All is Not Well

Democrats seem to be unable to do anything right. The party's failure of imagination led us directly to this moment.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Here's my thing right now, why can't Democrats ever get
anything right? And I say this having spent the last
three months trying to get Americans to believe that Democrats

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and their desire to preserve democracy was in their best interest,
and that obviously failed because in just a few weeks
we have a fascist, right wing, white nationalist government that
is going to be coming in to destroy basically what
is left of our democracy. And instead of focusing their

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attention on the incoming devastation, what are Democrats doing right
now attacking Joe Biden for pardoning his son? Now, Folks,
I was on yesterday Tavis Smiley's radio show, and Tabs
asked me a question and said, did Joe Biden lie

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to the American people when he said that he had
no intention of pardoning his son? And my response was no.
What Joe Biden is doing and what he has done
is politics. The fact of the matter is, when he
was asked would he pardon his son, Joe Biden should

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have done what politicians in the past have always done.
I'm going to allow the Department of Justice to move
through their investigation and come to a determination at that time.
What does that mean. It means exactly what I said,
and keep it moving. Democrats continue to play with rules
and in a game that no longer exists. Then Tavis

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asked me, well, Danielle, do two wrongs, then make a
right with regard to the fact that Donald Trump is
a criminal and has been charged with criminal behavior, all
of which has been wiped away because the crimes that
he committed in order to stay in office in twenty
twenty now that he is back in office after the

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twenty twenty four election have magically disappeared. And you want
to compare Hunter Biden filling out a form wrong with
thirty four felony counts with Donald Trump pardoning his entire
inner circle for being foreign agents for grifting off of constituents.
You want to compare Hunter Biden filling out a document

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wrong while he was battling his substance abuse addiction with
Donald Trump being totally incompletely coherent when he told January
sixth insurrectionists to go take their country back. You want
to compare that to the perfect call to go find
me eleven seven hundred and fifty some odd votes. You

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want to compare that form from an unelected person to
all of the things that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn,
Roger Stone, Paul Matafore, Charles Kushner have all done. And
look at me in my face and think that those
accusations that Democrats are wielding right now against Biden are

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fucking warranted. And this is why Democrats will continue to
lose because in their desire to play the adult in
the room and chase Republicans off of their right wing
extremist cliff, they are leaving the entire base of their
party behind. And I'm no longer going to tell people

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moving forward, well, this is the most consequential dout dot
dot fill in the blank, and you must vote for
the Democrat because guess what. Seven million people stayed home
in twenty twenty four. Seven million Americans decided that they
would rather toin costs this election than actually put any

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skin in the game. Well, now your whole body's in
the game, because you're getting ready to lose your health insurance,
Your mother and father are getting ready to lose their
Social Security, your family members are getting ready to lose
whatever type of stability that they may have cobbled together
for themselves over the past several years because of that
coin toss. But then I have to ask myself if

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you're looking at this from the vantage point not through
the lens of a racist, but you're looking at this
through the lens of well both parties are bought by
corporations and high dollar donors that every time that we
think that we have moved with the Democratic Party into
a place of progression, then they want to go back
and embrace the Liz Cheneys and the Dick Cheneys of
the world and talk about having Republicans in their cabinet

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when they can, and even get a pro Palestinian person
to bring on the stage for the DNC to talk
about gaza. So we do live inside of an upside
down world and Democrats continue to play in our faces.
And why do I say that, because I actually expected
them not to be better, meaning be on their high horse,

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but understand that when the rules of the game change,
that they need to move in a nimble fashion. And
this is where Democrats refuse to be because they are
allowing once again for Republicans to set the agenda, and
all they are positioning themselves to do is to respond
in this point and place of destruction. We need to

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be in a place of bold imagination because guess what,
for the next several decades, we're not going to be
able to do a fucking thing under the Trump Maga regime.
So all you have right now is your imagination and
thinking about what can be better, because inside of these
systems that we're holding on to and saying, oh my god,

