No More Sanewashing

And it would be because today is Friday that I'm recording this for you all on Monday. And so what I will say as I start out today to give kind of a recap of how we enter into this week, is that this week is debate week. Donald Trump will be meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris for the very first time. This will be the second presidential debate, obviously,

but the first one for Vice President Kamala Harris. To say that the stakes are high in this debate, I think would be an understatement, but to say that they are somehow higher for Vice President Kamala Harris than Donald Trump, who I will get to his meandering, absolutely bumbling, jumbling sack of shit that he offered up last week at an economic forum that he was quote unquote speaking at when asked very clear coherent questions like doesn't do anything

more than repeat the words. But nonetheless, the debate is coming up this week and I will absolutely be doing special videos over on my YouTube channel at Danielle Moody Underscore. Go to the search bar type in Danielle Moody channel, and I will definitely be joining the nerd Avengers on Mary Trump Media for that fucking show that we're in for.

Last week was yet another week where we experienced a deadly school shooting, but days for many, but you know, maybe a week or so into the new school year. And what I've continued to say is that the only time that we don't experience school shootings is when school is not in session, as it was during COVID or over the summer, or any type of break right other

than that, pretty much, you know, American children. Given the matter of fact way that JD Vance has laid out the Trump Vance Tickets' thoughts on gun reform and gun control and sensible gun legislation is is this is just a fact of life, right, That's what Jade Vance said. He said that, you know, it's unfortunate, but you know, pretty much it just is what it is and we need to just get used to it. Or, as Donald Trump said after a shooting in Iowa, you know, you

just need to get over it. Tell that to the grieving families, loved ones, students, teachers, community of the people who won't be returning to the classroom next week, who won't be returning to Appalachi High School ever again, who won't be returning to their dinner tables to holidays, Tell them to get over it and that there is just nothing that you can do and this type of excessive,

gratuitous carnage is just the way that life is. No. I continue to say that it is the way that Republicans want our lives to be, because there is nothing that is more evil to me. Right, And Shannon Watts uttered this on her social media platform when the sheriff in Appalachi said, you know, this was an act of evil, and Shannon Watts, Emeritus at Every Town in Mom's Demand, said, there is actually nothing more evil than having the power and the ability to stop children from dying in their

classrooms and choosing not to. And I agree, I can't think of anything that is more evil than that. There is one thing when you don't have power to make change right, and then you're kind of just in a really tough place. But that's not where our society is. Because for as great as Republicans want to tout America to be, there is no other country on this planet that deals with the amount and not even deals with folks, but tolerates the type of gun depths that Americans just say, well,

that was a Tuesday. They're inaction has put us in a position as citizens of this country to believe that this is just the complicated issue that we can't find common ground on right, that we just you know, well, if you really understood the ins and outs, the understood the ins and outs of what before their receipt belts, people were dying in car accidents, before there were labels from the Surgeon General. People thought that smoking tobacco products

was good for you. When you know better, the idea is that then you will actually do better. So for us to say, well, we have the Second Amendment, so your kids play in Russian roulette when they go to school one hundred and eighty days out of the year is just par for the course because we never know when anybody's gonna gun them down with an A fifteen. Is legislative malpractice at best and just pure heartless, callous

evil at worse. We do not have to live like this is the consum refrain that people say every single time that there is a mass shooting. Reporters directed questions to Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia, saying what can be done about Georgia's school safety? Now is not the time to talk about safety. Tell me when the time is.

When is it comfortable for you? When will it be easy for you to decide not to take cash grabs from the NRA and be willing instead to stand with the children and the parents and the community in saying

that this type of shit has to stop. No one is saying let's come and round up all the guns, although, let me be honest with you, let me be very fucking clear, that's what I would do, that's what I would vote for, because outside of law enforcement, there is no reason for you to have militia type artillery in your own fucking home. There is no absolute reason. If you want to go shooting, here would be my thing. You want to go shooting, you want to go hunting.

