July 31, 2024 • 21 mins
Sometimes it's the simplest things that stick. And after eight or even more years of rightwing evangelical weirdness, Americans are finally recognizing it en masse for what it is. It's freaking weird!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ook f Daily with
me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks,
My god, what a difference so we make. I am
recording this back from a few days off, and I
have to tell you that feeling recharged, re energized, hopeful,
(00:36):
these things cannot go unsaid as to being important when
we're trying to, you know, save our democracy in our country.
I thought for a while that just talking about the
consequential nature of the presidential election, talking about all of
(00:58):
the bad things that Donald Trump and the Republicans are
set to do if in fact they regain power, was
going to be enough that fear was going to be
a great motivator. And what I've realized since the seismic
shift of Joe Biden stepping aside and making way for
(01:21):
Vice President Kamala Harris is extraordinary. People need hope. People
need not just to feel like, oh I want to
go and have a beer with said candidate, but they
need to feel inspired. And it is harder to invoke
(01:42):
inspiration than it is to invoke fear. For better or worse,
Donald Trump has been a master at inspiring his cult
into doing some of the most ridiculous shit, like wearing diapers,
like putting on huge maxipads on their ears during convention,
(02:07):
like buying his gold sneakers, or his version of the Bible.
He has been a master at the grift and making
himself the avatar for their grievances, for all the ways
in which America has done them wrong, because we're no
(02:29):
longer centering and I should say this that it's still
really not true, but in their minds, it is that
we're no longer centering whiteness and maleness as the default
in our society. That we have made considerable advances towards
creating more space and room at the table for other people,
(02:52):
that through laws passed around bodily autonomy, around financial independence
for women in particular, That there has been shifts in
this country over the last fifty years. Now, while all
of us look at that and we say, wow, look
(03:14):
how far America has come, Republicans look at that and
they say, oh my god, look how far America has
strayed from its white, Christian centered values. What I am
loving right now is something that is so fucking small,
and in hindsight, you're just like, this is what it
(03:36):
took is that Republicans are finally being labeled as weird,
not crazy. I am happy to use that term, but
it's also you know, offensive to some, but weird. Your
preoccupation with women's uteruses, with cat ladies with no fault divorce.
(04:01):
It's weird. The behavior is odd, right, Donald Trump hugging
a flag, as Shapiro points out, He's like, I love
the flag, but I'm not gonna like march over to
it and like and hug it. That's weird behavior. And so,
according to ABC News, the quote weird message appears to
(04:25):
have given Democrats a narrative advantage they rarely had when
President Joe Biden was still running for reelection. Trump's campaign,
which so often shapes political discussions with the former president's pronouncements,
has spent days trying to flip the script by highlighting
things about the Democrats it says are weird. And you know,
(04:48):
many people are saying, it is incredible that the Trump
vance team and ticket have been finding it almost impossible
to come up with a credible response because they tried
to say, oh, the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris
(05:09):
laughs and has joy is somehow weird. Really, I think
the fact that Donald Trump has been on the political
scene for over a decade and we've actually never seen
him laugh, unless, of course, he is poking fun at, belittling,
dehumanizing other people, then maybe he'll give off some type
(05:29):
of sinister, you know, cartoon villain type of laugh. But
this is not a party that has anything to do
with joy. We watch that at the RNC. So when
you are gonna juxtapose that between visions and memes of
Vice President Kamala Harris, you know, enjoying conversations with children,
(05:54):
marching in college bands, being at the LGBTQ parade, just
like enjoying people and laughing. They think that that's weird.
But JD. Van's talking about the fact that people who
don't have children shouldn't have the same amount of rights
(06:15):
and pay more taxes and that's supposed to be some
normal shit and doubling and tripling down on it. Or
how about most recently, Donald Trump being interviewed by that
Ingram person right over at Fox and she's trying to
clear up for him the fact that he told Christians
(06:37):
that if they vote in this election, that they'll never
have to vote again. And she says to him in
the interview, trying to force feed him the right lines
so that he doesn't seem like the dictator that he is.
She says, well, you know, the left is trying to
make it seem as if you know, there's never going
to be another election again. So can you clarify what
(06:59):
it is you said to the group of Christians that
you were speaking in front of. Donald Trump goes off
on one of his Trumpian fucking tangents and says exactly
what he said in front of those Christians, Well, Christians
don't really vote life. That they need to understand that
they don't really vote, and that if they vote this time, yeah,
(07:21):
they're not going to have to vote again because everything's
going to need to be fixed and they won't have
to worry about voting. What have you ever heard a
former president or a candidate for president ever talk about
the fact that people won't need to vote ever again.
