Speaker 1: this was going to happen. That the whole point of
Speaker 1: what Texas has done, what Oklahoma has done, what Alabama
Speaker 1: is doing, what Mississippi has done, is all to force
Speaker 1: women back into back alley situations where they are being
Speaker 1: forced to take their health into their own hands, their
Speaker 1: lives into their own hands. But thankfully, there are you know,
Speaker 1: abortion pills. There are abortion you know abortion pills that
Speaker 1: we've talked about with our friend Danielle Campomore that there
Speaker 1: are safe ways right. But the way that these laws
Speaker 1: are working is that they are written in a way
Speaker 1: that Atlante law in Texas that hospitals and people can report.
Speaker 1: Hospitals are supposed to report. There's a reason why when
Speaker 1: people are shot, right, they don't oftentimes go to the
Speaker 1: hospital because it triggers the cops to come. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what happens with criminals, but is not supposed to happen
Speaker 1: with a woman or a person with a uterus trying
Speaker 1: to access an abortion. So let me read you this
Speaker 1: story out of Texas Public Radio Star and here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Lizzelle Herrera has since been released from custody. An abortion
Speaker 1: rights organization paid her bond in order to have her released,
Speaker 1: and since last week. She was released over the weekend
Speaker 1: because Star County District Attorney gotcha. Alan Ramirez said Sunday
Speaker 1: he had filed emotion to dismiss a murder charge against
Speaker 1: a woman for performing a self induced abortion. Ramirez said
Speaker 1: that the case stemmed from a report made two police
Speaker 1: by a local hospital in January. Ramirez said that the
Speaker 1: Star County Sheriff's Department quote did their duty in investigating
Speaker 1: the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital,
Speaker 1: but this was not a criminal matter under Texas law. Quote.
Speaker 1: In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that miss
Speaker 1: Harrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegations
Speaker 1: against her. Texas Public Radio goes on to write, this
Speaker 1: is a dramatic turnaround from an indictment signed March thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, stating that Herrera quote did then and
Speaker 1: there intentionally and knowingly caused the death of an individual
Speaker 1: by a self induced abortion. The specifics and the strength
Speaker 1: of the case, as they write, were murky from the start. Quote.
Speaker 1: The Texas Murder Statute does apply to the killing of
Speaker 1: an unborn fetus, Ramirez said, but it specifically exempts cases
Speaker 1: where the person who terminated the fetus is the pregnant woman. Folks,
Speaker 1: We're in hell, okay, And the reality is this is
Speaker 1: just one of many cases that we are going to
Speaker 1: hear about that we are going to lose sleepover, that
Speaker 1: we are going to raise our blood pressure over that
Speaker 1: we are going to cause that's going to cause so
Speaker 1: much dysfucking ease in our lives. This is what they wanted.
Speaker 1: The outcome, however, in this case is going the way
Speaker 1: that it should go. First of all, there should have
Speaker 1: never been a fucking case to begin with, because we
Speaker 1: did believe up until last year that a woman and
Speaker 1: a person with a uterus had the right to make
Speaker 1: the decisions about their own reproductive health and when and
Speaker 1: where and if they wanted to have a fucking baby.
Speaker 1: So what I want to go back to is the
Speaker 1: thing that again, I feel like even when I was
Speaker 1: at the White House on Friday, I said, Wow, so
Speaker 1: this is a missed opportunity, because why are we celebrating
Speaker 1: Justice Katangi Brown Jackson because of Georgia and the two
Speaker 1: senators that one war Knock and Orseth oh Seth. Excuse
Speaker 1: me Warnock, who was currently trailing behind the black right
Speaker 1: wing fucking Republican in Georgia. Without Stacy Abrams, Black Pack,
Speaker 1: Black Vote Matters, and all of the grassroots organizations that
Speaker 1: worked to get out the vote in Georgia, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: wouldn't have had a Supreme Court justice to bring because
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have had the numbers. And much in the
Speaker 1: same way that Mitch McConnell had blocked the seating of
Speaker 1: Merritt Garland, the confirmation hearing, even just blatant meetings, would
Speaker 1: have been the same. So I said at the White
Speaker 1: House to the folks next to me, I said, you
Speaker 1: know what would be nice is if in the entire
Speaker 1: speech where everybody was thanking everybody, that the President of
Speaker 1: the United States said, and I want to say a
Speaker 1: special thank you to the people of Georgia for giving
Speaker 1: us war Knock and OSAF so that we could have
Speaker 1: this moment today. This is why voting matters right now.
