Speaker 1: Good morning, Peevesend. Welcome to wik f Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: You know, I keep wondering how many red flags are
Speaker 1: enough for us to recognize that the America that we
Speaker 1: all grew up in is no more that what we
Speaker 1: believed to be. Institutions that were above reproach, people that
Speaker 1: deserved our reverence are just political hacks that are full
Speaker 1: of shit. I point to you on this Memorial Day
Speaker 1: a recent article that came out at the end of
Speaker 1: last week that is surely yeah, is it an eye roll? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Is it something that we should really probably be paying
Speaker 1: attention to. Yeah, I think so. So we've talked about
Speaker 1: this on the show before, which is that Justice Alito,
Speaker 1: in front of his home had flown a flag that
Speaker 1: was an upside down American flag on his home in Virginia,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, that wasn't really me, it was
Speaker 1: my wife. You know, she handles apparently the decorating, you
Speaker 1: know how nineteen fifties of him. And you know, this
Speaker 1: goes in line with other politicians that love to throw
Speaker 1: their wives under the bus or just like feign ignorance
Speaker 1: in their own homes, you know. Well, come to find
Speaker 1: out that the New York Times found another quote unquote
Speaker 1: provocative flag, as they've put in their article that quote,
Speaker 1: the Justice's beach house displayed an appeal to Heaven flag,
Speaker 1: a symbol carried on January sixth and associated with a
Speaker 1: push for a more Christian minded government. I'll go you
Speaker 1: one step further, New York Times, because you never seem
Speaker 1: to go far enough, which is that, No, this isn't
Speaker 1: just about a quote unquote Christian minded government. This is
Speaker 1: about Christian nationalism. It is about white Christian nationalism right
Speaker 1: in this country that Justice Alito and his entire family,
Speaker 1: including his little lady of a wife who's in charge
Speaker 1: of the decorating, believe in and so reminded that justices
Speaker 1: are supposed to just look at the law. They're supposed
Speaker 1: to be, you know, aligned with precedent, aligned with what
Speaker 1: the law and the Constitution states. But what we have
Speaker 1: seen with regard to these justices is that that couldn't
Speaker 1: be further from the fucking truth. They are all political,
Speaker 1: fucking HAPs And frankly, what Justice Alito is showing, and again,
Speaker 1: what's the recourse, what's the punishment? Is it just the
Speaker 1: finger wag. There is no punishment, friends, for a lifetime appointment.
Speaker 1: You can't even call Justice Roberts before the Senate Judiciary
Speaker 1: Committee because guess what, he just won't show up. And
Speaker 1: for the New York Times to say it is a
Speaker 1: provocative flag, give me a fucking break. What do you
Speaker 1: think would happen if Katanji Brown Jackson or Sonya sotomayor
Speaker 1: right hung a Black Lives Matter flag at their homes? Now,
Speaker 1: I am not trying to equate white Christian nationalism with
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter, But what I'm saying is, what do
Speaker 1: you think that the right would do if that were
Speaker 1: to happen. What do you think would happen if Katanji
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson's husband had been on the phone with Biden's
Speaker 1: chief of staff trying to talk to them about the
Speaker 1: upcoming twenty twenty four election. What do you think that
Speaker 1: the right would do with that information? They'd be forced
Speaker 1: to resign. So when I see these stories that continue
Speaker 1: to just mount, I don't want us to become desensitized
Speaker 1: to the fact that we are supposed to be able
Speaker 1: to hold our justices in esteem. But what Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and what the Republican Party has done to the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court over the last several years is bring it into
Speaker 1: the sewer. Is use and weaponize this Supreme Court to
Speaker 1: push through a white nationalist agenda. I haven't heard yet
Speaker 1: Biden's campaign talk about the importance of the courts or
Speaker 1: expanding the courts. Oh, because that's too controversial. But apparently
Speaker 1: Justice Alito flying whatever flags he wants in front of
Speaker 1: his house that denote his political allegiance and his ideology.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's okay. So I want to read part of
Speaker 1: this article in the New York Times about Alito's flag,
Speaker 1: just so you have an idea of where our Supreme
Speaker 1: Court is right now. Quote. Last summer, two years after
Speaker 1: an upside down American flag was flown outside the Virginia
Speaker 1: home of Justice Samuel Alito Junior, another provocative symbol was
Speaker 1: displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to
Speaker 1: interviews and photographs. This time it was the quote appeal
Speaker 1: to Heaven flag, which, like the inverted US flag, was
Speaker 1: carried by rioters at the Capitol on January sixth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it
Speaker 1: dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into
Speaker 1: obscurity until recent years, and is now a symbol of
Speaker 1: support for former President Donald Trump for a religious strand
Speaker 1: of the Stop the Steel campaign for a push to
Speaker 1: remake American government in Christian terms. Three photographs obtained by
Speaker 1: The New York Times, along with accounts from a half
Speaker 1: dozen neighbors and passer buyers, show that the Appeal to
Speaker 1: Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long
Speaker 1: Beach Island in July and September of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: A Google street View image from late August also shows
Speaker 1: the flag. The photographs, each taken independently, are from four
Speaker 1: different dates. It is not clear whether the flag was
Speaker 1: displayed continuously during those months or how long it flown
Speaker 1: was flown overall. Who gives a fuck? Who cares if
Speaker 1: it was flown throughout the year, if it was flown
Speaker 1: for five minutes. We now have a black and white
Speaker 1: understanding of what the flag means where it was carried previously, right,
Speaker 1: and it is in front of a Supreme Court justices home,
Speaker 1: not once, but fucking twice, not one home but two homes.