That isn't something that democracies or somebody that believes in
democracy utters. So Ingram tries to redirect him again and
(07:45):
again he's like, nah, I got this and continues on
with the same bullshit rhetoric of being a dictator. That
shit is weird. When you're rambling about Hannibal Lecter as
if that's a real person as opposed to a character
from Silence of the Lambs, that shit is weird. So
(08:08):
the fact is that it's taken this revival of energy
with a new candidate for Democrats to somehow find their messaging.
Now we are less than one hundred days away from
this election, and it looks as if we've gotten some spirit,
(08:31):
some hoot spot, if you will, in our ability to
take on Republicans and meet them where we are. Because
the thing is, we're not trying to name call in
the way that let's say, Tennessee representatives are trying to
call Kamala Harris everything outside of her fucking name, whether
it's colored, whether it's ding dong, whether it's not that smart,
(08:54):
not that bright, blah blah blah blah blah. All they
are doing with this continued line of name calling and
race baiting is doing Democrats a job for them. Even
on Fox you have anchor saying, well, do you think
that this kind of name calling is going to actually
(09:15):
bring people in? And they don't care because they all
think that they can somehow model Donald Trump, and that's
going to mean winning for them, folks. It doesn't. It
won't because the only person who apparently can have that
kind of deep character flaw and still continue to rise
(09:38):
is Donald Trump. Everybody else that's tried to impersonate him loses.
So I love the direction that this campaign is taking.
And it's only been a little over a week that
we've had this seismic shift. But the fact is that
(09:59):
the campag can feels younger, fresher, and revitalized in ways
that seem very much in touch with social media and
like culture and are being able to activate and energize
people across age spectrums because we are seeing things that
(10:20):
we've never seen before. There's a town in Florida. It's
called the Villages, and it's like some retirement village I
believe for like very old, wealthy white folks, and they
like drive around in golf carts, and I feel like
it became really popularized like these folks, because they became
(10:41):
like uber Trumpers. Well, most recently, these golf cart having
folks organized a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Over
the course of a week and a half, we have
seen calls that began with we win with black women
to we win with black men, to white women answer
(11:06):
the call, to Southeast Asians, to Indians to now you
have the Latino call coming up. The white Dudes call happened,
and Elon Musk was so upset with the White Dudes
call and the fact that they were bringing in over
three million dollars that he suspended their Twitter account during
their call and the hashtag because that's how fucking scared
(11:28):
these people are, because you know, they are getting into formation.
Every single group is getting into formation behind Vice President
Kamala Harris. Why because they don't want fascism. So whether
it's disabled voters for Kamala, right, cat ladies for Kamala,
(11:53):
white dudes, white women united for Kamala, women united for like,
all of this is coming together because guess what we
all agree on now. Democracy is on the ballot, which
it's been, but we actually feel like we can do
something about it because we feel like we have a
(12:14):
candidate that we can get behind. And folks, I will
say this, Look, you know, back in twenty twenty I
didn't want Joe Biden, but I also in twenty twenty
four didn't want Joe Biden to step aside because I
was like, unless they are going to unify behind Vice
President Kamala Harris, I want no parts of it. I
(12:34):
want no parts of a fucking open primary at convention
that will be a fucking disaster and ensure that trumps
and wins. But for once, holy shit, they listened and
Joe Biden set the fucking tone from the moment jump
and said, oh no, Vice President Harris, that's our girl,
(12:56):
and that's who we're getting behind, and everyone fell in line.
We've never seen Democrats do that. So now here we
are where the messaging is like, Okay, Republicans are weird.
Run with that shit, do what you may, and guess what,
it's not that hard. It really is not that hard,
(13:17):
because Wow, some of the shit that comes out of
these people's mouths is just wild. Right, it's wild, and
it's ridiculous and it's dangerous. But to say that it
is weird and have that stick, it's absolutely fucking brilliant.
(13:37):
Here is some other thoughts on this. It said many
Democrats comments appear to be allusions to a twenty twenty
one interview with Vans in which he slamms some prominent
This is again coming from ABC News. Some prominent Democrats
without biological children, including Harris as childless cat ladies with
(13:59):
no direct still in America. Because again, this is what
they think. This is not just a JD vance off
on the Fringes commentary. Their policies align with the rhetoric
that is coming out of his mouth. But they go
on to say, but Harris's own characterization of Trump as
weird may date back even further. In his twenty twenty
(14:20):
one book, political reporter Edward Isaac Dover wrote that Harris
reportedly gathered with AIDS in twenty eighteen to prepare for
her own presidential bid. As staff aimed to prepare her
for how she'd react if during a debate Trump stood
over her, as he did Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in
twenty sixteen. Harris reportedly equipped, I turn around and say,
(14:43):
why are you being so weird? What's wrong with you?
