Pandora's White Supremacist Box

MAGA isn't going away. We are going to need to fight for democracy from here on out.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
me your Girl, Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Happy brigin Friday. I swear to God, I know that
I've said this so many times, but there just comes
a point where you're just so grateful that you made
it to Friday because so many things have careeamed off

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of a cliff this week where you're just like, what
are we as the time of this recording eleven days
away from the election, and I have to steal stomach
bullshit from Dana Bash, like Vice President Kamala Harris didn't
seal the deal in her latest town hall with CNN,

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Dana Bash, like, you are an embarrassment to the field
of journalism in all honesty, And I will give this
to Jake Tapper, and I said this yesterday on Mary
Trump's show, which is that he said, you know, these
are two completely different campaigns in two completely different universes
where you are judging Kamala Harris as if this is

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a normal election and a normal candidate, and yet not
judging Donald Trump for the existential threat that he actually is.
Like you want to critique Dana Bash and Hallie Jackson
and all of these, like, particularly these white women journalists
want to frankly critique Kamala Harris as if the difference

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between a Democrat and a Republican losing this election isn't
the end of democracy. Isn't the fact that if Donald
Trump and Jade Vance get into the actual White House,
that they will be policing women's bodies across this country,
that they want to have women essentially have to register

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if you are pregnant or not before leaving the state, right, like,
this is what America is in for. But Dana Bash
and Harley Jackson, in their recent you know, interactions with
the Vice President of the United States, would have you
believed that, like, oh, if we lose this election, it's
just like losing to Romney or even like George W.

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Bush for that fucking matter, and that motherfucker took us
into a war. So you know, I know, I know,
it's eleven days to go, and I'm still lam bassing
against you know, corporate media and journalists. But I honestly,
I really thought that at some point during this election cycle,
at some point that folks would recognize what a dangerous

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situation that we're in and that they would look to
themselves and look to history and say, you know, you know,
Hitler came about largely right because people didn't believe what
he was saying, because the media was too busy doing
puff pieces on his garden and not the fact that

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he was setting up concentration camps, right like, it's always, oh, well,
we should have known there were signs, like how many
more signs do you need? From Donald Trump? Donald Trump
has since twenty fifteen, he's talked about sexually assaulting women,
and he has been convicted of doing so. He has

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invited white supremacists to dinner. He has championed white supremacists.
He refers to the insurrectionists as we. He plays their
January sixth national anthem as opposed to America's national anthem.
He has talked about wanting generals like those that Hitler.

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He has said Hitler has done some quote good things.
He is called white supremacists good people. He has referred
to African nations as shithole countries. When talking about a
young private, Vanessa Gillion, that was murdered at Fort Hood
and the response to the fee for her burial, he

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said it doesn't cost sixty thousand dollars to bury an
effing Mexican. Meanwhile, you have the likes of at Tucker
Carlson at a rally saying some of the most vile
shit that I've heard in a long time, talking about
Donald Trump being America's daddy and America needing a spanking.

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They're like weird twisted sexual fantasies like come to life
in their policies of control and paternalism and patriarchy is
on full display. So how do we not have headlines
that conveyed the seriousness of this moment? How do we

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have outlets like the La Times that for the first
time refuse to endorse a presidential candidate, Like, do people
really think that their neutrality quote unquote neutrality in this
moment is going to save them down the road in
an authoritarian regime. I'm just so fucking confused. One of

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the great things that Kamala Harris said at our town
hall was that on day one, if Donald Trump is elected,
He's going to be sitting down in the Oval office
making a list of all of his enemies so that
he can seek retribution on them. She, however, is going
to be working on America's to do list? Do you

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want a president that speaks more about themselves and their
own problems rather than concentrate and trying to fix any
of yours things that have happened this week, two hundred
and thirty psychiatrists came out and said that Donald Trump
is unstable and that his brain is basically deteriorating right now.

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None of these are his actual doctors. But Donald Trump also,
much like his taxes, won't release his medical records. But
we have listened to him mix up Biden and Obama
now on a number of occasions, not knowing who he's
actually running against. We have watched him refer to different
cities that he's in. We also listen to him tell

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people to go vote on January fifth. We learned this
week that in a sham set up at a barber
shop where he's supposedly speaking to black and Latino men.
We heard that Fox News edited out all of Donald
Trump's meandering and rambling. CNN got a hold of it

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and posted it like I just I feel like this
week and the next couple of weeks are really going
to test us, test our will, test our faith, test
our emotional capacity, test our health and well being because

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the fuckery knows no bounce, and the fact that I
can't confidently say that, guess what, folks, in a couple
of weeks, we are going to have an amazing new
president and a new era that it's going to take
this country forward, and that we don't have to worry

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anymore about saving democracy, that we will have done it
in this election, and then hopefully in the four years
of the Harris Walls administration, Donald Trump will end up
penniless or in jail. Those are the two things that
I'm going after. But we can't say that with confidence

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because of the electoral college, because I know and you
know that if it were up to one person, one vote,
much in the way that Donald Trump had his hat
handed to him in twenty twenty, it would happen again.
Why is it that we live inside of a democracy
where all of our votes don't count equally. I don't
want a handful of fucking people in the Midwest deciding

