August 27, 2024 • 24 mins
After over a decade of Republicans and the right-wing claiming America to be theirs, it's time for Democrats to be proud of America again. MAGA doesn't offer joy. MAGA doesn't offer community. MAGA doesn't offer possibility. MAGA doesn't offer faith. The Harris/Walz campaign is offering all of those things and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OOKF Daily with me
your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, folks, folks,
What a time I had? What a time I had
in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention that took place
(00:33):
last week. First of all, if y'all were following me
on social media, you know that the journey to Chicago
was not an easy one, as my flight was canceled
because of weather, and then I was had like a
five hour delay the next day when my flight was
supposed to take off. But nonetheless, I landed in Chicago
(00:54):
just in time to hear AOC's speech, to hear President
Joe Biden speak on the first night of convention. I
obviously did not get to go to the United Center
that day because I think i'd landed. Man. I think
that it was probably after ten thirty, because I know
(01:15):
that for the East Coast, Joe Biden didn't go on
till fucking midnight, which was crazy. But you know, I
want to provide for you. If you're following me, and
if you have yet to subscribe to my new YouTube channel,
I really do encourage you to. I'm really excited about
bringing more video content and just exploring another platform. And
(01:39):
for folks, you know, I know that people are like, oh,
you know, you go to so many different places. You're
on this platform, you're on that platform, and the fact
is that, you know, I go where the people are.
And what I'm being told a lot is that, you know,
the fact of the matter is that a lot of
people aren't abandoning mainstream media for a number of reasons, right,
(02:01):
the reasons that I talk about on this show all
the time. And so a lot of folks are getting
their information from hosts and from channels that are available
on YouTube or you know, podcasts. So I like to
go where the people are and see what I can
do in those spaces. So, if you were following along
(02:22):
with me, you were following me on the Brokedown site
Twitter as well as on my YouTube channel at Daniel
Moody Underscore, which is my same handle on TikTok. It
was God, how do I even encapsulated? I posted a
lot of pictures and reels over on Instagram as well.
(02:45):
Here's what I will say. It was so well done,
from the major speeches that you saw during prime time
to the role call of theleg which was done to
a DJ and each state having a song and Little
(03:06):
John coming out and the musical performances. The energy in
the building was just electric, intoxicating, beautiful, joyful. I mean,
I just feel like convention took you through all your
emotions every day, all day, just up and down the stories. Honestly,
(03:34):
and I've said this for a while now, I seated
my patriotism, and I think a lot of us did
to the right wing, you know, with their Donald Trump
hugging fucking flags and they're, oh, we're the real America,
and all of their rhetoric has kind of corroded my
(03:55):
sensibility and my sense of where my place is, what
my place is inside of this country that has had
a really complex, violent, negative relationship with black people and
people of color, and women and queer people, right and
people of varying religions. If you're from a marginalized community,
(04:21):
your relationship to America has been one that has been
very layered, right and at times incredibly adversarial. You know,
Colin Kaepernick was pushed out and blacklisted from his job
for doing nothing more than taking a knee during the
(04:43):
national anthem to draw attention to the unrelenting attacks on
black bodies and the killings of black men, women, and
children by police. The man is still blacklisted. Meanwhile, Donald
Trump has turned those that invaded Capital Building into patriots.
So you can't take a knee and do so in
(05:06):
a peaceful manner to utilize your platform to protest, but
you can absolutely storm the Capitol and defecate in the
halls of power so long as you're white, because that
is your rightful position as an heir to what it
means to be an American. And so when I tell
(05:27):
you that I'd never waved a flag so emphatically, that
I'd never with such joy chanted usay, usay outside of
an Olympics, and so many other Democrats that I was
sharing space with said the same exact thing. When was
the last time you went to a political event and
(05:52):
you were chanting usay and waving American flags and saying
the pledge of allegiance with pride. There is something about
the energy that the Harris Walls ticket has conjured in
Democrats that has finally said to us, it's time to
(06:13):
reclaim your patriotism. And I did a full video that
is up at YouTube saying that very thing. It is
something powerful in reclaiming what is rightfully ours. No one
understands and is more patriotic than those that have had
(06:34):
to fight with blood, sweat and tears for the ability
to be full seen as full citizens in this country.
