Trump is Everything Wrong With America

The WNBA represents everything right about America, and MAGA represents everything wrong with it.

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Episode Transcript

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.
I'm going to start off today's show. It is Tuesday.
I took the weekend off because I was wrapped up
in WNBA history making. I am new to the WNBA

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as of probably a year or so ago. I've always
liked sports. Got into watching the game because of my girlfriend,
who has been a fan of the WNBA since it's
inception in nineteen ninety seven, and friends of mine who

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were like, you need to watch this game. You need
to watch like the competitive nature of these women and
support women in sports. And so for the last year
plus I have developed an absolute obsession and as you
can see, my voice is horse obsession with the WNBA
and particularly with the Liberty as Barclays is in Brooklyn,

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and you know that that is where the Home Bunker is,
so all things Brooklyn big up. But I am so
excited for the Liberty win for the first time in
their franchise history in twenty eight years, that they brought
home the WNBA championship. The series was an absolute nail bier.

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It was the best in sports that I think people
have ever seen games went into overtime. I mean, you're
talking about cranking out, grinding out these games with such mastery.
And you know when I talk about it today, because
you know, one, I was able to be at Game five,

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the finals and court side and it was just like extraordinary.
And I've had the wonderful pleasure of being court side
and a number of Liberty games and it is just incredible.
The center is, you know, just like off the chains
in terms of vibes. And you know what I love

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so much about the WNBA is the women who are
committed to social justice. They're committed to change. They're fighting
for increase pay for themselves, They're fighting for LGBTQ rights,
they're fighting for you know, black lives. They are they
put it all on the line, and I think what
makes them exceptional is that they are largely a group

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of queer and black women right the marginalized of the marginalized,
and they are just so fucking talented and incredible that
to see the league row by leaps and bounds over
the last couple of years and see the investment being made,
it just goes to show you that what happens when

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investment is made. When people stop, when men, I'll say,
stop making assumptions about what people will watch and what
people will be interested in, and the you know, watching
the WNBA and kind of you know, all of the
pushback at the low salaries in these things. I'm like,
women have been fighting for equal pay in this country,

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in all industries for so many fucking years, and I
think that when you see it on a sports level,
when you're watching men literally play the same game, the
same sport and are paid astronomically higher and being told well,
that's because you know people like watching men's sports, well,
because you've never invested in building out the fan base

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and giving it the eyeballs and the attention and the
kudos and all of these things that it is needed.
And that's what's been happening with some of the extraordinary
players over the last couple of years. So it's just
been really dope to watch and be a part of.
So I just say congrats to the WNBA champions, the

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New York Liberty, well deserved, hard fought and just exhilarating.
I cannot like the countdown and now begins for the
twenty twenty five season, and I took a break, friends,
because I, like I tell you all the time, take
a break so that you do not have a breakdown
following the polls that are coming out and following like

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everything is deadlocked and everything is you know, neck and neck.
And I think that for some people it can work
in one way, which is it implores people to keep
putting the pedal to the metal to keep pushing things out,
to keep you know, getting out the vote. And for
other people, I think that it is completely totally disheartening

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because did you listen to top fucking Donald Trump over
the weekend. Did you listen to him go off about
a man's genitalia for twelve minutes and like people applauding
and clapping like mindless fucking seals, no insult to seals,
but like it is astonishing that this man can put

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on a fucking apron for a stage photo op and
the media foams at the mouth over this bullshit, and
it's just like how many times do you have to
be fooled? How many times does Donald Trump have to like,
you know, dictate the coverage before these people are like, oh,

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maybe this isn't good, maybe it's not helpful. It's so infuriating,
and I'm just you know, every once in a while,
I need a break. And the thing is is that
much in the same way that the WNBA and women's
sports is indicative of the way that women across industries
are underpaid and undervalued. You look at what is happening

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on the main stage, on the main political stage, the
world stage, with our election, and you look at Donald Trump,
who is a fucking bumbling idiot, who is a Cretan,
who is a sexual assaulter, who is a felon, who
is a grifter, who is a liar, who is no
one that anyone who cares about their kids or the

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future of this country should look to that man and say, oh,
I would like my child to emulate him. Presidents and
vice presidents and elected officials used to be held to
a certain standard, a certain kind of dignity and morals
and values. It's not to say that we haven't had

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throughout time people who have been arrested or people who
have abused their power, like Nixon, But never in our
fucking lives, in the history of this country, have we
seen anything so goddamn offensive as Donald fucking Trump. And
when you compare him to Kamala Harris, who is a

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woman that is actually worked for a living, that actually
built an impressive career as a prosecutor, as an attorney general,
then as a senator, then as a vice president of
the United States, and I'm certain I'm missing things in
between there, but like crawled and created and built who

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she is. Donald Trump had his whole life fucking handed
to him on a plate and still managed to go
fucking bankrupt multiple times over. But he's white, and he's
a man, and he is famous, so therefore he warrants
the opportunity to become president again. So when you look

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at it, I know, like most people, you feel absolutely
fucking disgusted, because I don't know how else we're supposed
to feel. But when after taking a break for two
days to come back to hear that Donald Trump went
on a twelve minute rant about another man's genitalia to

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people's fucking applause, and that was like a story. But
the most important story for the media was his fucking
apron at a McDonald's. Folks. Oh my god, oh my god.
It literally makes me want to change careers, you know,
And if Donald Trump is elected, understand that I will

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have to because Donald Trump not only did he say
last week that he's going to shut down the Department
of Education, he also plans on shutting down the media.
He also plans on using the military on Americans who
don't agree with him. The way that America will turn
fully into a fucking authoritarian regime, the way that this