You go to those designated areas, You are given paperwork to sign out where you get your You put up your ID, you provide a valid gun license right your training that you need to get recertified every year to ensure that you were up to date with all the safety measures, and then you're able to check out whatever kind of artillery you would like to use for that designated time to do that hunting. Then you return said

weapon and you go on back home. That would just be one thing that I would offer, because you're telling me that when we roll up into these motherfuckers' homes and I'm seeinging enough artillery for a Mexican cartel, we're supposed to be okay with that because what end of days? Because those are the last fucking people that I want to have any type of artillery. So to say that we just need to throw up our hands, No, we

need to throw these people out of office. That is where our power lies, is that these cowards do not belong in the seats of power making decisions that they have showed themselves incapable of making Americans deserve better, your children deserve better. Late last week, Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, the fourteen year old who killed four people at Appalachi to fourteen year old students and two teachers,

is going to be tried as an adult. His father, who knew that this child, his child, was having mental health crises or issues, decided that the best course of action would be to buy that child their own semi automatic weapon. I can think of a lot of things to give a fourteen year old, video games, sneakers, skateboard instrument, an instrument of death, though not on my list, but that's what these MAGA brainwashed Republicans think past for parenting.

So now I listened as I guess, because I'm not a lawyer, in his first appearance in court, I guess that is an arraignment, but I'm not one hundred percent sure, so let me not use that language. So let's just say that Colin Gray appeared in court, and this man is now facing with all of the charges against him, including I think it is second degree manslaughter because he did not obviously hold the gun, but he purchased it.

So four counts of that, I think eight counts of like child in danger men like I mean, it's just like count after count after count. He's for all of those counts. It's facing up to one hundred and eighty years in prison. This man is fifty four years old. I thought that one of the interesting questions that the judge asked as he's gathering information was he asked what his level of education was like. So he asked, are you able to read? The charges against you? Are able

to read? Are you able to write? What level in school did you get to? And Colin and Gray responded yes, I can you know read? I can write? And I finished eleventh grade and I didn't really And maybe some lawyers out there will tell me why. I understand the question of read and write and being able to comprehend. Can you comprehend what you are facing? But I didn't know what the level of education what that meant. But this isn't you know? He got a ged, which he

said he graduated with his ged. This man is facing one hundred and eighty years in prison. I don't even know what I would do, but this is now the second parent, oh the school shooter that is being charged and to be honest, I think it's the right thing. Now. I know that there is deep racism in our judicial system and the ways in which black parents and parents of color have been penalized for like, let's say, truancy and things of that nature when it pertains to their kids.

That is very punitive, particularly for those that are working multiple jobs and can't show up for parent teacher conferences or trust that, like their kids are at school where they say that they are, but you know they're working so they don't know, and then are thrown in jail for that. We've seen those stories before, and I've always said that it's egregious right that the system is broken

in that way. However, these are entirely different situation. And you're living in the home with this child, and you know whether or not your kid is okay or not, like you know that. And so at thirteen years old, Cault Gray had threatened a school shooting. How then within that year your frame do you say to yourself, as a competent parent, let me go get them a gut. Now, again, what I've stated last week was that Georgia has no laws that say that the weapons that are in your

home need to be locked up. What's fucking wild to me, folks, is the hypocrisy with regard to books and what a danger they are. We got to take those off the shelves. We gotta shut down whole fucking libraries because apparently reading is the bigger threat than an ar fifteen being loose in your house, not in a safe place, not in a locked compartment, well in the reach of fucking miners, pornography.