So while the right decides to melt down over this
like this is just it, you don't have to really
dig that deep for people that are as deep as
a puddle. Do you know what I'm saying. I feel
like Democrats have been overworking themselves over the past ten
(15:06):
years to try and distinguish themselves from an ideological makeup
that is in fact, just fucking weird. It is handmaid's
tail weird. It is nineteenth century weird. When you're pulling
up and digging for policies that were passed in the
(15:28):
nineteenth century in the twenty first century, yeah, that shit
is weird. So here we are where in I believe
in the next couple of days, I think what some
are looking at is around August seventh for the campaign
(15:50):
to name a running mate as we head into convention
at the end of August, and you know, many people
have weighed in. I've weighed in in terms of like
who makes the most sense. I think that it is
obviously going to be a white man. I think that
it is obviously probably going to be someone from a
(16:12):
battleground state, which makes sense. I stand on the fact
that I do not think that it should be Shapiro,
only for the reason that we need him to hold
down Pennsylvania and be a very staunch surrogate and advocate.
But he needs to hold down the state during this
critical election. We cannot just hand that over, so I
take him out of it. I think that Kelly Mark
(16:35):
Kelly in Arizona is an interesting pick. I think that
for his astronaut background, as military background, his gun reform background,
I think that he is a good candidate. Other folks
are looking at Waltz and Basher, and I don't think
that we gain anything with Basher. Waltz is an interesting one.
(16:56):
Governor of Minnesota, another important state. He has won multiple
times when he was a member of Congress in a
rural red district. So I think that that adds a
lot of flair into this campaign. Rural red in comparison
to the liberal from California. So you have to look
(17:17):
at this ticket. And I disagree with some folks that say, oh,
vice presidents don't matter. Is that right? Tell that to
John McCain and Sarah Palin. It absolutely does matter. Tell
that to Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Because Donald Trump
needed white evangelicals who weren't trying to fuck with him, right,
And then so you get this weirdo Mike Pence, whose
(17:38):
staunch religious zealot to be on your ticket. I think
that tickets matter. Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Barack Obama
was in the Senate for a hot minute before he
ran for president. He needed someone with the wisdom and
with the sensibility and with the favor that Joe Biden
(18:02):
could bring in for him. So that vice presidential pick mattered,
and I think that this one does too. So I
think there are a lot of things to weigh in
about what would propel this ticket, which has gained so
much energy in such a short time. You don't want
to do anything that is going to be a drag
(18:22):
on the ticket when we need as much momentum to
continue to propel us into early voting, which starts in
some places folks in September. We're heading into August, right
when convention is over, which is starting I think like
August nineteenth or twentieth, right and goes during that week
(18:43):
we're coming out. You blink, it's Labor Day. You blink again,
and early voting starts in some states. So election is underway,
Like we're waiting on November fifth for probably I was
going to say the results, but we know we're not
getting results on Member fifth. I think it's important for
us to acknowledge that the choice is going to matter,
(19:05):
as well as all of the surrogates that are getting
out there, all of the organizing that is happening from
the grassroots, all of the money that is being raised,
and as Vice President Kamala Harris is saying, this is
a people run campaign, it is people engineered, and she
says that her administration is going to be people centered
(19:26):
and people focused. So this is why you are seeing
Republicans just grasping at straws trying to figure out their
path forward because their entire campaign was built around Joe
Biden being too old. You subtract Joe Biden from the scenario,
and now they don't know what to do because, like
(19:48):
Joy Reid said recently on Twitter, I wish that her
colleagues in the media would have the same fucking energy
around Trump's age now being the oldest person to run
for the presidency that they did around Joe Biden, because
those issues still remain, but now it's just not on
the Democrats side. So we'll see. But as of right now,
(20:09):
I haven't seen all of the barrage of stories now,
you know, pivoting to how old Donald Trump is and
how he seems to be in cognitive decline, you know,
because Hannibal Lecter and all, and that's just like the
tip of the iceberg. I'm gonna leave it there today,
my dear friends. That is it for me on Woke
(20:31):
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(20:53):
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Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ook f Daily with
me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks,
My god, what a difference so we make. I am
recording this back from a few days off, and I
have to tell you that feeling recharged, re energized, hopeful,
(00:36):
these things cannot go unsaid as to being important when
we're trying to, you know, save our democracy in our country.
