August 23, 2024 • 17 mins
Danielle reacts to day 3 of the Democratic National Convention, ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris's acceptance speech - check back in on Monday for Danielle's response to that!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Chicago Bunker. Folks,
it has been an absolute insane time here in Chicago.
I'm recording this before tonight's finale of the acceptance speech
(00:35):
by Vice President Kamala Harris of the party's nomination. What
I will say preceding that about the last few days
here at convention have just, you know, been extraordinarily inspiring,
has been fucking exhausting. I have been going to sleep
(00:56):
at like one third getting back to my hotel I
should say, at roughly one point thirty one o'clock in
the morning, which is actually two o'clock Eastern Standard time,
which is where my body still is. But there's just
so much excitement, so much energy. You don't really realize
it until, of course you sit down or lay down,
(01:16):
and then you're like, oh fuck, I'm exhausted and I
may not make it. The entire convention has been done
so incredibly well, from the musical guests, from the musical
roll call of the States, from the comedic skits. I
(01:38):
thought that Keenan Thompson's Project twenty twenty five skit yesterday
was extraordinary. For so long, folks, we have been talking
about Project twenty twenty five in really catastrophic existential terms,
and all of those things are true. I don't take
back any of the things that I've ever said with
(01:59):
regard to the sea giousness and the threats that Project
twenty twenty five poses. However, what I will say is
that this campaign has been absolutely brilliant in their ability
to turn this Republican Party and their ideas into a joke.
(02:21):
And I feel like you diffuse the power of a
bully when you laugh in their faces instead of talking
about these people as if they are master minds, as
if they are you know, the titans of the universe
that are moving this country with just their whims and
their egos. Instead, you look at what they're offering and
(02:45):
what they're saying, and you turn it into a fucking joke.
And so I think that it is really amazing the
ways that they have been able to use the last
couple of days to frame up not only the start
contrast in vision, an idea, in energy and in vibe
(03:08):
between the Democrats and the Republican Party, but how they
have also been able to turn Donald Trump, JD. Vance
and the Republicans into the jokers that they are, and
to me, that has been something that has been missing.
They're not worthy of our fear, They're worthy of our
(03:32):
ridicule and of our laughter. And so I think that
the last couple of days have been really amazing, and
I want to turn now to last night's speeches and
the ones that really stood out to me. First off,
what I love so much about convention is the way
(03:54):
in which we're able to profile the depth of our
talent and bench in the Democratic Party. When you compare
that to the people that were on the stage at
the RNC, they look like fucking clowns. They look like
(04:14):
toddlers that were caught with their hands in the cookie
jar or playing in the mud, or like eating paste.
Is essentially what the Republican National Convention look like. And
I think that looking at our bench and the talent
and the brilliance that we have again just restores my
(04:38):
faith in the Democratic Party. So some of the speeches
that stood out to me, like, first off, Hakeem Jeffries,
who God willing in seventy five days will be made
Speaker Jeffries because Democrats will take back the House and
take back the Senate as well as taking the White House.
But let me tell you something, Hakeem Jeff Freeze talking
(05:01):
about Donald Trump as that boyfriend that you broke up
with but won't fucking go away and keep spinning the block,
which is a very Brooklyn, New York term, was just fantastic.
I love Hakeem's delivery. He's so punchy and just funny
and very New York and you know, I love it.
(05:22):
Oprah Winfrey, I thought was really brilliant yesterday. And here's
what I will say about Oprah. First off, did you
all know that she was a registered independent? Because I
did not. So like, she's, you know, talking about herself
as a registered independent and being there to talk to
other independents, and I'm like, how did I miss this?
(05:43):
But apparently a lot of people that I talked to
did not know that she was an independent. You know.
The first public candidate that she ever came out for,
and we all know this was Barack Obama in two
thousand and eight. I don't remember, and that I don't
know if it's because of the vortex that we've lived
in for the past eight years. I don't remember if
(06:04):
she came out and endorsed Hillary Clinton. But I do
know that her first ever political endorsement was for Barack Obama.