No one understands the value that America offers more than
an immigrant to this country that comes here for no
other reason than to make a better life. Kamala Harris's
(06:58):
story of a Jamai father and an Indian mother traveling
across oceans to find each other in the United States,
in the midst of enhancing their education and in the
midst of protest to find each other is a story
(07:19):
that is uniquely American. And you heard it over and
over again from her family members, to her colleagues, to
the former First Lady and President Obama Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, Like you heard this over and over again.
And the four days of convention were an absolute reminder
(07:44):
of the beauty that this country does hold. But all
we've been fed over eight and nine years is everything
that is fucking wrong with this place, Oh, Donald Trump
and MAGA has offered over the last eight years, is
how broken America is, how there's carnage in the streets.
(08:08):
What a shitthold this place is blop up up, up,
up up up, None of it inducing a sense of
pride and commitment and responsibility in wanting to make this
country any better than it is. It's like when you
keep hearing that you're worthless over and over again every
(08:30):
single day. Guess what, you start to believe it, and
you start to believe, well, I guess that's just the
way that it is. And there is no getting out,
There is no pivoting, there is no moving forward, there
is no future. That has been the major weapon of
the MAGA movement is convincing Americans that their way is
(08:54):
the only way, and unless you align with white supremacy
and white Christian nationalism, you in fact have no future.
And not only do you have no future here, you
should get the fuck out. And so the last week
of hearing the stories of union workers, hearing the stories
(09:19):
of survivors of gun violence, of sexual assault, even through
their pain and tragedy, their commitment to ensuring that other
people don't go through the pains in which they have experienced,
and their commitment to working with A. Harris Wall's administration
(09:42):
to strengthen this country and policy measures, around gun reform,
around economic viability, around sexual assault and violence against women.
I mean, inspiring is not even the right word, because
it's tears that came down my eyes as I'm listening
(10:03):
to brave women talk about the loss of their children,
the young woman who spoke about carrying her father's child
and how having an abortion gave her her life back.
These are real people, and what the DNC was able
(10:26):
to do was to make the statistics into real people
with real stories, matching the headlines that are nameless and faceless,
with the spirit of persistence and thriving that these people embodied.
(10:56):
You know, we just came off of the amazing two
weeks that were the Olympics, which really, again was another jolt,
another shot of patriotism, recognizing that we as a nation
have needed desperately something to unite around, and that's what
(11:21):
these extraordinary athletes gave us. Common cause, common language, you know,
let us applaud and lift up and share the exceptionalism
that we all got to witness together. Because MAGA doesn't
offer community, it doesn't offer connectivity, because it can only
(11:43):
thrive and gather strength if, in fact, we are separated
and see each other as enemies. The DNC offered the
American people another story. We don't have to succumb to
the darkness, that we can in fact be joyful warriors.
(12:04):
Dancing is in fact a part of the revolution, that
we do not have to succumb to the darkness, to
the anger, to the hate, and acquiesce to an American
fascist takeover. But that by moving people from a place
(12:27):
of joy, from a place of possibility, is actually how
you win. Because I've been sitting here, folks, for how
long now talking about Project twenty twenty five, talking about
the evils of Donald Trump, trying to wring the alarm
of this emergency, and guess what, I've gotten more feedback
(12:47):
over the last month in terms of a joyful focus
and one that has led through a place of promise
that I have over the last year plus from a
place of fear and rage. This has been an eye
opening experience for me the last month of the Harris
(13:10):
Walls ticket. It's only been a month, by the way.
That was the thing that was blowing my mind in
Chicago is that all of us who have spent our
lives and dedicated our lives in some form of fashion
to public service to advocating and whether it is on
Capitol Hill as a lobbyist in nonprofit organizations, as a
(13:34):
media personality advancing the cause of America and democracy. Where like,
it's been a month and it has felt like both
a month and a decade all in one, because time
is both moving super fast with just ten weeks until
the election, and super slow, because I feel like we've
(13:57):
been living under the knee of trump Ism for it's
been almost a decade, but it's felt like two. This
campaign and this time in Chicago renewed for me this
belief that I don't have to move through rage in
order to be and be seen as committed to our democracy.
