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Life in the Express Lane

Mar 29, 202423 minSeason 4Ep. 275
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Amidst the fallout from Diddy's unraveling, Danielle Moodie cannot help but compare it to the kid gloves used on Donald Trump. Danielle also discusses the quick exit of Ronna Romney McDaniel from NBC News and the mainstream media's continued embrace of the far right.

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Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with me your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Homemnker Folks. It is Friday, and thank God that we were able to make it through another hellish week. So happy fuck

It Friday to all of you. And as usual, if you are a wonderful, fabulous Patreon subscriber, please comment underneath the video today on what you are saying fuck it to and if it didn't make my list, I don't even know where to begin today, you know, Fridays, I have said that I want to do like a recap of the week, and it's just like so much happens in any given day that by the time I get to Friday, I feel like we've lived like four weeks

in one. And I don't know about you, but like I feel like I'm aging in all of the not good ways. Do you know what I'm saying? Like just the stress level that I'm trying to get under control. I'm working on a couple of projects that I will tell you all about soon to try and deal find different tools to deal with the amount of stress that we are all dealing with. And as I discover new things and try new things. I love to share them

with all of you, you know. Particularly, I've talked about meditation. I've talked about yoga, which I don't do nearly enough, but I do meditate multiple times a day, and I have found that very helpful. I'm waiting for this fucking gray spring to leave New York where it rains every single day, which doesn't help with your view are like me, and I've discovered that you are have seasonal depression where I can take rainy days, and some rainy days I really love, but multiple gray days in a row are

really hard for my spirits. I feel very tired, just very lethargic. You know, it's really it just takes a toll after a while. So spring of New York is tough because that's what we get here. Nonetheless, as I look over this week, folks, I mean, the fuckory knows no bounds, the racism knows no bounds, and I just I don't know. I feel like this country is just

in a death spiral. Do you know, Like every day there's another headline, you know, MiFi pristone is being heard right now before this fucking right wing, grifting ass Supreme Court and Let's take a deep breath. Let's take a deep breath. Okay, let me start, because I just I felt myself starting to spiral and we don't want to do that on this Friday. So let's start with the bullshit reduction in bond for Donald Trump. Once again, the justice system shows us that there are multiple lanes of justice.

And if you are rich and white and straight, then you will get into the express lane where it is always green lights, where there are no tolls, there are no cops. You can do basically whatever you want. And if you want to weave in and out of that lane and potentially strike or kill other people on the road with you, so be it. You're in the fast lane, like you got that complexion for the protection, right, So who gives a fuck about everybody else that's on the road, Right,

they should watch out for you. That's essentially where we are with these Trump cases. And just when we thought that maybe maybe after fifty years of grifting, after fifty years of abating the law, after fifty years of assaulting women, of lying, of stealing, of grifting, of all of these things, that maybe, just maybe it would catch up, and then a judge is like, no, maybe we should just give him a break, you know, because life has been so

tough for Donald Trump that he needs a break. What I would love is for the justice system to treat Donald Trump like any black man that is assumed guilty, right even when they're innocent, even when there is nothing to hold them on, no reason to shoot them. I want the justice fucking system to treat Donald Trump like

a black man. How about that? You know? I want to say this not like I talk a lot about, like you know, culture and like hip hop or anything on WOKF even though huge fan, It's just not really what I talk about on this show. But I will

say this. If you've at all been following the downfall of Sean Diddy Combs, you know, founder of Bad Boy Records, rapper, entrepreneur, you know, billionaire, all the things, and you know this year, Sean Diddy Combs's character has begin to unravel right where he was sued initially by his ex girlfriend Cassie, another R and B singer who he'd been in relationship with for ten years, right like or more, and you know

people in Hollywood. The thing that always strikes me is that it's as if we all just don't pay attention or it's just par for the course. The age gaps that you see in Hollywood that are just if you saw them anywhere else, it would be incredibly suspect, But in Hollywood we're like, oh, it's totally fine. Nonetheless, when Cassie and Diddy got together, they were she was young, right, like young. I believe he may be twenty plus years

older than her. Nonetheless, in her lawsuit, which he basically had go away because he paid her out, she told the absolute disgusting story of sexual abuse, of physical abuse, of mental abuse, of stalking, of pressure campaign from outside people. It was about ten years of being in prison, right.

