MAGA Has Won

Even if we don't all deserve it, maybe America is going to get what it deserves.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wik F Daily with
me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker, Folks.
As I was getting ready to come on to record
today's episode, which as you know, I'm doing in advance
for this holiday week, Jack Smith has announced, as I'm

(00:34):
sure you'll all know now, that he is dropping all
of the charges against Donald Trump for the January sixth insurrection,
along with Donald Trump never going to see sentencing happening
in New York for his thirty four felony count. Donald
Trump and MAGA has won. We all knew, those of

(00:57):
us that were paying attention, those of you who have
been listening to this show have known that Donald Trump
was only running for president to get out of jail.
And now that is for certain. He will never be
held responsible for anything that he has done to this
country the first time around, so this time he can

(01:20):
just finish the job. You hear in my voice a
sound of It's not even resignation. It is just I
think at this current moment, I have lost the ability
to give a fuck, and the reason for that is
so many Americans sat home in this election, and at

(01:43):
this point, you know, I don't really know, if it
matters who you blame, right, you want to blame Vice
President Kamala Harris for doing what in one hundred and
seven days, she gave this country a sense of hope
and faith that we had long lost. She tried her

(02:04):
best to unify in terms of bringing you know, Republicans
into the fold and showing that there was going to
be an opportunity for us to be able to rebuild
and work together on things that we actually agree on,
like democracy. She offered up student loan relief and lower
drug prescription drug costs, and you know, different programs that

(02:28):
she wanted to roll out for black men and Latino
men and et cetera, et cetera. You know, there were
countless calls that were done by every fucking affinity group
that you could imagine on the face of the planet
did a zoom call. And at the end of the day,
America failed to rise to this moment because frankly, they

(02:50):
didn't want to. And in some ways I've been trying
to reframe my thinking around this election as I still
process through the grief of it all, is that I
am now convinced that America needs Donald Trump, that this
country does not learn anything the easy way, that progress

(03:17):
is not always forward moving. In any time of progress,
there is always deep regress. Right, you had the Civil War,
and then you had reconstruction, and then guess what a
century of Jim Crow. This country is only really known
democracy from nineteen sixty five until what twenty twenty or

(03:38):
whenever the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act overturn
Roe v. Wade. You know, we've had democracy for less
than sixty years. So that being said, I think that
we're at a place and at a point where apparently
everything does need to be lost, everything does need to
be ruined. Millions of peaceeople apparently do have to die

(04:02):
in order for people to recognize that your participation matters
in this country. But I think that for far too
long we have continued to try and put fresh paint
on a rotting house. I think for far too long

(04:23):
we have been lulled into a place of complacency and
incremental change. Being enough that we have believed Democrats when
they said that they were a party for and by
the people, and yet when they're in control, while the
economy may not fall off of a cliff, that they

(04:47):
don't really ever do anything that is full chested, full
throated in terms of rooting out white supremacy, in terms
of really creating policies that are about trying to write
what has been wronged in this country to black people,

(05:08):
to indigenous people. Everything is incremental and everything, at the
end of the day, is also about money. So when
people look at the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
and they say, well, what's the difference between them, and
I'd like to say, well, one believes in fascism and
one believes in democracy. One believes that women are actually people,

(05:29):
and the other one believes that women are property. That's
not enough. And what I realize is every single leader
and every single institution has failed. When fucking Democrats had
the audacity to say when Joe Biden was elected that,
oh the institutions held, No, it didn't. It did not.

(05:51):
And I will say now that Joe Biden, with his
appointment of Merrick Garland, which we all thought was oh,
poetic justice, and as it turns out, was probably the
death knew the final nail in the coffin of our
democracy was Merrick Garland. And that is what Joe Biden

(06:16):
is going to be remembered. For I posted on Blue
Sky over the weekend, what do you think that Joe
Biden's legacy is going to be? And I said, in
all honesty, his legacy is going to be that he
failed to meet the moment. Sure, did Joe Biden put

(06:36):
forth policy measures such as you know, student loan debt relief,
such as rolling out the vaccine and getting shots in
arms when people were still dying by the thousands every
day from COVID, Yes, But did Joe Biden do everything
that he could to make sure that a Donald Trump

(06:59):
could never run for office again, or that anyone like
him could never run for office again. No, he just
wanted to turn the page and pretend that Donald Trump
never happened. And that's the same thing Merrick Garland wanted
to do. And it was this failure, failure, fucking failure
of imagination that has us where we are right now.

(07:20):
Just imagine if Joe Biden had picked a US Attorney
general like a Tish James, like a Fannie Willis, like
an Alvin Bragg, like any of the people that were
actually prosecuting Donald Trump for his crimes. If you had
picked any of those people, or just anyone that showed that,

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you know, what is going to restore faith in our government,
faith in our systems is not pretending that Donald Trump
didn't happen, but making sure that he never happens again.
And so I'm tired. I'm tired of the Pelosis and
the Bidens and the Schumers. I'm tired of these monuments

(08:10):
right of what the yester year of politics look like,
still being in charge of what our future looks like,
when they haven't been connected and had their ear to
the ground and understand what real people are dealing with
in decades. You know what Biggie used to say when
he was rapping, don't get high on your own supply.