But I think, you know, I was in conversation with
a couple of friends of mine and they were saying,
you know, it honestly makes sense, right, for the role
that Oprah has played in media and in America kind
of being like America's talk show host, it makes sense
(06:27):
that she wouldn't want to pick one side or the
other and kind of be you know, Switzerland in that way,
but then really use her power and her platform both
in two thousand and eight and now to you know,
stand with people whose values align with her own. What
I also thought was really great is that Oprah Winfrey
(06:49):
is the very person that Jadie Vance is telling us
is unworthy of having a voice, is unworthy of having
a vote, and it is just unworthy of existing. Right.
Winfrey is a postmenopausal which you know became a term
because of JD. Vance and that podcast that he was on,
But uh, you know, she is a postmenopausal, childless woman,
(07:13):
not a cat lady, because she famously has a bunch
of dogs and is famously unmarried. Right, And we see
who the fuck Oprah is, right and who she has
been for decades, and that is the very image of
the person that JD. Vance tells us is unworthy, this brilliant,
multi billionaire philanthropist and media giant. So I thought that
(07:37):
her digs at him and at the Republican Party were great.
I thought that her story with regard to integration and
the journey of America was breathtaking, because if there is
nothing else, you know, she is extraordinary. So I think
(08:02):
that there are just so many ways that Democrats have
showcased how important this election is, how important this moment is,
but more importantly, how incredible of an opportunity that we have,
because again, I think that instead of framing this election
(08:27):
through the lens of fear, which I myself have been doing,
because I have been, you know, prior to the last month,
very honest about my fear, very honest about my grief
and anxiety that all of us have been experiencing over
the last year, but particularly over the course of this
presidential cycle. And so the ability to now in such
(08:54):
a short period of time, because folks, again it has
only been a month, it has only been a month,
to frame this now in not us voting from fear,
but voting from a place of possibility and opportunity that
the country has. That we have is the greatest pivot
(09:15):
that I have ever seen a party make. And again
we have to give credit where credit is due, which
is to Joe Biden. Which is why we continue to
hear throughout this week the chance of thank you Joe,
because without that man doing what is just unthinkable, giving
(09:43):
up power, putting aside ego, showing what it means to
truly be a patriot and put country over party or
self interest and desire, we wouldn't be in this place right.
We would still be hanging on for dear life, where
now we have a fighting chance, like a real chance
(10:10):
to win. And so I will say that it feels
really fucking good, and you know, shout out to all
of the people too who are getting at me on
social media and saying that it's wonderful to see me
in a place of joy and just happiness, because y'all
have been listening, following, you know, for a long time,
(10:33):
and you know, like I'm real, I'm a real person.
I don't perform all I do that's different from my
day to day life and the time that I spend
interviewing and recording shows is turn on a microphone. But
how I am on this mic is how I am
in life, with my friends and with my family, and
so I don't pretend. So the joy that you were
(10:56):
sensing for me is fucking real. And it's not to
say that again, I don't know what is at stake
and at risk. You all know that I do. But
by this joyful warrior spirit being modeled for all of
us through this campaign, it's just given us another way
(11:16):
to fight, another way to look at the playing field
that we are on. And you know, there is no
better person to be honest than coach Walls, who last night,
I honestly don't know how you could listen to that man,
(11:38):
watch those videos, see his family and not love that
man and not want that man to be our vice
president of the United States. Listen to his former you know,
students and the kids on his team who are now
obviously grown men, but wow, you know, and the ending
(12:04):
of his speech in you know, giving everything football metaphors
and coaching us through like I feel his energy and
it's like I want to run through a wall for
this ticket because I believe that if we are able
(12:25):
to make it possible for them to govern, that the
future of America is going to be so bright that,
of course there will be disagreements. Of course there will
be mistakes that are made, as our Forever Flowtus beautifully stated.
But the fact is is that I think that Kamala
(12:48):
Harris and Tim Walls are exactly the shot of hopefulness, energy,
good spiritedness that this country has desperately been starved of.