And for people who will say, well, you know she could have left in this, that and the other thing when you were young and super impressionable, I just want people to remember being you know, a teenager, right, and having somebody who is older pay attention to you. It's particularly inside of your industry where they are taking you underneath their wing and everybody is telling you how lucky you are, and so you know, you just take what

is given to you. Well, the FEDS raided two of Diti's homes and there was video that came out from TMZ of what a fucking raid looks like, right, which is I mean, oh my god, like just horrible TV pulls out of the wall, like just couches ripped, I mean just ransacked. And I thought to myself, Huh, where

the fuck was this energy for Donald Trump? Literally, this is what I'm saying when we talk about one being given a heads up, which Donald Trump was that his place was going to be rated enough of a heads up so that he could get his henchmen to oh, empty the pool into the document's room, that he had enough of the heads up so that he could get his henchmen to like move documents around and move them

from like house to house. What I'm saying is not that the raids shouldn't go the way that they do, but let's have the same energy for everybody, is what I'm saying, Because when we look at the danger that people cause, Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and global world order. So you should probably come at him with the same fucking energy that you would a terrorist, right, or the same energy that you would

a black man. Right. Do you know what I'm saying, Like, because they're one and the same in America's justice system, right, Like you were just guilty by virtue of being born black. And this is not to say anything about Diddy, because I do believe that he is absolutely guilty. But what I'm saying is give everyone the same fucking energy, right, give everyone the same energy and showcase the threat that

all people that you're investigating have. Right. And So when I saw you know, this split screen in my mind of like what happened at mar A Lago and what happened, you know, in Diddy's homes, Like, I was just like, It's like, what else can you say besides outdone? What else can you say? Right? But it was just ridiculous because I'm like, oh, do we really think that he is Like did he you know, inside an insurrection? Do you think that there may be armed people inside of

his play? Do you know? What I'm saying? Like, Donald Trump is more of a threat and should be treated as such, because if you want to not put politics into every situation, then treat everybody that's under federal investigation the same fucking way, with the same fucking energy. Right. So, so Donald Trump is getting a sixty percent reduction in his bond, do you do that for poor black and brown people that are sent to rikers because they can't

afford their bail. No, you just send them to fucking rikers and close the door, whether they are innocent or guilty. If they can't come up with the money that's on them, they're in prison in that fucking hellhole. By the way, that was in the news this week because they have over seven hundred lawsuits against rikers for sexual violence, assault, battery and all of these things from people, particularly women who were inside of the system and were abused by

the guards that were there. And New York is only giving you a year upon your release to file suit, So you don't really give a fuck honestly about the trauma that was incurred by these women at the hands of the state, because there's like you're not providing them with the same statutory limitations as other heinous crimes. Nonetheless, folks, I say all that to say that our systems just

work exactly how they were meant to work. And it's just when it becomes so blatant is when I'm just so like outdone, you know, as some days I'm just like fucking lie to me, do you know what I'm saying?

Make like, make pretend that the justice system is actually works equally for everyone instead of it being so overt in its discrimination and preferential treatment for those that are wealthy, white and straight right, like, give me a fucking break, Which brings me to the now firing of Ronom mcdadel from NBC News, given the entire revolt that happened with the biggest stars on that network, beginning with Chuck Todd and then went you know, to everyone else, Nicole Wallace,

Rachel Maddow, you know, Joy Reid and others. And here's what I will say, which is that these news outlets and now the stories are coming out to say, like who was in charge of the hiring, who gave the okay? And let's say there is no scapegoat. All of the fucking people in the c suite courted Roni McDaniel, courted the conservative base, and all of them signed off on it thinking that it was a great idea because they have no scruples, they have no fucking morals, and journalism

is dead. And for whatever fucking reason why mainstream media can't get it through their thick fucking skulls that the people that watch Fox are not coming to MF NBC. They're not coming to NBC News because you are the devil to them, right, as evidence by all of the people that go on Fox to lament your liberal networks.

So you think by bringing in a fucking election denier and somebody that applauded January sixth and carried the water for Donald Trump to the extent that she changed her fucking name because he didn't like it, that you think that somehow this star and I use that with fucking quotation marks that he got rid of so that he could put his daughter in place to turn the RNC into his own piggybank, that she was gonna draw in views. Miss me with it, like, it's so fucking stupid. It's

such a poor decision. And that's what mainstream media does. It's just make one poor decision after the next, over and over and over a fucking again. And this is why, like folks are always like in my comment section, people who who are either new to following me or what have you, and they're like, oh, you know, you should have your own TV show, blah blah. I will never have my own TV show on anybody's cable news outlet.