I thought for a while that just talking about the
consequential nature of the presidential election, talking about all of
(00:58):
the bad things that Donald Trump and the Republicans are
set to do if in fact they regain power, was
going to be enough that fear was going to be
a great motivator. And what I've realized since the seismic
shift of Joe Biden stepping aside and making way for
(01:21):
Vice President Kamala Harris is extraordinary. People need hope. People
need not just to feel like, oh I want to
go and have a beer with said candidate, but they
need to feel inspired. And it is harder to invoke
(01:42):
inspiration than it is to invoke fear. For better or worse,
Donald Trump has been a master at inspiring his cult
into doing some of the most ridiculous shit, like wearing diapers,
like putting on huge maxipads on their ears during convention,
(02:07):
like buying his gold sneakers, or his version of the Bible.
He has been a master at the grift and making
himself the avatar for their grievances, for all the ways
in which America has done them wrong, because we're no
(02:29):
longer centering and I should say this that it's still
really not true, but in their minds, it is that
we're no longer centering whiteness and maleness as the default
in our society. That we have made considerable advances towards
creating more space and room at the table for other people,
(02:52):
that through laws passed around bodily autonomy, around financial independence
for women in particular, That there has been shifts in
this country over the last fifty years. Now, while all
of us look at that and we say, wow, look
(03:14):
how far America has come, Republicans look at that and
they say, oh my god, look how far America has
strayed from its white, Christian centered values. What I am
loving right now is something that is so fucking small,
and in hindsight, you're just like, this is what it
(03:36):
took is that Republicans are finally being labeled as weird,
not crazy. I am happy to use that term, but
it's also you know, offensive to some, but weird. Your
preoccupation with women's uteruses, with cat ladies with no fault divorce.
(04:01):
It's weird. The behavior is odd, right, Donald Trump hugging
a flag, as Shapiro points out, He's like, I love
the flag, but I'm not gonna like march over to
it and like and hug it. That's weird behavior. And so,
according to ABC News, the quote weird message appears to
(04:25):
have given Democrats a narrative advantage they rarely had when
President Joe Biden was still running for reelection. Trump's campaign,
which so often shapes political discussions with the former president's pronouncements,
has spent days trying to flip the script by highlighting
things about the Democrats it says are weird. And you know,
(04:48):
many people are saying, it is incredible that the Trump
vance team and ticket have been finding it almost impossible
to come up with a credible response because they tried
to say, oh, the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris
(05:09):
laughs and has joy is somehow weird. Really, I think
the fact that Donald Trump has been on the political
scene for over a decade and we've actually never seen
him laugh, unless, of course, he is poking fun at, belittling,
dehumanizing other people, then maybe he'll give off some type
(05:29):
of sinister, you know, cartoon villain type of laugh. But
this is not a party that has anything to do
with joy. We watch that at the RNC. So when
you are gonna juxtapose that between visions and memes of
Vice President Kamala Harris, you know, enjoying conversations with children,
(05:54):
marching in college bands, being at the LGBTQ parade, just
like enjoying people and laughing. They think that that's weird.
But JD. Van's talking about the fact that people who
don't have children shouldn't have the same amount of rights
(06:15):
and pay more taxes and that's supposed to be some
normal shit and doubling and tripling down on it. Or
how about most recently, Donald Trump being interviewed by that
Ingram person right over at Fox and she's trying to
clear up for him the fact that he told Christians
(06:37):
that if they vote in this election, that they'll never
have to vote again. And she says to him in
the interview, trying to force feed him the right lines
so that he doesn't seem like the dictator that he is.
She says, well, you know, the left is trying to
make it seem as if you know, there's never going
to be another election again. So can you clarify what
(06:59):
it is you said to the group of Christians that
you were speaking in front of. Donald Trump goes off
on one of his Trumpian fucking tangents and says exactly
what he said in front of those Christians, Well, Christians
don't really vote life. That they need to understand that
they don't really vote, and that if they vote this time, yeah,
(07:21):
they're not going to have to vote again because everything's
going to need to be fixed and they won't have
to worry about voting. What have you ever heard a
former president or a candidate for president ever talk about
the fact that people won't need to vote ever again.
