WEBVTT - America's Last Summer 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ok F Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.160 me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:26.239 Happy fuck it Friday, Happy holiday weekend, happy beginning of summer. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.480 You all know that I am dubbing this summer America's 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.920 last summer, right, because if we don't get our shit 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.280 together by the time that November rolls around, you will 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.080 look at this and this will in fact have been 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.640 America's last summer, America's last summer of freedom, you know, liberty, joy, 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:51.400 the things that make America worth visiting, coming to existing in. 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But 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.200 I want to talk about one video in particular, one 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.920 that I put up yesterday, which was a response to 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.280 a comment I had received on TikTok that said, I 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.759 hate that I have to vote for Biden, but I will, right. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.559 And the fact is that a lot of people hate 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.760 that they have to vote for Biden, right, Like, you know, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:59.920 while I believe that if Netan Yahoo had not declared 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.720 war on the Palestinian people, because that's what he's doing. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.240 That's what he's done. It's not about Hamas. And also 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.040 this isn't really a war because when one of the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.360 entities is backed by the strongest military and a bottomless 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.400 pit of cash from one of the wealthiest and strongest 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.440 nations in the world, and then the other is not. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.959 And it's just tens of thousands, you know, of civilians 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.919 being slaughtered and children and horrendous war crimes that are happening, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.440 and all of these things, and America just keeps on, American, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.440 you know, just keeps on with their iron clad, fucking 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:43.120 support for homicidal, genocidal maniac. You know, I believe that 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.720 had none of this happened, then Biden would actually be 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.839 in fairly good shape right now, that the hardest thing 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.000 that people would have to say about him is his age, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.680 right like, oh, he's too old to do the job, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.160 you know, and we needed somebody and somebody should step in, sure, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:09.280 But like now, people have real issue with this administration, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.120 regardless of the good things that they had done prior 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.160 to the support of Net Nyahu. The unwavering support of 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.040 net Yahoo that is costing Biden, the youth vote, that 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.360 is costing Biden black and brown people, that is costing 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.800 Biden his base which he can afford to lose. But 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.680 when I post these videos where folks you listen to me, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.760 I am very honest about how difficult, how hard of 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.160 a pill this is going to be to swallow. Because 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.840 I'm a person that believes in liberty and justice for 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.920 all people. I believe that all people, regardless of how 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.160 they worship, who they love, where they live, you know, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:59.680 their sexual orientation, gender identity, regardless, that all people should 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.520 be treated as human beings met with love and kindness, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.120 have the opportunity to live full and complete lives of 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.200 their choosing. I believe that for people inside of this 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.440 country and all over the world. But I do know 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.159 that that is not the truth. It is far from 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.719 the truth, because when you look at what is happening 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.200 in Gaza, if you scroll right and you see what 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.880 is happening in Sudan, and you see what is happening 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:38.840 in Congo, in order to produce the phone that I'm 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:44.599 recording on right now, there are millions of child slaves 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.440 that are digging for cobalt, one of the core minerals 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.240 that makes this phone. We're so detached from how we 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:59.159 get our hands on things, whether it's our food, our electronics, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.960 we don't care so long as we have it and 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.400 it's cheap. But we never pause and ask ourselves how 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.839 it got here in the first place, Just like on 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.160 October seven, people didn't pause and say to themselves, how 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:20.440 did we get to this place? Nothing happens out of nowhere. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:28.480 And for every effect, there is a cause. For every reaction, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.800 there is an action. And I think that we need 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.480 to start being a lot more conscious of our role 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:42.080 and responsibility of causing the suffering of others. We take 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.920 it upon ourselves to vote every two and every four years, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:52.480 every time that there is an election, right to continue 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.440 with our way of life. But do we ever think 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.080 about how our choices affect other people's way of life. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.640 Other people that we'll never meet, but because of our actions, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:15.320 because of our choices, they live in suffering. Before October seventh, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.960 we never paid collectively any attention to what was happening 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.359 in Palestine, what our tax dollars have been funding for 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.360 the last seventy five years, the apartheid, the utter despair 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.480 and hopelessness. Also that we can say that we weren't 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:40.040 anti Semitic, but clearly anti Muslim, clearly anti Palestinian. In 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.600 order to support one group, you shouldn't have to oppress another. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.160 I don't think that that should be the way that 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.240 that should be. The seesaw that we're on right. So 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.760 if I support black lives, that means that I hate 0:06:53.800 --> 0:07:00.160 white lives. No. If I support right the Jewish people 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.000 right to exist, does that mean that I hate Islam? No? 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.240 Because I want LGBTQ people to live free and trans 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.560 people to live free from violence and persecution. Does that 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.080 mean that I don't like straight people or CIS folks. No. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:25.880 But we have been built into this scarcity mindset where 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.160 if you have that means that somebody else can't have. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.120 If I give you this right that means that I 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.360 have to take away something from somebody else that's false. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.000 What would it look like for us to actually shift 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.080 our mindset to one that is rooted in abundance, not 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:55.120 locked into the impossibility of said situations, Because everything is 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:59.800 impossible until it is actually possible. Right, Like, we know 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.560 that that's not just a meme, it's not just a quote, 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.560 it's the truth. People thought that it was going to 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.200 be impossible to fly human beings from one spot to 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.760 the next until it was done, impossible to go to 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.880 the moon until it was done. So is it impossible 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:25.360 for us to fathom of society that isn't built on greed, oppression, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:32.720 despair and hopelessness, that isn't built on this pyramid of 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:39.559 lies and deception? Is it possible for us to coexist 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.480 with corporations whose responsibility it is to tell us what 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.359 the fuck is inside our food, to hold them accountable 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:58.199 for polluting our environment, to force folks into better business 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:06.360 practices that don't just serve the wealthy. It should not 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:11.640 be impossible for us to imagine and do better. But 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.840 we've been told for far too long that the way 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.840 that we've been living is the only way, and it's 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:26.520 not and right now even that way of being is 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:33.120 completely and totally under attack. You know, people would often 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.920 say that so long as like Americans had their you know, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.240 television which is behind me, or you know, their ability 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.800 to consume as much as they want, then they wouldn't 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.920 care about what was happening around them. And what I 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:55.440 want to offer is that everything will change rapidly in 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:01.440 this country if we open the door to fascism. Your 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.679 ability to protest, your ability to send your child to 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:11.200 a public school that is well funded, your ability to 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.320 have bodily autonomy, your ability to see a doctor of 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.280 your choice, your ability to watch what you want to 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:25.200 sleep with whom you want to control your destiny will 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:32.280 all go away. Take a look at what happens in 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.480 other countries that are ruled by brutal dictators. You don't 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:41.000 want a vacation in those places, let alone live in them. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.320 That's what this right wing wants to do with America. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.800 Isolate us from the world right because the world is 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.400 not going to be able to trust us. Right We're 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.400 going to back out of all of our agreements and treaties. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.360 Donald Trump already did that once, and he'll finish the job. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.559 Nothing will be about what is good for the American people. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.640 It'll be about what is good for his inner circle 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.760 and everyone else be damned. There will be no middle class. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.720 There will be the super rich and the super poor. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.880 For those that have the ability to flee, they may 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.160 may not have enough time, you know. I think about 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.800 all of these things on a regular basis. It wakes 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.480 me up at night because I genuinely do not believe 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.000 that Americans are taking the options that we have in 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:42.360 front of us. Seriously. Do I love Joe Biden, No, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.040 I don't. I don't really like him that much right now. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.560 But I hate Donald Trump, and I love my freedom more. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:59.439 I love my freedom to be black, to be queer, too, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.800 proudly be a child of immigrants, to do the work 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:09.120 that I love, to critique government because I can right 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:15.840 like think about the things that you love about your life, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.200 and think about some of the images and things that 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:23.120 you've been scrolling through over the last several months. It's terrifying, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.840 not just because we're bearing witness to a genocide happening 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.880 in real time on our phones, but because we know 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.559 that it can happen here. And I think that there 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:39.080 are some people that are still like, you know, in fantasyland, Oh, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.200 it will never happen in America. And I'm like, really, 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.640 y'all still think that after you're watching Roe v. Wade 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:53.560 be overturned, Affirmative action be overturned, right, Alabama reinstituting child 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.040 labor books being banned, Like, we're still in a place 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.720 of it could never happen here America. New to internment camps. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:08.280 Ask Japanese Americans. Ask the Native Americans who were forced 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:13.480 onto reservations that now have the highest rates of every 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.640 type of issue that you can imagine, disease, alcoholism, abuse, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:25.720 low education, right all because every right and every bit 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.240 of land and every opportunity was stripped away from them. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:35.080 This country has done some serious fucking dirt and it 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.920 will do it again. And people say, oh, well, the 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.280 people will stop them. Really not if you don't have 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.880 the ability to protest. You see what happens to the 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.959 people in China when they might get up the courage 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.559 to fight against their government, They are thrown into fucking 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.559 work camps for the rest of their lives. Their families 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.000 are ruined. We always say, like, why don't the people 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.839 people push back, push back, and do what exactly ruin 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:09.640 any opportunity, any chance for a better life that government 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.680 doesn't ever forget. You get put on a list. Oh 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.640 they can't take us all down, but they can take 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:20.800 down enough to temper the rest. Folks used to ask 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.320 themselves where would I be? What would I have been 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.240 doing during the Civil rights movement? What side would I 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.520 have been on? And we all wanted to see ourselves 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.600 as the heroes of that story. A lot of us 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:39.280 are not. We're actually the villain. So given the opportunity 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:44.040 to do what's right, even though it's painful, what is 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.520 the choice that we're going to make? And for those 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.040 that want to be righteous, my consciousness won't allow me 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.640 to vote for Joe Biden. How does a vote for 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.720 Donald Trump help the Palestinian people, help the people in 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.960 the Congo, help the people in the student How does 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.320 it help anybody? I got to make a point. Okay, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.560 make that point in December when you have the ability 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.000 to hold this administration to task, to push them to 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.760 do what's right, because guess what, they're not running another election, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.960 So at that point all they're concerned about is legacy. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:27.200 Fight where you can fight with what you have but 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 don't throw it all away and think that like that's 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.840 going to be your major protest. What it will be 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.040 is your last protest. That's for damn sure. You know. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.200 This week I talked about what has happened in Louisiana, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.840 what has happened in Virginia. These states are doing some 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:49.120 terrifying shit and they're just getting away with it. News 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.280 isn't even really covering it because you got every camera 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:58.320 directed at Donald Trump. In the meantime, they are actualizing 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:06.040 Project twenty twenty five. It's already in movement. The last 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.240 piece of that puzzle is the White House to nationalize 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:17.800 their plan, but that plan is already operational. Subjugate women, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.880 marginalize black people and people of color, get rid of 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:31.040 the queer community, suppress any protests, make it illegal to protest, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.640 or in the case that we just saw that went 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.160 before the Supreme Court and then was knocked back down right, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.680 which is that if you organize a protest and a 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.200 police officer is injured, well, guess who's going to be 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:52.720 financially liable that organizer. That's going to take away the 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.160 right to protest real quick. In three states already, Ron 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.440 de Santis has already made it legal for you to 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.800 run over a protester and that not be vehicular madislaughter. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:13.640 So their plans are already operationalized. Where what stands between 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:20.119 Project twenty twenty five becoming law of the land or not. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.440 I don't care where you are, if you're in a 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.960 quote unquote safe state or not. This election is too important. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.680 All hands on deck. You got friends in the battleground states, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.720 You got family in the fucking battleground states. You get 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.640 on the phone with them now, you talk to them 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.000 every goddamn week. What you do and what's your plan, 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.439 what you think and what you're seeing. We all have 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:54.200 got to do our part. And then some you will 0:17:54.240 --> 0:18:01.159 hear me vacillate on this podcast and others about my 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:05.159 disgust for this administration and what they're doing. But at 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.040 the end of the day, like the person in my 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.800 comment section set, I hate that I have to vote 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.840 for Biden, but I will. I don't fucking love my choices. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.240 Sometimes in life, guess what, we don't get to love them. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:23.199 But right now we still have choices. So as we 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.320 head into this holiday weekend, I hope, folks, that you 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.879 get outside, that you connect with loved ones. But you 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.439 know what, keep having these hard conversations. Do you know, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:38.879 like you said, Oh, I can't talk to that uncle, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.480 I can't talk to that aunt. They're crazy. Talk to 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.000 them anyway, figure it out. We got to break through 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.600 any way that we can find the through line and 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.800 go to work. That is it for me today, Dear 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:00.159 friends on wokef as always power to the people and 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.320 to all the people. Power yet woke and stay woke 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:04.760 as fuck.