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Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen, Welcome to Okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.

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Speaker 1: You know, as we continue to make this countdown to

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Speaker 1: the end of the year and look back on twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, the year of politics, the year that our

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Speaker 1: democracy was hanging on by a thread. But thankfully millions

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Speaker 1: of Americans woke up to that fact and also woke

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Speaker 1: up to their power. Right. There were so many things,

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Speaker 1: my God, that happened in the course of this year

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Speaker 1: that we're not on my twenty twenty two bingo card.

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Speaker 1: And I can think of no person that is better

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Speaker 1: and the lows of twenty twenty two than Kurt Bardella.

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Speaker 1: Kurt has been, you know, in his previous Live Say

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Speaker 1: advisor to the Triple C. And you see him often

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Speaker 1: when I look at, you know, how Democrats were able

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Speaker 1: in the midterm elections, how Biden frankly against everyone's judgment,

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Speaker 1: including my own who said that, you know, I voted

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Speaker 1: for Joe Biden and he's not delivering for the American people. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, lo and behold, he actually has and he's

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Speaker 1: delivered over and over and over again. This man came

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Speaker 1: prior administration. And you know, we have to remember exactly

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Speaker 1: all of the things that Joe Biden said that he

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Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty. That he was going to get

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Speaker 1: going to help the American people that had become unemployed

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Speaker 1: to stand up for LGBTQ people who the far right

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Speaker 1: has made their frigging you targets. He's done all of

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Speaker 1: these things and more, and our friend Kurt will be

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Speaker 1: giving us a rundown, you know, so that we remember

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Speaker 1: because I said, I say to him, and I say

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Speaker 1: much good, but if no one knows the good that

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Speaker 1: that Republicans are fighting not the war that they want,

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Speaker 1: which is a new civil war. But the war that

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Speaker 1: Republicans are fighting is a war of words, is a

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Speaker 1: war of misinformation and disinformation. And they're doing it purposefully

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Speaker 1: because they know if they pull out freezes like they're

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Speaker 1: taking your jobs or parental control or CRT or drag queens,

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Speaker 1: that they send their entire rabid base into a tizzie.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that those people have healthcare, doesn't matter that

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Speaker 1: that workers have gotten some relief. No what matters is

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Speaker 1: who they can harm. And I have said time and

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Speaker 1: time again that the Republican Party is the party of scarcity.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is the party of abundance. And if

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Speaker 1: we can just message in very clear, concise and easy ways,

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Speaker 1: then we will win all the time, regardless of the

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Speaker 1: pointed questions about where he thinks that we are going

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Speaker 1: wrap up coming up next with our friend Democratic strategist

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Speaker 1: Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that whenever I have the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to chat with my good, good friend, fellow nerd Aventure,

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Speaker 1: fellow conspirator for democracy, democratic strategist Kurt Bardella, I am

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Speaker 1: always greatly appreciated, And Kurt, it's been a hell of

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Speaker 1: Just the sheer legislative success that Nancy Pelosi engineered with

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Speaker 1: mention the bipartisan Gun Reform Bill. It's like, this is

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we don't necessarily give President Biden

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden may go down in history if we in

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Speaker 1: a hot mess, Daniel. I mean, you want to talk

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Speaker 1: Raskin is an incredibly effective communicator. He has been on

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Speaker 1: That's the type of leadership we need going forward. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I think it'll be interesting to see how Democrats

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Speaker 1: I certainly can be a resource to my fellow Democrats

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Speaker 1: and you know, understanding the playbook that Republicans will use

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Speaker 1: it's you know this, this is going to be a year,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is kind of the new norm.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be up and down. There be moments where

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Speaker 1: we're pulling our hair out, and once where we think

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Speaker 1: all hope is lost, where Dan yells hit the jack button. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and then there's going to be Kurt. They're saying, wait minute,

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Speaker 1: just hold on with us. It's not it's not over yet. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know it's gonna we'rena, it's gonna be interesting. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you twenty twenty two was the year of Kurt.

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Speaker 1: You should get you got you gotta get and make

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Speaker 1: that into a T shirt and somebody should be giving

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Speaker 1: you that for the holidays. But UM, thank you, my friend,

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Speaker 1: for for being a voice of reason, for being the

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Speaker 1: voice of justice of democracy this entire year. Um, from

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Speaker 1: your writing to the TV appearances and everything in between. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think that, honestly, your voice made a difference. UM.

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Speaker 1: So if nobody else has said that to you this year,

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Speaker 1: then let me say that to you as as we

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Speaker 1: closed out. And I hope, I hope that you will

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Speaker 1: join us in twenty twenty three years we continue to

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Speaker 1: drive this ship. Well, it's not going to be boring,

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Speaker 1: my friend, I am, you know I am. I am

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Speaker 1: so fortunate. I've had a lot of folks, and you

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Speaker 1: chief among them, who welcome me into the dead Product party,

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Speaker 1: who have seen my past not as something to attack,

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Speaker 1: but as something to learn from, as something that can

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Speaker 1: be helpful to our collective causes, and I certainly hope

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Speaker 1: to be a part of that going forward. Well, happy holidays,

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Speaker 1: my friend, Get some rest, because twenty twenty three is

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Speaker 1: another buckle up a year. I'llhow you too. Take care

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Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas, Happy, a happy New Year. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke

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Speaker 1: app as always, power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.