That isn't something that democracies or somebody that believes in
democracy utters. So Ingram tries to redirect him again and
(07:45):
again he's like, nah, I got this and continues on
with the same bullshit rhetoric of being a dictator. That
shit is weird. When you're rambling about Hannibal Lecter as
if that's a real person as opposed to a character
from Silence of the Lambs, that shit is weird. So
(08:08):
the fact is that it's taken this revival of energy
with a new candidate for Democrats to somehow find their messaging.
Now we are less than one hundred days away from
this election, and it looks as if we've gotten some spirit,
(08:31):
some hoot spot, if you will, in our ability to
take on Republicans and meet them where we are. Because
the thing is, we're not trying to name call in
the way that let's say, Tennessee representatives are trying to
call Kamala Harris everything outside of her fucking name, whether
it's colored, whether it's ding dong, whether it's not that smart,
(08:54):
not that bright, blah blah blah blah blah. All they
are doing with this continued line of name calling and
race baiting is doing Democrats a job for them. Even
on Fox you have anchor saying, well, do you think
that this kind of name calling is going to actually
(09:15):
bring people in? And they don't care because they all
think that they can somehow model Donald Trump, and that's
going to mean winning for them, folks. It doesn't. It
won't because the only person who apparently can have that
kind of deep character flaw and still continue to rise
(09:38):
is Donald Trump. Everybody else that's tried to impersonate him loses.
So I love the direction that this campaign is taking.
And it's only been a little over a week that
we've had this seismic shift. But the fact is that
(09:59):
the campag can feels younger, fresher, and revitalized in ways
that seem very much in touch with social media and
like culture and are being able to activate and energize
people across age spectrums because we are seeing things that
(10:20):
we've never seen before. There's a town in Florida. It's
called the Villages, and it's like some retirement village I
believe for like very old, wealthy white folks, and they
like drive around in golf carts, and I feel like
it became really popularized like these folks, because they became
(10:41):
like uber Trumpers. Well, most recently, these golf cart having
folks organized a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Over
the course of a week and a half, we have
seen calls that began with we win with black women
to we win with black men, to white women answer
(11:06):
the call, to Southeast Asians, to Indians to now you
have the Latino call coming up. The white Dudes call happened,
and Elon Musk was so upset with the White Dudes
call and the fact that they were bringing in over
three million dollars that he suspended their Twitter account during
their call and the hashtag because that's how fucking scared
(11:28):
these people are, because you know, they are getting into formation.
Every single group is getting into formation behind Vice President
Kamala Harris. Why because they don't want fascism. So whether
it's disabled voters for Kamala, right, cat ladies for Kamala,
(11:53):
white dudes, white women united for Kamala, women united for like,
all of this is coming together because guess what we
all agree on now. Democracy is on the ballot, which
it's been, but we actually feel like we can do
something about it because we feel like we have a
(12:14):
candidate that we can get behind. And folks, I will
say this, Look, you know, back in twenty twenty I
didn't want Joe Biden, but I also in twenty twenty
four didn't want Joe Biden to step aside because I
was like, unless they are going to unify behind Vice
President Kamala Harris, I want no parts of it. I
(12:34):
want no parts of a fucking open primary at convention
that will be a fucking disaster and ensure that trumps
and wins. But for once, holy shit, they listened and
Joe Biden set the fucking tone from the moment jump
and said, oh no, Vice President Harris, that's our girl,
(12:56):
and that's who we're getting behind, and everyone fell in line.
We've never seen Democrats do that. So now here we
are where the messaging is like, Okay, Republicans are weird.
Run with that shit, do what you may, and guess what,
it's not that hard. It really is not that hard,
(13:17):
because Wow, some of the shit that comes out of
these people's mouths is just wild. Right, it's wild, and
it's ridiculous and it's dangerous. But to say that it
is weird and have that stick, it's absolutely fucking brilliant.
(13:37):
Here is some other thoughts on this. It said many
Democrats comments appear to be allusions to a twenty twenty
one interview with Vans in which he slamms some prominent
This is again coming from ABC News. Some prominent Democrats
without biological children, including Harris as childless cat ladies with
(13:59):
no direct still in America. Because again, this is what
they think. This is not just a JD vance off
on the Fringes commentary. Their policies align with the rhetoric
that is coming out of his mouth. But they go
on to say, but Harris's own characterization of Trump as
weird may date back even further. In his twenty twenty
(14:20):
one book, political reporter Edward Isaac Dover wrote that Harris
reportedly gathered with AIDS in twenty eighteen to prepare for
her own presidential bid. As staff aimed to prepare her
for how she'd react if during a debate Trump stood
over her, as he did Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in
twenty sixteen. Harris reportedly equipped, I turn around and say,
(14:43):
why are you being so weird? What's wrong with you?
