Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with Me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, It's been now two weeks over a little over two weeks since the election, and I, like so many people, are still in a place of vacillating between grief and despair and anger and deep frustration at who America is.
Like you who listen to this show, I wanted to believe that we had learned something over the last four years, that we had learned something, not just about Donald Trump, but about ourselves and what it was that was driving us as citizens of this country. And what I realize, as I'm still kind of coming out of the haze of post election despair, is that you can only grow to as far of a place as you're willing to move outside of your comfort zone. What do I mean
by that? I mean that many of Americans are incredibly comfortable with just being concerned with themselves and the thought behind rugged individualism, like to each their own, I do me, I'm an island onto myself. All of these kinds of selfishness in behavior has largely been celebrated in this country, and it also is what is a let us to this current moment. You see in other countries and other with other communities, folks really do think about the collective.
I remember seeing videos of young people in Japan, like elementary school kids in Japan, taking the trains by themselves, and they wear like these little vests, and you know, it's like, oh my God, like look at this place. It's just so safe that these little kids are able to just you know, be on the trains by themselves. No, it's that their society decided collectively that the kids are
everyone's responsibility, whether you know them or not. They created a village mindset where they weren't just going to look the other way, that they were going to care for one another. And that is I think the big deficiency of America is that we have never looked at our communities and said, how can I better this place? How can I build a greater foundation. No, it has always been about the me, me, me, look at my big house, look at my stuff, right that Like it is about
my wealth. It is about how I'm building wealth for myself, for my family. It has nothing, it has had nothing to do with the collective. We have in so many ways criminalize poverty in so many ways, we turn the rich into deities. So the other day I am on social media and a post about Kim Kardashian comes up, and she had posted on social media her new Tesla robot that she has gotten. Because Kim Kardashian is a
multi billionaire. And we've watched over the last twenty years of reality TV, this entire family go from being normal wealthy living in Beverly Hills, you know, with big houses, to exceedingly disgustingly wealthy. They went from oh, look at my nice truck, to look at my fleet, to look at my private jet, to look at my compound. And I was watching this and I'm just like, how out of touch can one person be? But is it out
of touch? Because this level of hyper consumerism, this level of absolute greed and over consumption, is what made her wealthy in the family wealthy in the first place. And all of those that watch, whether they hate watch or love watch, those that are aspiring to that level of distance from reality where there are people right now that are crying, that are desperate, that are so scared about what happens after Donald Trump takes power, what happens to
them and their families and their livelihood. And she's on
social media playing with a robot. And I'm not just calling out her, I'm calling out like the uber wealthy, that we have gifted them with our attention and our resources, because instead of us filling our own communities and creating connectedness, creating our real life safety nets, we sit around with scratch offs and with our dollar bills, and you know, and our hopes and dreams of having a lottery moment that will propel us away from community, that will put
us in an entire ironly different orbit where we don't have to be responsible for anything or anyone other than ourselves. It's that mentality, that separateness, that allowed us to be torn farther apart by the lies and the disinformation that
was used to further divide us. And so now out of time, when the uber wealthies, their wealth has just ballooned to astronomical levels, all I can think about, folks, is the term eat the rich, because people are not even prepared for the scarcity, the austerity and the pain that Elon Musk promised before the election that is now going to be realized. That you've given yourself over too and so as I'm emerging from this haze, what I realize is that we need more community, not less. We
need to rely on each other more, not less. We're not going to survive as just these individual islands. We're going to need each other now more than ever, and we're going to have to choose to divest from the things that actually are making us sick. And that isn't just about divesting from bad food and adding in more movement, right, That isn't just about divesting from the obvious, but also
the insidious. And what do I mean by that? I mean that our consumption of twenty four hour cable news that is in place solely to lie to us, that is in place solely to feed the need and the greed of CEOs and shareholders at the expense of everyone else. Just this week we've watched as Joe Scarsbrough and Mika Brazinski go tomorrow Lago to kiss the ring of Donald Trump. They are indicative of how corporate media is going to
move in the times of fascism. They're going to hail Donald Trump, saying wash him and normalize at the expense of all of us. They're going to gaslight in a way that has us believe that, oh well, because the uber wealthy are doing okay, and maybe some of the people that they throw a bone to in their own little fiefdoms are able to keep their heads above water, then things are not as bad. But trust me, friends,
it's going to get absolutely fucking bad. And so are you going to believe the bullshit that they're going to dish out or are you going to start to rely on our knowing that we need community and wholeness and hopefulness more so than we need their outside agitation and bullshit. So I say truly to divest. Divest from cable news, Divest from those things that actually do not serve you and feed you. Divest from social media to the extent
that you find yourself doom scrolling. Turn off the alerts that tell you Donald Trump woke up today and today he's appointed you know, Jack in the box to lead x Y and widgets and things. Now, folks will say to me, will Danielle, how am I gonna stay in tune? You can choose what you consume when you consume it, and then spend the rest of your time actually working to build what it is that you need. People keep asking me, what does resistance look like? What should I do?
