Do Not Obey In Advance

November and it is finally raining. This is after multiple brush fires that have happened in the parks here name one closest where I could literally smell as I was leaving my home, the Fire and Prospect Park. New York City has been under a drought warning for the last several weeks, with the our fucking criminal ass mayor telling people to you know, limit the amount of water that they use, you know, to not run water unnecessarily, to you know, be limited in the amount of flushing folks.

This is climate change. This is what this looks like. This is what is entirely problematic and unnecessary because we know what to do in order to stop it. But greed, selfishness, right, and power and consumption is what rules the day. And so as this gets worse. Right, we are going to have to adapt in extraordinary ways in order to keep some semblance of normalcy. But I will tell you that it is not normal to live in New York City and to be talking about brush fires and fire season

actually happening here. But we have been lulled into this place that oh, well, this is just the climate, and this is what happens. No, this is what happens when you deal with and elect politicians who could give a fuck, right, who are just in it to take take from this planet and not think about or deal with the consequences.

I don't know how often right that I pull up on social media and see historic flooding in London, historic flooding in Iran, historic flooding right in all these different countries,

historic fires, historic flooding, or historic droughts. It's like, when are people going to fucking get it when the water stops coming out of the pipes and then the same people who didn't do anything to stop this from happening then start charging you ten dollars a fucking bottle for water to wash your body and wash your food with,

because that's what's going to happen. So today I'm just like you know, I'm both happy at the fact that it's raining, but also sad and feel like I'm living in the middle of a sci fi horror novel at the fact that it was gleeful to hear that against my window today. Nonetheless, the breaking news that you will indeed have heard by the time that you are listening to this is that Matt Gates has withdrawn himself from consideration as Attorney General of the United States. He went recently,

accompanied by JD. Vance, to Capitol Hill to shore up his support with the Senators, and basically that didn't go so well. And it didn't go well for a number of reasons, probably really not high up on that list, that the man is a sexual predator, and that their if their report, which the House Ethics Committee refuses to release, actually exonerated him. I'm certain that it would be all splashed on the cover of every newspaper and headline story

on cable news. But because we know that this man has been paying for sex from underage women, that he is seemingly been putting together drug fueled sex parties, how in God's name do we think that he should have ever been in consideration for Attorney General. But the funny thing is is that I don't even think that the Republican senators said no to him because of his sexual deviant behavior, right Like, I don't even think that that

was the thing. I think it's the fact that he's just an asshole and has made so many enemies on Capitol Hill with his antics that folks did not want about. Because here's the thing, if you actually gave a damn about sexual predatory behavior, then Donald Trump would not be the president elect of these United States, right Like, if you actually cared about violence perpetrated against women, then Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas would not be Supreme Court justices.

So while I would love to say, oh, Matt Gates Withdrew because of the allegations of sex with a minor and the sex trafficking investigation that was ongoing at the Department of Justice, that those are the reasons why he won't be Attorney general, I don't think that that is

the case. I think that he burned considerable amount of brisk throughout his career in Congress, which he now doesn't have anymore because he resigned his post in a way to stop the report from coming out and also to make room for his new position as a g But do I think that this is the end of Matt Gates. Unfortunately, I don't think so, because much like Gremlins, this motherfucker

will just keep coming back. And I'm certain that Donald Trump will find a position for him that does not require Senate confirmation so that he can still be bentrolled by taxpayers in this country to continue with his disgusting, deviant behavior. You know what is funny to me and not funny, haha, is that it would be great if he were the only person that were embroiled in a sexually violent case. But no, it's Donald Trump, and the thread that runs through a number of his nominees is

sexual violence against women. Up next, you have Pete Segweth from Fox and Friends, who a twenty two page police report was just released where it indicates that Pete Hagseth sexually assaulted a woman in twenty seventeen. Now, to be clear and to be fair, he was not charged with a crime. He was not charged for this alleged sexual assault, but there was indeed a police filing and he did in fact pay this person off who said that they

were going to go public again my whole thing. Folks, you wouldn't have to pay somebody off if you were innocent. Those are my thoughts right Seemingly again another thread, Donald Trump paid off Stormy Daniels right in order to keep quiet, not because he really cared about cheating on his wife, but because he didn't want her to blow up his chances in twenty sixteen of being president of the United States. But now we know that again violence against women, right,

sexual assault, None of this actually matters. And it just pains me how little we care about women in this country. I mean, obviously it was evidenced by the treatment, the misogyny, the deep misogyny and racism that the vice president experienced on the campaign trail and in the headline in the

headline news. But it's like when you see these nominees come forth, you're just like, really, you couldn't pick any other republic But evidently they're all in some form or fashion, tied up in some type of sexual scandal and normally sexual abuse. And so when Donald Trump says that he surrounds himself with the best people, you just yeah, birds of a feather flock together. You know, you had Jeffrey Epstein, saying that he was one of Donald Trump's best friends