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this election. I want all of us having a say
and who is going to lead this country because guess what,
they're not just going to be the president for the Midwest.
They're going to be a president for the rest of us.
So why shouldn't our voices count just as much? But
that is again the electoral college being one of many

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relics still in operation from the Transatlantic slave trade. You know, folks,
as we in shout the rest of this election cycle,
I pray that we make it to the other side
of this. I pray for all of us in this

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country that we make it to the other side of
trump Ism. Now, as I have said before, trump Ism
is never going to go away. I don't think I
think that it will reinvent itself. If in fact Donald
Trump loses, I think it'll reinvent itself. Find a young, slicker,

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more articulate, saner white supremacists to run for office again
in twenty twenty eight, same proposal, same people, just a
different package. And that's the thing that people need to
keep in mind, is that Donald Trump broke open Pandora's
white supremact box, and it is going to take a

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lot a lot to close it. But Republicans won't learn
their lesson. There won't be like a moratorium. There won't
be a going back to the Bushes and the Romneys
and the mccains of their party. Even with the over
two hundred Republicans that have now come out and said

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that they are voting for Kamala Harris. These are two
hundred people who formerly worked for Trump, McCain, Romney, Bush's
You know what I find really interesting And people keep
saying this is that, like, why is George W. Bush
so silent? Because, folks, do we really need him to

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weigh in? Do we think that this version of the
Republican Party, if they don't give a damn about what
Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney of all people is saying, who
was the real mastermind behind the w administration? Do we
think that they give a shit about what George Bush
would say? But it says a lot that his vice

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president would come out and with no equivocation say Donald
Trump cannot be president. And it is just I mean,
Dick Cheney's the reason why we went to war after
nine to eleven with the wrong country, right weapons of
mass destruction. That was all Cheney. And for him to
look at Donald Trump and say that Donald Trump is

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a threat is like wild. But also the moment that
we are in, folks, it is it's sad, it is frustrating,
it is disgusting, it's all of the things. I will
say this, though, what is really important is for us
to recognize that either way, if Donald Trump somehow is

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able to steal this election, we're going to have the
fight of our lives on our hand. Literally. If Kamala
Harris is able to win, we're going to have so
much work ahead of us to try and rebuild this country.
So either way, our job is not going to be done.
I will say this that never again can we have

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an election like this happen again. Like I said that,
there is going to be so much work to do,
But never again are we just going to be able
to sit back and think that our democracy is just
going to work right, the way that you don't have
to think about your breath or you don't have to
think about your heart beating right, it just does. That's

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not the way that democracy stay healthy or stay functioning, right,
Because what we know now and what I hope that
we remember from this moment, is that, frankly, folks, that
democracy is something that needs tending to. Like a garden.

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Democracy is something that needs watering and sunshine and people
that are engaged and activated all the time, not just
every four years, not just every two years, but every
year because Republicans are like termites looking for inns in

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the wall. They're looking for weak spots, right, and if
we allow our guard to drop right, then they enter
and the rot begins. We can't have that happen. And
I think that if there is anything that we have
learned in this time is how precious this democracy is,

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even as imperfect as it is. I will be the
first to tell you I've been taking the bind administration
to task for things that they had not done. I said,
you know, spoke out when I thought that Obama could
have been doing things that are better. Right. The reality
is is that when we are up against an existential threat,

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that's where all our focus needs to go. Once that
threat is removed, then we can begin to assess the
damage and how we don't allow something like that to
ever happen again. And so I believe that we begin
to do that with the election of Kamala Harris and
Tim Walls. We do that by figuring out what were

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these giant loopholes that have allowed a character a moral
less figure like Donald Trump to even ascend to the
presidency in the first place, and let us put in
those significant guardrails, those breaks, those checks and balances and
strengthen them and understand that like without our attention, without

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our persistence, this will happen again, and we can never
let that be. So, you know, folks, I also know
that for places like Texas, unless we are able to
regain Roe v. Wade, which I don't necessarily see happening

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in our lifetime, unfortunately, people like the folks in Texas
in Florida will need our help. And I want to
raise up organizations because people always ask what are the
places that we can you know, help, And some of

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them are this Fund, Texas Choice, an organization that has
been funding transportation for people, Texas Equal Access Fund, another
organization that is funding aid for pregnant people and reproductive
care in Texas, and then Lilith Fund. Folks check out

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these places because these are places when folks are just
like I don't know what to do, I don't know
to donate, where to give my money, where to help out.
Go to these red red states and put in reproductive
care groups. Of course, make sure that they are actually
reproductive care groups and not just some Christian group that

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is using language to like rope people in and put
you into a registry. But the three organizations that I
named in Texas are ones that are doing incredible work
and need funding, need support because they are being criminalized
and you know, may not be able to operate anymore
because of the Supreme Court decision. But we know that

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people are not going to stop having children, right, They're
just going to stop being able to live once they
are pregnant and if something goes wrong. So please consider
joining forces and taking action with organizations like Fund Texas Choice,
which is at Fund Texaschoice dot org, Texas Equal Access

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Fund which is at Tteafund dot org, and then Lilithfund
which is at lilithfund dot org. Consider getting involved. If
you have the treasure, consider donating. It doesn't matter whether
or not you live in Texas because things like this
can and will be nationalized if we do not keep

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our eye on our democracy. That is it for me today,
Dear friends on Woke af as always power to the
people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and
stay woke as fuck.