And I say that not because the Biden Harris ticket
haven't tried to do their best, but I mean, folks,
(13:10):
when you're coming into office with over five hundred thousand
Americans dead and thousands three thousand, If you guys, remember
when Joe Biden was sworn in after the insurrection, after
in an attempt to overthrow our government and our democracy
(13:31):
in our election, that three thousand plus Americans were dying
a day a day from COVID, and you had one
party that was telling us that's no big deal, who cares,
didn't matter that we were living in cities and towns
(13:53):
where there were medical ships that were pulled up to
port in New York because we didn't have enough hospital
beds that our dead loved ones were being stored in
refrigerator trucks in our neighborhoods, where lines for food banks
(14:18):
were miles long. Folks like, there was hope on the
way in terms of the distribution of millions of shots
in arms to stop the death. But as you know,
(14:38):
barely see now because mainstream corporate media doesn't want you
to see, people are still being hospitalized because of COVID
and people are living with the effects of long COVID.
There was just I just saw right before I came
on air. You know, the next round of vaccines are
available for those sixty five and older and those with
(14:59):
high risk. All of that was made possible by the
Biden Harris administration, and so there wasn't a time for
jubulation when we were just trying to hold on the
last four years. So that's why this moment feels so needed,
(15:22):
so necessary, because we want to be able to move
from a place of surviving to thriving. And the only
way that we do that is if we do every
fucking thing that we can to get Kamala Harris and
(15:43):
Tim Walls through that finish line. Because it is going
to take action every single day of registering people to vote, donating,
holding house parties, persuading people, getting people to the polls.
Early voting will start in just a couple of weeks
(16:05):
in some places. So as Tim Walls has been saying,
we will sleep when we're dead, but we have to
run through the tape on this one. Then numbers have
to be so overwhelming that they cannot be disputed. And
if each of us commits to that work, we will
(16:26):
get this done, and we will be victorious, and we
will begin to put this country back on a path
of progression and thriving. So I'm excited about listening to
the Vice President. I am excited about the close out
(16:48):
of the DNC, and you will hear my thoughts on
that on Monday's show. And you know, I just I
wish for all of us the continued energy and determination
persistence to get this job done, because it is not
somebody else's job. It is all of our jobs to
(17:10):
get this done. That is it for me today from Chicago.
It has been an extraordinary time and an experience and
a privilege to be a part a small part of
the history that is being made. And I am so optimistic,
(17:31):
so hopeful about what could possibly come next, and I
hope you all are as well. That is it for
me today, dear friends on wokef As always, power to
the people and to all the people power, get woke
and stay woke as fuck.
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Chicago Bunker. Folks,
it has been an absolute insane time here in Chicago.
I'm recording this before tonight's finale of the acceptance speech
(00:35):
by Vice President Kamala Harris of the party's nomination. What
I will say preceding that about the last few days
here at convention have just, you know, been extraordinarily inspiring,
has been fucking exhausting. I have been going to sleep
(00:56):
at like one third getting back to my hotel I
should say, at roughly one point thirty one o'clock in
the morning, which is actually two o'clock Eastern Standard time,
which is where my body still is. But there's just
so much excitement, so much energy. You don't really realize
it until, of course you sit down or lay down,
(01:16):
and then you're like, oh fuck, I'm exhausted and I
may not make it. The entire convention has been done
so incredibly well, from the musical guests, from the musical
roll call of the States, from the comedic skits. I
(01:38):
thought that Keenan Thompson's Project twenty twenty five skit yesterday
was extraordinary. For so long, folks, we have been talking
about Project twenty twenty five in really catastrophic existential terms,
and all of those things are true. I don't take
back any of the things that I've ever said with
(01:59):
regard to the sea giousness and the threats that Project
twenty twenty five poses. However, what I will say is
that this campaign has been absolutely brilliant in their ability
to turn this Republican Party and their ideas into a joke.
(02:21):
And I feel like you diffuse the power of a
bully when you laugh in their faces instead of talking
about these people as if they are master minds, as
if they are you know, the titans of the universe
that are moving this country with just their whims and
their egos. Instead, you look at what they're offering and
(02:45):
what they're saying, and you turn it into a fucking joke.
And so I think that it is really amazing the
ways that they have been able to use the last
couple of days to frame up not only the start
contrast in vision, an idea, in energy and in vibe
(03:08):
between the Democrats and the Republican Party, but how they
have also been able to turn Donald Trump, JD. Vance
and the Republicans into the jokers that they are, and
to me, that has been something that has been missing.