Speaker 1: So are we all just supposed to be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you can fly whatever you want out of your home
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to be the arbiter of law and
Speaker 1: order in this country. And that is a symbol that
Speaker 1: was used on one of the darkest days in modern history,
Speaker 1: in this coy for our Capitol building that had never
Speaker 1: been breached, not in any war, except for on January sixth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. And you're telling me that two years
Speaker 1: after that most disgusting display of white supremacy, that a
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice two years later is flying that flag
Speaker 1: and thinking nothing of it. And we're just supposed to
Speaker 1: what dismiss it? I tell you, folks, You know it
Speaker 1: is wild. It is ridiculous that these people are even
Speaker 1: right in at like Justice Alito hasn't recused himself from
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's immunity case, right, Clarence Thomas hasn't recused himself
Speaker 1: from anything having to do with Donald Trump, knowing that
Speaker 1: both of their wives are clearly in bed with MAGA.
Speaker 1: Justice John Roberts is not saying, you know what, our
Speaker 1: poll numbers are in the shitter. This looks really bad. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Two should sit this one out. We just continue to
Speaker 1: move along with business as usual while these people wreck
Speaker 1: havoc on our country and try and mold it into
Speaker 1: what they deem to be true. America is not a
Speaker 1: fucking Christian nation. America was founded by some religious zealots
Speaker 1: who didn't want to pay taxes and fled the rule
Speaker 1: of the king. America is indigenous land that was home
Speaker 1: to many and many a tribes that believed in community,
Speaker 1: that believed in alignment with nature and spirit and the universe.
Speaker 1: People of all different faiths call America home. What makes
Speaker 1: America exceptional? If there is anything left that makes America exceptional,
Speaker 1: it's a fact that, you know what. When I go
Speaker 1: walking in one of my favorite parks in New York City,
Speaker 1: I hear a barrage of languages. I see people meditating, praying,
Speaker 1: and it is beautiful. I see drivers at times pull
Speaker 1: over with their prayermats so they can observe their islam
Speaker 1: faith right. I walk past Jewish delis that are closed
Speaker 1: on the high holidays. I see people adorned in all
Speaker 1: different modes, expressive of their religious faith, and largely do
Speaker 1: so without harassment, without fear, because that's what it means
Speaker 1: to have freedom of religion in this country. But what
Speaker 1: these Republicans are doing aided and abedded by this grifting,
Speaker 1: cheating Supreme Court is to shape it into their vision
Speaker 1: where they put prayer back in school, but not your
Speaker 1: prayer or my prayer, but the prayer that they want
Speaker 1: you to do. Let me take you into a dark
Speaker 1: place in my mind. Donald Trump is elected and within
Speaker 1: the first one hundred days, moss all across this country
Speaker 1: are closed. Synagogues are shuddered, All houses of faith that
Speaker 1: are not white or Christian are shuddered because Trump says so,
Speaker 1: and people say no, that could never happen, because blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, stop with the that could never happen. If
Speaker 1: there is anything that we have learned over the last
Speaker 1: nine years of trump Ism is that any fucking thing
Speaker 1: is possible, That even the darkest corners of our mind
Speaker 1: where we're just like you know what, I don't even
Speaker 1: want to think it because if I think it, then
Speaker 1: I give it energy, and if I give it energy,
Speaker 1: I give it life. Those dark, dark things that we
Speaker 1: push out of our minds can happen and will happen.
Speaker 1: The other day I posted a video on TikTok and
Speaker 1: I was responding to a comment that was made, and
Speaker 1: it was an honest comment and I think the person
Speaker 1: who had posted it. The comment said I hate that
Speaker 1: I have to vote Biden, but I will. And I
Speaker 1: responded to that comment and I said, I appreciate you right,
Speaker 1: because I know that people are angry. I am angry,
Speaker 1: I am disgusted, But I will tell you that I
Speaker 1: don't care if I have to wash down this hard
Speaker 1: pill that we are going to need to swallow together
Speaker 1: on November fifth. But I'm going to tell you, folks
Speaker 1: that you don't have to be aligned with this man
Speaker 1: on everything. You don't have to like him, We don't
Speaker 1: have to want to have a beer with him. We
Speaker 1: don't have to want to put his face on a
Speaker 1: T shirt or a flag in our front yard. But
Speaker 1: what we need to do, what we need to reconcile with,
Speaker 1: is that this time around, maybe we do want to
Speaker 1: be like Republicans and be single issue voters, and that
Speaker 1: single issue be our freedom, be our rights, be our democracy.