Speaker 1: Democrats are always tiptoeing around the fucking rules and the
Speaker 1: law and what you can and can't use the White
Speaker 1: House for. Meanwhile, if you recall, Donald Trump did an
Speaker 1: entire campaign event from the White House, which is actually illegal,
Speaker 1: but of course Democrats don't hold him to account. There's
Speaker 1: a whole other fucking story, folks, that I'm going to
Speaker 1: be getting into in just a little bit about where
Speaker 1: we are right with finding out more information about what
Speaker 1: happened on January sixth, and what the House Commission is
Speaker 1: or is not considering doing following the mountains of evidence
Speaker 1: that they have now on Donald Trump. But the reality
Speaker 1: is that if you don't consistently remind the people why
Speaker 1: the courts matter, why fucking voting matters, why it matters
Speaker 1: that Democrats hold the seats of power that they refuse
Speaker 1: to actually use to the fullest extent that they have.
Speaker 1: If you don't do that, then how are you getting
Speaker 1: people to actually get out and vote in a couple
Speaker 1: of months for midterms? What case are you bringing to
Speaker 1: the American people if you're not going to use every
Speaker 1: opportunity that there's a fucking microphone in your face to
Speaker 1: tell the goddamn truth about what we are up against right.
Speaker 1: You have no problem poken at your chest for Ukraine,
Speaker 1: poken at your chest against Putin right and his violence
Speaker 1: and aggression. But are we not talking about how he's
Speaker 1: able to continue to do so because he's being uplifted
Speaker 1: in this country by the radical right. Over the weekend
Speaker 1: I finally saw for read Zakira on CNN do an
Speaker 1: entire cold open about the global far right and do
Speaker 1: an entire like two three minutes on Tucker Carson, and
Speaker 1: how there He's like, if you were to just watch
Speaker 1: Fox News, you wouldn't even know there's a war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even know that we're on the brink of
Speaker 1: a fucking nuclear meltdown in catastrophe. You would think he
Speaker 1: said that the biggest thing that we have going on
Speaker 1: for us here are battles at the school board and
Speaker 1: critical race theory. So the point being obviously that those
Speaker 1: things are important because I talk about them on my
Speaker 1: show all the time, because I know exactly what Republicans
Speaker 1: are doing right while everyone is paying attention to the
Speaker 1: role level, they are staking their claim at the local
Speaker 1: and state levels, and they are putting their people in
Speaker 1: place because they believe that the next election, whether it
Speaker 1: is mid terms, right, which will be our first test
Speaker 1: post twenty twenty, where we've put no guardrails in place
Speaker 1: to hold a free and fair election, knowing all of
Speaker 1: the fucking holes that we saw in twenty twenty, that
Speaker 1: they will have all the people in place to not
Speaker 1: certify the next election if it is Biden or another
Speaker 1: Democrat that wins, to say, oh, no, right, this is
Speaker 1: a false flag operation. We're not moving forward with this,
Speaker 1: and we decline to certify. We decline to certify and
Speaker 1: set up a whole new group of electors. The reality, however,
Speaker 1: is that if we don't talk about it, then the
Speaker 1: people don't know. The other major story that happened over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and again I tweeted and I said, this
Speaker 1: shit is foreshadowing, and somebody wanted once again to come
Speaker 1: for me. And I'm just like, folks like you don't
Speaker 1: know how I roll, So like, unless you're coming with
Speaker 1: a battery of facts and reports and stats and all
Speaker 1: of these things, don't think that you can come for me, okay,
Speaker 1: because I will light your entire shit up because I'm
Speaker 1: not in the mood, like I said, if the president
Speaker 1: of the United States can get it. If you think
Speaker 1: that you on Twitter can't, you are sadly mistaken. But
Speaker 1: what happened is this over the weekend, it is now
Speaker 1: determined that the French election is going to be between
Speaker 1: McCrone and la Penn. Now Lapen is pretty much Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in in women's clothing. She is a far right,
Speaker 1: bigoted zealot who wants to get rid of immigrants in France,
Speaker 1: who wants to like eliminate equity right, who pretty much
Speaker 1: wants to model France after Hungary, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is the only European nation outside of Russia because Russia
Speaker 1: is not a democracy whatsoever that they call a partial
Speaker 1: democracy because they have elections, they just don't mean shit, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what Lapen wants. What is happening in the
Speaker 1: United States is happening all around the world, and it's
Speaker 1: started with Brexit, And so what when I said that, folks,
Speaker 1: what we are seeing right now is foreshadowing and people
Speaker 1: need to fucking pay attention that if Lapen wins, right, like,
Speaker 1: France is going to decimate they're standing in the free
Speaker 1: world following World War two, Like this is the kind
Speaker 1: of stakes that we are living in. And I said specifically, this,
Speaker 1: the Macron and Lapin run off in France is going
Speaker 1: to be foreshadow for the world. Will the global far
Speaker 1: right succeed in reshaping the world or will democracy win?