(14:22):
I can't express to you how exhausting it has been,
folks that on a day to day basis, on a
weekly basis, that I have wanted so many times to
come on this microphone and quit and be like I'm done.
I don't have it in me anymore. And I know
a lot of you would be supportive of that. You'd
be disappointed, but you would get it, And so you know.
(14:45):
I will tell you that my standout speech, aside from
the Vice President's acceptance speech, was Michelle Obama as so
many people had said, Michelle Obama took do Donald Trump
to fucking school and drag that motherfucker in a way
(15:05):
that I believe she had been waiting for since twenty seventeen.
The hell that that man and this movement put her
and her family through, the questioning of Barack Obama's legitimacy
as this nation's first black president, the disgusting, fucking slurs
that she was called, But the elegance and the razor
(15:31):
sharp wit that I'm like, that is my role model.
That is how I want to learn how to slice
and dice. Sure, I love an F bomb and an
M and F bomb with the best of them, but
I'm like, the ability to cause that kind of lethal
damage and not curse is a skill that I hope
(15:54):
to learn. Because, let me tell you something, Michelle Obama
called Donald Trump basically everything but a child of God.
Michelle Obama basically said that Donald Trump is a small, narrow,
thoughtless man who is not worthy of the office of
(16:18):
the presidency. He is not worthy of our time. Right
when she said, who going to tell him that the
job that he's going after is a black job? Let
me tell you that inside that arena we were gagging, like,
oh my god, I cannot believe that she just said that.
There were so many ways that she just laid bare
(16:44):
who like, you don't need to be afraid of these people.
These people are small, right, They're so beneath us. Right,
they don't care about America. They care about themselves. The
only person Donald Trump has ever served as himself. And
I'm like the way that she read this man was
(17:09):
breath taking because there was not one lie, There was
not one even fabrication. She just opened up her bag,
took out a mirror and put it up to Donald
Trump and to Maga, and she said, go ahead and look,
tell me something different. They're playing the same old song,
(17:33):
the same old shit that they've been doing since twenty sixteen,
since before that when they were lying about my husband
and lying about me. And what she reminded us and
said was that you know the tricks that they are
going to pull, and so when they do that, don't
get into the Goldilock's sensibility of everything has to be
(17:57):
just right. Do something when you know that a lie
will take hold because it does, do something right, like
this energy of this is not an election where we
are going to sit on the sidelines where we are
just gonna hope our way there. No, we are going
(18:20):
to turn that hope into action because she said we
need numbers in this election that cannot be questioned, because
we know that they are not going to accept the
results of this election, because Donald Trump, Fox News and
(18:40):
MAGA are already planting the seeds that something must be awry, because,
as Joe Biden said in his speech, you cannot only
love America when you win. It does not work that way.
The DNC pose such a stark contrast to what the
art and see was. First of all, in the room
(19:02):
was America gay straight by trans, black, White, Asian, Indian
Latino Like. It was absolutely beautiful. You could see yourself everywhere.
I mean, you can't manufacture the spirit and the joy
(19:27):
that was inside of the United Center. And so many
of my friends and family said that they were dancing
around their living rooms, that they literally felt the spirit.
And I say, I'm not a religious person, but a
lot of people have said that it felt like a revival.
You had testimonials, you had music, You had this sense
(19:49):
of possibility and this renewed sense of faith. I talk
about my mustard seed of hope, and how that blossomed
into a deep, rich, vibrant, fertile meadow in Chicago. I
believe now more than ever that we are going to
win because I believe in the power of people. I
(20:12):
believe in the power of hope. I believe that when
I'm seeing and hearing that there are hundreds of thousands
of volunteers around the country, that people are phone banking
and text banking, that people are organizing house parties, that
people are continuing to do zooms, that people are raising
money and raising awareness, that everyone is getting activated because
(20:36):
they are seeing what the future can possibly look like.
