Another Breaking Point

This is a crucial time in American history in which we decide who we want to be. This is the time to close the book on Trumpism for good.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikf Daily with Meet
your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker votes.
Happy Friday. We have made it to the end of
this week. Happy November first, we have made it to
the final stretch of this election cycle. There are four

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days to go until the final day to vote. This
has been one of the most grueling presidential cycles. I
think that this country has ever seen, at least in
modern times. To show up each and every day, I'm

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going to take a personal note to show up each
and every day. Over the last couple of years on
WOKF has been hard, has been incredibly hard some days,
because some days I have just wanted to stay in
bed and cry at the state of this country. I

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believed four years ago that electing Joe Biden would put
this country back on a path to democracy, back on
a path to since, back in a place where we
felt safe with a leader that we could trust and

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that we knew, and that we knew cared about America
and shared a sense of responsibility and duty and accountability.
And that person over the last four years has shown up.
Joe Biden, I think did the best that he could
do with what he was given, which was a lot,

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because we have just been living in so much anxiety
and despair. It's kind of a mind fuck to think
back four years ago to the height of the pandemic,
to think back to pre vaccine, to think that on

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January twentieth, twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden was sworn in,
we didn't have a vaccine. Thousands of people, tens hundreds,
hundreds of thousands of people had died from COVID. We
had come off of four years of Donald Trump that
did not give a fuck about America, about COVID, about

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anyone other than himself. Donald Trump proved himself to be
I think America's breaking point and a breaking point in
the reality that we couldn't keep going on the way
that we'd always gone.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Donald Trump disrupted.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
That, and we believed that by electing Joe Biden we
could get back to a place of normalcy. But I
think that the reason we find ourselves here again with
a third Trump election cycle, which is just like mind boggling,

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is because we believed that, you know, even after four
years of Donald Trump, that he would do what other
presidents have done when they've lost go away right, like
go into your philanthropic endeavors, go into you know, back
into your business.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
But that you would go away.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And that was miscalculation on the part of Joe Biden,
it was a miscalculation on the part of Merrick Garland,
and it was a miscalculation on the part of the
American people. So we find ourselves right now with four
days to go, at yet another breaking point, and this

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time full fledgedley for our democracy and I think for
a lot of people for their will and their faith
in the American people. If we are able to pull
off what seems almost impossible with the forces that are
at play against us. I mean, you have multi billion

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dollar villains, you have a maggafied Supreme Court, you have
you know, federal judges that were put in place to
just do Trump's bidding. You have jerryman during off the
fucking grid. You have you know, ballot boxes being burned,
people being threatened. With Michelle yes, you have just insanity

(05:03):
that has gripped this country. And if she's able to
overcome all of that and win, I think faith in
each other to a large degree will be restored. But

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if Donald Trump is able to do what he put
the court, the federal bench, Republican governors in place to
do and if they are able to pull off the
ultimate heist of our democracy, friends, I don't know. I
don't know what to offer right like, it will be

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a brave new world. And so I just want to
thank all of you for showing up every day and listening,
showing up in geiveing me support, energy and air. Over
the course of this election cycle, so many days I

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have wanted to quit, and then I'll get an amazing
message from one of the listeners that just touches my
heart and makes me and the work that I do
feel seen. I don't know what is on the other
side of this. No one knows, right we won't know

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until it's done. But I do know that I am
deeply appreciative to all of you for being on this journey,
for fighting the good fight, for voting, for registering folks
to vote, for volunteering, for you know, standing up for
equity and diversity and justice, for doing your part, you know,

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for sharing these episodes, for using the platforms that you
have for good. And I just want to say that
even if darkness prevails, we will have to find a
way to make light. It is what our ancestors have done,
it is what prior generations have done. America has seen dark,

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dark days before, some that lasted centuries. But it is
always the people who come together. And as the Vice
President of the United States said, it's those people that
decide to stop pointing fingers and start linking arms. That
are the ones that are the difference makers, that are

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the change makers that usher in a new day. And
so regardless of the outcome, we have to be those people.
We have to stand up for what is right, understand
that that is our work, it isn't somebody else's job.

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And I think that that is what the biggest lesson,
the biggest takeaway is from the twenty twenty presidential race.
Prior to Donald Trump twenty sixteen, we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we'll vote for these people. We don't really have a
lot of enthusiasm, we don't really do what needs to
be done, and we all know how that turns out.