for over ten years. Jeffrey Epstein, We know notorious sex trafficker. Right, the violence that he rained down on young women and girls for however long for the pleasure of powerful, wealthy men. Right. Donald Trump met his current wife Milania on the Lolita plane, Jeffrey Epstein's plane. So it's it's not it's like, what do they say that sexual assault and violence against women

is not a ga of the Republican Party. It is a feature of the Republican Party, and it's just something that we've kind of just shrugged our shoulders about, as these people want to profess some type of moral piety above the rest of us, when I'm just like, look at your fucking rap sheet, yo, Like it is extraordinarily disgusting. Speaking of disgusting, Nancy Mace Representative Nancy Mace and her segregationist crusade against newly elected openly trans Member of Congress

Representative Sarah McBride. What Nancy Mace has been doing with the introduction of these vicious, disgusting discrimination bills in the House of Representatives is nothing other than resurrecting Jim Crow. Now, there are plenty of black people who will say to me, Denielle, do not equate what is happening with trans people into what has happened with black people in this country. Here's

my answer to that. Here's my reply is that I do not have a hierarchy of discrimination, because what you need to recognize, what all people need to recognize, is that the tactics are the same. The target changes from generation to generation and then back again to the original. Bathrooms, restaurants, polls, public spaces in general, schoolhouses were all the places that

white supremacists wanted segregated from the black community. Right, we look at in museums, the whites only and colored only signs, water fountains, pools, et cetera. The belief being that what black people were undeserving, not in the same class, not in the same uh human humanity, right, realm as white people. Now it's trans people, now, it's immigrants, right, folks, It's the same fucking devil, but a different fucking era. And I wish that mainstream corporate media would talk about this

as what it is, segregation. Nancy Mace is a segregationist. Mike Johnson is a segregationist. The Republican Party is a segregationist party. Today it's trans people and immigrants. Tomorrow it's back to black people and back to Jewish people and Muslim people. So for folks that want you play the hierarchy bullshit game and become crabs in a barrel, let me remind you that your number will be called too.

Sarah McBride should not have to be battling this fight alone, and as a matter of fact, has just acquiesced and said that she would just follow whatever rules it were that were put forward by Mike Johnson, and there are many people that are angry with her for doing so. She said that she does not want to be a distraction that she wants to She was elected to advance the needs of Delaware people that put her in office,

and that may in fact be true. But by her accepting segregation as just rules that need to be followed, you are sending a ripple effect across the country that tells trans people that you need to just accept your fate.

And for me, that is not okay. And also, she should not have to be fighting this battle alone with just some singular voices like Representative AOC and Representative Pocan who have come out publicly right as well as Representative Jasmine Crockett who has come out publicly to read Nancy Mace for filth. But that anger, that tone should have been the entirety of the Democratic Party and calling the Republican crusade against trans people what it is Jim Crow

two point zero. They are segregationists because if you can take out the word transgender and put in any other label, any other group, and all of a sudden it's like, well that's not okay. If it's not okay for you, then it should not be okay for them. Crimination is discrimination and it needs to be called out for what

the fuck it is. Lastly, I will say that our voices still do matter, and I know that people are still continuing to wake up from the haze and the shock of this election, and I know that many of you, like myself, are vacillating up and down in your emotions on a daily, if not an hourly basis. But the fact is that obeying in advance is not an option,

and that also means just tapping yourself out. You can take breaks so that you don't have a break down, but you have to remember that the margin that Donald Trump won by is the slimmest that it has ever been in modern history. There is not a mandate here. There is still room for us to raise our voices so that the entirety of America does not go down

the drain. But there is a part of me, friends, that has come to recognize and believe that maybe this darkness right this time is actually necessary because I think that if Kamala Harris had been elected, then a lot of us would have just gone back to being complacent. The fact is is that the systems are broken and Donald Trump and his clown car are going to destroy them altogether. But the question is what is rebuilt in its place is not up to them. It is going

to be up to us. So sometimes right a fire is necessary for clearing and if we can just alter our thinking and our perspective around that truth, then may maybe we can start to see the opportunity inside of the obstacles that we are being presented with, because that is where I would like to take these conversations moving forward.

I'm not going to be providing a blow by blow of all of the bad things that are going to come out of this administration, because all it is doing right if having people lose faith not only in our institutions, but in each other. So the questions that we have to be asking ourselves moving forward, right is that after they're finished burning this shit down, what is it that we want to be put in its place? That's the

real question. Friends, do join me over on YouTube. The Danielle Moody Show is live four days a week, Monday through Thursday, five pm Eastern, and we are having a great time and great conversation over there, and I would love for you to join, like and subscribe. 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 woke as fuck.