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the institution, the institution, Donald Trump is going to destroy it. Well,
the fact of the matter is, folks, is that if
we're talking about the Department of Education, and we're talking
about the Environmental Protection Agency, and we're talking about health
and human services, if you talk with black people, if
you talk with low income people, they're going to tell
you that those agencies haven't been doing a fucking thing

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for them except for the semblance the perception that they
work for everybody. But in actuality, we know that that
couldn't be further from the fucking truth. So if we
know that Donald Trump is coming in to destroy everything,
then why is it that Democrats still have a failure
of fucking imagination about what could potentially come next. Not

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that in that next phase we're all gonna benefit from it, No,
we will be long gone. But in doing this tit
for tat bullshit, what Democrats continue to show is that
they have learned nothing. And if you learn nothing, then
tell me again why the people of this country should
trust you, because that's what this all comes down to.

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And whether or not we want to admit it, they
trust Donald Trump because they trust him to destroy what
it is that they don't like, and he says that
he will. And now I put my faith in trust
in a Democratic party because they say that they're going
to fix things. And then at the end of the day,
I look and what they have done is continue to
paint a rotten house. What they have done is continue

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to put a band aid on a patient that is
on life preserve. You know, at some point, folks, at
some point, we have got to reconcile with the reality
here that Democrats are not built for this moment. I
could give a shit about what Joe Biden's legacy is

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going to be, because if we think that the part
in is going to be the thing that tarnishes Joe
Biden's legacy, well then we haven't been paying attention for
the last fucking year plus that he has provided weapons
of mass destruction to a fucking toxic, genocidal, homicidal maniac
in Israel. Joe Biden's legacy is going to be what

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has always been America's legacy, which is that we are
on the wrong side of justice almost all the fucking time.
When it comes to liberation movements. America is not there
unless it is serving our best interests, and our best
interests look like a financial investment or an extraction of
some kind. And because all we can see is that

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the people of Gaza are begging for humanity or begging
for reprieve, Well, if there were oil underneath Gaza, that
then they could offer up, maybe the United States would
give a fucking damn. So when seven million people decide
to sit out, let's not all just shrug our shoulders
as we been known to do, as I have been
known to do, and say, well, those people are stupid

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and they don't care about their lives. Maybe they do,
and maybe what they have been seeing over the last
decades is that they have lost track of who the
Democratic Party actually is. Because in fact, the Democratic Party
has clearly lost track of who it is. It's so
busy trying to be the adult in the room, they

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didn't recognize that everyone else has left the fucking room,
and so now they're just talking to themselves. I just
saw something, folks, and I don't know, like I have
to do investigation right. What I saw on top of
my own anecdotal evidence rings true, it said, and I'll
pull it up here so that I read it accurately.

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I follow this site called boardroom on Instagram, and boardroom posts,
you know, business news and this, that and the other thing,
and so well, I see this post, folks, and it
says the average age of US home buyers. Get this
jumps to fifty six years old. And they write this,

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and this is according to CNBC, home ownership is increasingly
out of reach for younger generations, with the average age
of US home buyers rising by six years since twenty
twenty three. So in twenty twenty three, the average age
has jumped six years, which means that prior to this,

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the average age for buying a home, folks, was fifty,
and now it is fifty six. They also go on
to say that the National Association of Realtors points to
a confluence of factors. The median home price has surged
thirty nine percent since twenty twenty to four hundred and
thirty five thousand, while the average thirty year fixed mortgage

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rate has more than doubled, exceeding six percent. So here's
the deal. The lie that has been told is that
all is well and good. The fact is, folks, is
that wages in the United States have not risen to

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match the increase in the mortgage rate as well as
in the housing market. So if you're telling me that
the average age of a person that is able to
afford a home is fifty six, and then you're telling
me that after you're able to buy said home, that
you're supposed to then have enough money to be able