They're not worthy of our fear, They're worthy of our
(03:32):
ridicule and of our laughter. And so I think that
the last couple of days have been really amazing, and
I want to turn now to last night's speeches and
the ones that really stood out to me. First off,
what I love so much about convention is the way
(03:54):
in which we're able to profile the depth of our
talent and bench in the Democratic Party. When you compare
that to the people that were on the stage at
the RNC, they look like fucking clowns. They look like
(04:14):
toddlers that were caught with their hands in the cookie
jar or playing in the mud, or like eating paste.
Is essentially what the Republican National Convention look like. And
I think that looking at our bench and the talent
and the brilliance that we have again just restores my
(04:38):
faith in the Democratic Party. So some of the speeches
that stood out to me, like, first off, Hakeem Jeffries,
who God willing in seventy five days will be made
Speaker Jeffries because Democrats will take back the House and
take back the Senate as well as taking the White House.
But let me tell you something, Hakeem Jeff Freeze talking
(05:01):
about Donald Trump as that boyfriend that you broke up
with but won't fucking go away and keep spinning the block,
which is a very Brooklyn, New York term, was just fantastic.
I love Hakeem's delivery. He's so punchy and just funny
and very New York and you know, I love it.
(05:22):
Oprah Winfrey, I thought was really brilliant yesterday. And here's
what I will say about Oprah. First off, did you
all know that she was a registered independent? Because I
did not. So like, she's, you know, talking about herself
as a registered independent and being there to talk to
other independents, and I'm like, how did I miss this?
(05:43):
But apparently a lot of people that I talked to
did not know that she was an independent. You know.
The first public candidate that she ever came out for,
and we all know this was Barack Obama in two
thousand and eight. I don't remember, and that I don't
know if it's because of the vortex that we've lived
in for the past eight years. I don't remember if
(06:04):
she came out and endorsed Hillary Clinton. But I do
know that her first ever political endorsement was for Barack Obama.
But I think, you know, I was in conversation with
a couple of friends of mine and they were saying,
you know, it honestly makes sense, right, for the role
that Oprah has played in media and in America kind
of being like America's talk show host, it makes sense
(06:27):
that she wouldn't want to pick one side or the
other and kind of be you know, Switzerland in that way,
but then really use her power and her platform both
in two thousand and eight and now to you know,
stand with people whose values align with her own. What
I also thought was really great is that Oprah Winfrey
(06:49):
is the very person that Jadie Vance is telling us
is unworthy of having a voice, is unworthy of having
a vote, and it is just unworthy of existing. Right.
Winfrey is a postmenopausal which you know became a term
because of JD. Vance and that podcast that he was on,
But uh, you know, she is a postmenopausal, childless woman,
(07:13):
not a cat lady, because she famously has a bunch
of dogs and is famously unmarried. Right, And we see
who the fuck Oprah is, right and who she has
been for decades, and that is the very image of
the person that JD. Vance tells us is unworthy, this brilliant,
multi billionaire philanthropist and media giant. So I thought that
(07:37):
her digs at him and at the Republican Party were great.
I thought that her story with regard to integration and
the journey of America was breathtaking, because if there is
nothing else, you know, she is extraordinary. So I think
(08:02):
that there are just so many ways that Democrats have
showcased how important this election is, how important this moment is,
but more importantly, how incredible of an opportunity that we have,
because again, I think that instead of framing this election
(08:27):
through the lens of fear, which I myself have been doing,
because I have been, you know, prior to the last month,
very honest about my fear, very honest about my grief
and anxiety that all of us have been experiencing over
the last year, but particularly over the course of this
presidential cycle. And so the ability to now in such
(08:54):
a short period of time, because folks, again it has
only been a month, it has only been a month,
to frame this now in not us voting from fear,
but voting from a place of possibility and opportunity that
the country has. That we have is the greatest pivot
(09:15):
that I have ever seen a party make. And again
we have to give credit where credit is due, which
is to Joe Biden. Which is why we continue to
hear throughout this week the chance of thank you Joe,
because without that man doing what is just unthinkable, giving
(09:43):
up power, putting aside ego, showing what it means to
truly be a patriot and put country over party or
self interest and desire, we wouldn't be in this place right.