Speaker 1: If you care about women, right, if you care about women,
Speaker 1: or you are a woman, or you have a uterus,
Speaker 1: I suggest you take a look at what is happening
Speaker 1: in places like Louisiana and Virginia, places where those Republican
Speaker 1: governors are voting to block access to contraception, where Donald
Speaker 1: Trump himself came out and want to do double talk
Speaker 1: on contraception right signaling to his religious zealot base that
Speaker 1: that's next on the chopping block. We then doing a
Speaker 1: double talk and being like, oh no, no, I didn't
Speaker 1: mean what I said. Donald Trump at this point means
Speaker 1: everything that he says, and he should take him at
Speaker 1: his word. And so when we look out at this
Speaker 1: country right now, this post ro v. Wade world, twenty
Speaker 1: states no longer have full access to abortion. In twelve
Speaker 1: plus of those states, abortion is banned outright, with no
Speaker 1: exceptions for rape or incest or even right the life
Speaker 1: of the pregnant person. They don't give a fuck. The
Speaker 1: other day at the Supreme Court hearing, you listen to
Speaker 1: Justice's debate how much blood a patient would have to
Speaker 1: lose in order for a doctor to be able to
Speaker 1: administer abortion care, how many organs need to be failing.
Speaker 1: They don't see women and people with uteruses as whole,
Speaker 1: complete human beings, worthy of life and dignity and respect
Speaker 1: and autonomy. They see us as parts parts that they
Speaker 1: don't care if they fail, are wherever able to rebound.
Speaker 1: I don't know if these motherfuckers think that pregnancy and
Speaker 1: childbirth looks like this stork visiting your house, knocking on
Speaker 1: the door and leaving and just a fresh, clean, healthy baby.
Speaker 1: That's not what childbirth is. That's not what pregnancy is.
Speaker 1: And most people don't know that until they become pregnant
Speaker 1: that it is indeed a miracle if you choose and
Speaker 1: are able to give birth to a healthy child, because
Speaker 1: the amount of things that can and do go wrong
Speaker 1: is terrifying, the amount of things that can go wrong
Speaker 1: in delivery terrifying. I had somebody say to me the
Speaker 1: other day that they were talking to a friend that
Speaker 1: is trying to get pregnant, And I probably mentioned this
Speaker 1: to you before, but it is sticking with me that
Speaker 1: they're worried about flying around the country for work and
Speaker 1: need to make sure that their flights are rooted through,
Speaker 1: routed through states that still allow abortion, because what if
Speaker 1: she miscarries and her layovers in Georgia or Louisiana, It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter that she's not from there, it matters what
Speaker 1: hospital she would be denied care at. No person, no
Speaker 1: person should have to deal with that kind of stress
Speaker 1: and worry, you know, That's one of the stories that
Speaker 1: we used to tell as LGBTQ plus people with regard
Speaker 1: to marriage equality. What if before we had marriage equality,
Speaker 1: you were traveling with your partner and they fell ill,
Speaker 1: and you were denied the ability to make their care
Speaker 1: decisions or even see them because you were gay, because
Speaker 1: you were trans. We had to make it visual the
Speaker 1: patchwork of protections that people had, and what folks need
Speaker 1: to think about, what they need to have on their person.
Speaker 1: It's too much, folks. So when I say that there
Speaker 1: is so much, so very much that is at stake
Speaker 1: in this election, you don't need to check every issue
Speaker 1: and say, well, he's not Biden isn't one hundred percent
Speaker 1: with me on all of the issues that I care about.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to sit this one out, pick one
Speaker 1: of them, and I will remain steadfast with the fact
Speaker 1: that you cannot fight for democracy anywhere else in this
Speaker 1: world if you lose it at home. Because if we
Speaker 1: lose democracy in this country, we lose our voice, we
Speaker 1: lose our power, and we won't be able to exercise
Speaker 1: it or wield it elsewhere. That's the truth, that's what
Speaker 1: we're facing. Donald Trump is very clear. Maga is very clear.
Speaker 1: It is laid out in Project twenty twenty five, in
Speaker 1: nine hundred plus pages on the Heritage Foundation dot org.
Speaker 1: What their plan is, what's your plan for November twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. That's what we need to be thinking about
Speaker 1: over the next several months. That is it for me today.
Speaker 1: Dear friends on wokf as always, power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.