And maybe, just maybe America will once again do the
impossible and show the world what democracy looks like and
fight back this and beat back this white supremist fascist
(20:58):
once and for all. But the thing that we have
to understand is that the closer Donald Trump gets to losing,
the more dangerous hem and his ilk are going to become.
January sixth was a dress rehearsal, So we cannot also
pretend right that he is going to go quietly into
(21:19):
the cold, dark night. He is not. He is one
of those people that if he's gonna go out, he's
going to try and do cause as much damage as
possible on his way out. So we have to remain vigilant,
we have to remain conscious, we have to remain woke.
But I have never felt so possible. And this goes
(21:41):
well beyond two thousand and eight, it goes well beyond
twenty twelve. There is something, as Hillary Clinton said when
she was on the stage, something is happening, and you
cannot manufacture that. You cannot make this shit up, you
cannot focus group this shit. So while the poll numbers
(22:01):
are looking good in our direction right now, I say,
don't pay attention to the polls that they're showing you
on television. Pay attention to the only poll that matters,
which is the poll booth that you walk into on
November fifth, or the early voting that you do. Right
in New York, the deadline for voter registration is October
(22:23):
twenty six. Look up and see where the deadline to
register to vote is. Because I just learned most recently
that in New York State you can register a sixteen
and a seventeen year old to vote, so that by
the time that they're eighteen, they don't have to register.
Check your voter registration. Make sure, particularly if you're living
(22:43):
in a red state, that your name is still on
the rolls so that you are not surprised come election day.
So check now and make sure am I registered to vote?
If I'm not? Are my family members registered to vote?
Are the young people in my life registered to vote?
What is your voting plan? Are you early voting? Are
(23:06):
you voting on election day? Are you doing a mail lan?
What are the deadlines for these things? Because folks, we
have but ten weeks to go. We are coming to
the final lapse of this marathon and we need to
run through the fucking tape on this. So I encourage everyone,
(23:30):
it is not just about you. It is about bringing
five people with you to that voting booth. It is
about making sure that you and another five people in
your life are good to go, and then challenging them
to make sure that another five people are good to go.
That is how we are going to win. This is
gonna happen from the grass roots all the way to
(23:52):
the grass tops. But we have a responsibility, as Michelle
Obama said, to do some thing that is your call
to action. That is it for me today, dear friends
on woke A f as always power to the people
and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
(24:16):
woke as fuck.
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OOKF Daily with me
your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, folks, folks,
What a time I had? What a time I had
in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention that took place
(00:33):
last week. First of all, if y'all were following me
on social media, you know that the journey to Chicago
was not an easy one, as my flight was canceled
because of weather, and then I was had like a
five hour delay the next day when my flight was
supposed to take off. But nonetheless, I landed in Chicago
(00:54):
just in time to hear AOC's speech, to hear President
Joe Biden speak on the first night of convention. I
obviously did not get to go to the United Center
that day because I think i'd landed. Man. I think
that it was probably after ten thirty, because I know
(01:15):
that for the East Coast, Joe Biden didn't go on
till fucking midnight, which was crazy. But you know, I
want to provide for you. If you're following me, and
if you have yet to subscribe to my new YouTube channel,
I really do encourage you to. I'm really excited about
bringing more video content and just exploring another platform. And
(01:39):
for folks, you know, I know that people are like, oh,
you know, you go to so many different places. You're
on this platform, you're on that platform, and the fact
is that, you know, I go where the people are.
And what I'm being told a lot is that, you know,
the fact of the matter is that a lot of
people aren't abandoning mainstream media for a number of reasons, right,
(02:01):
the reasons that I talk about on this show all
the time. And so a lot of folks are getting
their information from hosts and from channels that are available
on YouTube or you know, podcasts. So I like to
go where the people are and see what I can
do in those spaces. So, if you were following along
(02:22):
with me, you were following me on the Brokedown site
Twitter as well as on my YouTube channel at Daniel
Moody Underscore, which is my same handle on TikTok. It
was God, how do I even encapsulated? I posted a
lot of pictures and reels over on Instagram as well.