Speaker 1: These are the stakes for France, America and everyone. And
Speaker 1: so when you see me screaming my fucking head off,
Speaker 1: this is the type of shit that I am talking
Speaker 1: about that while everyone is in a place of disrepair
Speaker 1: following like the continuation of a global health pandemic, following
Speaker 1: you know, increased violence, right, increase white supremacy, global warming, inflation,
Speaker 1: a war in Ukraine. Like the amount of shit that
Speaker 1: is rolling downhill right on all of us is suffocating.
Speaker 1: And so when you don't have your basic needs met
Speaker 1: and you are just being put up against a rock
Speaker 1: and a hard place, like I need to be making
Speaker 1: decisions about my medicine that I'm buying, and food on
Speaker 1: the table and clothing for my children, and my mortgage
Speaker 1: or my rent. You think you're given a fuck about
Speaker 1: what is happening outside of what you're dealing with in
Speaker 1: your own household. No, but that's how fascism rises. Right
Speaker 1: whenever you look, if you look back in history to
Speaker 1: the spikes and fascism that we've had an authoritarianism around
Speaker 1: the world. It has all come from economic devastation, right,
Speaker 1: That's where the fuck we are. So this election, right
Speaker 1: is going to be extraordinarily terrifying. And you know, somebody
Speaker 1: said to me, well, Danielle, I don't know why you're
Speaker 1: saying this, because you know we had Brexit and Brexit
Speaker 1: was foreshadowing. Yes, yes, Brexit was foreshadowing. And guess what.
Speaker 1: Most Americans have the fucking memory of a gnat. Right,
Speaker 1: you barely know, You barely remember all of the hot
Speaker 1: shit that Trump did over four years, because his four
Speaker 1: years felt like forty Those people who are not in
Speaker 1: politics day in and day out, regular Americans do not
Speaker 1: remember how Boris Johnson got into office. And so what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, if you are not doing the job
Speaker 1: of continually repeating the truth and deciding that you were
Speaker 1: going to stop leading from the fucking back, then how
Speaker 1: are you going to ignite people into a state of
Speaker 1: rage that is going to put them into action. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean the state of rage that Trump did
Speaker 1: with their white grievance. I'm talking about the state of
Speaker 1: rage that you could lose everything that we've all taken
Speaker 1: for granted because we were born into this democracy that
Speaker 1: seemed with each generation to be getting better, that the
Speaker 1: arc was bending a little bit more, and the Obama
Speaker 1: administration was the pinnacle of that moment. We felt like
Speaker 1: we fucking made it, but it was a blip on
Speaker 1: the radar, and we didn't do the work while he
Speaker 1: was in office to continue to build the pipeline to
Speaker 1: progress and think that it's not a one and done.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like I said this the other day,
Speaker 1: you know, because sometimes and I say this all the
Speaker 1: time on the show, sometimes I ask myself why I
Speaker 1: continue to do the work that I do, because it
Speaker 1: absolutely drives me crazy and has made me at different
Speaker 1: points in my life very unwell, like emotionally unwell and
Speaker 1: physically unwell because of the fucking stress. It's why I
Speaker 1: talk these days about self care and wellness because up
Speaker 1: until you know the pandemic, the beginning of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I used to work seven days a week, right, had
Speaker 1: my regular job, had television, had writing, had a radio show,
Speaker 1: and literally worked seven days a week. And so when
Speaker 1: you take that into consideration, the amount of work and
Speaker 1: effort that it takes to hold this country together, right
Speaker 1: and recognize that Americans have so many things going on.
Speaker 1: There is so much to fucking distract us. Right, and
Speaker 1: by virtue of living throughout a pandemic, working from home
Speaker 1: raising kids, like school shutting down, work shutting down. Now
Speaker 1: we're having more spikes of COVID. To get folks to
Speaker 1: realize that their literal life depends on the next midterm
Speaker 1: election and the next presidential election is the only thing
Speaker 1: that I can think that matters. So when I see
Speaker 1: missed opportunities, particularly on the lawn of the White House,
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, do they not see the sense
Speaker 1: of urgency? Because I'm listening to former generals say we
Speaker 1: haven't been this concerned since World War Two? When you're
Speaker 1: listening to Zelenski say, how many deaths is the right
Speaker 1: number for the world to do more than sanctions? Right,
Speaker 1: Like how many more Bouchas and marapaulse do you need?
Speaker 1: Because what we are learning as reporting is getting to
Speaker 1: these smaller suburban areas outside of Kiev, these smaller townships,
Speaker 1: the war crimes that are happening, the action of rape
Speaker 1: and the weaponization of rape executions. They sent a missile
Speaker 1: and blew up a fucking train station, killing people in
Speaker 1: the act of trying to get out of harm's way.