What do you feel? No one in this moment can honestly tell you how to feel and what to do. Folks need to tap in to themselves their own timelines. This is the thing I'll share with y'all because I tell you will find me on good days, you will find me on bad days. I am a full fledged human being. And one of the things that I realized over the weekend is that I have been consumed with
operating on Mauga's timeline. What does that mean? It means that I haven't missed an appointment announcement, I haven't missed a move that has been made, or legislation that is up for vote, or all of these things. And I'm just anxious with anticipation of what is the next horrific thing that is going to be announced? How is that serving me? And I know that it's not serving all of you. We need to operate on our timeline, not following theirs. So it looks like, what are the books
that I need to be reading. What is the nourishment for my mind, body and soul that I need in this moment? Because following their every move has me standing still. We can't follow every bad thing, share every bad thing. My girlfriend asked me the other day after I'd had a terrible day, She said, what was you know? Did you have one good conversation today? Did you have like
one meaningful connection? And I hadn't. Every conversation that I had had been steeped in bullshit, had been steeped in darkness, every fucking conversation, so much so that by the time I had finally logged off from the Daniel Moody Show,
obviously it's dark outside, but I hadn't gone outside all day. So, in recognizing that I had had no nourishment for my soul, no connection that wasn't about the heinousness that is happening, put on my sneakers, put on my jacket, opened my door, and just went for a walk, to walk around my neighborhood, take in some air on my face, and just move. Because operating on their timeline has had me stand still and been glued to social media in fear of missing something,
And what I'm actually missing is myself. I Ever, so often folks get reminded that, like, while I am grateful for the work that I do and I'm grateful for the opportunities that I have. That it also can become all consuming and dark and sad, and I tell myself, well, this is your job, this is what you signed up for. No, it is not. No, it is not one hundred moons ago.
When I decided to go into politics, it was because I really wanted to help people, because I really wanted When I was in high school taking ap government in politics and I said, I want to go to school and I want to major in political science, it was because I really wanted for people to understand how government works for them and against them, what their role was.
I wanted to understand the ins and outs. I didn't get into politics because AI was pawed hungry, or because I wanted to be rich, because certainly this ain't the place to be unless, of course, you are on the wrong side, which is totally funded by so many oligarchs and so many billionaires. But the fact is is that it is so easy to lose sight of what is it that people actually need in this moment, because what you don't need is a blow by blow of everything
bad that is happening. What you do need is to know a little bit and nourish a whole lot. That's how we're going to get through. And that is not about burying your head in the sand, as I talk about political ostriches. No, it is about understanding in yourself what can I control right? What can I actually do? So sending people? Did you see this bed thing? Did you see that bad thing? Did you see that? Take a pause for a moment and say, what's the purpose
and the intent behind this? Is it to educate? Is it to create anxiety and fear? Am I doing something that is actually of service? Am I offering a service? Or am I just spreading my anxiety around? These are the questions that I am asking myself as of late to figure out what is the pivot, the transition that I need to make as we head into the dark ages.
Because I have said on this program and on others, I will do this work for as long as it remains safe and legal, because truly I do not want harm to come to my family or friends because of the work that I do. So there will be decisions that I will need to make as things become clearer. I am not obeying in advance, I am not bending the knee. But so long as I find my work to be of service to others. I will continue to
do it. It may not be in this country, but I feel like we all have to be asking ourselves. Is what I'm offering to others nourishing? Is it helpful? And sometimes it is helpful to them, It is helpful to just like let out that primal scream. And other times it is just adding more fuel and devastation on the fire that is not needed. Sometimes, friends, when things burn down, you find yourself with an opportunity to rebuild. And let me say this, not all of us are
going to make it to that rebuilding stage. That is what Stefan offered last week in our interview. Not everybody's going to make it, much like everyone did not make it through COVID, Everyone did not make it through the Nazi regime. Everyone did not make it through South Africa's apartheid. Everybody did not make it through Stalin. We have to understand that and know that. But what are we leaving behind? What are we offering in this moment that can actually
be of service. That's what I want us to start spending our time and our energy on, because without community, without real life connection, the weight of what is coming will crush us. This is why I consistently talk about fortifying, and I say it to you as much as I say it to myself, because yesterday I had to peel myself up off the floor and force my self outside for fresh air, for connection. And then other days I just let myself be, be exhausted, be sad. But then
I reach out. I reach out to my friends, I reach out to my family, and I think about what I can do for all of you that listen, that follow, and I need for all of us to be thinking more about the collective and less about our individualized pain and frustration and grief, and thinking, what is my offering in this moment? How can my service be a lantern in these dark times? 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.