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Twenty twenty, we're hanging on literally for dear life and
just needing to get rid of the demon, to exercise
the demon, and we do. And I think that twenty
twenty four is really about who do we want to be. Now,
how do we take the responsibility of rebuilding this nation

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in the way that it should have been created in
the first place, for all people, right, Not all men,
not all white men, not all straight people, not all
sis people, but for all people, for the varied, deep,
beautiful tapestry that makes up America. And I think that

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that's what I saw in front of the Ellipses. You know,
a couple of days ago was America. It was inspiring.
I just came back from DC. I wasn't there for
the Vice President's speech, but I went the next day.
And you know, I am a very sentimental person. I

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lived in DC for nearly twenty years because I wanted
to be a public servant. I wanted to help. I
wanted to help this country that helped my family build
a life after leaving Jamaica and moving to the United States.
And when I see the Capitol Building, when I see

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the Washington Monument, when I drive past the White House,
it still brings me pride and a deep sense of joy,
and I don't want that taken away. And it was
for those four years of Donald Trump, when I would
go down to DC, it was a shell of itself.

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But what Kamala Harris reminded us of with that speech,
with that gathering of seventy five thousand plus people, is
who we can be when we decide to link arms,
who we can be when we recognize our power. We
are so much better than what Donald Trump showed us

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that Medicine Square garden. We are so much better than
the hate that came out of Rudy Giuliani's mouth about immigrants.
We are so much better than the whack ass comedian
Tony Hinchcliff. We are so much brighter than the Stephen
Millers and the Steve Bannons of the world. They are

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but a small fraction. They may be loud, but they
are not the entirety of America. And we have to
remember that. I don't believe that fifty percent of America
is with Donald Trump. I don't believe that for a
fucking second. I do believe that since the beginning of

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this country, there's always been thirty percent of the population
that is vile. There was thirty percent of the population
that wanted to side with the Nazis during World War Two.
There was thirty percent of the population that believe that
Hitler was doing something good. There was thirty percent of
the population that wanted to continue the transatlantic slave trade.

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There's always been that group. But in the absence of
our voices, in the absence of our own community building,
in the absence of building infrastructure and a pipeline of
the kind of America that we want to see, they
seem big and loud. That Madison Square garden stunt was

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just that. It was a fucking stunt. I'm certain that
if we went through, it's like, how many of those
people were paid to be there? Right?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did Elon Musk flip the bill?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
The man who threw a bunch of black door knockers
into a back of a U haul right like that?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
We just learned.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Of course, nothing will happen to him, because nothing ever will,
because he's the richest man in the world that refuses
to pay taxes. We lose when we allow their narrative
to become our mirror. And what they project isn't real.
Their hate is real, sure, but how big their group

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is no. But what I do know is that if
the vice president does win, we have got to be
think Thanking ten, twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty A century
down the road, because that is how Republicans got here.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
After Roe v. Wade was passed.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
They didn't say, oh, we're going to have it overturned tomorrow.
They worked on it for fifty years. So if we
believe in a multiracial democracy, we can't think that one
election is going to do that. We can't think that
the president of the United States has a magic wand
and can just poof make things happen. It is a

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long term project that requires all of us. I pray
that the results of this election are resounding in a
positive way, that it sends a deep and loud message
not only across this country but around the world that
America will not stand for fascism, we will not fall

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for authoritarianism, and we will grow stronger from this. That
is what I do believe. If Kamala Harris is elected,
that we will learn from this moment, from this time,
from this decade, and throw out the book of trump Ism. So,

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dear friends, with four days to go, I will offer
you what I said on the Danielle Moody Show on
YouTube earlier this week, which is, don't spend election night alone.
Gather with your people, with your community. If it's one
other person, two other people, your children, your pets, gather though.

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We are stronger and better when we are together, and
this is going to be a monumental time. We will
not know, most likely who is one on election night,
but take this time to really gather with your people
and to set intentions about the kind of country that
you want to live in, the kind of community that

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you want to build, because I think that that is
how we start creating the country that we want is
by talking and gathering and connecting with one another. The
days ahead, dear friends, are going to be hard, to
say the least, but I know that we will get

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through it, as we have all of our most difficult
days until now. So light your sage, your candles, your incense,
a joint, poor glass, meditate, prey, stretch, walk, do whatever
it is that you need to do to fill your

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spirit and continue to fill your own spirits so that
you can fill those around you as well. We will
get through this. We will meet on the other side
of whatever this is. But I just want to thank
you all of you for showing up here, for supporting me,

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for supporting independent media, and I'll be.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Back here on Monday.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Have a full and beautiful and RESTful weekend. That is
it for me on wokef as always, dear friends, Power
to the people and to all the people. Power, get

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woke and stay woke as fuck.