(02:45):
Here's what I will say. It was so well done,
from the major speeches that you saw during prime time
to the role call of theleg which was done to
a DJ and each state having a song and Little
(03:06):
John coming out and the musical performances. The energy in
the building was just electric, intoxicating, beautiful, joyful. I mean,
I just feel like convention took you through all your
emotions every day, all day, just up and down the stories. Honestly,
(03:34):
and I've said this for a while now, I seated
my patriotism, and I think a lot of us did
to the right wing, you know, with their Donald Trump
hugging fucking flags and they're, oh, we're the real America,
and all of their rhetoric has kind of corroded my
(03:55):
sensibility and my sense of where my place is, what
my place is inside of this country that has had
a really complex, violent, negative relationship with black people and
people of color, and women and queer people, right and
people of varying religions. If you're from a marginalized community,
(04:21):
your relationship to America has been one that has been
very layered, right and at times incredibly adversarial. You know,
Colin Kaepernick was pushed out and blacklisted from his job
for doing nothing more than taking a knee during the
(04:43):
national anthem to draw attention to the unrelenting attacks on
black bodies and the killings of black men, women, and
children by police. The man is still blacklisted. Meanwhile, Donald
Trump has turned those that invaded Capital Building into patriots.
So you can't take a knee and do so in
(05:06):
a peaceful manner to utilize your platform to protest, but
you can absolutely storm the Capitol and defecate in the
halls of power so long as you're white, because that
is your rightful position as an heir to what it
means to be an American. And so when I tell
(05:27):
you that I'd never waved a flag so emphatically, that
I'd never with such joy chanted usay, usay outside of
an Olympics, and so many other Democrats that I was
sharing space with said the same exact thing. When was
the last time you went to a political event and
(05:52):
you were chanting usay and waving American flags and saying
the pledge of allegiance with pride. There is something about
the energy that the Harris Walls ticket has conjured in
Democrats that has finally said to us, it's time to
(06:13):
reclaim your patriotism. And I did a full video that
is up at YouTube saying that very thing. It is
something powerful in reclaiming what is rightfully ours. No one
understands and is more patriotic than those that have had
(06:34):
to fight with blood, sweat and tears for the ability
to be full seen as full citizens in this country.
No one understands the value that America offers more than
an immigrant to this country that comes here for no
other reason than to make a better life. Kamala Harris's
(06:58):
story of a Jamai father and an Indian mother traveling
across oceans to find each other in the United States,
in the midst of enhancing their education and in the
midst of protest to find each other is a story
(07:19):
that is uniquely American. And you heard it over and
over again from her family members, to her colleagues, to
the former First Lady and President Obama Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, Like you heard this over and over again.
And the four days of convention were an absolute reminder
(07:44):
of the beauty that this country does hold. But all
we've been fed over eight and nine years is everything
that is fucking wrong with this place, Oh, Donald Trump
and MAGA has offered over the last eight years, is
how broken America is, how there's carnage in the streets.
(08:08):
What a shitthold this place is blop up up, up,
up up up, None of it inducing a sense of
pride and commitment and responsibility in wanting to make this
country any better than it is. It's like when you
keep hearing that you're worthless over and over again every
(08:30):
single day. Guess what, you start to believe it, and
you start to believe, well, I guess that's just the
way that it is. And there is no getting out,
There is no pivoting, there is no moving forward, there
is no future. That has been the major weapon of
the MAGA movement is convincing Americans that their way is
(08:54):
the only way, and unless you align with white supremacy
and white Christian nationalism, you in fact have no future.
And not only do you have no future here, you
should get the fuck out. And so the last week
of hearing the stories of union workers, hearing the stories
(09:19):
of survivors of gun violence, of sexual assault, even through
their pain and tragedy, their commitment to ensuring that other
people don't go through the pains in which they have experienced,
and their commitment to working with A. Harris Wall's administration
(09:42):
to strengthen this country and policy measures, around gun reform,
around economic viability, around sexual assault and violence against women.
I mean, inspiring is not even the right word, because
it's tears that came down my eyes as I'm listening
(10:03):
to brave women talk about the loss of their children,
the young woman who spoke about carrying her father's child
and how having an abortion gave her her life back.