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to retire at sixty five, folks, the math ain't mathem,
and it doesn't make any fucking sense. The fact is
is that this country has been privatized within an inch
of its fucking life. You have had foreclosures happen and
then companies come in and scoop up those homes, increase

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the mortgage rate, increase the amount that it costs to
buy a home because you're no longer going from person
to person you're going from corporation to person no one
can keep up. Not only that, but if you live
in a city, then you would also know that the
fucking rent has risen astronomically since twenty twenty. So you

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can't afford to buy a home, you can't afford to rent,
and your wages have it increased at all but everything,
And now you have Donald Trump coming in that's going
to put a tariff on every single thing, So your
money is not even going to go as far as
it did in twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty five.

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So again, when I talk about the incremental change that
Democrats have allowed folks to become complacent in, we have
not had an aggressive conversation station about how millionaires and
billionaires have basically swindled the United States United States workers
out of every single fucking penny. The only people that

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have ever consistently talked about this is Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren. Everyone else wants to tell you that all
is well. All is not fucking well. So you know,
I see this now, and I look at it from
the vantage point of a voter, right, the average voter,

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not me as a voter, but the average voter, you
can't afford shit. The gig economy made you believe that, like, oh,
anybody can get rich quick. No, the gig economy basically
just said that in today's world, you need to have
a May nine to five and a side hustle in
order to be able to just make ends meet. The

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side hustle is not extra money. It's become necessary just
to do the basics. So you're working harder and longer
to actually have less. And you don't need to be
a math wizard in order to see that the math
is not mathing for the rest of us. So then

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Donald Trump comes in, he gives people a few catchphrases
and tells them that, oh, don't worry, I'll make everything
better again. We'll just get rid of these people and
those things and then there'll be more for people. And
that's the easy solution, and that's what folks want to hear.
Then you add on the racism and the misogyny. But
you see how we get here. But Democrats do not

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offer a rigorous economic overhaul of this country that would
have the middle class and the working class be able
to be back in reach of the American dream, which
they have been out of reach of for the last
thirty years. Folks. I was having this conversation the other
day with my parents and saying that at my age

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right now, which is not at all young, I am
old I make more money than my parents did at
this age, and yet I have less. That has been
the direction that this country has been going in over
the last twenty years that I've been working. And roughly,

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what do we say, really, it's about twenty three years,
so you can see then why seven million people sat home.
I'm not saying it's right. You know how many times
I told people to vote and get their neighbors and
their friends and the young people and this, that and
the other thing. But the reality is is that Democrats

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are losing and need to come up with a better
plan for what winning and success look like, because it's
sure as fuck does not look like chasing Republicans over
the fucking tariff hill. And it also does not look
like lying to the American people and telling them that
the economy is great, when in fact, maybe the Dow

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is great for those that have investments there, but for
everyone else that is just trying to make ends meet,
just trying to have a little bit in savings or
have some type of retirement. Things look pretty fucking bleak
and Democrats frankly, are not meeting the moment. So while
they want to get themselves tied up in knots about

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a pardon and hunter Biden as opposed to creating an
actual plan not for how we're going to work with
Donald Trump, but what the plan is for a revision
at reimagining of the Democratic Party that is steeped solely
in progressive values, then we might as well all just
sit home and wait for the end to come, because

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these people seem to be out to fucking lunch right
now with no sign of returning to their senses anytime soon.
The fact is Americans are indeed suffering because they will
never be as well off as their parents or grandparents are,
and we need to pinpoint when that changed, and I

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would argue that it started to shift dramatically about twenty
to thirty years ago, and now here we are. So
Democrats cannot continue right with this circle jerk that they
have been doing with this followed the leader in terms
of following Republicans to the right if they plan on

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having a party, because right now all they're doing is
talking to themselves while everyone else has decided to stay home,
shut off the news, and shut them out. The future
does not, dear friends, look bright right now, and Democrats
seem to have put their heads in the fucking sand.

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That is it for me today. Dear friends on wok
af as always power to the people and to all
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