Brian Kemp passed legislation to protect the children from but a weapon that they can use with their still forming that we don't need to guard them from. I say this all the time. Make it make sense, because it fucking doesn't. And speaking of not making sense, let's shift gears to Donald Trump. Donald fucking Trump is in such mental decline. It is so apparent. And I know that there will be people that say, well, the media, you know, like,

why didn't you agree when they said Biden was in decline. No, No, Biden is old and aging and has had a stuttering issue for his entire life. So you're thinking one train of thought, you can't actually articulate that. You need to take a beat and then be able to get those words out where you speak slower than you did before, not necessarily as pup up up up up up up up up right brain is not like that. What we

are witnessing with Donald Trump, however, is absolutely crazy. And the way that the media is choosing to cover said crazy is journalistic malpractice. So Donald Trump goes to the Economic Club of New York and at the Economic Club of New York, and this is just one example. We've talked about rambling speeches that have ended in Hannibal Lecter where he throws in electric sharks and just goes off on these fantastical stream of consciousness Senile, I don't even

know what you would call it. My friend Jen tobb Over on YouTube and guests of the show here, you should subscribe to Jen's page on YouTube as well. She does a show called Morning Jen, and Jen was like to even call it a word. Salad doesn't do it justice. So Donald Trump is asked a question. I'm going to read the question to you. Mom's first CEO and founder, Rushma So Johnny asked Trump this question, if you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make

childcare affordable? And if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance. This is seemingly a very straightforward question. Maybe I would answer it to say something to the effect of the issues of childcare are something that is really important to many families across this country, as well as to the stability of our economy. What we saw during COVID is that two million women had to leave the workforce in order to be full time caregivers to

their children. And not only does that hurt their future job prospects and bring down the earning capability of their household down right, it also hurts us as a country, right. We lose talent, we lose people who are able to contribute in the way that they want to. Our economy being in robust position, and so creating some type of comprehensive childcare plan is necessary for the strengthening of our economy, and It'll be something that I'm going to prioritize in

a new administration. Off the dumb folks, off the dump. Relatively coherent shows understanding and comprehension of the question, offers some vision monocum of policy that I'll dig into later. Let me redo part of what Donald Trump offered, and I encourage you to google Donald Trump Economic Club, childcare tax question and watch the clip because it is like, what the entire fuck this is what he said, Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down and I

was somebody. We had Senator Mark Rubio and my daughter Ubanka was so impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because look, childcare is childcare, and you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. What did he say there? I don't know, but this answer, this non answer, this jumbled, nonsensical two minute mess went on and when he was finished, and let me tell you how he finished.

This is about America first, it's about make America great again. We have to do it because right now we're a failing nation, so we'll take care of it. Thank you, very good question, Thank you. There was a whole bunch folks in the middle also that was just what WTF? But this is this is what listen to how mainstream media summarized this. Because I watched the clip. Then I went on Twitter to go see what folks were saying, and I was like, did they watch what the fuck?

I just watched because there is no way listen to this. Here's how The New York Times Michael Gold wrote about it. After his speech, Donald Trump was asked how he might address rising childcare costs. In a jumbled answer, he said we would prioritize legislation on the issue, but offered no specifics and insisted that his other economic policies, including tarrorifts,

would take care of it. Politico summarized it as he also pledged to tackle government inefficiency with an Elon Musk inspired commission and to launch a sovereign wealth fund with money collected from tariffs. The Associated Press said Trump suggests tariffs can help so rising care costs in major economic speech.

Do you know what the writer of this article, Parker Maloy, what she has called this this absolute fantastical, mythical writing by political reporters, sain washing, sain washing, and in a piece at The New Republic which she wrote last week, says how the media sanitizes Trump's insanity. The political presses efforts to rationalize Trump's incoherent statements are eroding our shared

reality and threatening informed democracy. And she says this in the piece, the consequences of this Sainwashing extend beyond misleading headlines or sanitize quotes. It's creating a dangerous disconnect between reality and reported news, fostering an environment where extreme rhetoric becomes normalized and conspiracy theories gain unwarranted legitimacy. We are now all being pulled into the gravitational airspace of Earth two, and mainstream corporate media are the ones that are creating

this orbit. It is insane, it is terrifying, and it is a consistent reminder that independent media and voices are the answer. Are the spoil are the balm to the

disease that has become saine Washing. I urge everyone to read this article at the New Republic because it was like I could not think of what the word is, what the word could be to describe what the media has been doing to contort themselves into making Donald Trump seem like a sane normal so that they can report on this election like it is just another horse race. It is wild, it is crazy, and it needs to stop.

That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.