We would still be hanging on for dear life, where
now we have a fighting chance, like a real chance
(10:10):
to win. And so I will say that it feels
really fucking good, and you know, shout out to all
of the people too who are getting at me on
social media and saying that it's wonderful to see me
in a place of joy and just happiness, because y'all
have been listening, following, you know, for a long time,
(10:33):
and you know, like I'm real, I'm a real person.
I don't perform all I do that's different from my
day to day life and the time that I spend
interviewing and recording shows is turn on a microphone. But
how I am on this mic is how I am
in life, with my friends and with my family, and
so I don't pretend. So the joy that you were
(10:56):
sensing for me is fucking real. And it's not to
say that again, I don't know what is at stake
and at risk. You all know that I do. But
by this joyful warrior spirit being modeled for all of
us through this campaign, it's just given us another way
(11:16):
to fight, another way to look at the playing field
that we are on. And you know, there is no
better person to be honest than coach Walls, who last night,
I honestly don't know how you could listen to that man,
(11:38):
watch those videos, see his family and not love that
man and not want that man to be our vice
president of the United States. Listen to his former you know,
students and the kids on his team who are now
obviously grown men, but wow, you know, and the ending
(12:04):
of his speech in you know, giving everything football metaphors
and coaching us through like I feel his energy and
it's like I want to run through a wall for
this ticket because I believe that if we are able
(12:25):
to make it possible for them to govern, that the
future of America is going to be so bright that,
of course there will be disagreements. Of course there will
be mistakes that are made, as our Forever Flowtus beautifully stated.
But the fact is is that I think that Kamala
(12:48):
Harris and Tim Walls are exactly the shot of hopefulness, energy,
good spiritedness that this country has desperately been starved of.
And I say that not because the Biden Harris ticket
haven't tried to do their best, but I mean, folks,
(13:10):
when you're coming into office with over five hundred thousand
Americans dead and thousands three thousand, If you guys, remember
when Joe Biden was sworn in after the insurrection, after
in an attempt to overthrow our government and our democracy
(13:31):
in our election, that three thousand plus Americans were dying
a day a day from COVID, and you had one
party that was telling us that's no big deal, who cares,
didn't matter that we were living in cities and towns
(13:53):
where there were medical ships that were pulled up to
port in New York because we didn't have enough hospital
beds that our dead loved ones were being stored in
refrigerator trucks in our neighborhoods, where lines for food banks
(14:18):
were miles long. Folks like, there was hope on the
way in terms of the distribution of millions of shots
in arms to stop the death. But as you know,
(14:38):
barely see now because mainstream corporate media doesn't want you
to see, people are still being hospitalized because of COVID
and people are living with the effects of long COVID.
There was just I just saw right before I came
on air. You know, the next round of vaccines are
available for those sixty five and older and those with
(14:59):
high risk. All of that was made possible by the
Biden Harris administration, and so there wasn't a time for
jubulation when we were just trying to hold on the
last four years. So that's why this moment feels so needed,
(15:22):
so necessary, because we want to be able to move
from a place of surviving to thriving. And the only
way that we do that is if we do every
fucking thing that we can to get Kamala Harris and
(15:43):
Tim Walls through that finish line. Because it is going
to take action every single day of registering people to vote, donating,
holding house parties, persuading people, getting people to the polls.
Early voting will start in just a couple of weeks
(16:05):
in some places. So as Tim Walls has been saying,
we will sleep when we're dead, but we have to
run through the tape on this one. Then numbers have
to be so overwhelming that they cannot be disputed. And
if each of us commits to that work, we will
(16:26):
get this done, and we will be victorious, and we
will begin to put this country back on a path
of progression and thriving. So I'm excited about listening to
the Vice President. I am excited about the close out
(16:48):
of the DNC, and you will hear my thoughts on
that on Monday's show. And you know, I just I
wish for all of us the continued energy and determination
persistence to get this job done, because it is not
somebody else's job. It is all of our jobs to
(17:10):
get this done. That is it for me today from Chicago.
It has been an extraordinary time and an experience and
a privilege to be a part a small part of
the history that is being made. And I am so optimistic,
(17:31):
so hopeful about what could possibly come next, and I
hope you all are as well. That is it for
me today, dear friends on wokef As always, power to
the people and to all the people power, get woke
and stay woke as fuck.
Host
Danielle Moodie
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