These are real people, and what the DNC was able
(10:26):
to do was to make the statistics into real people
with real stories, matching the headlines that are nameless and faceless,
with the spirit of persistence and thriving that these people embodied.
(10:56):
You know, we just came off of the amazing two
weeks that were the Olympics, which really, again was another jolt,
another shot of patriotism, recognizing that we as a nation
have needed desperately something to unite around, and that's what
(11:21):
these extraordinary athletes gave us. Common cause, common language, you know,
let us applaud and lift up and share the exceptionalism
that we all got to witness together. Because MAGA doesn't
offer community, it doesn't offer connectivity, because it can only
(11:43):
thrive and gather strength if, in fact, we are separated
and see each other as enemies. The DNC offered the
American people another story. We don't have to succumb to
the darkness, that we can in fact be joyful warriors.
(12:04):
Dancing is in fact a part of the revolution, that
we do not have to succumb to the darkness, to
the anger, to the hate, and acquiesce to an American
fascist takeover. But that by moving people from a place
(12:27):
of joy, from a place of possibility, is actually how
you win. Because I've been sitting here, folks, for how
long now talking about Project twenty twenty five, talking about
the evils of Donald Trump, trying to wring the alarm
of this emergency, and guess what, I've gotten more feedback
(12:47):
over the last month in terms of a joyful focus
and one that has led through a place of promise
that I have over the last year plus from a
place of fear and rage. This has been an eye
opening experience for me the last month of the Harris
(13:10):
Walls ticket. It's only been a month, by the way.
That was the thing that was blowing my mind in
Chicago is that all of us who have spent our
lives and dedicated our lives in some form of fashion
to public service to advocating and whether it is on
Capitol Hill as a lobbyist in nonprofit organizations, as a
(13:34):
media personality advancing the cause of America and democracy. Where like,
it's been a month and it has felt like both
a month and a decade all in one, because time
is both moving super fast with just ten weeks until
the election, and super slow, because I feel like we've
(13:57):
been living under the knee of trump Ism for it's
been almost a decade, but it's felt like two. This
campaign and this time in Chicago renewed for me this
belief that I don't have to move through rage in
order to be and be seen as committed to our democracy.
(14:22):
I can't express to you how exhausting it has been,
folks that on a day to day basis, on a
weekly basis, that I have wanted so many times to
come on this microphone and quit and be like I'm done.
I don't have it in me anymore. And I know
a lot of you would be supportive of that. You'd
be disappointed, but you would get it, And so you know.
(14:45):
I will tell you that my standout speech, aside from
the Vice President's acceptance speech, was Michelle Obama as so
many people had said, Michelle Obama took do Donald Trump
to fucking school and drag that motherfucker in a way
(15:05):
that I believe she had been waiting for since twenty seventeen.
The hell that that man and this movement put her
and her family through, the questioning of Barack Obama's legitimacy
as this nation's first black president, the disgusting, fucking slurs
that she was called, But the elegance and the razor
(15:31):
sharp wit that I'm like, that is my role model.
That is how I want to learn how to slice
and dice. Sure, I love an F bomb and an
M and F bomb with the best of them, but
I'm like, the ability to cause that kind of lethal
damage and not curse is a skill that I hope
(15:54):
to learn. Because, let me tell you something, Michelle Obama
called Donald Trump basically everything but a child of God.
Michelle Obama basically said that Donald Trump is a small, narrow,
thoughtless man who is not worthy of the office of
(16:18):
the presidency. He is not worthy of our time. Right
when she said, who going to tell him that the
job that he's going after is a black job? Let
me tell you that inside that arena we were gagging, like,
oh my god, I cannot believe that she just said that.
There were so many ways that she just laid bare
(16:44):
who like, you don't need to be afraid of these people.