Speaker 1: And we're still talking about, Oh, how is not taking
Speaker 1: Russian oil going to effect the European economy. It's going
Speaker 1: to fucking affect it. Do you know what else is
Speaker 1: going to affect it? World War three? So at what
Speaker 1: point do you make a decision between capitalism and your
Speaker 1: fucking integrity and morals? But this is where we are.
Speaker 1: The last thing, the last story that I want to
Speaker 1: bring to your attention. Actually there is two more, the
Speaker 1: January sixth panel. I just shake my head. I shake
Speaker 1: my head because you know, I don't want to end
Speaker 1: the show with just a string of explicitives. But according
Speaker 1: to The New York Times, the January sixth Panel has
Speaker 1: evidence for a criminal referral which we knew to the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice on Donald Trump Junior, one of the
Speaker 1: stupider suns, and it's a toss up because they're both
Speaker 1: dumb as bricks Junior. As part of the committee's investigation,
Speaker 1: not emails text messages have become available between him and
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows two days after the election on a series
Speaker 1: of ways to keep Donald Trump in power and what
Speaker 1: is incredible about this is that Junior says all of
Speaker 1: the things that shouldn't be said in text message ever,
Speaker 1: because you should always be paying attention to the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, particularly you learn from your mobster ass father.
Speaker 1: But this is what he said, one of the things
Speaker 1: that he said to Mark Meadows in a text message
Speaker 1: two days following his loss. So again, what does that
Speaker 1: tell you that they all knew that Trump lost, They
Speaker 1: all knew that the election was free and fair. But
Speaker 1: what they were going to do regardless, because they are
Speaker 1: not patriots. They are treasonous criminals that need to be
Speaker 1: prosecuted for their role in trying to overthrow the fucking government.
Speaker 1: But right now the January sixth Commission is deciding whether
Speaker 1: they think it's too political to make the referral because
Speaker 1: they know that the Department of Justice is opened an
Speaker 1: investigation into and I'm saying, so, if you know that
Speaker 1: it's already happening, but you've done more investigation and interviews
Speaker 1: over the last fucking year, why with the last thing
Speaker 1: that you can do, which is provide a letter of
Speaker 1: referral to the Attorney fuck in General stating that the
Speaker 1: former president of the United States committed criminal activity and
Speaker 1: is part of the architecture to overthrow the fucking government.
Speaker 1: Why you wouldn't make that move because you're concerned with
Speaker 1: how it will look politically. I'll tell you how it's
Speaker 1: gonna look. It's gonna look like fascism if Democrats don't
Speaker 1: develop a fucking spine. That's how it's going to look.
Speaker 1: Because what Don Junior said is what Republicans are biting for.
Speaker 1: He said, quote, it's very simple. We have multiple paths,
Speaker 1: we control them all. That is the only thing that
Speaker 1: you need to take away from this New York Times
Speaker 1: article is that they knew that they had lost, but
Speaker 1: that they knew that for a short amount of time
Speaker 1: before the January sixth certification, that they were going to
Speaker 1: attempt to obstruct the will of the American people because
Speaker 1: a hand full of Trumpers controlled different states and the
Speaker 1: vice President was going to seal the deal by deciding
Speaker 1: not to certify the election. They are telling you what
Speaker 1: they were planning to do with the information that they
Speaker 1: had that Donald Trump lost fair and square, but they
Speaker 1: didn't give a fuck. So what do you think that
Speaker 1: they're going to do with a second bite at the apple?
Speaker 1: Because no one has taught them a lesson from the outset,
Speaker 1: because no one who is responsible for how we got
Speaker 1: here is in jail or indicted. So you tell me why.
Speaker 1: The one six Commission would say, mm, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If it's gonna go too far. You have a fucking
Speaker 1: election and you ain't got ship to run on. You
Speaker 1: may want to try and run on this. They test
Speaker 1: my nerves. They test my fucking nerves because between the
Speaker 1: loss of abortion, the loss of voting rights, row back
Speaker 1: on LGBTQ equality, no movement on climate change. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, it is sometimes embarrassing to continue to call
Speaker 1: myself a democrat. But then I have to hold on.
Speaker 1: I got to hold onto the light and the love
Speaker 1: that I was filled with on Friday, watching and listening
Speaker 1: to Judge Katangi Brown Jackson and believing that there is
Speaker 1: still some shred of hope left, because if we don't
Speaker 1: hold on to that mustard seed, my god, the despair
Speaker 1: will consume us. That is it for me today, dear friends,
Speaker 1: on this wonderful Monday. I hope that we have a
Speaker 1: good week, but something tells me, something tells me that
Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot. So make sure that
Speaker 1: you ground yourself and meditation, prayer, exercise, hydration, all of
Speaker 1: the good things, folks, because it's a long road to Friday.
Speaker 1: Has always power to the people and to all the
Speaker 1: people power. Get woke and stay woke as fuck.