And why is that. Because I've seen behind the curtain, I know what they're looking for, and namely, it ain't somebody with my fucking complexion. They'd like to have maybe one or two people on the payroll so that they don't get called out as being racist. But if you look and you see where the majority of people of color are on that network, it's on the weekend, right, so that the whole week until you get to joy

Read at seven pm is all white. And yes, they will have the sprinkling of people of color that will come in as unpaid labor, right, but do you think that they're hiring anybody. Do you think that they're rolling out large six figure salaries. Do you think that they're giving anybody a show or a go. No, they don't, right, because they don't invest in people of color, even though that is the largest audience of people that watches. They

don't actually want that audience. Remember when, and maybe you all don't remember this, but there was a time like in the early nineties when all the rappers and frankly, if you live in New York, this is just a staple, but everyone was wearing Timberland, right, like Timbland boots Timberland clothing blah blah, and then the fucking CEOs of Timbaland came out and said that we don't want these black

people wearing our clothes. Right, Like you had an entire market of people that made your shit fly and mainstream, and then you come out and say that you don't want these type of people wearing your clothes. Right, That's basically what cable news does with black and brown commentators. It's like and with black and with their black and brown audience. You can watch us and give us ratings, but like m we're not going to really cater to you. And so it's always laughable to me when you hear

people talk about the liberal media. There is no liberal media, right, Like there's media that doesn't lie to your face, right, Like there are people that go on there that don't lie to your face. But like you think that these executives give a fuck, they absolutely don't. And they tell you that by virtue of who they have on air, and they tell you who they value by who they pay. Now people will say to me, well why do you go on Well, one, I don't make a living going

on TV. Again, I'm on paid, But why do I go on because I have a message right that I want to share with larger audiences. But I have become very very particular about who shows I go on and when I go on, And that is very different than ten years ago. When I used to say yes to everything. It didn't matter if it was a holiday, it didn't matter, if I already had plans. It didn't matter because I

was trying to chase the unicorn of contributorship right. And then after a few years, when I realized it wasn't ever happening, but I saw all of these other people who were white around me getting these really lucrative deals, I was like, well, okay, I'm going to do my own shit, which is why I have my own shows.

But anytime that I think that it is important to get, you know, a bigger audience, or just you know, tell the truth, or I'm invited on a colleague show somebody whose voice I value, then you will see me on do you know what I'm saying? But it used to be an everyday, all day type of it didn't matter when I was asked. I was always going to tap dance and say the yes, right, because that's how they get you into thinking that if you say no, then they won't ask you again, and then that elusive deal

will never come. Well it never comes, you know for a majority of people. And then when you do get a deal or a show and you don't follow along and you don't you know, go along with the flow, you get fired, right and no one comes to your aid. Let's just say that, so you know, Cable News. This is why I say I am so appreciative, particularly of

the Patreon supporters. You all have allowed me to continue to do my work independently, to do my work and be able to know that, like I can make a living right saying what I want to say, how I want to say it, and where I want to say it. And I have learned a lot from this media business. And it's not all good, do you know what I'm saying, But like it's necessary not in order to continue to do what you do, but do it in a way

that makes sense for you. And the decisions that they make will continue to raise eyebrows because they don't care about the audience that watches these shows. And lastly, folks, I will close out with the collapse of the Francis Scott key Bridge in Baltimore and the tragedy of the lives lost of the workers who you know were on

that bridge. And I really want to talk about again the racism and just like the blatant racism that Brandon Scott and Wesmore Wesmore being the governor of Maryland, brand and Scott being the mayor of Baltimore received on social media by MAGA and on their bullshit networks, referring to

them as the DEI mayor and governor. And it's it's like, I appreciate black Twitter so fucking much from snatching DEI that term and turning it into a fucking joke and exactly making it very clear what these motherfuckers mean when they say DEI, which is that they want to say the N word. Do you know what I'm saying, Like that's their new word, it's woke or it's dei, But

what they want to say is the N word. We don't want any N words here, right, That's basically what the governor of Alabama said, Oh, no DEI over here in Idaho, right, no N words over here? And do you know, like when people show you who they are, like fucking believe them and stop pretending that you don't know where these people's heart and minds lie. And so thank god for black Twitter, and thank god for Brandon

Scott who doesn't really care about the hate. Right. Do you know what I'm saying, Like, Black people are going to continue to ache fucking regardless. We're going to continue to be excellent and beautiful and successful and brilliant regardless. Do you know why? Because it's in our DNA. Because

we always have been. Because for four hundred plus years, right, white people in this country have been trying to erase us, replace us, right, subjugate us, abuse us, kill us right, whether it be with their food, with their guns, with whatever it is, and we still fucking rise. So whether it's DEI today and woke tomorrow, whatever it's going to be, we will still fucking be here. And that's why y'all pissed, right, get over it. That's my anger note for it today.

That is it for me today. Dear friends on wogay f Like I said at the top, if you're watching the video on Patreon, do comment and let me know what you are saying. A fuck it to today? For everyone else, get at me in the socials with the hashtag woke af y'all. I appreciate you so very much for giving me the opportunity to continue to do what I enjoy for the most part, because politics is really wearing on my soul that I enjoy connecting with all of you on a regular basis and trying to make

sense of this healthscape that we are in. But we will continue, dear friends, to get through all of this together as always. Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.

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