(08:31):
Democrats have been so fucking high on their own bullshit,
believing that all they had to do was pretend to
be the adult in the room, being the ones that
are so stuck up on their high horse, right, the
elitists of democracy. Oh, the people will just follow us
because we're right and they believe their own bullshit. You know,

(08:55):
everyone wants to talk about again what Kamala Harris could
have done better, blah blah blah ba bop fuck that
she had one hundred and seven days tell me what
the fuck was being done prior, what was being done
during Donald Trump's presidency, What was being done right when
Joe Biden stepped foot in office, other than pretending that

(09:16):
he didn't elect the first woman and first black woman
an Asian woman to be vice president of the United States,
So he went ahead and hid her right until he realized, oh,
maybe I can't actually get the job done, so now
I need to bring her out front and center, when
for three years we hadn't seen her, They hadn't been

(09:38):
operating like partners in the way that Barack Obama was
sure to operate with Joe Biden, given how racist this
country is. So you know, I know when people are like, oh, well,
America gets what it deserves. But no, like because I
didn't want to be a part of the find out

(10:01):
of the fuck around. And I know that you didn't either,
because y'all already knew. But the fact is is that
maybe it takes a destroyer like Donald Trump for us
to realize that the systems that he's getting ready to
blow up were never working for all of us anyway.
They actually only were working for white Americans. And maybe

(10:23):
if we found our ways through the cracks and got
a little bit of crumbs. We were piecing that together
and calling that a full fucking meal. It wasn't. It's
not so. As one of my good friends, doctor Christina Greer,
has said, she does not want this country to be
burnt down, because then you're burning down all of the work, blood,

(10:46):
sweat and tears in life that our ancestors gave into
this country. That if we're not going to be willing
to excavate the foundation of this country, then the house
burning actually doesn't matter. And when I'm saying is that
we are in a moment of deep excavation, of recognizing
that this entire country has been built on a faulty foundation.

(11:09):
And I think that Donald Trump's regime is the nuke, right,
It is the bomb that is going to be dropped
on America that is going to have generational damage. And
at some point, in some way in that rubble, hopefully
there will be people still that can put together the truth,

(11:30):
that can put together and move the rubble and find
and create a better and more sustainable path. But not
only is this destruction imminent, I think now that it
is necessary, and I keep telling folks, you know, I
will continue to do this work, to be a narrator

(11:51):
on our social discourse for as long as it is
safe and it is legal. And that to me, folks,
I don't really know how long that is going to be.
I don't because we can see from the latest Attorney
general nomination that Donald Trump is putting up like these
people are are ready and willing to build the camps,
to put their enemies in them, to clamp down on

(12:16):
free speech, on free press. And folks say, oh, but
we have a constitution. What the fuck does the constitution
have to do with any of the executive orders or
any of the policies that this trifecta win is getting
ready to put into place. We're at war. MAGA has
been at war with American democracy for nearly a decade now.

(12:42):
And so at what point do you put down the
pen right and pick up a sword. At what point
do we recognize that a two party system is not
the future of these United States? One of them is
wildly and effective and the other one is fascist. So

(13:04):
it leaves us to recognize that no one is coming
to save us. Merrit Garland didn't do his fucking job.
Joe Biden didn't do his fucking job. The Democratic establishment
didn't do its fucking job right. So we're here now.
We're here now and working to figure out as we're
dealing with this very real grief that we seriously do

(13:26):
need to process what the future looks like. And to me,
the future looks like a robust multi party system because
I don't want to put any stock and faith in
Democrats moving forward. I really don't. And this is why
you have heard over and over again black women saying,
you know what, y'all got this, We're tapping out. We're

(13:48):
going to protect ourselves, our sanity, and our communities. Y'all
got next. Because no one has faith that this party,
the Democratic Party, will actually learn anything. And if anything,
we're just seeing a further chasing of the Republican Party
that is already extremist and right that they're just dragging

(14:10):
the Democratic Party along to the right with them. If
you want to ask me why people stayed home, it's
because they really could not find the difference, because progressive
ideas weren't being beamed out to people on a regular basis.
It was like, no, let us find common ground, let

(14:30):
us be centrists again, there is no center. I'm at
a place as we wind down this year where I
need to rest, and we all need to rest, and
we all need to really process what has happened and
how each of us, individually and collectively plan on moving forward.

(14:55):
And that's how I'm going to spend the last several
weeks of this year is figuring out moving through the
pain and figuring out for me what it looks like
to be on the other side of it, because my
resistance is not going to look like it did in
twenty sixteen, or look like it did in twenty twenty

(15:18):
because frankly, folks, I just don't have the same level
of energy and I don't think that those strategies that
we were accessing at those different time points worked. So
it is time for something new, and for me that
what is what comes next only comes when I've had

(15:40):
time to decompress, when I've had time to rest, and
then I can get into an imagined scape. So my
offering to all of you as we close out this
year is to really figure out what restoration will look
like for you, and do that and do it well,

(16:01):
because you know, beginning January twentieth, we are in an
entirely new world and it's not a good one, it
is a new one. And like I've been saying that,
with every obstacle that is presented, there are opportunities that
lie inside of them. But we have to be in
a creative and imaginative and RESTful state and order for

(16:26):
that conjuring to happen. A change is coming and we
need to be ready. 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.