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country will be dictated to by these religious, white supremacist zealots,
and the fact that we are quote unquote neck and
neck right now is so serious and so infuriating. Infuriating
is the only word that I can use, because I

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got to tell you, folks, you know, just kind of
looking at what's happening right now. You have Elon Musk
that is doling out million dollar cash prizes as if
our election is some type of fucking game show like
The Apprentice two point zero, saying I'll give you a

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million dollars if you sign this pledge and you do
this thing, just literally selling our democracy off to whomever.
Pouring seventy five million dollar into Donald Trump's campaign. And
I'm looking around wondering where the fuck Merrick Garland is,
But you know, he's where he's always been, probably hiding
under a desk somewhere with his head in the fucking sand,

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just hoping that the building that he's in doesn't come
crashing and crumbling around him, because he hasn't done anything
to fortify our democracy or our justice system in the
last four goddamn years. How it occurs to me is
that Merrick Garland could very well be the last Attorney
General of these United States. And do you think that
he used his last four years in any type of

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way that would strengthen our democracy, that would pursue just
this in the face of criminality. No, he's actually done
quite the fucking opposite. So you know, folks, it makes
me so angry that things could be neck and neck
that we know that if we just got rid of

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the fucking electoral college and let every person's vote count
the same, one person, one vote, and everybody counts the same,
it doesn't matter whether you're in Nevada or New York,
whether you're in California or Tennessee, and the person that
wins the most votes wins. But that's not how this
plays out because of the racist electoral college. Because the

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electoral college was created to give these rural states the
same amount of weight as these larger states that had
people of color that were enslaved, right black people, and
so we can't really count them towards the population because
we don't count them as humans. Like anything that is

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based on the fucking Atlantic slave the Transatlantic slave trade,
do you think that we could get rid of in
the twenty first century. No, we continue to honor that shit,
create marble statues out of all of it. So you know,
today when I tap back in, I was just like
so completely and totally outdone, just kind of like over

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the United States at this point, and really just like
over the people right like over the racism, I should say,
not over the people that are standing in line, that
are early voting at breaking records of their states and
doing the most, but much in the same way that
people were forced out in a pandemic to fight for

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their rights as well as trying to fight for their life,
as well as trying to cast the ballot with a
person that you know was urging on lies and ceding
lies about the election, knowing that his numbers were not
looking good, and then ended up leading an insurrection following
the election. The fact that this man is running, folks

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is wild to me. The fact that one in five
Republicans want Trump to call the election election invallid if
he loses. It's just like everything that is wrong with
America is what Trump embodies and what he has given
people permission to just spew. Like I've seen some of
these videos by some of these Trump supporters, and it's

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just like, folks will be We'll post these videos of
these angry white people just screaming, yelling, blah blah blah,
and it's just like, are you okay? Like are you okay?
How does a gay person getting married have anything to
do with how you're showing up in your life? How
does a child learning about the real founding of this
country do anything other that make us proud about how

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far we've come and how far we've yet to go? Like,
why is it that white people always think that like
their children will identify with the worst. That says much
more about your parenting than it does our democracy. You know, folks,
we are two weeks away from this election's final day,

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and I've never wanted anything to be finished more And
kind of part of what scares me right now is
the fact that we are two weeks away and it's
a toss up about whether America will hold on to
democracy for four more years or we're just over it, or,

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as I should say, the white masses are over democracy
because it no longer works for them in the way
that white supremacy will. I want us to stay extraordinarily hopeful.
I want us to continue to do all that we
can in these final weeks. I encourage folks to early vote.

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In New York where I am, early voting will start
at the end of this week. I for the first time,
will be voting early, as opposed to on election day,
because I'm going to be so busy on election day
and probably entrance for part of it, so I want
to make sure that you know I go early and

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get it done. I would love to go back to
the times when elections were joyous, when it was just
exciting and going to a watch party and you could
enjoy being a part of the democratic process. I don't
know if we will ever get back to that place,
and maybe we will, but just not in my lifetime.

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Because if Kamala Harris, if democracy is able to win,
we are going to be just as fractured as we
were on November fifth, on the day that the election
is actually decided, So yes, we will have. If she's
able to eke out a win, we're able to kind

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of move forward with clear heads, and finally, God willing
get rid of Donald Trump once and for fucking all,
and then he can deal with the cadre of lawsuits
that we'll be waiting for him now that he's no
longer the Republican candidate for president. But if she doesn't
and it's close enough for them to steal it, I

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don't know, folks, I'm not going to really allow that
thought to really fully enter into my mind because it's
not productive. Because as I told my sister one day
when she was feeling really low about the election, and
I said, it takes just as much energy to be
hopeful as it does to wallow in despair. And so

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I'm going to put my energy towards being hopeful and
energizing all of you as well as myself to do
what needs to be done because I still believe that
we can win. I say, fuck all the polls that
you're reading, even though I go over polls because I
have to, but I constantly say take them with a
grain of fucking salt, because you can get them to

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say whatever you want them to say. The polls that
I care about right now are the early voting polls.
Are the ones that tell me that places like North
Carolina and Georgia are breaking records. The places that are
telling me that early voting in Pennsylvania and other battleground
areas are breaking records from twenty twenty. That's what matters

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to me. Everything else is conjecture until it's done. So
with that said, my dear friends, keep your head held up,
keep working, keep donating, keep canvassing, keep talking to people,
keep getting out the vote, because that that is what

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is going to be the difference maker. 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.