These people are small, right, They're so beneath us. Right,
they don't care about America. They care about themselves. The
only person Donald Trump has ever served as himself. And
I'm like the way that she read this man was
(17:09):
breath taking because there was not one lie, There was
not one even fabrication. She just opened up her bag,
took out a mirror and put it up to Donald
Trump and to Maga, and she said, go ahead and look,
tell me something different. They're playing the same old song,
(17:33):
the same old shit that they've been doing since twenty sixteen,
since before that when they were lying about my husband
and lying about me. And what she reminded us and
said was that you know the tricks that they are
going to pull, and so when they do that, don't
get into the Goldilock's sensibility of everything has to be
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just right. Do something when you know that a lie
will take hold because it does, do something right, like
this energy of this is not an election where we
are going to sit on the sidelines where we are
just gonna hope our way there. No, we are going
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to turn that hope into action because she said we
need numbers in this election that cannot be questioned, because
we know that they are not going to accept the
results of this election, because Donald Trump, Fox News and
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MAGA are already planting the seeds that something must be awry, because,
as Joe Biden said in his speech, you cannot only
love America when you win. It does not work that way.
The DNC pose such a stark contrast to what the
art and see was. First of all, in the room
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was America gay straight by trans, black, White, Asian, Indian
Latino Like. It was absolutely beautiful. You could see yourself everywhere.
I mean, you can't manufacture the spirit and the joy
(19:27):
that was inside of the United Center. And so many
of my friends and family said that they were dancing
around their living rooms, that they literally felt the spirit.
And I say, I'm not a religious person, but a
lot of people have said that it felt like a revival.
You had testimonials, you had music, You had this sense
(19:49):
of possibility and this renewed sense of faith. I talk
about my mustard seed of hope, and how that blossomed
into a deep, rich, vibrant, fertile meadow in Chicago. I
believe now more than ever that we are going to
win because I believe in the power of people. I
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believe in the power of hope. I believe that when
I'm seeing and hearing that there are hundreds of thousands
of volunteers around the country, that people are phone banking
and text banking, that people are organizing house parties, that
people are continuing to do zooms, that people are raising
money and raising awareness, that everyone is getting activated because
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they are seeing what the future can possibly look like.
And maybe, just maybe America will once again do the
impossible and show the world what democracy looks like and
fight back this and beat back this white supremist fascist
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once and for all. But the thing that we have
to understand is that the closer Donald Trump gets to losing,
the more dangerous hem and his ilk are going to become.
January sixth was a dress rehearsal, So we cannot also
pretend right that he is going to go quietly into
(21:19):
the cold, dark night. He is not. He is one
of those people that if he's gonna go out, he's
going to try and do cause as much damage as
possible on his way out. So we have to remain vigilant,
we have to remain conscious, we have to remain woke.
But I have never felt so possible. And this goes
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well beyond two thousand and eight, it goes well beyond
twenty twelve. There is something, as Hillary Clinton said when
she was on the stage, something is happening, and you
cannot manufacture that. You cannot make this shit up, you
cannot focus group this shit. So while the poll numbers
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are looking good in our direction right now, I say,
don't pay attention to the polls that they're showing you
on television. Pay attention to the only poll that matters,
which is the poll booth that you walk into on
November fifth, or the early voting that you do. Right
in New York, the deadline for voter registration is October
(22:23):
twenty six. Look up and see where the deadline to
register to vote is. Because I just learned most recently
that in New York State you can register a sixteen
and a seventeen year old to vote, so that by
the time that they're eighteen, they don't have to register.
Check your voter registration. Make sure, particularly if you're living
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in a red state, that your name is still on
the rolls so that you are not surprised come election day.
So check now and make sure am I registered to vote?
If I'm not? Are my family members registered to vote?
Are the young people in my life registered to vote?
What is your voting plan? Are you early voting? Are
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you voting on election day? Are you doing a mail lan?
What are the deadlines for these things? Because folks, we
have but ten weeks to go. We are coming to
the final lapse of this marathon and we need to
run through the fucking tape on this. So I encourage everyone,
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it is not just about you. It is about bringing
five people with you to that voting booth. It is
about making sure that you and another five people in
your life are good to go, and then challenging them
to make sure that another five people are good to go.
That is how we are going to win. This is
gonna happen from the grass roots all the way to
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the grass tops. But we have a responsibility, as Michelle
Obama said, to do some thing that is your call
to action. That is it for me today, dear friends
on woke A f as always power to the people
and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay
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woke as fuck.
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