So while the right decides to melt down over this
like this is just it, you don't have to really
dig that deep for people that are as deep as
a puddle. Do you know what I'm saying. I feel
like Democrats have been overworking themselves over the past ten
(15:06):
years to try and distinguish themselves from an ideological makeup
that is in fact, just fucking weird. It is handmaid's
tail weird. It is nineteenth century weird. When you're pulling
up and digging for policies that were passed in the
(15:28):
nineteenth century in the twenty first century, yeah, that shit
is weird. So here we are where in I believe
in the next couple of days, I think what some
are looking at is around August seventh for the campaign
(15:50):
to name a running mate as we head into convention
at the end of August, and you know, many people
have weighed in. I've weighed in in terms of like
who makes the most sense. I think that it is
obviously going to be a white man. I think that
it is obviously probably going to be someone from a
(16:12):
battleground state, which makes sense. I stand on the fact
that I do not think that it should be Shapiro,
only for the reason that we need him to hold
down Pennsylvania and be a very staunch surrogate and advocate.
But he needs to hold down the state during this
critical election. We cannot just hand that over, so I
take him out of it. I think that Kelly Mark
(16:35):
Kelly in Arizona is an interesting pick. I think that
for his astronaut background, as military background, his gun reform background,
I think that he is a good candidate. Other folks
are looking at Waltz and Basher, and I don't think
that we gain anything with Basher. Waltz is an interesting one.
(16:56):
Governor of Minnesota, another important state. He has won multiple
times when he was a member of Congress in a
rural red district. So I think that that adds a
lot of flair into this campaign. Rural red in comparison
to the liberal from California. So you have to look
(17:17):
at this ticket. And I disagree with some folks that say, oh,
vice presidents don't matter. Is that right? Tell that to
John McCain and Sarah Palin. It absolutely does matter. Tell
that to Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Because Donald Trump
needed white evangelicals who weren't trying to fuck with him, right,
And then so you get this weirdo Mike Pence, whose
(17:38):
staunch religious zealot to be on your ticket. I think
that tickets matter. Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Barack Obama
was in the Senate for a hot minute before he
ran for president. He needed someone with the wisdom and
with the sensibility and with the favor that Joe Biden
(18:02):
could bring in for him. So that vice presidential pick mattered,
and I think that this one does too. So I
think there are a lot of things to weigh in
about what would propel this ticket, which has gained so
much energy in such a short time. You don't want
to do anything that is going to be a drag
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on the ticket when we need as much momentum to
continue to propel us into early voting, which starts in
some places folks in September. We're heading into August, right
when convention is over, which is starting I think like
August nineteenth or twentieth, right and goes during that week
(18:43):
we're coming out. You blink, it's Labor Day. You blink again,
and early voting starts in some states. So election is underway,
Like we're waiting on November fifth for probably I was
going to say the results, but we know we're not
getting results on Member fifth. I think it's important for
us to acknowledge that the choice is going to matter,
(19:05):
as well as all of the surrogates that are getting
out there, all of the organizing that is happening from
the grassroots, all of the money that is being raised,
and as Vice President Kamala Harris is saying, this is
a people run campaign, it is people engineered, and she
says that her administration is going to be people centered
(19:26):
and people focused. So this is why you are seeing
Republicans just grasping at straws trying to figure out their
path forward because their entire campaign was built around Joe
Biden being too old. You subtract Joe Biden from the scenario,
and now they don't know what to do because, like
(19:48):
Joy Reid said recently on Twitter, I wish that her
colleagues in the media would have the same fucking energy
around Trump's age now being the oldest person to run
for the presidency that they did around Joe Biden, because
those issues still remain, but now it's just not on
the Democrats side. So we'll see. But as of right now,
(20:09):
I haven't seen all of the barrage of stories now,
you know, pivoting to how old Donald Trump is and
how he seems to be in cognitive decline, you know,
because Hannibal Lecter and all, and that's just like the
tip of the iceberg. I'm gonna leave it there today,
my dear friends. That is it for me on Woke
(20:31):
af And remember the damn shop is open and I
am feeling hopeful as buck, and so should you, because
the future does in fact feel woke. So head over
to Danielmoudy dot com and scoop a t shirt, a tote,
something that signals, as we're headed into this election season,
that the future is indeed woke as always. Power to
(20:53):
the people and to all the people. Power, get woke
and stay woke as fuck.
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